All Films

Countdown

2009 • 9 min • Canada

A Roadl Dahl-like fable about an ill fated professional pianist who comes down with a unique affliction: he is losing the use of his fingers. His life spirals downward as, one by one, his digits stop functioning.

Julia

2009 • 29 min • Sweden

Everyone is having kids, except for Julia and Bruno. It's a mystery, the doctors can find nothing wrong, they are both normal. Usually Julia doesn't value normalcy, rather the opposite, but more and more she is starting to think that the meaning of life is to have children.

Safe Journey

2009 • 21 min • Iceland

Life has its way of being unpredictable. Small things have tendencies of becoming bigger then you expected. Some people don't see it until it's too late.

Devious

2009 • 12 min • United Kingdom

The Second Doctor has been partially regenerated by the Time Lords as punishment for breaking the non-interference policy, but the process is stopped halfway, leaving the Doctor an amalgam of his second and as-of-yet future incarnation...

Naruto OVA 6: The Cross Roads

2009 • 25 min • Japan

Naruto: The Cross Roads (Za Kurosurozu) is the sixth Naruto OVA. It uses the same CGI graphics as Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm and was released during Naruto: Shippuden. This OVA premiered at the Jump Festa Anime Tour 2009. Between the Prologue - Land of Waves and Chunin Exams arcs, Team 7 is waiting for Kakashi, who is late again, to start a new mission (B-ranked as Sasuke states). The team sets off while Kakashi explains that Genmai from the Inaho Village is missing, who has vanished in the hills.

Le Door

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

An inter-dimensional explorer named Le Door takes his young apprentice Frank on a tour through his old academy, only to enter a competition against his old sidekick-turned-rival Zee Window and his apprentice Zee Donut Hole.

Cinemaguerilla

2009 • 50 min

A documentary about the New Romanian Cinema. "Cinemaguerilla" brings together over 30 interviews with directors, producers, actors, film historians and critics about what unites and what separates the New Wave of Romanian films.

Red

2009 • 43 min • United States of America

Set in the Cold War era of the 1950's, Relations between the United States and Russia are tense. Senator Joseph McCarthy has many Americans convinced that the Communists have infiltrated society. Paranoia runs rampant, as decent Americans lose their jobs on suspicion alone. Floyd Woods served as one of the FBl's top Special Agents until he was accused of having Communist sympathies. Floyd lost his job despite lack of evidence to support these claims. He now works as a small time insurance investigator, who's flown into the small town of Sherrill, NY to investigate a life insurance claim, only to find himself distracted by the locals' odd behavior.

Perfect

2009 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A sometimes fantastical love story set in Notting Hill, Perfect tells the story of what happens when Adam and Liberty's paths cross and how their worlds impact on each other.

The Gruffalo

2009 • 27 min • United Kingdom

The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Snake - the brave mouse creates a terrifying, imaginary monster to frighten them away. But what will the mouse do when he meets this frightful monster for real?

Half Kenneth

2009 • 22 min • United States of America

1945: after the death of his father, Ken escapes Japanese American internment camp to find his Caucasian mother who lives in town. Things become complicated, however, when Kens little brother, Jo, joins him at the last minute.

Logorama

2009 • 16 min • France

Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city.

The Kinematograph

2009 • 12 min • Poland

A 19th-century inventor is close to perfecting motion pictures but doesn't want to reveal his invention to the public until he can show films with sound and color.

Love Hate

2009 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life turned upside down, when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.

Pretty Twisted

2009 • 14 min • United States of America

A bodacious grifter and a bad-ass thug meet to negotiate a drug deal. But she's really setting him up for the mysterious boss she's enslaved to

Engkwentro

2009 • 60 min • Philippines

Two teenage brothers are attempting to escape an unnamed city controlled by an iron-fisted mayor. They must first break away from the cycle of crime, while trying to run from rival gang leaders and the state's murderous vigilantes.

The Wall

2009 • 39 min • Albania, Germany

An adaptation of the J.P. Sartre story "Le Mur". What goes on in his mind and what happens outside when he has left only few more hours left to live. The existential dilemmas of a prisoner condemned to death from a repressive regime for his participation in a resistance movement and his friendship with the leader of this resistance. When all seems lost and he has already given up the most unlikely coincidence changes the course of events and his life.

Thorns

2009 • 18 min

In ancient Italy, a young servant is offered wealth and freedom... if he will but murder his kindly master.

La mancha

2009 • 9 min • Puerto Rico

Fisherman Sacarías finds himself at sea, immersed in memories of his old friend Chago.

The Armoire

2009 • 22 min • Canada

After a game of hide-and-seek, 11-year-old Aaron is hypnotized to solve the mystery of his missing friend.

Circledrawers

2009 • 60 min • Iceland

Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels living among us and performing the most mundane of tasks. Oleg, a special emissary has arrived at transmission central in Iceland to do the semi-centennial report on the efficiency of the Circledrawer system.

The Muse

2009 • 20 min • Philippines

In a community by the railroad, an old healer named Tatang performs a “miracle” when a young male lover is run over by a train. It is said that Tatang can heal with poetry and his Muse. Another cataclysmic event will make the community discover the next healer by the railroad.

Stella

2009 • 8 min • Italy

A young girl faces a traumatic event and grows up to meet someone who's gone through hardship aswell.

ookie cookie

2009 • 3 min

Learn how to make the ookie cookie with this hallucinogenic glitterdrag-inspired tribute to the work of NYC underground 80’s gay video artist Tom Rubnitz.