1st of 2 Documentary Film Programmes In Competition
Looking for photographs of Jesus, Yetis or of Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.
Telluride Film Festival 2009; Annecy Film Festival 2009
Gold Plaque For Best Experimental Short Film Chigago 2009; Best Animation - Tampere Film Festival 2009; Best New British Animation - Edinburgh International Festival 2009
An incendiary visceral monologue, cicada is a retelling of the first memory of Daniel P Jones who, aged 5, witnessed a brutal execution style murder.
Cannes Directors Fortnight 2009; Official Selection Sheffield Documentary Festival 2009
Carl Stormer is one of Norway’s pioneering photographers. This film fictionalises Stormer’s first and rather unique project, his spy photography of 1890’s Kristiania.
Australian Premiere
In 2007 a group of Aboriginal women from the Fitzroy Valley in Australia's remote northwest decided enough was enough. Their community had experienced 13 suicides in 13 months. Reports of family violence and child abuse were commonplace and alcohol consumption was rising at an alarming rate. Something had to be done. Something had to change.
Screened At The United Nations In New York 2009
Australian Festival Premiere
Two neighbours live side by side, but they haven’t spoken for more than 15 years. Instead they have built not just one, but two hedges that separate them. Side by Side is a moving portrayal of human beings, which bubbles with dry humour.
A farmer & his mother discuss the arrival of a strange animal amongst their herd of Limousin cattle.
European Short Film Awards - Nominated Best Documentary 2009