All Films

Günter Wallraff Undercover: Wo Arbeit weh tut

2008 • 30 min • Germany

This time, the undercover journalist Wallraff has taken on the subject of 'cheap production for large discounters' with a hidden camera. Under a different identity, he was hired by a large bakery in the Rhineland that supplied cheap rolls for Lidl.

Out of Milk

2008 • 9 min

A touching and funny interpretation of the adult world through the eyes of a child.

Night Rising on Clouds

2008 • 30 min • France

A documentary with black-white imagery taken in West Papua (Indonesia).

My friends

2008 • 60 min • Netherlands

A film about a generation of four friends who grew up together in Sarajevo. They are the friends of filmmaker Lidija Zelovic-Goekjian, now living scattered across the world. What has happened to them over the past 13 years: how did they survive the war, how do they live now, how do they look back on their former lives, on Sarajevo, and on their old friends?

Tide

2008 • 14 min • China

I spent a day inside a small abandoned military fort by the sea. With the tide went up and down, I appeared and disappeared into the water.

Dice que no sabe

2008 • 7 min • Argentina

Filmed in a single sequence, we see Lorena, a young employee at a gas station on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. One night, she reacts violently toward a customer, to the incomprehension of the others. What happened?

P.S. Beirut, Chapter One

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

Michael Shamberg's P.S. Beirut, Chapter One is a personal journey to Beirut and the first chapter of a series bent on «discovering» the lost briefcase of Walter Benjamin which went missing when Benjamin's body was found

I Never Wanted to Dance

2008 • 4 min • Mexico

A youth romance that begins and ends during the adventures of summer.

War Song

2008 • 4 min • France, United Kingdom

Popping Eyes

2008 • 3 min • Uruguay

One morning, a girl wakes up and it seems she can make time stop with her eyes.

Frau Mercedes

2008 • 52 min • Switzerland

In Bern, Madame Mercedes has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and subtle portrait about ageing as a prostitute, a documentary about a vanishing chapter of habits in Switzerland.

Somebody's Daughter

2008 • 45 min • United States of America

Because of the internet's accessibility, anonymity, and affordability, pornography addictions have risen to epidemic levels, destroying intimacy, marriages and families, while distorting our definition of sex and sexuality.

Twelve Days of Black Mass

2008 • 3 min

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the sixteenth film in the series.

Huevos 11

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

Watch the Bomb Squad take ATV freestyle to new heights, take some laps with GNC champ Dustin Wimmer, and undergo a free ride segment that will blow your mind!

The River of the Painted Birds

2008 • 58 min • Uruguay

A north to south canoe trip along quiet bodies of water of Uruguay, exploring the fauna and flora amidst the wilderness.

Small House

2008 • 6 min • Estonia

The story of human error. Every time he goes to bed and turns off the light, he remembers something urgent: the toilet seat is not lowered, the Slippers are not parallel, the tap water is dripping… Unfortunately, the small house where all this happens is on the beach. How does it look at night from the sea? Yes, disaster is inevitable.

Mälestuste Maja

2008 • 32 min

Film about a woman who wishes to sell a house full of painful memories and about a real-estate broker whose life intertwines the woman's life. In a world that seemed to be empty they suddenly notice another person - someone who shares a similar destiny. Nothing takes the past away like the future.

In August

2008 • 14 min • Colombia

In a city transformed by a diluvian cataclysm in the distant future, a young indigenous shaman woman's vision is strangely related to a similar vision of an old man's deceased wife across a vast span of time. In their visions the world's future shall be revealed.

Offres Spéciales

2008 • 13 min • France

Mr Coutou has a plain life until he was contact by an curious agency who propose him to manage a trouble with an irksome and unwanted mammal.

December 23rd

2008 • 4 min

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the twenty-third film in the series.

The Clarification of a Fact

2008 • 15 min

GDR 1985: Within a 24-hour interrogation an officer of the East German secret police STASI is trying to force engineer Jürgen Schulz to withdraw his exit-permit application to leave the country. The STASI-officer pulls out all the stops to succeed ...

Teicēja Anna Ščemeļinska

2008 • 52 min • Latvia

Anna "Buksa" Scemelinska (1925 - 2011) was a Latvian folksinger. She learned her song repertoire and singing style from her parents and villagers. She sang in the Rekova Church Choir in 1956, and has also been a member of the Rekava Ethnographic Ensemble from 1980. Her mother sang religious hymns ,"godzinkas", while Anna sang traditional dainas. The singing was like the rest of her life: in harmony with nature. Marked by hard work and deep religiosity, her songs are a kind of Eastern European blues or gospel. Singers like Anna Scemelinska are storytellers. Their folk songs comprise legends, history and experience from life.

The Medicated Child

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

Ten years ago, stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall were the drugs of choice to treat behavioral issues in children. Today children as young as four years old are being prescribed more powerful anti-psychotic medications that are much less understood. The drugs can cause serious side effects and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. As the debate over medicating children continues to grow, FRONTLINE confronts psychiatrists, researchers, and big pharma about the risks and benefits of prescription drugs for troubled children.

Por qué no me tocó ser Michael Keaton?

2008 • 15 min • Argentina

A guy who is at home and speaks alone...