All Films

LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug

2009 • 60 min • United States of America

LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug captures the fascinating story of LSD as it is eloquently told by Dr. Albert Hofmann, the 100-year-old sage-scientist who brought LSD into the world. With interviews and presentations by Rick Doblin, Alex Grey, Ralph Metzner, Carl Ruck, Goa Gil, and others, this historic message from the father of LSD is a timeless relic and an immediate source of inspiration. The story is told through an account of the 2006 International LSD Symposium in Basel, Switzerland. At the now-legendary conference, eighty speakers and two thousand participants gathered for three days in honor of Dr. Hofmann's 100th birthday and to hear Dr. Hofmann speak about his life, his discovery, and his thoughts on the psychedelic experience. It was also an occasion for leading doctors, researchers, artists and thinkers in the psychedelic field to present their work.

Edward VIII: The Nazi King

2009 • 47 min

Using declassified FBI information, this documentary investigates the extent to which British King Edward VIII sympathized with the Nazis.

Memory

2009 • 7 min • Japan

Set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by nuclear war, it tells the story of a damaged robot found by futuristic soldiers investigating a devastated area.

Jeff Hardy: My Life, My Rules

2009 • 51 min • United States of America

This documentary views the career of WWE superstar Jeff Hardy

X Magazine Benefit

2009 • 12 min

Documents performances of DNA, James Chance and the Contortions, and Boris Policeband in NYC at a benefit concert for X Motion Picture Magazine and artists’ group Collaborative Projects Inc. It was shot in black and white super 8 and edited on video. It was filmed in 1978 but not completed until 2009.

Nobody's Girlfriend

2009 • 20 min • Malaysia

Made during Tan Chui Mui’s Cinefondation Residency in Paris where she met residents Nadav Rapid and Rusudan Chkonia, who are cast here. The story is inspired by Nadav Rapid’s “Emile’s Girlfriend”.

Dinner with DCU and Special Guest Star Kevin Conroy

2009 • 56 min • United States of America

A round table discussion with Bruce Timm, Andrea Romano, Kevin Conroy, and Gregory Noveck about making the DC Animated shows and movies.

Bloodlust: My Bloody Valentine and the Rise of the Slasher Film

2009 • 21 min

Neil Affleck Returns To Give A Talk And Chat About The Film That Sky Rocketed His Career [Film] Including Various Interviews With Director George And The Cast And Crew Of The Film Adaptions.

Days of the Strange

2009 • 38 min

Stranger Than Fiction had so much footage left in the can that it made sense to release Days of the Strange, showcasing the days of filming you did not see. Plus a fresh batch of new bangers from all the usual suspects.

Ni tan largos... ni tan cortos

2009 • 60 min • Venezuela

Rene receives an anonymous phone call from a stranger who knows in depth his implication on illegal diamond traffic. The tension on the conversation grows by the time Rene realizes what his actions provide him. Miguel and his friends gathered to spend some time together. Everything is doing well until they ran out of drinks and one of them has to go for some more. In order to do that, they resort to the game they use to play to decide their arguments: a play card over the table, the one who plays must guess if the next card will be an upper or a lower card. Miguel loses so he has to be the one leaving the game. What stared as an ordinary night turns into a mixed up story in which a game of chance takes them changing the course of their relationships. What would you chose? High or Low?

Paco

2009 • 10 min

Jota is out every morning in search of love. Love is called Paco. Paco is the spirit of love and a spirit gets into the bodies of the cutest guys who walk around the mall. Jota is the only person who can see that spirit within those bodies he calls Paco.

The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics

2009 • 29 min • United States of America

The history and impact of the graphic novel Watchmen.

of the (sic): Your Nightmares, Our Dreams

2009 • 52 min • United States of America

A retrospective about the chaotic period of time surrounding Slipknot's self-titled debut album. Included as bonus material on its 10th anniversary re-release.

