Film Selections for 2009:
Below is the complete 2009 Cucalorus film list. To buy tickets select the film of your choosing, and hit 'Click Here to Purchase Tickets'. See you at the show!
Short Film
 | A Film From My Parish - 6 Farms | Director: Tony Donoghue | 07:10 There is more to farm life than the world of crop rotation and animal husbandry. Here six Irish farmers from a small community talk about farm life an...Read More |
 | A Liar and A Thief | Director: Joshua Lim | 11:32 A documentary filmmaker conducts a series of interviews with Molly, a pick pocket disguised as a college student. Over the course of these encounters,...Read More |
 | A Traditional Christmas at Small Birds Singing | Director: Linda McCarthy | 3:20 Join the Unbelievable family – Spandisman, Consommé and Delphinium – for this darkly festive look at Christmas. Yuletide is celebrated in the time-hon...Read More |
 | Aanaatt | Director: Max Hattler | 04:45 The ever-shifting shape of analog Futurism. Screening in Gorgonzola Shorts....Read More |
 | Aliki | Director: Richard Wiebe | 05:00, MiniDV An encounter with a flamingo at an ancient salt lake in Cyprus. Screening with Crude...Read More |
 | Andy Biscuits | Director: Hank & Jed | 05:30, DVD Andy doesn't have many friends, but he has lots of opinions. Screening in the Racle...Read More |
 | Apocalypse Lane | Director: Jon Etheridge | A woman with tentacles for arms. A gay zombie. A preacher with a sock puppet. A three-legged cat with a knife. A guy named Steve with two heads who's ...Read More |
 | Autoplastic | Director: Jordan Stone | 04:06 "Autoplastic" intimately explores perceived psychosis in store front manikins. Gorg...Read More |
 | Badewanne zum Glück (Bathtub to Happiness) | Director: Nadine Keil & Norbert Keil | 26:30 An enchanted comedy about romantic evenings gone wrong, true love and magical bathtubs. Sounds familiar? You've planned this one special date to perfe...Read More |
 | Balance | Director: Debra Sea | 03:46 Life is about balance. Gorgeous images captured with a $200 Flip MinoHD camera. Harm...Read More |
 | Betty Banned Sweets | Director: Michelle Savill | 14:00 While Benjamin obsessively dreams of escaping to South America, his mother plans his unwanted birthday party-but sometimes the best parties are the on...Read More |
 | Big Pussy | Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson | 8:15 A neurotic nice guy struggles to find the confidence to tell the girl he loves that her vagina has an...odor. Screening in Read More |
 | Birth | Director: Signe Baumane | 12:00 Amina is 17 and pregnant. Afraid that giving birth might destroy her, she goes to older women for consolation and advise. Their stories scare her ev...Read More |
 | Bits and Pieces - A Short from Jordan | Director: Jacki Sawiris, Ben Mandell | 4:38 Bits and Pieces is a short film inspired by the powerful need to confront distorted perceptions of Jordanians in particular and Arabs in general. Afte...Read More |
 | Block B | Director: Chris Chong Chan Fui | 20:00 A building becomes a living painting. The concrete homes and contradicting soundscapes frame the lives of an expatriate Indian community in Malaysia. ...Read More |
 | Blue Boy | Director: Alex Jablonski | 16:00, 35mm 17 year-old Kenny lives in a rundown track home with his father, but every morning he rides his bike into the wealthier part of town for his lifeguard...Read More |
 | Camp Diaries | Director: William Noland | 14:30 Japanese-American internment is still shocking today, more than 65 years after the fact, and its relationship and relevance in a post 9/11 context are...Read More |
 | Charades | Director: Ann Steuernagel | 07:00 The creation of “Charades” was compelled by California’s passage of Proposition 8 which eliminated same-sex couples' right to marry. This found footag...Read More |
 | Children For A Day | Director: Glenn Pack | 11:25 After his mother's death, eight-year-old Alex has been waiting for her to haunt his house like she should. He sets out to find her ghost, only to disc...Read More |
 | Chronicle Re-Constructions | Director: Steven Woloshen | 03:00 "I believe that filmmakers in the future will have to establish an archeological approach to their subject matter. Instead of photographing images we ...Read More |
