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2009 all films » order by title (114)
| 4  Dir: Edouard Salier, France, 17 min, 2009, Experimental Four letters. 400 000 possibilities. Only one is real.... more | | |  |
| AFTER TOMORROW  Dir: Emma Sullivan, England, 15 min, 2009, Short Returning to the village of his estranged wife, James grows increasingly concerned when the sinister owner of the guest house refuses to let him lea... more | | |  |
| ALTER EGO  Dir: Cédric Prevost , France, 20 min, 2008, Short In a park of Paris, Esther and Nadir come across each other, having apparently very little in common. Apparently...... more | | |  |
| BACKWARDS  Dir: Aaron Hughes, United States, 4 min, 2009, Animation A love story so backwards it has to be told in reverse.... more | | |  |
| BEACHCOMB REVUE  Dir: Alec Mathewson, Canada, 1 min, 2007, Experimental An idealistic young garbage enthusiast sets out to scour the shoreline during his bi-weekly scavenge. Who knows what treasures he'll find? Spoiler A... more | | |  |
| BEETLE, THE  Dir: Yishai Orian, Israel, 70 min, 2008, Documentary Yishai Orian, the director of the movie and the owner of an old Volkswagen beetle, is about to become a father. His mechanic says that the car will... more | | |  |
| BEGUINE  Dir: Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands, 5 min, 2009, Experimental A short movie about losing ones Love and the survival that follows after. I sing, I drink, I laugh, I dance, while my heart weeps. The melancholy, i... more | | |  |
| BORDERLINE  Dir: Lyne Charlebois, Canada, 110 min, 2008, Feature Borderline, a film version of the novels Borderline and La Brèche, tells the story of Kiki at various stages of her life. With her mother institutio... more + winner: Best Cinematography | | |  |
| BOUNCE  Dir: Marina Shoupe, United States, 5 min, 2007, Experimental Bounce travels in time to when we were kids, summers were long and un-complicated by time. Bounce returns to the middle present, and we hear a middl... more | | |  |
| CAGE, THE  Dir: Jae Hoon Lee, United States, 3 min, 2008, Animation The invasion of creature who steal what people have inside! If you encounter that creature, what will you do? Do you have any valuable? If so, Is it... more | | |  |
| CHAMBERMAID, THE  Dir: Ann Holmgren, Norway, 22 min, 2008, Short A young man arrives at a hotel on a small island. He contacts an elderly woman who works at the hotel as a chambermaid. It proves that they have a... more + winner: Best Short | | |  |
| CHORD  Dir: Simon Rauh, Germany, 12 min, 2008, Experimental Nocturnal-blue figures move through a dark, abstract landscape, their motions jerky and sharply-awkward - animated sculptures as dream and trance-li... more | | |  |
| CONCERTO  Dir: Filippo Conz, United States, 14 min, 2008, Short Detective Ray Lorenz returns home to discover his wife sleeping with Phillip, her violin teacher. When Ray impulsively kidnaps Phillip, the two go o... more | | |  |
| COVENANT OF MR KASCH, THE  Dir: Joshua Beahan & Ruwan De Silva, Australia, 11 min, 2008, Experimental Kasch, a rich dignity abandoned by the old world, rots in his hovel, mourning the death of his beloved. Choking on his Covenant to be hers forever,... more | | |  |
| CRYPTIC  Dir: John Weiner & Danny Kuchuck, United States, 83 min, 2008, Feature Cryptic is a thriller that takes place in a land we call a slacker Twilight Zone.
