All Films

The War Machines: Now & Then

2008 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A look at the locations used in the making of the story, comparing how they were in 1966 with how they are today.

Fearful Symmetry

2008 • 2 min • Canada

A short student film about life through the eyes of an assassin stalking his prey, using the poem The Tyger by William Blake.

Maridos, Amantes e Pisantes

2008 • 12 min • Brazil

A bedroom. A husband, a lover, a closet. A pair of shoes. Oh, and a wife... and a camera crew.

Já Me Transformei em Imagem

2008 • 32 min • Brazil

Comments on the history of a people, made by the filmmakers and their characters. From the time of contact, through captivity in rubber plantations, to the current work with video, the testimonies give meaning to the process of dispersion, loss and reunion experienced by the Huni kui.

La Huella del gato

2008 • 28 min • Argentina

Marcelo decides to abandon his life as a city publicist, sells his properties, and builds a ranch on the island. He sails to Don Armando's store for supplies. Victoria works there, with whom he has a romantic relationship and ends up living with him. One night, two men try to rob them; Victoria is shot and killed, and he kills her attackers. The ranch burns down. Marcelo abandons his lost paradise by rowing downriver.

Minot, North Dakota

2008 • 18 min

The town Minot is home to a U.S. Air Force base that guards 150 nuclear missiles buried in northern North Dakota. The weapons of mass destruction placed there 50 years ago are still targeted at Russia. Minot, North Dakota portrays an American landscape where people live with nuclear bombs in their backyard.

My Uncle Loved the Colour Yellow

2008 • 9 min • Sweden

It's the summer of 1963 in the Swedish countryside. Today is Martin's 12th birthday and, as always, his shy uncle Helmer arrives at the party before anyone else. Also as usual, his birthday present is something yellow. Helmer is very fond of the colour yellow. But when Uncle Helmer decides to paint his house yellow, the neighbours protest. And one day Martin hears rumours that Uncle Helmer is in the "madhouse" ...A tragicomic short about a moving relationship between a boy and a rather special uncle.

Argentina. Interview with a dead drug dealer

2008 • 35 min • Russia

The philosophical parable of the spiritual rebirths of man. The plot is based on the life of a small drug dealer Ilya Krakowski, who sells drugs in a cell phone sales office. Krakow knows exactly how to carry goods through the entire city without risking jailing, and sells drugs to everyone.

Bartolina Sisa

2008 • 35 min

A documentary about Bartolina Sisa Vargas, a native heroin who lived in Bolivia in the 18th century and fought against the colonizers.

A Line a Day Must Be Enough!

2008 • 58 min • Faeroe Islands

In a film bursting with lyrics, pictures, and music the director shows us a way into the peculiar universe of Tóroddur, and the otherwise not very talkative artist gives us a glimpse of his thoughts on art, God, life and death.

Oro nestas piedras

2008 • 55 min

Documentary about the Argentine poet, born in San Juan, Jorge Leonidas Escudero. His voice -speaking and reading- is the thread that brings together the experience as a gold digger in the San Juan mountains, the enthusiasm for games of chance, poetry, nature. The player loses, however he insists. Poems, friendship and humor remain, the celebration of the spoken word.

Wild Casting

2008 • 1 min • France

Two workers are chased by a lion on the rooftops of a large American city.

Moretsu Kaijuu Daikessen

2008 • 30 min • Japan

Growing Old Living

2008 • 26 min • Uruguay

To grow old in Rivera is to grow old on the border. The protagonists of this documentary tell us in Portuguese as well as in Spanish about their lives far from the bustle of the capital city. Their days are long, their work is hard, they have few opportunities to improve their situation, but they still haven't lost the ability to smile or their love of life. The aim of this documentary is to show what the process of growing old in Uruguay is like, and to raise people's awareness about the situation of the elderly. It shows, without prejudice, just what old age is.

Cíclope

2008 • 45 min • Argentina

A couple's trip; a car, a route, fields, houses, bars, another car.

The News Story

2008 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A fledgling news station feels the full force of OfCom when a news report is criticized by the public. This fly-on-the-wall mockumentary follows the staff of Boost News as they attempt to stay afloat in the mounting hilarity.

Guerreros del arcoiris

2008 • 55 min • Bolivia, Venezuela

The process of constituent refoundation that the people of Bolivia have undertaken and the secessionist threats that are raised in the name of the autonomies. Filmed during the month of December 2007 in the towns of La Paz, Chapare and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the documentary shows up close the profound changes that have been made since the arrival of Evo Morales to the presidency and, therefore, On the other hand, the racist side of the power groups based in Santa Cruz that resist these changes.

Landau 66

2008 • 11 min • Brazil

On a stormy night, two friends leave the house in search of fun.

Red cactus

2008 • 52 min • Madagascar

On the coast of Androy, region most in the South of Madagascar, one of the most elementary needs misses: water. Will the red cactus help the inhabitants?

Vegans Who Hunt for Sport: Bonnie McFarlane

2008 • 21 min

Bonnie McFarlane shares unique parenting tips, why she would never donate an organ and how we could all be more environmentally friendly.

Mayflower

2008 • 10 min

A tale of loss and redemption featuring a storyteller and his muse.

De Cómo Los Niños Pueden Volar

2008 • 7 min • Mexico

Marco is a boy who dreams of flying. But in the world he lives in, his feet feel glued to the earth. A conceited crow helps him to find out how children can fly

The Gothic World of Daphne du Maurier

2008 • 19 min

An examination of Daphne du Maurier and her book's themes.

Marathon

2008 • 5 min • Germany

Many ordinary but different people take part on a marathon in a small town. Abruptly it becomes foggy and the mist is getting more and more dense. The competitors lose their orientation.