All Films

The Little Panda Fighter

2009 • 51 min • Brazil

A panda named Pancada, who works at a boxing club, wishes to become a dancer but gets caught up in an upcoming fight due to a case of mistaken identity.

Landslide: A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover

2009 • 58 min

Documentary about personal life of Herbert Hoover's and his governmental career, profiles the former head of state's political philosophy, memorable election campaigns, Great Depression policies and more. Through interviews with scholars such as David Kennedy, Robert Reich and Tim Egan, this biography sheds new light on the underappreciated president's difficult tenure and enduring legacy.

S.e.d.

2009 • 9 min • Spain

An old man, who used to work as film editor of Sara Montiel's films, lives alone among his souvenirs and memories, in a half-deserted building in the suburbs of the city. One day his monotonous life suddenly changes when someone knocks on his door: It's the S.E.D, that comes to offer him its euthanasia home delivery service.

Daddy Mangy

2009 • 7 min • Brazil

A believer, when reading the bible, feels the power of God entering his body, and fights against the Holy Ghost in the holy battle of metalanguage.

Blood of Two

2009 • 24 min

The first collaboration between Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton, Blood of Two is a unique, site-specific work that draws its references from Hydra itself – the surrounding environment, animals, humans, and local traditions are all part of the project in equal measure. Blood of Two centers on the former function of the Slaughterhouse and the customs of Hydra to establish connections between paganism and religion, ancient and modern, the ritualistic and familiar. As much as its conflicted terms strive for balance and fusion, it is Blood of Two’s greater resistance to these impulses, its failure to surrender unconditionally to them that ultimately counts, as a network of overlaps and crisscrosses.

The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka

2009 • 31 min • Japan

Compilation of film footage documenting Japanese film star Kinuyo Tanaka's goodwill tour of the U.S. in 1949.

Podwórka

2009 • 31 min • Poland, United States of America

‘Podwórka’ captures six groups of neighbourhood youth as they play in seemingly deserted yards, offering an intimate portrait of daily life in Łódź, Poland. Shot with a fixed camera, this single-channel video projection highlights American artist Sharon Lockhart’s concern for the interrelationship between the still and the moving image.

Fifteen Minutes That Shook the World

2009 • 43 min • United Kingdom

Investigative journalist Alan Wacker (Andrew Schofield) arrives in Liverpool to unravel the truth behind the historical 2005 Champion’s League final fight back in Istanbul.

Enemies Within

2009 • 30 min • Finland

Short film by Oskari Sipola

How a Choir Works

2009 • 60 min

Choirmaster Gareth Malone joins forces with the BBC Singers to explore the styles and techniques that create a choir, using contributions from leading choral experts.

North America's National Parks

2009 • 51 min • United States of America

By using special cameras and techniques, David Fortney has captured the beauty of these parks in ways never seen before. Fluid, masterful camera work and serial photography gives you the sensation of soaring over and through the landscape.

Monologue of Universal Transverse Mercator: Egg Man

2009 • 42 min • Japan

A psychopathic killer known as Egg Man has been caught, incarcerated and is awaiting his death sentence. Karen, a beautiful and brave police woman, is assigned to the "Egg Man" case to find the whereabouts of a missing dead body. Egg Man meets his cellmate, Prisoner 205. Who is Prisoner 205? Is Prisoner 205 another in-mate awaiting his death sentence as well or an android utilized by the police to collect information about him and his knowledge of the corpse? Who is really manipulating whom?

The Award

2009 • 10 min • Italy

Two young women and a young man confront a tech mogul on a train about their new invention.

NME Presents: Franz Ferdinand, This Fire - O2 Arena, London 2009

2009 • 53 min

Scottish group Franz Ferdinand have established themselves as one of the more exciting groups to come out of the garage rock/post-punk scene. In this exciting 2009 concert filmed at the O2 Arena, they feature all their big single hits.

4:20 Hour Stand-Up

2009 • 54 min • United States of America

An hour of pot-themed stand up featuring Doug Benson and friends

Lechuza

2009 • 1 min • Argentina

Lisandro Alonso creates a face-to-face encounter with the wild in the beguiling and enigmatic, a moment observed in a seemingly floating abyss.

The Day Was a Scorcher

2009 • 9 min

A 3-D vacation album, The Day Was a Scorcher pictures what Jacobs describes as "movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to trudge with the rest of us, but still expecting to be pushed around on wheels," frolicking in a sun-drenched Rome in the 1970s. Explains Jacobs, "It's a perfect day when nothing happens."

I Was A TV Horror Host

2009 • 48 min

A behind-the-scenes look at the history and legacy of the legendary Bay Area TV show Creature Features, from the viewpoint of longtime host John Stanley.

Drive Thru Australia Part 2

2009 • 60 min

Donavon Frankenreiter, Benji Weatherley and Pat O'Connell are joined by Shane Dorian, three time world champion Andy Irons and Australia's own Mark Occhilupo. Spend two crazy weeks driving, surfing and traveling thru some of Australia's most incredible coastlines. From kangaroos to sky diving, shark scares to golfing the Drive Thru Australia is packed with hilarious hijinks and incredible surfing.

The Last Happy Day

2009 • 38 min • United States of America

THE LAST HAPPY DAY is an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and a distant cousin of filmmaker Lynne Sachs. In 1938 Lenard, a writer with a Jewish background, fled the Nazis to a safe haven in Rome. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service hired Lenard to reconstruct the bones, small and large, of dead American soldiers. Eventually he found himself in remotest Brazil where he embarked on the translation of “Winnie the Pooh” into Latin, an eccentric task that catapulted him to brief world-wide fame. Sachs’ essay film uses personal letters, abstracted war imagery, home movies, interviews and a children’s performance to create an intimate meditation on the destructive power of war.

Hold Me Tight

2009 • 36 min • Sweden

15-year-old Ida lives with her mother in Rossö in the Strömstad archipelago. Over the course of three stormy days, her life is turned upside down. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a non-existent relationship with her father and is let down by her best friend. —Maria Eriksson

Arthur, the 4D Adventure

2009 • 5 min • France

Fly a ladybug on a 4D adventure into the world of Arthur and the Minimoys. Nature will never seem the same again.

In the Land That Is Like You

2009 • 52 min • France

In the Land That Is Like You is a progress on the tracks of my lost past, with the contact of my mother, my grandmother and the man who I love, in a country which escapes from me and retains me, Lebanon.

Die Gänsemagd

2009 • 58 min

Princess Elisabeth, the beautiful only child of a widowed queen is sent off to marry the prince Leopold to whom she is betrothed. Before she leaves, her mother presents her with a small token. This token provides her with magical protection. However, the maidservant Magdalena, who accompanies the princess treats her very brutishly, and when circumstances cause the princess to lose her token, the maid seizes the opportunity to force the princess into trading places. She makes the princess switch clothes with her.