All Films

Slow

2008 • 8 min • United States of America

"Slow" is the story of a traffic safety worker who is accidentally caught in a newspaper photograph — and his life is changed forever.

Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish actor and director Solomon Mikhoels. An official proclamation mourns the death of "a great People's Artist of the Soviet Union." What people are really mourning is the death of the most popular Jewish theater in the Soviet Union, and the man who kept it alive against all odds for over 20 years. No doubt many suspected the truth: he had just been assassinated by Stalin's secret police.

Extreme Ice

2008 • 46 min

In extreme conditions, in ice-covered areas of the Earth, something unprecedented is happening. Everywhere, glaciers and ice sheets have begun to break off and accelerate towards the oceans at an alarming rate. As scientists try to predict the future effects of the great glacial melt, internationally renowned photographer James Balog is risking everything just to capture the phenomenon on film.

The Girl with the Yellow Stockings

2008 • 6 min • Germany

A young couple is spending the day in bed. He asks her to marry him. She says no...

Musha Kero: Ohirome! Sengoku Ran-sei Dai Batoru!!

2008 • 14 min • Japan

Africa

2008 • 16 min • Serbia

It's a day like any other, nothing unusual about it whatsoever. Everything is absolutely ordinary. The radio stations are broadcasting the usual program. One announcer is playing "Caladont" with his listeners. But someone else will also play "Caladont" today.

Luxury

2008 • 39 min • Poland

The lives of two boys converge on the central train station in Warsaw, the day before Christmas.

Creep

2008 • 2 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 fifteenth film in the series.

I Am So Proud of You

2008 • 22 min • United States of America

Dark shadows are cast over Bill's recovery.

Arafat & I

2008 • 15 min

Short comedy about a Palestinian in love.

The Stalker Chronicles: Episode Two - Reflections

2008 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Cary is being followed, she does not see her stalker but he is there in every shadow and every reflection. Once she is home, feeling safe she goes to bed with her boyfriend but in the darkness hides a killer. Watching he waits for his desire to be fulfilled.

Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

2008 • 55 min • France

Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".

Dolor

2008 • 13 min • Iceland

The film deals with unexpected and unexplainable loss. Due to an accident, the life of a happy family turns into a larger-than-life tragedy.

La Pallastrike sull'Isola di Pasqua

2008 • 31 min • Italy

This movie is set on the Easter Island, where a group of children that must face the mean ruler of the island in a pallastrike match in an arena. Their objective is to free a group of kids that have been petrified during the years.

Appassionata

2008 • 16 min

Based on a WW II legend: A German soldier awaiting his doom in the pocket of Stalingrad spots an undamaged piano in the no-man's land between the lines. The urge to play one more time becomes irresistible. -Appassionata- is inspired by an army postal service letter send by a German soldier from Stalingrad to his wife. The movie tells of the short moments in which soldiers try to escape the demons of war - of those rare instants in which longings and emotions out dare the maelstrom of daily cruelty and humanity wins over the frenzy of war.

Linkin Park: Road to Revolution - Live at Milton Keynes - Points of Authority

2008 • 5 min

Bonus video included in the physical copy of the recording, Linkin Park plays "Points of Authority" during the "Linkin Park: Road to Revolution - Live at Milton Keynes" concert.

Officer Relaxing After Duty

2008 • 20 min

The first short by Ali Abbasi, a fiction shot during his studies at The National Film School of Denmark.

Slapper

2008 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather than boxing, this is an adult, brutal version of ‘Slaps’ – slaps that can break a man’s hand. Three years ago, James’ alcoholic father Michael left him and his mother, but promised he’d be back to make them proud – now, James believes the man in the mask is his father, returning as a hero, but things are not what they seem...

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

Cash's concert at Folsom State Prison in California in January 1968 touched a raw nerve in the American psyche and made him a national hero at a troubled time in American history. Using the stark images of rock photographer Jim Marshall, graphic techniques, archive footage and interviews with Merle Haggard, Cash's daughter Rosanne, band members Marshall Grant and WS 'Fluke' Holland, alongside former inmates of the prison, the film documents this explosive concert, the live album that followed and a transformative moment in the lives of Cash, the inmates of Folsom Prison and the American nation in the troubled year of 1968.

Yuppy Cars

2008 • 6 min • Germany

Two young men participate in a radical left-wing demonstration in Berlin. Afterwards, they cruise the streets on their bikes. When they pull up next to a luxury car, it looks like the night isn't over for them yet.

Chimbumbe

2008 • 14 min • Colombia, India, Mexico

A mythical love story between a girl and a fish. Catalina Luango is swallowed up by the waters of a swamp. Her family tries to rescue her from the underworld called Chimbumbe. Adaptation of a legend of oral tradition from San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia.

The Greater Caucasus

2008 • 44 min • Germany

Discover the wonders of the Caucasus, a wild region home to natural riches and rare species, such as the saiga antelope and the short-toothed serpent eagle.

Boy Meets Boy

2008 • 13 min • South Korea

On a warm spring day Min-soo, a small boy, meets tall and broad-shouldered Seok-i inside a bus. Min-soo keeps looking at the intimidating boy whose sharp eyes are hidden under his baseball cap. Min-soo's heart starts beating. What will happen to Min-soo and Seok-i?

The Last Tenant

2008 • 22 min • United States of America