All Films

Dana Carvey: Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies

2008 • 55 min • United States of America

As always, Carvey never crosses the line into mean-spiritedness, but easily glides in and out of every impression & expression, reminding us of the huge talent we came to know and love before he left the scene due to his heart condition. It's a bittersweet irony that Dana Carvey is one comic who is ALL heart...

Cedar and Bamboo

2008 • 22 min • Canada

Cedar and Bamboo is a thought-provoking documentary about the unique relationships shared by early Chinese immigrants and Aboriginal peoples on Canada’s west coast. The documentary recounts the life experiences of four descendants of mixed heritage. Set in BC, their stories reveal the difficult circumstances of Aboriginal peoples and early Chinese immigrants.

On Time

2008 • 6 min

The story of a heart-broken young man can peek into the future and must act on it on the spot.

Le bel esprit

2008 • 5 min • France

A short film about three women experimenting with the paranormal.

GUTTER: Girls of Noise

2008 • 36 min • United States of America

In April 2008, LRS toured across the USA and met some amazing female noise artists. This is what it is like to be a girl of noise.

Uncle Jonny

2008 • 7 min • Australia

Uncle Jonny is the best mate of a 7 year old who is daydreaming during class.

Sick Sex

2008 • 12 min • United States of America

Amanda is sick. Ken is horny.

Fleeting Love

2008 • 15 min

Solo, an everyman who seemingly brings misfortune upon other people's relationships, faces his own fear of love.

James

2008 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Young James struggles as an outsider at his school. His teacher, Mr. Sutherland, is the only person he feels he can connect with. When James finally puts a voice to his feelings, Mr. Sutherland's response isn't what James had hoped for.

Death at Midnight

2008 • 45 min • Vietnam

A man suffers from a recurring vision of the pregnant woman he killed in a car crash.

Michel Bras: Inventing Cuisine

2008 • 52 min • France

Made in France, English subtitled. In-depth portraits of internationally acclaimed chefs featuring exclusive interviews. Michel Bras is one of France's greatest cooks, obtaining his third star in 2000 and rated #7 on the 2008 World's 50 Best Restaurants chart. We will taste four dishes, cinematographically describe what we feel, then work through each dish's culinary fabrication to the true subject of the series: investigating the ways that one invents cuisine by revisiting their space and time.

The Jaunt

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

In the near future, a revolutionary form of teleportation inspires fear and curiosity in a family using it to relocate from Earth to Mars. Based on the short story by Stephen King.

I am Pregnant!

2008 • 12 min • France

Sandra has just found out that she's pregnant. She hurries to tell it to her friends and to her father. That's a bad idea: everybody seems to want to get her down.

Parachute

2008 • 12 min • United States of America

A precocious young boy strikes up an unlikely friendship with a checked-out slacker in his thirties.

Building Under Ground

2008 • 41 min • Germany

The film follows the construction of the new expansion of Zurich's Museum Rietberg, from the groundbreaking in May 2004 through to the opening in February 2007.

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

2008 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission of 'The Five Doctors', the media interest and the BBC Enterprises' event at Longleat House. Featuring actors Peter Davison, Elisabeth Sladen, Nicholas Courtney, Mark Strickson, Janet Fielding, Carole Ann Ford, John Leeson, Richard Franklin and Caroline John, writer Terrance Dicks, director Peter Moffatt, visual effects designer Mike Kelt, new series writers Paul Cornell and Gareth Roberts, prominent fans Andrew Beech, Ian Levine, Richard Molesworth and James Goss. Presented by Colin Baker.

Fitna

2008 • 15 min • Netherlands

A short film in which Quran verses are shown alongside images from terrorist attacks.

Monash: The Forgotten Anzac

2008 • 55 min • Australia

The story of how Australia's 'ANZAC myth' was born and the role of General John Monash in this process as soldier and statesman both during and after WW1.

Redefining the Line: The Making of One Hundred and One Dalmatians

2008 • 33 min • United States of America

Making of documentary for Disney's animated feature 101 Dalmatians

On m'a volé mon adolescence

2008 • 52 min

In the 1960s, Evelyne, a 14-year-old teenager, reluctantly becomes her mother's confidante, who uses her as an excuse for romantic encounters with a work colleague. Evelyne finds this secret very difficult because she loves her father and her 12-year-old younger sister. One day, her mother leaves her husband and her two daughters. Evelyne, feeling guilty, tries to convince her to return home.

The Solomon Treasures

2008 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Investigation into the controversial history of three extraordinary biblical artifacts discovered in the Holy Land. Are they genuine or fake?

Tortured

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom

From the notorious director of modern day exploitation films, Jason Impey, comes this brutal and disturbing tale. Quaid & Kurk are two notorious convicts who have escaped prison and are trying to flee the country. To ensure their safety they abduct an innocent, attractive woman to use as a hostage to protect themselves from the police. But Quaid has hidden motives for the abduction and Kurk doesn't like what he sees, leading to a deadly game of cat and mouse full of jealousy, deception, lust and murder. Get ready for one of the most graphics films to hit the screen!

The Brain That Changes Itself

2008 • 56 min

The discovery of neuroplasticity, the fact that thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains, even into old age, is one of the most important breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain in recent times. In The Brain That Changes Itself, Dr Norman Doidge explores the profound implications of the changing brain in a way that will permanently alter the way we look at human possibility and human nature. The documentary examines a blind man who sinks a basketball; a woman with half a brain who leads a normal life; learning disorders, strokes and brain traumas that are improved and cured; and chronic pain that is alleviated. The vast expanse of the brain's possibility is still unrealized.

The Paradigm Shift

2008 • 26 min • United States of America

The repercussions are immediate when activist history professor Arthur Collins - out of frustration - assigns his class to design a plan to assassinate the President of the United States. Life becomes particularly tough for the professor's teaching assistant T.K., whose reluctance to choose a side plants the young man right in the middle.