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FILM LIBRARY
2010 edition, films by category (101)
Feature
5150 ELMS WAY
Dir: Eric Tessier, Canada, 106 min, 2009, Feature
5150 ELM'S WAY is at the end of a quiet street in a small Canadian town. When student filmmaker Yannick Bérubé falls off his bike nearby, he knocks... more »
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COST OF A SOUL
Dir: Sean Kirkpatrick, United States, 109 min, 2009, Feature
Cost of a Soul captures the struggle of two wounded veterans who return home from Iraq to find themselves trapped in the war-zone of the slum neighb... more »
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PROSPECTS, THE
Dir: David Brundige, United States, 79 min, 2010, Feature
In order to fund their dreams of a banjo-music recording studio, two quirky young Park Slope residents plot to rob an old man of his valuable baseba... more »
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TEN STORIES TALL
Dir: David Garrett, United States, 96 min, 2010, Feature
As two New York families grieve the loss of a beloved matriarch, death takes center stage in their own daily struggles: Charlie, who refuses to trea... more »
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Short
BAREHANDED
Dir: Guillaume Foresti & Stéphane Demoustier, France, 13 min, 2010, Short
On the bus, Dina is once again overwhelmed by the uncontrollable will power of her hands. They start to fondle the hand of a perfect stranger, Luc.... more »
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BUBBLE
Dir: Gabriel Olivares & Pedro Casablanc, Spain, 12 min, 2009, Short
Mari and Pili are friends living in the same village. Mari dreams of getting her drivers license, buying a car and getting out of the village forev... more »
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COLD NOODLES
Dir: Kirsten Tan, United States, 6 min, 2009, Short
"Cold Noodles" is an absurdist black comedy. Events conspire against O, who has flagrantly tempted Fate by eating ramen on a fire escape in just his... more »
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DISPOSABLE
Dir: Alexis Gambis, United States, 6 min, 2010, Short
Searching for an immediate love connection, Zoë, the quintessential femme fatale, meets up with a robot on a blind date in a junkyard in Brooklyn. A... more »
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EMPIRICAL
Dir: Juan Cruz Pochat, United States, 7 min, 2009, Short
He enters one last time into his parlor, where his old typewriter awaits him at the end of the hall. He takes his time and walks through the obscure... more »
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FIRST DAY OF PEACE
Dir: Mirko Rucnov, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 15 min, 2009, Short
The story takes place during the civil war in Bosnia. It follows Marko, a middle-aged peasant, who decides to plow his land at the disputed border o... more »
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GEHENNAH
Dir: Mauro Mueller, Lebanon, 12 min, 2010, Short
Ge.hen'nah is a drama set in a small rural town in Lebanon. Yvette is past
thirty, unmarried, devoutly religious and still living with her parents... more »
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GOING BACK
Dir: Adam Keleman, United States, 11 min, 2009, Short
Lorna, a down-and-out LA model, comes back to her small, quiet home town. She holes up in a motel room while looking for work. She grabs a bite at a... more »
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GREEN
Dir: Roberto Zibetti, Italy, 20 min, 2009, Short
Summer 1978. Andrea, seven years old, is in the countryside with his mom and brothers who attend a music school directed by a somber Japanese teach... more »
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KIDS MIGHT FLY
Dir: Alex Taylor, England, 7 min, 2009, Short
A young homeless girl is taken into care. Set in an urban wilderness, this film is an offbeat and touching experimental drama about East London kids... more »
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MAKE PIECE
Dir: Cat Campbell-Berry & Jo Wallace, England, 5 min, 2009, Short
Alone in a factory, an engineer with a broken heart turns to his dispassionate machines in a desperate attempt to manufacture the piece to fill the... more »
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MEGAFAUNA
Dir: Kaz Phillips, United States, 14 min, 2009, Short
Feeling set adrift in her own marriage, Anna corners her estranged husband Milo in a conversation about the nature of love and commitment, but ends... more »
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NOON
Dir: Dan Popa, Canada, 7 min, 2008, Short
Today is Koppa's birthday, and he is celebrating it by sitting on his 9th floor balcony and putting the finishing touches on his customized fishing... more »
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OFF SEASON
Dir: Jonathan van Tulleken, United States, 13 min, 2009, Short
An alcoholic transient, with only his dog for a companion, steals from summer cottages during the brutal winter of the off season. When he ventures... more »
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RETEP.
