All Films

El Hijo del Naranjo

2008 • 30 min

A child rejected by his own kind, raised by nature... ¿how far will he go to protect it?

Kanał

2008 • 7 min • Poland

The animated short is a humorous fantasy, for which the starting point is a routine visit by a certain patient to the dentist.

Greycon4

2008 • 7 min • Canada

Stop-motion animation about a scientist in a computerized cave.

Red Frog

2008 • 8 min • Ukraine

The main hero of the story was the frog, which was not a usual one, but of the red color. The nature made his fellow green not for nothing. After all, so they are not so noticeable in their habitats to those who want to eat them, because they are difficult to spot in the grass or wetland thickets. But the red frog can be seen from afar. How does he cope with the ever-occurring troubles?

Pastiche of the Dead

2008 • 9 min

A collection of 3 short zombie tales from the day when the dead begin to walk the earth.

Magic Peas

2008 • 13 min • Ukraine

A crafty old wizard and his cat lived in a messy house and often went hungry, because they did not like to clean up or cook. Once they came up with the idea to take a hardworking girl from the village, Olenka, in a limbo. And so it was done. After the threats of magic, she agreed to do all of their housework. But magic peas found in the garden of gave her hope for salvation.

Sylt - The Land Where the Ground Shrinks

2008 • 50 min • France

The island of Sylt, in northern Germany, is on borrowed time. Each year, the storms of the North Sea nibblea little more the sectionsof an austere but preciouslandscape like a jewel. Thedrama of the announced disappearance of the island then responds to the frantic and obsessive gestures of men. Everything is triedto curb the unleashing of the forces of the climate andpreserve this environment, which has become less and less natural over time, more and more forbidden...

Shots Back in Time: The Union Station Massacre

2008 • 40 min

June 17, 1933: On Saturday morning by 7:15, Union Station Kansas City is already bustling with travelers as lawmen escort escaped convict Frank Nash through the station out to a car where he is to be driven back to Leavenworth Penitentiary. Suddenly, the group is attacked by gangsters and the resulting camage from the 30 second firestorm leaves Kansas City and the nation stunned. This film documents events giving rise to the massacre and tells the story of the complex relationship among the Pendergast machine, organized crime, and the gangsters who could feel safe laying low in Kansas City. As the FBI attempted to bring to justice the perpetrators of what J. Edgar Hoover called a "despicable and cowardly act," Kansas City and law enforcement in the United States were forever changed.

Hope

2008 • 56 min • Canada

A couple raises their four children, but their relationship ends.

Last Summer: Zombie Town

2008 • 58 min

In the tiny town of Nagievsk in the Sverdlovsk region, a catastrophe occurred. As a result of a failed experiment by scientists, the experimental virus they invented ended up in the drinking water, turning the townspeople into a horde of decaying undead, ready to devour anything in their path. Nagievsk was placed under quarantine and erased from all existing maps. Officially, such a town no longer exists. And it is precisely there that a young man named Max is heading from the nearby town of Porechensk. He must find the vaccine, which, they say, is hidden somewhere in the infected and erased settlement from life.

Homicevalo

2008 • 12 min

A film by Masakatsu Takagi

Boogie and Diggie

2008 • 4 min • United States of America

An Animated Short Film about Boogers.

Style

2008 • 3 min

An anxious middle school drama about hallucination

Etel Adnan: Words in Exile

2008 • 52 min • Greece

The film reconstructs through an array of visual fragments, a multiplicity of languages, of peoples and their identities, the unique portrait of the poet and painter Etel Adnan.

The Last Victim

2008 • 4 min • Philippines

Unravel the truth in five minutes. Anton, a top investigator finds himself baffled in a case to find an elusive killer. The case gets even more complicated when he links his lover, Lisa, to the evidence on the scene of the crime. The things get out of hand when Lisa herself walks into the crime scene and is pursued by Anton – only to find out the truth to his investigation.

First Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty Room

2008 • 17 min • Mexico

Don Plascencio has a collection of men he uses like radio stations: in a routine aural examination each man plays a different musical piece instead of the usual heartbeat.

Nanas sin Pan. Guímara: la represión colectiva de un pueblo

2008 • 55 min

The military uprising of 1936 tried to eradicate all traces of the social transformation that had brought the Republic. There were villages like Guímara, in the Valley of Fornela (León), whose almost unanimous support to the Republic supposed a hard and systematic repression. This isolated village, of about 85 neighbors, suffered one of the most painful forms of punishment: deportation of adults to concentration camps, separating them from their minor children. In this documentary it is told the chronicle of this terrible repression that sought to subdue and subjugate the population through fear, trying to destroy family ties, solidarity networks between the people and personal and collective subsistence economy. The memory of lullabies from their mothers was the echo that reached their children from the forced exile who lived their elders.

Perpetual Rehearsal

2008 • 52 min • Israel, Latvia

In 1991, the Moscow director Yevgeny Aryeh, with a handful of emigrants from the USSR, founded the Gesher Theater in Israel, which means “bridge” in Hebrew. Bridge between people. Bridge between cultures. And now between art forms. After all, "Eternal Rehearsal" is a fusion of theater and documentary films, a bridge between their languages.

Spokane’s 21st Century Fox

2008 • 56 min • United States of America

Opened in 1931, Spokane’s Fox Theater was the place to go, with a line around the block to view the latest Hollywood feature, usherettes in evening gowns, and famous performers on stage. After years of decline as a discount theater, the Fox was threatened with demolition in 2000 - until the community rallied to save it.

Undertaker

2008 • 6 min • Brazil

The undertaker Coffin Joe kidnapped Terezinha, and he will test if she is the perfect woman. Antonio, the girl's boyfriend, intends to rescue her, but in order to do so he must enter the funeral parlor the terrible killer uses as a lair.

Amok

2008 • 59 min • Germany

A docu-fiction re-imagining of the Cologne school shooting in the 1960s.

President

2008 • 12 min • Lithuania

Another short film montage.

Passages

2008 • 24 min • Canada

Animated short film recounting the first childbirth of director Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre. The filmmaker discovered with great emotion that she was pregnant with her first child. She was waiting with all her love for this little angel, far from suspecting that her childbirth would be a real nightmare, would turn into a tragedy and that she and her baby would find themselves on the verge of death...

Giornaliero di Città e Passanti

2008 • 58 min • France, Italy, Portugal, Spain

Marseille, boulevard d'Athènes, 26 April 2006. Lisbon, S.Mamede, 19 October 2007. Madrid, calle de Atocha, 13 May 2008. Three glances from hotel room windows, three days of unknown passers-by: the street and the bars, meetings and loneliness, loves and missed appointments.