All Films

First the Egg

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

Which came first? The chicken or the egg? A book about transformations...from egg to chicken, seed to flower, and caterpillar to butterfly. An entirely fresh and memorable presentation on the concepts of transformation and creativity.

War Games

2009 • 6 min • Australia

After escaping imprisonment, a soldier continues fighting for his life.

Magritte, le jour et la nuit

2009 • 52 min • Belgium, France

Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family"

2009 • 27 min

DVD featurette documenting the beginnings of "All in the Family"

Magical Slut: Ripe Meat Invitation

2009 • 60 min • Japan

An unknown woman who never really blossomed as an actress. And the men who took away her chances and abandoned her... A senior at an acting training school who abandoned her dream of becoming an actor and at the same time abandoned her unknown. An investor who ended his relationship with her lover because she developed ED. He used her work as bait to play with her body. The president of an entertainment agency... Then her twin sister Miwa stands up! My sister's revenge is in my hands! The curtain opens on a splendid sexual revenge with the men who are related to her!

O'Galop

2009 • 52 min

Everybody knows Bibendum Michelin, but nobody knows the artist who hides behind this world-famous logo. O Gallop ( 1867-1946 ), contemporary of Émile Cohl, is an illustrator for the satiric press, poster designer, pioneer for cartoon movies and the graphic creator of the Bibendum. The great-grandson and the director of this movie investigates the universe of the artist.

A Felicidade

2009 • 8 min • Portugal

A father and a son. The father will be seventy years old, the son is in his twenties. The son drives the father to the hospital. Classical music in the radio. The father did not know that the son liked classical music, and the son did not know that that would be the last time he would speak to his father. But Mozart asks that souls rejoice, that men rejoice.

The Greatest Ever 3D Moments

2009 • 60 min

A countdown of the top 10 3D moments in film, television and pop music from the last 50 years.

The Garden

2009 • 11 min • Canada

A mystical gardener harvests fruits from the earth that defy everyone's expectations.

Mr. Mee wanna go to Egypt

2009 • 19 min

Two filmmakers have to make a short film for a non-smoking campaign again, but they have run out of ideas.

The Familiar

2009 • 22 min • Canada

Sam has just accepted a very unusual job: become the assistant to an amoral, immortal, blood-sucking vampire.

Erwin Braddog 2 - Die Abrechnung

2009 • 16 min • Germany

The Braddog saga mercilessly goes into a new round. Erwin Braddog finds himself traveling through time in search of his nemesis, the cruel tyrant James Lee. Will Braddog succeed in defeating James Lee? And what role does General Gio Pescie play in the process?

Le garçon avec les cheveux dans les yeux

2009 • 19 min • France

A woman sitting in front of a screen: we do not know if it is day or night outside. In this place, the light of the screens dominates that of time. The inner voice of this woman recounts a solitary and reclusive life and her confusion in front of an old black and white photograph that she has just e

Alien Earths

2009 • 45 min • United States of America

Join leading astronomers on a visual journey beyond our solar system in search of planets like Earth. Using CGI animation, we'll explore bizarre worlds that stretch our imagination: planets with iron rain and hot ice, with diamonds everywhere, and endless oceans of gas. Planets with abnormal orbital patterns and planets with no pattern at all that drift alone in the Milky Way. Planets so strange we never could have predicted them before. Could life exist there?

Confusion

2009 • 50 min • Macedonia

Igor, a police officer from Skopje, accidentally kills a civilian. He accepts an offer from his superior to go unpunished, but on the condition that he will be transferred to a border village, as far away from Skopje as possible.

The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers

2009 • 30 min • United Kingdom

In the far future, the remaining population of an oxygen-depleted planet Earth lies in enforced stasis in The Field of Dreams. Looking for ideas to help him re-connect to his captive audience, Zed, a young scenariosmith, turns to the world of Doctor Who for inspiration...

The Last Supper

2009 • 20 min • Australia

The Man goes to the encounter of the Woman in a mysterious place where creatures live. While making love to one of them, he becomes her by changing gender. He opens himself to creation and the possibility of motherhood. He will be judged not for who he is, but for what he wants to become : God. On her side, the women, as she is impregnated, becomes two. She becomes a mother. She becomes mortal. As she gets pregnant, she reduces her freedom. Yet she refuses to keep this child to keep on being free. This Act isn't a humanist act trying to deny a child's life in a doomed world. This is the most selfish expression. An ultimate protection act. Having a child it is loosing our freedom. It is loosing your right to die. Abortion and guilt that follows only brings to an alternate self, monstrous, ghost around the living, condemned to torture and roaming. To the lonely night with the blind eyes.

The Chronoscope

2009 • 20 min • Ireland

A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past.

Edgar

2009 • 12 min • Germany

Edgar, a retired person who is a widower since two years is longing for a meaningful occupation. He is wandering aimlessly about the city. An unexpected encounter with a store detective gives him an idea....

Off Season

2009 • 13 min • United States of America

A man and his dog traverse a cold, barren climate and discover some disturbing things along the way.

His Majesty Little Beard

2009 • 11 min • France

Three attempts of hypnosis on children.

Bale

2009 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Bullying of younger teens by older teens goes wrong.

Vistas: Red Ochre

2009 • 3 min • Canada

Combining archival photos with new and found footage, this short film presents a personal, impressionistic rendering of what it's like growing up Mi'kmaq in Newfoundland, while living in a culture of denial. Vistas is a series of 13 short films on nationhood from 13 Indigenous filmmakers from Halifax to Vancouver. It was a collaborative project between the NFB and APTN to bring Indigenous perspectives and stories to an international audience.

Belle de Nature

2009 • 12 min • France, Venezuela

The more the knots tighten around her body, the more Clara's imagination flies away. She finds herself naked at the edge of a forest. The grass tickles her feet, a bramble scratches her, her breathing accelerates under the electric shocks of the nettles. Clara joins her lover, the forest.