All Films

Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica

2009 • 5 min

A swirling animated trip through hockey's erotic behind-the-scenes world. Cam Christiansen uses his signature stylized animation, developed through motion capture and video mapping, to create a vibrant and bold musical sketch.

Pibe's

2009 • 14 min • Argentina

Pato, a young man from the Buenos Aires suburbs, decides with his friends to carry out a robbery and for this purpose rents weapons from some acquaintances in the neighborhood; But things don't go as expected and everything comes to a tragic end.

Time Lapse

2009 • 30 min • Taiwan

In an old photography studio, an old man and a group of young men meet. The old man has seen everything, but is determined to live a full life until the very end. The young men have just begun their lives, but feel aimless, lost and insecure. One man's story is ending, while the young men's stories are just beginning. Between their differences, a lesson on life is found.

A Massacre in Veronaville

2009 • 15 min

A Massacre in Veronaville is a dark comedic horror machinima by Alvin Soprano that tells a chilling tale of revenge and destruction in the quiet town of Veronaville. The story follows Pamela Landry, a vengeful Sim who uses a powerful spell to take control of the Grim Reaper and unleash havoc on the entire town — including innocent children. Driven by rage, Pamela commands the Grim Reaper to massacre every Sim in Veronaville. As chaos spreads and lives are cut short, the town quickly descends into bloodshed and terror. But in a cruel twist of fate, Pamela’s own dark magic backfires.

Bloody Mirrors

2009 • 35 min

Three friends are staying at one of their homes. At first, the weekend seems completely normal, but Sofía tells the legend of a man named Vicente, who was murdered in cold blood inside that very apartment. She says that if you say his name three times in front of a mirror, he will return to take revenge on anyone who dares to disturb his rest. The young people see it as nothing more than a bit of fun and an old legend.

Umbilical

2009 • 10 min • United States of America

A man's fear of fatherhood comes to life on the eve his child will be born.

PLAY! A Video Game Symphony

2009 • 23 min • Norway, United States of America

From the creative team that brought you the ground breaking Dear Friends-Music from FINAL FANTASY Symphony Tour, comes an entirely new celebration of video game music and images: PLAY! A Video Game Symphony is a Symphony world-tour featuring music from blockbuster video games. The music is performed by some of the finest, world-class orchestras and choirs. All concerts take place in classy, prestigious venues. Graphics on large screens suspended above the orchestra accompany the scores, highlighting memorable moments from the video games.

Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video Vol. 32

2009 • 58 min • Japan

A collection of horrifying psychic images submitted by general posts, "It was really there! Cursed video". Fear grows! Earth-bound spirits, grudges, floating spirits, guardian spirits ... Full of mysterious images that cannot be elucidated by science; including 'Sports day', 'Dog-walking', 'Club event', 'absence', 'Series surveillance camera Internet cafe refugee', 'taxi', 'Red person' and 'Twenty Seven Part 1'.

Dane Cook: Isolated Incident

2009 • 55 min • United States of America

Dane Cook: ISolated INcident is a Comedy Central special which premiered on May 17, 2009 with the CD/DVD release following on May 19. In the special, Cook performs for a crowd of 400 people at the Laugh Factory. The entire special was shot in one take with no edits. He recently started performing the new material live for the Isolated Incident - Globo Thermo Tour 2009, which began on April 25, 2009. Dane Cook released the DVD special that was aired on Comedy Central on November 17, 2009

The Great Escape: The Reckoning

2009 • 52 min • Australia

The story behind the Hollywood film 'The Great Escape', examining the search for the Gestapo men who murdered 50 of the escapers.

Agapitova and the Rescued

2009 • 58 min • Latvia

This is a film about the return of an individual to the Far North, and to the past. Agapitova, Igarka – the vast lands of Siberia, to which Ilmārs Knaģis and 4,000 other children from Latvia were deported in 1941. In the autumn of 1942, 700 mothers and children of different nationalities were sent to the death island of Agapitova. Only 60 survived, among them six Latvian children – Biruta Kazaka, Pāvels Kliesbergs, Venta Grāvīte, Ilmārs Grāvītis, Pēteris Bērziņš and Valentīna Voiciša. The question remains: Why did this happen? And why is no one to blame?

Philippe Geubels: Droog

2009 • 59 min • Belgium

The perfect way to get acquainted with Philippe Geubels' infectious humor or to relive a wonderful evening of live stand-up comedy.

Mergulho

2009 • 7 min • Portugal

Fallen to an aquatic world, they move ineffably in a dense, clear atmosphere as if it was their first autonomous moment.

Attached to You

2009 • 9 min • Sweden

A clay animation about the life of a mother. It starts with the conception of the child, we follow her and her kid through childhood until her child is grown up, leaves home and has a child of his own.

The Love Market

2009 • 52 min

In Vietnam, there is a special market to find a mate. The Hmong people have a long tradition to go to this annual market where all people, married or single, can regain their freedom to love.

Tides of the Heart

2009 • 1 min • United States of America

A pair of friends sit on a bench and discuss their hopes and dreams when things take an unexpected turn.

Calzone

2009 • 11 min

Short - A godfather in the Mafia comes to have dinner in a trendy Italian restaurant. Faithful to his customs, he orders a calzone. In his great surprise, he does not find egg there inside. Mad with rage, he sends his two right hands to settle the situation in the kitchen. Be terrorized, the chef and his dumb apprentice, they learn that the problem comes from the hen Nuggets which, victim of a depression, refuses to lay. Numbers of dance, theater, intimidation, everything is good to obtain the saving egg.

Cages

2009 • 10 min • Mexico

An old man crosses the desert with a valuable load, a row of cages with cherubs of sublime songs; when one of them is carelessly abandoned, he reveals the divine power to give life to lifeless beings and things.

Scene 32

2009 • 5 min • India, United States of America

Scene 32 maps the terrain that lies between a beloved place and the things that represent it. The salt fields of Central Kutch are examined through High Definition video and hand processed 16mm film to become another thing altogether: neither a specific location in India nor its representation but a rebuilt world of precipices and gullies, untouchable textures and unfathomable scale.

Plastic and Glass

2009 • 9 min

In a recycling factory in the north of France the machines dance, the workers join in song, and the truckdrivers almost do a ballet. The film shows the process of recycling by impressive machines and by hand. We hear the noise that accompagnies this process. Slowly the factory noise be- comes a rhythm and a truckdriver starts to sing a song for his love. He wants to build an island with the materials at hand, where they can be together to ‘sort things out ‘. In this crossover between documentary and musical it is the filmmakers aim to merge image and sound in such a way that the one cannot exist without the other. Inspired by the recordings of Alan Lomax and the films of Jacques Tati, the result is a sculptural and informative documentary and at the same time a musical film with a sticky song .

575 Castro St.

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

Images set to a tape recording that slain San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk made in November 1977 to be played in case he was killed.

Bargain!

2009 • 7 min • Australia

When shy, dorky Linda finds herself alone with her sister's hunky boyfriend Matt, she decides to make the most of situation and convinces him to take his clothes off for money. Little does Matt know that Linda is not as stupid as she looks.

This Close or This Far

2009 • 14 min • United States of America

An honest boxer tries to win back the heart of a pretty, grieving girl whose wants and needs fall outside his simple world of good, soulful boxing.

After the Rainbow

2009 • 6 min

Through a re-imagining of the initial sequence of the film The Wizard of Oz (1939), the fantasy world of cinema and the reality of Judy Garland’s complex life collide. Instead of taking Dorothy to Oz, the twister transports a young, hopeful Garland into the future where she encounters her disillusioned adult self.