All Films

Fabulous Fairies

2008 • 50 min • Serbia

Inside Belgrade's home for elderly people, couple of grandmas made a band. As the days go by, practices are getting harder and it makes them evaluate their lives. They have a tour for elderly people's homes across Serbia and one bigger concert with guest star drummer.

Goleshovo

2008 • 35 min • United Kingdom

This is a tale about the death of Goleshovo, a forgotten town in the mountains of Bulgaria. Here, a handful of old people struggle for survival: A couple fights with their donkey. A forgetful priest leads his congregation into confusion. A woman cheers up her friends with songs. Will their children ever return? Composed with rigorous attention to form, this observational documentary is an austere yet ultimately rewarding portrait of hope.

Vantaa

2008 • 10 min

A man claiming to be Arnold Schönberg searches for his yoghurt.

Our Anguilla

2008 • 25 min • Anguilla

Our Anguilla is a short film about the history of Anguilla (British West Indies). The film was shot on location in Anguilla in the summer of 2008.

I Know

2008 • 7 min • Slovenia

In a basement, a man built his masterpiece ...

The Stations

2008 • 25 min • Latvia

The fading romance of the era of train travel is portrayed in the faces of railway workers, at lonely stations where trains no longer stop, on empty tracks where trains no longer run.

Close

2008 • 9 min • Poland

Agniezska and her friends discover love for the first time.

Chicory 'n' Coffee

2008 • 9 min • Slovenia

The story turns on a small deception - since they were married, instead of the real thing, the wife has always made Chicory (a cheap substitute for Coffee) for her husband. He never catches on to the deception. For him, the slush tastes better than the best Coffee.

Abimbowé

2008 • 3 min • Spain

Agustina can't see. María, the girl who looks after her, will open her eyes.

Our Necessity for Comfort

2008 • 13 min • Portugal

Time rushes by us. It rushes like the clouds in the sky that are swept and left drifting by the wind. As it passes we live and feel its passage. A brief reflection about time and life seen through two moments of our mother’s lives.

What Cassandra Saw

2008 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Cassandra discovers by accident the Bureau of Shadows, responsible for making, measuring and resizing our shadows while we are asleep, in this post-modern fairy tale.

E.t.a.

2008 • 5 min • Denmark

Marvin has the most boring job in the universe. But all is not as it seems.

Sunny Day

2008 • 19 min • Russia

Masha lives in a far northern village. At school one is studying - there are no more children in the village. In the village also there is no cellular communication, internet, shop and entertainment. But Masha loves her native places and dreams of opening a hospital in the village.

Brother's Keeper

2008 • 16 min

Two brothers live together in an old mansion, one gruesomely mutilated. The other brother seduces young women, mostly prostitutes and brings them to their remote estate, where the brothers fulfill their holy mission to ritually murder these women. When one of the brothers falls in love with the next victim the situation gets out of hand.

Cosa Che Fugge

2008 • 5 min • Italy

'Cosa Che Fugge' arises from the stratification of multiple images that overlap and which, by merging, give life to a new image; thus the sound is also given by multiple sound bands, dilated and reversed, which generate something other than what they are individually: a choral whole.

Haoma

2008 • 7 min • France

33rd Day

2008 • 60 min • Serbia

Anamarija, head of a conservative and religious family, after her husbands death feels persecuted. Despite the rages of evil, she’s trying to find the balance between rasing her children and her own safety.

Russian Tunnel

2008 • 19 min • Brazil

Film about the police brutality in dealing with homosexual public demonstration of affection. A gay couple is tortured and harassed because they are kissing on the streets of Rio.

I Hate Christmas

2008 • 3 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 nineteenth film in the series.

Dissecting Santa

2008 • 3 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 eleventh film in the series.

Holiday Hooligans

2008 • 3 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 twenty-second film in the series.

My Mother's Farm

2008 • 52 min • Latvia

For the post-war generation in Latvia, the dream of the “good old days” became a significant part of the process of regaining independence. The dream of restoring the countryside to the way it was during the first independence is only now seen by most as naïve and unreal. Six episodes that reflect the historical development in the nation parallel to the fate of the director’s mother are used to explore the effects of political order on everyday lives. Though she is now leaving the countryside, the process of moving her life provides a visual stimulus for memories.

George & Karl

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

Karl and George are two homeless guys finding ways to survive on the street of Manhattan.

Perrongen

2008 • 12 min • Sweden

It's early in the morning. Alice, pregnant with her first child, is going to the local train station to meet her mother who is shortly to arrive. As she sits in the waiting room, her father - who she has not seen in ten years - enters ...