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Hans Sibbel: Live in Toomler

Hans Sibbel: Live in Toomler

2008 • 24 min • Netherlands
A stand-up comedy set by the Dutch comedian Hans Sibbel, recorded live in Toomler in January 2008.
Sinan - A Divine Architect

Sinan - A Divine Architect

2008 • 52 min
The 16th century architect Sinan is a Turkish cultural hero from the Ottoman era, but he is also the foremost architect in Islamic history.
La chaleur des autres ne réchauffe pas

La chaleur des autres ne réchauffe pas

2008 • 33 min
Khalil Yahya was born in 1965 in Hebron, Palestine. Forced to leave his country after the Six-Day War in 1967, Khalil traveled across the Arab world, from city to city, from refugee camp to refugee camp, until he found refuge in France, in Paris, where he still lives today. The film attempts to tell the story of this man's exile and, through his two daughters, addresses the question of the transmission, from one generation to the next, of a story, a cause and an identity
A Matter of Choice

A Matter of Choice

2008 • 35 min • United States of America
Best friends as kids, Ricky and Rudy went their separate ways. Time and circumstance would bring their world crashing down.
The East Wind

The East Wind

2008 • 10 min
Are we lulled into dreams? Or into reality? Is there a nether world in between? A ten-year-old boy goes to bed . His mother comes up to him and wraps a blanket on him and he slips into a dream… A dream that is frightening and unpleasant -- almost a nightmare. He tries hard to wriggle out of the dream. Just then, his mother walks into the room again and pulls the blanket over him. The boy returns to his dream. Or is it reality? Or is it a third state of being neither in dream nor in reality?
Roller Derby Dolls

Roller Derby Dolls

2008 • 27 min • Australia
In the sprawling outer suburbs of Brisbane, a revolution is brewing. A sassy group of women from all walks of life has a dream: to resurrect the lost sport of full-contact roller derby in Australia.
Germania Wurst

Germania Wurst

2008 • 11 min • Germany
A rapid rundown of German or rather Germanic »national history« -starting with the ancient Roman empire and ending with the German»reunification« and the present day. A sausage hereby is a time line, a connecting element between the scenes and also an ironic national symbol.
Berni's Doll

Berni's Doll

2008 • 11 min
Bernis, minor employee of a factory, makes up for his loneliness by buying a woman in kit form from the third world.
Diary of a Madman

Diary of a Madman

2008 • 10 min • Russia
Based on the short story by N.V.Gogol.
The Sword and the Sheath

The Sword and the Sheath

2008 • 5 min • United States of America
An elderly couple exchange gifts, words, and something deeper.
Pretty Frog

Pretty Frog

2008 • 13 min • Russia
A modern version of the famous Russian fairy tale "The Frog Princess".
Précis du quotidien

Précis du quotidien

2008 • 25 min • Canada
A summer in the life of a mother and her two children. Précis of the Everyday is a tender look at the memory, passing time, imagination and poetry that make every day a unique experience. In her desire to “record every moment”, the mother is humbled by how much escapes her.
The Elusive David Agnew

The Elusive David Agnew

2008 • 5 min • United Kingdom
The Elusive David Agnew was a BBC documentary looking at David Agnew. It was released on the DVD of The Invasion of Time and featured interviews with Terrance Dicks and Anthony Read.
William Eggleston: Photographer

William Eggleston: Photographer

2008 • 26 min
This mesmerizing documentary, a profile of photographer William Eggleston and his work, puts particular focus on one hugely pivotal moment in not only his own career, but in the art world at large. Although it failed to inspire critics at the time of its unveiling, Eggleston’s simply titled exhibit "Color Photographs by William Eggleston" is widely recognized as legitimizing and basically conceptualizing color photography in modern art and entertainment.
Sed de Mar

Sed de Mar

2008 • 60 min • Chile
The story of 10 friends who go on vacation to Papudo, a seaside resort in Chile.
No somos héroes

No somos héroes

2008 • 50 min • Argentina
The Malvinas War resulted in the deaths of 649 Argentines, the wounding of another 1,063, and undoubtedly precipitated the fall of the military dictatorship. But for the conscripts, nothing ended with surrender. For the first time, they tell their story: their military service, the war, the mistreatment, the hunger, the differences with the English, the humiliation, the return home, the indifference, the suicides. They fought not only against the enemy but also against their superiors. They were victims of the dictatorship and the war: and they claim that those who call themselves heroes are yesterday's oppressors.
Winter Passings

Winter Passings

2008 • 12 min
The story of a young mother, caught in the middle of taking care of her father and her daughter.
Let Us Go

Let Us Go

2008 • 13 min • South Korea
In a village under reconstruction, 65-year-old Han must take his father's ashes back home after the graveyard is removed.
Chundu kurukkan

Chundu kurukkan

2008 • 38 min • India
Debut Feature Animation movie of 'Carrot creation' . A political satire. Chundu kurukkan is an animation Movie for children following a cunning fox. Whom has luck always against him.This Animation is produced by Millennium Audios & Video Vision.
Niigaanibatowaad: Front Runners

Niigaanibatowaad: Front Runners

2008 • 47 min • Canada
At a special ceremony during the opening of the 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, seven Indigenous men in their fifties entered the stadium in war canoes. One of them held the Games torch. In 1967 when Winnipeg first hosted the Pan American Games, ten outstanding athletic teenage boys were chosen to run 800 kilometers over an ancient message route with the Games torch. When the runners arrived at the stadium, they were not allowed to enter with the torch. Instead, a non-Indigenous runner was given the honour. Thirty-two-years later, the province of Manitoba issued an official apology. Nine of the ten young men chosen for the 1967 Pan Am Games torch run were from residential schools. Niigaanibatowaad is about the segregation of the Indigenous athletes and the despair and abuse suffered in the school system. Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners is a story of survival, hope, reconciliation and a dream for a new beginning that transcends hatred and racism.
Water and Fire

Water and Fire

2008 • 60 min • Macedonia
A film following the beginning of the human race to its end.
Vajont '63: il coraggio di sopravvivere

Vajont '63: il coraggio di sopravvivere

2008 • 52 min • Italy
At 10:39 PM of October 9, 1963, a landslide of 250 million cubic meters of land is detached from Mount Toc and falls into the artificial reservoir created by the Vajont dam, located in the northern mountains of the Veneto region (Italy). The landslide raises a hundred-meter-long wave that crosses the dam and within a few minutes falls on the Longarone village, at the foot of the dam. The country is completely destroyed. Nearly 2000 people in a few seconds pass from sleep to death. The film-documentary proposes, almost 50 years after the tragedy, one of the most serious European catastrophes since the post-war period to date. Within the documentary, different and significant are the testimonies of the protagonists of that dramatic event, which has destroyed entire countries and villages. The basis of the film is the extraordinary repertoire material, mostly unpublished. Also, inside the documentary, there is a touching testimony of Giampaolo Pansa, then sent to the Press.
How Does Your Memory Work

How Does Your Memory Work

2008 • 49 min • United Kingdom
You might think that your memory is there to help you remember facts, such as birthdays or shopping lists. If so, you would be very wrong. The ability to travel back in time in your mind is, perhaps, your most remarkable ability, and develops over your lifespan. Horizon takes viewers on an extraordinary journey into the human memory. From the woman who is having her most traumatic memories wiped by a pill, to the man with no memory, this film reveals how these remarkable human stories are transforming our understanding of this unique human ability. The findings reveal the startling truth that everyone is little more than their own memory.
The Coyote and the Tortoise

The Coyote and the Tortoise

2008 • 3 min
A coyote and tortoise race against a desert backdrop.