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The Journey of Magdalena Robinson

The Journey of Magdalena Robinson

2008 • 40 min • Slovakia
Slovak photographer Magdaléna Robinsonová lost her parents during the fascist Slovak State and survived the suffering of concentration camps. After decades, she observes with horror the renewed interest of a part of the Slovak public in fascist ideas and the adoration of political representatives of the Slovak State. She asks what was the point of the suffering of the victims of Nazism if society remains uneducated.
Graham Hill: Driven

Graham Hill: Driven

2008 • 59 min • United Kingdom
Graham Hill was an eccentric, charismatic Englishman from a bygone era of sporting endeavour. With great determination he won the Formula 1 World Championship, the Indy 500 and the Le Mans 24 hours race, thereby achieving the 'triple crown' of motor racing - a unique feat that remains unmatched to this day. Graham also won the glamorous Monaco Grand Prix five times during an era when drivers routinely met violent death. Graham's illustrious racing career spanned three decades, which at its height saw him routinely slugging it out with fellow F1 champions Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart. Close friends yet intense rivals on the track, they were the 'Three Musketeers' during a golden era of motor racing. But what was the truth behind Graham's popular public image? 30 years on from his death, his family, close friends and former colleagues paint an intimate, revealing and entertaining portrait of a sporting hero tragically killed in a plane crash in 1975.
Shoe

Shoe

2008 • 4 min • Denmark
A story inspired by a shoe-doll displayed in Childhood Museum, Edinburgh. This short film shows a touching story about a young girl and her father in a poverty, London, 1910s. Qian Shi's BA Animation graduation film. The Best Student Film of BAF08. MX Award at TAF2010 (Tokyo Anime Fair 2010).
Frat.

Frat.

2008 • 10 min • France
In a world where stone slowly overruns people and transforms them into statues, Sai, a twelve years old little boy, has the power to cure this disease with his blood.
Sky Above the Town

Sky Above the Town

2008 • 17 min • Slovenia
Marija, Boko, Irena and other neighbours have a picnic in front of their apartment building. Suddenly a jet-fighter flies overhead. Later Peter, who flew this plane and is the son of Irena and Boko, formerly an officer in the Yugoslav Peoples Army, also arrives. Four years later the war for Slovenia breaks out and Yugoslavia is falling apart. Marjan and Bokos families, which used to be on friendly terms, are now inimical. Marjan wants to shoot the soldiers of the Yugoslav Army with an air gun, and Boko does not know what to do. Things get worse, Peter calls from the airport and an air-raid alarm forces them to seek refuge in a bomb shelter. But Marjan does not want Irena and Boko there, as they are supposed to be enemies of Serbia. Someone burns the Yugoslav flag and everyone has to run outside, while jet fighters are already flying over the apartment buildings.
Word Puzzle for an Empty House

Word Puzzle for an Empty House

2008 • 13 min • Mexico
Effort to construct an audio-visual dance between the body of an 90-year old man and the body of his house, that has become an extension of himself.
The Machine That Made Us

The Machine That Made Us

2008 • 59 min • United Kingdom
The printing press was the world's first mass-production machine. Its invention in the 1450s changed the world as dramatically as splitting the atom or sending men into space, sparking a cultural revolution which shaped the modern age.
Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer

Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer

2008 • 52 min • Germany
Born into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that made the Nazi regime so unique in modern history.
Rainbow Boys

Rainbow Boys

2008 • 58 min • Japan
The film tells the bittersweet love life of a group of young men who could not be more different from each other: Ryuji is a teenager passionate about rugby, Akira is a beautiful and popular kabuki actor, and Yutaro is the son of a yakuza leader. Their paths come across after they fall in love with the aspiring actor Makoto Hayakawa
The Swanage Railway Experience

