All Films

The Japanese Boy

2009 • 18 min • Brazil

Two men talk by a window while they observe the neighborhood.

Breaking Stones

2009 • 8 min • Nepal

A internally displaced Nepali schoolboy works on the construction of a road to support his family, Ram Kumar heaves large boulders and smashes rocks while dreaming of a future as a pilot, a doctor or the next great leader of Nepal.

Literature

2009 • 7 min

A man reading on the street.

Dust Kid

2009 • 10 min • South Korea

In bed, late on a sleepless night in the depth of winter, Eujin finds a small dust kid. She decides to do the cleaning she has been putting off for so long. Cleaning every corner of her room, she keeps finding other dust kids here and there, and starts clearing them up one by one. Just when she thinks she has cleaned her room and the dust kids are all gone now, she comes face to face with another one… When I am at home alone, I sit silently and mull over many things. As I think, my brain fills with pointless worries and anxiety. That’s when I start to clean my room. As I clean busily, wash the dishes and do the laundry I’ve been putting off, my anxiety disappears naturally.

Lygia de Pele a Pele

2009 • 14 min • Brazil

Fictional work focusing on the character Lygia Clark in her creative processes that, through catharsis, materialize works that free her from her controversial worldview, enabling her to be realized as an artist.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, "an honest man"

2009 • 52 min • France

Portrait of Jean-Louis Trintignant, for the "empreintes" collection, produced by Pierre Bouteiller and written and directed by François Chayé.

Horse Camp

2009 • 11 min • Austria

A door opens, a cone of light falls into the room, then darkness again. As the door opens a second time, this time from the inside, two people slip out who had apparently retreated into the room - for a moment of undisturbed intimacy?

El Hijo del Naranjo 2

2009 • 42 min

El Hijo del Naranjo, after recovering from his wounds, encountered a network of organ traffickers, who did not hesitate to enlist the services of the mercenaries of the drug lord "Peche" to seek revenge.

Visionary Iraq

2009 • 17 min • Portugal

Story about Incest and the Iraq war.

Rudy Maxa's World Exotic Places: Tokyo, Japan

2009 • 56 min • Japan, United States of America

Rudy can't get enough of the sheer vitality of Tokyo. Exciting, edgy, and full of life, Tokyo is shopping madness by day and a carnival at night. Join the throngs at one of the world's most exciting street intersections to witness its blazing neon and JumboTron shows. Greet the new day at the Tsukiji fish market, where a staggering 2,000 tons of seafood pass through each day. Get caught up in cherry blossom mania, visit distant neighborhoods via the subway, and wander the streets in search of new restaurants, a Tokyo obsession!

Jackpot

2009 • 50 min • Canada

Die-hard regulars at a Canadian bingo hall, hope their next card will be the one that wins them the jackpot.

Paredes Nuas

2009 • 58 min • Brazil

A successful businessman is arrested on suspicion of committing financial crimes. In the sitting room of his house, four characters – the driver, the nanny, the lawyer and the wife – discuss how and why the businessman was arrested and, consequently, try to understand their own lives.

Casablanca, les enfants du bitume

2009 • 52 min • France

There are at least seven thousand children and adolescents wandering the streets of Morocco's economic capital. Sold by their parents, abused, beaten, or abandoned, they struggle to survive. Since 1995, the Bayti association has been fighting to reintegrate these sacrificed children and give them a second chance.

Clint Eastwood

2009 • 15 min • United States of America

For 30 y/o security guard, Clint Eastwood-Fogerty, a lifetime of living in the shadow of his namesake has left him bitter and frustrated. Enough is enough when Clint's arch-nemesis, a finicky vending machine, gets the best of him yet again. Is this the last straw? Or will Clint finally be able to live up to his namesake?

Behaviour

2009 • 19 min • Denmark

A young woman, Julie 23, starts her first day at her job, caring for the intellectually disabled. Suddenly she is left alone with two young men she has to take responsibility for.

Britney Spears: Unbreakable

2009 • 60 min

Look into the glamorous and tumultuous life of pop sensation Britney Spears. From her incredible skyrocketing ascent into stardom to her personal troubles and downfalls, see the inside of the star's life with exclusive interviews.

Women

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

The bodies of women lying on the ground weave relationships around them, they breastfeed, they connect with the ground ... Carla Simón's first short, shot on 16 mm in the Californian forests. An experimental exercise that connects with the cinematographic avant-gardes of the early twentieth century.

People from the Milky Way

2009 • 29 min • Croatia

A story about arduous everyday life, anxiety, plans and dreams of popular dairywomen from Zagreb's green markets, with Croatia on the way to joining the European Union. Do they and their cheese have a future?

HandyCat: Bees-ness As Usual

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

On their first day on the job, a handyman feline and his dog try to get rid of some pesky bees in hoping for a second job.

The World's Oldest Conjoined Twins

2009 • 44 min

The incredible life of Ronnie and Donnie Galyon - the world's oldest living conjoined twins. With their bodies fused at the lower chest, doctors didn't think that conjoined twins Ronnie and Donnie would survive through the night.

Slope Dude

2009 • 3 min

Slope dude loves to ski. He teaches us by talking while he skis the course. We learn from him that uphill slopes are positive, downhill slopes are negative, flat slopes are zero, and vertical "slopes" are undefined.

Second Life

2009 • 14 min

In a cemetery, Mathilde connects with her dead brother through virtual reality. As time runs out, she summons the courage to discuss their youthful affair.

Little

2009 • 34 min • Philippines

A young man yearning to escape rural life clings to his best friend—whom he loves despite his reckless ways—until a family tragedy changes everything.

The Rift

2009 • 26 min • United States of America

A man wakes up in a strange and horrible place where the sun never shines...darkness, painful memories, and despair prevail. He fears the worst...that he has somehow ended up in Hell. But can hope exist, even in a place as dark as this? The Rift is a metaphorical tale about the undeniable pain and suffering in our own world...the lost and abandoned souls who live on earth now...and the idea that one act of love can forever change the course of someone's life.