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Chundu kurukkan

Chundu kurukkan

2008 • 38 min • India
Debut Feature Animation movie of 'Carrot creation' . A political satire. Chundu kurukkan is an animation Movie for children following a cunning fox. Whom has luck always against him.This Animation is produced by Millennium Audios & Video Vision.
Niigaanibatowaad: Front Runners

Niigaanibatowaad: Front Runners

2008 • 47 min • Canada
At a special ceremony during the opening of the 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, seven Indigenous men in their fifties entered the stadium in war canoes. One of them held the Games torch. In 1967 when Winnipeg first hosted the Pan American Games, ten outstanding athletic teenage boys were chosen to run 800 kilometers over an ancient message route with the Games torch. When the runners arrived at the stadium, they were not allowed to enter with the torch. Instead, a non-Indigenous runner was given the honour. Thirty-two-years later, the province of Manitoba issued an official apology. Nine of the ten young men chosen for the 1967 Pan Am Games torch run were from residential schools. Niigaanibatowaad is about the segregation of the Indigenous athletes and the despair and abuse suffered in the school system. Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners is a story of survival, hope, reconciliation and a dream for a new beginning that transcends hatred and racism.
Water and Fire

Water and Fire

2008 • 60 min • Macedonia
A film following the beginning of the human race to its end.
Vajont '63: il coraggio di sopravvivere

Vajont '63: il coraggio di sopravvivere

2008 • 52 min • Italy
At 10:39 PM of October 9, 1963, a landslide of 250 million cubic meters of land is detached from Mount Toc and falls into the artificial reservoir created by the Vajont dam, located in the northern mountains of the Veneto region (Italy). The landslide raises a hundred-meter-long wave that crosses the dam and within a few minutes falls on the Longarone village, at the foot of the dam. The country is completely destroyed. Nearly 2000 people in a few seconds pass from sleep to death. The film-documentary proposes, almost 50 years after the tragedy, one of the most serious European catastrophes since the post-war period to date. Within the documentary, different and significant are the testimonies of the protagonists of that dramatic event, which has destroyed entire countries and villages. The basis of the film is the extraordinary repertoire material, mostly unpublished. Also, inside the documentary, there is a touching testimony of Giampaolo Pansa, then sent to the Press.
How Does Your Memory Work

How Does Your Memory Work

2008 • 49 min • United Kingdom
You might think that your memory is there to help you remember facts, such as birthdays or shopping lists. If so, you would be very wrong. The ability to travel back in time in your mind is, perhaps, your most remarkable ability, and develops over your lifespan. Horizon takes viewers on an extraordinary journey into the human memory. From the woman who is having her most traumatic memories wiped by a pill, to the man with no memory, this film reveals how these remarkable human stories are transforming our understanding of this unique human ability. The findings reveal the startling truth that everyone is little more than their own memory.
The Coyote and the Tortoise

The Coyote and the Tortoise

2008 • 3 min
A coyote and tortoise race against a desert backdrop.
Jongmyo: A Shrine For Human Beings

Jongmyo: A Shrine For Human Beings

2008 • 52 min • United States of America, South Korea
Jongmyo is the royal ancestrial shrine of the Josecon Dynasty. Considered as one of the most sublime and moderate architecture of the Joseon Dynasty. Jongmyo was designated as World Heriage by UNESCO in 1995.
Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam

Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam

2008 • 52 min • Norway
Gender Me is a road movie about Mansour’s voyage into the world of Islam. It is a personal odyssey through a world of taboos, filled with contradictory images. He explores questions regarding faith and gender in Islam with a special focus on the unusual stories of Muslim gays. Mansour is a homosexual Iranian refugee who has been living in Oslo for the past 18 years where he works as a pharmacist. Now he wants to travel back to Istanbul, where he lived for two years before he was granted asylum in Norway.
Be Happy, It's an Order!

Be Happy, It's an Order!

