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Caravans: A British Love Affair

Caravans: A British Love Affair

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom
Documentary about the love affair between the British and their caravans, which saw the country establish the world's largest caravan manufacturer and transformed the holiday habits of generations of families. In telling the intriguing story of caravanning in Britain from the 1950s through to the present day, the film reveals how caravans were once the plaything of a privileged minority, but after World War II became a firm favourite with almost a quarter of British holidaymakers.
Do No Harm

Do No Harm

2009 • 55 min • United States of America
In 2003, surgeon Dr. John Bagnato and accountant Charles Rehberg stumble upon evidence that non-profit Phoebe Putney Hospital is overcharging uninsured and indigent patients, has stashed millions in offshore bank accounts and controls lucrative for-profit businesses. As Bagnato and Rehberg dig deeper, they find these practices at non-profit hospitals around the country. When these discoveries are made public, Bagnato and Rehberg become the targets of threats and intimidation, and are eventually prosecuted by local authorities for blowing the whistle on the hospital's practices. With their reputations and livelihoods on the line, Bagnato and Rehberg must confront what they're willing to sacrifice to bring about justice.
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

2009 • 58 min • United States of America
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics looks at Hollywood’s biggest screen spectaculars from all sides, including the genre’s beginnings, literary adaptations, great epic directors and actors, the challenges of making big-budget movies, classic set-pieces and epic music scores. The special also looks at how the genre fell out of favor with audiences and filmmakers in the ‘70s and ‘80s, only to be reborn with more recent films like Gladiator, and Dances with Wolves trilogy. Throughout, the special is packed with classic scenes and behind-the-scenes images from such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), Samson & Delilah (1949), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), El Cid (1961), King of Kings (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
Van Gogh: Brush with Genius

Van Gogh: Brush with Genius

2009 • 38 min • France
An artistic view of Van Gogh as if this movie is self narrated by himself.
Intervalo

Intervalo

2009 • 11 min
A young housewife bored with her marriage seduces a neighbor teenage boy through the window.
Thomas & Friends - Songs from Sodor

Thomas & Friends - Songs from Sodor

2009 • 57 min
Join Thomas and his friends for karaoke fun in this collection of fantastic songs from Sodor. Sing along to eighteen of your favourite Thomas tracks and enjoy the special bonus Roll Call Rap!
Rita

Rita

2009 • 18 min • Italy
Rita, a blind child, shelters a boy on the run who suddenly breaks into her home. It's a mysterious, enigmatic meeting that lets Rita experience a brief moment of freedom.
Apocalypse on Wheels

Apocalypse on Wheels

2009 • 52 min • Romania
This is a film about what the car traffic turns us into. For 5 months the director in the passenger seat accompanies five ordinary people (A half paralyzed man who not only drives a car, but he also helps other people to avail themselves of cars; Peruvian woman, who was been raised in a city with an equally crazed traffic; a father who has recently lost his daughter in a traffic accident; a policeman who was beaten up by the militia before December 1989) on their every day journeys around the capital.
Listen

Listen

2009 • 6 min • Canada
"A soundscape is any collection of sounds, almost like a painting is a collection of visual attractions," says composer R. Murray Schafer. "When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous." David New's portrait of the renowned composer becomes a lesson unto itself, gracing viewers (and listeners) with a singular moment of interactive subjectivity. This film was produced for the 2009 Governor General's Performing Arts Award.
Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?

Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?

2009 • 53 min • United States of America
In 1983 the upstart United States Football League (USFL) had the audacity to challenge the almighty NFL. The new league did the unthinkable by playing in the spring and plucked three straight Heisman Trophy winners away from the NFL. The 12-team USFL played before crowds that averaged 25,000, and started off with respectable TV ratings. But with success came expansion and new owners, including a certain high profile and impatient real estate baron whose vision was at odds with the league’s founders. Soon, the USFL was reduced to waging a desperate anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL, which yielded an ironic verdict that effectively forced the league out of business. Now, almost a quarter of a century later, Academy Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning director Mike Tollin, himself once a chronicler of the league, will showcase the remarkable influence of those three years on football history and attempt to answer the question, “Who Killed the USFL?”
Everything's Coming Up Rosie

Everything's Coming Up Rosie

2009 • 13 min • Canada
Inside Rosie's mind she sees herself as beautiful, intelligent and fun. To society though, she is seen only as autistic. Rosie is determined to break through the stereotype of her condition and the communication barriers "U" and "I" take for granted.
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness

Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness

2009 • 57 min
A documentary on what is it that makes us who we are: an African an African, a Jew a Jew, an Arab an Arab, a white person white -and what do we make of our apparent differences? Not so long ago, all human cultures assumed a natural and unassailable hierarchy - Europeans on the top, blacks on the bottom and everybody else in the middle. The work of the anthropologist Melville Jean Herskovits helped upend many of these assumptions. Herskovits: A Jew at the Heart of Blackness is the journey of a man into international race politics and its consequences for him -and us- in the first half of 20th century, when the battleground in the earliest "culture wars" was newspapers, radio shows, movies and cartoon, all infused with propaganda that explained why Caucasians dominated the world and other peoples as part of life's natural and inevitable order.
Ratzafratz

Ratzafratz

2009 • 6 min • United States of America
Three Rat Roommates, Cyrus, Urban and Squawk, go out to the food court for dinner and a cookie. The mall security guard, Crank, spies them and the chase is on!
Dead Hungry

Dead Hungry

2009 • 9 min • United Kingdom
Life's a bitch, then you die. Then you're a zombie, and death's a bitch too.
The Hold Steady: A Positive Rage

The Hold Steady: A Positive Rage

2009 • 53 min • United States of America
Documentary of Brooklyn bar band The Hold Steady featuring backstage interviews, fan commentary and live footage. Also, drinking.
Regarder Oana

Regarder Oana

2009 • 15 min • France
Oana is working. I am watching her. Tonight, the very last file will be closed. She does not want to translate the words of others anymore. She thinks that tomorrow she will start writing her own words. But she will not, I know that…
Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification

Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification

2009 • 22 min
ACID TEST explores “the other carbon problem” – the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which could challenge the health of the ocean ecosystem on a scale that has not occurred for tens of millions of years.
The Beastman/Animalman

The Beastman/Animalman

2009 • 52 min
"Der Viechmensch" (The Beastman/Animalman) is a documentary following a South Tyrolean farmer and his farmhand Karl who are isolated from most of the modern world.
The Koran: Journey to the Book's Origin

The Koran: Journey to the Book's Origin

2009 • 52 min • France
The Quran is the Holy Book of Islam, a religion shared by more than a billion followers worldwide. For the Muslim tradition, since its revelation to the Prophet Muhammad between the year 610 and 632 of the Christian era in Mecca and Medina, the Koran is immutable, and has remained maintained. However, recent discoveries of Koranic manuscripts analyzed by scientists, dated around the year 680 - the oldest known in the world - revealed that the Koran has a history. During the first century of Islam, and before the canonical version of the Caliph Uthman imposed itself, the holy book of Islam would have known competing versions, a different organization of the suras, variable readings due to a writing, in its beginnings, very rudimentary… It is to this meeting of knowledge, at the crossroads between the Muslim tradition and scientific research, that this journey to the origins of the Koran invites.
Sparks

Sparks

2009 • 24 min
In this deliciously tart adaptation of a short story by Elmore Leonard, a beautiful young widow’s hilltop mansion has just burned to the ground, and a very savvy insurance investigator (Stoltz) shows up at her home to interview her about the blaze. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“3rd Rock from the Sun”) makes a dazzling directorial debut with this taut cat-and-mouse game played out by two equal adversaries.
The Passenger

The Passenger

2009 • 49 min • France
Fascination can drive us to take surprising action. In this same, perhaps illogical manner, I wanted, for my part, to return to the origins of "Zabriskie Point", the film by the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. Can we rediscover in reality the meanings lost in fictions ? How does one belong, body and soul, to a work of this nature? To these questions, I set out to find an answer. Accompanied by my camera, I put into images this long voyage that would offer me the best, as well as the worst.
Émile en ce miroir

Émile en ce miroir

2009 • 2 min • France
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

2009 • 56 min • United Kingdom
Drama illuminating Dr James Niven's efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic as millions of soldiers returned home from the Great War.
Chloe and Keith's Wedding

Chloe and Keith's Wedding

2009 • 52 min
Chloe & Keith's Wedding is a heartfelt and hilarious, romantic-comedy that tells the story of Jordan and Sarah an ex-couple who reunite again at the nuptials of their unbeknownst mutual friends, Chloe and Keith.