All Films

Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination

2008 • 54 min • China, India, United States of America

Six students from 3 Countries, USA, India and China are moving to College. They soon find themselves in a global competition and it narrows down to: Engineering and Science.

...detta förbaskade Public Service

2008 • 56 min

A K-Special on the theme of Public Service where satirgänget Public Service from Sveriges Radio's Good Morning, the world! take us on a journey in today's media world. Today's sketches heckled politicians and media celebrities interspersed with voices from Public Service antiquity. The debate from the start of Sweden's Television and our relationship with the Dear TV and radio. Who should own and who should decide and how should it sound?

Buoy

2008 • 7 min

The golden, barren landscape of Death Valley, California, recorded by Cho from a moving car, provides the luminous and mysterious texture of Buoy. As the title suggests, this work reflects on the polar extremes of this desert, which was once the floor of a vast sea, now traversed by sight-seeing tourists. In contrast to the horizontal landscape, which floats ceaselessly past Cho's camera, vertical "strata" pattern the imagery, creating an axis between natural landscape and Cho's composition. Cho accumulated his Death Valley footage over several years; the vertical patterning further represents the collapse of this footage into what appears to be a continuous drive through the desert.

Chat noir

2008 • 12 min • Spain

A reflection on the absurd destiny of the war.

The Narcotic Farm

2008 • 55 min

Originally named the United States Narcotic Farm, Narco opened its doors in 1935 and was a radical, and ultimately doomed, experiment on how to understand and treat drug addiction in the US. The coed facility not only housed convicted drug offenders, but also those who voluntarily checked in for drug rehabilitation.

.in for motion

2008 • 59 min • India

A menagerie of miniscule human stories of changing India, from history of early computers to the myth of present IT bubble, both sides of development and progress.

Kova-Dera: Fire of the Teenage Dragons

2008 • 10 min • Spain

Some 15-year-old half-freaked-out kids gather on the mountain to worship Van Damme and train in martial arts to achieve the goal of the ancient warriors of Kova Dera: to kick fire.

Dr. Lisa

2008 • 47 min

A small female doctor spends a significant part of her life at the train station helping homeless people. Why would she do that? The work was awarded the Award of the Academy of Russian Television TEFI, nomination "Best TV movie".

Street

2008 • 1 min • Netherlands

A small man (hat, tie, case) is waiting on a busy city road for the moment he can cross the street. But when the crossing lights turn green, it does not necessarily mean the cars cooperate. An animation in an angular style, stripped down to its essence, in which the figures are first drawn and later seem cut-out. An agitated tune further speeds up the tempo of this one-minute big-city tale.

Maison Tropicale

2008 • 58 min • France, Congo

Mali born Manthia Diawara's documentary is a complement to Ângela Ferreira's artistic project on the Maison Tropicale by Jean Prouvé, which was shown at the Venice Biennale 2007.

A glass of red wine...

2008 • 10 min • Mexico

A teacher of 30 years is in love with her student. While she wait with dinner ready, imagine several scenarios to enjoy together. But, her partner is late and she begins to suspect that he cheats; the passage of hours become a mental torture and must make a hasty decision.

The Bird of Wisdom: The Raven

2008 • 53 min

That's What I Call Dance

2008 • 54 min

She is shy, sincere, beautiful and provoking both as a person and on stage. She is one of our best contemporaray dancers in Europe and has received several awards for her works.

Happiness is Near

2008 • 4 min • Ukraine

Danny's Blues

2008 • 10 min

At the entrance of a jazz club, one rainy night, a teenage drug dealer awaits the arrival of his best client: the club's singer. But what he believes to be a routine deal turns into a final farewell. She tells him that she is leaving the next day. Despite the ban on him not to enter the club, he decides to take a risk and go in to listen to it for the last time.

Birdstrike

2008 • 6 min • Germany

If an airplane encounters birds, the birds normally are on the losing end. But what if the airplane is smaller than the bird?

Industrious

2008 • 45 min

Big machinery meets old school brawn as Industrious goes deep inside a major deepwater port to explore its 28 terminals, 600 kilometers of shoreline and nearly 35,000 workers as they struggle with broken equipment, a punishing schedule and busloads of passengers to keep the economy humming.

Diamond in the Sky

2008 • 15 min • Philippines

Two brothers journey to compete in a kite flying contest. They are ready to win, but a more precious prize awaits them.

Letter from Gaza

2008 • 21 min

Address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature

Aron

2008 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The original short which inspired the film Son of Rambow

Anyone There?

2008 • 10 min • Germany

Violet is looking forward to spending a nice long weekend house-sitting at a friend's mansion. She is not expecting to be stalked by a psycho killer. Or is she? There are a few clichés that can't be missed in any good horror film: The sexy victim, the slow killer and the question "Hello, anyone there?"

Made in Slovenia

2008 • 19 min • Slovenia

A Slovenian story about how the successful transition from socialism, as well has its dark side; many factories were ruined, workers became unemployed, and those employed are very often victims of ruthless exploitation. When I learned about what women have to sacrifice in order to keep their jobs.

Escale

2008 • 6 min • France

A sailing crew make a stopover at a port.

The Secret Wars of the Big Sport

2008 • 52 min • Russia

The authors selected four of the most popular sports in Russia. And their brightest "stars" who survived the "conflicts of the century." Biathlete Alexander Tikhonov, football player Pavel Sadyrin, hockey player Alexander Mogilny, chess player Viktor Korchnoi. They confronted, each at his own time, rivals, outdated rules, and even the political system...