All Films

Everything's Eventual

2009 • 19 min • Argentina

A reflection on contemporary privileged youth. Based on a short story by Stephen King where a nineteen-year-old loner is recruited by a strange corporation to kill specific targets from his home computer in exchange for a seemingly ideal life.

Love Suicides

2009 • 13 min • Malaysia

At an isolated fishing village of Malaysia, a woman’s relationship with her young daughter descends into a path of self-destruction and abuse when she begins to receive a series of strange and mysterious letters from her long-absent husband.

Under the Leakingest Roof

2009 • 43 min

Social activist, Marion Leonard, celebrates her 100th birthday.

The Wind

2009 • 15 min • Brazil

A small isolated town in Brazil is becoming windless.

Methodic 1.5

2009 • 22 min • United States of America

Tells the story of a parolee, given a second chance at life, who falls victim to the viral, infectious control of the evil Dollman.

Yeah, Love

2009 • 18 min

Yeah, Love is poignant and charming coming of age story about a shy high school girl who develops a debilitating and ultimately life-changing crush on an older female student.

Péripéties et perfections des acteurs de l'Opéra de Pékin

2009 • 60 min • France

From an early age, the future actors of the Peking opera undergo intensive training to be able to interpret their roles once they become adults. Their ancestral art requires a perfect mastery of their body. In addition to acting, they must learn to sing, dance or even juggle. Later, the best of them will be chosen to join Peking Opera.

Out Of Our Minds

2009 • 30 min

A fantasy world spawned from sound. Three time periods and three narratives, one connection-blood. At the center of this life force is the heart.

Axes in Bread-loafs

2009 • 3 min • Russia

Report on the nightmarish finds in our bread.

The Other Half

2009 • 11 min • Italy

It tells the story of an elderly woman, confined in a nursing home because of her poor health. Her daughters do not want to take her to the wedding of her granddaughter. The woman, with the complicity of a nurse, escaped from there, determined at all costs to attend the wedding of her granddaughter.

Milton's Heaven and Hell

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Armando Iannucci journeys through Milton's life and his great poem Paradise Lost, offering his own passionate and illuminating response to what he feels is a work of genius.

Daddy, Picasso and I

2009 • 28 min • Sweden

Pablo looks up to his daddy, but when daddy's idol Picasso dies a summers day in 1973, daddy's grief and anger is directed towards the family and Pablo's mum. One day Pablo sees bruises on his mum's arm... but how easy is it to stand up against daddy when you are only 8 years old?

Moments on the Set of I Am Love

2009 • 15 min

A documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦.

The Kiln

2009 • 12 min • Mexico

At her young age, Juana has two great responsibilities: preventing her older sister from fleeing the house and passing on the secret of making bricks to her younger sister.

Tres juntos

2009 • 16 min • Argentina

Three teenage friends, between bike rides, boring classes and days at the swimming pool, trigger a strong and different attraction between two of them that they did not feel before. Maybe it will be the last summer of their childhood, maybe it will be the last summer of the three of them together.

Amtrak

2009 • 27 min • United States of America

In October 2008, Jon Jost is standing with his camera in the waiting area of ​​a train station in the USA, filming the other travelers: a mother with a child, the cleaning service, businesspeople on the phone, the conductor who falls in love and says goodbye to his wife. Finally he gets on the train himself and points the camera out of the window at the passing towns, the landscape and the clouds in the evening sky. A benevolent look at America - in the middle of the global economic crisis.

The Shadows

2009 • 15 min • Brazil

In a country house, the patient and her husband get involved with the young psychiatrist. The noises of the forest surround them.

The Graduate From Sudan

2009 • 52 min

Victoria Achut battled her way through medical school and escaped a civil war in Sudan, but her biggest struggle yet has been re-starting life in the 'lucky country' with three children, an absent husband and mounting bills.

The Double Of Five

2009 • 5 min

Diomedes is both a detective and a failure, who never solved a single case and plunges headlong into the bizarre world of the Great Circus, a famous circus in the past, today just a ghostly place, more like a burlesque madhouse, to find Enigmo, the magician who transformed water in wine, at the request of the pessinous Hermes.

Blue-Eyed Mary

2009 • 14 min

In the course of one afternoon, a developmentally-challenged young woman learns some painful lessons about life.

Thrush

2009 • 5 min

An entire relationship told through photos in five minutes.

San Lorenzo

2009 • 14 min • United States of America

An experimental sketch that came about while Jon Jost was teaching at Italy's National Film School. He strolled through the San Lorenzo district, observed the celebrations, the lively street life and didn't miss the nearby cemetery.

Blink

2009 • 12 min • United States of America

A rumination on the dangers of first crushes, the weight of clean guns and the habits of sea cucumbers.

Tick Tick Boom

2009 • 29 min • Denmark

Pelle is in love with Dagmar and really wants to reveal this to her, but his drunken dad keeps getting in the way. Rasmus can't accept that his newborn son is seriously ill and ends up distancing himself from his wife in order to try to hold on to the hope. Aksel wants to get back together with his ex-wife and is using his daughter as a go-between until the day when his ex-wife suddenly brings home a new boyfriend.