All Films

Afloat at Dawn

2009 • 4 min • Canada, France

A tiny baroque ode to fleeting darkness and pretty make-believes.

Estrella de Plata

2009 • 26 min • Mexico

Bruno, an aging taxi driver who yearns for his secret past and likes "lucha libre", has trouble relating with his young son Ricardo. But his past comes back to haunt them, forcing Bruno into a final confrontation with an old enemy

20 Years

2009 • 15 min • Cuba

A woman who has been married for two decades does everything possible to save her marriage, to no avail.

Scream Queen

2009 • 16 min • Spain

The Spanish journalist Jose Manuel Serrano Cueto, author of the book "Horrormania", goes deep into an evil and dangerous underworld for an interview with a legendary "scream queen".

Lego Ninja - The Underground Fortress

2009 • 4 min • United States of America

A Lego ninja fights his way through an enemy hideout. He hopes to claim the stolen treasure, but someone's watching him...

Broken Love

2009 • 16 min

Lane hasn't spoken to Beth in several years, until she asks him to come to her hotel room after a terrible incident. Lane now has to make a choice to help out his old flame and confront a former friend, or turn his back on them both and get on with his life.

Rumor of Blue Sky

2009 • 57 min • United States of America

Through compelling remembrances of twenty-five elderly survivors of the 1948 smog disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania, Rumor of blue sky recounts one of the worst environmental tragedies in U.S. history and the town's dramatic contribution to clean air legislation. The disaster sickened over half of the town's population, killed 20 people and hundreds of animals.

Ídolos y Caciques

2009 • 10 min • Chile

Stories of some idols of the Colo Colo Social and Sports Club

The Frog Who Didn't Sing

2009 • 13 min • Latvia, Slovenia

It is a hot summer day, and the elf Tuncis is worried that the stream might dry up. Austras Koks reassures him that when it gets too dry, Varde always calls on Pērkonvīrus, and then rain falls over the forest. But this time things are different—the Underground Mother puts Vardi to sleep and orders her helpers to guard him. The time has come for Austra's tree spirits to save Tuncis and the other forest dwellers from drought.

The African Penguin

2009 • 57 min

The African penguin is the only penguin that lives on the African continent. It was known as the jackass penguin because of its donkey-like call. This film covers the life cycle of this incredible bird, fom mating to laying of eggs to hunting and the moulting cycle. Sadly, it also shows the stark reality of a bird on the road to extinction.

The Most Fearful Stories by Junji Inagawa: Terrible

2009 • 60 min • Japan

Junji Inagawa tells the latest stories in his "Most Fearful Stories" series.

Serial: Amoral Uprising

2009 • 55 min • United States of America

Who is Trenton Bracks? Well, what's there to say? Loyal and honest, he's a credit to southern gentlemen. Pleasant, carefree, and highly refined. He's got what it takes to be a model citizen. He's got looks and charm, a real lady-killer. Trenton seems to have a good head on his shoulders, and one in his hands, and one in the basement.

Les Herbes Folles

2009 • 13 min

An egg. Two men. A rifle. A window. Or the awakening of two snipers in times of civil war

The 100 Watt Bulb

2009 • 28 min

The film set in the time of riots, tells the story of three characters, Vineet, Kamlesh & Suhana each a victim of circumstances caught in the web of tumultuous time that alter their lives forever.

Patient 0

2009 • 14 min

A Nazi scientist conducts insemination experiments on his own wife in an attempt to create a monster.

The Big Energy Gamble

2009 • 56 min

As President Obama embarks on a monumental agenda in his new administration, his attention must turn to the issue of global warming. NOVA examines an aggressive approach by California's Governor Schwarzenegger designed to promote energy efficiency. The possible success of this state program may well become the prototype for a new federal plan.

Metoch

2009 • 20 min • Macedonia

The twenty-minute documentary was filmed in the Macedonian monasteries “St. John the Baptist”, known as the Bigorski Monastery and in the women’s monastery “St. George the Victorious” in Rajčica, near Debar. The term “metoch” means property owned by a monastery, and the monastery in Rajčica, where most of the film was filmed, is a metoch of the Bigorski Monastery. The film shows part of the everyday life of the Macedonian monastic community and the motives that inspired some of its members to make the decision to become monks. “Metoch” talks about joy, simplicity and love for God.

Tittilibou Mr.Manding

2009 • 7 min • South Korea

Manding takes a journey across the globe and gives a penguin a coconut tree as a gift. And the penguin gives Manding a fabulous hair style in return.

La mujer que usaba esparcidas las ondas del pelo

2009 • 5 min • Argentina

The after a crash. A woman despairs. Incessant rain dominates the space. Victim and victimizer unite in the same body. A crime, a secret is revealed. Suddenly, a witness, someone who seems to have seen everything.

Goat Hut

2009 • 13 min • Russia

In a strange house in the forest, three cheerful and hard-working goats accidentally got a harmful boy Cornflower.

Adelaide

2009 • 12 min

The protagonist - Adelaide - seeks attention by faking illnesses. When she meets Brad, an aspiring paramedic, at the pharmacy counter, she believes she may have found the perfect man. So what happens next for these two?

Lost Cave Temples of the Himalaya

2009 • 55 min • United States of America

In a remote corner of the Himalaya, in the forbidden Kingdom of Mustang, mysterious caves, perched high on cliff faces and carved by humans thousands of years ago, have lain just beyond reach — until recently. In April of 2007, a team of climbers and scientists climbed inside the long-hidden chambers for the first time in modern history.

Sibling Topics (Section A)

2009 • 50 min • United States of America

Trecartin returns to his conception of family-as-business-enterprise, casting parent figures as managers and executives on one end of the spectrum, estranged children as freelancers on the other. The director plays four sisters named Ceader, Britt, Adobe and Deno, the boundaries of whom are indistinct. It is difficult to tell where one sister ends and the next begins. The sisters' questing—for identity, for romance, etc.—leads them on an episodic series of adventures, several of which are defined as "premises." A Trecartin premise plays out as a predetermined situation where the character initiating it has already set the tone, terms, and trajectory of the experience in their mind. The actual, lived event serves only as the shading-in of the outline.

A Locomotiva

2009 • 59 min • Brazil

The Locomotiva reveals a philosophy that inspired the life and work of the most controversial manager of Brazilian football. Eurico Miranda attracts hatred and passion from Vasco fans and all football lovers.