 | Crossing Borders | Director: 15 Youth | 19:18, DVD In the spring of 2008, a team of high school students traveled to the border cities of Douglas, Arizona in the United States and Agua Prieta, Sonora i...Read More |
 | Cry of the Banshee | Director: Bennett Pellington | 15:57 Dan has been told his entire life that his father passed away when Dan was only 5 years old from a heart attack. Now, just before his 30th birthday, h...Read More |
 | Danse Macabre | Director: Pedro Pires | 07:54, 35mm For a period of time, while we believe it to be perfectly still, lifeless flesh responds, stirs and contorts in a final macabre ballet. Are these spas...Read More |
 | Deconstruction Workers (Bygningsarbeidere) | Director: Kajsa Naess | 06:00, 35mm Two construction workers having an everyday conversation about an existential question. They keep on building while the world around them falls apart....Read More |
 | Dig | Director: Robert Todd | 02:40 ...The sweet music of jackhammers raging throughout - with Intermission. "After nearly seven years of constant construction on my street, the road in...Read More |
 | El Ataque de los Robots de Nebulosa-5 | Director: Chema Garcia Ibarra | 6:20 El Ataque de los Robots de Nebulosa-5 (The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5) Almost everybody is going to die. Very soon. Screening i...Read More |
 | Fatal Flaw | Director: The Olson Brothers | 22:00 Jonathon Ridecher is an average man living beyond his means and addicted to gambling. His wife knows he gambles but is unaware of the addiction. He co...Read More |
 | Flights | Director: Jamie Stone | 03:00 Within a winding Edinburgh stairwell, a frail old man struggles to make his way up the many flights of stairs to reach the summit. Screenin...Read More |
 | Four | Director: Erin White | 18:00 Free love, friendship, family and fondue. Two couples with troubled marriages embark on a plan for enlivening their relationships. Together. They s...Read More |
 | Future Islands - The Happiness of Being Twice | Director: Joel Fernando | 3:36 A psychedelic hodgepodge of fantasy and color, featuring 65 + people from the Baltimore, New York City, Chicago and North Carolina areas, filmed one b...Read More |
 | Give It Up | Director: Bo Webb | 10:30 A movie about telling jokes. It begins like this: "Two guys are sitting at a bar... " Starring Cory Howard and Matt Hosmer. Filmed in Wilmington, N...Read More |
 | God and Moses BFF | Director: John Gray | 20:00 We join these two best friend figures from history at a most historical moment when God gives Moses the 10 Commandments. Unfortunately God's relying ...Read More |
 | Hold Me Now | Director: Michael Robinson | 05:00, DVD A haunted sing-a-long made for the PDX film festival's 2008 Karaoke throwdown. Screening in Read More |
 | Home | Director: Matt Faust | 05:55, DVD This film is a touching portrayal of the essence of home and the feeling of loss that occurs when home becomes a memory. Director Matthew Faust convey...Read More |
 | Horn Dog | Director: Bill Plympton | 04:30 “Horn Dog” is the fourth film in the famed Oscar nominated “dog” series. Here are more misadventures from our plucky canine, as he fends of an obese ...Read More |
 | I Don't Sleep I Dream | Director: J.P. Chan | 14:51 A woman discovers she can't run from her fears without leaving a part of herself behind. Screening in Read More |
 | I'm Sorry, Sterling | Director: Jared Mitchell & RM Vaughan | 4:00 Poet RM Vaughan muses on his relationship to 50s film noir tough guy hunk Sterling Hayden, and why he cannot make his life more like a 50s film noir m...Read More |
 | Immersion | Director: Richard Levien | 14:00 10 year old Moises has just immigrated to California from Mexico, He doesn't speak English, but he's good at math, so he hopes to do well on his first...Read More |
 | Irma Vep | Director: Jong Wook Choi | 4:00 Stars the bride of quietness In a flowery tale, Who will transform thy shape Leaving behind unanswered questions: What maidens loath? What mad pu...Read More |
 | James | Director: Connor Clements | 17:00 Focusing on a boy in Northern Ireland isolated by his sexuality and alienated from his family due to his parent's marital troubles, "James" reaches ou...Read More |
