All Films

Russian Slava

2009 • 25 min • Russia, Romania

Roger Delgado: The Master

2009 • 33 min • United Kingdom

A biography of actor Roger Delgado, featuring previously unseen photographs, rare excerpts from his many BBC TV appearances and interviews with those who knew and loved him.

Shapeless

2009 • 2 min • Brazil

A shadow questions itself about its shapes.

Pig Me

2009 • 8 min

Pig me is the story about a pig that escapes from a slaughter house. He finds his way to a pet shop and discovers the nice and warmth atmosphere between the costumers and the animals getting bought. He also wants to get bought, but he realizes that nobody wants to buy a pig. The only solution he can find to that problem is to dress up as the other animals in the pet shop.

In the Mind of Plants

2009 • 52 min

Neurobiology has shown in the recent years that contrary to the traditional boundaries between animal and plants, plants can feel, move and even think. Over the recent years, a small but growing group of researchers from Austria, Germany, Italy, UK, Japan, South Africa and the USA, has developed a new scientific field of research: the neurobiology of plants. Their discoveries question the traditional boundaries set between the animal and the vegetable kingdom: plants are capable to develop the cognitive process claimed by humans and animals. If plants can move, and feel... Could they possibly think ? In a creative and captivating scientific investigation style, through spectacular specialist photography and CGI, and re-creating scientific experiments, this documentary is bound to change your own perception of plants.

The Long Road Through Balkan History

2009 • 58 min • Belgium, Macedonia, Serbia

Bosnian Croat writer Miljenko Jergović and Serbian writer Marko Vidojković replace one another by the steering wheel of Yugo, a symbol of their common past while driving on the Brotherhood and Unity Highway that stretched across five of six republics of Yugoslavia.

Cad é Sin

2009 • 4 min

a short animation

Mustang: Journey of Transformation

2009 • 30 min • United States of America

Lost in time, the Himalayan Kingdom of Mustang is one of the last sanctuaries of authentic Tibetan Buddhist culture. But, long isolated by geography and politics, the people struggle to survive and the center of their culture, the fifteenth century monasteries and the art within are dangerously close to collapse. Mustang - Journey of Transformation, tells the compelling story of the efforts to rescue this ancient place from the brink of extinction and help spark a cultural renaissance. Storytellers include His Holiness the Dalai Lama; the King of Mustang; and Luigi Fieni, the chief art restorer.

A Young Couple

2009 • 13 min • United States of America

A couple discuss their relationship.

Hatch

2009 • 10 min • Ireland

A man lays an egg while taking a bath. He then takes it with him to a bar where it begins to behave strangely.

For Today

2009 • 14 min • Ethiopia

A homeless boy in a small village in Ethiopia suffers due to global warming and shortsightedness.

Sin by Silence

2009 • 49 min

Sin by Silence is a domestic violence documentary film by Olivia Klaus about women who have killed their abusive husbands. Based on the first inmate-initiated and led support group in the entire United States prison system, the film reveals the history and stories of the members of the group Convicted Women Against Abuse created by inmate Brenda Clubine in 1989. By following five women's abusive experiences that led to their incarceration, the film take viewers on their journeys from victim to survivors, reveals the history of the Battered Women Syndrome in the state of California, and shatters misconceptions.

Little Tragedies

2009 • 40 min • Russia

In the "Little Tragedies", the main universal, eternal conflicts receive a specific interpretation: things, ideas and people collide. This is a "shifted" world, everything is at a breaking point here: the immobile moves, love triumphs on coffins, a subtle aesthetic sense leads to murder, and feasts turn out to be feasts of death.

Strawberry Shortcake Happily Ever After

2009 • 45 min

Strawberry Shortcake, Huckleberry, Angel Cake, Rainbow Sherbet and the other Strawberryland kids learn lessons about believing in oneself, friendship and listening in "berry" clever twists of two classic fairy tales: Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel.

