All Films

Cinderella

2009 • 39 min • Brazil

Cinderella is a nice, kind and beautiful young woman who lives with the evil stepmother and her awkward daughters. Her days are spent in front of the stove, while the three sister snobs spend their hours staring at each other in front of their mirrors. The enchanted prince, whom Cinderella doesn't even know yet, uses all his time in front of his mirror and navigating it. But an old-fashioned ballad, with the force of the Fairy Godmother, can change everything.

Gift of the Hoopoe

2009 • 23 min • United Arab Emirates, United States of America

Propelled through a magical fantasy world of imagination, two children learn how little changes in their lives can lead to great things in their future. A collection of fables teaches the children lessons in education, tolerance and conservation.

Daddy's Girl

2009 • 9 min • Norway

A girl needs to get rid of her father.

Wadley

2009 • 58 min • Mexico

A young man with a backpack walks all on his own into the endless Mexican cactus desert. He takes some peyote. How does he get out again? Pure cinema in the long-take tradition of Lisandro Alonso or Gus Van Sant

Andy's Spick-N-Span

2009 • 17 min

A compulsive cleaner, with a superhero complex, must combat his phobia of dirty drains to win his dream girl's heart.

Nachalnik

2009 • 19 min • Russia

Two burglars enter a summer house. They should have checked to whom it belonged.

The Great Combinators

2009 • 44 min • Russia

Documentary about the Soviet masters of combined composite filming, their inventions, cinematic tricks and the rivalry with Hollywood craftsmen. Through archival footage and interviews, the film shows how practical effects created in the USSR in the 1940s to 1960s anticipated or influenced later Western techniques.

Top Girl

2009 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Set in Brixton, South London, and shot using a cast of new and non-actors, "Top Girl" is a coming of age tale about fearless 15-year-old Donna and her best friend Felicia, who set off on a mission to find Legz, a 20 year old with a recording studio in the bedroom of his mom's apartment. The idea is for Donna to MC on a track, but events, as you'd expect, don't go as to planned.

The Action Hero's Guide to Saving Lives

2009 • 18 min

When lives are on the line... When there's danger at every turn... When cliches run amuck... Sometimes the best thing to do is call Mulligan! Ace Mulligan! No matter how villainous the madman... How numerous the henchmen... How sexy the damsel, one thing is for sure: Ace Mulligan will always come out on top. Sometimes. Starring Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld, The Tick, Men In Black II, Rules of Engagement), "The Action Hero's Guide To Saving Lives" is a laugh-out-loud action-comedy that takes you behind the scenes of Ace Mulligan's perilous and not-always-successful mission to stop the bad guys, get the girl, and save the day. It's not always easy being an action hero.

Still in Cosmos

2009 • 18 min • Japan

An immersive work that uses skilled manipulation of the film surface and a powerful drone soundtrack to create a layered and dense universe of controlled chaos. In about eighteen minutes we experience life to the fullest, from birth to death and eternity.

Burning Rubber

2009 • 52 min • Canada

Burning Rubber is a provocative re-framing of burnouts and rural car culture - a filmmaker's search for meaning in a disregarded and often maligned form of self-expression. Based primarily in rural Nova Scotia, Burning Rubber weaves a predominantly male car culture together with artists and the curiosity of outsiders, stimulating larger questions about identity, creativity, gender, freedom, and how we decide what is valued and given meaning as art.

Kathy Griffin: Balls of Steel

2009 • 44 min • United States of America

This special contains Kathy Griffin's performance at the San Diego Civic Center in San Diego, CA on September 26, 2009.

The Coach

2009 • 33 min • Denmark

A small-town tale of Niels, a 14-year-old boy with nothing on his mind but handball. His coach, recognizing his great goal-keeping talent, takes special care of him. On the night of the qualification rounds for the final Danish championships, the coach throws a party for the whole team and lets Niels and his girlfriend Pernille use his bedroom, but Niels falls asleep and things take a surprising turn, which puts Niels under pressure both on and off the field.

Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh

2009 • 48 min • Malaysia, United States of America

Renowned actress Michelle Yeoh journeys home to Malaysia to get to know her adopted orangutan, learning from the Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre about the efforts being made to safeguard and sustain this endangered species.

The Art on Your Wall with Sue Perkins

2009 • 59 min

Sue Perkins charts the post-war change in British taste towards domestic art, and meets bestselling artists Jack Vettriano, Mel Allen, Spencer Rowell, Martin Elliot and Sam Toft.

Moustachette

2009 • 16 min

A tongue-in-cheek, satirical look at a group of unabashedly pompous and misled young artists.

1959: The Year that Changed Jazz

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Archive performances and interviews explore the influence of the four major jazz albums made in 1959 by Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman.

The Adventures of a Plumber in Outer Space

2009 • 42 min • United Kingdom

A madcap science fiction comedy which is an affectionate homage to the British 'Confessions' films of the 1970's. Plumber Robin Evans gets transported to a distant planet by Queen Azzizaz, who wants him as her mate. Sergeant Zucker and Mrs Zucker also get transported to the planet, by mistake.

Model/Photographer

2009 • 6 min • United States of America

An award-winning glimpse at an amateur photographer, a young aspiring model, and the history between them.

Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Louis has gained access to Coalinga Mental Hospital in California, which houses more than 500 of the most disturbed criminals in America, convicted paedophiles. Most have already served lengthy prison sentences, but have been deemed unsafe for release. Instead, they have been sent here for an indefinite time. Spending time with those undergoing treatment, Louis wrestles with whether he can ever allow himself to believe men whose whole history is defined by deception and deceit.

Dreams from the Woods

2009 • 8 min • Sweden

A shadow play about love and sorrow, featuring a girl, her bird friend and Death.

Idoru

2009 • 22 min

70's trash movie queen Soledad Miranda wakes up from the dead, to find herself not in heaven but trapped in a film - the vision of a devoted fan. As her interaction with the "Auteur" reveals the extent of his obsession, she takes drastic steps to escape his reality.

Crime Abyss Blue Physical Remorse

2009 • 11 min • Portugal

Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the world avant-garde of his time: “I don’t follow schools. I am an impressionist, cubist, futurist, abstractionist. A melting pot. The real tradition is not to try and relive the past – which is impossible to achieve – but rather something that sets up a follow-through, as happens with parents and children. A child and his father are never alike.” The film follows Amadeo’s motto. It crosses pictorial fiction – suggested by the emblematic picture “The Procession”, painted in Paris in 1913 – with Portuguese contemporary reality.

Max par Marcel: Lola Montès

2009 • 33 min • France

In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last one discusses his role as an assistant director on "Lola Montès".