All Films

Hard Revenge, Milly

2008 • 44 min • Japan

At some point in the near future gun and weapon control laws are deregulated by public order. Asia quickly becomes the epicenter of criminal activity in the world. In Yokohama City this violence becomes so extreme that the population drops as people try to escape the criminal element that remain. When The Jack Brothers murder Milly's husband and daughter in front of her, she vows revenge.

Quiz Magic Academy: The Original Animation

2008 • 29 min • Japan

There is a magical academy that is located on a floating island in the sky. This is about the students of one of the academy's classes, who's only chance not to fail the semester is to win a competition where they must show off their magic skills.

The Lobotomist

2008 • 55 min

Tells the gripping tale of a medical intervention gone awry.

Paltalk

2008 • 15 min

Erik and Jocke thinks life has passed them by. The future looks uncertain when they aimlessly walking around town and talking. Jocke gets the idea that a dice should determine their life choices, just as in Rhinehart's book The Dice Man.

Cicada

2008 • 9 min • Australia

Cicada is the immersive story of a five-year-old child who witnessed a murder. Daniel P Jones confronts a traumatic memory in an incendiary, visceral monologue.

dEVOLUTION

2008 • 2 min

Warfare is the antithesis of evolution.

MeeBOX

2008 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A pilot for a sketch show by Adam Buxton, featuring belligerent megastar Famous Guy, British cinema's greatest advocate Ken Korda, a poorly subtitled edition of Songs of Praise and a home-made music video for Spoon.

Buskers; For Love or Money

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

In his directorial debut Mad Chad Taylor, the renowned Venice Beach chainsaw Juggler, has created a one of a kind documentary that goes deep inside the hidden world of street performers. Amid rare footage of the most shocking and inspired street acts from around the world, one performer after another pulls back the makeshift curtain. Their acts are astonishing; their stories, more amazing still. Here is the tightrope walker, the razor blade muncher, the sidewalk samurai, the tattooed man. Meet The Fireman who lost his teeth to his fire-eating act, and the Calypso Tumbler who's buying up real estate in the Caribbean. This is the human condition at its most freakishly wonderful.

Out-of-range Woman (Director's Cut)

2008 • 50 min • Japan

Riding a scooter with Seven left at home, Keita went on a solo trip. Along the way, he meets a mysterious woman. She behaves strangely and elusively. Keita's scooter broke down, and he has to stay overnight at a hot spring inn. A strong yakuza gives him mysterious advice. (director's cut for episodes 19 and 20 of the 'Cellphone Investigator 7' TV show).

Koest

2008 • 8 min • Netherlands

Infant Dédé is lonely at school and is hardly noticed in the busy family where noisy babies rule the roost. When he becomes friends with a dog, he finally feels recognised. From then on, he barks all day long. Nobody understands why. After a while, his father thinks of an inventive way to make contact with his son.

Abracadaver!

2008 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A demented magician seeks a new assistant in this gruesome tale of magic and mutilation. Part of BFI collection "The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome."

The iDOLM@STER Live For You!

2008 • 17 min • Japan

On the day before the 765 Productions Fan Appreciation Event, each of the idols prepare to head home. However, Chihaya Kisaragi, uneasy about tomorrow's events, decides to have a last minute personal rehearsal. One thing leads to another as Chihaya, Miki and Haruka are dragged from one exciting situation to the next. What is the truck driver's true destination? What is the secret behind the old house? Will the girls make it in time for the event? Watch as Miki, Haruka, Chihaya and the other idols join together for their biggest adventure yet!

It's a Rumic World: 50th Anniversary Weekly★Shonen Sunday

2008 • 3 min • Japan

The characters from Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, and Inuyasha all gather together in a short crossover to introduce the 50th Anniversary Weekly Shonen Sunday "Rumic World" Museum opening, celebrating Rumiko Takahashi's manga work.

Torihada 3~ Yofukashi no anata ni zokutto suru hanashi wo

2008 • 46 min • Japan

Fold

2008 • 16 min • United States of America

A young engaged couple is torn apart when Rachel must wait for a ride home after class. Maki, the shy, mysterious Japanese classmate who invites Rachel back to her place, is confused by Rachel's friendly ways, and thus hurt when Rachel refuses her advances. Like Maki's fantastic origami creations, the lives of Rachel and others prove fragile in a sequence of dazzling twists following Maki's disappointment.

Zygon

2008 • 58 min • United Kingdom

They've been stranded on Earth for 20 years, so Zygon commander Kritakh, and his second, Torlakh, have had plenty of time to re-create their world. The trouble is that Kritakh, aka engineer Mike Kirkwood, has lost his sense of purpose. Can Torlakh, aka mass murderer Bob Calhoun, get him back on track. Enter sexy Psychiatrist Lauren Anderson, first, to be tempted by her innermost desires and then to face her greatest challenge. Can a violent heart really be tamed by love and what is the ultimate price to be paid?

Bedfellows

2008 • 3 min • United States of America

When a woman is being called in the middle of the night, she finds out that it's not her husband laying next to her.

Lea

2008 • 45 min • Germany

Lea is desperately searching for stability, a warm relationship and a reason for living. But she is floundering. Her life is meaningless, restless and aggressive. A brief encounter with Lukas develops into a closer relationship that takes her on a journey to a forgotten place, where the couple try to find out who they are, and recall a long-lost time.

Oktapodi

2008 • 2 min • France

Two Octopi fight for their lives with a stubborn restaurant cook in a comical escape through the streets of a small Greek village.

Santa Claws

2008 • 4 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 eighth film in the series.

Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki

2008 • 57 min • Japan

Fourth part of the new Fist of the North Star movie pentalogy presenting the story from Toki's perspective, leading up to Toki's imprisonment in Cassandra and eventually his duel with Raoh.

The Rite Of Spring

2008 • 15 min • Sweden

It's Valborg - Walpurgis Night. The annual celebration of spring. The doctors' choir is rehearsing for tonight's celebrations. The only ones left at the hospital are the nurse, the medical intern and the patient care technician. The doctors trust them to give the patient the proper care. It is, after all, Valborg - Walpurgis Night.

Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen

2008 • 52 min • Germany

Documentary on conductor Herbert van Karajan, focusing on his early adoption of audio and video recording technology and his impetus to make use of it to preserve his musical legacy for future generations.

And Now

2008 • 41 min

Video #20 Transworld Skateboarding is proud to present our twentieth video, And Now. Starring six of skateboarding's rising young talents, this is the future of skateboarding now.