All Films

Milites Christi

2009 • 15 min • United States of America

A knight and his young squire follow an evil heretic in search of a holy relic.

Bizarre Dinosaurs

2009 • 48 min • United States of America

While dinosaurs may have been some of the mightiest creatures ever to have walked the earth, they also could have been among the most bizarre. With extreme, exaggerated body parts, some predators were loaded with outlandish or disproportionately sized appendages. Join world-renowned paleontologists and travel the globe to unearth some of the lesser-known but most surprising members of the dinosaur family: Mamenchisaurus, whose neck alone was longer than the rest of its body; Chasmosaurus, adorned with a fashionable crown of frilly spikes to attract the eyes of potential suitors; Spinosaurus, with massive extensions from its vertebrae that could have supported a sail or a hump; and Parasaurolophus, whose tube-like head crest may look odd to us, but was a mating magnet back in the day.

Kink

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

Short from Wayne Pére

Narcissus Dreams

2009 • 16 min • United States of America

Profoundly dissatisfied academy award nominee, dreaming of changing his life, psychoanalyzes himself and his relationship with the world.

French Courvoisier

2009 • 14 min • France

It is the end of a meal. Eight people are gathered around a big table. They evoke the memory of a lost friend. Through the stories of each about the absentee, the character traits, the haabits or the expressions, a portrait in hollow is outlined.

Jubilee

2009 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Two members of a right wing political party are on the campaign trail in a housing estate. During the course of a day knocking on doors, it becomes clear they have differing motivations for being there.

Itiburtinoterzo

2009 • 27 min • Italy

Documentary about the desolate lives of youngsters living in the Roman suburbs.

Fragile

2009 • 23 min

Out of options, Kathleen, an estranged wife suffering from kidney failure, descends into the gritty underworld of black market human organ trafficking.

Castor & Pollux

2009 • 8 min • Australia

Told over the span of a few lost days, this restrained film depicts the simple complexities of a nomadic couple's relationship.

Rumpelstilzchen

2009 • 58 min • Germany

The king locks the miller’s daughter, Lisa, in a room full of straw to turn into gold in just one night. If she doesn’t succeed she would be executed.

Christmas Dreams

2009 • 60 min

A story of a lonely 11 year old girl (Sam) who wanders into a second-hand store in search of a Christmas present for her teenage sister. There she meets Rose (Cynthia Dale), the kind but eccentric shopkeeper, who calls her collection of castoffs “A Gallery of Temporary Art”. With Rose’s help, Sam goes on a series of magical musical adventures, and rediscovers the beauty and joy of Christmas while Rose rediscovers the beauty, joy and importance of family.

Wall Boy

2009 • 17 min • Australia

A young runaway falls prey to the city's darkest vice market - a youth worker on a visiting outreach bus becomes fixated with saving him.

The Spine

2009 • 12 min • Canada

A poignant story of redemption that takes us into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped in a spiral of mutual destruction after 26 years of marriage, the Spine continues Landreth's pursuit of a twisted, beautiful and highly original visual aesthetic, using digital imagery to create characters whose physical appearances are metaphors for their unique souls.

The Fucking Game

2009 • 10 min • Croatia

A couple goes on an imaginary journey that will take them through an entire life span. Reality and illusion, highs and lows of human existence, moments of great tenderness and moments of sheer cruelty become interchangeable.

Sustisimo Nivel

2009 • 10 min • United States of America

Mark Hicks and Ivan Martinez are long time friends and video-gamers. When Ivan beats a new horror video game, he decides to pass it on to his friends. Mark and his girlfriend Jamie Perkins soon discover that there's much more to this game than just having fun.

Little Miss Eyeflap

2009 • 11 min • Norway

Breaking with her own culture, a Norwegian-Pakistani girl escapes the force marriage her family has planned for her.

Go! Anpanman: Dadandan and the Twin Stars

2009 • 50 min • Japan

A story about twin star fairies - Kirara and Kirari. Kirara is a sweet girl who loves to shoot shooting stars, and Kirari is a kind girl who watches the stars. After fighting each other, they fell to the ground. Kirara is helped by Anpanman where she fell on the banks of the lake. At a nearby castle, Dr. Hiyari was doing mind experiments to increase power. There, a mysterious light falls, it is a giant mysterious black fairy with special abilities - it is Kirari. Meanwhile, in the starry sky where Kirara and Kirari had been, the "Devil Star" with the power to destroy everything in the world has became powerful.

Super Rhino

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

This short begins with the star canine and his owner Penny in peril from "The Man with the Green Eye", trapped within his fortress protected by overwhelming defenses, tied up and suspended high above a bottomless pit that's surrounded by fire. So Penny's father transforms Rhino into a super hamster to save the day.

Obvious Child

2009 • 23 min • United States of America

A romantic comedy about an unplanned pregnancy, an abortion, and a great first date in an unlikely location.

Cencoroll

2009 • 27 min • Japan

A giant monster sends a town's citizens into a panic, except for a girl named Yuki and her schoolmate Tetsu. Tetsu happens to have his own strange creature named Cenco as a pet. Another boy named Shuu controls the monster threatening the town, and the stage is set for a battle.

Matinée

2009 • 34 min • Netherlands

Hoping to inject creativity into their onstage performance, a reserved actress and her co-star consider improvising their love scene. Stage actors Mariah and Daniel play lovers every night, but their onstage romance lacks spark. One slow afternoon, they discover that today's matinée performance will make or break both their careers. Daniel wants to make big changes, and Mariah starts to wonder: are Daniel's suggestions reasonable? Or has he lost track of the boundary between actor and character? Rushed to the stage, in front of a live audience, they must figure it out together.

Hotel Courbet

2009 • 18 min • Italy

The woman lets herself go so she can assuage her erotic affliction. The provocative intimacy, violated unseen, is worth more for the burglar than any of the things he has stolen...

Weathered

2009 • 18 min

Weathered is the intimate portrait of Weather Wellington, who is caged in time by the loss of her fiancé. Retreating inside herself, Weather longs for human connection and reaches out the only way she knows how... by making doctors appointments.

The Report Card

2009 • 12 min • Italy

A mother takes her son to visit his father before leaving on vacation.