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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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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 » details quick view trailer |  |
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