2008 • 5 min • Turkey
A humorous parody addressed to the Turkish regime and its attempt to control people’s way of life by imposing standards on how to have a good time and achieve a perfect state of happiness.
Videomappings : Aida, Palestine

Videomappings : Aida, Palestine

2008 • 45 min • Palestinian Territory, France
Somewhere, amid a tangle of borders, a refugee camp. People trapped in a situation that becomes more absurd every day, trying to live a human existence. We don't see their faces. We don't see the places they talk about. However, we are drawn very close to their intimate experience of the world as we follow, line by line, the maps they are drawing to represent the complexity of the spaces around them.
Pomeranie

Pomeranie

2008 • 12 min • Russia
There are places in which space is turned inside out, and time is flowing backwards.
This Joint Is Jumpin': Jazz Musician Fats Waller

This Joint Is Jumpin': Jazz Musician Fats Waller

2008 • 53 min • United States of America
This Joint Is Jumpin' celebrates the life and work of the great Fats Waller. Fats started playing church organ at age 10 and his all-action musical career ended, full speed ahead, at the age of 39. This documentary features his son, Maurice, and Eddie Barefield and Marshal Royal, fellow musicians. Sammy Price and Paul Machlin talk about stride and Andy Razaf's widow, Jean Hutson, remembers him.
Light House

Light House

2008 • 10 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 sixth film in the series.
Aanaatt

Aanaatt

2008 • 5 min • Germany, Japan, United Kingdom
"An exciting experiment in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger (Komposition in Blau, 1935), Dwinell Grant (Composition No. 1, 1940) and Slavko Vorkapich (Abstract Experiment in Kodachrome, 1950s). Max Hattler presents a well-done interaction between music and moving images. Space is turned upside down and the animated objects become faceless dancers in a constructivist ballet." Vienna Independent Shorts 2010, jury statement by Anton Fuxjäger
Harry Doright's Prelude to Hell

Harry Doright's Prelude to Hell

2008 • 15 min • Netherlands
At his 60th birthday Harry Doright is visited by a demon who claims his soul and the soul of his loved ones.
Nº 27

Nº 27

2008 • 19 min • Brazil
- The bathroom is under maintenance. - Luiz answers, holding the handle with all his strength. - Under maintenance? Stop the fucking talk, open the door! - The bathroom is under maintenance, look for another one, please. - What do you mean?... open the door right away, I want to pee, dude! - Hey man, can you call the coordinator, please...
The Imaginary Line

The Imaginary Line

2008 • 30 min • Uruguay
This documentary takes us to the three most important festivals of the year in Aceguá, and thus tells the story of the town. It sits on the border between Uruguay and Brazil, but it is on an imaginary line as this is a dry border as there is no river or stream to mark the boundary. We meet the characters, we watch their activities and we are introduced to their customs.
Flowers of Rwanda

Flowers of Rwanda

2008 • 24 min • Spain
Rwanda. 14 years after the genocide that took the lives of more than 800,000 people. What situation is the country in now? What feelings reign in the hearts of the victims? Can victims and executioners coexist? What value does education have in a society that has experienced genocide? Can it happen again? Who should act when a genocide is taking place? Do we have any responsibility as individuals?
Bread of Life

Bread of Life

2008 • 7 min • Egypt
A video/sound installation piece recorded by visual artist Adel Abidin: "I was once served bread in a restaurant in Cairo that was so hard it seemed to me more suitable for playing music than to be eaten. It made a pleasant sound as though it was an instrument. I gathered four percussionists who earn their living by playing music for belly dancers in nightclubs and asked them to play with this bread instead."
The Big Trip

The Big Trip

2008 • 46 min • Brazil, Israel, Uruguay
Over half of Israel's youth takes a backpacking trip after finishing mandatory army service. Vacillating between extremes, this unique trip represents a transformation in Israeli culture.
Alison Watt: Phantom

Alison Watt: Phantom

2008 • 53 min
Alison Watt became the National Gallery's Seventh Associate Artist in 2006. This art film records her two-year residency, as she created paintings inspired by masterpieces in the National Gallery. She already had a lifelong attachment to paintings in the collection, yet the prolonged contact, particularly with Saint Francis in Meditation by Francisco de Zurbarán, led her to notice new details and unexpected nuances which influenced her own art. Through a series of interviews with Watt, this art film documents the formation of this exhibition, with particular emphasis on the creative process.
O Sete Trouxas

O Sete Trouxas

2008 • 14 min • Brazil
Jair tells his granddaughter about his childhood adventures, his fear of the legendary “Sete Trouxas” and how, with the help of a friend, he tried to face the monster.
Plakatkino

Plakatkino

2008 • 9 min • Croatia
At one place, where many billboards took turns throughout the year, all of a sudden we witness fast forwarded change of pictures. It is as if the billboard became a movie screen on which may stories have been told. When 'the screening' stops and the movie screen becomes empty, people walk by it. These people, with their life stories could perhaps be more interesting than those on the billboard.
Deadspiel

Deadspiel

2008 • 8 min
Ghoulishly funny. this short follows a curling match between humans and zombies who must choose between sportsmanship and bloodsport.