All Films

The Fifth Penalty

2008 • 22 min • Mexico

El Patotas Flores and Óscar La Chistosa Suárez are young stars playing with the Deportivo Barrio San Antonio soccer club. The word on the street is that El Patotas has never missed a penalty shot and that La Chistosa has never allowed one as a goalie. The two friends decide to make a secret competition, in order to determine who is the best of all, on the day a recruiter for Las Fieras shows up in order to offer a contract to only one player.

Cheerbleeders

2008 • 11 min • United States of America

Events take a turn for the worse when a teenage outcast inadvertently becomes popular.

The Last One

2008 • 58 min • United States of America

Deep in the wilds of Southern Appalachia, lifelong moonshiner Popcorn Sutton runs 1 last batch of accurate moonshine whiskey. By means of the exhausting work of clearing the site, building a rock and clay furnace, brewing corn mash and producing high-proof moonshine, Sutton reveals the craft of standard distillation, the character of his Scots-Irish ancestors, and a lifetime of memories in the trade.

Re-Animator: 1942

2008 • 3 min

Dr Herbert West and his assistant are working in a makeshift lab on the Eastern Front. As bombs drop and the fighting nears, West attempts to re-animate the corpse of a Waffen SS officer - with disastrous results.

Tolerantia

2008 • 6 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Primitive ice age man awakes somewhere in central Bosnia and starts building a wonder.

Vampire Hunter Hank

2008 • 20 min • United States of America

Hunkering down in the trenches of suburban America, he protects a distracted public from a terrible evil- one that is festering right underneath our noses, in our neighborhoods, and all around us: Vampires. Or so he believes. Meet Hank- a self-righteous crusader who brings up the question: is he protecting us, or do we need protection from him?

The Door

2008 • 17 min • Ireland, Ukraine

Shortly after the nuclear Chornobyl disaster in 1986, a father risks his life and returns to his deserted apartment to retrieve his front door.

Lotman's World

2008 • 59 min

The world is in every person. Microcosms have no boundaries.

69 - Praça da Luz

2008 • 22 min • Brazil

Prostitutes of old age make their living in Praça da Luz, in São Paulo. Unusual and surprising accounts of five women who reveal in detail their experiences in all these years of profession.

Out of Control

2008 • 11 min • Mexico

Remote and alone, various personalities share feelings of solitude in the interior of a labyrinthine house

Boris Ryzhy

2008 • 60 min • Netherlands

Russian Poet Boris Ryzhy was handsome, talented and famous. So why did he end his own life at the age of 26? A quest to find the answer takes the filmmaker to the notorious neighbourhood in the cold industrial city of Yekaterinenburg where Boris grew up...

Pentagon

2008 • 51 min • Sweden

A group of left-wing activists, rebelling against all and nothing, are holding a pair of right-wing fanatics hostage. An unfocused hitman is, sort of, hunting them down. It all ends in lots of blood without any obvious reason. At the end of the day it’s all about as politically incorrect as possible. Sort of…

Manteca, mondongo y bacalao con pan: una mirada al jazz cubano

2008 • 52 min • Cuba, Spain

The history of Latin jazz in Cuba from the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna to Irakere.

A Touch

2008 • 12 min • Netherlands

A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people in the city and by the water… Silhouettes that fade and turn into pure light and shadow until we discern the specks and scratches on the film strip itself. Sometimes, for a fraction of a second, a face, a person. A film as a memory that eludes us.

Y el cine marcha

2008 • 58 min • Spain

Block B

2008 • 20 min • Canada, Malaysia

A meditation on urban living, the film consists of a static shot of an apartment block in Kuala Lumpur, as the sounds and dialogue of the city pass by disconnected from the ability to see where any given sound is coming from.

Leaving Fear Behind

2008 • 25 min • Switzerland

Leaving Fear Behind (in Tibetan, Jigdrel) is a documentary shot by Tibetans from inside Tibet, who wanted to have Tibetan voices heard ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 with the global spotlight on China. The filming concluded on the eve of the eruption of unprecedented mass Tibetan protests across the Tibetan plateau. Shot primarily in the eastern provinces of Tibet, the film provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of the Tibetan people and their longstanding resentment of Chinese policies in Tibet. The footage was smuggled out of Tibet, and the filmmakers were detained soon after getting the tapes out.

13 Years, 13 Minutes

2008 • 49 min • Poland

A story of two boys caught up in the turmoil of the dramatic events of 1956 in Central Europe. At 13, Romek Strzalkowski was the youngest victim of the first workers' rebellion against Communist authorities in Poland. During "Black Thursday" on June 26, he was killed protesting near the UB political police headquarters. Peter Mansfeld was the youngest victim of post-revolt Communist reprisals in Hungary. As a 15-year-old he took part in the Budapest fighting. After the revolution had been quelled by the Soviet army in 1956, he did not give up; he was arrested in 1959 and sentenced to death. Because of the Communists' cruelty, it took as long as 13 minutes for Peter to die, "like Jesus Christ on the cross," said his Hungarian biographer. The filmmakers analyze the importance of the legend about the two boys who fought against Communism in Poland and Hungary.

Cabaret Kadne

2008 • 5 min • Spain

Otto and Lola, two cabaret artists, fill their lives with their passion: acting.

No Place Like Home

2008 • 6 min • Netherlands

There is no place like home, there is no place like hell. The first in Rosto AD's Thee Wreckers Tetralogy.

Jerusalem Cuts

2008 • 52 min • Israel

One war, ten days, three stories: the Old City of Jerusalem, at the dawn of a new Middle East. For the Brits, it’s the shameful end of 30 years Mandate. For the Jews, it’s the birthday of their State. And for the Palestinians, it’s a catastrophe. Only now, 60 years later, images can be shown from three opposing points of view, telling a whole new story.

The Trace of Emotion

2008 • 4 min • South Korea, United States of America

The emotion of people easily changes. It is not easy to define what emotion is. We just feel it. To feel emotion is like to observe nature because nature always changes by time, sun, and wind. When we observe nature, the nature tries to say what our emotion is because the nature leaves the trace of emotion.

L'empreinte

2008 • 47 min • France

A bakery in Herat in Afghanistan. Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, a dozen employees and apprentices repeat the same gestures, while the camera raises questions about the outside world, about images.

Olympia I & II

2008 • 8 min

This radical diptych recasts Manet's canonical painting as a scandalous psychodrama: in the first part, a prostitute (Katie Widloski) and her brother (Gabriel Abrantes) struggle with their incestuous urges; in the second, a prostitute (Abrantes) copes with her loneliness on a slow night for business.