All Films

Girl on the Run

2009 • 35 min • South Korea

This is a road movie about a girl who always dreams and never gives up. She lives in a small town near the 'Saemangeum' tidal flat that has been drained and filled. At the same time Cha-Eun's track team is disbanded. Her coach recomends that she moves to the city where there's a school with a track team, but her father refuses to send her to the city. Her Filipino stepmom plans a trip to Seoul w

Aporia

2009 • 33 min

The story of a sixty-year-old woman, who is introducing us in an amalgam of sensations, emotions and deep experiences through profound and exhaustive thoughts, recounted in an intimate tone.

Nick Swardson: Seriously, Who Farted?

2009 • 59 min • United States of America

Nick started stand up at the age of 18. In his first year of stand up he was chosen to perform at the U.S. Comedy Arts festival. In 2000, he hit a milestone in his career when he taped his Comedy Central half-hour special at the age of 22 (the youngest to do so). More recently, Nick wrote and starred in the Happy Madison-produced films Grandma's Boy and Benchwarmers.

Pups of Liberty: The Boston Tea-Bone Party

2009 • 16 min • United States of America

Are you ready for an adventure? Travel back to 1773 to witness the beginning of the Ameri-canine revolution! In Pups of Liberty: The Boston Tea-Bone Party, you'll see the real people of the American Revolution portrayed by cats and dogs. Watch as Spaniel Adams and Paul Ruffere help organize the Pups of Liberty to protest the new taxes imposed on them by the Royal Tomcat and insist on "No Laws Without Paws!"

Yoko Ono’s Cups

2009 • 21 min • Poland

19-year-old Janka comes from a catholic family. She lives together with her parents in a small town near the eastern border of Poland. One day she meets an eccentric Russian woman–Sara. The feeling that is awoken as a result of the encounter becomes for Janka both the beginning of sequence of trials and reflections upon her own life. The film corresponds to the Ninth Commandment: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife".

Última voluntad

2009 • 5 min • Spain

Ana Mercedes Hoyos

2009 • 13 min • Colombia, France

Documentary about Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos, which deals with slavery and Afro-Caribbean cultures.

Death and the Devil

2009 • 56 min • Germany

Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions: interested in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler embarks on a journey in search of his grandfather.

Worst Friends

2009 • 41 min • South Korea

A boy returns to Korea after an unsuccessful American educational trip and meets the girl he deflowered.

Blood and Guts in High School

2009 • 51 min

"Blood and Guts in High School" features actress Stephanie Vella in a series of video installations that re-imagine punk-feminist icon Kathy Acker’s book of the same title. The book received noteriety from 1978-1982 during the rise of Reagan republicanism and the emergence of punk rock. In Parnes’ interpretation, each video-chapter presents a typical scene in the life of Janie bracketed by US news events from the time period in which the book was written. These events saturate the character's daily experience, informing her adolescent, nihilistic worldview and her desire for rebellion. As the viewer looks back at pivotal historical events (Jonestown Massacre, Moral Majority, Three Mile Island etc.) connections are drawn in relation to our current political situation.

The boy and the tree

2009 • 30 min • Greece

One evening close to Christmas, the tree, having seen the splendidly trimmed Christmas trees standing in the windows of nearby houses, and longing to be as beautiful as they are, begs the boy to trim it too. But the boy has neither ornaments nor money to buy any, in fact he has nothing. How can he make this withered, shriveled tree look beautiful, there in the middle of a filthy, freezing pavement? And yet this night will prove to be a very different night from every other. It will be a night when dreams come true, a night of enchantment and magic.

Behind Closed Doors

2009 • 20 min • Philippines

The film is a story of relationships and the lies that unwittingly go with them. Butch and Sarah are a married couple whose relationship is not quite as smooth as it seems. A banana-flavored condom found by Sarah will unravel the many secrets that happens behind the closed doors.

Student Occupation

2009 • 17 min • Greece

There comes a day when Yannis, a 12th-grader, is ready to tell Anna, a fellow student, how much he likes her. His plans will turn upside down when, that very day, he'll find the school under student occupation and Anna among the occupying protesters. A half-erased graffiti and a fussy tv-reporter will further complicate the story. "For" or "Against"?

Omar

2009 • 8 min • France

The story of Omar, a young gay man who lives in a neighbourhood he loves and neighbours that love him. But he is under pressure because he has fallen in love and he cannot even talk about it as he will end up revealing that he is homosexual — not even to his best friend Morad.

Quando o Anjo e o Diabo Colaboram

2009 • 9 min • Portugal

Inspired in the Play "Auto da Barca do Inferno" by Gil Vicente, the only Portuguese playwright recognized in the universal history of theater, the story of "When The Angel And The Devil Cooperate" talks about a bet: if the world ended, where would most of the humans end up? In Heaven? Or in Hell? On Earth, the Angel and the Devil come across with the story of a father, Parvo, who blames his daughter's death on Onzeneiro. While Parvo looks to get his revenge on Onzeneiro, this one tries to get rid of the murder charges by paying of the judge. They both gather with their accomplices at the same place, a brothel, without knowing about each other's presence. Here alliances are formed and broken with the help of peculiar friendships, represented by the characters of "Auto da Barca do Inferno".

Home of the Buffalo

2009 • 5 min • Canada

Constructed from Canadian prairie archival images taken between 1920 and 1940, this film lyrically explores a transgender son's relationship with his father and the family's relationship to their land.

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

2009 • 60 min • Italy

This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also experimented new path. His favorite actresses such as Clau

Waltz's Veil

2009 • 15 min • Italy

A woman retraces a violence she suffered was born.

Apparition

2009 • 13 min • United States of America

Anne is determined to find a place to call home, but she soon discovers that New York City's realty market is satiated with sleazy brokers, strange roommates and scary dwellings. Even the perfect place she eventually finds has a secret of its own.

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

2009 • 16 min • United States of America

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol is both a historical portrait of Fumiko, her family and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American community in the decades before World War II as well as a contemporary story which follows 97-year old Fumi and her daughter Natalie as they return to the site of the former Minidoka internment camp, their first trip back together in 63 years. The film reveals how the iconic photograph became the impetus for Fumiko to publicly lobby against the injustices of the past.

In the Dark

2009 • 14 min • Portugal

Once there was a boy who was afraid of the dark. One day, while playing on an abandoned factory's roof, he let a valuable belonging fall through a gap between the tiles. Going into the factory means facing his phobia and, inside, a beast's gaze awaits.

Diana

2009 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A young transgender woman rejected by her family in India, lives alone in London, working as a prostitute to pay for hormone therapy. Aleem Khan’s remarkable short film is set in 1997 in the wake of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales – whose loneliness and isolation our protagonist can identify with only too well. On this extraordinary day, she prepares to set herself free.

Le Lit près de la fenêtre

2009 • 12 min • France

Three old gentlemen are in a hospital, where amazing things seem to happen, just outside the window.

Roar

2009 • 16 min • United Kingdom

London. It's Christmas. Tom is a timid loner who cuts keys in a dry-cleaners in Soho. He's dominated by his extroverted boss, Mick, who habitually cracks on to his female clientele. One customer, Eva, is particularly unimpressed by Mick's behaviour. When Tom tries to apologise, she gives him the cold shoulder. Wanting emotional contact, Tom tries unsuccessfully to call his estranged father. Desperate, Tom takes drastic action.