All Films

Familyship

2009 • 4 min

A kid full of fear. A gun aimed to the head of the kid. The gun held by his mother. The tension between him and her. She is about to trigger the gun.

The North Cape

2009 • 14 min • Norway

The North Cape Panoramic Film brings you on a journey through the four distinguished seasons of the northernmost point of continental Europe. The film explores this arctic latitude's rugged, yet sublime physical elements and compelling natural phenomenon as well as the inhabitants who endure them.

Joint

2009 • 4 min • Japan

An event that happens to a man based on growth, psychology, egoism, and shamanism. Short animation by Ryoji Yamada at Tama Art University

Edgar Allan Poe: Master of the Macabre

2009 • 57 min

An exciting documentary following in the footsteps of Edgar Allan Poe to discover the mystery behind the man who wrote such classics as "The Raven," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," and countless others.

Abraham Obama

2009 • 55 min • United States of America

Artist Ron English travels across the country illegally putting up artwork of President Obama and Abraham Lincoln merged together.

Duck on a Bike

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

A duck on a bike? Everyone in the barnyard has something to say about Duck's zany idea. But what are they thinking? And what happens next?

Africville: Can't Stop Now

2009 • 44 min • Canada

Located on the northern shore of Bedford Basin, Africville was home to the many African-Canadian families who lived there for generations. In the 1960s, the city of Halifax expropriated Africville and residents were forced to leave their homes and businesses behind. Today, former residents of Africville are fighting for reparations and an official apology.

The Postcard

2009 • 8 min • France

A beach, bathers, a few boats and the postcard display...

Olimpíadas

2009 • 13 min • Argentina

Two very competitive friends decide to take a car trip together along a lonely provincial road, when they unexpectedly become stranded in the middle of nowhere.

Mrs Birks' Sunday Roast

2009 • 6 min

A Japanese food writer embarks on her quest to cook the perfect Sunday roast. Her gravy evokes a taste of home both gently Japanese and quintessentially English. Blending her passion for British food with the memories that accompany each dish, it is a labor of love with all the trimmings.

7and7is Una Vez Por La Vida

2009 • 48 min • Canada

In December 2007, 7and7is, an Indie rock band from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada became the first foreign rock band to tour Cuba.

bodiless lovers

2009 • 12 min • Ukraine

Cities in transformation: architecture, subway plans, telephone lines, tracks, squares, crossed by shadows. Two lovers attempt to reach each others through walls. Lines of poetry written on naked bodies. Post-rock. Highway lights in the dark.

Giving Voice

2009 • 28 min • United States of America

Giving Voice is a musical documentary about a community choir in Central New York that uses singing as a tool to foster broad social inclusiveness and community building.

If Nobody’s Playing

2009 • 54 min • Macedonia

The beginnings of the band "Bernajs Propaganda" through the daily challenge of living for music are shown along with a depiction of the underground history of the Skopje rock and roll scene, for its authentic urban sensibility and inexhaustible creative energy.

Pig's Happiness

2009 • 12 min • Latvia

It is a sunny morning at the forest pond in the animal village. The idyllic forest scene is disturbed by an unusual noise—a strange car suddenly drives into the forest. A family of domestic pigs has arrived to spend their vacation in the countryside. The forest piglet sees a beautiful piglet girl and romantic feelings awaken in him, but the girl's bourgeois parents put obstacles in the way of their friendship. The pig family's bad habits encourage the animals to teach them a lesson, and the offended wild boar takes the lead.

Not Such a Pleasantville

2009 • 8 min

A newcomer, Simintha Cringe, arrives in Pleasantview, hopeful for a fresh start. But odd occurrences soon disrupt the calm: neighbors act suspiciously, shadows move where they shouldn’t, and the line between reality and nightmare blurs. The tension builds until the truth about Pleasantview’s dark underbelly is revealed — and it’s far worse than expected.

Salt

2009 • 28 min

SALT is the story of award winning and internationally renowned photographer, Murray Fredericks on his annual solo pilgrimage to the heart of Lake Eyre in the remote north corner of South Australia. It is a piece on the personal journey of the artist, the creative process and the landscape itself. Alone on the most featureless landscape on earth, Murray's personal video diary captures the beauty of this bleak, empty and desolate environment - and provides the catalyst for an unexpected personal transformation. Told with subtlety, care and gentle dry humor, SALT is the story of what emanates from emptiness. By combining the breathtaking imagery of this surreal landscape with the hauntingly delicate sounds of Aajinta's "Harmonic Sphere's, it attempts to identify what lies beneath the surface of our reality and how 'something' can be produced from 'nothing'. SALT interweaves Murray's sublime pictures...

Why Are Thin People Not Fat?

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The world is affected by an obesity epidemic, but why is it that not everyone is succumbing? Medical science has been obsessed with this subject and is coming up with some unexpected answers. As it turns out, it is not all about exercise and diet. At the centre of this programme is a controversial overeating experiment that aims to identify exactly what it is about some people that makes it hard for them to bulk up.

Wild Balkans

2009 • 53 min • Austria, Germany

Wolves hunt their prey in the valleys between high-ranging dunes, bears and lynxes wander through dense primeval forest, and the big lakes are a magnet for hundreds of bird species. That is the so-called «Balkan». Today the «Balkans» stand for a Europe that hardly exists elsewhere. The mountains of Montenegro harbour one of Europe's last primeval forests with trees over 400 years of age. In the difficultly accessible hinterland we find the Tara National Park with the deepest gorge in the Karst Mountains - the 1.300 meters deep Tara gorge. Nearby Lake Skadar is home for 270 species of birds; no other lake in Europe can claim such diversity. Europe's last coastal forest area can be found in Albania and in Bulgaria and Romania huge bat colonies live in the cave-dotted mountains. In Serbia one can cross the «European Sahara», a desert covering a surface of 30.000 hectares.

Men of the City

2009 • 58 min • United Kingdom

In Men of the City, Isaacs takes a more stylised approach to the lives of workers in the City of London during the recent financial meltdown, balancing sensitive portraits of diverse individuals striving to retain their dignity and humanity in the midst of the crisis. Strong human characters are at the heart of all of Isaacs' work, and with these films he continues to create a unique vision of modern Britain.

Heavenly Appeals

2009 • 2 min • United States of America

After many millennia of being tortured in Hell, Raymond K. Hessle has finally earned a chance to appeal his sentence of Eternal Damnation. Upon arriving at the "appeals" gate of Heaven he is greeted by the angel who will preside over his case. As Raymond waits at the edge of paradise, he will finally have a chance to prove just how worthy he is.

Dias de Greve

2009 • 24 min • Brazil

The struggle of a small group of blacksmiths trapped between keeping a long going strike with claims for better fees and the necessity of getting back to work when there's no money left for basic necessities.

Dead End

2009 • 4 min • Ukraine

He wakes up. He is naked. He is in the train. Train is in the dead way.

The Bug Trainer

2009 • 53 min • Lithuania

The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation directors to help us understand why he is considered one of the greatest creators of the animation world.