All Films

Vicious Circle

2008 • 25 min

Shot on digital , HD and 8 mm. Filmed through both sides of North America. 'Vicious Circle' pushes the limits of what can be accomplished on a bike. Featuring the first ever 65 foot 'Double Road Gap' , some of the gnarliest tricks ever done on a mountain bike and the fastest racers coming out of Canada. BMX is also featured in the DVD. This movie includes the top athletes of the industry , plus the introduction of Graham Agassiz and Isael CotÚ.

For Wendy

2008 • 10 min • Canada

Three children try to understand the death of their mother through innocent yet deep questioning. In exploring nature and his connection with animals, the middle child Josh comes to a peaceful resolve.

Ortona 1943: A Bloody Christmas

2008 • 52 min • Italy

It was one of the bloodiest and most mysterious battles of the Second World War in Italy. In Ortona, a small seaside town in the Abruzzo region, Germans and Canadians literally fought street by street, house by house, even room by room. Why did everyone want to conquer Ortona in December 1943? What was so important about it? Why was it forgotten so quickly afterwards? And what secret does Ortona hide until this day? Amazing library footage, never before heard eyewitness accounts, documents that have remained secret until now, recently found German photographs and moving re-enactments help us to relive not only the political and military climate of the time, but take us back to the narrow alleys of the time, standing side-by-side with the soldiers to discover the embarrassing truth that has remained hidden for over half a century.

Young Blood

2008 • 22 min • China

Chinese short film.

The Image World

2008 • 6 min

When sunlight falls through the spaces between leaves on a tree, the pin-hole apertures in the foliage create images of the sun on the ground below. This film records replicas of the sun as they appear and disappear in the dappled light under trees.

Neat Freak

2008 • 42 min

When their apartment is mysteriously cleaned up after a party, four roommates are excited they might have a ghost maid, then someone is vacuumed to death.

Scope

2008 • 4 min

The world is what sound is: Main motive is the speaker - on masts, in halls, on roofs in cars, living rooms, in headphones and handsets, in radio installations. Listeners are to be seen in parts or blured only. Sound gets through the speakers, as unclear part of communication and dialogues, distorted music and announcements, search of transitions, noise. Volker Schreiner gives a new, a different, a forgotten voice to the general and omnipresent noise, that since a long time is no more experienced in the mordern world.

Arlington Call to Honor

2008 • 46 min • United States of America

Every graveyard tells a story, but few can talk to the living like Arlington National Cemetery. Visit the final home of war heroes from the Revolutionary War to 9/11 to the current struggle in Iraq. The American flag flies at half-staff more often than not as more than twenty-seven burials take place daily. Each section of the cemetery reflects a time in history, and each stone signifies a hero.

The Spell

2008 • 13 min

A room in a shady lodge near the railway station in a small town. People live in this room and cannot escape. Glimpses of their existences, impressions significant only in their insignificance.

The Four Seasons

2008 • 52 min • Tunisia

The image of an ageless black woman, who is called Oummi Fatma or Myriam or Selma, is engraved forever on the memory of every inhabitant of Zarzis, our small native town located in the south-east of Tunisia. This fantastic matchmaker of all work is indispensable because she is fully in charge of the complex ritual of the wedding ceremony and facilitates the bride and groom's difficult transition to married life. Oummi Fatma is one of the last women of her generation who still goes through this ritual whose secrets she alone knows and which a brutal modernization threatens to end forever.

Jeff Garcia: Livin' the Dream

2008 • 58 min

Famed Latino comedian and voiceover artist, Jeff Garcia, comes to you from San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino with his signature improv style. He comments on his family, unreliable cars, white people, marriage and his run-ins with the law

Roma

2008 • 1 min • Spain

Made with stop motion technique, this film is the documentation of a 3-day walk in the city of Rome and Ostia Antica.

Sugar Coated Film

2008 • 10 min

The film is an asian filmmaker's commentary on Western experimental film history and a recitation of personal memories.

Junji Inagawa: Mysterious Night Tales - Hidden Curse Edition

2008 • 60 min • Japan

The first part of the monumental DVD of Junji Inagawa, a storyteller of horror stories who has reached his 60th birthday.

狙われた巨乳家庭教師 性のマン2マン授業

2008 • 60 min

The Curious World of Frinton-on-Sea

2008 • 40 min

Frinton-on-Sea is a town that doesn't like change. The shops, the sea front and even the people haven't changed for decades. So when Network Rail announced it was going to automate the town's manually operated level-crossing gates, there was a call to arms. Filmmaker Marc Isaacs meets the people who have decided to grow old in England's most conservative seaside resort.

Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami

2008 • 55 min • United States of America

Documentary chronicles the many ways in which the city of Miami helped transform little-known Olympic boxing into world-renowned, three-time heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. Archival footage and interviews explore how the Fifth Street Gym along with the city's civil rights movement and vibrant African American community helped shape both the career and personal values of one of boxing's most outspoken figures.

Perfecto

2008 • 56 min

Among Mallorca's fragrant almond groves, famed nightclubs and speedo-sporting Eurotourists, limestone cliffs rise straight from the sea like sentinels, their steep pockets beckoning to climbers the world over. A fall means splashing into 80 degree water, drying off and trying again - from the bottom. Some call it climbing in its purest form. Others call it a hell of a way to spend a few weeks. Last season, a small group of climbers traveled to those sea cliffs to learn the intricacies of deep water soloing and to try, unrehearsed, some of the hardest - and most aesthetic - routes in the world. Directed and produced by Mike Call, Perfecto captures the beauty, adrenaline and purity of the Mallorca experience.

Idyll

2008 • 6 min

An attack of imagined nostalgia for childhood. The applied do-it-yourself bas-relief print technique ensures a coloured image.

Hockey Model

2008 • 13 min

Linn is a model who started playing hockey at the age of ten. Now she plays with a bunch of guys. But it is difficult to combine the model job with hockey.

Martyrs vs Censorship

2008 • 9 min • France

After being delayed for a few months because of a 18+ rating due to its extreme violence, the French horror thriller Martyrs was finally released a few months later in the local theaters, with a 16+ rating with warning. This video was shot in June 2008, during a manifestation organised to protest against the first rating decision.

Le cinéma chinois, hier et aujourd'hui

2008 • 59 min • France

BlackStreetBoyz

2008 • 30 min • United States of America

The fast and furious comedy stylings of Alfred and Seymour, the multi-talented duo behind BlackStreetBoyz.

Kranked 7: The Cackle Factor

2008 • 52 min • Canada

Inspired by old hipster slang for the insane asylum (the cackle factory), the film trips with stunning footage cut to a post-industrial explosion of funk, rock, reggae, hip-hop and punk. As the world spirals into madness, seemingly at war with itself, the best mountain bikers are judged against it.