Dir: Mathijs Geijskes, Netherlands, 4 min, 2009, Short
Peter, 42 years old, suffers from an early midlife crises... or does he sees things different from reality?... more »
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SNIFF
Dir: Christine Jones, England, 7 min, 2008, Short
Gloria and Harry, both in their late 60s, are lovers. They meet in a hotel room, having not seen each other in months. Will they rediscover their p... more »
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TECHNICIAN, THE
Dir: Simon Olivier Fecteau, Canada, 7 min, 2009, Short
A cable guy is on a call to fix a television set with very strange problems. He soon realizes that the real problem lies with the content: war zones... more »
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WATER
Dir: Corrie Jones, Australia, 17 min, 2009, Short
Toby yearns for a life like any other 8-year-old kid, but his mentally disabled father is a constant reminder that life will never be normal.... more »
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Documentary
FLAG BEARER, THE
Dir: Philip Vogt , Germany, 82 min, 2010, Documentary
Zef Sokoli is the Bajraktar of the Dukagjin - "He Who Holds the Flag." He calls his men together with a rifle shot and leads them to war when someon... more »
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FREDDY'S
Dir: Vicente Rodriguez Ortega, United States, 99 min, 2010, Documentary
Freddy's Bar & Backroom was a thriving cultural hub situated in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Open since prohibition, the bar featured a unique and... more »
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MYSTERY OF FLYING KICKS, THE
Dir: Matthew Bate, Australia, 14 min, 2009, Documentary
Murder, sex, drugs, art, politics... sneakers hanging on telephone lines have become a powerful urban symbol, inspiring genesis theories both hilari... more »
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OUR HOUSE
Dir: Greg King & David Teague, United States, 58 min, 2010, Documentary
On Dan Taylor's first day out of prison he had nowhere to go, and faced one of the most important choices of his life: to return to his past of drug... more »
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QUEEN OF THE SUN
Dir: Taggart Siegel, United States, 83 min, 2010, Documentary
Without bees, Albert Einstein said, "man would only have four years of life left." From the director of The Real Dirt on Farmer John comes a profoun... more »
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TEHERAN KITCHEN
Dir: Pola Schirin Beck, Germany, 17 min, 2009, Documentary
What's it like in a student canteen in Teheran (Tehran, Iran) anyway? Between 600 kebab a day and nagging students, we find three cooks and a kitche... more »
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Experimental
DIVINA
Dir: Dimitri and Benjamin Djahanbani, Belgium, 4 min, 2009, Experimental
A 21-year-old girl born to a wealthy family is raised by her Creole nanny in
the deep south. Constrained by restrictive, body correcting shoulder... more »
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FAO
Dir: Aitor Echeverria & Carolina Alejos, Spain, 7 min, 2010, Experimental
Hunger, loneliness and the will to survive push Fao to embark on a journey that will bring her face to face with her fears.... more »
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FISH IN BARREL
Dir: Randall Okita, Canada, 7 min, 2009, Experimental
A live action experimental drama focused on a young man's psychological struggle that combines elements of sculpture, photography, and video to slow... more »
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I
Dir: Ivana Jurić, Croatia, 4 min, 2009, Experimental
Sexual identity is the subject of "I".The protagonist is a woman trapped in
a man's body. Striving to be free from the body, the voyager undertake... more »
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JUNKO'S SHAMISEN
Dir: Sol Friedman, Canada, 10 min, 2009, Experimental
Set in the rural backwoods of feudal Japan, a young peasant girl named Junko, returns home to discover her blind grandfather brutally murdered. Fill... more »
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MEMORY OF ABSENCE
Dir: Kunitoshi Okuno, Japan, 5 min, 2010, Experimental
The original images are single8 film taken by my father. I think these images are general sights seen in the 1970's. I removed me from these old ima... more »
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ONE ARM
Dir: Akemi Tachibana, Japan, 15 min, 2008, Experimental
A man gets one arm of a woman whom he fell in love with, after just one
night. Then the man has a tragic nightmare because of one arm.
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SECRETS OF ANGELS
Dir: Toby Meakins, England, 10 min, 2009, Experimental
Guardian angels reveal they're as lost, fallible and heartbroken as those they watch over in this collection of impossible monologues. The mysteriou... more »
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TERMINAL
Dir: Michael Okum, United States, 6 min, 2010, Experimental
Sharon finds herself in a strange and dark place - an interrogation room. She is watched by a large camera eye at all times. As the machine question... more »
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Animation
BARBEE BUTCHER
Dir: Sophie Laguës , Netherlands, 1 min, 2008, Animation
A greenish clay creature cuts a Barbie doll into pieces with the aim of turning itself into a femme fatale.... with unexpected results!... more »
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CLEAN CAROUSEL
Dir: Andreas Břdker, Denmark, 2 min, 2010, Animation
A dedicated man works hard to provide a sparking clean carousel for the children but the forces of nature are working against him. Thankfully, a cle... more »
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FUZZY INSIDES
Dir: Michaela Olsen, United States, 6 min, 2009, Animation
Take a peek into the secret nightlife of the suburbs. Four stop-motion vignettes portray relationships that develop romantically and sexually, with... more »
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HASAN EVERYWHERE
Dir: Andrew Kavanagh, Ireland, 7 min, 2009, Animation
They were young, talented and free in New York. Dorit Rabinyan was an
Israeli novelist and Hasan Hourani was a Palestinian artist. Their
passion... more »
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HIRCINE AIRLINES
Dir: Benjamin Hendricks, United States, 6 min, 2009, Animation
Hircine Airlines is a story about the greed of a corporate aristocracy, and the delusion and chilling isolation it ultimately brings to its most e... more »
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JESUS 2000
Dir: Remi Bastie, Clement Desnos, Jean Baptiste Cumont, Nicolas Pegon, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, France, 2 min, 2009, Animation
Year 2000, the Future, A new Era, a Prophet... more »
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LUNATIC COUNCIL, THE
Dir: Christophe Gautry& Arnaud Demuynck, France, 12 min, 2009, Animation
A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet... more »
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MACHINE, THE
Dir: Rob Shaw, United States, 5 min, 2009, Animation
A fable that follows an innocently forged creation as he becomes determined to consume everything in his path. The characters and scenes of this sto... more »
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MEI LING
Dir: Stephanie Lansaque & Francois Leroy, France, 15 min, 2009, Animation
Mei Ling, an idle young Chinese woman, lives alone in her flat, waiting for her lover. One day, she finds a little octopus in the kitchen sink. She... more »
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SKYLIGHT
Dir: David Baas, Canada, 5 min, 2009, Animation
A mock animated documentary about the ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the rest of the w... more »
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VISIT
Dir: Kangmin Kim, United States, 6 min, 2009, Animation
He visits a city. The city already forgot him. The city is still sinking in
his dream. The flickering segments of real life and illusion. Only the... more »
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YULIA
Dir: Antoine Arditti, France, 6 min, 2009, Animation
Yulia suddenly vanishes out of her kitchen. She finds herself in a closed room with five levers fixed to the wall. By setting them in motion, she st... more »
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