All Films

Fingal’s Cave

2008 • 14 min • Canada

Filmed in Fingal’s Cave, a dramatic sea cave almost an hour’s journey by sea from the Island of Mull, over the course of seven separate visits. The towering sculpted columnar walls and roof were long held to be man-made, or created by giants, or held up as proof of a divine creator. One myth suggested that the cave was the abode of a nine-headed sea monster, another that the Devil himself were buried beneath the island. The last inhabitants of Staffa, around 1790, left the island after the pot on their stove shook so violently during a storm one night, that they believed “nothing but the devil could have shook it that way.” It can be a wild, moody and inhospitable place.

Paul Naschy: la sonrisa del lobo

2008 • 47 min • Spain

Legendary Spanish actor and director Jacinto Molina, also known as Paul Naschy, tells the mythical story of Waldemar Daninsky, the cursed werewolf, his most iconic character; a relationship that began in 1968.

Love Kills

2008 • 28 min • Germany

Young Tim leads an easy life - spoiled by his eccentric mother and his older, well-to-do boyfriend. Then, one day, he meets Bosi, a straight, low-level criminal thug, and falls in lust with him. Thus begins and impossible and potentially dangerous affair on the hard streets of Germany.

Pudya

2008 • 14 min • Russia

From the project "Russian classics for children". A film about the world of children's fantasies, fears and fictions based on the story of Boris Zhitkov about how children made a dog out of a piece of fur.

Bye bye c'est fini

2008 • 14 min • Sweden

73-year-old Lina Merceis lives in a two-room flat in Rio de Janeiro. She works as a telephone operator and after she gets off work she enjoys life and entertains herself with one of her younger lovers. She has chosen to live a single life and rejects the idea of having to take care of some unrefined man.

What Would the Drop Know About That?

2008 • 12 min • Germany

A stylized short documentary about the Reichstag building and its foreign cleaning staff. They mop endless corridors, remove dust from lampshades and clean countless windows. In voice-over, they talk about their work and the significance of the building. For example, one man enthusiastically cleans a text embedded in the floor, explaining that some of the letters are more difficult to clean than others - but without understanding the meaning of the text. Set in the center of German democracy, the film takes a philosophical approach to questions of politics and migration.

My New New York Diary

2008 • 18 min

A collaborative film created by Michel Gondry and Julie Doucet

Did You Say Something?

2008 • 7 min • Latvia

One day, World order is disrupted by the interference of talking objects in the independent sphere of People. Accepting the new order is the wisest decision that People can make. An Ashanti folk story.

Goodbye

2008 • 31 min • China

After an accident, Li Xin ends up with her deceased school friend’s parents. She stays there for a couple of days to recover. Her stay brings consolation, but also rips open old wounds.

A Glimpse Of Hell

2008 • 13 min • Russia

A short film made by Andrej Iskanov. Presented as a short documentary about death, it is shot in a small room, no more than three meters by two. The room is lined with stainless steel and on the floor, and on shelves attached to the wall, are piled up corpses. Dozens of corpses.

Eurovision 2008: ATH - HEL - BEL

2008 • 48 min • Finland

Behind the scenes documentary of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest

Trio

2008 • 11 min • Germany

In Anita's dreams, her father Martin is larger than life - even after he has died. Is she the only one seeing the strange things that happened to her family in the days before the funeral? Or is it really Martin's look she feels on her neck when she sits at the piano?

Uniform Sierra

2008 • 7 min

Uniform Sierra was filmed in Snæfellsnes in Iceland and features Sigríður Soffía Níelsdóttir dancer/choreographer and Benjamin Khan circus artist dancing in a hot spring but most of the film takes place under water.

The Great Northern Documentary

2008 • 46 min

A Casa da Montanha

2008 • 44 min

A premonition comes from the mountain. Two sisters face their destiny.

One

2008 • 13 min

A couple wake up at the same time. They live in parallel worlds, side by side, but with each other too? A Film about morning rituals, grind and relationships within which the viewer is repeatedly wrong footed.

Psycho Girls

2008 • 20 min • Spain

A young woman and her friends revenge on guy who rape her, but who knows when she's gonna pay the same...

Comic

2008 • 4 min • Argentina

Short film by Nicolás del Prete.

Spanish for Adults

2008 • 53 min • Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Spain

A tiny classroom is a meeting point and a shelter for those who have come to Spain driven by the "European dream" to start a new life. Brought together by fate, these immigrants share disillusionment, alienation and yearn for a return home.

Vault

2008 • 10 min • Luxembourg

When a parapsychic and a young security guard try to find out where strange sounds, heard in the coffers of a bank, comes from they discover terrifying secrets.

Incredible but True? Stigmata: Marked for Life

2008 • 44 min • United States of America

Traces the history of stigmata from St. Francis of Assissi to Padre Pio while exploring alternative explanations for the phenomenon such as the power of the mind to create physical wounds.

El Quemapapeleras

2008 • 5 min

In a town called Algodonales there lives a man who is known as the wastepaper basket burner. Not even he knows that one day he will set fire to a wastepaper basket and suddenly, his great love will appear at the first stroke of fire...

L. A. Unfinished

2008 • 60 min • Croatia

This is a story about a painting portraying a fake political event: on a large-scale oil on canvas Balkan emigrants in Berlin are signing a peace treaty. The are posing to the famous Croatian painter Lovro Artuković, who assigned them the roles of presidents of the until recently waring Balkan countries. There are also UN mediators and international observers, advisors and border designers - 22 people, nine nationalities, all posing for Lovro's canvas, healing war traumas as they do it. This is a story about the making of a painting, about people who refused to go to war, about free-spirited Berlin.

Hex Mex

2008 • 2 min

The first installment in the experimental trilogy The Vortex Zone. A frenetic visual composition. Through rapid-fire imagery and disorienting rhythm, the film explores the psychological architecture of the enneagram—that functions more like a party hex than a narrative.