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Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood

Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood

2008 • 58 min • United States of America
To escape Hitler's regime, thousands of intellectuals and radicals fled Europe for the United States in the 1930s; this documentary focuses on the prominent figures who moved to Hollywood and made contributions to American music, art and culture. Well-known exiles profiled here include Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Salka Viertel, Thomas Mann and many others.
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

2008 • 59 min • United States of America
From superheroes to superstars, Hollywood has always turned to comic books for imagination and inspiration. In this Starz Inside documentary, discover the history of comics from page to screen through the evolution and revolutions that have changed entertainment forever. It's a hero's journey of hits, misses and unstoppable powers, featuring the Spider-Man, X-Men, and Batman films (including The Dark Knight), Iron Man, Superman Returns, Hellboy II, Sin City, Incredible Hulk, American Splendor, Wanted, and beyond, plus revealing interviews with Guillermo del Toro, Stan Lee, Zak Penn, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Neal Adams, Roger Corman, Avi Arad, Mike Mignola, Paul Pope, Richard Donner, Jim Steranko, and many more.
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.

Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.

2008 • 44 min • United States of America
In a series of interviews with the KND after they're all grown up, the former operatives are temporarily brought out of their decommissioned haze to discuss what happened during their very last mission with Numbuh one - where he disappeared and was never heard from again! It all started with a routine mission to get the Delightful Children's birthday cake, but when a mysterious boy steals it instead, he makes it available to whoever wants it, IF they can solve his 'simple' scavenger hunt first. Soon it's a mad, mad, mad, mad chase around the world as the KND, their friends, and virtually all of their enemies compete to win the yummiest cake ever
Expired

Expired

2008 • 10 min • Cambodia, France
Young people tell the strange story of a french family's holidays in Cambodia.
Bunky Blum and the Talking Train

Bunky Blum and the Talking Train

2008 • 14 min
Bunky Blum is picked on in school. His only peace comes during lunch hour, when he and his mentally ill Mother eat McDonalds and visit a talking train named Train. The 83 year-old train is now a caged monument in the center of a children's park. However, Bunky believes that the train will break out of its confines and save him from the bullies of the schoolyard. When Bunky realizes that the train is not magical, all hope is lost and Bunky has a moral melt down. In a fit of rage, Bunky punches a girl in a wheelchair. The unsympathetic move lands Bunky on the losing end of a full out brawl. Bunky's Mother witnesses the schoolyard violence and she erupts into her own fit of rage, which ultimately sends her back to the psych ward. In the end, Bunky is left without hope, without family and without security. He returns to the old train to make a final plea for vengeance. But Bunky's giant steal savior has not come for vengeance. Rather, it offers Bunky what he needs, a shush of peace.
Nicky

Nicky

2008 • 2 min
A child is watching a music video on his television screen.
Romance .38

Romance .38

2008 • 15 min • Brazil
Jorge is a writer trying to finish his first novel with the help of his girlfriend. But she doesn't know how real is the fiction of his book.
Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution

Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution

2008 • 57 min • India, United States of America
In 1959 thousands of unarmed Tibetan women took to the streets of Lhasa to oppose the violent Chinese occupation of their country. For the first time on film, three generations of Tibetan women and His Holiness the Dalai Lama recount one of the great movements of nonviolent resistance in modern history.
Two/2

Two/2

2008 • 4 min • United States of America
Music scores are atomized and recompiled into instructions for visual edits and cues. Ties are uncovered between sight and sound.
Night of the Living Jews

Night of the Living Jews

2008 • 20 min • United States of America
On the first night of Passover the residents of a remote Jewish bungalow colony are turned into flesh-eating zombies by matzo with a dark history. In the hunt for human flesh these Hasidic zombies descend on an unsuspecting gentile family in their quiet farmhouse. The loving mother and father and their mischievous son and nubile teenage daughter face an almost certain end until a mysterious stranger miraculously appears to save the day.
I Live in the Woods

