All Films

Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe

2009 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Charlie Brooker sets his caustic sights on video games. Expect acerbic comment as he looks at the various genres, how they have changed since their early conception and how the media represents games and gamers. Features interviews with Dara O Briain, sitcom scribe Graham Linehan and Rab and Ryan from Consolevania.

How Do Dinosaurs Go To School?

2009 • 9 min • United States of America

School has never been so much fun! Come along for a very unusual day and laugh out loud as the dinosaurs enjoy story time, show-and-tell and recess.

Command or Truth

2009 • 3 min • United States of America

An upper class couple seduce each other by playing truth or dare.

Barbosa

2009 • 40 min

Robbie, a divorced Amsterdam commoner, is meanly denied access to his son Tommi, except for monthly visitation. He grudgingly accepts when a loan shark offers to scrap his debt and throw in some cash for a simple service. Robbie must simply trick Marius, a man he never knew, to the port for a fictitious job. As he gets to know Marius, he starts feeling for the generous sociable type. His conscience wants him to warn the mark he's likely to be beaten up.

My Life as a Trailer

2009 • 15 min • Sweden

When Micke announces he has just been accepted to a music school in another town, his gal pal Julia has an announcement of her own to make: she's going to Hollywood, if she can just get the job she's interviewing for that very afternoon.

Jade: As Seen on TV

2009 • 47 min

Two months after she lost her battle against cervical cancer, this one-hour film, featuring previously unseen archive footage, explores the Jade Goody phenomenon.

What Will Survive of Us

2009 • 14 min • Ireland

We meet John and Noreen, two young lovers from Boyle, Roscommon, at a turning point in their lives together. John wants to move the relationship forward in a certain way, but Noreen is less willing.

Annie Lennox & the BBC Concert Orchestra | Live at St Luke's

2009 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Pop's enduring diva is on scintillating form in an intimate concert from LSO St Luke's in London. Accompanied by her band and 21 strings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, Annie Lennox storms through a set packed with hits from her solo career and back to the Eurythmics days, including classic hits Here Comes the Rain, Little Bird, Cold, Sweet Dreams and No More 'I Love You's'. Lennox shows her voice has lost none of its ability to thrill and her showmanship is undimmed.

Jelly Sunday

2009 • 1 min • France

Gretchen unmoulds a jar of jelly in her room while her parents picnic in the garden. The jelly comes to life, the girl begins a frenzied dance with her new friend "Jelly".

The Retneprac 2

2009 • 16 min • Japan

This early gekimation by Japanese filmmaker Ujicha was produced as a graduate work in 2009 at Kyoto Saga University of Arts, Department of Tourism Design.

Student Forever

2009 • 30 min • Slovenia

Documentary about Radio Student from Ljubljana, one of the oldest and biggest European non-commercial radio stations.

Battlefield Baseball

2009 • 41 min • Japan

A wild baseball story full of youth, blood and laughter!

Kazrop

2009 • 4 min • Russia

Short experimental film by Andrey Pershin (Zhora Kryzhovnikov)

Sunstroke

2009 • 35 min • Hungary

Girl, mother, lover - all in the body of a teenager. Maja has to face the responsibility of early motherhood. Being a child herself she can't stand the pressure. Running away from her beloved baby turns out to be her first mature decision.

Green Pink Caviar

2009 • 8 min

Models are seen licking brightly colored candy on a sheet of glass. The video illustrates the moment where clarity becomes abstraction and beauty commingles with the grotesque.

Sooty: The Big Day Out

2009 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Richard takes Sooty, Sweep and Soo to the seaside. Once there, they enter a talent show, help out on Mo's doughnut stall and ride the roller coaster, whilst being chased by a security guard! In true Sooty style, nothing goes according to plan in this feature length special!

Nightclubbing

2009 • 16 min

Nightclubbing is a fable set in a timeless city that is at war with itself. Night. Empty city streets. Two teenagers conspire to meet in the city center after dark. Their fractured journey, through a deserted, paranoid and terrified city, leads them to a city center club that, in the end is empty.

Quand la ville mord

2009 • 60 min • France

Cerro de la cruz

2009 • 12 min • Mexico

A young revolutionary on the verge of death finds himself trapped in his desires for love. His feelings in the midst of war are clarified when he discovers that he wants to love and be loved by another man. This short film questions the notions of hatred that arise in homophobic coexistence.

Franswa Sharl

2009 • 14 min • Australia

Keeping the position of number one son requires a certain amount of ingenuity. Twelve year old Greg has inherited his father's competitive streak. On a family holiday to Fiji they have different ideas about where Greg should focus his talents. When his creative pursuits fail to amuse his father Greg goes to bizarre lengths to win him back.

My Life in Your Hands

2009 • 8 min • Portugal

A very well known Portuguese bullfighter arrives in Spain. El Matador will execute a long awaited "faena". His son, Pedrito, accompanied him in this trip. He dreams to one day become just like his father. However, just before the bullfight starts, between the backstage hustle and bustle Pedrito meets the bull that will be fought by his father. This moment will forever change the fate of all three characters.

Arena

2009 • 15 min • Portugal

A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he's attacked and robbed by three kids from the neighborhood. From then on, he'll try to find the kids who took his money and maybe give them a lesson. But with those actions, comes the reflection of how things were and are in this place filled with violence and hostility. Is change possible?

The Room Before and After - Part 3: Maria Bamford

2009 • 10 min

Experimental film series featuring actors trashing a room.

Honto Ni Atta! Noroi No Video 35

2009 • 56 min • Japan

35th entry in the popular "Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video" series.