All Films

The Play of Silence

2009 • 5 min • Italy

This film is realized with the traditional technique of drawings on paper, is made by about one thousands original drawings.

Donuts and Donut Holes

2009 • 2 min • United States of America

You can tell a lot about a person from the kinds of donuts they choose.

In Space

2009 • 17 min • Thailand, United States of America

A young monk finds a safe space between the present and the afterlife.

Eggy

2009 • 4 min • Japan

The Eggy Robot project aims to synthesize a robot of which artistic appearance and emergent behaviours make us feel and imagine the emergence of primeval organisms. Of all the computer animators that pursued the goal of wild, virtual exotica, none could equal the overwhelming, needlepoint visual intensity of Kawaguchi’s work. One of the world’s leading researchers into 'blobby organic modelling, he depicted a world composed of molten, shape-shifting organs without a body.

Darwins Theory: A Film About Bullying

2009 • 17 min • Sweden

An anti-bullying film.

Manny

2009 • 6 min • United States of America

A stop motion animation of a manikin head.

Alphaville - Do Lado de Dentro do Muro

2009 • 54 min • Brazil

Alphaville is a slice of the lifestyle inside the wall. The portrait of a Brazil surrounded, where danger, unwanted interactions, all kinds of movement, heterogeneity and unpredictability of the streets are supposedly kept away.

Obscureness

2009 • 5 min

Two loners walks in the night

The Sniper

2009 • 3 min • Kuwait

A short film about the battle between the sniper and his enemy.

Banana

2009 • 25 min • Kuwait

Engineer Ahmed is looking for an alternative relationship away from his dead marriage, which he finds in Mut'ah marriage (temporary marriage).

Child

2009 • 44 min • Macedonia

The documentary film "Child" is a touching drama based on the fate of a child from a mixed marriage between an Australian woman and a Macedonian man. In fact, it is part of the fate of a large number of children in conditions of large world migrations.

Open Graves

2009 • 38 min • Macedonia

We went in search of the graves of the Macedonian vojvodas to remember their maxims. Their voice is very strong if there is someone to hear it... Only in the Macedonian language and in Macedonia the term "vojvoda" has a single meaning - a strong man, brave, leader of a rebel group or company during the time of Turkish slavery.

Migrant

2009 • 52 min • Russia

The film is based on the real life story of a twenty-year-old boy. The main character comes from Russia to Germany with his parents, Russian Germans. In the cycle of Berlin life, he is trying to find himself and his place in a new environment for him. A student of a German school, a part–time worker, a seller of a Russian fish shop, a statistician of the "German Opera", a petty criminal - his path runs through such a bizarre line. The multifaceted Russian Berlin with all the tragic comedy of emigrant life becomes the background of its existence. Here he meets many different people, finds his love, indulges in dashing fun with friends, the same immigrants as him, works, paints, makes plans for the future and ... by chance becomes an accomplice to murder. So the breadth of central Russia narrowed around him to the size of a prison cell in Germany.

O Quarto Morador

2009 • 18 min • Brazil

Three friends decide to rent an apartment, but they didn't know what could happen...

Sergo The Rogue

2009 • 46 min

A short story from the life of a refugee family from Abkhazia.

Slaughter

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Slaughter is the feature film debut of writer and director Juno Jakob and takes horror back to its nasty, gritty and often tongue in cheek roots of the 1970's and 80's. The film follows escaped mental patient David Ward as he hides in his derelict caravan spending his days hiding from the police and doctors and filming himself raping and murdering while police slowly discover his crimes and get closer to him. The film is told from two view points. The traditional third person camera and David's own Hi8 camcorder.

Jennifer

2009 • 5 min

In the short film 'Jennifer', filmmaker Stewart Copeland explores his relationship with his mother through a recorded conversation between eighth-grade students and astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Arividerci, Sir!

2009 • 11 min • Ukraine

He had been dreaming about this day for a very long time. Run away! As far away as possible from this provincial country, from degraded people. Finally, the suitcases are packed, the ticket is in hand, only a few kilometers separate this park from the airport and that's it: arividerci, Ukraine, bonjorno, Italy! But some heavy sadness in the soul does not let go. Whether it's autumn, or premature nostalgia... who among these worthless people wandering around the park could understand it? Explain to him where this aching melancholy came from, and how to get rid of it? Listen to the confession of the future emigrant will have a person who, at first glance, is not very suitable for this…

S.O.S. Sky on Skin

2009 • 5 min

Video performance through 4 seasons, 2005. The artist infiltrates nature four times. Nature flews through her veins and nestles under her skin. The color on her skin evolves with the 4 seasons we have in Belgium: winter, spring, summer, autumn. The blue hue that predominates in the sky at that particular moment in the circle of the year is condensed on the artist's skin. Marie Julia Bollansée uses 4 blue pigments: cobalt in winter, ceruleum in spring, indigo in summer and ultramarine in autumn. The Impressionists studied the same setting in different lights or different seasons. They looked at it with their eyes and painted it. Marie Julia Bollansee goes into nature, into the same small biotope several times of the year-circle. And she becomes nature for a while.

Dive to the Bottom of the World

2009 • 44 min

This documentary follows biologists, engineers, geologists and oceanographers as they come together to design and build a deep-sea vehicle like no other. It's goal is to go to the deepest part of the ocean floor and find samples for future studies.

Utsjoen diakonissa

2009 • 29 min

Deaconess Eija Seppä brings comfort and hope to those who have experienced hardships. Her whole heart rejoices and weeps with the people of Utsjoki. Life consists of genuine caring, but also of letting go.

Soredake - That's All?

2009 • 25 min • Japan

A short film by Hiroshi Iwanaga

Love Sucks

2009 • 1 min • Denmark

Two naked women interact – they hug, they fight, they kiss.

Rajeev Revisited

2009 • 50 min

Rajeev Revisited is a documentary about Birta’s journey to India to attend a weeding of her childhood friend, Rajeev. 8 years have passed since their last meeting, when Birta tracked Rajeev down in India, and found him in poor circumstances. Since then, apparently lots of things have changed in their lives. With Rajeev´s “arranged wedding” as a story line the film reflects the great cultural difference the two friends live under today. Without a doubt, the Icelandic girl Birta sticks out among Hindus and elephants in this colorful wedding in south India. A sincere film about friendship that crosses the cultural difference between two continents.