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Inside A Cult: Messiah on Trial

Inside A Cult: Messiah on Trial

2009 • 50 min
Current and former cult members struggle to come to terms with the 2008 trial of self-proclaimed Messiah Wayne Bent, accused of molesting young girls.
Cocoon

Cocoon

2009 • 6 min • Germany
A teenager gets a haircut.
Sadisticum

Sadisticum

2009 • 56 min • Germany
Sadisticum tells the story of a man for whom there seems to be only one purpose in life, the torture and killing of others. At age 17, he has already killed two people. But he manages to suppress his appetite for many years. Half of his life he spent with working and adapting the company externally. But the void in his life has been increased steadily, until one day it happens again, he kills. Only this time he would not stop, this time he would give free rein to his appetite. But even by the brutal killing of his fellow man, he learns no more satisfaction. His ever-growing need for recognition is driving him to create some kind torture course. He'd selected peers point to which way is best torturing anyone without killing him early. But it does not stop at a seminar, his addiction to attention and admiration grows into the vast, ever more cruel torture methods he tried. But one day, the story takes a surprising turn ...
Stranded

Stranded

2009 • 24 min • France
Luc goes off on his bicycle to forget his problems. A suit of accidents make him spend the night in a little town of Picardie. He meets Sylvain, who tries to help him, for the best and the worst.
The Most Secret Place on Earth

The Most Secret Place on Earth

2009 • 52 min • Germany
After 30 years of conspiracy theories and myth making, this film uncovers the story of the CIA's most extensive clandestine operation in the history of modern warfare: The Secret War in Laos, which was conducted alongside the Vietnam War from 1964 -1973. While the world's attention was caught by the conflict in Vietnam, the CIA built the busiest military airport in the world in neighboring and neutral Laos and recruited humanitarian aid personnel, Special Forces agents and civilian pilots to undertake what would become the most effective operation of counterinsurgency warfare. As the conflict in Vietnam grew, the objective in Laos changed from a cost effective low-key involvement to save the country from becoming communist into an all-out air war to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and bomb Laos back into the Stone Age that it had never really left in the first place. Conventional bombs equivalent to the destructive power of 20 Hiroshima-type weapons fell on Laos each year - 2 million tons
L'Île

L'Île

2009 • 16 min
Mic, partially deaf and injured after a robbery, is abandoned by his accomplice in an unidentified forrest. A young woman, acting strangely is then going to take care of him, although difficulties of communication separate the two individuals, each of them appearing to live in a world of his own.
Crossing Midnight

Crossing Midnight

2009 • 30 min
One million on the run in the jungles of Eastern Burma. One visionary community fighting to save their own. The award winning documentary, Crossing Midnight, is set on the border of Thailand and Eastern Burma. Crossing Midnight tells the story of a remarkable community of refugees from Burma working against incredible odds to help their own.
Monsters from the Id

Monsters from the Id

2009 • 53 min • United States of America
The 1950s were a time marked by an idealistic feeling. The atomic age, with its promise to save humanity, revolutionized the world, technologically, socially and politically. All these factors gave birth to one of the most prolific film genres in the history of cinema: science fiction, which delighted the audience. Only a few years later, these same spectators saw on their television screens how the Russians launched the Sputnik into space.
Jacco's Film

Jacco's Film

2009 • 17 min • Netherlands
Jacco (10) allows the viewer a glimpse into his colorful world of experiences. Filled with enthusiasm, he talks about his friends, girlfriends, interests, everyday activities and the wonders of nature. This is his strategy for handling his daily reality.
My Grandmother

My Grandmother

2009 • 7 min • Turkey, United Kingdom
An evil grandmother torments her granddaughter.
Charlie on Parole

Charlie on Parole

2009 • 27 min
Charlie, an unlikely ex-con adjusts to life after prison, only to find one thing: it's tough on the outside.
Xiu Xiu: You Can’t Hear Me

