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A Very Goth Christmas Story

A Very Goth Christmas Story

2008 • 28 min
A Very Goth Christmas Story is a horror machinima by Alvin Soprano, set in the world of The Sims 2. The film takes place on Christmas morning in the Goth household shortly after Bella Goth’s mysterious disappearance. It follows Mortimer Goth as he deals with grief, suspicion, and a chilling surprise. On this cold and lonely Christmas, Mortimer wakes up to find a mysterious package left at the front door. With Bella gone and no answers in sight, the gift raises questions — and dread. The story builds tension as Mortimer struggles with loss and the strange presence of Dina Caliente, his mistress. The film’s shocking climax reveals that the package contains Bella’s severed head, sent as a deadly message from Dina, exposing a dark and twisted betrayal within the family.
Glenn

Glenn

2008 • 60 min • Finland
Glenn Nygård, a 40 year old tomato-planter has for the past five years been falling in love with the local bar-keeper Laila. His harsh father has raised Glenn locked-up in the basement of his house. There Glenn has learned to master the guitar but not how to handle women. When Glenn´s father dies abruptly, he finds a stack of letters which where assigned by his mother. The mother might still live somewhere in Sweden. Glenn locks the house down and leaves...
Charles Reed Bishop: Hawaii's First Banker

Charles Reed Bishop: Hawaii's First Banker

2008 • 27 min
The documentary, titled "Hawaii's First Banker", tells the story of a man of integrity, commitment and caring. The core values he established long ago still guide us today.
The Balcony

The Balcony

2008 • 46 min • Lithuania
Soviet eighties. A little town in the periphery. After his parents' divorce, 11-year-old Rolanas and his dad move in next door to same-aged Emilija. Friendship is born between the kids, however, shyness or fear of opening up makes them communicate through the wall, sitting in their own balconies, or through a socket connecting their flats. Emilija's parents also appear to be on the verge of divorce. The children discover common topics, activities. Unfortunately, a nearly tragic accident prevents Emilija to go to the balcony. This encourages both children to set out for a "real" date.
Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses

Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses

2008 • 49 min • United States of America
For more than 40 years, Charlton Heston has been captivating audiences with his thrilling portrayal of Biblical Heroes such as Moses, in The Ten Commandments. Now, sit back and relax as he shares with you and your family his passion for Biblical literature and his unique insights into these timeless stories of faith. The Story of Moses The Old Testament is filled with inspiring stories. But the story of Moses is, perhaps, the greatest of them all. Now the story of Moses has been brought to life in a beautifully animated film that will appeal to your entire family.
A Lonesome Lady

A Lonesome Lady

2008 • 60 min • Japan
A career woman who is a project leader at an urban development company. She gives orders to her subordinates efficiently and speaks frankly to the president. In fact, she used to have an affair with the president, but her high sense of elitism became an obstacle and the relationship has now ended. However, because of her high sense of elitism, no man talks to her in a friendly manner anymore, and she is a lonely "solo person" in her daily life. One day, while drinking alone at a bar, she meets a cool-looking man, but he is a member of the Yakuza. The man has been entrusted by the gang with managing the women who are prostituting themselves as streetwalkers in the area. Drunk, she walks through the streetwalker area. The man says to her, "Lonely elite lady, why don't you try selling yourself?" and she says, "I'll do it." From there, she begins her double life, day and night. However, one day, one of the women standing in the area is brutally murdered, and the problem begins to spread...
The Tonto Woman

The Tonto Woman

2008 • 35 min
A white woman is kidnapped from her home by Apache Indians. Traded to the Mojave Indians, she lives as a squaw for 11 years until she is found by her husband. Unfit for society he keeps her in a shack in the desert. Her solitary existence is transformed with the arrival of a Mexican. He befriends her, reignites her self-worth and increases her confidence. He re-introduces her to her husband and leaves. As he is leaving town he is ambushed by her husbands men and there is a gun-battle. Who lives and who dies?
Christmas Decay

Christmas Decay

2008 • 2 min • United States of America
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 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 twenty-fifth film in the series.
The Story of the Queen Mary and W6RO

The Story of the Queen Mary and W6RO

2008 • 28 min • United States of America
Amateur Radio station W6RO has enjoyed over 29 years of continuous operation aboard the Queen Mary. Nearly 100 radio amateurs volunteer every month to operate from the station. Since radio was reintroduced to the ship, W6RO has presented a positive image of the Amateur Radio Service to more than four million visitors. Permanently docked at the Port of Long Beach, the Queen Mary is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Southern California. W6RO is a regular stop for visitors on the self-guided tour, and visiting radio amateurs may log in and get on the air. The former passenger liner is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Nude

Nude

2008 • 26 min • Latvia
Some people collect family albums. Sarmīte Sīle, an accomplished arts scholar, takes a nude photo of herself every ten years. Behind this unique series of nude photos that span a lifetime, is her story.
The Birth of Israel