The Enemy Within

2009 • 52 min • Italy, Qatar, Tunisia

Six stories from Italian Islam. As in the rest of the country, in Bologna, intolerance and attempts at dialogue coexist, ghetto neighborhoods and second generations fighting, crime and everyday life.

George's 40th Birthday

2009 • 9 min • United States of America

To the outside world, George is just an average middle-aged, middle-class, and middle-sized salesman. But to George, the outside world is out to get him, and on his 40th birthday he decides to do something about it. "George's 40th Birthday" is a dark comedy about a self-deprecating man who is so fed up with his monotonous life that he loses his grip on reality. Our story begins when, on the morning of his 40th birthday, George decides to bring a gun to work. George's birthday turns out to be no different from any other; a complete and utter disaster. Yet just when George decides to put himself out of his misery, he receives a surprise.

Spoon

2009 • 9 min • United States of America

Spoon has always been a happy little utensil. But lately he feels like life is just not cutting it. Fork, Knife and Chopsticks all have it so much better than Spoon. But do they? This book celebrates what makes each of us special.

Beautiful Contradictions

2009 • 24 min • South Africa

Smooth, successful, and yet so conflicted, Tony Nkosi is trying to work through his inner turmoil where cultural and familial expectations conflict with emotional and physical needs. He tells his shrink, Dr Stacey, that he doesn't date men, and yet he can neither let his shag-buddy Thabo go nor give him the emotional commitment he needs.

Bloody Sundae

2009 • 2 min • United States of America

A vampire fan-girl, lost in the woods and searching for a Dairy Queen, stumbles across a cannibal whom she excitedly mistakes for a vampire. Flabbergasted, the cannibal decides to play along with the fan-girl's delusions by claiming he is a vampire and inviting her to his cabin, where he plans on killing and eating her. The fan-girl, none the wiser, excitedly accepts.

Vlada

2009 • 52 min • Slovenia

Vlada Divljan, a famous musician from Yugoslavia, left his native Belgrade in the turbulent ’90s. From a space and time distance, he reflects on his artistry and his life as an emigrant.

Plague

2009 • 17 min

Plague follows the journey of Vilhelm, a lone Latvian refugee, trying to escape a shady past of trafficking guns. He travels to Britain, feeling certain that he has put the worst behind him. The reality he finds is a living nightmare, the dead have risen to consume the living.

The Stalker Chronicles: Episode Three - Identity

2009 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Susan Parker has been kidnapped by a hooded stranger. As he leads her through the woods she pleads for her life but her fate has been sealed and she knows it.

Gitchy

2009 • 33 min • United States of America

David and Kimberly haven't been the same since the death of their parents. David is constantly tormented by the horrifying image of a 6'5', 400-pound clown named Gitchy. David is convinced that Gitchy, the monster from his darkest dreams, is responsible for killing his parents. He believes that his mother and father both met their doom after being attacked and tickled to death by Gitchy the Clown! Kimberly does her best to care for her brother, but she has fallen into her own depression after watching his mental condition deteriorate. David's therapist has him on medication and visits him weekly, but nothing seems to block his images or silence the insane laughter of the demonic clown that torments him. Soon everyone connected to David will learn just how real Gitchy is...and the situation will be no laughing matter...or will it?

Diolkos for 1,500 years

2009 • 22 min • Greece

The story takes place near the famous Ancient Corinth (around the mid-4th century BCE), referring to its two harbours (named Lechaion and Kenchreae). Several ships, avoiding the dangerous travel around the whole of Peloponnese, were transferred from the Corinth Golf to the Golf of Saronikos, on top of an eight-wheel vehicle dragged along a stone-paved road (the “Diolkos”), almost parallel to the actual Corinth-Canal. The film describes several technical details of the whole operation, as well as various events such as the visits of the sailors to an ancient Greek Temple and to a tavern, where a hypothetically available Hydraulis (water organ) was played, or to a public fountain encountered along the Diolkos.