All Films

Vince Guaraldi: The Maestro of Menlo Park

2009 • 37 min • United States of America

A short documentary about Vince Guaraldi, the composer most well known for his work on several 'Peanuts' animated television specials.

Down in Number 5

2009 • 18 min • United States of America

Southern Gothic tale of a coal miner pushed to his limits for the love of his son.

Shintaro!

2009 • 51 min • Australia

In 1964, a sensation swept through Australian lounge rooms leaving an indelible impression on the children of that generation. That sensation was The Samurai -the first foreign cult television series from Japan to be broadcast in Australia.

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju

2009 • 46 min • France

A short documentary about Georges Franju.

Making Mary and Max

2009 • 15 min • Australia

Comedic behind-the-scenes film for the production of Mary and Max, originally released as webisodes.

It Felt Like a Kiss

2009 • 54 min • United Kingdom

The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959, using archival footage and US pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.

Burn the Wagons

2009 • 12 min • United States of America

A Tribal Court Clerk trudges through another work-day.

Angry Man

2009 • 20 min • Norway

A film about secrets that shouldn't be secret. When the mommy-fish dies, Boj has had enough, and gets power from his own fantasy to go further.

BBC Four Presents: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2009 • 59 min

Poet Simon Armitage goes on the trail of one of the jewels in the crown of British poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written about 600 years ago by an unknown author. The poem has got just about everything - it is an action-packed adventure, a ghost story, a steamy romance, a morality tale and the world's first eco-poem. Armitage follows in the footsteps of the poem's hero, Gawain, through some of Britain's most beautiful and mystical landscapes and reveals why an absurd tale of a knight beheading a green giant is as relevant and compelling today as when it was written.

The Last Breath

2009 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Whilst on a family scuba diving trip the Kelvin family surface to find that the world's oxygen supply has suddenly dissipated. With their tanks running low they embark on a race against time to reach the nearby dive hut.

Cloudy Day

2009 • 8 min • France

In a world where drought is everywhere, a little village survives thanks to a machine that turns clouds into drinking water. Unfortunately one of the village inhabitants will make the cloud take flight.

The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

2009 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.

Turn Around

2009 • 34 min

A curious housewife experiments with Internet exhibitionism and harrowing one night stands, but her life spins out of her control.

Issho ni Training: Training with Hinako

2009 • 24 min • Japan

"First muscle training animation ever," a 16-year-old girl named Hinako leads exercises in push-ups, sit-ups, and squats. Hinako was once a human, but she was turned into an anime character when she was a second-year middle-school student.

Because the Night

2009 • 9 min • Sweden

Stockholm, Sweden. A warm summer night is torn apart by flashing lights and loud music. Trembling air full of hopes and expectations. Four people end up at the same place for the same reason, because the night.

The Beatles on Record

2009 • 58 min • United Kingdom

A collection of interviews and footage of the band detailing how their sound progressed and how their albums were made.

Bani Ibrahim

2009 • 15 min

Hafiz, a Palestinian-Australian doctor, is faced with the dilemma on whether to save the life of his fugitive brother intent on committing a suicide attack.

The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies

2009 • 55 min • United States of America

Orange-and-black wings fill the sky as NOVA charts one of nature's most remarkable phenomena: the epic migration of monarch butterflies across North America. To capture a butterfly's point of view, NOVA’s filmmakers used a helicopter, ultralight, and hot-air balloon for aerial views along the transcontinental route. This wondrous annual migration, which scientists are just beginning to fathom, is an endangered phenomenon that could dwindle to insignificance if the giant firs that the butterflies cling to during the winter disappear.

Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)

2009 • 10 min • United States of America

A short portrait of Patti Smith in the city where she lives. Patti recites the very first poem-song she ever wrote. We take a walk in her changing neighborhood, and I ask her what she saw.

The Moldy Peaches Documentary

2009 • 10 min

Follow Adam Green and Kimya Dawson on their silly adventure as they create their first album.

Asämara

2009 • 10 min • Spain

Sent to work, sent to earn a living. This is the reality millions of children must face in Africa nowadays, in spite of their extreme youth.

Little Blue Nothing

2009 • 49 min

An intimate journey into the world of Irena & Vojtech Havlovi, two secret and stunning Czech viola players who live in the suburbs of Prague, initiating the film series Musicians of Our Time.

Velvet

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

Conrad loves Beatrice while Beatrice loves herself. Together, they make for an odd pair, one unable to express his emotions, the other unable to contain them. Velvet is the story of their relationship and the crushed velvet jacket that comes between them.

Someday We Will Get Married

2009 • 15 min • United States of America

The story of a girl finding out that first love ends, but she doesn't have to end with it.