The Birth of Israel

2008 • 58 min
The Birth of Israel recounts the events that led up to the 1949 Israeli war of independence resulting in the creation of the Jewish state. It features interviews with those who personally experienced the war as soldiers and civilians. It explores newspaper articles and photographs that were in circulation at the time that described the violence that was taking place.
Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday

Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday

2008 • 58 min • South Africa, United Kingdom
Louis goes to South Africa where American tourists pay to hunt wild animals in privately owned reserves.
My 13

My 13

2008 • 11 min • France
Jonathan is in love with Julie, the most beautiful girl of his school... However, Julie doesn't even know him. He becomes friend with Charles, Julie's brother. One day, he sneaks in Julie's room to steal her diary. Back home, he finds in the diary a drawn heart, with the quote "I love Jonathan"... Back to his new friend Charles' home, he realizes that the diary belongs to Charles, himself...
Clarissa & the King's Cookbook

Clarissa & the King's Cookbook

2008 • 29 min • United Kingdom
Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-year-old scroll was written during the reign of King Richard II from recipes created by the king's master chefs. How did this ancient manuscript influence the way people eat today? On her culinary journey through medieval history she reawakens recipes that have lain dormant for centuries and discovers dishes that are still prepared now.
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008

Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008

2008 • 5 min • United States of America
A surreal short film that Lynch made for the 2008 Twin Peaks Festival. It only screened once and is in black and white. In this film, Lynch is speaking backwards in what looks to be a cross between the floors of Eraserhead and the Twin Peaks Red Room. Sitting next to him is a plastic doll with the face of Laura Palmer.
Summer Sunday

Summer Sunday

2008 • 10 min • Germany
Sommersonntag (Summer Sunday) is the dramatic story of Bruno Hansen, a bridge guard of a huge lift bridge in Hamburg. As his 7-year old deaf-mute son climbs down into the restricted area of the lifting equipment while a train is approaching, he has to decide whether to sacrifice his son or to let the fully occupied train drown in the river.
Silence of the Bees

Silence of the Bees

2008 • 50 min • United States of America
In the winter of 2006, a strange phenomenon fell upon honeybee hives across the country. Without a trace, millions of bees vanished from their hives. A precious pollinator of fruits and vegetables, the disappearing bees left billions of dollars of crops at risk and threatened our food supply. The epidemic set researchers scrambling to discover why honeybees were dying in record numbers — and to stop the epidemic in its tracks before it spread further.
Loucos de Futebol

Loucos de Futebol

2008 • 23 min
A documentary about how crazy the football fans could be. This sport is much more than 22 men and one ball.
A Child's Christmas

A Child's Christmas

2008 • 28 min • United Kingdom
An old man and a young boy discuss whether or not Christmas has changed. The old man takes the young boy back to the Christmas' of his youth, and teases him with a mysterious assertion concerning snow.
Midnight Lost + Found

Midnight Lost + Found

2008 • 18 min • India
Arvind spends his nights reading Batman comics behind iron bars at his lonely chemist shop in Bombay. A prostitute stops every night to buy condoms, until their conversations help Arvind break free and find the superhero within.
Guido Magnone - Le Baladeur

Guido Magnone - Le Baladeur

2008 • 52 min • France
Guido Magnone's incredible adventure begins strangely on the banks of the Ourcq canal among a group of kids who dream of swimming. Guido, the solitary son of "rital", dives to get noticed, succeeds, takes a liking to it, breaks his first record, collects medals. At the same time, he draws, attends the Beaux-Arts, is accepted with open arms and befriends the sculptors César and Féraud. At the end of the war, during a health stay in Chamonix, it is love at first sight for the mountains, climbing. Guido's ascent is now dizzying. He stormed the west face of the Drus, then the Fitzroy and the Tour de Mustagh, summits reputed to be impossible. He rubs shoulders with the greatest, Lionel Terray, Maurice Herzog, and participates in the Makalu expedition, camera in hand, or those of Jannu and Chacraraju. Later, in his fifties, Guido hangs up the carabiners and participates in the foundation of the UCPA
Autopsy Room 4

Autopsy Room 4

2008 • 7 min • Canada
An executive recalls how he may have ended up going from his golf game to an autopsy room. Based on the Stephen King story of the same name.
Victorian Sex Explorer

Victorian Sex Explorer

2008 • 48 min • United Kingdom
Part history, part travelogue, Victorian Sex Explorer is a revealing, witty journey through Queen Victoria’s Empire, from the late 1830s to the turn of the century. Fuelled by the same desire as the infamous Victorian explorer and sexual anthropologist Sir Richard Burton,Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding; St Trinian’s) re-traces his steps in the modern day Orient to explore changing attitudes to sex, the legacy of the Empire and erotica in all its guises.
To Be A Good One

To Be A Good One

2008 • 19 min
After a fight with her mother, six year old Clara decides to run off to be with her father. But she falls asleep on the way on the bus and somehow ends up with the Wagner family. When Julia Wagner discovers bruises on Clara's body, she feels compelled to act.