All Films

Children’s Game #3: Coins

2008 • 3 min • Mexico

We see three kids from behind, standing at a set distance from a peeling, whitewashed wall. The rule is that each player throws a coin against the wall, that drops and rolls back on the pavement; the player whose coin remains the closest to the wall can keep the other players’ coins. As we watch, though, the coins tinkle everywhere, several flung by each player, further multiplied by their shadows, after which all three rush forward to scoop up loot, seemingly at random and yet without disagreements.

Theatrical Romance

2008 • 10 min • Ukraine

About the performances, backstage life, theater actors and their fans. One group performed every evening. A full hall gathered day after day, and a little sad beetle, who loved the leading actor, was among the many spectators. Can she dare to approach him, handing her bouquet?

Rave

2008 • 16 min • Serbia

Short documentary film about confessions of ravers from Belgrade.

Alcova

2008 • 4 min • Brazil

The unconscious screams when it's confronted with three different personalities. Inside an alcove, a man wakes up trapped in a diabolical ritual executed by his self-villain and observed by his self-asleep.

Liquor, Beer & Wine

2008 • 27 min

An offbeat, dark comedy about what we discover about ourselves through the relationships we forge and the drinks we consume.

Broken Horizon

2008 • 5 min • Netherlands

From a sea full of icebergs tinkling rising green hills. Winding roads and a forest of scaffolding overgrow the virgin landscape. There stands the city, dark and unapproachable. But when night falls and the lights turn on, the water returns. Manufacturability is overtaken by transformation.

Post!

2008 • 13 min • Germany

In a small village at the end of the world, a letter carrier works with a very special professional attitude: he prefers to replace the mail he is supposed to deliver with letters he has written himself. The villagers love these letters because they make everyone laugh, from the clochard to the policeman, from the fat lady to the priest, and even the grumpy landlord likes this mail. But then the head post office finds out about the matter...

From Arieto to Harry Bertoia

2008 • 40 min

A documentary about sound art sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia.

The Ghouligans! Super Show!

2008 • 41 min

The Ghouligans are a collection of nostalgic monster dead beats that live for classic comedy and chaos. These retro horror characters deliver an electric mix of fun and excitement.

The Son of Santo

2008 • 20 min • Mexico

This is the story of Juan, a boy who feels the opression of his social environment and the abandonment. He confronts this reality through the image of his prefered mexican superhero, the lucha libre wrestler and film star Santo. Juan also believes that his father secretly was Santo, so he feels a link to him.

1934. Alcordances d'una revolución

2008 • 30 min

The history of the Asturian mining county from the mouths of its protagonists. Memories of survival are after the victory of the national side in the Civil War, the families decimated with the dead in common graves. The "fugaos" and the guerrilla struggle that they maintained under the slogan of the PC. The “normalized” return to the mines with surveillance by the Civil Guard, the first strikes, timid and disorganized, spontaneous; the organization then, unionized and clandestine; the “resistance boxes”, the constant pulse against Francoism…

Life.

2008 • 13 min • Serbia

Documentary movie about life, shown through the dead.

Tallava SuperStar

2008 • 45 min • Kosovo

This documentary is a "small study" on social and cultural changes that grew during the time of us growing up. It's a personal perspective of young individuals on music and the phenomena of "tallava" in it. We believe that "tallava" is an adopted form of music implanted in the Balkan folk. We see this as reflection political and social events that took place during the last 15 years, time in which this specific type of music developed. This film would be platform for various thinkers, musicians and "tallava" performers to share their ideas on the short and long term effect of this social/cultural phenomenon. The aim of this documentary is to portray the influence and the causes of this music in the global culture of the region. Also this documentary is a personal journey of a generation to understand in a larger scale what are the consequences advantages of this kind of media representation.

Rice Bowl Hill Incident

2008 • 40 min

A group of children mysteriously falls asleep during a class field trip in the Japanese countryside. The teacher who accompanied them will later be interrogated by the American secret services concerning their disappearance. Inspired by part of Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore, it shares the same desire to combine a quasi-documentary aesthetic with supernatural themes.

Rare Chicken Rescue

2008 • 26 min

After a long battle with depression, Queensland rare chicken breeder Mark Tully is now on a mission to protect the endangered chickens to which he owes his life.

The Beautiful Adventures of Dolphin Boy

2008 • 3 min • United States of America

A short, cut-out animation film about a boy raised by dolphins.

Cry

2008 • 36 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada

In 1998, the corpses of murdered Serbs were exhumed from a mass grave near the Orthodox church, transported and buried at the city cemetery in Trebinje. The documentary tells about the tragic fate of the Živak family.

About the Bunny Who Didn’t Turn into Anything

2008 • 7 min • Russia

A story of friendship and of how the tadpole transformed into a frog, the caterpillar into a butterfly, but the little rabbit didn't transform into anyone.

Starsearcher

2008 • 10 min • Canada

Naomi and her assistant Robot search the stars for a new home planet.

The Song

2008 • 8 min • Lithuania

The film is based on the cycle of graphic works of the famous Lithuanian artist Stasys Krasauskas "Birth of a Woman" and is dedicated to the memory of Stasys Krasauskas.

Animadores

2008 • 8 min • Brazil

A day in the life of a loser.

Rojo Red

2008 • 13 min • Colombia

Federico Guillermo, a 7 year-old boy, gets grounded for making a mess while playing in the living room and not wearing the orthopedic shoes he's been told. Federico refuses to wear them but he just can't take them off so he decides to run away from home. His sister is just able to yell at him: 'tie your laces or you will fall!!'. In the run Federico suddenly falls down and discovers that he fell because of a fabric hole on the pavement and not for the laces. He tries to set free his foot from the threads, realizing that every time he pulls a string something is destroyed in the world. Federico starts looking for the string that will destroy his own shoes.

Morana

2008 • 13 min • Croatia

A lonely hunter caught up in the middle of a storm finds shelter at the top of a steep cliff. To his surprise, he meets a mysterious red-haired woman.

London to Brighton: Side by Side

2008 • 4 min • United Kingdom

In 1953, the BBC made a point-of-view film from the London to Brighton train. In 1983, they did the same again. This is a film made of both runs at once, with every bridge, siding, tunnel and station running side by side in unlikely synchronisation.