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FILM LIBRARY
2009 edition, 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full 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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full 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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
Documentary
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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full details quick view |  |
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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full details quick view |  |
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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full 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 » full details quick view |  |
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 » full details quick view |  |
Experimental
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 » full details quick view |  |
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 » full 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 » full 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 » full details quick view |  |
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 » full details quick view |  |
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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full 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 » full 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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full 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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full 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 » full 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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full 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 » full 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 » full details quick view |  |
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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full 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 » full 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 » full details quick view |  |
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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full 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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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 » full details quick view trailer |  |
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