All Films

Oktapodi

2008 • 2 min • France

Two Octopi fight for their lives with a stubborn restaurant cook in a comical escape through the streets of a small Greek village.

Santa Claws

2008 • 4 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 eighth film in the series.

Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki

2008 • 57 min • Japan

Fourth part of the new Fist of the North Star movie pentalogy presenting the story from Toki's perspective, leading up to Toki's imprisonment in Cassandra and eventually his duel with Raoh.

The Rite Of Spring

2008 • 15 min • Sweden

It's Valborg - Walpurgis Night. The annual celebration of spring. The doctors' choir is rehearsing for tonight's celebrations. The only ones left at the hospital are the nurse, the medical intern and the patient care technician. The doctors trust them to give the patient the proper care. It is, after all, Valborg - Walpurgis Night.

Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen

2008 • 52 min • Germany

Documentary on conductor Herbert van Karajan, focusing on his early adoption of audio and video recording technology and his impetus to make use of it to preserve his musical legacy for future generations.

And Now

2008 • 41 min

Video #20 Transworld Skateboarding is proud to present our twentieth video, And Now. Starring six of skateboarding's rising young talents, this is the future of skateboarding now.

Hábitos

2008 • 21 min • Argentina

Jorge works all day as a gasman. That exhausting routine gives him a heart attack. Interned, he meets a nurse and considers a new way of life that will radically change his habits.

Green Door

2008 • 13 min • Canada

Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Thomas the Tank Engine™ stars in an all-new movie guest starring Pierce Brosnan as the narrator! Sodor Day is coming and all the engines are busy preparing. When Thomas gets lost in the mountains, he discovers the old town of Great Waterton! Soon the whole island is buzzing with the news of Thomas' discovery and restoring the town in time for the big day. Join the fun and meet a new engine friend named Stanley!

& Teller

2008 • 3 min

Teller decides to keep a video diary when an epidemic infects the populace of Las Vegas.

A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa

2008 • 43 min • United States of America

When Gonzo forgets to mail three letters to Santa, he convinces Kermit and the gang to help him deliver the notes to the North Pole. Along the way, they discover that Christmas is the time to be with those you care about most, as they dash home to make a friends Christmas wish come true.

Megatron

2008 • 14 min • Romania

It's Maxim's birthday. He's 8 years old. He lives together only with his mother in a village not so close to the big city. For his birthday, his mother will take him to Bucharest, to McDonald's. There, Maxim hopes to meet his father.

Fall

2008 • 4 min • Thailand, United States of America

In this beautiful romance, a woman follows a stranger through New York City while creating a vivid fantasy with him in her mind.

Take 3

2008 • 12 min • New Zealand

Ingeniously unfolding three tales in unison, Take 3 follows a trio of young asian-Kiwi actors on one horrifying day of auditions.

Initial D: Extra Stage 2 - Green Departure

2008 • 55 min

Itekani missed an oppertunity to see Mako-chan and hates himself for never calling to say he was sorry. By chance he runs into her 6 months later, and the situation is akward. Itekani does not have time to talk at the chance, but both want to talk, so they arrange a 2. meeting. Itekani goes to the meeting place early, but an old man was left behind from an tourist bus, and asks Itekani to catch the bus for him. Itekani being a nice guy, cant say no.

Café Paraíso

2008 • 10 min • Mexico

Gallo rehearses his heroic resignation, with which he hopes to regain his youth, his dignity and even a love.

Madrugada

2008 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Max buys a rundown hotel by the sea, a final attempt to make a new life. Frank, his son and proud soldier comes to visit, secretly hoping to share Max's dream but finds his father in a more decrepit state than the hotel.

The Garden of Sinners: The Hollow Shrine

2008 • 45 min • Japan

June 1998: After spending two years in a coma caused by a traffic accident, Shiki Ryougi awakens with amnesia. She is visited by Touko Aozaki, a wizard and proprietor of a studio called Garan no Dou. Shiki has lost not only the memory of her accident, but also any real sense that she's even alive. Strangely, enigmatic beings begin to attack her...

Urusei Yatsura: The Obstacle Course Swim Meet, It's a Rumic World: Urusei Yatsura

2008 • 28 min • Japan

Ataru and the others will join the competition of 'The Obstacle Course Swim Meet', organized by Tomobiki High Principal and Onsen-Mark. Each of Tomobiki High students need to face different kinds of obstacles during the competition, only few of them reach the finalist and their situation is getting harder and harder than previous obstacles.

The Boundary

2008 • 12 min

A family on its way home is forced to deal with circumstances they would never hope for.

Ranma ½: Nightmare! Incense of Spring Sleep

2008 • 32 min • Japan

Happosai fed up with Ranma interfering with his hobby, decides to use a sleeping incense on him to make Ranma "sleep till spring". But Akane accidentally smells the incense and due to unforeseen side effects starts attacking everyone and everything in her sleep. Now the gang has to find a way to wake her up.

Ani*Kuri15

2008 • 17 min • Japan

15 one-minute shorts created by various people from Japan's animation industry. The title of the collection, Ani*Kuri15, is abbreviated from the words "anime" and "creators".

Torpedo

2008 • 42 min • Germany

After her mother's death, 15-year old Mia moves in with her aunt, the actress Cleo, who lives with her son Fritzi in a shared apartment in Berlin. Mia lingers for stability and attention but in between Cleo's rehearsals at the theatre and her relationally disturbed housemate Elisa, she finds herself in a world of adults who themselves seem to be unable to cope with life.

Homeland

2008 • 40 min • Israel

1948 War. Lolek, a young Holocaust survivor ,arrives in Israel and thrown
 in the middle of the desert.
A stranger to the language and the new identity he is given, he is assigned in an isolated post under a brutal commander and the burning sun.
 Afflicted by homesickness and the heat, he sets out to look for some shade