All Films

Silence (Elements)

2009 • 14 min • Latvia

There should be silence in a museum. And someone should see to it that the silence is there. It's the logical order of things. However, it might seem weird to somebody.

Betty B. & the The's

2009 • 13 min • Germany

Tobias B's life is not crowned with success. A short man with no work and no friends and no smile on his face. One evening he comes across Betty B. The huge chanteuse of the Band: Betty B. & the The's.

De noche

2009 • 15 min • Peru

She, a new mother, travels through a night that never ends. Mother and daughter together but alone, communicated but incommunicado, fail to establish a bond. At night it is not a special day, it is not the first or the last. Tomorrow will be the same and the day after tomorrow too. Here lies the agony.

Happy Birthday, Sofka!

2009 • 20 min • Latvia

It's Sofka's birthday and she gets a lamp which is the beginning of her dream. But there's a misunderstanding and someone takes Sofka’s lamp away. Because of a friend’s principles of justice, Sofka winds up in a criminal situation.

Blindness

2009 • 3 min • France

Short film by Boris Labbé

Bloody Thursday

2009 • 54 min

The story of longshoremen fighting for their rights in the midst of the great depression.

The Learn'd Astronomer

2009 • 14 min

A psychic is called in to help the search for a missing boy but ends up in crisis after meeting a skeptical park ranger.

Harash

2009 • 29 min

Casablanca, Lwiyen racks up petty schemes week after week. He owes money to Omar, a corrupt cop who uses quick and brutal methods. Assad, his childhood friend, is a nihilistic drunk who wants to see his native Sahara again.

Delivery

2009 • 1 min • Slovenia

A person receives a delivery that ends up immoral.

Another Sims 2 Movie Santa's Gone Goth

2009 • 13 min

It’s Christmas Eve in Pleasantview, and something is deeply wrong in the Goth mansion. Mortimer Goth, once the town’s respected intellectual, is seen dressed in a tattered Santa suit, talking to shadows, and leaving presents that explode or bleed. Ever since Bella vanished without a trace, Mortimer’s mind has deteriorated. This Christmas, he decides to "give back" to the neighborhood — one corpse at a time. Armed with a candy cane axe and an endless supply of fire hazards, Mortimer begins a murderous rampage across Pleasantview, targeting everyone from the Calientes to the Brokes. By sunrise, the snow is red.

Stolen Art

2009 • 58 min • Belgium

Where does one draw the line between 'art' and 'theft'? Art and artist? A criminal and aesthetic investigation into the creation of incognito artist Pavel Novak, virtuosi counterfeiter wanted by the FBI for his 1978 "Stolen Art" exhibition in New York, which caused international stupefaction… some pieces proved to be stolen originals. Simon Backès takes us on a trek across New York, introducing us to specialists who unveil and question our relation to art- a matter of cultural legacy, but also, quite simply, merchandise. Does beauty exist without copyright?

Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

2009 • 10 min • Canada

The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in Montréal, Canada. Using the images of maple trees in the park as main visual motif, Saïto creates a film in which the formations of the trees and their subtle interrelation with the space around them act as an agent to transform viewer’s sensorial perception of the space portrayed

Museum of Broken Relationships

2009 • 13 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

A broken relationship. A weekend in a city of love. A mixture of passion, hate, loneliness and revenge in an attempt to forget the things that hurt and keep the things that make it all count.

The Taos Parade

2009 • 19 min • Algeria, France

Taos, a very beautiful young lady, meets regularly a man in the zoo of Algiers. There, the couples of lovers feel ill at ease in front of the hostile glances of the walkers and find intimacy only shielded by the vegetation. One day, Taos waits in vain for her lover. For the first time, she is alone in the garden. She roams, soon harassed by a group of kids, then by a guard.

Summerdream

2009 • 7 min

The story follows Hermia Summerdream, a young woman plagued by a recurring dream of a forest she’s never visited and voices that echo in languages she doesn’t speak. As the veil between sleep and waking life begins to erode, Hermia becomes increasingly drawn to the ruins at the edge of Veronaville — ruins said to be cursed by the spirits of wronged lovers.

Tinglewood

2009 • 18 min • Australia

Tinglewood tells the story of a family who take a camping trip deep into the Tinglewood forest.

Acholiland

2009 • 20 min • United States of America, Germany

Northern Uganda, 1999. War has raged for thirteen years. Thousands are killed, millions are displaced, and everyone is starving. Set in the heart of this turmoil, four UN workers must embark on a frantic food delivery to a mass of desperate villagers. But when the militia strike and the situation explodes, these men will face impossible choices to keep everyone alive.

Lion Army

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

In the Kruger National Park there is a hunting force that rivals anything else in Africa - a lion pride, 28 members strong! Despite the females' hunting prowess, nine adolescent males dominate every kill. Bigger and stronger, they bully their way to the best spots on the carcass. The pride's two powerful males could easily enforce discipline, but with them away on patrol, the unruly youngsters are running riot. When eight strong lionesses split from the Megapride, food pressure mounts as the remaining females struggle to cater for their sons' growing demands.

Ampelmann

2009 • 14 min • Germany

A policeman unintentionally wrecks havoc when he installs a traffic light in a small, rural community.

Next Door

2009 • 25 min • Switzerland

Serguei is a 50 year old railway worker, seemingly cheerful and sociable. But within the intimacy of his gloomy apartment, he lives a terrible loneliness that he tries to make up for by watching funny shows on television. When it breaks down, he tries to repair it and overhears a couple’s argument in the apartment next door. Driven by a growing fascination for the woman’s voice, he starts to vicariously share her everyday life, till the day he walks through her door…

Freshboys Asia: Campus Heartthrob (Go Wild)

2009 • 60 min • Philippines

Freshboy's Asia launches its series with a take on the heartthrobs of the campus often fantasized by gay men. The varsity hunk, the charismatic student leader, the cute geek, the neat guy and, the not ordinary guy are but variations to the ideal boy that young college gays want to win their hearts.

Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i

2009 • 57 min • United States of America

What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of your accent? "Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i" addresses these questions through its lively examination of Pidgin - the language spoken by over half of Hawai'i's people.

Visited by the Light

2009 • 12 min • Portugal

"Visited by the Light" presents Fatima as a supernatural event. It narrates the apparitions of a Lady, brighter than the sun, Our Lady of the Rosary. Film from the exhibition "Fátima Luz e Paz".

On Leave

2009 • 15 min • Israel

Yotam came back from the army. He met his dad. He met his mom. He took his girlfriend for a ride. Yotam came back home, but something went wrong on the way. Gripping drama where silence shouts louder than words.