All Films

Chicken Rice Mystery

2008 • 18 min • Malaysia

A young boy ponders one of the greatest mysteries of his life: just why is his mother's cooking so appalling? His father claims his mother lost her cooking skills when she gave birth to him. But there remains one sole culinary treat, so tantalisingly tasty, our small friend simply has to find out how it is made... his mother's sublime chicken and rice dish.

Cuilos

2008 • 12 min • Costa Rica, France

Michelle is about to bring her boyfriend home to meet her parents. But it will be more difficult for Michelle than the other girls of her age

The Stop

2008 • 8 min • Estonia

A man wakes up on the tram without remembering previous events or how he got there. But memory wants to see patterns. It is an abstract state of affairs in which a man without a past and a future tries to solve the mystery that the present plays for him.

Synthétiseur

2008 • 11 min • Canada

Sophie takes a trip to the suburbs of Montreal to get away and hopefully find a boyfriend. This film is a humorous and quirky tale about what to do when you are depressed, have no money and desperately need to make a change.

The Bear

2008 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Dennis and Catherine are having casual conversation when a "bear" — actually a mysterious man dressed in a fully yellow business suit — invades their apartment asking them for food.

9 Hours Without Sleep

2008 • 23 min

They live in the modern world and are afraid of being alone. They get to know each other quickly and talk a lot. They accidentally collide in the cycle of a big city. Will nine hours be enough for them to really get to know each other and talk about the main thing?

Dreammill

2008 • 5 min • Hungary

Dreamlike images morph from one to another.

The Window

2008 • 6 min • United States of America

The Window is a short comedy about the profound liberation--and pleasure!--that comes from letting go of inhibitions, embracing all of who you are and revealing your soul and yourself to the world.

The Werepig

2008 • 17 min • Spain

A teenager turns into a pig and must escape from his pork-craving relatives.

Untitled 1

2008 • 3 min

A mysterious traveler passes through the woods.

Dans la tête

2008 • 6 min • France

Antoine Bertrand decides to enlist in the Army. One day as he is fighting on the battlefield he is shot by an enemy. As he arrives at the gates of Heaven, nothing happens as planned…

They Will Never Catch Us

2008 • 4 min • Sweden

A close up study of human behavior.

Cecil

2008 • 10 min • Latvia

Cecil is being followed by a dung fly wherever he goes.

Look Around

2008 • 8 min

A story that allows you to see the valuable things in your life.

Undue Burden

2008 • 36 min

Documentary about the difficulties encountered in trying to get the motion to allow alcohol sales in Clark County, Arkansas on a local election ballot.

The Panic Artist

2008 • 10 min • Sweden

A boy and his dad visit the modern art museum.

Will Have It Tomorrow

2008 • 42 min • Latvia

Three days in the life of Martin and Anna. They are both young, beautiful and in love. But life becomes unbearable when they can no longer satisfy their addiction. Martin tries his best, but the pursuit of the drug hits a wall every time and Anna's trust is lost more and more.

Welcome Stop

2008 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A young blind woman dumps her oppressive boyfriend at the motorway service station and hitches a ride with a recovering sex-and-love addict.

Disasters Hanging Out

2008 • 52 min • United States of America

A movie about 3 friends who have been documenting and recording all their adventures from 2004 till now... This is only the beginning.

Sally

2008 • 8 min • Canada, China, Hong Kong

Sally is a portrait, a love ballad. The artist gazes at beautiful Sally as she relaxes in her bathrobe in the sumptuous suite of the China Club in Beijing. Always behind the camera, Wong is uninhibited as ever as he crafts an intimate portrait. Recorded in Hong Kong and Beijing.

EastVan 'John'

2008 • 38 min • Canada

Dennis and Barb McDonald are empty nesters from the suburbs. On this day they get legal possession of their new house. They have privately purchased the burned out house directly from its owner. John Jeffery grew up in this house. He has been living on the property since the fire destroyed the house a year ago. John is the last of the old families with deep roots still on the street. He is now surrounded by recent neighbours who are more interested in retrofitting character homes than the people who live in them.

Teaching the Alphabet

2008 • 4 min • Germany

It's not a simple ABC, this found footage alphabet by Volker Schreiner. Schreiner reveals his qualities in collecting and choreographing footage from classic (Hollywood) films. The concept of alphabetical ordering is loosely maintained so there's room for a playful contribution from the subconscious

Current

2008 • 25 min • Uruguay

This documentary is called “Current”, which is the title of ansong by Jorge Lazaroff, and the film is a homage to that talented Uruguayan musician, who was a mainstay of Uruguayan popular music during the dictatorship and who died before his time. We feel the spirit of “Choncho” Lazaroff” through words and songs by Leo Maslíah, Daniel Viglietti, Carlos Da Silveira, Jorge Bonaldi, Luis Trochón, Jorge di Pólito, Daniel Magnone, Rubén Olivera, Mauricio Ubal, Raúl Castro, Eduardo Lombardo, Pablo Routín, Cecilia Prato, Fernando Cabrera and Eloy Yerle, to name but a few.

Presumed Guilty - Creating False Confessions

2008 • 48 min • Japan

Lawyers, an ex-police investigator and a former judge denounce Japan's criminal justice system as defendants in a high-profile 2003 election-rigging case in Kagoshima explain how detectives tried to extract false confessions on trumped-up charges of vote-buying. Those who buckled under the pressure and confessed spent over a year in prison. All the "suspects" were finally acquitted, but remain permanently scarred by the ordeal. This documentary is a dramatic reminder that indiscriminate arrests and convictions should be fought with the full force of the law.