All Films

Father

2008 • 2 min • Armenia, Germany, Netherlands

Exercise in death - look at the terrible face of a father. To hear his hoarseness is the preparation for death.

A Primeira Noite

2008 • 4 min

Two teenagers go to a cheap motel for a first night of love. They wait for the bus, but the girl doesn't look very sure of the idea. The boyfriend gently insists.

Pinball Passion

2008 • 50 min

A pinball story told by pinball people.

Trilogia das Novas Famílias

2008 • 45 min • Mozambique

The film consists of three short documentary films that show the faces and give voices to children orphaned by AIDS. The intentions of the documentary are to focus attention on the dismemberment of families in Mozambique due to AIDS, because it is a harsh reality and too often ignored.

Varför just jag

2008 • 7 min • Sweden

The film is about Jonna, whose parents are addicts. She's trying to keep it secret, but people keep looking at her and comment. Based on children's and young people's stories of bullying.

The Broken Imago

2008 • 3 min • United States of America

A plague wipes out all the adults on the planet, leaving behind only children and a select few who are immune. [This short was produced as a proof-of-concept for a feature film, which is yet to be made.]

Leaving the Fold

2008 • 52 min • Canada

Finding the courage to leave the fold is only the beginning for most of these young people. Those who have decided to take this step become pariahs, often completely cut off from the emotional and financial support of their families. To make matters worse, judged by our secular standards, they have no marketable skills. Many only speak Yiddish— or some Hebrew that is stilted and archaic because it is restricted to use only for prayer.

September

2008 • 21 min • United Kingdom

A short film from England by Esther May Campbell, "September" is a poetic look at growing up with a young man who works at a fast food restaurant located beside a highway. Beautifully shot in an enigmatic and poetic style, it's subtle and magical. It's a perfect example of how a short film can create a world that takes us away and provides perspective on how people are.

Portrait of a Reluctant Gentleman

2008 • 13 min • Sweden

There are many rumors about Eugen. That he likes it better with a beer on the park bench than in his flat at Östermalm. That he was a chemist who made his own amphetamines. That he fought in the Hitler Jugend. Is this true?

Running Sushi

2008 • 28 min • Austria

We enter a constructed setting, against the background of a video wall that suggests we are in a restaurant. A Japanese restaurant, as can be concluded from the conveyor belt which forms part of the fittings. Running Sushi consists of a casual conversation between Steffi and Johnny in a sushi restaurant, while the parallel world of thoughts and sensations of both characters takes the stage. Each new dish has major consequences in the grotesque dream reality.

Winter's Portrait of a Burnt Landscape

2008 • 40 min • Portugal

Research in the present of a burnt landscape: observation of what exists now, understanding the rubble and remains; discovery of the dead tree’s place in a destroyed land and perception of its immobility.

Veenavaadanam

2008 • 26 min • India

The documentary narrates about world paintings and painters through a conversation with a painter, Sujith Aalungal and introduce his "Veenaavaadanam" painting.

I Do For Money

2008 • 39 min • Sweden

Three Thai women's own stories are portraits of Ae, Nat and Noi who all work in the sex industry, entertaining tourists from all over the world..

Microphysics

2008 • 17 min • Spain

A young aeronautical engineer from Barcelona and his girlfriend travel to Chicago for a work meeting.

O Pesadelo é Azul

2008 • 30 min

Through archival images of the time and testimonies of victims and victims, the tragedy with Cesio 137, which occurred in Goiânia, Goiás, in 1987, is reconstructed and its consequences to this day.

Syrian Rue

2008 • 40 min

A series of four films, manually and digitally altered and "pulled together from salvaged 8mm home movies and found 16mm documentaries" by Eoin Shea with music by Michael Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra, Flower-Corsano Duo).

Dreams

2008 • 15 min • Philippines

Angan-Angan (Dreams) centers on a nine-year-old girl named Satra who has been mute for as long as she could remember. Her determination to secure a good education reverberates clearly amid the strictness of her Yakan culture.

De Bende van Vier

2008 • 52 min • Netherlands

The Dutch musical comedians Theo Nijland, Maarten van Roozendaal, Jeroen van Merwijk and Kees Torn sing and play a selection of their songs to promote the Dutch theater song.

Trails of Water

2008 • 16 min • Philippines

Trails of Water is an experimental film about a young boy's emotion as seen through his make-believe story. His story is about Galeno who struggles to survive in his everyday life by fetching water as a living near the mining site. His village is then caught in a mass paranoia where everyone is suspicious of a newcomer in the village. This resulted in a killing phenomenon. No one knows who the person is until the stranger reveals himself to Galeno.

Claremont

2008 • 10 min

Skateboarders Noah Sakamoto and Patrick Rizzo filming each other on a ten-minute downhill slope—in powder blue suits and into oncoming traffic.

Hola?

2008 • 2 min • Argentina

A mime rehearse his movements.

Matching You

2008 • 17 min • France

Pierre invites his boyfriend, Hervé, to Lisbon where he recently discovered some relatives. Over the course of this journey, Pierre tells us about his ideals in love, and the conflicting ideals of his boyfriend.

Debt to Afghanistan

2008 • 58 min • Latvia

There is an old saying attributed to Alexander the Great: he who will rule Afghanistan will rule the world. The film portrays “the roof of the Earth” and tracks the close links between this far-off country and Latvia.

Three Suns

2008 • 54 min • Latvia

From a refugee of the WWII to president – that's the story of Vaira Vike-Freiberga. Losing her motherland and coming back to it. Latvian, refugee, emigrant, wife, mother, professor, scientist, president.