The Swanage Railway Experience

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom
Each year, thousands of holidaymakers experience the thrill of riding through the picturesque Purbeck Hills on one of the Swanage Railway’s classic steam trains. The line runs for 5½ miles from a new Park and Ride station at Norden through the unique Corfe Castle station and Harman’s Cross into the small seaside town of Swanage. Today’s railway is thriving and this film takes you on a guided tour of the line by steam train, looks behind the scenes and talks with some of the staff and volunteers who work on the line. To look at the railway today, it’s hard to believe that in 1972, under British Rail, the line was run down and closed, the track taken up and the buildings left to decay. With the aid of old photographs and archive film, we recall the mammoth struggle to rebuild the line - from scratch! Includes a full DMU cab ride from Swanage to Norden.
Me & My Goldfish

Me & My Goldfish

2008 • 3 min • France
Rik Mayall and his goldfish go to the pub and meet death when they return. Cut-out animated short.
After the rain

After the rain

2008 • 2 min • France
A child fishing in a puddle using bananas as bait catches a bigger fish than he can handle and flees with the giant fish in pursuit.
Moth & Moon

Moth & Moon

2008 • 3 min • United States of America
Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre-Cantu Ledesma.
The Hitler Conspiracies

The Hitler Conspiracies

2008 • 56 min
A closer look at those who tried to rid the world of Hitler, including many within his organization. The story of the German Resistance is one that is rarely heard, but the bravery of the conspirators, despite their lack of success in stopping Hitler in his tracks, is nothing short of heroic. In 1944, Operation Valkyrie and Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg got within striking distance of assassinating the Fuhrer..
Rules of Engagement

Rules of Engagement

2008 • 57 min
Frontline investigates the Haditha incident in which a group of Marines are accused of murdering 24 men, women and children in Iraq.
The Souvenir

The Souvenir

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 twelfth film in the series.
Haiti's Tourniquet

Haiti's Tourniquet

2008 • 18 min • Haiti, United States of America
The Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH) invited an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) delegation to Haiti to learn about their fight against "le plan neoliberal" and recruit help in the form of material aid and solidarity. The delegation was in Haiti from April 24 to May 25, 2008, two weeks after the country erupted in mass protest at burgeoning food prices. This video shares the stories and experiences.
Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family

Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family

2008 • 33 min • United States of America
In decades past, Native American artists who wanted to sell to mainstream collectors had little choice but to create predictable, Hollywood-style western scenes. Then came a generation of painters and sculptors led by Allan Houser (or Haozous), a Chiricahua Apache artist with no interest in stereotyped imagery and a belief that his own rich heritage was compatible with modernist ideas and techniques. Narrated by actor Val Kilmer and originally commissioned as part of an exhibit of Houser’s work at the Oklahoma History Center, this program depicts the artist’s tribal ancestry, his rise to regional and national acclaim, and the continuing success of his sons as they expand upon and depart from their father’s achievements. Key works are documented, as is Houser’s tenure at the Santa Fe–based Institute of American Indian Arts.
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

2008 • 58 min • United States of America
A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.
Taste of Shirin

Taste of Shirin

2008 • 27 min • Iran
A short documentary about the making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'.
Il était une fois... « Mon Oncle »

Il était une fois... « Mon Oncle »

2008 • 52 min • France
Television documentary about the making of Jacques Tati's 1958 film "Mon oncle".
Raging Blues

Raging Blues

2008 • 6 min • France
A short animation released with the Persepolis DVD.
The Mountain

The Mountain

2008 • 10 min
Jose and Manuel are climbing the Montserrat mountain. They have not seen each other in some years, and they are in Spain for a funeral. It is a narrow, winding, uneven path up the mountain that makes communication difficult, until they reach an appropriate place to rest.
Perpetuating Seconds

Perpetuating Seconds

2008 • 15 min • Germany
Who doesn’t sometimes dream of being able to turn back time? With the help of an enchanted brooch, a homely woman in an advertising agency skyrockets to success in her firm and becomes the boss’s wife. Everything seems possible until her rival discovers her secret…