With her life at a dead end, 19 year-old Jessie finds her old ce... more + winner: Best Editing | | |  |
| CUT LOOSE  Dir: Jan Verheyen, Belgium, 100 min, 2008, Feature Based on the best selling novel by Tom Naelgels, CUT LOOSE, is a funny, heartfelt and emotional film about racial integration and other serious issu... more | | |  |
| DANSE MACABRE  Dir: Pedro Pires, Canada, 9 min, 2009, Experimental For a period of time, while we believe it to be perfectly still, lifeless flesh responds, stirs and contorts in a final macabre ballet. Are these s... more | | |  |
| DE SI PRÈS  Dir: Rémi Durin, France, 13 min, 2009, Animation It's springtime. Mr Gerbier is taking a walk with Chloé, his great-granddaughter. Letting her play in the park, the old man is dreaming quietly sitt... more | | |  |
| DIARY OF A TIMES SQUARE THIEF  Dir: Klaas Bense, Netherlands, 60 min, 2008, Documentary Diary of a Times Square Thief documents a journey of discovery: the search for the writer of a mysterious diary that the filmmaker found on Ebay. Th... more | | |  |
| DINNER, THE  Dir: Karchi Perlmann, Hungary, 26 min, 2008, Short The Dinner revolves around a day in the life of a small rural Hungarian family during the riots of September 2006. The day starts when the adult son... more + winner: Spirit Award | | |  |
| DISTANCE  Dir: Thomas Sieben, Germany, 82 min, 2008, Feature Living in seclusion from the rest of the world, Daniel Bauer goes about his job as a gardener in the botanical gardens. A rather inconspicuous young... more | | |  |
| DIVERS  Dir: Paris Mavroidis, United States, 3 min, 2008, Animation Divers explores the abstraction of the human body into shape and the absorption of the individual into the mass.... more | | |  |
| DIX  Dir: BIF Collective, France, 7 min, 2008, Experimental Marc needs the paving stones on which he walks to move, for fear of stepping on the lines. He starts a treatment to overcome his phobia...... more | | |  |
| DON ROBERTO'S SHADOW  Dir: Juan Diego Spoerer & Hakan Engstrom, Chile, 27 min, 2007, Documentary A boy travels to a saltpeter office with his family, to the city of Chacabuco in the Chilean desert, where he walks along the old buildings. The ye... more | | |  |
| DR. ALEMÁN  Dir: Tom Schreiber, Germany, 102 min, 2008, Feature Seeking to escape suburban boredom, 26-year-old med student Marc travels to Cali, Colombia, on an exchange. No sooner has he arrived in the hospital... more + winner: Spirit Award | | |  |
| EM  Dir: Tony Barbieri, United States, 93 min, 2008, Feature Instinctive mutual attraction brings Josh and Amanda together, but when that initial attraction blossoms into a rich romance, and the two decide to... more + winner: Best Producer | | |  |
| EVOLUTION OF LIFE IN 60 SECONDS, THE  Dir: Claire L. Evans, United States, 1 min, 2009, Animation The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds is an experiment in scale: By condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute, the video is a self-contain... more | | |  |
| FALLING AWAKE  Dir: Agustin, United States, 110 min, 2009, Feature "Falling Awake" is the powerful story of Jay (Andrew Cisneros), a young man struggling to find his identity in The Bronx in a house crowded with fam... more | | |  |
| FAMILY  Dir: Marko Maetamm, Estonia, 4 min, 2007, Animation There is an axe-man running around the flat after his wife and two children. The wife and children try to hide, but the axe-man always finds them. A... more | | |  |
