All Films

Sara and the Starfish

2008 • 38 min

In this animated tale based on beloved fable The Child and the Starfish, little Sara cares for a starfish washed ashore by a storm and learns that, with love, hope and compassion, she can make a difference in the world. With help from her brother, Josh, friend Toby and dog Flagg, Sara must return to the sea the many starfish stranded on the beach. This award-winning film features the original song, "There's Someone Looking Out for You and Me."

Puncture Wounds (September 11)

2008 • 10 min

On September 11th, 2001, the security bubble, within which so many Americans live, was violently perforated and, at least for a moment, the air, the heart, the eye was pierced by the rageful acts of the discontented, soon supplanted by the vengeful ax of the U.S. response. This video is an imagistic evocation of the climate (emotional and otherwise) of this time.

The Language of Shadows: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and His Films: The Early Works

2008 • 30 min • Germany, Spain

Documentary made in two parts by Luciano Berriatúa. This first part focuses on childhood, personal life and the early works in films by German director F.W. Murnau.

Ties

2008 • 6 min • Iceland, United States of America

The friendship between two teenage boys is tested when one of them crosses a line.

Nowhere Without My Parents

2008 • 3 min • Spain

Ever since Pedro confessed to his parents his sexual status, unable to remove it from the head, even he imagined his parents in the most embarrassing situations.

Barros - A Lagoa

2008 • 13 min • Brazil

A young woman, who watched her boyfriend disappear in the waters of the legendary Lagoa dos Barros, begins hypnotic treatment with a renowned psychologist specializing in mental health pathologies.

Detour

2008 • 6 min • United States of America

"Detour" is a sort of offshoot of "Contour" where Law (Eric Jacobus) goes to rent an apartment and strikes a deal with the landlord (Shaun Finney) where he'll get a discount on his deposit if he takes care of a squatter (Chelsea Steffensen) outside.

You Better Watch Out

2008 • 3 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 tenth film in the series.

SuperBarroco

2008 • 17 min • Brazil

Maiden Well

2008 • 13 min • Serbia

Five girls go to the infamous restricted national park "Maiden Well", only to meet their fate by being killed one by one.

Little Witch

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

A young and budding witch, portrayed by Debbie D, meets violence from the hands of a hunter in her woods. Years later she tracks him down seeking vengeance. When her attach fails, she loses him to an unknown spell.

Toypunks

2008 • 43 min • United States of America

Toypunks is a documentary film series covering the converging world of Japanese toys, fashion and punk rock. Exploring the birth of the designer vinyl explosion from its roots in character culture and punk music, Toypunks takes you in-depth with Japanese fashion icon, Hikaru Iwanaga, creator of the worlds first designer toy. Frank Kozik, Hiddy Kinoshita of Secret Base, Balzac, Three Tides Tattoo and more are interviewed highlighting profound cross-cultural connections between todays top creative talents in toys and fashion.

Une leçon particulière

2008 • 10 min • France

Seventeen-year-old Cyril has a private French lesson with twenty-seven-year-old Eva. They study a love poem by Victor Hugo.

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs: La luz del ritmo

2008 • 54 min

It tells of the band's record return with "La luz del ritmo", reflecting in a very intimate way the process of creation and recording. Linking the documentary images, it includes interviews conducted by Marcelo Fernández Bitar, where the protagonists present the album song by song.

Varje dag

2008 • 8 min • Sweden

The film is about Erik who is always afraid to go to school because he is often pushed, beaten and kicked. Based on children's and young people's stories of bullying.

Phedra

2008 • 13 min • Brazil

A documentary about actress Phedra D Córdoba, Cuban and transsexual who lives in downtown São Paulo.

Rehearsal

2008 • 5 min • Sweden

Two girls arrive at an empty meeting hall. One of the girls climbs up of a rope hanging down from the ceiling. As she slides down towards the floor, the rope is transformed into a small, maybe unintentional, sexual experience.

Aline Barros e Cia - Vol.2

2008 • 55 min

"Aline Barros & Cia 2" is the fourth children's studio album by Aline Barros, the second being released by MK Music in 2008. The album was also nominated for a Latin Grammy.

Fruitless Efforts: Fruit of the Womb

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

A short film produced by MAKE, LLC. Written and directed by Aaron Quist

Michael Biberstein - My Friend Mike at Work

2008 • 48 min • Portugal

Mike, half Swiss, half American, is a friend of Portuguese director Fernando Lopes. He’s a painter and has been living in Portugal for 30 years, making him also Portuguese. His stage name is Michael Biberstein. His internationally acclaimed works belong to some of the most important collections and museums around the world. He and Fernando Lopes decided to embrace this adventure after a conversation they had in a mutual friend’s house. The result is this movie: an inner journey about the creation of a painting where its silence, its mystery and magic were filmed.

Adolescence

2008 • 10 min • Ukraine

At dawn, the mother blesses her son bidding him farewell. He is accompanied by his father. Together they go to the station. There, his girlfriend is waiting for him. She does not only see him off, but is going to leave with him. The father does not let her go. They stay, and the boy goes to where a new life awaits him, without the father’s watchful eye, mother’s care and girlfriend’s tears. According to the director, here the main character had difficult relationships, and there begins a new stage, his life will change, but we will not see it.

Where Is the Head of the Prison?

2008 • 18 min • France

Suddenly, Roman asks himself a first question, followed by a multitude of others that nobody can answer.

Articolo 23 (Pentedattilo)

2008 • 6 min • Italy

A desert village perched on a mountain of Aspromonte. A young farmer teaches the craft to a laborer from Senegal. The next day the farmer will have to emigrate to the North in search of work and leave his mother and his homeland. Against the backdrop of evocative landscapes, filtered by the look of a master of our cinema, there are the fates of immigrants and emigrants.

The Glitch

2008 • 13 min

A digital short movie in which an insomniac urbanite is visited by a stranger in his bathroom mirror, challenging his perception of reality and his mental health.