All Films

Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It

2009 • 58 min

A documentary featuring several individuals with Tourettes Syndrome and how they are able to cope with the condition.

Inside the Square

2009 • 30 min • Australia

Behind the scenes production footage and interview of cast and crew of 2008 film The Square, with particular emphasis on the style and difficulties arose during the shooting and the experience of cast and crew during the making of film.

Can We Talk?

2009 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Vince gets way more than he bargains for when he dumps his girlfriend. Again.

Human

2009 • 25 min • Norway

The documentary film HUMAN study what’s human – out of context. Without familiar purposes and surroundings, the film plays our labeling instinct against the factual meeting with another person. How close can we get to another human before it gets inhuman, – or maybe too human?

Eiko

2009 • 13 min

Itinerant handyman Alex is no stranger to life on the road. His life takes a sharp turn when Lili, a mysterious young hitchhiker obsessed with sex and suicide, appears in the back of his truck.

Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka: It’s the Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka Hardcore OVA, Big Brother!!

2009 • 26 min • Japan

Everybody goes on vacation to Ayanokouji's private island for fun in the sun. Hilarity ensues.

Masahiro Shinoda on 'The Human Condition'

2009 • 24 min • Japan

In this video appreciation, created in 2009, we present filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda’s observations on THE HUMAN CONDITION and director Masaki Kobayashi.

Cheetahs Against All Odds

2009 • 50 min • United States of America

In the Serengeti, cheetahs lead uneasy lives. Females must leave their cubs alone and exposed to the savagery of more powerful predators in order to hunt. Even scrounging scavengers can gain the upper-hand over this slender and graceful speedster. This extraordinary tale follows two cheetah mothers, struggling to raise their young in the face of constant danger. As their fortunes rise and fall, experience battles against luck for the upper hand and success against all odds.

Falsos Positivos

2009 • 55 min

The "Falsos Positivos" scandal that exploded on October 2008 revealed how and why ranks of the Colombian Army started to kill innocent people. Lured by money prizes given by the President Uribe's policy called "Seguridad Democratica", the Colombian Army dressed the bodies in military fatigues to claim the rewards for the fight against the FARC guerrilla. "Falsos Positivos" follows the trip of two families to retrieve the rests of their beloved, along with shocking interviews to activists, a former General, political analysts and witnesses of this huge scandal.

Too Many Daddies, Mommies and Babies

2009 • 25 min • Portugal

In a dystopian future where survival of all life on the planet depends on the ragged remnants of what used to be the Amazon rainforest, eco-activist couple Rob and Ryan acknowledge the fact that their mission to save humanity from extinction is doomed. Leaving the rainforest behind, they and adopt little Sasha, born of a young woman who rented her womb for money only to die giving birth. Forced to look straight into the cynicism and selfishness of their choices, while Apocalypse rages around them, Rob and Ryan must finally face their own contradictions without hypocrisy.

Daniel

2009 • 11 min • Croatia

Danijel and his Mom live together in a squalid flat. Daniel never leaves his armchair and spends his days reading comic books. One day Daniel’s Mom, after seeing a television programme How Clean is Your House, decides to clean the flat and give Danijel a bath. Finally in exhaustion, she falls asleep in her armchair, and Danijel runs away from home. He ends up at the train station but instead of boarding a train, he just stands on the platform and watches the trains go by. This is where his Mom will eventually find him and take him back home.

Elementary Training for Actors

2009 • 52 min • Argentina

Sergio is a drama teacher for children. Through his classes we learn something about him and his students. Pain is above fear. Children can only act as children. A child cannot act as a policeman, an old man, a prostitute, for example. The great advantage of a child is that he is the only one who can act as a child naturally. Therefore, their greatest competitors are animals.

Honto Ni Atta! Noroi No Video 34

2009 • 60 min • Japan

The most terrifying horror in history hits the production committee!! Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the first release, the 34th collection of shivering videos by general posts!

Leonardo

2009 • 9 min • United States of America

Art and science intersect in unexpected ways, as Da Vinci's experiments with flight lead him to the discovery of his most famous muse.

Head Melt

2009 • 2 min

A short film depicting a man whose head grotesquely melts. Originally created as an ident bumper that occasionally played before screenings at the Cinefamily cinematheque. Directed by Sammy Harkham with special make-up effects by Odd Studio.

The Far Side of Laughter

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

Trapped in a dark room, a woman starts seeing fantasies from different light holes that appear to her. After realizing that these fantasies are reflections of herself in different stages of her life, the fantasies transform into nightmares.

Good Girl

2009 • 28 min • Sweden

It's late Friday night and Klara is left alone at the law firm where she works. The night unexpectedly shifts into something completely different. What happens when the future you have worked so hard for is suddenly at stake and when a good girl gets enough?

Caesar & Otto in the House of Dracula

2009 • 10 min

In this throwback to old Universal monster movies, Caesar and Otto come face to face with Steve Dracula, an eccentric theatre director who's searching for "new Blood" for his latest production.

The Sirens

2009 • 13 min • United States of America

Two sisters take their terminally ill younger sister to die peacefully at a mysterious lake.

Mare Kandre: I Am the Genius!

2009 • 57 min • Sweden

Swedish/Estonian writer Mare Kandre (1962-2005): "It's about life and death and it must always be." "She brought her the truth," says Johan von Sydow, referring to the rock mythos and artistic romantic law that is about to die young.

The Mayor of Strawberry Fields

2009 • 38 min • United States of America

Living out John Lennon's credo to the letter, Central Park denizen Gary dwells and labors at the site of the Imagine memorial, which he decorates daily. This intriguing documentary observes the self-appointed "mayor" as he pursues his calling.

A Stray Cosmonaut

2009 • 8 min • Serbia

A pseudo-documentary narrative about the first living creature in the cosmos: the dog Laika. Almost everyone has heard of Laika, but only a few know what actually happened to her.

The Zen Master

2009 • 6 min

A young man attempts to start a meditation practice but his drummer roommate gets in the way

Marimbondo Amarelo

2009 • 20 min