All Films

Americans in Pyongyang

2008 • 53 min

In summer 2007 the New York Philharmonic received an invitation that was unprecedented in the orchestra's history. North Korea, the world's most isolated and secluded country and technically at war with the United States, invited the orchestra to play in the capital of Pyongyang. Just a few months later, two hundred orchestra members and more than one hundred journalists disembarked from a chartered plane at Pyongyang's deserted airport. They were about to experience a historic moment, the first-ever performance by an American orchestra in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'

2008 • 23 min • United States of America

A making of featurette of 12 Angry Men made exclusively for the Collector's Edition DVD.

Who Messed With Mayra?

2008 • 10 min • Argentina

Teen Western in the middle of the Buenos Aires conurbano: girl bands, a role and a meeting schedule.

Jangarh Film One

2008 • 24 min • India

The village artist Jangarh Singh Shyam left home and became a well-known contemporary painter. He committed suicide in 2001. Through his art, places and stories, the filmmaker explores the traces he left on his path.

Deeflowered

2008 • 56 min

In a town that worships Satan, everyone is a creep. This is the home of the sunny day abortion clinic run by th incompetent alcoholic Dr. Sunny Day and his assistant, the homeless, deranged Griffin. As the controversy and the power of mass prayer causes a psychic energy mindfuck, it also resurrects the ghost of Jack the Ripper who fights the pro-life crusade by mutilating thte women responsible.

Svetlana About Svetlana

2008 • 44 min • Russia, United States of America

Svetlana Parshina was deeply moved by her childhood reading of Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter. Years later, learning that the now 82-year-old was living incognito in a Madison, Wisconsin retirement home, Parshina phones and requests an interview. After repeated denials, and only after insisting upon certain conditions, the now-82-year-old Alliluyeva finally consents to a rare filmed interview in which she discusses her education, marriages, her children, the development of her own humanistic philosophy, her CIA-assisted defection to the U.S., and her skeptical views on the competing Cold War ideologies. In more intimate moments, she discusses her childhood, her nanny, the suicide of her mother, her brothers Vasily and Yakov (who died in a Nazi concentration camp) and, of course, her famous father, who most Soviets saw as "a living God."

Chirokumar Shongho

2008 • 46 min • Bangladesh

A group of friends decides that they will remain lifelong bachelors, so they form an organization called the "Chirokumar Shongho"

The Fairly OddParents: Fairly OddBaby

2008 • 44 min • United States of America

Poof comes into existence when Cosmo and Wanda decide to have a child of their own, and Timmy wishes it so. However, because the fairy baby's magic is developing and uncontrollable, villains called the anti-fairies (polar opposite of fairies) and pixies (business fairies) seek to steal the fairy baby so they can take over the fairies' home, Fairy World.

And He Just Comes Around and Dances with You

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

An intense, despairing look at obsession and the twisted nature of attraction.

Transmission 23: The Return

2008 • 4 min

A short film set in the universe of "The Signal" (2007).

Pinnernation The Movie

2008 • 40 min • United States of America

This audio and visual catastrophe will leave you permanently disturbed. Staring the likes of Crazy ass Pinner doing slip n' slides on fire and burning bibles, Hank Williams III Live in Solana Beach, Dan G. self mutilating himself like no other. Music and appearances from Lamb of God. Evil Webby with his pyrotechnics and acrobatics. Plenty of ear trauma provided by Asesino Live and the only Action Launching Point-X on his B.M.X. long before X-Games while doing it illegally and in only two tries.

Les Mathématiques du Roi Heenok

2008 • 40 min • Canada

While Choking

2008 • 13 min

Miles is sent to therapy by his parents, as the couple believes their son has a problem with drugs. During the therapy session the story takes a turnaround.

Hug

2008 • 17 min

Drew is a virtuoso musical talent with a music contract ready to sign. Asa, his friend and manager, must physically get Drew to the contract signing. When Asa realizes that Drew has gone off his meds, the morning commute turns troubling.

It Was a Dark and Silly Night

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

Unexpected guests crash a children’s cemetery party in this humorously macabre adaptation of a Neil Gaiman story, animated in typically ghoulish style by cartoonist Gahan Wilson.

Cosmodrome

2008 • 49 min

Cosmodrome is the story of Russia's "Crown Jewels"--The finest rocket engines in the world, built under conditions of absolute secrecy to land a man on the moon. It tells how, at the height of Cold War rivalry, the engineers of the Soviet Union's elite Design Bureaux developed what today have become the most admired rocket engines money can buy--and how in the new climate, driven by commerce not conflict, those engines have found their way into American rockets.

A Last Wish

2008 • 10 min • Argentina

A man awaits his execution by firing squad. His last wish before dying is a kiss, and there are only men.

MooBeard the Cow Pirate

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

Captain MooBeard and his first mate, Sailor Bird, are out to find treasure on the Island of Hookamookapookalap. When the evil ninja ducky Dark Blade of Fire steals their map, they must race to finish and claim what is rightfully theirs!

And I'll Keep In My Heart

2008 • 24 min

One night, a man in his thirties wanders all alone in the streets of Brussels. He’s dragged into a Korean karaoke bar by a drunk businessman.

Santa Claus in Baghdad

2008 • 39 min

In impoverished Baghdad under Saddam's dictatorship, 16-year-old Amal hopes to regain her social status at school by volunteering to find a book as a class gift for the departing literature teacher. Meanwhile, her emotionally fragile little brother becomes obsessed with the notion that a visiting uncle from America--whom he confuses with Santa Claus--will bring him toys. Ashamed never to have been able to give his son a toy, the child's father sells some more prized family possessions and buys a model car for him.

One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure

2008 • 27 min

The movie follows Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu, a Muppet from Zhima Jie, the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street. Together, they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the Moon, where they discover how different it is from Earth. One World, One Sky is a brilliant spectacle of light and colour as the furry friends watch the stars twinkle over Sesame Street. Children attending the show can interact as they watch, drawing constellations and counting the time it takes the sun to set. One, World, One Sky is a production of Adler Planetarium, Sesame Workshop, Beijing Planetarium, and Liberty Science Center and was produced with major support from the National Science Foundation.

SVEN Ch. I

2008 • 11 min • United States of America

A monster and his emperor scorpion are confined to a room.

USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland

2008 • 34 min

Making of the movie Southland Tales

Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali

2008 • 20 min

A documentary analyzing the surrealist elements of the film Spellbound, and the work made by Salvador Dalí in that film.