All Films

Portraits

2009 • 20 min

Four woman of different generations. Their bodies and faces confronted with a tender and ruthless camera. Explicit and implicit movements; intimacy, shyness and extravagance in a mysterious choreography. A magnifying glass that explores and amplifies their moods, and silences: a shared loneliness.

En skateboardåkares dagdröm

2009 • 5 min • Sweden

A skateboarder is daydreaming in Kalmar Cathedral.

Dirty Bloody Hippies

2009 • 49 min • New Zealand

Starting in the questioning times of the late 60s, many New Zealanders began leaving town to set up their own communities, in search of alternative ways to live. This then and now documentary travels to communes long gone and still active, and tracks down many of those involved. Tim Shadbolt describes a time when people questioned "everything fearlessly ... without reserve and without restraint". The back to the land approach brought both satisfaction and fatigue.

Surviving Mumbai

2009 • 52 min • Australia, United Kingdom

Survivors of the Mumbai terrorist attacks tell the inside story of the actions and decisions that helped save their lives.

Pura imagen

2009 • 8 min • Germany, Spain

Diego is a young Photojournalist in the conflict between idealism and his wish for success. During a story on the landing of African Refugees on the Canary Islands he has to learn that the right decision is not always easy to see.

Lee's Adventures

2009 • 20 min • China

A video game nerd must beat through the game in order to time travel and meet his ex-girlfriend once more before they were apart.

Sea una familia feliz

2009 • 7 min • Argentina

Val Val Val

2009 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A grotesque man calls someone else Facehead and then Facehead gets upset. Also, a horse!

The Past Is a Foreign Country

2009 • 47 min

The mysterious death of John H. Jenkins, rare book and historical document dealer, is the start of a journey deep upriver into that exotic kingdom known as the past.

I've Got Something to Tell You

2009 • 8 min • Spain

Susana is Pablo's girlfriend but Pablo's just realized he's gay and he's in love of Javi, his best friend who, at the same time, is going out with Susana. How are they going to tell to each other? How are they going to react? And how will all this end?

Carl Størmer and his Detective Camera

2009 • 22 min • Norway

Carl Størmer was walking around Kristiania in his day with his detective camera and taking pictures of people; captured situations, meetings, reactions and looks in a way that was not thought possible at the time. The film not only tells the story of the making of the images, but also about the city, the people and about photography as such.

A Song For Ourselves

2009 • 34 min

A SONG FOR OURSELVES is an intimate journey into the life and music of Asian American Movement troubadour Chris Iijima. Struggling to make sense of their father’s early death, his teenage sons learn that during the 1970s when Asians in America were still considered “Orientals,” Chris’ music and passion for social justice helped provide the voice and identity an entire generation had been in search of. Through animated photographs, intimate home movies, archival footage of Chris’ introduction to nationwide television by John Lennon and Chris’ own songs, their father’s life takes on bigger meaning than they had ever dreamed of.

Vanille

2009 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Vanille explores how different races of people are connected by blood to each other, how certain tendencies and quirks can be identical in siblings who have never met and yet live very different lives with the same intensity. Brought together again the bond intensifies.

A Game

2009 • 6 min

Adapted from the short story " Let's play a game " by the Italian writer Alberto Moravia . It's a strange story between a little girl and her divorced mother They are playing a game and the girl starts to persuade the mother, to provoke her curiosity . The adult woman gets stunned , She finds herself talking and hearing as if she becomes possessed by another one It is a moment where both of them exchange their authorities, unearth many of closed secrets.

Forgotten Bird of Paradise

2009 • 27 min • United Kingdom

An undercover documentary filmed in West Papua, providing a rare and moving insight into the long forgotten struggle for freedom of the Papuan people from Indonesian rule. For over 45 years a bitter independence struggle has been fought there between native Papuans and the occupying Indonesian regime, largely unnoticed by the outside world. It is estimated that at least 500,000 Papuans have been killed since the occupation of their land began. Thousands more have been victims of human rights abuses or 'disappeared' for voicing their support of the independence movement. Forgotten Bird of Paradise provides a rare and moving insight into a long forgotten struggle, and reveals how the Papuan peoples resilience and determination for freedom burns stronger now than at any time in history.

Creep

2009 • 10 min

A comic thriller about the blindness of strangers.

Strata #3

2009 • 7 min

The term Strata defines a geological formation made of multiple layers of rock. Each one of these layers has its own individual characteristics and history, which combined produce beautiful and unique formations… The Strata project consist in a series of films, prints and installations investigating improbable relationships between contemporary digital aesthetics and icons of classical art and architecture. Like in geological processes, layers belonging to different ages interact with one another producing new intriguing formations.

Laundry

2009 • 4 min

In an eccentric, old-school laundromat, a young man is lulled into a daydream while waiting for his wash cycle to finish. 'Laundry' is a quirky and colorful film that juxtaposes the mundane with the magical.

Bad Mistake

2009 • 7 min • Belgium

Every Friday, Sophie and her friends organize what they call "scary fridays" - watching horror movies on DVD. Sophie is not scared anymore now by horror movies. She thinks they're not scary anymore. But tonight she's going to change her mind completely when she gets abducted...

Antagonisten

2009 • 1 min • Sweden

A young man in a gym is faced with a challenge to his worst enemy.

Sibling Rivalry: Growing Up Van Pelt

2009 • 11 min

A short look at the origins of the beloved Peanuts sibling "Rerun Van Pelt", through his first appearance in Charles Schulz's classic comic strips through his appearance in "I Want a Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown".

A Woman Singing in the Desert

2009 • 30 min • Afghanistan

Bustling around a fiery oven, a woman baker explains her struggles and highlights the multitude of complicated roles women play in Afghan society.

while we are here

2009 • 15 min • Japan

The film version of the installation exhibition “while being here” which Takashi Makino and Ryota Aoyagi performed in 2007. The feeling which emerges when I heard the sentence “while we are here”. Finally I found a lot of stories of life and death, and these stories looked like moments and eternity.

Caçando Capivara

2009 • 56 min • Brazil

Tikmu'un - Maxakali hunters go out with their dogs and allied spirits in search of a capybara.