Big Wet Asses 16[2009]

City Without Nights(zh)

A Chinese drama

Macadam Popcorn(fr)

Mathieu Sapin's next graphic novel is about French independent cinemas. Taking us on a journey across France, he explores the challenges facing this fragile cultural ecosystem. On his way, Matthew discovers a community of enthusiasts and the diversity of French offerings that is admired the world over.

Whatever It May Be(es)

Violeta, a manic and stalker mythomaniac, becomes obsessed with a client of her photocopier shop

The Nine Mile Walk(en)

Two friends in a Strange place begin a game of words that leads to an unexpected twist

Zoey(en)

After losing his job, Tommy heads back to his home town of New York City. With zero job prospects, Tommy starts selling cocaine with Donnie, his brother, a veteran drug dealer. Tommy keeps seeing a gorgeous young woman, Zoey. But before he gets the chance things head sideways when she gets attacked in the street. Tommy fights off the attacker and finally meets Zoey. His life and outlook improve instantly as their relationship develops. But keeping his web of lies neat quickly proves futile.

Dopisy v krajkách(cs)

Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker(en)

Animated short film from Stephan Muller. Disturbed by loud music of one of his neighbours Mr. Schwartz calls the police. But initially the officer can't ascertain anything... Then the film starts again from the view of every lessee and allows the spectator to see what really happened in every apartment:The history of a butterfly-effect...

No. 5 Reversal(en)

No. 5 Reversal opens with a close up sequence of two women in animated conversation, followed by an aural page/station structure. The film combines elements of horizontal and vertical montage in the soundtrack, using white noise, and radio static as a fragmentation device. The visually striking black and white photography weaves lyrical, pastoral nature with the de- and re- construction of civilization. No. 5 Reversal ends with a filmic signature, an image of its maker framed in front of a window against a backdrop of ruins.

Koropa(fr)

In the dark night, off the Comoros archipelago, Patron learns how to become « Commandant ». Soon he will take his first clandestine passengers to Mayotte.

Midnight Snack(en)

A pair of robbers break into a house, expecting to snatch a quick buck. What they find is far less appetizing.

"Lika bra som Iron Maiden"(sv)

I Miss U(th)

Bee is falling in love with her senior surgeon co-worker. But his girlfriend who recently died in an accident isn't quite ready to give him up yet.

Yard Work(en)

Meet Brett, Brett's not the brightest when it comes to yard work but he knows it can be a good escape from the wife and that damned awful stepson. Follow along as Brett finds himself getting into some very troubling situations like a limb on a powerline or the classic potato wedged in the mower blades! Who knows what might happen to Brett? Starring Michael Simmons as Brett Directed and Shot by Justin Cottingham and Samael Horton Written by Samael Horton, Justin Cottingham, Madison Malcolm, and Michael Simmons Best and Only Grip Syd Pollock Original Score by Druidic (also Michael Simmons) Presented by Gosh Darn Video and ​⁠

Madness: At Madstock 1992(en)

Madness perform live at Finsbury Park for the first ever Madstock, 1992.

Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing(de)

The twelve-year old immigrant Veysel and his family have a hard time to become integrated into Austrian life. They have more and more inner family-oriented problems. Veysel's neighbour Cem teaches him how to pronounce a poem in German for school. At the time when Veysel wants to take the courage to recite it to his secret love Ana, the immigration police disrupts his plans

Le divorcement(fr)

In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Their flabbergasted children have mixed feelings, and the most difficult thing about the divorce, besides understanding why it is taking place at all, is deciding what will happen with the couple's numerous pets.

Victoria(en)

The tragic romance between the son of a miller and a landlord's daughter. Based on the novel by Knut Hamsun.

Führer Ex(de)

Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.

Anonymous(en)

A man finds himself homeless after a fight with his significant other.

Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend(ja)

Legend has it that the human race is not the only dominant civilization living on Earth. Two other races exist in this world: the Makai (a demon race) and the Jujinkai (a half-man, half-beast race). Once every 3,000 years, a supreme being known as the "Choujin" (Overfiend) will emerge and bring balance to all three realms on Earth. In present-day Japan, after 300 years of endless searching, a Jujinkai named Amano Jyaku has discovered the presence of the Choujin inside high school slacker Tatsuo Nagumo. But now, Amano, along with his sister Megumi and their sidekick Kuroko must protect Nagumo and his new girlfriend Akemi Ito from the Makai, who believe that Nagumo is not the Choujin, but an evil entity bent on destroying all living beings on Earth.

All Ladies Do It(it)

After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship through betrayal.

Daddy and the Muscle Academy(en)

Tom of Finland is one of the gay world's few authentic icons. His drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity. Tom's ultimate leather men are known and seen everywhere. They are symbols of gay pride and friendship. The documentary includes some titillating 'enactments' inspired by Tom's art work.

The Whore with the Chainsaw(pt)

A love story, a love triangle that gets soiled with blood with the arrival of a fourth character: a serial killer who collects vaginas. Lesbian couple is chased by lover betrayed in the areas of Weird. Blood and sex in the tradition of the 80's Boca do Lixo films with eschatological scenes and total cinematographic metalanguage.

Underwater Love(ja)

35-year-old Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She’s about to be married to her boss, Taki, but one day, she encounters a kappa – a water sprite found in Japanese folklore – and learns that the creature is in fact the reborn form of Aoki, an old crush who’d drowned when they were 17.

Pigs Have Wings(it)

Rome, 70s. Rocco and Antonia, high school students, meet during a political rally. The two young people share age, political ideas, dissatisfaction with their parents. Moreover, by attending, they realize they have fallen in love. It is the discovery of sex and passion. After some time, however, their relationship goes into crisis.

Your Friends & Neighbors(en)

Restless and unhappy, two couples get caught up in infidelity and deception. Barry is a sullen businessman married to Mary, a writer who is unsatisfied with their relationship. Mary begins an affair with Jerry, a smug theater professor and husband of her friend, Terri, who is also a writer. Adding to the adulterous mix are Cary, a callous doctor, and Cheri, an art-gallery assistant.

Préhistoric Cabaret(en)

In Arnarstapi (Iceland), during a cabaret number, a mistress of ceremonies proposes to us a journey into the center of her organs to go and meet the original being. During the journey, the public enters into a trance to reach the ecstasy.

Weak Species(en)

Classmates Steve and George are part of a frightening food chain. For Steve, high school is a game. Seducing his classmates gives him his sense of purpose and fuels his art and poetry. When Steve sets his sights on the school star athlete, he starts a cat and mouse chase which could ruin him and his idol. George, the school recluse, copes with the stress of his mother's cancer and strained relationship with his father by cutting class and using drugs. Hooking up with a stranger in an effort to lose himself, George finds himself in a life or death situation. At odds with each other, George and Steve have more in common than they realize. As their paths spiral downward, they could save each other - or continue on their way to self-destruction.

Antiporno(ja)

Young artist Kyoko wreaks havoc on everyone that she encounters when Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.