All Films

Grammar, Girls and All That Jazz

2009 • 52 min • Latvia

This is a film about the generation of the 1970s, about its teenage dreams, hopes, choices and its adulthood reality. When the director of the film was in year 7 at school, he got a 8 mm film camera from his dad. The first thing he did was film his classmates and record their visions of future. Thirty years have passed. The future is here. Have they succeeded in fulfilling their dreams?

Grande Drip

2009 • 21 min

A young man strolls into a bustling café every morning to buy a cup of Joe, the only thing is, he doesn't drink coffee-he's just enamored with the girl behind the counter. Unable to muster the courage to woo his love, an unlikely hero comes to the rescue in the form of an eccentric homeless man with a heart of gold and a special knack for mending things.

Time Within Time

2009 • 20 min • Netherlands

A documentary in which the filmmakers search for forgotten moments. Moments in which we come to a halt in the hectic of everyday life and in which we have to surrender ourselves to time.

The News

2009 • 4 min • Australia

Gina and Daniel are madly in love.They arrange to meet for lunch at the Cafe where they first met-each armed with exciting news.

Scenes of Inquiry

2009 • 43 min • United States of America

This quartet of short experimental films from gay filmmaker Michael J. Saul feature themes of first love, coming out, a gay teenage vampire and the beauty of youth. Contains the following short films: "Morning Dance", "Dominus", "Hover", "Don't Read Now".

Baman Piderman

2009 • 29 min • United States of America

"Baman Spider-Man," which is full of friendship, absurdity, and a slightly disturbing level of continuity, is a unique love animation that has continued to surprise people since 2008.

Voice Over the Bridge

2009 • 24 min • India

For the first time, traditional Burmese singers Khing Zin Shwe and Shwe Shwe Khaing are recording an album that introduces people around the world to the Maha Gita (Great Songs), which have been sung in South Asia for 700 years. They also introduce viewers to life in Myanmar, a Buddhist country of great beauty.

Cannibals

2009 • 19 min • Spain

Just 10 minutes from the center of Madrid (but also from Rome, Paris, London ...), hundreds of hungry men meet in a fortuitous and secret way. Some are looking for quick and easy sex, others are trying to escape loneliness, most are looking for themselves ...

Kaïn

2009 • 17 min • Belgium

Kain reflects in a contemplative way on our human condition. It's an audiovisual meditation on the cruelty and suffering of our tragic humanity. A short film about guilt and the birth of conscience. - Berlinale Short Competition 2009

Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition

2009 • 10 min • United States of America

Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1."

The Antikythera Mechanism: Decoding an Ancient Greek Mystery

2009 • 14 min • United States of America

New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering prowess of the Hellenic world. The team discuss their results here.

216777

2009 • 42 min

Madan Krishna Shrestha buys and wins a house in a lottery which he purchased from the one rupee coin that Hari Bansha Acharya dropped, just to find out later that the house is haunted. The epic episode most Nepalese remember for the haunting cover of "Ghas Kaatne Khurkera" by Hari Bansha Acharya.

Gangsta Vision: Making ‘Menace 2 Society’

2009 • 22 min

Documentary about the making of "Menace 2 Society."

X Returns

2009 • 10 min

After nearly 40 years of false imprisonment, cruel scientific testing and denial by the US government, Agent X is finally a free man again.

Spines

2009 • 6 min • Germany

Life in nature, a short animation film by Gil Alkabetz, about people and their environment

The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight

2009 • 4 min • United States of America

A gang of leather-clad, powerful women take over a traditionally male domain, and hairspray, eyeliner, and bare flesh are on full display in Beth B’s music video for the Arthur Baker–produced club hit from synthpop band Dominatrix. Banned at the time of release, it was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art.

J

2009 • 12 min • Italy

A guy locked in a room with no way out. He does not remember anything about himself, his fate is uncertain, but, the most important thing is the reason why this is happening.

In the Name of Art

2009 • 12 min • New Zealand

Follows two artists' creation of the ultimate work of art for an art competition. Told as an oscillation between two worlds, we discover that what it takes to win an art award, often involves deception.

Just for Sex

2009 • 12 min

In fifteen minutes, Olivier receives a “quickie”. But is it as simple as that?

Beast

2009 • 15 min • Denmark

Ten year old Benjamin and his mother live on an isolated farm under the violent reign of his father. Mother takes the beating and tries to cover up to keep things normal. But when Benjamin one day witnesses this beating, his suspicions are turned into facts. Benjamin wants his father to apologize to his mother for hitting her. Benjamin naively believes that things can be set straight with words alone. When Benjamin worsens the situation by taking his father's puppy as a hostage things escalate to a point where his mother has to step up and do what she should have done a long time ago.

Mr. Dorothy

2009 • 10 min

A fairytale revenge story by Gabriel Bisset-Smith.

Bill Engvall: Aged & Confused

2009 • 60 min • United States of America

Bringing his trademark charm and disarming wit to the stage, popular comedian and actor Bill Engvall stars in this stand-up comedy special that finds the down-home funnyman riffing on the absurdities of life in the modern world. Engvall skewers such diverse topics as the aging process, the changing role of men in contemporary families, the joys of an empty nest and cell phone users who behave rudely.

The Secret Path

2009 • 5 min • Canada

A disillusioned young man finds himself in a fantastic world.

The Swim Team

2009 • 17 min

A young woman forms a bond with three elderly shopkeepers when she teaches them how to swim - even though there are no bodies of water to be found.