All Films

Henry van Loon: Live in Toomler

2008 • 26 min • Netherlands

A stand-up comedy set by the Dutch comedian Henry van Loon, recorded live in Toomler in January 2008.

Snow Angel

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

John Malkovich wrote the opening scene of a short film and invited fans to write the next chapter as part of the Sony VAIO Online Script Project. The finished script was turned into an animated film called Snow Angel.

Red Spot

2008 • 8 min • Latvia

Pēteris doesn’t get a chance to go pee before the start of the closing race of the semester’s swimming lessons, but he lacks the courage to back out of such a pressure-filled situation. It gets even worse when Pēteris learns that a red spot appears when pool water comes in contact with urine. In facing such a hardship, the boy must become a man.

An Underwhelming Banquet

2008 • 6 min • Sweden

A man goes to buy food for his upcoming guests when he realizes he has forgotten something.

Private Calls

2008 • 3 min • Sweden

A relationship is being tested during a war.

Adam's Day

2008 • 22 min • Israel

14 year old Adam runs away from home and makes his way into the house of Yoav, his psychologist, as the latter and his family are about to fly abroad. Adam messes up their plans.

Au bout du rang

2008 • 17 min

Olivier, a young boy who lives in the countryside, sees his father doing something he will never forget.

In Chambers

2008 • 9 min • Norway

A portrayal of how reality is experienced for those who are in coma, and further how the system works in this seemingly macabre and hostile place.

Scratches

2008 • 22 min

Scattered children and youngsters hang around in a deserted industrial estate where there isn't much to do — apart from longing for love.

Spirit House

2008 • 11 min • United States of America

A tale of 2 passages within the Spirit house. This is the first in a series that looks at the places we find our spiritual presence augmented, inflamed, or simply acknowledged.

It's Not Funny, It's Art

2008 • 3 min • Netherlands

Short animated film about Blanca, who tries to fathom art. When a painting makes her laugh out loud, her father reprimands her: "It is not funny, it is Art", he says. Blanca feels it is quite complicated. So when is something art? How do you have to look at it? And is it allowed to touch art, for example? When she fails to figure it out, she decides to imitate museum visitors. With great consequences.

Passos no Silêncio

2008 • 17 min • Brazil

A German teacher and the translation of a poem.

Fly High

2008 • 52 min • Switzerland

Twelve talented young mountaineers, five geologists from the University of Lausanne and four mountain guides take an unprecedented risk in Patagonia. Trained by the great climbers Ralf Weber, Ueli Steck, Denis Burdet and David Fasel, the young people are collecting rock samples from the granite walls of the Paine Towers, which are up to 1000 meters high, on behalf of science. The challenges are enormous: Climbing a big wall at the highest level of difficulty, cloudy weather, relentless wind that tears at material and nerves - and an urgency that also pushes the group to their emotional limits. "Flying High" not only documents an extraordinary undertaking, but also shows up close what happens when something happens that can happen after every meter of altitude climbed: a fall.

The Speed of the Ceibos

2008 • 15 min • Uruguay

The different inhabitants of a town prepare, each in their own way, for a great event.

Madam President

2008 • 9 min • United States of America

A young girl imagines what her day would be like if she were Madam President.

Meat Dog: What's fer Dinner?

2008 • 3 min

Meat Dog, a mutt made up of cold cuts, is pitted against an occult church of evil pigs while being pursued by a carnivorous rabbit and hounds. It's dogocide when everyone wants Meat Dog on their menus.

Karosta: Life After the USSR

2008 • 49 min • United Kingdom

A portrait of an abandoned Soviet military settlement that was neglected when the army personnel and their families left.

When This Man Dies

2008 • 23 min

The monotony of an office worker’s life is disrupted when he receives a letter offering him money when a particular person dies. As these letters and the promised money is delivered to him regularly, his other fixed daily patters start to alter, as does his life style.

Rains

2008 • 8 min • Canada, France

A sudden rainstorm is unleashed on a city. Everyone seeks refuge. When the clouds thin out, life continues.

It's All Good

2008 • 7 min • Serbia

A Serbian cartoon depicting a party gone horribly wrong.

Greed

2008 • 3 min

A devastated gangster experiences the costs of greed.

A Soldier's Choice

2008 • 10 min • United States of America

Marine private John Rossi is looking forward to a new assignment in New York City on the night he ventures into a Hell's Kitchen bar, and meets a handsome but lonely boy named Damon Conrad. Damon assumes the Marine just wants sex, but when he proposes they go out on a "real date," Damon begins to think perhaps he has finally found the man of his dreams. The next night, John reveals that earlier that day he learned his division would be heading to the Middle East. Later that night, when the boys are caught-up in a moment of passion, John must choose between his devotion to the Marines and his desire for love and companionship.

J.

2008 • 6 min • Brazil

Found memories decayed by the shock patterns of childhood trauma. This films is made mostly with footage found in the bin of an ophanage. The white progressivelly disolve within a darknest more and more dense. Faces progressivelly disolves within one another.

Sacris Pulso

2008 • 15 min • Australia, Brazil

Sacris Pulso departs from the dismemberment of another film, "Brasiliários". This film is an interpretation of Clarice Lispector's chronic "Brasília", her vision of the modernist capital, as it is the film which marks the encounter of my mother, playing Lispector, and my father, composer of the film's sound score. Through the juxtaposition of "Brasiliários" with a series of reassembled found footage, the film takes the form of a voyage of remembrance and imagination, of a past and future time dreamt between personal and collected materials, between memory and fiction.