All Films

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical

2008 • 58 min • United States of America

The 1920s was a time of great change in Hollywood. This program tells the story of the advent of sound technology for movies and the emergence of talkies and musicals in Hollywood. While audiences cried out for more, the movie industry struggled to adapt to the strange new technology. The result was an explosion of movie musicals by the end of the decade.

Web Warriors

2008 • 49 min • United States of America

Web Warriors is a documentary that defines the conflict, establishes the stakes, and reveals the combatants in the escalating global battle taking place in cyber space. The film features computer hacker Michael Calce (aka Mafia Boy) who explains how as a 15 year old student he shut down Yahoo, Amazon, CNN, and Dell - from his bedroom. Viewers will watch grey hat hacker Donnie Werner (aka Morning Wood) as he comes face to face with the Russian cyber mafia as he searches for the creators of a new computer virus. Web Warriors is a wake-up call that we have entered the era of digital warfare where the stakes continue to escalate in a battle that now costs the global economy more than $500 Billion annually.

David McCullough: Painting with Words

2008 • 37 min • United States of America

Author/historian David McCullough welcomes viewers into his public and private world in this film. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman--who adapted McCullough's 'John Adams' for the 7-part HBO miniseries--this documentary paints an affectionate, first-person portrait of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner as he gives a speech and even visits his old Brooklyn neighborhood.

Kosher Spaghetti

2008 • 5 min

A Jewish young man starts putting tefilim while he hallucinates a dinner with god where things really get out of control.

A Love Story of Today

2008 • 29 min • United States of America

A discussion of the very important and highly controversial film, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, featuring interviews with people like Katharine Houghton, Martin Baum, Louis Gossett, Jr., Norman Jewison, Garry Marshall, Karen Sharpe and Salome Thomas-El.

Takane's Bicycle

2008 • 24 min • Japan

An 11-year-old boy, Takasumi Takane, will be given a new bicycle if his exam results are in the top 100, but his results put him in 112th place. He tells his mother a lie that he placed 92nd, and he tears the answer sheets apart. On his way home from cram school, he accidently breaks the old bicycle that he is supposed to hand down to his little sister, Tamaki. This angers Tamaki. Furthermore, Tamaki accuses him of telling a lie, and he begins to think of her as a nuisance. One night, when he goes to a shrine to look for his missing dog, Chris, he encounters a young man named Yoyogi. Somehow, Yoyogi has the answer sheet marked as “92nd." Yoyogi proposes a trade, but threatens to return the answer sheet to its original owner unless he is given something Takane doesn't need.

Séance familiale

2008 • 28 min • Taiwan

A french TV crew breaks into a Taiwanese family in Taipei for a real TV program during a weekend. After a short thought and seducing by the possible winnings, Lin's family accepts to be followed by the cameraman Pierre for two days. Little by little, Pierre's camera has become a new way of communication in this family. Everyone delivers their way of life and thinking, and maybe a little secret.

The Cell Phone

2008 • 9 min

2008 short film

Clowns

2008 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Daisy Asquith investigates the mysterious world of children's entertainers.

Puppetboy

2008 • 27 min • Sweden

For more than a decade, an eccentric animator has worked on films featuring a little clay figure he calls "Puppetboy". Many hours of animation have been completed, yet very little has been made available to the public. Following the artist behind the scenes we discover a very intimate relationship between him an his protagonist.

The Suitcase

2008 • 20 min • Chile

Absurdist short about a man with a suitcase and a man inside that suitcase.

Illicit: The Dark Trade

2008 • 56 min • United States of America

Documenting the shadowy world of illegal trade that in this era of globalization spans the entire planet with a growing web of criminal networks. Counterfeiting is not just about knock-off brand handbags or pirated DVDs; these global supply chains also carry much more dangerous items: drugs, weapons, fake pharmaceuticals, knock-off car and airline parts, and more.

Walter's War

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Drama inspired by the life of Walter Tull who, after years in an orphanage, went on to become a professional footballer and then the first black commissioned officer to lead British troops during WW1. The action concerns Tull's turbulent passage from ordinary soldier to extraordinary officer at officer training camp, where he had to face his own demons as well as fight the prejudice that surrounded him

Beyond Raccoon City: Unearthing 'Resident Evil: Extinction'

2008 • 31 min • United States of America

Resident Evil: Extinction featurette.

Crossing the Line

2008 • 3 min • New Zealand

In WWI, a pilot’s teddy bear and an infantryman’s lost photo drift through chaos, their fragile presence briefly disrupting the brutal rhythm of battle.

The Monday Before Thanksgiving

2008 • 20 min

On the Monday before Thanksgiving, the anniversary of her mother's death, Theresa reflects on the choices she's made and how comfortable she really is being by herself.

Planet Heroes - Slingshot

2008 • 28 min

The Planet Heroes must stop Professor Darkness from destroying the solar system.

Sikumi (On the Ice)

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

An Inuit hunter drives his dog team out on the frozen Arctic Ocean in search of seals, but instead, bears witness to murder. In the microscopic communities of Arctic Alaska there is no anonymity -- the hunter knows both the victim and the murderer. The murderer, claiming self-defense and desperate to avoid punishment, tries to persuade his friend to forget what he has seen, and help dispose of the body. The hunter is forced to navigate the uneasy morality of honoring the body and memory of one friend and destroying the life of another.

Thirteen or So Minutes...

2008 • 13 min • United States of America

Lawrence Jefferies and Hugh Greerey are two straight men who have just met. Thirteen or so minutes later, things have changed for both of them as they open themselves to one another.

West 10 LDN

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A collection of tower blocks and concrete expanse, it has its own rules and codes, its own distinctive languages and culture, both old and new. It is a tightly knit community that is on call to protect those within its boundaries. It is an intense, turbulent, passionate world, rarely depicted other than when the antagonisms and struggles of its young lives spill out onto the surrounding streets and into the news. West 10 LDN invites us into this territory, and delves into the big stories of the lives of the young, multi ethnic generation who live there - with a blast of energy and power, with dynamism, wit and blistering vibrancy.

Lloyd Neck

2008 • 16 min • United States of America

Alex has a crush on her brother's friend, Jesse. But Jesse likes Alex's brother, Taylor. Alex knows something is up with her brother. Caught in an awkward position, Taylor takes Alex and Jesse to his favorite spot.

Trip to the Wound

2008 • 7 min • Indonesia

Shila met Carlo one night, on a bus. Shila is a collector. She collects stories of scars. Shila is always longing for the existence of a wound. This is a trip Carlo can never forget.

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five

2008 • 25 min • United States of America

Ordered to teach a martial arts class of rambunctious bunny kittens, Po tells stories of each of the Furious Five's pasts.

Little Red Riding Hood

2008 • 35 min

Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the seventies, but for her it is not something that belongs to the past. She decides to find something that will allow her to act and which, she claims, is owed to her.