An Evening Shoot

2009 • 4 min • Thailand

A group of teens gather at a house near the rice field for the shooting of an unknown movie. Wearing army costumes, they practice with their gun, one by one, and point it at a young man, walking in the distance, who reincarnates miraculously after being shot.

15 minutos

2009 • 15 min • Dominican Republic

After getting dumped by his girlfriend for his laziness, Felipe answers a phone call and gets an opportunity of changing his life in 15 minutes.

Mothers

2009 • 13 min

An African American gay man comes out to his deeply Christian parents.

Fish out of Water

2009 • 60 min • United States of America

Fish out of Water tackles the seven Bible verses used to condemn homosexuality and justify marriage discrimination. This feature documentary uses humor and original animation to make a traditionally complex and controversial topic accessible to those who don't like talking about religion and sexuality. Fish out of Water dives into the underbelly of America, crisscrosses red and blue states and talks to ministers from every denomination to uncover America's impassioned relationship with homosexuality and the Bible. With slapstick animation and quirky interviews taken everywhere from barbershops to mega churches, Fish out of Water delivers a voice to the oppressed and informs to the misled. Most importantly, Fish out of Water sits down with hundreds of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender folks to impart their experiences with faith and sexuality.

Tales of the Valley of the Wind

2009 • 28 min

Tales of the Valley of the Wind composes an experimental love-letter to the spiritual world of Hayao Miyazaki, re-figuring [Nausicaa] into lush live-action scenes with period costumes, horses, swordplay, and, er...puppets. All on a tiny budget, Packard implements his signature experimental touch to create a very unique fan-film indeed.

The Guy Who Wanna Survive

2009 • 11 min

When a bank robber is about to be caught by a detective, a woman who appears in the alley is taken hostage. The robber's wife is in a hospital due to a hit and run accident and has to leave the hospital because she has no money, and the detective also needs money because her wife is in the hospital. The hostage tells him to release himself and split the money between the two of them, but the detective who cannot keep the hostage alive, the only witness, has the robber kill her hostage, and the detective kills the robber. The money disappears and the case is closed.

Molester hot spring Lewd bath trip

2009 • 60 min • Japan

Yui, an office lady, is dumped by her boyfriend Tatsuya. One day she meets a molester on the train. She grabs the man's hand, but he is turned off by that. Yui then feels pessimistic about her life. Tanihara, a university professor, and Yamada, a former temporary worker, are also feeling pessimistic about their lives at a bar. Yamada was laid off and his girlfriend, Kozue, called him a stalker. Tanihara was suspended from his university, and his wife and child had lost all affection for him, now all living separately. The two men go to a hot spring for fun. As they arrive at an inn in the countryside they meet Tsukiko, the landlady, and Hosemi, her waitress, both beautiful widows. Yui is also there on a promotion trip. In the open-air bath, Hosemi masturbates while washing her body. She takes care of Tanihara, who faints from excitement, in her room...

Yellow Belly End

2009 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A man in a canary outfit sits at the edge of a cliff behind a small desk. He watches as other people in animal outfits come up to the edge of the cliff and throw themselves off - making a tally in his book of what animal it was and treating himself to a jelly bean corresponding to the animal suit that just jumped.

Capturing George

2009 • 6 min

George F. Walker's career has spanned almost four decades, but Rolly and Stevie have succeeded in tying the notoriously elusive dramatist down.

The Face is Familiar

2009 • 54 min

Get to know some of Hollywood's most talented character actors, who have supported leading roles in films for decades. Some have even gone on to become stars in their own right. They proudly stand in the shadows of the "stars" of the movies, content to play the roles that lend flavor and depth to the films, with their unique brands of humor, intensity and charisma, leaving lasting impressions on all of us in movie after movie.

Broder Daniel Forever

2009 • 55 min • Sweden

A film about iconic Swedish indie pop band Broder Daniel as they reunite during the summer 2008 before their last ever performance as a group. A concert held in honor of guitarist Anders who committed suicide earlier this year. It is a performance, and a portrait and a last goodbye from a band with more unconditional willpower than any other.