Cinematic Era: 2009 Vintage

A male nurse steals some of one of his patient's drawings and makes money with them.

Rohan, a teacher, swaps his job with Taboon, a thief. While Rohan struggles to negotiate with criminals, Taboon faces challenges teaching at a school.

Anamnesis is a handmade diary film exploring home, memory, and history through heavily processed painterly sequences.

The incredible story of the Avro Lancaster, one of the finest bombers of the Second World War, which played a crucial role in the long and savage campaign to defeat Hitler's Third Reich. This documentary features interviews with surviving veterans of Bomber Command, who share frank personal accounts of their part in an aerial battle of attrition which claimed the lives of 55'000 aircrew.

A drama in which a woman who has lived with a complex about the large birthmark on her face meets a man with a criminal record and opens up to him.

A young woman is kidnapped by a stalker and used as a human lab rat.

Manjunatha is a lazy man who does not want to struggle to earn a living. He gets married to a hard working woman who works in a garment factory and decides to change his attitude towards life.

Mateus is a video store clerk that deals with several weird clients everyday while he dreams to be a filmmaker like Tarantino.

Sofía, a young girl, has cancer. Her friend Antonia comes to see her and accompany her in her apartment. Sofía seems to avoid the illness, not wanting to face it, but Antonia is reluctant to let this happen. Between them a strange and ambiguous link emerges, conditioned by the weight of the situation they are facing. However, Sofía hides a secret. When Antonia reveals it, as harsh as it seems, things won't be settled.

Silvia (Cuca Escribano) is local police in a village close to a luxury development. She lives with her husband, her young daughter and brother Camilo, with Down syndrome. One day a girl disappears from a nomadic village that had settled around the village. Everything seems to point to Camilo as guilty. Shortly afterwards disappears again another girl the same age. Unexpectedly, Camilo is accidentally hit by a car and dies. Convinced of the innocence of his deceased brother, Silvia not stop until you find the real culprit of the crimes.

Shot with a cellphone, this essay film accentuates pixels and juxtaposes images made abstract with a sonata of ambient sounds.

A short video by Kyle Canterbury.

Adam and Zooey have been trying to have a baby for several months, only to end up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the parentage of their child, they decide to have the baby anyway.

A look at how form, color, smell, consistency, the sounds made during eating, manufacturing technique, history and stories influence food design.

A recently widowed forest ranger in India strikes up an unlikely relationship with a woman he finds lost and alone in the woods.

Four college Christians look at their faith in Jesus and realize that it's based on routine rather than a genuine relationship. They decide that to fully understand their faith, they need to test it against others' beliefs. Michael B Allen, Will Bakke, Lawson Hopkins, and Austin Meek set out on a journey around the United States beginning in Dallas. They travel west to the Los Angeles, north to Seattle, east to Boston, and finally, South to New Orleans before heading home. Along the way, they meet several different characters including a policeman, a hippie clown, a Scientology ex, a congresswoman, a homeless man, and many more. As they guys near home and the journey's completion, they come to realize the importance of always questioning beliefs, no matter how sure you are of them. They see that questions are vital, because the answers to those questions allow us to really live for something.

Pablo looks up to his daddy, but when daddy's idol Picasso dies a summers day in 1973, daddy's grief and anger is directed towards the family and Pablo's mum. One day Pablo sees bruises on his mum's arm... but how easy is it to stand up against daddy when you are only 8 years old?

Film produced as an opening short for the 2009 Annecy International Animation Film Festival (FIFA).

In a technological utopia, a man and woman depend on artificial means to determine their love for each other.

A televised broadcast of a play: the anxieties of an author who, with each new play, thinks only through the prism of media coverage. Thus, each critical response turns into a veritable exaltation of moods.

In this feature Brand details the difficulty of handling his newfound fame in America, recounts the time he meet the Queen and instructs women on how to approach him.

About the relationship of a man and a woman who, despite the trials that fell to their lot, even in adulthood managed to maintain a taste for life and faith in love. Their feelings have survived the pain of loss and separation, but still have not lost their strength. And although at first the characters try to hide their emotions and experiences, deceive not only each other, but also themselves, as a result, love wins and puts everything in its place...

By choosing Victor Hugo for his first major theater production, Christophe Honoré surprises and intrigues. Angelo, tyrant of Padua surprises even more: little staged, this piece is almost incongruous. For him, it is a text whose clarity hides many secret doors and dark and ambiguous dungeons

The Hughes Brothers and Larenz Tate revisit their controversial crime drama.

A friendship between an aging collector and his doorman leads to an unusual exploration of class and privilege in modern Istanbul. Official selection of the prestigious Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative.

In Camera is part memoir and part meditation on the director's art: Palit revisits characters from his older works, among them the blind Baul singer from Abak Jaye Here and protestors featured in Voices from Baliapal, about an agitation against a missile testing range in Orissa. Palit assesses the impact of these films on their lives and on himself. In keeping with Palit’s feelings about the limits of documentary filmmaking, there are many questions but no convenient answers.

Happiness Is is a road trip documentary that explores American's "pursuit of happiness".

Véronique ne cache rien en amour. Mathieu est simplement un brin fatigué. Fred peuts'adapter à tous les genres de femmes. Rémi doit trouver ce qui l’allume dans la vie.Ce n'est que dans de brefs instants de lucidité que l'on parvient à voir le monde telqu'il est.

