All Films

Don't Step Out of the House

2009 • 43 min • South Korea

A poor boy and his sister live in a basement apartment. One day, strangers enter their house and threaten them.

The Rules of Film Noir

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Matthew Sweet explores his rules of 1940s and 50s American film noir thrillers.

Plastic Bag

2009 • 18 min • United States of America

A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.

The Secret of Martin Cordiani

2009 • 16 min • Mexico

Martin Cordiani is the richest man in the world, but there's a great mystery surrounding him. He has been sitting on his desk for 60 years without ever standing up for anything. Today, the shocking secret behind this mysterious behavior will be revealed.

The Feast of Stephen

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

Stephen watches a group of boys playing basketball. The look in his eyes betrays his sexual interests. When the boys realize, he becomes a victim of their homophobia. Or does it only seem so?

This Is Alaska

2009 • 11 min • Sweden

A group of people have moved to Alaska. They are searching for a higher level of freedom.

Bits & Pieces

2009 • 30 min

At a theatre during a performance of Dangerous Liaisons, a young costume dresser is having an affair with an actor, but gets a taste of reality when the leading lady discovers her partner's infidelity.

Team Qatar

2009 • 56 min • United States of America

Qatar is said to be the world's richest country, while competitive debating is said to be a training ground for future world leaders. So when the Qatari Emiress charged two recent Oxford graduates with creating the country's first national debate team and taking them to the world championships, the stakes were high. This documentary follows the journey of five ambitious teenagers as they are initiated into the cut-throat subculture of competitive high school debate. Training in London, Doha and New York, they learn more about the world as they hone their debating skills. (Storyville)

Greenspoke

2009 • 27 min • United States of America

A beautiful Japanese translator and a world-weary vehicle emissions technician awake strangely altered by the work of a brilliant scientist. Drawn to each other, their sudden compulsion and suspicions may tear them apart. A film about the dangers of altering the climate even with the best of intentions.

Wild Art: Olly & Suzi

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Documentary following Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley, two unique wildlife artists who simultaneously work on the same painting of exotic and endangered animals while on location in the wildest corners of the world. The film shows how they work and why what they do is so important.

The Bee and the Wind

2009 • 13 min • Italy

Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave.

Laurita

2009 • 20 min • Brazil

Laura and her mother are spending their vacation on the seashore, in Sao Paulo, at a middle-class beach house. Laura's adolescent body is changing but not in harmony with her coming of age. She's less bothered by that than the situation the two of them find themselves in.

I Am... Sasha Fierce (Platinum Edition)

2009 • 53 min

I Am... Sasha Fierce (Platinum Edition) is a video album by American recording artist Beyoncé. It features eight music videos for songs from her third studio album, I Am... Sasha Fierce. Including "Behind the Scenes" footage.

The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine D'Agata

2009 • 55 min • Cambodia, France, Italy

Antoine D'Agata, Magnum photographer since 2004, is in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. After devoting himself to depicting desolated landscapes and borderline realities, D'Agata focuses his art on his intimate human relations. His latest work focuses on body and flesh, in a narrow room. This film catches the hidden part of his art making; his choice of living on the edge and experiencing sex with extreme vitality. It is an apocalyptic and sublime journey, similar to the ones of other heretic artists of contemporary culture, from Jack Kerouac to Antonin Artaud, from Francis Bacon to Pier Paolo Pasolini.

How to Take a Bath

2009 • 3 min • Canada

Legendary poet John Ashbery scripted this absurdist step-by-step guide to bathing, excerpted from Guy Maddin's feature THE FORBIDDEN ROOM and restored to its original form as a stand-alone film.

Where the Boys Are

2009 • 22 min • France

A few girls in an apartment. Across the street men are building a mosque.

Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres - Doctor Who at the Proms 2008

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

A selection of classical favourites with a strong flavour of time and space. Join Freema Agyeman (aka Martha Jones), and others from the Doctor Who cast, for an intergalactic musical adventure - with a little help from Daleks, Cybermen and other aliens from the series!

Moments

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

Originally presented by Radiolab on their Visual Experiment series. A celebration of life, inspired by David Eagleman's book "Sum". After listening to an exploration on death on a Radiolab show, filmmaker Will Hoffman went out in search of moments of life. This film is a showcase of what he found.

Gorilla

2009 • 10 min • Finland

Gorilla is a ten-minute children`s drama about a six-year-old Alli who tries to get into her big sister`s lovely princess room to play with her sister and her friend. The big girls won`t play with Alli but instead call her a gorilla because she is so scruffy. But Alli won`t give up and does everything to get into the big girls` game.

Kay Thompson: Think Pink!

2009 • 27 min • United States of America

A documentary about Kay Thompson.

116 Seconds

2009 • 30 min • United States of America

Every 116 seconds a youngster is raped. Benito, an FBI agent, has only a few hours to solve a case not knowing that he is about to face his own troubled past.

Skin. Like. Sun.

2009 • 60 min • Netherlands, Belgium

Real-life young couple Wim and Floor spend an afternoon in the sunwashed rooms of a crumbling home in Belgium. In a unique twist, this artistic erotic documentary is edited in nearly real-time. In the slowness, we get the build, the sweetness, and the sexiness. Forget about fingersnapping fast editing. Slow is where it’s at.

Firstborn

2009 • 27 min • South Africa, United States of America

This short film explores identity and sexuality within the Afrikaans minority culture of post-Apartheid South Africa through a fable about two brothers who descend into matricide and madness on a remote ostrich farm.

The Girl With Liquid Eyes

2009 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A rhyming tale of love and loss.