| FLUX-TERSCHELLING  Dir: Camille Galle & Manolo Bez, France, 5 min, 2007, Experimental A man and a woman centaur sat in dunes. Transistor, ball and castle. It's raining on the sea. A boat passes on the horizon. It's a centaur galloping... more | | |  |
| FORBACH  Dir: Claire Burger, France, 35 min, 2008, Short Samuel returns to Forbach, his birthplace, to receive a medal. In this coal mining city of Lorraine, everyone is proud of his Parisian success: a na... more | | |  |
| GARDENS WITH RED ROSES  Dir: Richard Oliver, England, 16 min, 2009, Short Set in May 1997 at the time of the New Labour election victory, 'Gardens with Red Roses' is an independently produced and funded short film about lo... more | | |  |
| GLASS TRAP  Dir: Pawel Ferdek, Poland, 15 min, 2008, Documentary Cash, a car and a mobile phone... as well as fish. A group of tough men from near Warsaw organize a new form of entertainment. Their customary meeti... more | | |  |
| GLOBAL WARMING  Dir: Eriyat Suresh, India, 1 min, 2008, Animation Global Warming combines the fun of a festival in India where people form a human pyramid to break a pot strung high up, with the importance of using... more | | |  |
| I LIVE IN THE WOODS  Dir: Max Winston, United States, 4 min, 2008, Animation A Woodsman's frantic journey driven by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America's God.... more | | |  |
| I WAS HERE  Dir: Rene Vilbre, Estonia, 94 min, 2008, Feature Nobody is born to be a drug dealer. Rass, 17, elite school student, though living alone and poorly in an Estonian slum, has dreams about family and... more | | |  |
| IMPASSE  Dir: Bram Schouw, Netherlands, 5 min, 2008, Short An encounter between a white boy and an African girl in a night train. They look at each other: he wants to, but doesn't dare. She lets him, but sta... more | | |  |
| INCELLAR  Dir: Laurie Colson, Belgium, 15 min, 2008, Experimental It's the history of our urges.
The history of our fears.
Of the side where they stand.
A story in a cellar...... more | | |  |
| INTERRUPTED  Dir: Kim Taylor, Australia, 5 min, 2008, Experimental Take a deep glance into a young girl's mind as her journey into womanhood is interrupted. Based on a true story.... more | | |  |
| INVARIANCE  Dir: David Sarma, United States, 5 min, 2008, Animation In studying math, I recognized a distinct visual underpinning to my preferences and style of working. This project is an attempt to provide a charac... more | | |  |
| IRAN: A NATION OF BLOGGERS  Dir: Aaron Chiesa, Canada, 2 min, 2008, Animation An exploration of how the digital world allows many Iranians access to ideas and freedom of expression they haven't had for close to thirty years. B... more | | |  |
| JUKKA  Dir: Emmanuel Trousse, Monaco, 12 min, 2009, Experimental "Two nights ago, a man put the barrel of his gun to my forehead and started to cry..."
This film is a labyrinth, a journey into the human conditio... more | | |  |
| LA BOULE D'OR  Dir: Bruno Deville, Switzerland, 15 min, 2008, Documentary A tranquil little island hidden away under a bridge in Lausanne, the bowling club of La Boule d'Or is home to a team of pensioners who, under the di... more | | |  |
| LA SVEDESE  Dir: Nicolas Liguori, France, 9 min, 2008, Animation A woman arrives in Italy to meet a lover. The man, a filmmaker fascinated by his country, guides her through the places he likes. When he has to lea... more | | |  |
| LANDSCAPE NO. 2  Dir: Vinko Moderndorfer, Slovenia, 90 min, 2008, Feature The burglars Sergej and Polde steal a valuable painting Landscape No.2.