 | Joel Stein's Completely Unfabricated Adventures | Director: Walter Robot | 3:00 An animated exploration of Orange County's waste treatment plant with journalist Joel Stein. Screening with Read More |
 | Kanizsa Hill | Director: Evelyn Lee | 08:00, Digibeta Another person is shot. He can only survive as a head and a body who exist independently from one another. The forgetful body desperately collects sou...Read More |
 | Keeping Up With The Jetsons | Director: Michael Kennedy | 4:12 After designing a rocket-ship out of a shopping cart in his laboratory, Odoms realizes he must carry on with his space journey. With the help of mecha...Read More |
 | Lake Hartwell | Director: Clay Weiner | 12:23 Local actors Sandy Fountain and Cullen Moss team up with former Wilmington actor, Jason Davis, in this funny, character driven portrait of southern la...Read More |
 | Lies | Director: Jonas Odell | 13:13, DVD Three perfectly true stories about lying. In three episodes based on documentary interviews we meet the burglar who, when found out, claims to be a...Read More |
 | Lola | Director: Michael Rollo | 2:45 Through the eyes of pure content in light and darkness, to objects strange and shifting, a cat's curiosity of all things moving. Screening ...Read More |
 | Lost Paradise (Paradis Perdu) | Director: Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun | 9:50 A man and a woman are tenderly making love in a one star hotel room. A moment later when they are both dressed up, the idyll that seemed authentic is...Read More |
 | Ma Bar | Director: Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall | 11:48 Bench pressing isn't a hobby for 73 year old Bill McFadyen - it's a way of life. Scotland's very own bench press champion is on a quest to be the best...Read More |
 | Miracle Fish | Director: Luke Doolan | 17:55 Eight-year-old Joe has been granted his birthday wish: that everyone would just go away. Now he must deal with the consequences. Screening...Read More |
 | Morning Echo | Director: Hope Dickson Leach | 15:00 Today it's Christmas everywhere but in the Moffatt household. The Moffatts are in trouble. Their sick young daughter Franny almost died in October,...Read More |
 | Myth Labs | Director: Martha Colburn | 7:30 'Myth Labs' interweaves Puritan visions, folk art, religious allegories and victims of the current Methamphetamine epidemic. It is a film about fear,...Read More |
 | Nar-Co-Lap-Sy | Director: Benedict R. Fancy | 6:22 A comedic look into the day in the life of a suffering narcoleptic. Screening in Read More |
 | No One Wants to Eat the Parsley | Director: Sharon A. Mooney | 06:00 Part coffee klatch, part baking party, a visit with Meredith in her Brooklyn apartment leads to talk of 'happy endings' and the horrors of getting old...Read More |
 | Notes | Director: Marc Russo | 03:24 Frame by frame, stop motion, and pixilation animation all happening at the same time, oh yeah - and a lot of post it notes. Screening with ...Read More |
 | Notes on Liberty | Director: John Scott | 08:26 On a boy's visit to the Statue of Liberty, this film playfully signals the difference between the ideals of the stature with the culture of fear and x...Read More |
 | Nowhere Kids | Director: Eric Juhola | 19:00, DVCam A teen runaway's search for her biological mother is derailed when she meets a group of crust-punk street kids on their way to Mesa, a mysterious plac...Read More |
 | Omelette | Director: Nadejda Koseva | 07:00 There's a country where people wake up poorer and poorer every morning. Inflation grows by the hour... September 1996. Sofia, somewhere in Europe. <...Read More |
 | On This Day | Director: Naomi Uman | 4:00 This film tells the true story of one day in the life of the filmmaker, Naomi Uman. Screening in Read More |
 | Open House | Director: Brad McWaters | 2:30 Another flavor from Corporatainment Headquarters. RE/MAX Agent checks in on his friend's open house. Screening in Read More |
 | Our Neck of the Woods | Director: Rob Connolly | 16:58, DVD Bob Underwood's mundane life manufacturing plastic lawn ornament deer is disrupted by an enchanting Georgian refugee whom Bob decides he has to save w...Read More |
 | Oversized | Director: Matilda Tristram | 4:09 This playful music video for the band Omo includes animated edibles and light lunch romance. Screening in Read More |
