All Films

An Ally in Time

2008 • 21 min • Mexico

Death lurks in every corner and time is running out for Don Eulalio, who has been escaping from his hands for a long time.

Hannah's Summer

2008 • 19 min • Denmark

A coming of age story about fourteen year old Hanna and her full of romance summer.

Rumenatomija: The Story of Brandas Addiction

2008 • 11 min • Iceland

Branda has hit rock bottom. Her addiction has spiralled so far out of control that medical intervention is the only option left. She's forced to confront her darkest demons in order to lick her deadly appetite, and must apply all 12 steps to her four stomachs - Branda is a cow addicted to eating plastic bags. It's easy to find humour and irony in Branda's toxic lifestyle, harder to admit that we're the ones being ridiculed.

Carts of Darkness

2008 • 60 min • Canada

In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of income, into the extreme sport of shopping cart racing. Enduring hardships from everyday life on the streets of Vancouver, this sub-culture depicts street life as much more than stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The films takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face, and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk.

Orson Welles y Goya

2008 • 51 min • Spain

Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore !

2008 • 52 min • Algeria, France

Director Djamel Kelfaoui pays tribute to the great singer Cheb Hasni, king of sentimental raï, who became cult in Algeria and beyond its borders, and who was murdered in the street in September 1994 in Oran, at the age of 26. Unique and last interview filmed a few months before the assassination of the singer considered the king of “raï love” or “sentimental song”. Cheb Hasni had recorded more than 150 cassettes during his career. His memory remains very alive in the Maghreb and Arab world and its diaspora throughout the world. A transgenerational icon, he will be posthumously decorated with the National Merit medal at the rank of Achir.

La Mujer que Llegaba a las Seis

2008 • 15 min • Cuba

The door of Joe's bar swing open just as the clock strike six. A woman, a regular patron, floats in with an unlit cigarette between her red lips. She sits down on a high stool while Joe is busy wiping glasses. After a while he greats her as Reina, Queen.

Devotee

2008 • 50 min • France

Devotee is the story of Hervé, an assertive 43-year-old man who was born without arms or legs. He meets a gorgeous young man on line, a devotee (devoteeism or acrotomophilia) is the sexual attraction to people with amputations) who seems like he might be different. Their encounter proves Hervé's difficulty in finding a true connection with someone who is interested in treating him like a person rather than a mere fetish.

Silent Night Bloody Night

2008 • 6 min • United States of America

Max needs to rush over to his girlfriends house Frankie because he must leave town for work. Frankie wants to give Max his Christmas present. What Max finds in the box is his worst nightmare.

Journey Into the Unknown: William Bradford And The Pilgrim Fathers

2008 • 51 min • Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America

For many Americans, the journey of the Mayflower symbolizes the birth of their nation. To this day, the Pilgrim Fathers are a glorified symbol of American virtue. In search of autonomy and with the desire to preserve their cultural identity, a group of English Puritans left their Dutch refuge in 1620 to set off for the New World. That voyage is not just a tale of a religious community bravely going their own way; the events of those days would have a major impact on the course of modern history. The rules and regulations of the Mayflower Compact that the Pilgrim Fathers, religious sectarians, abided by, became the secular prototype for the constitution of the United States of America; a social contract that would serve as an example for many other national constitutions during the European age of civil society and thereafter.

Bad Voodoo's War

2008 • 57 min

In June 2007, as the American military surge reached its peak, a band of National Guard infantrymen who call themselves “The Bad Voodoo Platoon” was deployed to Iraq. To capture a vivid, first-person account of the new realities of war in Iraq for FRONTLINE and ITVS, director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) created “a virtual embed” with the platoon, supplying cameras to the soldiers so they could record and tell the story of their war. The film intimately tracks the veteran soldiers of “Bad Voodoo” through the daily grind of their perilous mission, dodging deadly IEDs, grappling with the political complexities of dealing with Iraqi security forces, and battling their fatigue and their fears.

Guy Gilles

2008 • 57 min • France

1958. A twenty-year-old man leaves his native Algeria to make a living. Fifty years later, three teenagers and a big apartment overlooking a Parisian boulevard. At the corner of a room, a window, a face, come the films of Guy Gilles, traces, voices and images of an unknown work, out of tune with his time.

Papá o 36 mil juicios de un mismo suceso

2008 • 50 min • Chile

Miguel, an university teacher keeps an affair with one of his students and things go smoothly until his daughter finds out about it.

Herod's Lost Tomb

2008 • 46 min

National Geographic follows archaeologist Ehud Natzer in his discovery of the tomb of Herod the Great.

Tischlein deck dich

2008 • 58 min • Germany

No one takes the clumsy Max Klopstock seriously. Even the gluttonous goat makes fun of him. Max wants to prove his worth to his father and lovely Lotte. So he packs his knapsack and heads out into the world like his older brothers Emil and Joeckel did.

Daddy's Little Judge

2008 • 1 min • United States of America

Comedy short written by and starring Aubrey Plaza about a commercial for a fictional reality show about the daughter of a judge who tries cases.

Unexpected Company?

2008 • 4 min • Sweden

What a wonderful summer evening by the sea. A delicious dinner, a drink on the terrace and the weather gets warmer and warmer.

What Is Brazil?

2008 • 29 min

Rob Hedden's witty on-set documentary captures the revolutionary air that had begun to swirl around Brazil even before the controversy surrounding its U.S. release. It features footage of director Terry Gilliam; actors Michael Palin, Jonathan Pryce, and Kim Geist; screenwriters Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown; and other key members of Brazil's cast and crew.

The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow

2008 • 6 min • Canada

The film centers on an unusual photograph dating back to the 1930s. An investigation of its particulars reveals a tapestry of secrets hidden in the details, and a tale of kidnapping and murder captured in a haunting moment.

Person to Person

2008 • 17 min

From a fictive news agency, "Person to Person" takes a new perspective on the poverty debate. As a commentary to the G8 summit 2008 the good news are in focus for a change.

Live Fast Die - The GG Allin Story

2008 • 25 min • Canada

Short documentary on the life and music of scumpunk icon GG Allin, featuring insights from fans, friends and family.

The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories

2008 • 53 min

This nostalgic retrospective with colleagues and friends of the Beatles fondly recalls Paul McCartney's simple plan for the "Magical Mystery Tour" movie: to let assorted odd characters climb aboard a bus, then film their adventures. The 1967 movie was a cinematic flop, but Keith McCartney (Paul's brother) and other insiders reveal the excitement and camaraderie in those salad days before tensions within the Fab Four began to split them apart.

The German

2008 • 10 min • Ireland

November 1940, during the greatest conflict man has ever known, an epic duel unfolds between two ace pilots, each willing to take the match to it's ultimate conclusion. Unknown to the pilots is a fate neither has considered.

All That You Love

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

Alfie Zimmer wanders through New Jersey in search of a sign on the meaning of life. Based on the Stephen King short story "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away."