All Films

Heroic Bloodshed

2008 • 6 min

Andreas Schlee's tribute to John Woo and the Heroic Bloodshed Genre.

Crossway

2008 • 50 min • France

A very interesting thriller about the coming of age of a troubled young man searching his place in this world. Teenage boy Jonathan (Fabien de Marchi) is having a hard time living with his father and stepmother. On a whim, he steals some money and embarks on a journey of forbidden pleasures. He spends the night in abandoned building and wakes up bound and is held prisoner by Antoine (Johan Libéreau), a young drug dealer wanted by the police. The two boys forge an ambiguous relationship between violence, compassion and fascination. Victim, Jonathan ends up taking a liking to his tormentor.

Inside Down Basement

2008 • 10 min • Peru

This is the endless story about an old couple lost at the end of their last days. The Oldman seems a baby who just eats, sleeps and watches television. The Oldlady seems a mum who cooks, cleans and speaks to him. This old couple could live anywhere in the world. Their country is death. Their only world is a long wait. The Oldlady has taken control of both lives because she is in much better mental and physical conditions than him. Day after day the Oldlady plans and organizes different ways to kill themselves. But for the moment she is not shooting well. Days will keep following until a small mistake or the correct shoot end the sadness of this harsh wait.

Blooming In Spring

2008 • 20 min

Yun-ah thinks her body reeks and refuses to eat. One day, during lunchtime, the kids in her class try to force Yun-ah to eat, but Sung-eun, the most studious student, tries to stop them and a fight breaks loose. Yun-ah’s bare pubescent body running freely in the spring rain looks gaunt, hungry, but beautiful.

Jungle Fish

2008 • 58 min • South Korea

Based on a true story that depicts the pressures placed on students to achieve and gain admission to prestigious colleges and universities.

Go Forth! Godman

2008 • 22 min

Godman and Greenman join forces to take down a myriad of monstrous foes in an abandoned town.

The Prime Minister Is Missing

2008 • 55 min • Australia

With Australia at war in Vietnam in 1967, suddenly Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace—an event unparalleled in the history of western democracy. Four decades later, a coronial inquiry confirmed that Harold Holt had accidentally drowned. Some people may still believe that Holt was a spy and fled to China in a submarine. But most suspect there was more to his disappearance than has ever been revealed. Reconstructed from eyewitness accounts, this dramatised documentary tells the story of the Prime Minister's secret world in the months before he disappeared — a world of betrayal, blackmail, political treachery, a poisonous feud, mounting physical and mental strain, and near-death experiences. Featuring Normie Rowe as Harold Holt, Nicholas Hope as William McMahon and Tony Llewellyn-Jones as John McEwen, this film reveals explosive new aspects of the case.

The Business Trip

2008 • 10 min • France

A business man in his 30s, with an expense account, checks into a hotel, exchanging smiles and pleasantries with the desk clerk, a woman of beauty and style. Once in his room, he listens again to a voice message on his cell phone: his lover tells him she is breaking up with him; he is not spontaneous; she has found someone else; don't call. He throws his phone down. When he reaches beneath the bed to retrieve it, he finds a Polaroid photograph of a partially nude woman posed provocatively; it includes a phone number and a sexual question. He opens a beer and stares at the photo. If he calls, what then?

Les Affluents - Volume III: La battue

2008 • 20 min • Canada

During a beating in the forest, a troubled young girl announces to her mother that she intends to leave the family home.

No One Doubts the Camera Eye

2008 • 13 min

Two photographers pursue a mysterious figure caught on film near the scene of a murder. As they try to catch him in the act of another crime, they discover that their cameras can be used to portray this man as a villain - whether it's true or not.

Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait

2008 • 30 min

An exclusive featurette in which directors and fellow actors speaks about Maggie Smith's career and her way of working.

Vroom!-Vroom!

2008 • 12 min

Mario, a young teenager, picks up his girlfriend Tere in his black truck. They cruise around for a little while before stopping in a park to talk. Suddenly, Sammy (Tere's father) stops right behind them. It doesn't take the teenagers long to decide to make a run for it making Sammy drive right behind them in car chase around town. The teenagers manage to loose not only the girl's father but the police as well, only to encounter a tragic end to their irresponsible actions.

Au Café Romand

2008 • 9 min • Switzerland

Gregory, is set to meet his fiancée and his prospective parents-in-law at a restaurant. He arrives late and the tension is palpable as they order dinner. Uneasy, Gregory excuses himself to the restroom. While enjoying sudden quietness, his life takes an absurd and tragic turn when he discovers a mysterious object in the trash bin.

Hiato

2008 • 20 min • Brazil

In 2000 a group of homeless people decide to go to a shopping mall to protest, to confront the misery of the excluded middle-class consumption.

Blood & Sex Nightmare

2008 • 59 min • United States of America

A lascivious boyfriend takes his virginal girlfriend to an adult retreat for a passionate weekend unaware of the camp-ground's history of murder and rape.

Mad About Adam

2008 • 15 min • France

Adam is charming, nonchalant and gorgeous, and he likes that girls like him. He's late for class this morning, but he has a good reason – last night was full of alcohol, strangers and music, the kind of night that might drive you to do anything...

A Good Day for a Swim

2008 • 10 min • Romania

The short is about three juvenile delinquents who break out of prison, kidnap a prostitute and a driver and play with them on an empty beach.

Broken Fall (Organic)

2008 • 1 min • United States of America

Jemison adopts and refashions the premise of Bas Jan Ader’s work of the same name. As in the 1970s-era video, a young man clings to a tree branch for a long minute before ultimately falling out of the frame. Jemison’s remake honors the original’s investment in what she calls “the tension between labor, play, and the laws of physics,” but in her hands that material takes up “the complex demands of the performance of masculinity for Black men.”

Hot Dog

2008 • 6 min • United States of America

The plucky hero joins a fire company to save the world and gain the affection he so richly deserves. However, the results never turn out the way he plans.

Manjha

2008 • 41 min

Ranka is a street orphan, all of ten years old. He makes manjha used in kite flying for a living, and he has to take care of his three-year-old little sister Chimi, who is somewhat mentally challenged.

John Caparulo: Meet Cap

2008 • 42 min • United States of America

With his one-of-a-kind delivery and straight-ahead material, John Caparulo is fast becoming known as one of the funniest comics in the world today

Metaxourgeio

2008 • 28 min • Greece

Metaxourgio* is a famous and historical neighborhood of Athens, Greece. The film captures a stroll through today's Metaxourgio neighbourhood and focuses on its "refinement" of recent years. Michalis Afolayan, actor, street musician, juggler and son of Nigerian immigrants, plays the role of guide.

Traces

2008 • 19 min

Sydney Kessler answers the phone call that no parent ever hopes to receive. He travels to the morgue. There, they unveil a body he doesn't recognize - his son Julian. Over the course of one night, Sydney embarks on a journey deep into the city to uncover the truth about how his son died. Instead, he discovers how his son lived.

Looking for Ms. Locklear

2008 • 57 min • United States of America

We met in first grade in Ms. Locklear’s class. During the summer of 2006, we decided to search for our beloved teacher. We chose not to use the internet or the telephone, but instead to rely on face-to-face contact with people. Looking for Ms. Locklear is a documentary chronicling our search, which led us far from home and into the company of a host of characters.