 | Parabola | Director: Lexi Lefkowitz | 16:30 Parabola follows Lyle, a High School freshman who is trying to survive a world of math tests, family dysfunction, and a few relentless bullies. Winsto...Read More |
 | Pat's First Kiss | Director: Pat Mills | 4:40 The sad-but-hilariously-true story of the filmmaker's first kiss with an undesirable stranger he met overseas. Screening in Read More |
 | Pets in Pots (Vogel op Sterk Water) | Director: Simonka de Jong | 15:00 Marth's fascination with preserving her deceased pets may seem an unhealthy obsession, but this delicate unfurling of the Dutch teenager's life reveal...Read More |
 | Phantogram | Director: Kerry Laitala | 9:30 Shivery bits of elusive emulsion, refractive light sprays ignite the depths of two dimensions to expand the terrain of undulating forms. Vertical mot...Read More |
 | POSTALOLIO | Director: Marv Newland | 5:02 An animated journey to the music of Joe Venuti. Every 2D pencil drawing used to animate POSTALOLIO was traced onto blank postcards, painted, stamped...Read More |
 | Prayers for Peace | Director: Dustin Grella | 07:38 Prayers for Peace is a narrative stop-motion animation confronting the memory of the artist's younger brother killed in the current conflict in Iraq. ...Read More |
 | Pro Golf | Director: John Gray | 05:55 The men at Wilmington Production Services found a Golf Pro Shop whose owner was kind enough to let them shoot there at the discounted rate of $0, so w...Read More |
 | Receive Bacon | Director: James M. Johnston | 03:30 A raunchy bathroom tryst is interrupted by an unfortunate case of the giggles. Screening in Read More |
 | Roller Girls | Director: Dylan Linehan | 09:54 Sexy bruiser babes put aside day jobs and identities to moonlight as rough and tumble roller-skating gladiators with a soft camaraderie off the rink. ...Read More |
 | Sapsucker | Director: Christopher Holmes | 12:20 One man's determination to track down and dispatch with a rare woodpecker wreaking havoc on his house puts him on the warpath. What he discovers in hi...Read More |
 | Section 44 | Director: Daniel Wilson | 4:40 Richard walks out of his house and his world is turned upside down as he is stopped in the street, handcuffed, hooded and thrown in a van. Under the ...Read More |
 | She's a Fox | Director: Cameron Sawyer | 17:32 It's 1987, and sixth grader, Cameron Sawyer, is infatuated with Talia Alden, Cambridge Elementary's hottie. Cameron wants desperately to make Talia hi...Read More |
 | Short Term 12 | Director: Destin Crelton | 22:00 A film about kids and the grown ups who hit them. Screening in Bonchester Shorts...Read More |
 | Small Change | Director: Anna McGrath | 07:30 A man struggles without his wife, a little girl loses a tooth and a boy reacts the only way he knows how... Small change can make all the difference. ...Read More |
 | Small Collection | Director: Jeremiah Crowell | 6:00 “Small Collection” is a love story caught in the corridors of memory. Through fragments of conversations still echoing in now empty places, we piece t...Read More |
 | Socarrat | Director: David Moreno | 10:00 We all have secrets. We all have family. We all search for happiness. What if we share our secrets and search for happiness together? Scree...Read More |
 | Space Travel According to John | Director: Jamie Stone & Anders Jedenfors | 3:00 In this short soap-powder animation, ten-year-old John theorizes on the miracle of space travel and speculates as to what the future might have in sto...Read More |
 | Sylvia & George | Director: Cara Clark | 5:56 For nearly sixty years, Sylvia Gray sold furniture, army surplus and thrift at 606 and 608 South Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina. For Sylvia,...Read More |
 | Tender As Hellfire | Director: Jason Stone | 18:00 Set amidst the sweeping, rural landscape of a small American town, TENDER AS HELLFIRE tells the story of two brothers trying to move forward four year...Read More |
 | The Bake Shop Ghost | Director: Lorette Bayle | 16:30 Based on a best-selling and much-loved short story by Jacqueline Ogburn, this film tells the story of the talented but reclusive baker Miss Cora Lee M...Read More |
 | The Conservatory | Director: Matilda Tristram | 2:20 What to do on a quiet afternoon when you are upset, but you don't know why. Screening with Read More |
