All Films

After the Downfall

2009 • 59 min • Germany, France

As the era of Saddam ends in Iraq, far away in Germany, Azad, a Kurdish exile is glued to the TV screen. He has invited over his exiled Iraqi friends to celebrate the event. They have brought plenty of wine and food. As the guests dance, sing and rejoice together, a continuous stream of images is shown on television - and the initial joy becomes fused with ongoing tensions and betrayals.

Concerning Brown Jenkin

2009 • 3 min • Sweden

Short film dealing with the monstrous character "Brown Jenkin" from H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Dreams in the Witch House".

The Soul Detective

2009 • 9 min • Brazil

A detective enters a train car where he finds different manifestations of a force that haunts the place. Using his telepathic powers he tries to enter the mind of a recently deceased man before all his memories vanish.

Gisberta

2009 • 23 min • Germany

Again and again, Elisha finds himself confronted by Alex, Timo, Sascha, and Mika – all 14-year-olds living in the boys’ orphanage with him. Their worlds ought to be similar and yet they are completely different.

Dorms

2009 • 7 min

This short shows the day in the life of Maximillian, a university student.

The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu

2009 • 60 min

Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its university founded around the same time as Oxford, Timbuktu is proof that the reading and writing of books have long been as important to Africans as to Europeans.

The Stalker Chronicles: Episode Four - Connection

2009 • 10 min • United Kingdom

For Samantha, a friendly exchange in an Internet chat room soon turns into an uneasy meeting when she confronts 'loverboy' for real. The barrier of the computer screen is broken with tragic consequences.

Demon

2009 • 40 min • Philippines

A young interim doctor in a rural hospital, Claire, has encountered a female patient suspected of carrying a deadly flu virus. It turns out that the girl is not sick but rather possessed by a demon.

Los unos y los otros

2009 • 12 min • Puerto Rico

A women on death row is offered a way out of her sentence. There is only one condition... she must survive a test.

Bliss

2009 • 19 min • Brazil

Rodrigo and Suzana have started a relationship recently. He's seventy-two, she's sixty, and they are completely in love with each other. Together, they spend days in bed, talking, eating, laughing and making love.

Dead Game

2009 • 16 min • United States of America

Shelby, an awkward goth girl, simply cannot measure up to Nina, a trailer blonde. One ordinary day, Shelby finds an occult game, unaware that it is the incarnation of evil. She steals the game from the depraved Victor, not realizing that, without it, he will die. Kahldir, the spectral host of the game has plans for these two players and Nina that will take them deeper into the realm of a paranormal reality. Who will win?

Feel

2009 • 10 min • Russia

Novella from the almanac "Crush" (2009)

Bom Dia África

2009 • 8 min • Angola, Portugal

A African man lives a difficult life, as so many Africans do. As usual, he catches two buses to go to work, but something unusual happens.

El vuelo de Atí

2009 • 10 min

A young couple prepares for the arrival of their son: Atí. The child's first toy is a wooden bird that hangs over his crib. Bird that, before the child's eyes, comes to life. Atí grows in the company of this bird. Together they create a world in which reality is transformed to your liking. With time, Atí's life changes and he forgets the toy, until one day, he finds it again, and then, everything changes.

The Stolen Wings

2009 • 4 min • Ireland

A babysitter makes up an elaborate fairy tale to keep a little girl amused. But is she all what she seems to be?

Leave Me

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

A recent widower deals with his grief through his wife's broken camera as he relives through her photos to find one last chance to be with her.

Speed Dating

2009 • 30 min • Germany

In a cold future world everybody who is single drops dead. Which means that Tim - who recently got dumped by his girlfriend - has a serious problem. None of the women he meets at a speed dating event strike a chord with him. His last chance is Denise - or better said a typo called Dennis. As to Tim being straight, hey, there's a pill for that. Or is there?

Elbow and the BBC Concert Orchestra: The Seldom Seen Kid - Live at Abbey Road

2009 • 54 min

On Saturday 17th January 2009 at the world famous Abbey Road studios in London, Elbow performed the entirety of their Mercury Music Prize winning album The Seldom Seen Kid with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Chantage, the winners of Radio 3's Choir Of The Year competition. The band played new and exclusive versions of the songs from the album in order and were joined by Richard Hawley for The Fix. The Seldom Seen Kid is a welcome return from the band, driven by a thunderous riff that reminds listeners of Elbow's love of the heavy as well as the delicate. Produced by keyboard player, Craig Potter, the album is the follow up to 2005's universally acclaimed Leaders Of The Free World. The big themes of love and loss become the central focus of an album that sees Elbow, a band universally recognized for their musical ability and innovation, stretch their sonic template further than ever before.

Birth

2009 • 12 min • United States of America

Amina, a young woman (17) is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.

Creative Nonfiction

2009 • 58 min • United States of America

College student Ella is completely focused on her ambiguously romantic relationship with her dorm-mate, Chris. She is so consumed by trying to understand his behavior that she's neglecting the screenplay she is supposed to write in order to graduate. When she does sit down to work on the script, her increasingly awkward social life bleeds onto the page and her work begins to express her true feelings about her own situation.

Saving Flipper

2009 • 47 min • Turkey

Our love affair with dolphins began with 'Flipper' and ended in a multi-million dollar industry of abuse. From the dazzling sea shows where dolphins are driven to suicide, to an annual dolphin slaughter in a small cove in Japan, 'Saving Flipper' reveals the nightmare behind the dolphin's indelible smile.

The Fight

2009 • 7 min • Norway

Mads should have told the truth. Actually, he is terrible at fighting.

It Would Be Splendid, Yet…

2009 • 28 min • Lithuania

The year 1992. Lithuania is already independent. One day at her workplace a factory worker Danguole wins the SPECIAL prize . This means she will be entitled to welcome an American press-photographer who is coming to Lithuania in three days. She and her family are to represent the New Lithuania to the world in a photo reportage to be issued. This way the factory worker Danguole becomes a kind of a Lithuanian ambassador. Obviously, everything she owns is dated, soviet-tinged and cannot represent anything. The New Lithuania should be newly fashioned. The problem is... what exactly does the 'newly fashioned' mean?

Louis C.K.'s Last Chance

2009 • 7 min

Louis C.K. made this short film as a promo for his FX show Louie a few months before the series debuted. In “Last Chance,” he plays himself, trying to make a sex tape to save his career.