All Films

a_ética

2008 • 15 min • Brazil

A man awakes in an abandoned shed.Confused, he finds itself tied to a chair. Standing in front of him is an unknown man, who begins a weird speech about his unique professional ethics, until the conversation rovers to a new and tense situation.

Mercuric Oxycyanide

2008 • 15 min • Brazil

Amancio, young and bohemian man of the 30’s, meets friends at a bar and tell them about his painful treatment to heal a syphilitic ulcer in the stomach. While his story takes air of fantasy and adventure, a rough and drunk man challenges him to prove that he really is cured.

Because There Are Things We Never Forget

2008 • 12 min • Argentina, Spain

Four friends play soccer on the street. Suddenly the ball falls inside "Evil Grandma's" house.

Luciano Pavarotti: A Legend Says Goodbye

2008 • 60 min

This heartfelt tribute, the first to be released since Luciano Pavarotti's passing in 2007, contains excerpts from the illustrious career of one of the world's greatest opera tenors, including his famed 1989 performance in Barcelona, Spain. The presentation also contains rare clips from the master's childhood years, along with footage of his grand funeral proceedings.

Asteroid Trackers

2008 • 46 min • Canada

The asteroid believed to have wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago was rare but hardly unique. This compelling special delves into various facets of asteroid research around the globe revealing how experts are pushing the boundaries of technology to protect us from 250-ton behemoths like Apophis, an asteroid that could come dangerously come close to Earth in 2029, and again in 2036.

Gallhammer: Ruin of a Church

2008 • 47 min • Japan, United Kingdom

Tokyo's all-girl black metal band Gallhammer electrifies fans in this 2007 concert recorded live in a deconsecrated church in Colchester, U.K. Songs include "Hallucination," "Speed of Blood," "Endless Nauseous Days" and more. The trio -- Vivian Slaughter, Risa Reaper and Mika Penetrator -- also rips through "At the Onset of Age of Despair" and "Crucifixion," and bonus material includes a band interview and the music video for "World to Be Ashes."

Fabulous Fairies

2008 • 50 min • Serbia

Inside Belgrade's home for elderly people, couple of grandmas made a band. As the days go by, practices are getting harder and it makes them evaluate their lives. They have a tour for elderly people's homes across Serbia and one bigger concert with guest star drummer.

Goleshovo

2008 • 35 min • United Kingdom

This is a tale about the death of Goleshovo, a forgotten town in the mountains of Bulgaria. Here, a handful of old people struggle for survival: A couple fights with their donkey. A forgetful priest leads his congregation into confusion. A woman cheers up her friends with songs. Will their children ever return? Composed with rigorous attention to form, this observational documentary is an austere yet ultimately rewarding portrait of hope.

Vantaa

2008 • 10 min

A man claiming to be Arnold Schönberg searches for his yoghurt.

Our Anguilla

2008 • 25 min • Anguilla

Our Anguilla is a short film about the history of Anguilla (British West Indies). The film was shot on location in Anguilla in the summer of 2008.

I Know

2008 • 7 min • Slovenia

In a basement, a man built his masterpiece ...

The Stations

2008 • 25 min • Latvia

The fading romance of the era of train travel is portrayed in the faces of railway workers, at lonely stations where trains no longer stop, on empty tracks where trains no longer run.

Close

2008 • 9 min • Poland

Agniezska and her friends discover love for the first time.

Chicory 'n' Coffee

2008 • 9 min • Slovenia

The story turns on a small deception - since they were married, instead of the real thing, the wife has always made Chicory (a cheap substitute for Coffee) for her husband. He never catches on to the deception. For him, the slush tastes better than the best Coffee.

Abimbowé

2008 • 3 min • Spain

Agustina can't see. María, the girl who looks after her, will open her eyes.

Our Necessity for Comfort

2008 • 13 min • Portugal

Time rushes by us. It rushes like the clouds in the sky that are swept and left drifting by the wind. As it passes we live and feel its passage. A brief reflection about time and life seen through two moments of our mother’s lives.

What Cassandra Saw

2008 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Cassandra discovers by accident the Bureau of Shadows, responsible for making, measuring and resizing our shadows while we are asleep, in this post-modern fairy tale.

E.t.a.

2008 • 5 min • Denmark

Marvin has the most boring job in the universe. But all is not as it seems.

Sunny Day

2008 • 19 min • Russia

Masha lives in a far northern village. At school one is studying - there are no more children in the village. In the village also there is no cellular communication, internet, shop and entertainment. But Masha loves her native places and dreams of opening a hospital in the village.

Brother's Keeper

2008 • 16 min

Two brothers live together in an old mansion, one gruesomely mutilated. The other brother seduces young women, mostly prostitutes and brings them to their remote estate, where the brothers fulfill their holy mission to ritually murder these women. When one of the brothers falls in love with the next victim the situation gets out of hand.

Cosa Che Fugge

2008 • 5 min • Italy

'Cosa Che Fugge' arises from the stratification of multiple images that overlap and which, by merging, give life to a new image; thus the sound is also given by multiple sound bands, dilated and reversed, which generate something other than what they are individually: a choral whole.

Haoma

2008 • 7 min • France

33rd Day

2008 • 60 min • Serbia

Anamarija, head of a conservative and religious family, after her husbands death feels persecuted. Despite the rages of evil, she’s trying to find the balance between rasing her children and her own safety.

Russian Tunnel

2008 • 19 min • Brazil

Film about the police brutality in dealing with homosexual public demonstration of affection. A gay couple is tortured and harassed because they are kissing on the streets of Rio.