All Films

Aime-moi

2009 • 14 min • France

Clarisse's life is nothing fancy: she wears herself out waiting tables in a lousy Parisian bistro. One busy day at work, a stranger's going to turn her life upside down by declaring his love...

Silhouette

2009 • 9 min • Japan

Color short film shot in 8mm

Neverland

2009 • 52 min • Canada, Switzerland, Japan, United States of America

Neverland is a state of mind, a mountain pushed up from the ground by imagination. Anyone can go but most people have trouble with the simple directions: Follow your dreams. This winter Absinthe dropped down the rabbit hole to explore this elusive place and brought back some mind bending tales and a pocketful of surprises.

Kelly Deerdale: Naturist

2009 • 17 min • United States of America

Kelly Deerdale, Hawaii's wild child or an innocent girl caught up in a lifestyle she doesn't understand? In either case, she forces former Hawaii Skinnydipper Jimmy Chow to re-examine his naturists beliefs.

Birthday

2009 • 6 min

A woman in a loveless marriage seeks to escape her mundane life through a bizarre ritual.

Panic Attack!

2009 • 5 min • Uruguay

Giant robots appear out of the mist and attack the city of Montevideo, Uruguay.

Uncertainty Principle

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

Dire warnings of immminent disaster have proven justified, as global destruction begins raining down from purple-hued skies. A Washington family struggles to cope with the advancing armageddon until a lone physicist proposes an unorthodox course of action.

Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

2009 • 58 min • United States of America

In 1909, looking to shed its rough frontier past, the young city of Seattle decided to host a World’s Fair in the same grand spirit as those that preceded it in Chicago and St. Louis. Seattle welcomed the world to the University of Washington campus where visitors walked among palaces, saw new inventions that would change the world, and mined for mirth on the Paystreak - AYP’s Midway. Featuring thousands of historical images, rare archival footage, and contemporary interviews, the film explores the fair’s historical reverberations.

The Dead Man

2009 • 10 min • Uruguay

A rural worker suffers an accident and understands that in a few minutes he is going to die. In absolute solitude and surrounded by a natural environment indifferent to his tragedy, he will face, without drama, the fact that these are his last minutes of life and nothing he can do to modify that destiny. Based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.

Muse: The Making of The Resistance

2009 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Behind the scenes.

In

2009 • 11 min • United States of America

A woman is obsessed with a mysterious black box.

Reign of Death

2009 • 6 min • United Kingdom

In a 1930s vision of the future and gumshoe chases down a robotic murder suspect.

Beyond Melodrama: Kathryn Bigelow on Douglas Sirk

2009 • 13 min • France, Germany

Kathryn Bigelow talks about the work of film director Douglas Sirk.

Um Passeio Quotidiano

2009 • 20 min • Portugal

Documentary on the Maldoror tour of Portuguese alternative rock band Mão Morta.

The Place

2009 • 23 min

A promising high school kid is unjustly sent to the notorious juvenile prison of Iceland where he faces increasingly severe abuse from the head guard who is determined to brake his spirit.

Words! Words! Words!

2009 • 2 min • Canada

A poetic short about the satisfaction in unrequited love.

The Glorious Return of Own Goals & Gaffs

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Danny Baker returns to look at all the funniest own goals and fails in football once again

Les Médicamenteurs

2009 • 52 min • France

The leading consumers of medicines on the planet, are the French really sicker than the rest of humanity? Or are there other explanations for this bulimia? By mixing in-depth interviews and plasticine animations, this documentary takes viewers on a journey through the drug. Materialized by the setting of a town, Pharmacy, this walk goes through all the stages. From clinical trials to marketing, from therapeutic evaluation to price setting, from marketing hype to the side effects suffered - at the end of the chain - by patients, public authorities and the pharmaceutical industry are questioned without question. detours on their responsibilities.

Just Before They Died

2009 • 14 min • South Korea

Do-young and young-ju are faced with a critical moment on a driving together.

In the Land of Owen

2009 • 11 min

A short documentary about notorious filmmaker Owen Land (aka George Landow) and his most recent film Dialogues (2009). Interviews with cast and crew, plus never-before-seen footage from the movie.

3

2009 • 3 min • Netherlands

Two sisters (Geerteke van Lierop, Nicole Moerland) meet with their estranged mother (Monic Hendrickx). While they're trying to connect over the course of a day, we hear the thoughts of their deceased father (Rutger Hauer).

The Low Anthem

2009 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A short film about American indie folk band The Low Anthem from Providence, Rhode Island, and the origin of their album album "Oh My God, Charlie Darwin" (2008/9) on Bella Union Records. Founded by multi-instrumentalists Ben Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky in 2006. While Jocie Adams joined the band the year after.

Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir

2009 • 16 min • France

Cowboys aren't afraid to die. Their death, always spectacular, is the grand finale of a tragic destiny. But when a cowboy messes up his exit, when he seems to hesitate awkwardly between life and death, the Western turns to the absurd.

My Poor Head

2009 • 21 min • Poland

After the death of his wife, the father of 16-year-old Wojtek, succumbs to a nervous breakdown and loses touch with reality. The school authorities where Wojtek is a student already know about this problem. If Wojtek’s father doesn’t prove he is able to look after his son, Wojtek will be taken to an orphanage. Wojtek is left with a few hours to master the situation and overcome the problem. The film is based on the short story 'ON' [He] by Joanna Łabuz and corresponds to the fourth Commandment: 'Honour your father and your mother'.