All Films

Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood

2009 • 27 min • United States of America

Blending the animation of Chuck Jones’ original drawings, traditional documentary elements, and one of Jones’ most intimate interviews before his death in 2002, this biography imaginatively brings to life the complicated and difficult childhood of the man who dreamed up Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

Aqualorius!

2009 • 12 min • Denmark

20 years ago two boys disappeared in the swimming pool at Hulgaard Elementary. Ever since children have been telling stories about a monster living at the bottom of the pool. A victim of all the school bullies, 11-year-old Lars, has written a love letter for the older girl Sherin. When Sherin’s boyfriend, the worst bad guy in school, finds the letter, he forces Lars to swim to the bottom of the pool to retrieve a shining coin. But Lars is convinced that the monster Aqualorius is waiting in the deep...

The Artifice

2009 • 7 min • United Kingdom

An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.

M2M Eyeball 2

2009 • 38 min • Philippines

The fun of one-time meet-ups with strangers you encounter. This is the second of the M2m Eyeball series, and the titillating and daring young men who bare give us a glimpse of the fun side of man-to-man dating… and sex.

Fugue

2009 • 24 min

Jane is recently sober and trying to get her life back together when her childhood habit of sleepwalking suddenly reappears, re-blurring the line between her waking and dreaming lives. As the divide between her two realities expands, her relationships as well as her sanity begin to suffer.

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place -- a pigeon! But you've never met one like this before.

How The Hampsters Saved Winter

2009 • 25 min

Hampton and the Hampsters going on a snowy adventure where they help make a family's dream come true.

Dual

2009 • 12 min • Canada

Dual is a student film about a Vanier student named Danny who has double personalities, in the form of a devil and an angel. He experiences a lucid dream during the Ravens & Shadows sleepover--featuring the legend of the suicidal Vanier nun, the staircase she hung herself in, a devil, an angel, Asian Patra, her rabid dog, the reaper, and a cemetery--where all his fears are brought to life. Are they real, or imagined?

Are Women as Horny as Men?

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story

2009 • 60 min • United States of America

Built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, the film interweaves the stories of its central characters with a broader story of the civil rights movement. It also brings to life the heroic post-World War II struggle of Mexican Americans fighting to dismantle the discrimination targeted against them.

The Other Side of the Wall: The Making of Possession

2009 • 52 min • Germany

Daniel Bird narrates the making of Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 film- Possession- covering the film’s inception, casting, shoot, it’s release in Cannes, and it’s reevaluation and cult status.

Tour

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

The second sort of offshoot of the Stunt People film "Contour," the short film "Tour," takes place among one of the many adventures of the San Francisco tour guide, Law. Law picks up a couple of tourists, Flitz and Dude, looking to see the San Francisco sites. Sadly for law, the tourist are actually looking for a tour around the city, and not the narcotics that usually come along with the "tour" Law offers. Amidst the misunderstanding Law's tour competition Carter, shows up, to snuff out law. The two tourist get caught in the middle and chaos ensues.

Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?

2009 • 30 min • United States of America

Adult-film star Katie Morgan answers a series of sex-related questions...in the buff, of course!

The Notion of Immanent Causation

2009 • 28 min • Iceland

A pessimistic foreigner, living in Iceland, believes people have no power over their lives. Someone tries to convince him otherwise.

Routine

2009 • 5 min • Belgium

At a turning point in his life, coming face to face with his past, an old man has to make a choice.

Evald Okas

2009 • 58 min • Estonia

The documentary portrays artist Evald Okas: an exceptional painter and a diverse graphic artist, a virtuoso drawing artist and creator of thousands of ex libris. Okas was a honorary member of Florence Art Academy, author of numerous book illustrations and master of papercuts, he has practised glass painting and ceramic art. He has been called as the Picasso of Estonian art. 94-year-old Okas tells the story of his colourful life, casts light upon his artwork and reveals the secrets of his principles of working. Tireless artist radiates zest for life and reflects affection towards creative life and looks back at his life with warm humour. Hotblooded passion of creation has never left the grand master.

Monty Python in Aberystwyth

2009 • 28 min • United Kingdom

In a strange turn of events, Sue Jones-Davies became the mayor of a Welsh town where Monty Python's Life of Brian was still banned - the film where she played the female lead.

Heavy Metal

2009 • 49 min • China

For more then twenty years, tons and tons of metallic and electronic waste from all around the world has been transported to a Chinese town called Fengjang, in the south of Shanghai. Around 50,000 migrant workers have formed a real army to dismantle these metallic wastes. These "green soldiers" decompose, cut, split and recycle, with the most rudimentary means, almost 2 million tons of garbage every year. To remain and assume the minimum materials that is theirs, they work hard, bear an incredible precariousness and put in danger their own health due to the simply unacceptable working conditions. As the recognizable heaps of metal continue to pile up they provide a deeply moving image of a worldwide consumer society.

Epic Fail

2009 • 13 min

Epic Fail is based on true events that happened in Reykjavik, Iceland not so long ago. It is a 14 minute short film about a guy that finds himself in extraordinary situations and has to take matters into his own hands and put his trust in strangers that under normal circumstances, he never would have met and for sure never talked to. But when people find themselves in a situation and have to ask strangers for help then interesting things happen and we see that we are not so different after all and we should not judge the book by its cover.

To Be or Not to Be: Klingons and Shakespeare

2009 • 23 min • United States of America

The story behind the translation and performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in Klingon.

Stairway

2009 • 14 min • Israel

A couple Breaks up as part of their relationship routine. He stays in the room, she leaves his house and sits on the Stairway. Each one is trying to make a decision.

Uncharted: Eye of Indra

2009 • 18 min • United States of America

In this motion comic set before the events shown of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Nathan Drake is hired by the sinister Daniel Pinkerton to track down a treasure called the Eye of Indra.

Woman in Purple

2009 • 13 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mirza, a young Sarajevo orphan, earns easy money by assisting a local drug dealer. Dispatched on a job one day, a chance encounter makes him painfully aware of his despicable role - but equally of the possibility of changing things for the better.

Henry John and the Little Bug

2009 • 22 min • United States of America

Dinner time in a remote home of a prairie family turns nightmarish when a band of blood spattered outlaws break through the front door in search of food, horses, and women. Nothing is as it seems in this constantly twisting genre bender.