All Films

Mind the Kitty

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

What promises to be the world's easiest babysitting job turns into a nightmare as Duck the duck, Punky the turtle, and Lemurman the lemur are locked out of the house by a psychotic kitten named Tabby, who's intent on making the evening a (painful) memory they'll never forget!

IMAX Dolphins and Whales: Tribes of the Ocean

2008 • 42 min • Bahamas, United Kingdom

This documentary goes to coral reefs of the Bahamas and the waters of the Kingdom of Tonga for a close encounter with the surviving tribes of the ocean: wild dolphins and belugas, the love of a Humpback mother for her newborn calf, the singing Humpback males, an orca the mighty King of the ocean, and the gentle manatee. Little-known aspects of these creatures capable of sophisticated communication and social interaction. Documents the life of these graceful, majestic yet endangered sea creatures

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

2008 • 26 min • United States of America

Films beget films. Filmmakers influence other filmmakers constantly. But the most influential filmmaker of all time is Alfred Hitchcock.

Circles of Desire: Alan Williams on Max Ophuls' "La Ronde"

2008 • 36 min • Germany

Ophuls scholar Alan Williams discusses the French director's 1950 film

Rainman Twins

2008 • 50 min

This is the fascinating story of the only identical twin autistic savant sisters known to exist. Over 50 years time, Flo and Kay have literally memorized the world around them. They never forget a date or a song, what they ate or the weather on any given day. Like the Dustin Hoffman character in the movie Rainman, their lives are riveting. You'll never forget them. They'll never forget you.

The Employment

2008 • 7 min • Argentina

A man prepares and goes to work in a bizarre world, where the meaning of human workforce is taken to another level.

Americans in Pyongyang

2008 • 53 min

In summer 2007 the New York Philharmonic received an invitation that was unprecedented in the orchestra's history. North Korea, the world's most isolated and secluded country and technically at war with the United States, invited the orchestra to play in the capital of Pyongyang. Just a few months later, two hundred orchestra members and more than one hundred journalists disembarked from a chartered plane at Pyongyang's deserted airport. They were about to experience a historic moment, the first-ever performance by an American orchestra in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'

2008 • 23 min • United States of America

A making of featurette of 12 Angry Men made exclusively for the Collector's Edition DVD.

Who Messed With Mayra?

2008 • 10 min • Argentina

Teen Western in the middle of the Buenos Aires conurbano: girl bands, a role and a meeting schedule.

Jangarh Film One

2008 • 24 min • India

The village artist Jangarh Singh Shyam left home and became a well-known contemporary painter. He committed suicide in 2001. Through his art, places and stories, the filmmaker explores the traces he left on his path.

Deeflowered

2008 • 56 min

In a town that worships Satan, everyone is a creep. This is the home of the sunny day abortion clinic run by th incompetent alcoholic Dr. Sunny Day and his assistant, the homeless, deranged Griffin. As the controversy and the power of mass prayer causes a psychic energy mindfuck, it also resurrects the ghost of Jack the Ripper who fights the pro-life crusade by mutilating thte women responsible.

Svetlana About Svetlana

2008 • 44 min • Russia, United States of America

Svetlana Parshina was deeply moved by her childhood reading of Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter. Years later, learning that the now 82-year-old was living incognito in a Madison, Wisconsin retirement home, Parshina phones and requests an interview. After repeated denials, and only after insisting upon certain conditions, the now-82-year-old Alliluyeva finally consents to a rare filmed interview in which she discusses her education, marriages, her children, the development of her own humanistic philosophy, her CIA-assisted defection to the U.S., and her skeptical views on the competing Cold War ideologies. In more intimate moments, she discusses her childhood, her nanny, the suicide of her mother, her brothers Vasily and Yakov (who died in a Nazi concentration camp) and, of course, her famous father, who most Soviets saw as "a living God."

Chirokumar Shongho

2008 • 46 min • Bangladesh

A group of friends decides that they will remain lifelong bachelors, so they form an organization called the "Chirokumar Shongho"

The Fairly OddParents: Fairly OddBaby

2008 • 44 min • United States of America

Poof comes into existence when Cosmo and Wanda decide to have a child of their own, and Timmy wishes it so. However, because the fairy baby's magic is developing and uncontrollable, villains called the anti-fairies (polar opposite of fairies) and pixies (business fairies) seek to steal the fairy baby so they can take over the fairies' home, Fairy World.

And He Just Comes Around and Dances with You

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

An intense, despairing look at obsession and the twisted nature of attraction.

Transmission 23: The Return

2008 • 4 min

A short film set in the universe of "The Signal" (2007).

Pinnernation The Movie

2008 • 40 min • United States of America

This audio and visual catastrophe will leave you permanently disturbed. Staring the likes of Crazy ass Pinner doing slip n' slides on fire and burning bibles, Hank Williams III Live in Solana Beach, Dan G. self mutilating himself like no other. Music and appearances from Lamb of God. Evil Webby with his pyrotechnics and acrobatics. Plenty of ear trauma provided by Asesino Live and the only Action Launching Point-X on his B.M.X. long before X-Games while doing it illegally and in only two tries.

Les Mathématiques du Roi Heenok

2008 • 40 min • Canada

While Choking

2008 • 13 min

Miles is sent to therapy by his parents, as the couple believes their son has a problem with drugs. During the therapy session the story takes a turnaround.

Hug

2008 • 17 min

Drew is a virtuoso musical talent with a music contract ready to sign. Asa, his friend and manager, must physically get Drew to the contract signing. When Asa realizes that Drew has gone off his meds, the morning commute turns troubling.

It Was a Dark and Silly Night

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

Unexpected guests crash a children’s cemetery party in this humorously macabre adaptation of a Neil Gaiman story, animated in typically ghoulish style by cartoonist Gahan Wilson.

Cosmodrome

2008 • 49 min

Cosmodrome is the story of Russia's "Crown Jewels"--The finest rocket engines in the world, built under conditions of absolute secrecy to land a man on the moon. It tells how, at the height of Cold War rivalry, the engineers of the Soviet Union's elite Design Bureaux developed what today have become the most admired rocket engines money can buy--and how in the new climate, driven by commerce not conflict, those engines have found their way into American rockets.

A Last Wish

2008 • 10 min • Argentina

A man awaits his execution by firing squad. His last wish before dying is a kiss, and there are only men.

MooBeard the Cow Pirate

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

Captain MooBeard and his first mate, Sailor Bird, are out to find treasure on the Island of Hookamookapookalap. When the evil ninja ducky Dark Blade of Fire steals their map, they must race to finish and claim what is rightfully theirs!