By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the e... more + winner: Best Screenplay | | |  |
| LEFT BEHIND  Dir: Fabian Daub & Andreas Gräfenstein, Germany, 13 min, 2008, Documentary In Waldenburg, situated in the Lower Silesian Coalfield, all mines are closed down. Lukasz and his elder friend Jacek have been digging coal at thei... more | | |  |
| LENNY  Dir: Cyril Amon Schaublin, Germany, 17 min, 2009, Short Two teenagers lives are brought together through internet webcams. Anton's desire is awakened after discovering Lenny's personal video blog on Youtu... more | | |  |
| LESSONS FROM THE NIGHT  Dir: Adrian Francis, Australia, 9 min, 2008, Documentary As dusk approaches and workers stream out of the city, Maia, a Bulgarian immigrant, is about to begin her day. She reflects on life, work and toilet... more | | |  |
| LILA  Dir: Broadcast Club, France, 13 min, 2009, Documentary This must be the wood, she said thoughtfully to herself, where things have no names.... more | | |  |
| LIONESS(ES)  Dir: Jae-Hee Hong, Korea, 20 min, 2008, Short A meat market: Jung-hee, a butcher, run away from her abusive husband, Sung-chil, who gambles and even beats her. Her neighbors, pitying her situati... more | | |  |
| LONG DISTANCE  Dir: Moritz Siebert, England, 27 min, 2009, Documentary Abiyot is one of several African long distance runners, trying to make a living and career in the US. Once he was a promising member of the Ethiopia... more | | |  |
| LOOPLOOP  Dir: Patrick Bergeron, Canada, 5 min, 2008, Experimental In a train going to Hanoi in Vietnam, the houses boarding the railroad are passing by. Using animation and time shifts this video runs forwards and... more | | |  |
| LUXURY  Dir: Jarek Sztandera, Poland, 39 min, 2008, Short The lives of two boys converge at the central train station in Warsaw a day before Christmas. One is a teen prostitute nicknamed Luksus (Luxury) and... more | | |  |
| MAN WHO WOULD BE POLKA KING, THE  Dir: Joshua von Brown & John Mikulak, United States, 70 min, 2009, Documentary THE MAN WHO WOULD BE POLKA KING is an irreverent look at the rise and fall of Grammy-nominated polka music superstar Jan Lewan, whose defection from... more | | |  |
| MILK IN THE LAND  Dir: Ariana Gerstein & Monteith McCollum, United States, 75 min, 2008, Documentary Milk has long been considered a staple of the American diet, the perfect food, a pure gift of nature. This quirky and entertaining documentary exami... more | | |  |
| MOTHER'S DAY  Dir: David Lobser, United States, 2 min, 2008, Animation Mother's Day is a story of birth, love, betrayal, redemption, deception and rebirth. It is the adventure of a young insect making his way through a... more | | |  |
| MY GATES  Dir: Ted Ciesielski, United States, 3 min, 2009, Experimental Seasons change as the installation of Christo and Jeanne-Cluade's "The Gates" gets underway in New York City's Central Park. Ted Ciesielski's "My... more | | |  |
| NAIADE  Dir: Nadia Micault & Lorenzo Nanni, France, 12 min, 2008, Experimental Ava rules over a swamp where fairy creatures live. A strange boy secretly observes her flourishing kingdom, trying to figure out a way to save the l... more + winner: Spirit Award | | |  |
| NEXT FLOOR  Dir: Denis Villeneuve, Canada, 12 min, 2008, Short During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with hordes of servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritu... more | | |  |
| NO MORE SMOKE SIGNALS  Dir: Fanny Bräuning, Switzerland, 90 min, 2008, Documentary Kili Radio "Voice of the Lakota Nation" is broadcast out of a small wooden house that sits isolated on a hill, lost in the vast countryside of South... more | | |  |
| OBSERVATION  Dir: Klara Elenius, Denmark, 15 min, 2007, Experimental A dance film inspired by the Scandinavian mentality. The atmosphere is a little bit tense among the three characters in the film, as we meet them in... more | | |  |
| ONE DAY AFTER THE TENTH DAY  Dir: Narges Abyar, Iran, 25 min, 2008, Documentary An old man who is given a camel to look after by the village people finds himself bonding with the animal after a few months.... more | | |  |
| OPINION POEM  Dir: Suzy Maier, United States, 2 min, 2009, Experimental An experimental animated film about my struggles in the past. It is animated by hand, in graphite. The monologue is written by me and I have done t... more | | |  |
| PASSAGES  Dir: Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre, Canada, 25 min, 2008, Animation It was with great enthusiasm that I found out that I was expecting my first child. While I was awaiting the arrival of my bundle of joy, I never exp... more + winner: Best Animation | | |  |
| PIG HUNT  Dir: Jim Isaac, United States, 100 min, 2008, Feature Deep country bliss turns into a verdant hell when John, his girlfriend, and a group of buddies head out from San Francisco for a weekend of pig hunt... more | | |  |
| PINCHAS  Dir: Pini Tavger, Israel, 30 min, 2008, Short Pinhas & his mother are new immigrants from Russia His mother barely makes a living working night shifts, she devotes her spare time to the affair s... more + winner: Audience Award | | |  |
| POSTMAN RETURNS  Dir: Mischa Rozema, Netherlands, 2 min, 2008, Animation The long-awaited return of the Postman, providing tricks to create panic.... more | | |  |
| PRISONFOOD  Dir: Uwe Flade, Germany, 8 min, 2008, Short Set during a very special Sunday in a single prison cell, Prisonfood is a tale of entrapment, tension and the power of the human imagination. With o... more | | |  |
| PRIVATE LESSONS  Dir: Joachim Lafosse, Belgium, 105 min, 2008, Feature Jonas, a teenager who is doing badly at school, meets Pierre, a man in his thirties, who is moved by his situation and takes him under his wing. On... more | | |  |
| PSICOVIP  Dir: Bruno Bozzetto, Italy, 4 min, 2008, Animation Minivip and Supervip are two super brothers who are very different from one another. One is as feeble and intelligent as the other is strong and nai... more | | |  |
| Q&A  Dir: Mike & Tim Rauch, United States, 4 min, 2009, Animation In February 2006, 12-year-old Joshua Littman and his mother, Sarah, recorded an interview at StoryCorps. Joshua was diagnosed with Asperger' Syndrom... more | | |  |
| REVOLUTION THAT WASN'T, THE  Dir: Aliona Polunina, Estonia, 97 min, 2008, Documentary Russia, 2007. Exactly a year before the next presidential elections. The opposition is set to act decisively and take power. Anatoly and Andrei are... more | | |  |
| ROOTS  Dir: Eileen Hofer, Switzerland, 18 min, 2008, Short In a small Turkish village, doomed to be flooded by the construction of a dam, an unemployed widower wants to celebrate his birthday of his child, w... more | | |  |
| SALT IN THE SCARS  Dir: Fiorella Castanotto, Switzerland, 17 min, 2008, Documentary The saltpans of Marakanam in South India. While following Reena, a woman who earns her living collecting sea salt,viewers are challenged to consider... more | | |  |
| SANTA: THE FASCIST YEARS  Dir: Bill Plympton, United States, 4 min, 2008, Animation We all think of Santa as "Jolly ole St.Nick". But who knew that he has a dark hidden past that's very un-jolly? This short film uncovers and explore... more | | |  |
| SEA LEGS  Dir: Craig Butta, United States, 82 min, 2009, Feature With the power of gesture and a minimum of words, a riveting character embarks on a doomed enterprise -- his responsibility for his father's inheri... more + winner: Audience Award | | |  |
| SEBASTIAN'S VOODOO  Dir: Joaquin Baldwin, United States, 5 min, 2008, Animation A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.... more | | |  |
| SIRENS  Dir: Alejo Levis, Spain, 6 min, 2008, Experimental She lost the baby. She stares out the window. Every night when he arrives home, an argument. One day she told him, a few black women on the street w... more | | |  |
| SIX AND A HALF  Dir: Ana Lily Amirpour, United States, 5 min, 2008, Short When a little girl tries to catch a frog in a pond, she has a painful accident and blames the frog... so she goes back for revenge.
