Cinematic Era: 2009 Vintage

In 2008, forty-five of Australia's sexiest Rugby League and Australian Rules footballers were invited to tastefully "bare it all" and model for a 2009 calendar. These Aussie sports stars created some of the hottest and sexiest images ever captured on film. The Gods of Football 2009 Calendar was an international bestseller. Viewers are treated to a backstage pass as the footballers are transformed from professional athletes into international male models, and explore a side of their personalities never before exposed.

In 1968, in 1/500th of a second Eddie Adams photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nguyen Nyoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong guerilla point blank. Some say that photograph ended the Vietnam War. The photo brought Eddie fame and a Pulitzer, but Eddie was haunted by the man he had vilified. He would say "Two lives were destroyed that day, the victim's and the general's." Others would say three lives were destroyed. Eddie Adams, like most artists, was tortured by his need for perfection. Nothing he did ever satisfied him. He carved out many careers shooting covers for Life, Time, and even Penthouse. Yes somehow, he was always pulled back into documenting wars, 13 all together. Finally he hit the wall and couldn't take it anywmore. He began shooting celebrities because 'It doesn't take anything from you.' Eddie was comfortable with kings and coal miners. During his time with Parade Magazine he photographed Clint Eastwood, Louis Armstrong, Mother Theresa, and Pope John Paul II.

In Men of the City, Isaacs takes a more stylised approach to the lives of workers in the City of London during the recent financial meltdown, balancing sensitive portraits of diverse individuals striving to retain their dignity and humanity in the midst of the crisis. Strong human characters are at the heart of all of Isaacs' work, and with these films he continues to create a unique vision of modern Britain.

Kusume Rumal 2 is a 2009 Nepali romantic film directed by Nirak Poudel, son of veteran Nepali producer Uddab Poudel. This is not technically a sequel to the 1985 film Kusume Rumal but pays homage to the old film and shows the next generation where the lead actress is Suniti's daughter.

On a boring Halloween night alone, teenager Michael Sphenson and his two best friends, Greg and Dave, make an adolescent bet that throws the night into blood-sucking terror.

Throughout time Cupid has ignited the spark of desire in countless men and women. One evening, in an attempt to help the hapless Roman, Cupid is struck by his own weapon and unwittingly finds himself in pursuit of the same woman – the beautiful singer Lauren.

This short documentary follows the daily struggles of two janitors at a North American university. The film takes a critical look at the communication, or lack of communication, that happens between janitors and those that use the facilities they clean. Shot at Capilano University, in North Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The film begins when a woman spends the night at a film crew's house after her car breaks down on a rainy night. The film expresses the love and friendship of young people through songs, such as how to make the person you love your own, how difficult it is to not be able to tell a man that you love him first, and the jealousy of girls. Sent

Director Yuichi Fukuda adapted selected episodes from the original comic into an animated film. The live-action cast of Ryuta Sato, Yoshinori Okada and Takashi Tsukamoto take on the challenge of voice acting, showing a different looseness to the live-action version. Futoshi, Matsun and Mickey are three people with zero ambition. With nothing in particular to do, they just keep on dabbling in a family restaurant late at night. Their evening goes by as they engage and disengage, get excited and lose their temper, and somehow carry on a series of conversations.

Jitka Schneiderová and Jiří Langmajer as husband and wife. He is a very busy lawyer, she is a housewife. A seemingly happy, modern, childless family. Until a car crash enters their lives, a traffic accident that took place somewhere far away near Pilsen...

Brazilian short film, directed by Julia Murat.

Piedra Blanca, San Luis, Argentina, 1930. A school teacher loved by his students, must confront parents for his particular pedagogy.

Gur and Yuval will stop at nothing to make enough money for a fresh start in Berlin. As they approach their goal, the tension is growing between them until an unexpected event causes Gur to question both their plan and their relationship.

Young Jonard is a discreet gay who works as a caretaker for his cousin's (Muhjang) boarding house for students and young male professionals. Muhjang always maltreats Jonard who is always there for him when he needs him and is always there too for the boarders, who are just too happy to have him serve them and satisfy their special needs. One day, Muhjang finds out that the best way to be truly happy and loved by his boarders, specially by his long time crush Rusty, is to show them how he can respect his lowly cousin Jonard.

When Doctor Pangea, "the world's deadliest geologist", escapes from prison with plans to destroy Earth as we know it, the city turns to its unlikely champion: 14 year old homeless girl - and kungfu skateboarding superhero - Street Angel! Short film based on the comic of the same name.

