All Films

The Shogun

2008 • 50 min

With cunning and courage the japanese warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu managed to unify Japan after 150 years of civil war.

The Ballad of Marie Nord and Her Clients

2008 • 29 min • Sweden

Marie is a social worker in an immigrant dense suburb. Outside her daily work she runs a youth center, leads courses and functions as parole officer for young Belem, who has served time in a correctional center. She also takes care of Belem's son, Ray, when Ray's mother is at work. Belem's release from prison coincides with the appearance of an irritatingly nosy economist from the social services head quarters, curious about Marie's impressing but costly work. As pressure mounts, Marie's true feelings rise to the surface and her methods and motives are questioned.

Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick

2008 • 5 min • Denmark, United States of America

Four shorts based on all four Indiana Jones movies with a little Lego twist and inside jokes.

Cell Phone Investigator 7: Pilot

2008 • 46 min • Japan

Masaka Kubota plays high-school student Keita, who leads a secret life as a "network investigator" for a secret organization. In the introductory episode, Keita has moved to a new school in Tokyo but doesn't like it. His best friend from his previous school comes to Tokyo and they run away together. Passing through a construction site the pair are attacked by a robot, but are then saved by a man named Takimoto and his strange sidekick — a cell phone with arms and legs. This Buddy Keitai cell phone with "human intelligence capabilities" will go on sale in Japan in April.

Countdown

2008 • 50 min

A candid impression of the life of 18-year-old Parisa from Tehran, who is cramming for the university entrance exam.

Vista Minha Pele

2008 • 27 min • Brazil

"Vista Minha Pele" is an amusing parody of Brazilian reality. It serves as basic material for discussing racism and prejudice in the classroom. In this inverted story, blacks are the ruling class and whites were enslaved. Poor countries are Germany and England, while rich countries are, for example, South Africa and Mozambique. Maria is a poor white girl who studies at a private school thanks to the scholarship that she has due to the fact that her mother is a cleaning lady at this school. Most of her colleagues are hostile to her, because of her color and social status, with the exception of her friend Luana, the daughter of a diplomat who, having lived in poor countries, has a more comprehensive view of reality.

Metaphysics of Sound

2008 • 28 min • South Korea

Adopting mainly hand contact printing with photographic enlarger, «Metaphysics of sound» started from September of 2006 and completed in July of 2007. With a 35mm soundtrack image, I made a hand-drawn soundtrack on the 16mm film strip. The sounds were made either by directly contact printing the 35mm sound tracks or collaging the scratch images. According to pattern of sound on the 20% blank of 16mm film strip (normally used as space for optical recording), I edited whole image and made structure of film. Hence the margin is a where image is sound, and vice versa. Later, I studied the sound patterns which varied according to the kinds of images used or the concentration of the image, and made various attempts at rearranging the structure of the sound with the image.

Hjärtrud - the Woman of Your Life

2008 • 28 min • Sweden

A twisted story about love.

Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

Actor Don Cheadle narrates the story of America's first shock-jock, Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene.

Woman In Burka

2008 • 20 min

A darkly comic look at the life of an actress and the types of Middle Eastern roles available to her in a post-9/11 culture. Sarita is up for the coveted role of an Iraqi rape victim’s ghost in a new film. No one's seen the script or knows whether it's a serious drama or a cheap horror movie, but everyone seems to think it's perfect for her. Will she be the "Woman in Burka"?

Pregnant Man

2008 • 50 min • United Kingdom

An exclusive and intimate portrait following the first pregnant transgender man, Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy, into the delivery room as Thomas gives birth to their baby daughter Susan.

Blood and Oil

2008 • 52 min • United States of America

The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East is often disregarded as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. In Blood and Oil, bestselling author and Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare challenges this conventional wisdom and corrects the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years -- rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.

Den utvalgte

2008 • 23 min • Norway

Psykodramaterapauten Solveig comes to the secluded island "Nidøy" for trying out their methods on the island's amateur theater company. A seemingly simple task is shaping up to be a trip to the 'self' - and the beginning of a surreal, metaphysical and very Jungian trills fable.

Connected: The Power of Six Degrees

2008 • 54 min

A very rich documentary about the new science of network. It is built around reproducing the “Six degrees of separation” experience.

The Butterfly from Ural

2008 • 27 min • Czech Republic, Finland

A praised war hero leaves his wife and finds a new love from Ural.

Brüderchen und Schwesterchen

2008 • 58 min • Germany

Little Brother and Sister's new mother is not at all as humble and kind as she pretends to be, they are mistreated by their wicked stepmother and their new stepsister, so much that they decide to run away from home, after she poisoned their father to inherit his money. But the stepmother, who is also a witch, enchants the streams of the forest where the children are wandering, so that drinking from them would turn them into animals.

Sidney Turtlebaum

2008 • 18 min

Sidney Turtlebaum is a bitter sweet comedy that tells the story of Sidney, an eccentric gay Jewish man in his seventies. To punish the world Sidney earns his living as a pickpocket and a conman - his chosen modus operandi is to gatecrash Shiva houses of mourning to steal from the gathered crowd.

Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller'

2008 • 22 min • Portugal

A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his crew's hapless search, during 2007's carnival, for one of Arganil's most storied and elusive characters (who does, in fact, ultimately appear as an interviewee/player in the finished film). Paulo "Miller" is known for taking a dangerous jump into the Alva from a bridge each year during carnival, but what this film is about is, in keeping with the free-roving feature, much less the subject himself than Gomes and co.'s inability to pin him down; not only does he not do his famous jump during this year's carnival, but an ostensible technical/audio failure (as with the feature, it's very difficult to say how much of this film is "fact," how much invented) during Gomes's initial on-camera meeting with Paulo "Miller" leads to five minutes of lip-readers attempting to decipher their conversation.

A Cranberry Christmas

2008 • 22 min

Three days before Christmas and grumpy old Cyrus Grape forbids children to play and skate on the ice over the local cranberry bog near his home. Young Maggie, along with her grandmother and their friend Mr. Whiskers, work together to save Christmas Day for the children by reclaiming their favorite ice skating spot and discovering the land's rightful owner. When Mr. Whiskers learns his sister is coming to visit, it's a scramble to get his house in order and Maggie and her grandmother pitch in to help clean the old house. While working, they uncover a hidden box that holds a surprise for everyone... Maggie and her grandmother make delicious cookies to serve at their Christmas feast.

The Evolution of Clint Eastwood

2008 • 26 min • United States of America

Follow Eastwood's career from television star to matinee idol to Oscar-winning director in this wide-ranging documentary.

The Craft of Dirty Harry

2008 • 22 min • United States of America

A look at the cinematographers, editors, musicians, production designers and other talent of the Dirty Harry series.

Gold Stripe Brushes

2008 • 4 min • United States of America

That feeling of dread you experience before beginning strenuous exercise, but also a movie. 8,000 still photos played back at varying frame rates.

Tease

2008 • 2 min • United States of America

A man in a movie production office partially strips for the camera.

Cassandra

2008 • 27 min

Euripides' Greek tragedy, "The Trojan Women" is played out on the edge of a rocky desolate Mexican border town in this poetic reinterpretation by Director Mauricio Chernovetzky.