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Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS): A Sacred Calling

Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS): A Sacred Calling

2008 • 18 min • Canada
Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS) is the largest First Nation police force in North America. Police officers in this severely underfunded police force go above and beyond the call of duty when compared to other police officers. NAPS officer duties include, cutting firewood for the wood stove that heats the police detachment and emptying slop buckets with prisoners’ urine and excrement. "A Sacred Calling" shows the deplorable working conditions and the devastating personal consequences to NAPS officers as they heroically provide security and safety to First Nation communities in the remote north of Ontario.
Rotunda

Rotunda

2008 • 15 min • United States of America
Designed by Thomas Jefferson to represent the “authority of nature and the power of reason,” the Rotunda is the physical and symbolic center of the University of Virginia, founded by Jefferson in 1824 as the first secular Liberal Arts university in America. Composer Judith Shatin and filmmaker Robert Arnold have created a portrait of the Rotunda that combines its timeless majesty with the ever-changing hum of daily life. Sounds and images recorded over the course of an entire year from season to season, are presented as a single day, from dawn to sunset.
Your children will become like us

Your children will become like us

2008 • 28 min
In the night of November 14, 2006, a Castor transport drove to the Gorleben interim storage facility. Some opponents of nuclear power are protesting on the streets. They are faced with a large contingent of police. Also in May 2007, at the meeting of the G-8 states in Heiligendamm, the demonstrators were confronted with an enormous police presence. Andree Korpys and Markus Löffler documented the two events.
Street Lights

Street Lights

2008 • 4 min
Super-8 film of night and daytime cityscapes and illuminations, collected over several years and spliced together into a split-screen collage. The work is a mixture of home movie found footage, offcuts from various projects and specially filmed sequences, and has an electronic soundtrack to compliment the cut up collage style.
Mystic Tube #2: Number of Fluorescents

Mystic Tube #2: Number of Fluorescents

2008 • 11 min • Japan
The second episode from the "Mystic Tube" series ascertains the variations of "transitions of the reverberations as the sound sources are moved" with continuing the same basic simple plot of "pilgrims pass through a tunnel, playing music as they make their way to their destination". This episode is about the four pilgrims who are led into a high-key sunbeam. The drones and Mevrevic riff in three different folk flutes (Quena, Shinobue, Suling) are intoxicated under the interference of the fluorescences, still, the four continue with their pilgrimage.
Don't Erase My History

Don't Erase My History

2008 • 30 min
A cross-section of Bay Area youth take viewers on a quest for the very history that has no name in their schools. Together, they open archival closets and talk with LGBTQ artists, activists, and pioneers. In a world where their queer history is still regularly erased, what will they discover?
DAISUKE ICHIBA Anime

DAISUKE ICHIBA Anime

2008 • 2 min
Experimental short film featuring artwork by Daisuke Ichiba.
Becoming Vera

Becoming Vera

2008 • 54 min • Cameroon, France, Russia
Between age three and four, Vera Loumpet-Galitzine traverses many landscapes, exploring where she comes from, to come into her own. We follow her to her school and neighbourhood activities in France, Cameroon and Russia. As Vera dances, sings and runs around these visually engaging landscapes, seemingly easily integrated into her rich fantasy world, we attempt to imagine what they look like to her. What does she see, think, or imagine?
Candidíase

Candidíase

2008 • 8 min
Two girls, Cândida and Serena, with different expectations about their relationship. Serena, unable to deal with Cândida's lightness, decides to take a stand and face the ghost that haunts her. The ghost hides in the closet ....
Chronos 1.0

Chronos 1.0

2008 • 1 min
In this animation short directed by four Gobelins students, a time traveller takes off for the first manned trip to the future ... but the past beckons.
Titanic's Nuclear Secret

Titanic's Nuclear Secret

2008 • 45 min
The nuclear trail to Titanic and the intact treasures of the Black Sea. It was the greatest nautical mystery of the 20th Century: the final resting place of Titanic.
Lipstick

Lipstick

2008 • 3 min
A bathroom lock and Judy Garland join forces in this poignant tale of a boy exploring his style and sexuality.
At Home (or Love as Well)

At Home (or Love as Well)

2008 • 25 min
For a newcomer, sex with a woman can be daunting. What better way to learn than to hire a prostitute? Over sushi dinner, white wine and soft music, the two women both reconsider the prejudices they have about themselves, and about one another.
Habla Ya

Habla Ya

2008 • 54 min
Latinos share funny, often touching anecdotes and real-life accounts of what it means to be Latino in NY.
Good Morning Kandahar

Good Morning Kandahar

2008 • 52 min
Ariel Nasr's documentary gives voice to the complex dilemmas faced by contemporary Afghanis under Canadian intervention. The film introduces us to young Afghan-Canadians torn between a deep desire to help Afghanistan and a fear that things will never change. Good Morning Kandahar asks whether Canada's mission in Afghanistan is failing.
Emma

Emma

2008 • 58 min • Sweden
In this observational documentary, a young woman tries to retain her individuality while living at a treatment center for drug addiction.
Echagh (The Well)

