All Films

Fast Friday

2009 • 42 min • United States of America

Infinate Quest Productions in association with Cadence present Fast Friday. A Documentary by David Rowe shot on location in Seattle Washington

Git Gob

2009 • 1 min • Canada

Two creatures wonder, 'What is a hole?' They have different points of view. Their debate leads to an idea, an idea that changes the world. This is a story of practical magic. This film was made as part of the 5th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Life With Jesus

2009 • 28 min

This beautifully animated short film begins with the story of one special child who was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - Jesus, the son of God. As he grows to become the Prince of Peace, spreading the message of God s love in the world,he and his apostles preach to millions of people far and wide the lessons of love and forgiveness. Follow Jesus across the desert sands of Egypt as he teaches children of all ages the values of Christianity. Features a simple narrative which reaches out to its young audiences and conveys the triumph of good over evil. A delightful story for the entire family.

Lil'A

2009 • 11 min • Germany

Twelve-year-old Lil'A has tics and wants to be the best dancer and choreographer in the world.

Yulia

2009 • 6 min • France

Yulia suddenly vanishes out of her kitchen. She finds herself in a closed room with five levers fixed to the wall. By setting them in motion, she starts off a series of absurd events that will lead her to finding a soul mate.

A Bridge Life: Finding Our Way Home

2009 • 57 min • United States of America

Good Samaritan rescues seven evacuees from the Houston Astrodome after Katrina and brings them to Florida to give them shelter and jobs, 'a bridge life.' But he gets more than he bargained for when one of them commits a serious crime.

Oil Rocks: City Above the Sea

2009 • 54 min • Switzerland

"Oil Rocks" - behind the enigmatic name lies the first and largest offshore oil-platform ever built, a vast city in the middle of the Caspian Sea, built by Stalin in 1949. 60 years on, "Oil Rocks" is still operational and the first western film crew ever receives access. Just imagine: 200 kilometers of bridges, thousands of oil workers, hundreds of platforms, up to nine-story buildings, a park and sports field, nothing less then an oil-rig Atlantis, only real. Combining archive footage from the Soviet era and the exclusive new footage, the film tells the story of this timeless place and it's inhabitants.

Burning Palace

2009 • 32 min • Austria

Five people who are in a show at a bar, who live in this hotel and have very different relationships with one another. After the show – they are already sleeping – they are woken by Pan for the night and therefore wake up to the destruction that is held within them.

Butterflies Do Not Drink Coffee

2009 • 20 min • Luxembourg, Belgium

Pierre is a very shy man in his sixties, with no family or friends and who just retired. What will he do now?

Early Morning

2009 • 8 min • Ukraine

A couple is pursued by a hooligan. What a real man should do? Based on the fragment of the novel of Yuriy Andrukhovych “Recreations”.

Chris Porter: Screaming from the Cosmos

2009 • 49 min

Chris Porter performs at the Kansas City Improv.

The Weapon - A Tale of Passing Time

2009 • 25 min • Sweden

Lydia, Lorenzo and Augustine work at Minerva, a space station in Earth orbit. The station is the most important part of a defense system that helps to maintain world peace. One day, the three get a new directive: World War. Disagreements arise and the key question becomes: what is our individual responsibility?

Speaking in Tongues

2009 • 56 min • United States of America

At a time when 31 states have passed “English Only” laws, four pioneering families put their children in public schools where, from the first day of kindergarten, their teachers speak mostly in a foreign language. Speaking in Tongues follows four diverse kids on a journey to become bilingual. This charming story will challenge you to rethink the skills that Americans need to succeed in the 21st century.

Action: Study

2009 • 5 min • Canada

Shot in 1987 in high contrast 16mm, action : study marks the genesis of Kerr’s forays into a process he now refers to as ‘digital sketching’. Action: Study depicts Kerr’s daughter playing on the shores of Georgian Bay, but could easily be mistaken as a work of abstract animation. Kerr combines innovative hand-held techniques with the ultra-sensitivity of the film stock to create a startling wash of jagged, erratic, and constantly dynamic compositions of black and white. Indeed, at times reality seems to melt in front of us.

Lux Taal

2009 • 7 min • Argentina

2006-2009 / 8mm / color / sound / 1S / 8'

My Monkey Baby

2009 • 49 min • United Kingdom

This documentary profiles some of the 15,000 people across America who raise monkeys, not just as pets, but as surrogate children.

Condolences

2009 • 19 min • China

Burial Rites become the mise-en scene in which politicians, the media, a monk and an infuriated neighbour vividly portray the aftermath of an accident.

Hooked

2009 • 40 min • Antigua and Barbuda

The story of a young man hopelessly in love with what turns out to be the wrong woman who betrays his trust in preference for her ex-boyfriend and child’s father.

Stubblejumper

2009 • 48 min

In the fall of 1975, while attending the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, Doug Wilson placed an ad in the students' newspaper, seeking to start a campus gay group. This seemingly benign action would serve as the catalyst for a dramatic unfolding of events, shaping the future of Wilson's life. Stubblejumper is a biographical docudrama on the life and work of gay activist Doug Wilson - a story filled with activism, poetry, performance, politics, and a touching yet tragic love story.

Das Wolfskind

2009 • 25 min

After an immense loss in his life, Christian, a call-boy in Berlin, gay and lonely is confronted with his past... Will a decision he is forced to make be the opportunity for a new beginning?

Formic

2009 • 4 min • Germany

A guy on a skateboard, an ant and a revenge.

Jean-François

2009 • 6 min • France

A swimming champion longs to recover his lost childhood in French directors Tom Haugomat and Bruno Mangyoku's haunting film about nostalgia, memory and the disappointments of adult life.

O Divino, de Repente

2009 • 6 min • Brazil

Divino freestyles about his life, love and family in a very unique way.

Giallo a Milano

2009 • 7 min • Italy

The Chinatown in Milan is highly problematic, recording several murders a year, perpetrated with meat-axes, in the streets, by the light of the sun. When an Italian guy asks a Chinese girl's hand in marriage, this triggers a domino-like plot of confrontations among a crowd of characters. Starting from the focus on one of the largest and oldest Chinatowns in Europe, the film carries the spectators into a universal metaphor on hatred and dreams between West and China.