Xiu Xiu: You Can’t Hear Me

2009 • 40 min • United States of America
A series of experimental vignettes that expound upon the dark irony of the accompanying performances from the critically acclaimed band, Xiu Xiu. From jellyfish floating in the sky to hand-drawn animation, award winning director Courtney Fathom Sell explores a variegated palette of expression. Featuring favorite tracks like Bog People, Boy Soprano, and F.T.W., the latest single from their recently released LP, Women As Lovers You Cant Hear Me is a unique and dreamlike experience from start to finish.
Yuri Olesha, nicknamed "The Writer"

Yuri Olesha, nicknamed "The Writer"

2009 • 48 min • Russia
Animated documentary film about the fate of the writer - Yuri Olesha. About how he was strangled by the grip of the era that fell to him, and in such an embrace he was forced to live not his life. Created on the basis of the writer's diaries, the film tells about the inner throwing of a talented man who died in literature thirty years before his physical death.
The Blackout Files

The Blackout Files

2009 • 25 min • United States of America
Eight young high school students who are recording a friends birthday party in 2007 but soon what once was normal isn't any longer. As the students scramble to survive they unravel the mystery of what is going on around them.
Dick Tracy Special

Dick Tracy Special

2009 • 30 min • United States of America
Leonard Maltin interviews Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy, while film clips trace the history of the comic strip detective.
Horn Dog

Horn Dog

2009 • 5 min • United States of America
A plucky canine fends off an obese dog, attacking oysters, and a wayward killer violin bow, while trying to win the love of his heart's desire.
Madame Butterfly

Madame Butterfly

2009 • 36 min • France, Taiwan, Italy
Free interpretation of the myth. Tsai Ming-liang propels a woman neglected by her lover in the mob of the bus station of Kuala Lumpur.
400 Years of the Telescope

400 Years of the Telescope

2009 • 56 min • United States of America
A documentary chronicling the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo. Featuring interviews with leading scientists discussing Galileo's first use of the telescope to the latest discoveries in cosmology.
Monster Black Holes

Monster Black Holes

2009 • 50 min • United States of America
Travel to the edge of space and beyond to discover natures ultimate abyss black holes. Explore where they are found, how they begin, and how it may be possible to harness and use the power they produce. In Monster Black Holes, scientists steadily piece together the complex dynamics of a black holes birth and are also examine the growth of a select few black holes to super massive proportions that dominate the centers of galaxies. As a monster black hole swallows everything in its path, it generates energy that shapes the universe around it in powerful ways. Journey into the heart of a black hole and explore what happens to matter when it falls into a black hole, and whether the Milky Way galaxy will one day come to an end when the black hole at the galaxy's center explodes.
On the Bus

On the Bus

2009 • 6 min • Canada
Teenage years, the best and worst years of our lives. Jeremy is an ordinary teenager, living an ordinary teenage life. Because of his shyness, he fantasizes conversations with his crush, Sean. But what happens when he loses control of something completely in his mind?
Piet Piraat Special: The Scottish Ghost

Piet Piraat Special: The Scottish Ghost

2009 • 34 min • Belgium
The crew of the Scheve Schuit is not afraid of much, but what do they do when a ghost appears in the Scottish castle that Berend has inherited?
What happened - No one knows

What happened - No one knows

2009 • 5 min • Germany
An unlikely band of misfits has made their home on a roof between a feed mill and the municipal waste treatment plant. But life is good, away from society and living of this leftovers. Lisbeth, Herbert and Walther have created their own self-sufficient little paradise. While Herbert is hunting cats, Lisbeth tends to the self-grown vegetables and Walther angles for usable scrap from the dump down below. One morning though, the peace is disrupted: A nameless, suit wearing stranger has appeared overnight and set up his tent among their huts. He does not speak, but obviously he intents to stay. The rooftop dwellers are anxious. Will he destroy their perfect little society? Or can he be part of it… incorporated so to speak... ?
Jump!

Jump!

2009 • 4 min
Standing on top of their sagging school roof, an obese headmaster attempts to 'talk down' his latest suicidal pupil.
The Man Who Slept

The Man Who Slept

2009 • 12 min • Canada, France
A young woman lives with her sleeping husband. Prisoner of her loneliness, she refuses to accept that this man is only a memory.