Sundance Film Festival 2009

This year's international shorts include 41 films from 18 countries. They are split into dramatic, documentary and animation.

View other Sundance Film Festival Films by strand: Frontier, International Animated Shorts, International Dramatic Shorts, New Frontier Shorts, Park City at Midnight, Premieres, Spectrum: Documentary Spotlight, Spectrum: Dramatic Films, US Animated Shorts, US Documentary Competition, US Documentary Shorts, US Dramatic Competition, US Short Films, World Cinema Documentary, World Dramatic Competition

Ma Bar Ma Bar
Ma Bar and Lessons From The Night
China's Wild West (Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Urszula Pontikos)
This part observational, part impressionistic study of a day in the life of a Muslim community, illustrates their hopeful efforts to discover jade in the harsh conditions of a dried-up riverbed in a remote town on the Silk Road in Western China.
Lessons From The Night (Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Adrian Francis; Writer: Adrian Francis)
A cleaner reflects on life.
Magnetic Movie (Country: UK, US; Year: 2007; Director: Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt)
Natural magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries, as scientists from NASA's space sciences laboratory excitedly describe their discoveries.
Ma Bar (Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Adrian McDowall, Finlay Pretsell; Stars: Bill McFadyen)
What drives a 73-year-old powerlifting champion?
My Surfing Lucifer (Country: Switzerland ; Year: 2008; Director: Kenneth Anger)
Using found footage, we're introduced to the short life of Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable’s stepson and surfing legend.
The Real Place The Real Place
The Real Place and Magnetic Movie
The Real Place (Country: Canada; Year: 2008; Director: Cam Christiansen; Writer: Blake Brooker)
An animated, poetic film celebrating the life and spirit of playwright and librettist John Murrell.
Steel Homes (Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Eva Weber)
Self-storage units are windows into human histories: the silent cells with their discarded objects and dust-covered furniture are inscribed with past dreams, secret hopes and of lives we cannot let go.
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