All Films

A Green Good-Bye: She & Her Mobile

2009 • 23 min

A cell phone is with a girl for three and a half years and is dissatisfied with the girl's stubborn personality and oversleeping. Still, it likes the girl. One day, the girl meets a college student working at a bookstore. The cell phone gets jealous of her new companion begins to feel increasingly alienated.

The Low Storm

2009 • 16 min • Japan

Short film by Takashi Makino

No Signal

2009 • 5 min

A consumer grade DLP projector is powered on without a signal.

A Infância de Margot

2009 • 4 min

The childhood of Margot fades amid twisted irons and only certainty that remains is that we are all dying.

Friends Forever — O Filme

2009 • 22 min • Brazil

“Friends Forever” tells the story of three friends: Di, Drix and Mari. The girls meet, become super friends and live an adventure when leaving their cities to try the "star life" in São Paulo.

Fronteira

2009 • 5 min • Brazil

A bus crosses a border.

Lashabiya

2009 • 9 min • Israel

Two kids stand in front of an Israeli flag in an elementary schoolyard while the Remembrance Day siren is due to silence them. As it wails, enters a weary Palestinian man who plays a dangerous game with a squad of armed Israeli soldiers.

When Apples Roll

2009 • 7 min • Latvia

Cat lives in an antique wood cabinet with his devoted friend Mouse. There is an apple orchard on the fringes of the old town. But this autumn, while Cat is picking apples, things turn out differently. All of a sudden a strange egg rolls into the orchard.

The Jew That We All Have Inside

2009 • 13 min • Mexico

Jesus del Monte, a typical Mexican middle class guy that wasn't related to Judaism at all, suddenly discovers that he literally has a Jew inside his body.

Flooded McDonald’s

2009 • 20 min • Denmark, United Kingdom, Thailand, Vietnam

Flooded McDonald's is a new film work in which a convincing life-size replica of the interior of a McDonald's burger bar, without any customers or staff present, gradually floods with water.

Losing It

2009 • 13 min

Jerome's world turns upside down when his son disappears. This new ordeal rapidly sets aside an important business deadline he had the same morning. A race against the clock begins to find the lost child.

Lego Pizza Delivery

2009 • 2 min • United States of America

Everyone likes a fresh hot pizza... maybe TOO many people do!

Tatang

2009 • 17 min • Philippines

Tatang Ruding lives in the streets of the Philippines’ urban Manila with his granddaughter Ester. Tatang makes ends meet the easiest way he knows – stealing and pickpocketing. He does it with Ester as his aide and apprentice. One incident goes awry and Tatang gets beaten up by a group of men. Tatang bitterly takes out his misfortune on Ester and starts to feel useless. Ester, on the other hand, starts to make it up to Tatang by becoming the breadwinner. She becomes better and better at stealing and Tatang realizes that he has created a monster in her. One day, Tatang hears a gunshot- –a moment that will serve as a wake-up call and change the rest of his being.

The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands

2009 • 18 min • United States of America

Follows Henry Brower's last attempt to reconnect with humanity. However, things prove more difficult than expected when a friendly poker game turns deadly.

Bye Bye Now

2009 • 15 min • Ireland

An amusing poignant documentary about fate of the Irish phone box, which has gone from the centre of society to the verge of extinction.

The Magic Pie

2009 • 13 min • Lithuania

Animated short.

A Cockney Tail

2009 • 16 min

George, a VERY special dog, is given a loving home by the Carter family, who have just moved to the countryside from the East End of London after winning the pools. The Carter's youngest, Sarah, bonds with George and forms a remarkable relationship. As the two enjoy their new surroundings, an accident occurs, and lives are changed in this heartwarming, magical tale from Vision in Production!

Jean-Luc Cinema Godard

2009 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A biography of the great French director made for 3DD, featuring interviews with Anna Karina and Mike Leigh among others.

Kosovo: Can You Imagine?

2009 • 30 min • Canada

Kosovo: Can You Imagine? is about the Serbs that live in Kosovo and the lack of human rights that they have today, in the 21st century. Most of the Kosovo Serbs have been ethnically cleansed by the Albanians who make up the majority of Kosovo. Kosovo has been under UN administration since 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia for 76 days to halt a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatism in its province of Kosovo. In the years following the war, thousands of Serbs were expelled from their homes, kidnapped and killed. Their houses, cultural and religious sites were burned and destroyed. Kosovo for the Serbs is what Jerusalem is for the Jewish people. It is the cradle of their statehood, culture and religion. Most of the important Serbian Christian Orthodox monasteries are in Kosovo. Today, Serbs still have a deep spiritual and traditional connection to Kosovo, a land which is being cleansed of everything Serbian.

Weaknesses

2009 • 27 min • France

A young woman decides to go after a man she’s in love with… – Semaine de la critique

Ich bin's Helmut

2009 • 12 min • Germany, Switzerland

Helmut celebrates his 60th birthday on the day he is actually turning 57 (his wife miscalculated). As a façade of petit-bourgeois domesticity peels away, old friends drop by to offer some well-meaning advice through bizarre declarations of love and transience.

Orange

2009 • 1 min • Canada

This animated short poses some interesting questions: what if buildings pulsed, trees tapped out beats, or shadows could whistle a tune? Through the creative interpretation and animation of the city's natural rhythms, Orange orchestrates a contagious urban dance. This film was made as part of the 5th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

In Madness We Believe

2009 • 4 min • Sweden

Chamber Opera on Anna Odell's art project "Unknown Woman 2009-349701". The action begins on the opera stage. Followed by a film of the recorded 'psychosis' and police intervention at Liljeholmsbron, Stockholm, Sweden. St. Görans Hospital, the Emergency Room - a still image on a belt bed with a sound recording when Anna Odell reveals to the nurse that it was all fake.

Conversation with Boxing Gloves Between Chamecki and Lerner

2009 • 5 min

Revisiting one segment from the long lost 1916 futurist film LA VITA FUTURISTA.