All Films

Ripple

2008 • 18 min

A random act of malice sets in motion a domino run of coincidences and catastrophes turning one man's ordinary day into a living nightmare.

Two Birds

2008 • 15 min • Iceland

The story takes place during one bright summer night and follows a group of young teenagers on a journey from innocence to adulthood. The main character is a timid boy who has a typical schoolboy crush on a girl his age, who happens to be a friend of his mate.

Treevenge

2008 • 16 min • Canada

Treevenge details the experiences and horrifying reality of the lives of Christmas trees. Clearly, for trees, Christmas isn’t the exciting “peace on earth” that is experienced by most. After being hacked down, and shipped away from their homes, they quickly become strung up, screwed into an upright position for all to see, exposed in a humiliation of garish decorations. But this Christmas will be different, this Christmas the trees have had enough, this Christmas the trees will fight back. Treevenge could be a short film about the end of days for Christmas trees, or perhaps, the end of humanity?

Matrioshka

2008 • 20 min • Uruguay

A box with no addressee or sender arrives at an office awakening the desire of the employees to get a hold of it.

Janna & Liv

2008 • 30 min • Sweden

Two pregnant women with completely different personalities meet at a health center.

The Stubborn Donkey

2008 • 5 min • Australia, Greece

When the old fisherman tries to convince his donkey to climb the steep winding road of their Greek island, he finds Mariza to be one suborn ass. But the old man knows that no one can resist Zorba's dance.

One Piece: Romance Dawn Story

2008 • 33 min • Japan

The Straw Hat Pirates send Luffy to look for food in the Mini Merry II, only for Luffy to get lost and deviate from the path. Then he meets Galley's ship, a pirate. Meanwhile on an island, they realize that Galley's pirate ship is approaching, and a young girl named Silk decides to fight to protect her treasure.

Struck

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

On his way to work one day, Joel is impaled through the chest by a three-foot arrow. But it doesn’t harm him. And it won’t come out. So Joel has to learn to deal – both with his newfound protrusion, and his own painful loneliness. He tries to go to work, to date women, but no one seems ready to accept his strange flaw. Little does he know, his life is about to change forever...

Bulong

2008 • 31 min

A common man in a world where everyone is controlled, limited and fearful, Julio encounters "a voice" whose instruction will go above and beyond that which the world had limited him to be. Julio now faces the dialectic of pursuing his newfound purpose, or remaining in the bleak acceptance of the constructed norm.

The Garden of Sinners: Oblivion Recording

2008 • 59 min • Japan

January 1999: Apprentice mage Azaka Kokutou, Mikiya's younger sister, has been ordered by her mentor, Touko Aozaki, to investigate a certain incident in which fairies steal the memories of students at Azaka's school, Reien Academy. Azaka launches an investigation with the help of Shiki.

Pop Art

2008 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A tale of the relationship between lonely schoolboy, Toby, and Arthur, or Art, an inflatable boy.

Ultraman Mebius Side Story: Armored Darkness - STAGE I: The Legacy of Destruction

2008 • 24 min • Japan

The first of a 2-part sequel to the 2006 TV Series Ultraman Mebius. After the death of Alien Empera, the sentient being known as Armored Darkness is activated to carry out the Emperor's Plan B. To make its presence known, Armored Darkness revives the monsters Saramandora, Roberuga, Mukadender, and Cherubim.

The Gathered

2008 • 12 min

After her beloved aunt dies, young girl Lily (Polly Dartford) finds herself clashing with the insensitive guests gathered at the wake.

Omens

2008 • 39 min • Philippines

Signos (1984) is a Super 8mm film documentary that was a true product of its time, a collaboration by film artists and writers, who, in spite of varying political persuations, were united by one common goal – ousting the reviled Marcos regime. It features interviews of courageous personalities who challenged the autocratic rule of the Marcos family.

Bella

2008 • 19 min • Australia, United States of America

An elderly Italian couple seek the services of a small time hit-man to "remove" their obese and abusive daughter Bella from their home and ultimately their lives.

& Teller 2

2008 • 4 min

Pushed out of his Vegas home, Teller now lives in the wasteland, with a few resources left and little chance of surviving. One day he discovers a wandering infected showgirl that seems to be more capable than the others.

The Idiot

2008 • 60 min • France

Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.

Eve

2008 • 17 min • United States of America

Kate is a young woman visiting her grandmother to talk about her mother "Eve" but instead she surprisingly ends up as both chauffeur and chaperone on her grandmother's romantic dinner date with a widower named Joe.

Netherland Dwarf

2008 • 15 min • Australia

Harry really wants a rabbit. Harry's Dad really wants his wife back. And somehow in the middle of all this wanting, they both seem to have forgotten that they already have each other.

The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain

2008 • 58 min • Japan

July 1998 - After a group of delinquents is found dead in their hangout place with all their limbs twisted and torn off, Aozaki Touko receives a request to find the murderer and asks Shiki for help. The main suspect is Asagami Fujino; a girl who was the boys' plaything until recently, who Shiki believes to be "one of her kind".

Spooky Kitaro: Youkai Japan Rally 3D

2008 • 8 min • Japan

A 3D film attraction featured at Sanrio Puroland. It was produced by Toei as a tie-in to the 2007 Spooky Kitaro anime adaptation.

Ocidente

2008 • 7 min • Brazil

A couple on a trip.

Forgive

2008 • 14 min

A Father. A Son. Two meetings that will change the rest of their lives.

Iskaldt

2008 • 30 min • Norway

"Dead Cold" - About a family in 2058. The father travels because the climate change makes it too cold to live on Nordkalotten/Arctic.