In a quiet Orlando, Florida, suburb three young men struggle to escape the wreckage of their pasts and create new lives for themselves. Their new home is CollegeBoysLive.com, a voyeur web cam house rigged with 32 cameras, where their every move is watched by thousands of paying members. The site's creator claims CollegeBoysLive.com is simply about showing that "it's okay to be gay." But the neighbors insist it's a pornographic whorehouse and sue to have them evicted. This intimate and provocative documentary examines a complex subculture, but at its heart is the universal search for family and acceptance

This is a film about Choi Yuen Village, documenting villagers’ lives in the summer and autumn of 2009. Suddenly, weekly meetings, guided tours, protests, and ambiguous government consultations entered their routines. They had to recount their personal histories and the meaning of life. The common belief that protests were only about money began to loosen. The word "agriculture" reemerged for Hongkongers. The timeline depicted in the film leads up to the peak of the anti-high-speed rail protests around the Legislative Council. In the end, the railway was decided to build. In spring and summer 2010, villagers searched for land and negotiated with the government to rebuild their homes and lifestyle, valuing community, and coexistence with nature. What sustains their deep connection to land and life?

The protagonist Alex is a young successful man, loving and beloved husband and father. Car accident puts an end to his stable measured life. He suddenly loses everything. Miraculously returned from the dead, Alexei does not know how to live.

The struggle of a small group of blacksmiths trapped between keeping a long going strike with claims for better fees and the necessity of getting back to work when there's no money left for basic necessities.

In his groundbreaking TV series from the 1950s and '60s, Peabody Award winner Don Herbert -- better known as Mr. Wizard -- introduces the preteen set to the wonders of science. Demonstrating inventive experiments with thoughtful care, Mr. Wizard was a popular and critical success. This collection also includes adventures from "Winky Dink and You," a 1950s kids' series hailed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates as "the first interactive TV show."

Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson is remembered as one of the pioneers of modern Icelandic music. The conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Magnúsar Blöndal took place in Reykjavík on August 9, 2004. Nine days later, he lapsed into a coma and died on January 1, 2005.

The film is about an eccentric head collector.

In 2007, unable to compete with cheaper offshore production, Hooker Furniture Co. closed its plant in Martinsville, Virginia, after 83 years in operation. With These Hands follows the last load of wood down the assembly line as it is cut, honed, and assembled into fine furniture. Along the way, employees at the factory share their perspectives on work, community, and survival in a country devastated by de-industrialization and outsourcing.

Drug capo defends his franchise against competitors trying to move in.

Experience the extraordinary life of fictitious soprano Vera Galupe-Borszkh (Ira Siff) in this outrageous cross-dressing opera spoof, which showcases hilarious scenes from the singer's childhood, short-lived marriage, comeback performance and teaching career. Presented by the talented drag troupe La Gran Scena Opera Company, this side-splitting musical parody also stars Philip Koch, Keith Jurosko, Kyle Church Cheseborough and Patrick Jones.

A women is absent-mindedly watching television. She caresses almost mechanically her stomach, her breasts, we sense her openess, she's pensive. The telephone rings. A low, sensuous man's voice speaks to her. He says he is her neighbour who lives opposite, he has been watching her for six months and he knows everything about her and her secret desires.

Marvin goes to a school camp. It looks dreadful because he still wets his bed... Will he keep it dry?

State of Suspension is a drama of fragments in nine chapters; an unusual and provocative look at Israel, sixty years after independence. The film is a composite of satirical performances, music and poetry especially composed for the film, which transform the Israeli national anthem and the Declaration of Independence into inclusive rallying calls. These elements are interspersed with unique archival material, compelling situations, revealing statements by a variety of people, all related to the ongoing conflict and the occupation.

I'M OUT show a few of the highlights in the 2008/2009 season in places like Fernando de Noronha, Indonesia, Peru, Chile, Australia, Tahiti and Hawaii.

A documentary about the Democratic Opposition of socialist Hungary.

A woman travels the landscape of sensuality and loneliness. Filmed in Watts California.

Jesús TV is a comedy short film that tells how the Son of God returns to Earth to realize that his speech is already a little "old-fashioned". Following the advice of his guardian angel and with the help of the famous television producer Pedro A. Postol, Jesus Christ adapts to our times and becomes the star of the most successful reality show of recent times, "Jesús TV".

