All Films

View

2008 • 6 min

View is an imaginary story, but also a reality of a "child" who thinks that her "mommy" has left her behind because she does not love her anymore. The View speaks of children's feelings, evident in many broken families. Since the story is told from a child's point of view, the memories which the child conveys are mostly exaggerated and could be misrepresented. Still, a child's point of view tells the most truthful stories.

My Childhood Mystery Tree

2008 • 12 min • Russia

When a small boy loses his favourite toy – a small teddy bear – this draws him into the inner world of his childhood. Nonetheless, he must destroy this realm if he wants to grow up.

Zoogocho

2008 • 40 min • Mexico

Bernardo Arellano Short FIlm

Sparkle

2008 • 60 min • Hungary

Interviews with 3 people who had near death experiences.

Kick Like a Girl

2008 • 25 min • United States of America

The story of what happens when "The Mighty Cheetahs," an undefeated all-girls soccer team, competes in the boys division. With humor and candor this documentary gets at the heart of the boy-girl issues and explores what "Kick Like A Girl" really means on and off the playing field. Kick Like A Girl reminds us all of the lessons learned in competitive athletics and how sports has been one of the most effective instruments of social change in our lifetime.

Dinner Party of the Damned

2008 • 10 min • United States of America

The living dead. They came back ... for seconds.

The Incredible Story of the Man Without a Shadow

2008 • 9 min • Spain

A mysterious man offers Peter an eternal bag of gold in exchange for his shadow. A year later, Peter will only be able to recover his shadow for his soul.

Side Effects May Include

2008 • 4 min

A pharmaceutical commercial's list of side effects never end, spilling instead into the next commercial and the next, piling one unpleasant reality upon another, until a pill appears to make everything better, as advertised.

Frå solside til skuggeland? -Industristaden Ålvik i Hardanger

2008 • 29 min • Norway

This is a documentary that tells about the history of Ålvik as an industrial town. It is the story of the water on the mountain that was tamed into electric power, and was the foundation of Bjølvefossen. The film tells about Trallebanen, one of the most unique cultural heritage sites in Hardanger. Should it be preserved?

Alter Ego

2008 • 20 min • France

An encounter in a Paris park between Nadir and Ester, a young man and woman with seemingly nothing in common, at least at first glance.

Anti-Pervert Manual

2008 • 20 min • Taiwan

An office worker obsessed with the supernatural visits an old parking lot and finds evidence of ghosts of perverts.

(Ingen vill komma på) Jerrys barnkalas

2008 • 11 min

Arne wants to go to Simon's birthday party but his mother forces him to go to Jerry's birthday party instead. Then he must go, or?

Warrior Boyz

2008 • 43 min • Canada

To date, more than a hundred young men from the South Asian community have died in gang-related violence in Metro Vancouver. Gangs are a reality of urban life, yet behind the body count and the headlines, a far different battle is being waged. Educators and parents are taking action against gang violence. Director Baljit Sangra's documentary Warrior Boyz takes an unflinching look at the root causes of gang violence, and offers real solutions and a hard-fought hope for the future.

Faithful

2008 • 27 min • Russia

Sometimes traditions and rules of generations of a whole kind interfere with the personal life of one person. But he resigns himself to this, remaining eternally faithful and faithful ...

Zakynthos

2008 • 13 min

The island of Zakynthos is situated in the frontiers of Greece and the rest of Europe and very close to Italy with witch Zakynthos had very particular relations. That transformed it's culture, traditions and customs in to a particular way (along with the other Ionian Islands). This particularity surprises the visitor who comes in the island for the first time, especially if he is a Greek one. This is exactly what has happen to me too and so I decided to depict that surprise in a short documentary in the form of video art.

Los Misterios del Templo de Pitiquito

2008 • 48 min • Mexico

A documentary on the Pitiquito temple.

Fruto da Terra

2008 • 15 min • Brazil

Marcos Tiarajú was the first baby born at Fazenda Annoni in 1985, in an occupation of the MST. At age 22, he became a medical fellow in Cuba. The short follows this story of overcoming.

Out of Print

2008 • 4 min • United States of America

An ode to the counterculture of the 80s and 90s, when finding quality culture was a real treasure hunt.

Wizard So So: Fun Magical Adventure

2008 • 58 min • United States of America

Two stories: When Kitty the Cat struggles to rid Farmer Fred's barn of the three mean-spirited rat bullies that have been stealing food and causing trouble, Wizard So So steps in to lend the feline a magical helping hand. In the second story of this charming animated adventure, Wizard So So comes to the aid of his friend the Dragonfly, who dreams of turning into an actually flying dragon..

Three Songs About the Motherland

2008 • 39 min • Russia

Depicting the collision between past, present, and future in contemporary Russia, the film showcases the filmmaker's understanding, or perhaps her emotions, about Russia's convoluted history.

Mihovil Pansini - Ships Don't Come Ashore

2008 • 49 min • Croatia

It is a well known fact that films also have their own poets, but wider audience is not familiarized with one of the most lucid and the most significant poets of films on the territory of former Yugoslavia and that is Mihovil Pansini. The sole reason for his unfamiliarity is the fact that he exclusively worked on amateur films. The fate of amateur film in our country was never (and probably won't be in the future either) publically recognized with enough understanding, even though during the last 50 years it was the only example of authentic avant-garde in the field of film expression. Through Pansini's thoughts and film clips, this documentary is attempting to reconstruct, to some extent, this extraordinary author's amateur film making development.

Winter (The Large Cats)

2008 • 58 min • France

The children do not care about the coming winter . They have a good laugh under the big cats, kissing. Under the warn shelters. It will get dark more and more early.

I Dance With Wolves

2008 • 4 min • Sweden

The wolves chase him. Pulling him in the neck when he's out, waiting at the bed in the bedroom to chop him in pieces. The psychologist says it's imagination. But he knows they exist.

Michael Got His Gun

2008 • 4 min

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the twentieth film in the series.