All Films

Bloomsday 2009

2009 • 45 min • Germany

A collage of various excerpts from German TV channels, all recorded on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 and arranged by Holger Kreymeier and shown without commentary in an attempt to cover the absurdities of a typical broadcasting day, inspired by Walter Kempowski's book "Bloomsday '97".

Wanted to be Friends

2009 • 29 min • Sweden

Dramatic scenes take place in a youth centre in Fittja, Stockholm. Someone wants to join in and play but isn't allowed. Someone is crying and someone is teasing. Someone is finally called a friend. Wanted to be Friends is a film that is completely on the children's side. With a camera that is consistently on level with the children, it immediately feels like being six years old again - with all the big emotional fluctuations that entails.

The Man in the Black Suit

2009 • 10 min • United States of America

Student film based on Stephen King's short story "The Man in the Black Suit".

Grizzly

2009 • 50 min • United States of America

In the distant past, tens of thousands of grizzly bears lived in the part what is now known as the Western United States, between the Pacific Ocean and the Mississippi River. By the 1970s, only a few hundred ones remained. The animals live in small, scattered populations. One such population lives in the Yellowstone National Park...

Chocolatines: producto no comestible

2009 • 36 min • Argentina

A young woman goes through an internal crisis when she learns that her father is dying in a distant hospital. Going to meet him to say goodbye, irreversible events happen.

Duck Hunting

2009 • 23 min • Slovenia

Two sons wait for their father on the day he is released from prison. They go duck hunting together, like they did before he was locked up.

Yurumates

2009 • 37 min • Japan

Yurume moves from the country side to a little room in Tokyo to go to cram school. She shares the house with three other cram schoolers. Through short stories, their experiences of life while preparing for university are shown.

Dennis Nilsen: In Love with Death

2009 • 58 min • United Kingdom

The story of serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who murdered 15 young men in the 1980s.

Suspect

2009 • 18 min • Brazil

Suspect tells the story of a love triangle between Pedro, Adriana and Diego, three young people wrapped in their first sentimental experiences.

Once Upon a Time… La Dolce Vita

2009 • 53 min • France

Documentary about the 1960 film LA DOLCE VITA directed by Federico Fellini. Using archival photos and film footage, as well as interviews, this documentary looks back on Federico Fellini's film and places it in the historical context of its time.

Lilla Spöket Laban: Bullar och Bång

2009 • 44 min • Sweden

For the fourth time, it's ghost day again at Gomorronsol Castle, where we follow Little Ghost Laban, the kindest ghost in the world who is afraid of the dark. Together with Little Prince Bus and Labolina, many super scary adventures await Laban.

Die Hades Fraktur

2009 • 15 min

Hades and Persephone have opened a secret club in the bowels of the former Hotel Timp, Cologne´s infamous transvestite venue. Each night, a limited number of guests are permitted to enter the dank brothel and be “entertained” by several well-known hosts, 7 beautiful women imprisoned by Hades, and the couple themselves.

Echoes

2009 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Echoes is a short film about a sex trafficker called Anya who is faced with a moral dilemma when she discovers that a young girl that she is trafficking (from Lithuania to London) is pregnant.

Bulaqistan

2009 • 40 min • Azerbaijan

Residents are slowly leaving the village due to thirst. Only one family, aunt Nakhish and man Rahim, endured a thousand hardships to guard the grave of Allahverdi, their only child who died in the Karabakh war.

Sisyphos Blues

2009 • 5 min • Germany

Stop motion animation by Jonatan Schwenk

Caught Red Handed

2009 • 11 min • Sweden

An ambivalent meeting between two friends. Classmates Victor and Amanda meet at a cafe in Stockholm one afternoon before Christmas to study for an exam. Amanda wants to talk about what they read, but Victor steers the conversation into something completely different, and suddenly they both run the risk of losing their face.

Le ruban

2009 • 4 min • France

China, in the early sixties: an angry mob is persecuting a rich landowner. Mei, a young worker, who is part of the crowd. Suddenly she recognizes the victim who she secretly loves. Frightened of revealing her feelings, Mei doesn't know what to do.

3x3

2009 • 6 min • Portugal

A night watchman spends time on a basketball court throwing a ball into the basket. He has become an expert. He shows his abilities to a simple janitor, who also like him, is there all night.

SuperBob

2009 • 4 min

Bob Kenner is a superhero. He lives in Peckham. This is the first time he has granted an interview.

Brian Cox's Jute Journey

2009 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Hollywood actor Brian Cox is a son of Dundee. The city is the big constant of his life. He grew up amid the clatter of the jute mills, where both his parents began their working lives. The jute trade, making hessian from India's 'golden' fibre, dominated Dundee for over a century, linking it with Kolkata. It is now fast becoming a memory. Documentary journey into Brian Cox's past, and on to Kolkata in the footsteps of the Dundee jute workers who left to seek their fortunes in India.

No Ward

2009 • 11 min • United States of America

No Ward is a short documentary about the forced migration of New Orleans residents to cities in Texas. The film juxtaposes the migrations that occurred as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Gustav in 2008.

Rosa e Benjamin

2009 • 15 min • Brazil

The city outside and the city within. Inside: a couple starting to grow old. Outside: a city in constant flux - new buildings, a noisy airport, a troubling new neighbor, gossip. Things that never change amid things that change too fast. The fragmented everyday, seen through a lens that's indirect and selective. Rosa and Benjamin: What's absent or left unsaid tells as much as what comes inside a confining frame - what we put off-limits exposes what we take for granted.

Batman: Ashes to Ashes

2009 • 18 min

In this French-language film with a comic book style similar to "Sin City," Batman faces off against the lunatics who terrorize Gotham and turn the city into a nightmare.

Ramly at War Begins

2009 • 19 min • Malaysia

Two brothers, Quan and Ming belong to the Waja Warriors, one of the oldest and most feared biker gangs dealing in DVD piracy. Quan is a loyal and traditional soldier who will die by the rules. When Ming is in trouble with the rival gang, CoD (Children of DamnedNation or Cash on Delivery), Quan has to make a decision - completing his mission for the Waja Warriors, or breaking the gang laws to save his brother.