All Films

My Gym Partner's a Monkey: Animal School Musical

2008 • 44 min • United States of America

To help Adam Lyon and friends experience living in a musical, Jake wished on the magic wish, and has made the first ever Animal School Musical is Charles Darwin Middle School. But they need to get out, so the only way out is to give Jake some musical talent.

Voice of Garage

2008 • 17 min • Belgium

Marco and Eva meet up in a garage courtyard to share the objects left over from their defunct relationship. But they have different takes on their separation and their expectations regarding this last encounter differ considerably...

Mina

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

An innocent girl has a dark, twisted secret that will put all of her community in danger.

Tile M for Murder

2008 • 8 min • Sweden

On the hottest day of the year a husband figures out a way to get rid of his annoying wife in a game of scrabble.

Screenwriters on Screenwriting

2008 • 26 min

This documentary premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Explore the challenging world of the screenwriter with renowned industry writers.

What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails. Based on the children's book by Robin Page.

Strange Fruit

2008 • 20 min • United States of America

A young biracial girl's journey to discover her true origins. Born both Korean and African-American, young Mei Park is raised for ten years of her life believing she is only Korean. Her world is suddenly turned upside down after she discovers everything she was told is a lie.

The Spleenectomy

2008 • 12 min • United States of America

After passionately auditioning for a role in a local community theater production, Judy is cast aside by a pretentious theater director. Lucky for her, she gets another unbelievable chance.

At Day's End

2008 • 15 min • Egypt

An Egyptian family comes together for food and TV.

At Home in Utopia

2008 • 57 min • United States of America

During the economic boom of the 1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish factory workers managed to build the house of their dreams, a cooperative apartment complex at the edge of Bronx Park. Then they were hit by the Great Depression. At Home in Utopia bears witness to an epic social experiment across two generations in the Coops - a place known as "little Moscow" - where people tried to change the American dream into one that included racial justice and workers' rights.

Spanky: To the Pier and Back

2008 • 4 min • Canada

Guy Maddin takes his dog Spanky out for his last walk with him at the lake.

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?

2008 • 28 min • Germany

A newly arrived guest of a Hollywood hotel charms and amazes the regulars, and they decide to invite him to their Christmas dinner.

Howl

2008 • 33 min • Turkey

Howl is an homage to the reading rituals of the Beat poets, to Wholly Communion, to 1965, to Allen Ginsberg, to Jack Kerouac, to William Burroughs, to all those books that we believe to be published in heaven, and to all the restless spirits, from these lands. The film documents the translator of the poem Howl into Turkish, accompanied by a musician.

Inside 'The Apartment'

2008 • 30 min

A 2007 documentary on the making of "The Apartment."

A Day in the Country

2008 • 12 min • United States of America

After his father's car breaks down, a young girl gets lost in the woods. She encounters a fugitive and a deaf woman. At first, she is suspicious of them and runs away. But as she begins to know them, they set out on a journey together to find her father.

Cinema in 7 Colors

2008 • 35 min • Brazil

Cinema in 7 Colors traces an historical panorama of how the queer people were portrayed in the Brazilian silver screens, from its origin in the chanchadas of the 1950s up to the present day. The film investigates the origins of the prejudices, stereotypes, as well as the importance of the identification with constructive representations of these characters.

The Night Before Christmas

2008 • 5 min

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the twenty-fourth film in the series.

Role Model: Gene Wilder

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

For 4 decades movie funnyman Gene Wilder has been keeping audiences in stitches with his combination of over-the-top neurosis and sweet vulnerability. Gene sits down with Alec Baldwin for an intimate conversation about matters both professional and personal, including Wilder's first meeting with Mel Brooks, the time Zero Mostel kissed him on the lips just before his audition for Brooks' The Producers, and his marriage to SNL star Gilda Radner.

Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Boom Boom! Bang Bang! Movie BANG!

2008 • 35 min • Japan

The Go-Ongers intercept the Recycle Barbaric Machine Beast Army in their Engines, managing to scrap the 13. However, trio of mysterious warriors appear and their actions result in the Go-Ongers losing the primary Engine Casts while being sucked into the Braneworld known as Samurai World, a dimension similar to Edo Japan where power is essential.

Honest

2008 • 6 min • France

From the album "Honest" by Kelly De Martino. "I could say I saw - you walk across water - unless you keep me honest".

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

2008 • 8 min • United States of America

“Wolf! Wolf!” Is there really a wolf, or is the shepherd boy just playing a trick? In this cautionary tale, a boy cries “wolf” one too many times, so when a wolf really does come after the sheep he’s watching, nobody believes him!

Boy

2008 • 16 min • Russia

The life of the old horse comes to end behind that - the death. But before the death, the fortune gives him the last fantastic vision which opens the world filled with an endless life and love.

Streak

2008 • 17 min • United States of America

A self-conscience co-ed anguishes over whether to get out of her comfort zone by stripping naked and joining other students in a run across campus.

Dressed

2008 • 15 min • Brazil