All Films

Secret Access: Air Force One

2008 • 45 min • United States of America

Discover what makes Air Force One faster, more secure, more comfortable, and more capable than any other comparable plane.

Commune présence

2008 • 43 min • France

Guided by a letter from an childhood friend, a young man visits places and people from the past marked by history and commitment. He then meets other people throughout the night, looking for ways to act and imagine collectively.

Pogo and Friends

2008 • 11 min • Canada

Pogo the clown has his hands full when he agrees to monitor the pet of his neighbor Albert.

Mrs In-Betweeny

2008 • 54 min • United Kingdom

After the death of their parents, three children are put into the care of their aunt Brandon - unaware of the fact she is a transgender woman. Over time, as they get used to the idea, the kids use Mrs In-Betweeny to their advantage - with disastrous results and comical laughter.

Ready

2008 • 44 min • Switzerland

Absinthe remains committed to documenting these amazing riders with the most timeless and stylish medium: Film. Following up to last year’s question ‘Optimistic?’, Absinthe answers with a crew of riders who overcome obstacles with spontaneity and skill in another full spectrum snowboard film that is down to have some more fun with snowboarding. Ready.

Will You Be Home Tonight?

2008 • 26 min

Suzanne is nearly fifty. She lives alone with Raphaëlle, her twenty year old daughter. Despairing that she will never again find love, Suzanne resolves to have plastic surgery done on her breasts. Raphaëlle is disturbed by her mother’s decision, while Suzanne worries about her daughter’s romantic life.

The Piles Project

2008 • 30 min

An experimental film which features Art World superstars Mark Kostabi and Taylor Mead.

Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty

2008 • 6 min • Ireland

Granny O'Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, loses the plot as she tells her version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified granddaughter.

A Good Mother

2008 • 3 min • Canada, France

Alfred leaves the north of France to find his estranged mother who's become a prostitute in Marseille. He changes his identity and begins hooking in order to be close to her. "Bonne Mère" is a nostalgic poem of longing.

The Birthday

2008 • 12 min • Burkina Faso, South Korea

The beautiful Awa, from a poor background, decides to marry for money rather than love and ends up with the much older Karim. While married, she continues to love the much younger Bouba. On the happy occasion of Awa’s birthday, a macabre plan is to be set in motion.

Lo zio

2008 • 20 min

The unexpected arrival of Uncle Baccio in the country house where his son Corso is spending his holidays with some friends has uncontrollable consequences.

The Pig

2008 • 23 min • Denmark

In this live-action, Oscar-nominated short from Denmark, Asbjorn is a patient admitted to a Danish hospital, who quickly warms to a painting of a whimsical pig hung on the walls. It becomes a source of comfort and solace for him - until another patient has it removed by request (Written by Nathan Southern, Rovi)

Portrait «Under the Fly»

2008 • 55 min • Russia

Little novels from the life of the Leningrad poet Oleg Grigoriev. His fate, like his poems, is a flip-flop, where good and evil exist under the masks of each other.

Bonecrusher Queens

2008 • 50 min • South Africa

On Zambia's Liuwa Plain two star-crossed spotted hyena cubs are born to warring rival clans: Twaambo, a male cub and Nasanta, a female, are destined to lead converging lives as their extreme environment forces them together

Age Old Story

2008 • 20 min • United States of America

Two friends aspiring for greatness in the art world when luck intervenes. Kramer pays homage to Chaplin and Keaton in this black and white silent.

Warner at War

2008 • 47 min

Warner Bros. uses the movies to prepare the US for war and keep up morale on the home front during World War II.

The Phantom of the Cinematheque

2008 • 3 min • Canada

On the 25th anniversary of his employment, Dave Barber, the visionary workaholic programmer of Winnipeg's beloved Cinematheque, dies tragically in an avalanche of VHS tapes while working late to finish the programming calendar. His workaholic ghost returns to the land of the living to finish the calendar and haunt the Cinematheque by night.

I'm Dirty!

2008 • 8 min • United States of America

Clank! Rattle! Bang! Who’s making all that noise? A backhoe loader, reporting for duty. Cleaning up a mess? Easy as pie. Make that a mud pie! Find out just how dirty a backhoe can get while doing its job. Who wants to be clean when it’s so much fun being dirty?

Out In the Cold

2008 • 30 min • Canada

On a night so cold it hurts to breathe, Soft as Snow and Cold as Ice meet Thomas, a drunk young man, who's been dumped on the outskirts of town. When Thomas suggests the two men should walk back with him, they persuade him to stay the night.

Forest

2008 • 2 min

A young girl is lost in a forest filled with eyeball trees, skeletal animals and a nephilim

A View On The Mountains

2008 • 32 min • Russia

One day a completely ordinary man finds out that is fatally ill. Reflecting upon his last will, he understands that he has nobody. And here he decides to place an advert in a newspaper.

Indigenous Plant Diva

2008 • 9 min • Canada

Kamala Todd's short film is a lyrical portrait of Cease Wyss, of the Squamish Nation. Wyss is a woman who understands the remarkable healing powers of the plants growing all over downtown Vancouver. Whether it's the secret curl of a fiddlehead, or the gentleness of comfrey, plants carry ageless wisdom with them, communicated through colour, texture, and form. Wyss has been listening to this unspoken language and is now passing this ancient and intimate connection down to her own daughter, Senaqwila.

Jimmy Dore: Citizen Jimmy

2008 • 52 min • United States of America

Already the star of his own half-hour Comedy Central special, and a writer performer for the Off Broadway hit "The Marijuana-logues," Jimmy Dore is best described by critics as a "Bad-assed Bill Maher with a boulder sized chip on his shoulder." Jimmy Dore now takes on the government and the easily misled in his hilarious new one hour Comedy Central Special Citizen Jimmy. He's not a partisan, he's a citizen. Citizen Jimmy.

I Think I Thought

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

Joe (Matthew Modine) is a thinker in a world that doesn't tolerate analytical thinking. His wife, boss, and friends threaten to divorce, fire, and abandon him if he doesn't stop thinking so much. Luckily, Joe discovers "Thinkers Anonymous" where he learns that "we need those special people from television news and especially our government to tell us how to think. They know what's best for us, and the world."