Gur is in love with the beautiful, almost famous, and unreachable Ariel. For Ariel, Gur is nothing but an amusement pet that basically takes care of Rufus, her dog. Though this is one-sided love, Gur is happy. His gloomy calmness interrupted when Shila, the next-door salute girl losing Rufus by mistake. Gur and Shila ask for some help from Gur's muscular friend who is just recovering from plastic surgery. The trio goes out for an urban journey, to find Rufus the lost dog. The journey takes place in the surrealistic corner of the big city and slowly gets into the characters inner world through underground rave parties in the downtown to the wealthy houses in the uptown

Susan Salter is living her dream. She moves to Finland and starts a new life as an artist. But she doesn't know that some one is watching her from the dark. Everybody is not as lucky as she is. And she is about to learn it the hard way.

Wolves hunt their prey in the valleys between high-ranging dunes, bears and lynxes wander through dense primeval forest, and the big lakes are a magnet for hundreds of bird species. That is the so-called «Balkan». Today the «Balkans» stand for a Europe that hardly exists elsewhere. The mountains of Montenegro harbour one of Europe's last primeval forests with trees over 400 years of age. In the difficultly accessible hinterland we find the Tara National Park with the deepest gorge in the Karst Mountains - the 1.300 meters deep Tara gorge. Nearby Lake Skadar is home for 270 species of birds; no other lake in Europe can claim such diversity. Europe's last coastal forest area can be found in Albania and in Bulgaria and Romania huge bat colonies live in the cave-dotted mountains. In Serbia one can cross the «European Sahara», a desert covering a surface of 30.000 hectares.

Recorded and filmed February 24 - February 25, 2009 at Palais Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria.

A seven-episodic experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

An experimental documentary that portrays Jiva's life within a Hindu family that practices the Hare Krishna religion. Jiva lives in a typical house in the Buenos Aires suburbs with his wife and eight children, where a deep religiosity constantly filters into everyday life. Throughout the film, a split screen reflects the different aspects of this way of life.

DVD of skateboarding, shenanigans and shit!

A documentary about remembering and forgetting 60 years after the Shoa. Contemporary witnesses no longer live, and the author embarks on a search for an artistic strategy to sharpen the perception of the absent. In a labyrinth of memories we see interviews with Ivoné Simon (né. Guggenheim) from Brazil, the sons of the former homeowner Michael and Claus Fritsche as well as the scientists Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal and Dr. Claudia Curio and others.

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

Trombone is not a classic documentary, in the same way that Trombonanza is not a classic experience in the world of trombone. It is full of moving stories, secret tributes, huge celebrations and above all music.

A grandfather decides to take his grandson on an outing.

Two unsatisfied wives share their experiences of marriage. One is saddened that her husband is cheating after only a few weeks of marriage while the other feels neglected. As each of them tries to find other sources of happiness, their families silently tear apart.

In 2002, Milla Weber’s infant son was abducted in Juárez. Desperate, she founded the “Finders” to locate missing people along the US–Mexico border. Years later, on a night search, she spots one of her son’s kidnappers and teams with outlaw James Díaz. As they unravel a child-smuggling ring turned organ-trafficking network, Milla and Díaz become the criminals’ next targets.

He wakes up. He is naked. He is in the train. Train is in the dead way.

Documentary following assisted suicide ballot initiative in Washington State.

A week on the road with stand up comedians Doug Benson and Graham Elwood.

A young woman records her feelings about her mother's illness in a stream of consciousness manner.

An amateur cycling team from Albania heads to France to take part in a tournament only to discover on the way that revolution has broken out back home.

'Madness' are about to release a new album after 10 years, which consists of an interrelated, song cycle about London called 'The Liberty of Norton Folgate'. Although the songs are on one level about different areas of London, they focus musically on the waves of immigration to the city - Irish, Jewish, Caribbean, Asian etc and the musical legacy they have contributed to the city. The concert is at the Hackney Empire, a show with powerful connections to the grand Music Hall traditions of the place, situating Madness where they belong, clearly within a uniquely English Popular Musical Culture with its roots in the Victorian period. Weaving through the concert, Suggs and Carl, take us back in time to the London of Karl Marx and Jack the Ripper. Humorously introducing the subject of each song, they take us on a tour through the psycho geography of the Old East End, Spitalfields, Smithfield, Wapping, Bethnal Green, ending down on the beaches of the Thames beyond Tower Bridge Finally.

In this unique tale, director Murali Nair portrays life in rural India with ribald wit and sharp social satire.

Set over the course of a one night stand, a woman comes to question the destructive nature of her routine night time behaviour