All Films

In Our Blood

2009 • 16 min • Belgium, France

Lionel, seventeen years old, assaulted by his father, is going to become a daddy.

Un juego absurdo

2009 • 12 min • Argentina

Javier is in love with Romina. At a party, we hear his thoughts and sometimes he even talks to us. Playing between reality and fantasy, Javier will try to overcome his fears and get the girl of his dreams.

Salomania

2009 • 17 min

Salomania reconstructs a dance: the ‘dance of the seven veils’ from Alla Nazimova’s 1923 silent film Salomé. Also shown and rehearsed are sections from ‘Valda’s Solo,’ which the choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer created after having seen Nazimova’s film.

Gettin' it Dunn with Richard Dunn

2009 • 12 min • United States of America

The Newbie

2009 • 19 min • Poland

A lonely 17 –year-old Ania (the Newbie) is seeking acceptance in a group of peers playing risky urban games. She pays for her strivings with a loss of faith in values. With nothing to lose, Ania invents a daredevil game, supposed to provoke the group and especially its leader-Czarny, to think. The surprising end of the film gives a new chance to return to normality for its characters. The film is based on the short story 'Moc słowa' [The Power of Word] by Anna Czajka and corresponds to the second Commandment: 'You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain'.

Asymmetric Cycles: The Work of Al Jarnow

2009 • 30 min

Documentary about the experimental animator.

The Day After

2009 • 15 min • Denmark

Andreas is warned by a mysterious stranger that his best friend Jannik is in danger. That's all he remembers from his night on the town last night. Was it something he dreamed? When the pieces start to fall into place, he realizes that everything he does is helping to facilitate his friends tragedy. with a circular approach to time, 'The Day After' plays with the idea of causality and the difficulties of accepting wrong doing.

Maruined

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

Two siblings become trapped on a deserted island full of danger with a strange hippopotamus/dog hybrid as their pet and protector.

Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side

2009 • 54 min • United States of America

Peter makes good on another power outage at home by retelling "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back".

Susan's Longing

2009 • 23 min • Sweden

Susan is longing for her boyfriend Anders who is away on business. Isolated in the flat they recently moved into, she has got the feeling that someone is visiting the apartment during night-time, and she has nightmares about living in the streets searching for Anders who has left her behind.

I Know You

2009 • 30 min • Lithuania

The story of a fifteen-year old girl who feels that her room, her district, her school and even herself is too small for her.

Sabotase

2009 • 15 min • Indonesia

Evictions and illegal land placements trigger conflict. Then came the act of sabotage.

Kamen Rider Decade: Protect! The World of Televikun

2009 • 11 min • Japan

Styled as a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story. The viewer's choices throughout the DVD affect how Decade and Diend's fight against Dai-Shocker's Televi Bae-Kun plays out, as well as Yusuke Onodera's completion of the Decade Bazooka weapon from a punch out sheet in the back of a Televi-Kun magazine.

Night Mayor

2009 • 14 min • Canada

Winnipeg, 1939: Bosnian immigrant Nihad Ademi conceives of a way to harness the power of the Aurora Borealis in order to broadcast imagery of his vast and beloved adopted land from coast to coast to coast.

Chatting with Creatures

2009 • 30 min • Japan

Adaptation of Takayuki Mizushina's Kemono to Chat (Chatting with Creatures) 4-panel manga. The story centres on Chacha Kenomoto, a high school freshman girl who can understand the language of cats and speak with them. The girl's family name Kenomoto is a wordplay on the title, which literally means Chatting with Creatures.

Henna Night

2009 • 6 min

It's bride-to-be Amina's Henna Night and her best friend Nour, a witch in the kitchen, has been cooking all day. When Amina locks herself in the bathroom and refuses to come out secrets are revealed. Set within the home of a British-Arab family HENNA NIGHT takes you on a journey full of food, magic, and manipulation subtly exploring a darker side of love.

Squirly Town

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

Straight-laced squirrel Lance gets a splitting headache after his crazy friend Zoopie puts a tarantula in the acorn butter. To cure his pain, Zoopie takes Lance on an adventure that tests the meaning of true friendship.

Three Slave Women

2009 • 60 min • Japan

THREE SLAVE WOMEN is comprised of three stories of three women, who share the same slave master. Starring the sexy up-and-coming starlet ASAMI, this film includes some of the best shibari, kinbaku and slave-master scenes ever produced in Japan. All three are in love with Kajiwara, a dominant bondage master who punishes them in intricate and graphic ways. Their separate stories cross paths at a surprising culmination of eroticism, lust and S&M play.

School Gyrls

2009 • 50 min • United States of America

Three freshmen who love to sing and dance showcase their talents at an all-girl boarding school.

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger the Movie: The Fateful War

2009 • 20 min • Japan

Taking place in between Shinkenger Acts 22 and 23, the Shinkengers battle the newly revived Kusare Gedoushu Aburame Manpuku and his army for three days. The wounded and tired Shinkengers nearly lose, had the Kusare Gedoushu not needed to regain energy by soaking in the Sanzu River. As their wounds are treated, Jii reveals they he has found the Secret Disk used by the first Shinken Red to seal Manpuku at the Genryu Temple, which lies in the middle of Kusare Gedoushu territory.

Colonial Gods

2009 • 29 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

A complicated friendship between a young Somali and Nigerian man unfolds against the chaos of gentrification and displacement in the small immigrant community in Cardiff known as Tiger Bay.

I Love Thee for Good

2009 • 58 min • Japan

While the wedding day should be blissful for the bride, Eiko, there is a secret that she can’t tell her fiance...

Galaxy Express 999 - Beyond the Diamond Ring

2009 • 16 min • Japan

July 22, 2009. Galaxy Express 999 made a brief stop at Kagoshima on the day of total solar eclipse. Tetsuro gives a pass for the 999 to a boy named Kakeru dreaming of becoming an astronaut, saying "It's up to you whether you can use this pass or not". Now it's 2035, another total solar eclipse is expected in Japan, 26 years since the last one. What became of Kakeru...?

Linear

2009 • 56 min

The film is based on a story by Corbijn and Bono, and includes several of the characters Bono created for the album. The plot focuses on a Parisian motorcycle officer, played by Saïd Taghmaoui; the character has become disillusioned with his life and the conflict between immigrants and the police in the city, causing him to leave to see his girlfriend in Tripoli.