I Live in the Woods

2008 • 4 min • United States of America
A woodsman runs amok.
Two Witch Sisters

Two Witch Sisters

2008 • 7 min • United States of America
Twin witch sisters are causing magic-induced havoc at a park.
Kingdom of Ends

Kingdom of Ends

2008 • 6 min • United States of America
A detective finally getting his long-time enemy, a serial killer named Buddy Kant who leaves greeting cards at his victim's bodies, comes face to face with him for one final showdown. But is it too good to be true?
In Uranias

In Uranias

2008 • 16 min • Germany
On the visual layer 'In Uranias' is like a diary film made while travelling through Iran and USA in early 2007. The text layer is more like a journey through the emotional landscapes of an iranian-american muslim. These two layers are intertwined - sometimes converging, sometimes diverging - to create an audio-visual anagram: Uranias.
The Girl with X-Ray Eyes

The Girl with X-Ray Eyes

2008 • 23 min
Natasha Demkina is the girl with X-ray eyes. Her claim, to be able to see unaided, directly inside of bodies.
Hulahoop Soundings

Hulahoop Soundings

2008 • 7 min • Indonesia
Was it black magic that took him from her? Or the vision of her rival's swaying hips? Lana works at a phone sex company, and hula-hoops when calling her customers to make moaning sounds.
Judas & Jesus

Judas & Jesus

2008 • 15 min • Germany
Judas is the hero and Jesus is the villain in this lewd retelling of the classic Bible story. Depicted through anthropomorphic animals, we see a unique alternative perspective. Judas (an unscrupulous black goat) has been at odds with Jesus (a self-righteous white sheep) ever since childhood. However, when an opportunity arises to sell Jesus out for the 30 Euros he needs to get into Maria Magdalena's sex show, things finally seem to start going Judas' way. But what will Jesus' adoring fans have to say about it?
The Devil's Bible

The Devil's Bible

2008 • 51 min • United States of America
At 165 pounds, and allegedly made from the skins of 160 donkeys, the Codex Gigas is the world's largest and most mysterious medieval manuscript. Filled with satanic images and demonic spells, according to legend, the cursed text sprang from a doomed monk's pact with the Devil. Now, Nat Geo follows a team of scientists as they embark on an unprecedented quest to unravel the secrets behind the book's darkened pages. Using ultra-violet fluorescence imaging, handwriting analysis and a re-creation of the text, forensic document experts attempt to uncover the cryptic truth behind this ancient Devil's Bible.
In the Closet

In the Closet

2008 • 15 min • United States of America
An anonymous bedroom inside a typical apartment somewhere in Los Angeles. A pair of young men enter, one having scored a one-night stand, the other giving away little as to his true intentions.
Tess and Nana

Tess and Nana

2008 • 11 min • United States of America
13-year-old Tess wants nothing more than to escape the dilapidated house she shares with her sick grandmother, Nana, so she does something drastic to get the attention of her real estate agent mother.
Descendants

Descendants

2008 • 14 min
A 3-D animated film about the dream of reaching the unreachable and about the fact that something good can evolve from something evil.
Dry Rain

Dry Rain

2008 • 23 min
Dry Rain takes place over the course of an afternoon in a non-descript lifeless time warp characteristic of America's Heart-land. Stil, a broken man in his early forties, is in a drought. His family, his financial means, and his power to do anything about either, have evaporated and he crosses the line as he desperately, aimlessly, and unrealistically grasps for hope in his past. Stil has stolen away his nine year-old son, Joey, from his ex-wife, Tracy. The question is whether he has taken him on a "vacation", as Stil calls it, across the border into Canada, or has abducted him with the intent to receive a ransom for his return.
Good Night

Good Night

2008 • 22 min
Do-jin a high school senior had a 'sleep hold operation' with the demand of the mom. But he come to suffer from the side effect although he runs the successful road through that. Finally, he resort to the extremity ....
There's Nothing You Can Do

There's Nothing You Can Do

2008 • 4 min • United States of America
The Safdie brothers repurpose reality television’s vocabulary of confrontation and cramped cinematography for a miniature study of urban maladies.