Echagh (The Well)

2008 • 32 min • Mali, Norway
Echagh (The Well) is a research film on a Tuareg Fraction called Igorareine. They live in a locality called Echgah situated to 40 km in the northest from Gao, nothern Mali. They basically look after sheep, goats, camels, cattle, and have been practising a nomadic life for generations. Nowadays, some of them are about to leave this ancestral way of life due to many loss of animals caused by the desertification of the Sahara. That is how they settled in the surrounding of a colonial well, called Echgh in 1988. A decade later, they created a primary school for their children. Since then, they are thinking about another way of life. But it should be noticed that this newly introduced school system is subject of many interpretations in Echagh. Some of them believes in other opportunities that school may bring about. In contrast others see it as a device which threatens their traditional way of life. Within such a divergent context, the film explores the life choices of three kids.
West Lake Fish

West Lake Fish

2008 • 5 min • China
The emperor's southern tour, where the place is full of hospitality, needless to say, local food attractions need to taste the tour. West Lake Moonlight Night, quiet and distant, the emperor sat in the boat and tasted the famous West Lake vinegar cooked by famous chefs. Even though the taste of the world's famous dishes, the emperor is still attracted to the delicious taste of this dish, for a time completely disregard the image, big. The so-called music is very sad, and the bones of the fish are stuck in the throat, and the pain is unbearable. The chef tried his best, and it was hard to see the results. He was also raised by the emperor who was angry and angry. At this time, the calm prime minister is coming out...
Senritsu no Toshi Densetsu FILE: Special Vol.1 Omoide Hatsukimatou

Senritsu no Toshi Densetsu FILE: Special Vol.1 Omoide Hatsukimatou

2008 • 59 min • Japan
Special Vol.1" will features "Legends about Tunnels," "Urban Legends in History," and a report on a certain abandoned building where an atrocity actually took place, and will be released to convey the raw atmosphere of the scene.
Scenic National Parks: Yellowstone

Scenic National Parks: Yellowstone

2008 • 50 min
Encounter nature’s sculpted steamy terraces, sputtering and bubbling geysers, and petrified trees. Meet the year-round residents of the parks: bears, bison, beavers, bald eagles, coyotes, playful otters, and some of the world’s largest elk herds. Relive a rich history, from original Indian inhabitants to the earliest explorers. And witness the variety of summer and winter activities that bring visitors back again and again. Mammoth Hot Springs. Old Faithful. Yellowstone Lake. Hayden Valley. Specimen Ridge. Norris Geyser Basin, the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. Inspiration Point. Artist Point. History of the Native-American Inhabitants and Explorers. Wildlife. Extra Features: Wolves Return to Yellowstone. Wild Fires in Yellowstone.
Mischief: JDM Mischief - Attack of the Killer Tuners

Mischief: JDM Mischief - Attack of the Killer Tuners

2008 • 59 min
"Teckademics comes back with a full-frontal assault in JDM Mischief 2 featuring the sickest Japanese turner cars and babes on the planet. This sequel delivers some top-speed action at the Super Street Time Attack featuring the Automotive Forums Skyline GTR34 and the GMG World Challenge Porsche GT3 Cup Car! Next, strap in for a ride with the AMS Mitsubishi EVO as it hits the track...and get a sneak peek at HKS EVO Time Attack killer! We also take you drifting with Drift Alliance's own Chris Forsberg and unsponsored phenom Justin Pollock as they take over the mountainous Horse Thief Mile course at Willow Springs Raceway. The Crazy Swede Sam Hibinetter give us an inside look at his new Mopar Charger drift car set to compete against all the JDM monsters. The action does't stop there as the Teck army invades the wildest car shows and model shoots around. Get an all-access pass to some of the hottest photoshoots and parties around."
Kens

Kens

2008 • 3 min
When love is true, no one can ever separate it.
Kitty, Kitty

Kitty, Kitty

2008 • 28 min • Poland
There are elegant ladies as well as poor pensioners among them. Burdened with shopping bags, day and night, regardless of the weather and time of the year, they visit parks, cemeteries and secluded places. These are ‘cat ladies’, considered as weirdos by some and angels of good by others. Maybe these women feeding homeless cats are trying to fill an empty space in their lives or satisfy their maternal instincts. Before the camera they philosophize, sing old songs and tell stories of love, fear and lost opportunities. One character argues with her husband with whom she shares nothing but a love of cats. They all speak of their pets with fondness and affection and have a name for each of them. Łoziński has managed to paint a portrait of women who have found an aim at the end of their lives.
Biblioburro, the Donkey Library

Biblioburro, the Donkey Library

2008 • 52 min
This documentary follows the life of a one-of-a-kind man, and his one-of-a-kind library. Luis Soriano is a Colombian schoolteacher who spends weekends taking his donkey, and book collection, to the poverty-ridden towns of Magdalena Province. Facing down drug dealers, dangerous creatures, and overbearing heat, Soriano bravely faces down fear to promote education and literature.