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| SMALL COLLECTION  Dir: Jeremiah Crowell, United States, 6 min, 2008, Short A different kind of love story - unfolding not in real time, but in the corridors of memory. The lovers' faces are never seen, only their voices hea... more | | |  |
| SPOTTER, THE  Dir: Thomas Beug, United States, 14 min, 2008, Short Set on a fire escape in Brooklyn at dawn, a boy and girl meet to perform a weekly ritual in their makeshift crow's nest. She's the spotter, he's the... more | | |  |
| STINGRAY SAM  Dir: Cory McAbee, United States, 62 min, 2009, Feature A dangerous mission reunites Stingray Sam with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space convicts as they earn their freedom... more | | |  |
| SUSPENDED  Dir: Kimi Takesue, United States, 9 min, 2009, Documentary SUSPENDED both documents and re-contextualizes the experience of suspended time among a cross-section of people. The film captures a range of evocat... more | | |  |
| TAIAN LU  Dir: Mathieu Borysevicz, China, 13 min, 2008, Short The story centers around Taian Lu No.6, a dilapidated colonial era building, now home to an eclectic cross section of Shanghai's demography. Through... more | | |  |
| TEAM QUEEN  Dir: Leah Meyerhoff, United States, 3 min, 2007, Experimental You are cordially invited to a gender-bending, fire-breathing, tassel-twirling, post-punk rock 'n roll prom. The new girl in school is thrown into a... more | | |  |
| THAWING OUT  Dir: Jean-Julien Chervier, France, 27 min, 2008, Short Since he arrives to the nude-camp forced by his mother, Leo a 12 year-old, feels like dying. Until he meets Antoinette and her magic mushrooms...... more | | |  |
| THIS WAY UP  Dir: Adam Foulkes, Alan Smith, England, 9 min, 2008, Animation Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.... more | | |  |
| TIMEKEEPER, THE  Dir: Louis Bélanger, Canada, 102 min, 2009, Feature In this film adapted from Trevor Ferguson's eponym novel, the year is 1964. Martin Bishop is 18. His recently deceased father has left him a good ed... more | | |  |
| TOP GIRL  Dir: Rebecca Johnson, England, 19 min, 2008, Short Set in Brixton South London, and shot using a cast of new and non-actors, TOP GIRL is a truthful and tender coming of age tale. Fearless 15 year old... more | | |  |
| TRANSFERT  Dir: Guillaume Paquin-Boutin, Canada, 6 min, 2008, Experimental Strangers erupt into spontaneous breakdance in a deserted subway station.... more | | |  |
| TRICKSTER  Dir: Alexander Pohl, Germany, 15 min, 2008, Animation The Protagonist, the Auguste, is projected onto a huge screen of a picturesque cinema as a metaphor for the subconscious mind of the audience. He u... more + winner: Spirit Award | | |  |
| TROUBLED WATERS  Dir: Charlotte Erlih, France, 20 min, 2008, Short 1910. Louis, 17, helps a wealthy stranger, Théodora, 40, to find the body of her husband, who shipwrecked. He drags her, at sunset, on his weak skif... more | | |  |
| UNBELIEVABLE4  Dir: In Pyo Hong & Sukwon Shin, United States, 4 min, 2008, Animation A Superhero team 'Unbelievable4' takes preemptive action against hundreds of Evil Spaceships, and ends up with an unexpected result.
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| UNDONE  Dir: Hayley Morris, United States, 6 min, 2008, Animation A drifting man struggles to pull objects from the roiling sea below him and scrambles to keep the objects from slipping through his fingers. A stop-... more | | |  |
| US  Dir: Olivier Hems, France, 11 min, 2007, Short A police officer carries out a search of a man's apartment and enters the life of someone forgotten by everyone.... more | | |  |
| WAITING FOR WOMEN  Dir: Estephan Wagner, England, 35 min, 2008, Documentary In the remote Spanish village of Riofrio, most of the women left years ago. Only the men remain, without the slightest possibility to find a relatio... more | | |  |
| WUNDERKAMMER  Dir: Andrea Pallaoro, United States, 13 min, 2008, Short An elderly woman and her son struggle to coexist in a house that shelters a spectacular menagerie of birds. Surrendering to their codependence, ins... more | | |  |
| YOUNG LOVE  Dir: Ariel Kleiman, Australia, 7 min, 2008, Short Young Erno struggles to jog. He clutches his stomach with his hand and winces with pain as he hobbles through a deserted farmland. His white socks a... more | | |  |
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