All Films

Brick by Brick

2008 • 29 min • Sweden

Conny and Robban has been working together as bricklayers for 15 years. One night a week they go to the racing track, dreaming of winning the jackpot which is going to change their lives. But it is Conny's decision to hire cheap, Polish construction workers that suddenly brings about the chance for change.

Superfish

2008 • 50 min

The billfish are the biggest, fastest, and most dangerous gamefish in the sea. All have captured man's imagination like few other creatures, whether it's the graceful sailfish, the menacing swordfish or queen of them all, the marlin, immortalized by Hemingway in 'The Old Man and the Sea'. Marine biologist and film-maker Rick Rosenthal has travelled three oceans in his attempt to capture them all on film, and in doing so has become a passionate champion for these endangered yet little-known ocean giants.

Plastic

2008 • 7 min

Plastic is a short film that deals with the obsession of body image. Whilst Anna is preparing for a first date with Henry, a man she has secretly loved for years, everything goes wrong until she discovers the impossible - to sculpt her appearance like clay to any shape she desires.

James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

On April 5, 1968, soul legend James Brown performed a concert in Boston that many say shielded that city from the kinds of devastating riots that ripped other cities apart after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hornswiggle

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

A crazy rhino meets his hero, Zantar. He tries to help but physically hurts him.

The Phone Book

2008 • 22 min • United States of America

“The Phone Book” is the first-ever film adaptation of the world’s most widely owned book – the telephone directory. To preserve the artistic integrity of the original work, all dialogue has been reproduced exactly as it appears in the source material.

Orange Blanket

2008 • 18 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

In all its beauty, youth can be so naive that we cannot discern the important things… Love is the most wonderful and the most destructive thing in the world, all at the same time…

Al's Beef

2008 • 35 min

Bloodied, barefoot, and branded like cattle, a mysterious woman wanders into a desolate frontier town with an aim to kill the son of a bitch that done her wrong.

18 segundos

2008 • 7 min • Spain

Out of My Intention

2008 • 24 min • South Korea

A man is driving in the middle of downtown, with his girlfriend, Ok-gyeong, sitting next to him. Ok-gyeong wants to talk about their problem and solve it but the man just wants it to pass by. Their relationship heads toward the direction that nobody expected…

The Response

2008 • 30 min

THE RESPONSE is a courtroom drama based on the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals. Conceived in the vein of "12 Angry Men", the film revolves around the trial of a suspected enemy combatant and the military judges who must decide his fate.

High School Musical 3: Making Of A Musical

2008 • 40 min

An in-depth behind-the-scenes look at all of the music from this movie phenomenon.

Distraxion

2008 • 2 min • United States of America

A classic case of man vs. saxophone.

Goldfish

2008 • 9 min • Spain, United Kingdom

Two couples, in the same room, try to keep it together. The human couple fare differently to the pair of Goldfish in their fish tank. An artful piece exploring choice in life and love. The humour is derived from the wistful musings, in Cantonese, of the male fish and narrator.

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

2008 • 59 min • United States of America

This documentary delves into the art of make-up effects with industry legends Dick Smith, Rob Bottin, Tom Savini, John Landis, Frank Darabont, Joe Dante and many others with a strong focus on Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger of KNB Make-Up EFX. Written by Kevin VanHook

Domingo de Páscoa

2008 • 15 min • Brazil

A doctor searches for answers. A young mother works the streets. A corrupt cop struggles to make ends meet. A homeless girl juggles for spare change. It's the night before Easter Sunday, and on Copacabana beach, anything can happen.

Haber

2008 • 34 min

At the brink of World War I, Fritz Shimon Haber was Germany's greatest chemist. Haber's Nobel prize-winning synthetic fertilizers saved world's population from mass starvation. But as World War I broke out killing millions of German soldiers, the desperate German forces asks Shimon Haber to provide the army with new kind of weapon. Haber has already sacrificed his and his family's Jewish identity in order to become a respectable German citizen. With his decision to invent such a weapon, Haber was the first scientist in human history to unleash a weapon of mass destruction. Later he paid the ultimate price for his ambition as his wife Clara committed suicide and his invention was used for murdering millions of Jewish people during World War II.

Soft Plants

2008 • 11 min • Belgium

Naked, on the back of a sheep, soft office worker Willie rides trough the forest. His body is still in the office, but his mind wanders between dangerous flowers, li-los and an imaginary friendship for a soft sheep.

Kataude

2008 • 15 min • Japan

A man gets one arm of a woman who he fell in love, just one night. After that a man has a tragic nightmare because of one arm. The background of this story is 1960's in Japan. It was the last period that Japonism and specific moral had remained in ordinary people and their life after world war II.

Cry Me a River

2008 • 19 min • France, China, Spain

An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples of men and women, former lovers, meet again one year later. The yesterday's breath of youth is still perceptible in their conversations. Is it still possible for us to love? Does youth really have an end? Like the networks linking the old city, what type of ecological existence does their culture require?

Swollen Archive

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 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 second film in the series.

Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus

2008 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Discover how six seemingly ordinary but supremely talented men became Monty Python, sketch comedy's inspired group of lunatics who turned such unlikely sources of inspiration as Spam, dead parrots and the Inquisition into enduring punch lines. This entertaining documentary includes interviews with members of the troupe, as well as home movies, photos and rare recordings from Monty Python's early years.

Glory at Sea

2008 • 25 min • United States of America

A group of mourners and a man spat from the depths of Hades build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea.

Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest

2008 • 48 min • United States of America

With the Griffins stuck at home during a blackout, Peter tells the story of "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope".