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2009 EDITION FILM LINEUP
all films by category (114)
FEATURE
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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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SHORT
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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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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DOCUMENTARY
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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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EXPERIMENTAL
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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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ANIMATION
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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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