All Films

Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense

2009 • 29 min • United States of America

A short documentary exploring the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Mel Brooks and the role it played in the production of "High Anxiety."

The Blindness of the Woods

2009 • 11 min • Argentina

A blind woman living in the woods. The winter is cold, especially when you are alone. Then, one day a blond, strong woodcutter knocks on her door. And her senses revive, as she rediscovers the joys of love and sex.

Secrets of Florence

2009 • 45 min • Italy

Using a thermo-camera to reveal long-lost artworks and never-before-seen architectural layers in some of the city's most famous landmarks, Art detective Maurizio Seracini reveals an unsavory history.

Landscape Memory #1

2009 • 2 min • Brazil

Experimental video shot on a cellphone.

Sire Nutcracker Complete Trilogy

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

A trilogy of shorts about two nutcrackers

Toute ma vie

2009 • 6 min • France

Alessandra is walking in the city when she is hailed by a man she doesn't recognize. even though he keeps telling her about important moments of her life, his face remains totally unknown to her.

You Got The Girl

2009 • 6 min

Led by a mysterious girl, a trapped "Insider" strives to break free and join the "Outsiders". (The official music video for Cellarscape's 'You Got the Girl'.)

Forever's Not So Long

2009 • 12 min • United States of America

George discovers that the end of the world is the perfect time to lose everything.

Ensaio de Cinema

2009 • 15 min

The Little Dragon

2009 • 9 min • France, Switzerland

Thirty-five years after Bruce Lee, his soul reincarnates into a little doll. With self-confidence, the rubber-made toy leaves to discover the great-scaled world all around him.

Childhood Amnesia

2009 • 15 min • France

A gas is released making mankind immortal, but also sterile. Despite the infinite opportunities made possible, mankind quickly becomes disillusioned. To prevent widespread depression, a machine is invented to enable people to travel through memory…

This Woman's World

2009 • 12 min • Australia

The film chronicles one evening in a woman's life as she goes to work while caring for her ailing lover - culminating in a moment that's both poignant and devastating.

Solo hombres solos

2009 • 14 min • Argentina

Four men share one apartment, unaware of each other's presence : they are all one and the same man, at different stages of his life. Suddenly, something goes wrong and for a brief moment all their paths intersect. The camera witnesses this instant through a poetic investigation on male bonding and movement.

The Da Vinci Timecode

2009 • 3 min • Germany

In the film “The Da Vinci Time Code” one picture is taken apart in order to create an animated film from its fragments. Different parts of this one picture, based on similar forms, allow us to discover secret movements.The people in the picture eat, dance, discuss and argue, until finally all are silenced. Musik and sound design: Alexander Zlamal

Ian Hislop's Changing of the Bard

2009 • 60 min

Ian Hislop takes an amused look at one of the most peculiar offices in the British establishment, that of Poet Laureate. Its 341-year history produces a gloriously eccentric picture of who we are, how we are ruled, what we want to say about ourselves and just how hard it is to do that in verse.

Massage the History

2009 • 10 min

Massage the History records amateur dancers, whom Jamie found accidentally online, who freely engage the quotidian domestic scene with their own sexually suggestive movements. Unintended for an actual audience, the automatic nature of their body language evolves from an intimate spectacle into a dreamlike scenario of transcendence through onanistic desire.

Lonely Apartment

2009 • 15 min

An ordinary encounter between a homosexual couple and a female realtor triggers an extraordinary confrontation of the 'male gaze'. The female is not the one to be seen though.

Jana Was Here

2009 • 30 min • Germany

Marcel has met Jana online. When he searches for her at work, she doesn't seem to know who he is.

Aziza

2009 • 53 min

A Movie For Television dealing and exercising thoughts of Men Controlled Societies which are somehow similar in the east and west both. The movie shows how a woman is treated unfair just because her husband wanted a baby boy and she delivered 4 daughters. From sunrise to sunset, this one-day-actions movies follows the nerve pressed Aziza with all the unexpected accidents.

In Motion

2009 • 44 min • Russia

They go out with slogans on streets, climb with flash-lights on the roofs, they want to be noticed. Why? They are 18-20 years old, they are in motion. What for?

Immersion (short)

2009 • 12 min

Ten-year-old Moises has just immigrated to California from Mexico. He doesn't speak English, but he's good at math, so he hopes to do well on his first math test in the USA. Using untrained child actors from public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, “Immersion” plunges its audience into the visceral experience of a child who cannot understand his teacher. The film puts a human face on the debate about the education of English Language Learners.

Super Boy

2009 • 4 min • Lithuania

Pearl

2009 • 1 min • Canada

A lonely old lady sits in an empty room knitting. As her thoughts wander, her dreams take the shape of fanciful knitted creatures and objects that cocoon her in a pattern of wonder and comfort. This film was made as part of the 5th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Child Rush

2009 • 22 min • Germany

Because of his cancer, Pavel has to intensify his chemotherapy. One of its side effects is the loss of fertility. The exhausting therapy is to start in five days. Pavel (32) and Jasmin (26) only recently have started a relationship.