All Films

The Green Dumpster Mystery

2008 • 50 min • Israel

Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula.

Nuisibles

2008 • 7 min • France

The unexpected meeting of a father and a son in the working world.

August 15th

2008 • 20 min • China

Based on a real life event, a young Chinese woman boards a bus with her boyfriend to head home to meet his parents. What was supposed to be a joyful holiday turns unpredictable when a pair of countryside crooks hijack their bus. Traveling through China's dangerous mountain passes, the passengers must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice for their own safety.

Turpinājums Latvijai

2008 • 60 min • Latvia

A look back at the first years after Latvia regained its independence.

The Cornershop

2008 • 45 min • Iceland

The Corner Shop is a documentary about one of the last remaining grocery stores in Iceland. Run by two eccentric brothers, it is the glue that keeps the community together.

The River Ran Red

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

The River Ran Red, part of The Witnesses Trilogy, is a 60 minute documentary about the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Using eyewitness testimonies, the filmmaker, himself a survivor, weaves a story of terrifying intensity, from the highland waters of the Euphrates to the burning deserts of Syria, to the final resting place of those who died in and around the river.

Beware Dogs

2008 • 45 min • India

The film Beware Dogs captures two days in the life of four eclectic musicians and their struggle to create music. Across the city, in a house dating back to a Delhi long forgotten, four musicians have a song to weave. Indian Ocean, as the band is called, is a bit of the modern city in itself. They draw myriad folk & local traditions fusing them with the sound of the contemporary, creating music, which is diasporic.

Dog Eat Dog

2008 • 7 min • Canada

The muse performs Dog Eat Dog. In altered and real-time he presents a dark and light side of innocence.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hero

2008 • 60 min

They are a cult phenomenon of do-gooders donning costumes to perform heroic deeds like patrolling neighborhoods, feeding homeless, cleaning up streets and performing community services. This Documentary film examines the motives, minds and lives of three different Real Life Superheroes: 'Superhero', 'Mr. Silent' and 'Master Legend'. Follow these unique characters and explore the driving force behind the calling to be a Real Life Superhero.

The Night Wood

2008 • 3 min • South Korea, United States of America

Firework awakes a forest at night, and the night wood invites us to beautiful place where wood, owl, stream, and giraffe form a wonderful sight. Later, the sun comes up and the night disappears. Animation technique: Scratch on 35mm film. Multi plane

Deux Regards

2008 • 3 min • South Korea, United States of America

At the interstice between materiality and immateriality, Direct work on the filmstrip is digitally rendered, creating tension between surface and depth.

The rooster and the dawn

2008 • 25 min • Uruguay

This documentary gives us a profile of Carlos Molina, the Uruguayan anarchist who was also an improvisational singer and poet, through words, songs and improvisations by contributors including Daniel Viglietti, Coriún Aharonián and Mauricio Rosencof.

Tv till varje pris - En film om Lasse Holmqvist

2008 • 58 min

For more than three decades he was one of Swedish television's great personalities with hits like Lördagsträffen, Bialitt and Här är ditt liv. The film depicts Lasse Holmqvist's life from growing up in Osby through his career in radio and television to the tragic end in financial ruin. A loving portrait of a big, socially brilliant man who stormed into the first Swedish television sets and then refused to leave the screen

Viva o Cinema Brasileiro!

2008 • 22 min • Brazil

Uakari: Secrets of the English Monkey

2008 • 48 min

In the flooded forests of the Peruvian Amazon lives one of the world's rarest and most mysterious primates, the red-faced uakari monkey. Local people call them English monkeys because of their resemblance to sunburnt visitors. Now there is a new Englishman on the scene, Mark Bowler, a young biologist who battles through the forest in his quest to understand the monkeys' secret lives. The film shows the first footage of these extraordinary animals in the wild and reveals why ice cream could be the greatest threat to their survival.

Il Naturalista

2008 • 5 min • Italy

The naturalist lives in the city. Whenever he can, he jumps into his car and drives out into the country to relax amid the fields and hills, to play his flute and perhaps...

Sarajevo Spring

2008 • 15 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

In Sarajevo, drinking coffee means much more than just waking up… How hard can sometimes be to relax and just enjoy the prospect around you? This is a story of the spirit of Sarajevo and its simplicity of life. All you need is a cup of coffee and good company…

The Girl Who Cried Flowers

2008 • 25 min • United States of America

This story is about a mysterious girl who cries beautiful flowers instead of tears. She thinks only of sad. things so she can provide blossoms to the villagers. Trouble starts when she falls in love and thinks only happy thoughts.

Once Upon a Time... Lawrence of Arabia

2008 • 52 min • France

Once upon a time in 1962, « Lawrence of Arabia », a film by David Lean. Inspired by the life of T.E Lawrence, the film tells the epic story of the British officer who led, between 1916 and 1918, the rebellion of the Bedouin tribes against the Ottoman Empire. When the film is released at the very beginning of the 1960’s, Great-Britain and France are painfully withdrawing from their colonies, as Arab nationalism is experiencing a renaissance around the world. Five years after the French and British humiliating Suez expedition the film remains the proud, nostalgic counterpoint of political events of the 1950's when a British officer was encouraging Arab nationalism.

Marble

2008 • 3 min • Austria

It is bleak. There is this gray building on a rainy day, where anyone´s windows is kept closed. Overlooking the courtyard a boy is sitting on his windowsill. He is playing with a mirrored-glass marble. It is enjoyable to watch, as well as for this other child, standing at its opened window across the courtyard. The boy spins his marble again and again and the other childs interest for the marble is growing minute by minute. Suddenly something happens... It is a short film about observing a moment and following its interests.

A trip to the seaside

2008 • 7 min • Russia

Three days by train on the way to the dream.

Baltazar Ushka, The Frozen Time

2008 • 22 min • Ecuador

Chimborazo, Ecuador. At 6,267 meters high, in one of the world´s highest volcano, the Chimborazo, Baltazar Ushka has been working for more than thirty years now. He works chopping ice out of the glacier, later to be used to cool fruit juices at the popular market in Riobamba, Ecuador. This documentary travels through time in a circular way, to create a life´s portrait of the last Chimborazo Ice Man. It's the second part of the most famous and award-winning documentary in Ecuador: Los Hieleros del Chimborazo. 1980.

The Divorce

2008 • 40 min • Gabon

Magloire and Florence got married traditionally, with the approval of their families. Three years later, they face a serious crisis in their couple and want to divorce. But it still has to be done with the consent of their families.

Days of the Pony Express

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

The Pony Express continues to capture the imagination of young and old alike. Relive the experiences of the original organizers; Russell, Majors, and Waddell as well as riders Johnny Fry, Pony Bob Haslam, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Bronco Charlie Miller in this action driven documentary as they pave the trail into American history.