 | The Funk | Director: Cris Jones | 07:00 Jack woke up in a Funk one day. No one really knows how it started. Shot entirely on digital stills and animated using a variety of digital techniqu...Read More |
 | The Gynaecologist | Director: Alfonso Camarero | 10:00 A gynecologist works at her hospital just like any other day. However, the next patient is a boy! The gynecologist throws out the joker, but he return...Read More |
 | The Late Mr. Mokun Williams | Director: Kenneth Price | 05:00, Digibeta This pre-technological fable mirrors a modern day spam email in a handwritten letter by a frantic African girl on the run. Her urgent letter ends up i...Read More |
 | The Snake Mountain Colada | Director: Calvin Lee Reeder | 12:00, DVD Two road-weary travelers experience the supernatural and the refreshing taste of Miller Lite. Screening in Read More |
 | The Solitary Life of Cranes | Director: Eva Weber | 27:00 This short British film focuses on the solitary yet unexpected and rewarding life of crane operators in London. Focusing on the unique beauty and pea...Read More |
 | The Wilmington Ten: Justice Denied... Lives Interrupted... (work-in-progress) | Director: Francine DeCoursey | 25:08 Ten promising student leaders took a peaceful stand against unfair treatment and injustice. When violence erupted, they were wrongly accused, unjustl...Read More |
 | Titan | Director: Matt Delman, Jayson Barber, Alex Elfner, Josh Prindiville | 12:49 Titan Cement plans to build a half a billion dollar plant in New Hanover County. This film explores the economic, environmental, sociological, and hea...Read More |
 | Tom's Creation Plantation | Director: Cyrus Sutton | 23:00 Serene design meets scenic surf in this part surf film, part shaping tutorial about the ancient surfboards known as Alaias. Screening with...Read More |
 | Too Bare or Too Bush | Director: Shannon Silva | 5:45 There was a time when refusing to shave your legs was an act of rebellion, but oh how times have changed. Keep an eye on the latest beauty rag and ev...Read More |
 | Trece Años | 07:27, Digibeta A son returns home to his family in Cuba for the first time in 13 years from the United States and experiences a divide greater than geographical dist...Read More |
| True Adventures of Ghost Tank | Director: John E. Goras | 5:30 The True Adventures Of Ghost Tank will nauseate, irritate, humiliate, decapitate, and create nervous, uncomfortable laughter in the viewer. This is th...Read More |
 | Two Hours in the Dark | Director: Chip Hackler | Based on a true story~ Blindsided by the success of his comedy, It Happened One Night, which swept the 1935 Oscars, director Frank Capra became cripp...Read More |
 | Us | Director: Olivier Hems | 12:00, 35mm A police officer carries out a search of a man's apartment and enters the life of someone forgotten by everyone. Screening in Read More |
 | What Might Have Been | Director: Jessica Ledoux and Carolyn Burns | 6:22 An experimental found footage short that conveys a fictional tale of a man's encounter with aliens that is accompanied with a multi-layered, dream...Read More |
 | Wheels | Director: Tracy Martin | 11:51 When she learns that her car has been towed, the recently paralyzed Bianca heads out on a mission to reclaim her car, and her sense of worth. |
 | Where Are You Going, Elena? | Director: Josephine Decker | 05:00 Elena is fed up with bringing customers their tater tots but when she runs away from her waitressing job the diner's silverware chases her down. Wil...Read More |
 | Whirligig Farm: The Legend of Acid Park | Director: John Marshall | 10:16 A strange place in Lucama, North Carolina sets the stage for local rural myth. Screening in Read More |
 | Wine Tasting | Director: Andrew Lund | 13:00 Waiting in a bistro for his Internet date to show, Zak, an English professor, bristles at the incessant chatter of Jon, the boat salesman at the next ...Read More |
 | Without You | 04:50, HD Inspired by a poem by Josef Albers, Without You is a visual exploration of London's industrial suburbia, where the natural and man made environments l...Read More |
 | Young American Bodies | Director: Joe and Kris Swanberg | Young American Bodies is an episodic web series focusing on the intertwining love lives of several 20-somethings in Chicago. The series is produced b...Read More |