Chinese movie

There is no idle glorification and unnecessary chanting in this film. This is a clean, open, clear and truthful picture of the LDPR. The film reflects all the strength, power and energy of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. The film was shot all over the country — from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. The film was created by the famous journalist Alexander Gordon. "20 years is already a biography," LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said at the presentation. — The film is a memory of those 20 years that our party passed. During this time, hundreds of thousands of LDPR members and millions of supporters have joined our ranks." The film "20 years facing Russia" was created on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the LDPR.

Jack ships himself in a crate to see his girlfriend. En route, he discovers an unexpected surprise. Comedy ensues.

HEAVEN & HELL's June 16, 2009 concert at Museumsmeile in Bonn, Germany filmed by WDR's (German public TV).

A girl – while taking a walk through the centre – discovers something very strange about the people of Sarajevo. They seem like lifeless ’zombies’, they only come alive for a few seconds to perform a little scene written down for them. She takes it as a joke first and fools around until she comes across someone with a paper: „Kill her!” written on it.

This documentary includes footage of KOKIA's tour throughout Europe, starting in Paris, then going around to all the counties and concludes with her returning to Japan. It also includes various clips of her performances throughout Europe. This documentary was filmed between April 2009 until June 2009.

Oana is working. I am watching her. Tonight, the very last file will be closed. She does not want to translate the words of others anymore. She thinks that tomorrow she will start writing her own words. But she will not, I know that…

Quan is a story about a young boy tired of working for his relatives in the rice paddies and dreaming of a life where he is free to pursue whatever he desires. Doing so, he befriends an elderly bus driver, who teaches him the value of doing something you enjoy, for a living. Finding a new family, leaving your past isn't an easy task, especially for a young boy, and destiny can always find a way to turn things around in life.

A meditation on the time when the world watched as filmmaker Jonas Mekas' home country of Lithuania fought for independence. An immersion into the addictive grasp of the 24-hour news cycle, into a moment of major social upheaval, and into one very personal fixation of an obsessive chronicler. The film exists in a shortened, four-screen version as well as a one-screen, full-length document.

The story based on the mysterious portrait of the town of Nabua in northeastern Thailand. Soon after nightfall when the crepuscular violets concede to blackness, the wind's rustling intensifies and the boys come out to play.

All aboard for snowmen, Christmas trees and festive train rides! When you ride the rails with your jolly friends, you never know what to expect. Enjoy exciting adventures filled with lucky trucks, Christmas puddings, surprise parties and much, much more. Join Henry, Emily, Percy, and Thomas for trainloads of fun in the Holiday Express!

A man reflects on a moment from his past where his childhood was lost in the slums of Guatemala City, then found in a worn and dirty feather.

A portrait of the unique personality of Aldina Duarte, a girlish lady, who sings the “fado” out of conviction and love. The film profiles her, unveiling her personality, travelling with her on a journey across her city, Lisbon, visiting the places that she most loves and knows so well, exposing herself as a free and open, generous and lively, innocent but wise woman, with the straightforwardness and a certain spice full of prudishness that are so identifying to Aldina Duarte.

An ambitious reporter and his cameraman attempt to get their big break by venturing into the mountains by themselves to get in touch with a group of rebels. But what they find leads them into a living nightmare, as the very limits of their humanity are tested.

A 2009 Cuban drama by Rebeca Chávez taking place in Santiago de Cuba at the beginning of revolution. In the late 1950s, the city of Santiago de Cuba was afire, the site of some of the fiercest resistance to the murderous dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The film's narrative unfolds over 24 hours in the lives of several youthful members of the underground as they confront their own uncertainty about the morality of armed struggle and the necessity of severing bonds that had seemed unbreakable.

Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. Subverting a meticulous array of TV footage and using 'The Birds' as an essential metaphor, DOUBLE TAKE traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on the home, from moving images' inception to the present day.

Short subject documentary on Brandon Novak. Includes interviews with friends and family.

Two brothers begin a battle to see who will inherit the family business.

Lightheaded is a journey we take with temperature sensitive candle creatures who sacrifice what they know to become who they are.

The cutting edge group known as transhumanists see a beautiful future brought about by artificial intelligence, life extension, and cybernetics. What one must realize before getting carried away with such utopian dreams is that transhumanism was born out of the elitist pseudo-science eugenics. This documentary provides vital information on the history of eugenics and its new cutting edge transformation.

A look at writer Dennis Spooner’s work on Doctor Who.

Two sisters take their terminally ill younger sister to die peacefully at a mysterious lake.

Little 'Kolah Ghermezi' is a playful and good-heart boy who makes interesting excuses for not doing anything. His constant companion is 'Pesar Khale', a hardworking and kind boy who is happy to help others.

Hassan, a young driver, is the manager of a private company. When the company manager goes on a trip, Hassan decorates the manager's expensive car for his friend's wedding at the insistence of one of his friends. On the day of the wedding, due to a moment of blunder, Roya, who had been watching the car in advance, steals it and...

Shots in the Dark is a snapshot of the current controversy surrounding vaccination. Although controversy over vaccinations is not new, current childhood immunization schedules include twice the amount of vaccines compared to 25 years ago, with multiple vaccines given simultaneously being the norm. In addition, elements used in the preparation of vaccines such as mercury and aluminum have not been tested for safety in humans since the early 1920’s. These facts, along with the increase in diagnosed cases of autism spectrum disorders and learning disabilities, coupled with the striking similarity in parental and physician post vaccination observations, direct the film’s exploration of the contention between government agencies, legal authorities, watchdog associations, drug companies, physicians, parents, and children.

A man keeps his undead wife chained in the basement, desperately searching for any spark of humanity left in her.