All Films

21 Sexiest Beaches

2008 • 44 min

The Eternal Quarter Inch

2008 • 9 min • United States of America

Dipping between ecstasy and despair, transcendence and absurdity, this movie journeys to a hidden space where you can lose your way, lose yourself in the moment, lose your faith in a belief system. An exhausted and expectant crowd waits on this narrow span. It is not a wide stretch, but it can last forever.

Depois das Nove

2008 • 15 min • Brazil

Rafael lives with his grandmother in Copacabana. After some incidents he sees the world from a new perspective.

Kees van Amstel: Live in Toomler

2008 • 25 min

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

The Fair Trade

2008 • 57 min • Togo, United States of America

The feature documentary The Fair Trade tells the story of Tamara Johnston who, devastated by the tragic death of her fiance, makes a bargain with God in exchange for a meaningful life. She and her twin sister Shelby join forces with brother-in-law Steven to start one of the first fair trade skincare companies—Anti-Body. Even as Tamara becomes a successful activist for human rights and social justice causes, despair over her loss remains unabated. As she nears the deadline of her bargain, a trip to Africa allows her to visit the fair trade co-op from which Anti-Body buys its organic shea butter. There, she finds a surprising answer to what is required of her in exchange for a sustainable life.

Roadside

2008 • 12 min • Ireland

Comerford's first digital short which evolved into an installation, is an audacious blur of ugliness and beauty. Drawing on found footage from personal archives, it outlines an encounter between a man and a woman in a stolen car.

Nothing But Freedom

2008 • 32 min • Serbia

Cane and Anton, the frontman and the lead guitarist of one of the most acclaimed Serbian rock bands Partibrejkers (The Partybreakers), tell about their stands and music career.

Dead End

2008 • 56 min • Iran

Documentary about Babak Bayat (Persian: بابک بیات)(13 June 1946 – 26 November 2006). Babak Bayat was an Iranian songwriter and film score composer. He was repeatedly nominated for the Crystal Simorgh award in the field of the soundtrack at the Fajr Film Festival and received this award twice in 1991 and 1997.

What's Going On: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

The story of Marvin Gaye, one of the great and enduring figures of soul music whose life was one of sexual confusion and bittersweet success, using his own words and memories.

Stones (Elements)

2008 • 21 min • Latvia

A man in a grey coat roams the city. He is interested in boys and men. Those good enough for him will get a green bag. Marija is home alone. She is the only woman to get a green bag. But the film does not end quite there.

The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5

2008 • 7 min • Spain

A young man prepares for an invasion of alien robots while desperately trying to connect to his own family members.

Slideshow

2008 • 19 min • Philippines

An experimental film on food, cycles, and life processes.

Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Louis Theroux travels to Johannesburg, where the residents find themselves increasingly besieged by crime as he looks at the issue of law and disorder.

Self Service

2008 • 8 min • Israel

A twenty-something man comes to the launderette to do a load but winds up encountering a street punk teen who gets surprisingly intimate.

A Birth of BrainFly

2008 • 6 min • United States of America

A Birth of BrainFly is a surreal narrative dealing with the process of a person’s individuation in a mental scape. A journey through and into Self, the constructed labyrinths of Ego, and the creative transcendence of the mind's physical limitations. Birth of BrainFly charts a surreal course of a psyche's evolution within the invisible landscape of the mind. The visual landscape is made up of a mélange of experiments in collage, live action, hand drawn, paint on film and multi plane.

Dublin 26.06.08: A Film in 4 Days

2008 • 48 min

In a rare and potentially fatal feat of cinematic daring, "Dublin 26.06.08" was shot entirely between 12.01am and 11.59pm on Thursday June 26th 2008. This audacious cinematic collage offers both a unique snapshot of a single day in the life of Dublin and a vivid example of a bold guerrilla filmmaking model. The film is an eclectic, multi-authored impression of Dublin (within the bounds of the encircling M50 motorway) as it lived, died, breathed, made love, filled up and emptied, consumed, wept, was rained and shone upon, grew bright and then darkened again.

Ciel éteint !

2008 • 23 min • Russia, France

A couple lives at the margins of empires. A montage of water, medicine, fire, ice. Sky's Black Out!

I Fucking Hate You

2008 • 9 min • United States of America

A raw, compelling glimpse into a young man's charmingly ill-conceived scheme to redeem himself in the eyes of his ex-girlfriend. Ron lures Carol back to his apartment under the pretense that he is going to return her favorite mug. When it seems this will be their last moment together, Ron desperately maneuvers to strike a chord with her in his own uniquely heartfelt way. Written by Sabi Pictures

Electronica Reykjavik

2008 • 50 min • Iceland

Electronica Reykjavik traces the history of the electronic music scene in Iceland's capital from the early 90's until today. The Film deeply reflects a music genre that the general public knows little about but nearly everyone has participated in, one way or the other. The electronic music scene is on the edge, free from commercial values.

Jacinta

2008 • 9 min • Mexico

Old Jacinta knits non-stop longing for a visit

Matías va a terapia

2008 • 7 min • Chile

A defiant teenager starts to feel uncomfortable by his psychologist.

Amoklove

2008 • 9 min • Germany

A magical moment between two people in the subway, but then it is all over and they will never see each other again - wrong! Fabian fights for his love and chases Marie through Stuttgart. That is Amoklove: a declaration of love during a cardiac recess. —Julia C. Kaiser

Running In a Maze

2008 • 3 min • Canada

Running In A Maze features an abstracted video of young women and men playfully chasing one another in a maze created by artist Charles Rea. The layering of architectural forms and spaces in conjunction with abstracted text creates a visual labyrinth in which multiple mirrored surfaces collide. Wong’s video documents Rea’s Mirror Maze, an installation consisting of symbols and patterns painted onto large convex security mirrors. The mirrored planes and cryptic text used to decipher information reference modern information systems and other myriad forms of technology. Splicing and fusing of architectural forms and transparent walls in this maze simulate an environment of reflected and reflecting surfaces that parallel Wong’s interest in discovering his own identity.

Pickman's Model

2008 • 19 min • United States of America

When two estranged friends, Thurber (Murphy, BANSHEE!!!) and Eliot (Meinecke), meet for drinks, Eliot finds that Thurber is not the person he once knew. Thurber reveals that Pickman (Timmis, Kreating Karloff), a man he was using as a source for a Paper on Weird art, is linked to his recent change in demeanor. It begins with a simple invitation to view Pickman's work at his isolated studio in Boston's North End. And ends with the apprehension that what lurks in the foreground of Pickman's work is far more sinister than the art itself. Adapted from the original short story "Pickman's Model" by: H.P. Lovecraft.