All Films

Gone to the Dogs

2009 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Winners and losers, high stakes, it's jeopardy week in week out. Tonight the oldest bookmaker in Britain will face the most celebrated gambler in dog racing history. But public interest is waning – with attendance declining and profits falling, there won't be many more of these nights. Gone to the Dogs showcases the dwindling culture of greyhound racing at Walthamstow Race Track soon before its closure in 2008, providing an insight into the lives of its staunch and passionate inhabitants, contrasted with casual visitors seeking nothing more than light entertainment. [episode from a Channel 4 documentary series]

A Death in Tehran

2009 • 56 min

At the height of the protests following Iran’s controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death — filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the web — quickly became an international outrage, and Agha Soltan became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hard-line government’s hold on power. With the help of a unique network of correspondents in and out of the country, FRONTLINE investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the reform movement alive.

Na Trilha do Bonde

2009 • 26 min • Brazil

The Santa Teresa tram in images from the 1940s and 1960s in downtown Rio de Janeiro places the viewer in a space and time constructed through sounds inserted in these images.

The Old Silo Farm

2009 • 5 min

When siblings Mae and Patrick Alridge return to their late grandfather’s farm to settle his estate, they stumble upon an old, rusted silo — sealed shut and whispered about in family lore. Despite warnings in their grandfather’s journal and strange symbols carved into the barn walls, Patrick insists on opening the silo. What they find inside changes everything. Inside is not just rot and rust, but something alive — or something pretending to be. A third presence makes itself known: The Watcher, a voice that speaks only in whispers and seems tied to the land itself. As night falls and strange phenomena begin, the siblings realize the farm wasn’t abandoned — it was quarantined.

Umoja: The Village Where Men Are Forbidden

2009 • 52 min • France

Numerous Kenyan women allege that they were raped by British soldiers from 1970 to 2003 — battered and abandoned by their husbands for bringing "shame on the community" — a number of Samburu women gathered and created "Umoja", a sex-segregated village where only women are allowed permanent residence.

Following Dreams

2009 • 57 min • United States of America

Following Dreams is about people who choose to pursue their own path. They don't listen to naysayers; they listen to themselves instead. Seven of the people below have found a richness of a different kind, a life full of meaning, joy and passion. One did not.

Homecoming

2009 • 30 min • Hong Kong

Twenty years ago, Charlie came to Hong Kong to work as a domestic helper. Not only did she leave her home country Philippine, she also left her husband and her six-year-old son.Close to her retirement, she looks forward to going back home and living with her son again. However, her dream does not come true as she wishes…

Sporting

2009 • 5 min • Italy

There are a lot of sports. Some of them are really famous, other aren't... but it isn't because of that that they're less captivating or funny. Therefore we'll practice them all.

Evening

2009 • 4 min

A man who believes life has nothing left to offer him prepares to take stock.

A Soldier's Betrayal

2009 • 35 min

A soldier comes home from Iraq, to find his life is still in danger.

The Last Station

2009 • 8 min • Palestinian Territory

The last Station is a personal experience of Exile, Return and the Dream of a Homeland. This journey between the Dream and the Reality contains lots of happiness, hope and yet disappointments.

Kodrat Kuadrat

2009 • 27 min • Indonesia

Kasim a lower class tailor found a mutual forbidden love with Amalia, a neighboring teenager kiosk employee. His feelings for Amalia has lead him to an unwanted path from the pass.

5 Times

2009 • 11 min • Bulgaria

Five times the same little tales told in 5 different art styles, contexts, moods, settings, etc.

Linnan ruusut

2009 • 57 min • Finland

What makes a woman commit a crime that leads to a prison sentence? Four women doing time in Hämeenlinna, Finland, tell about different stages of their lives.

Freedom

2009 • 6 min • Iran

A true friend is one who rushes to help his friend in times of trouble. The film "Freedom" depicts the efforts of people who are not indifferent to the plight of their friends.

homeland

2009 • 6 min • Czech Republic, Spain

story about saying goodbye to that person who has to leave but who is always there even as time passes

Concern About A Friend

2009 • 5 min • Iran

The story tells of two friends, one in need of help and the other wanting to solve the problem.

Oh Mother, Don't Make My Eyes Wet

2009 • 2 min • Iran

To pay tribute to the high status of mothers.

No Crossing

2009 • 1 min • Iran

A film criticizing the lack of respect for the rules.

Look at the Life Through My Eyes

2009 • 45 min • Macedonia, Croatia

A documentary film that divs into the unknown world that hasn't been discovered so far - the closed world of the traditional Albanian woman in Macedonia, especially the woman who lives in the Albanian villages, located just few kilometers from Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, but, at the same time, located in the core of the Macedonian drug channel that spread drugs all over Europe.

Tobacco Girl

2009 • 30 min • Macedonia, Germany

Mümine is 14 and lives in the Macedonian mountains. Her family belongs to the Turkish minority. Since she was 9 years old she has worked on tobacco farms. She dreams of leaving the region and becoming a schoolteacher but because of traditional customs, a very different future awaits her.

Truong Tien Alley

2009 • 48 min • Vietnam

The film shines a light on the lives of people in a small alley in a working-class residential area of ​​Ho Chi Minh City. They make a living from odd jobs: street vendors, small traders, loan sharks... For them, money is a daily struggle.

Ninja Melk

2009 • 26 min

Ryan Higa in Ninja Melk (2009) The two lovable goof balls, Ryan and Sean, are trained by an ancient martial arts master in an effort to defeat the evil Bokchoy.

Lisa Lampanelli: Long Live The Queen

2009 • 57 min • United States of America

More than just a stand-up, the lovable Queen Of Mean is at it again...and no one is immune as Lisa takes off the gloves and delivers an unrelenting barrage of political incorrectness and 'shoot from the lip' observations. Never shy about engaging in controversy, she deftly navigates the social taboos, stereotypes, and cultural differences that even the boldest of today's comedians would rarely broach.