All Films

Shinrei Kenkyūka Ikeda Takeo no Reikai Junrei Sono Ni: Himei no Tonneru Kyū Misaka Junrei

2008 • 60 min • Japan

This is the second horror documentary film featuring psychic Takeo Ikeda on a terrifying pilgrimage. The film clearly captures the "strongest psychic" as he goes on a pilgrimage, listening to the voices of spirits who have unfinished business with the world even after death, and who will never be rewarded. This film is full of terrifying images.

Shinrei Kenkyūka Ikeda Takeo no Reikai Junrei Sono Roku: Kijo no Furumichi Kaisaka Junrei

2008 • 60 min • Japan

This is the sixth horror documentary film about psychic Takeo Ikeda, who undertakes a terrifying pilgrimage to save souls in the afterlife. The film clearly depicts his pilgrimage as he listens to the voices of the spirits who remain in this world even after death and are never rewarded.

Mysterious! Unbelievable: Impact! Spirit Photographs of Malevolence

2008 • 60 min • Japan

A popular series spotlighting ghost photography! Featuring shocking reports that expose the haunting truth behind the ghost photos!

Train Station on Wednesdays

2008 • 47 min • Russia

Every Wednesday, Dr. Liza and her friend Petrovich arrive at the Paveletsky railway station in Moscow, where the homeless are waiting for them. Bandaging, treatment of wounds, feeding, distribution of medicines and things, but just human participation. It seems to us that all homeless people look the same. If we look at them through the eyes of Dr. Lisa, we can see how different they are.

Copper Man

2008 • 20 min • Russia

The city of Karabash is one of the most polluted points on the world map. The copper smelter, whose work has led to such a deplorable ecological state, has existed for more than 100 years. The author asks a question, is a worker a slave who does not care what will happen to his house and the land on which he lives, or can a worker be a free person?

Long Way Home

2008 • 16 min • Russia

The inscrutable ways of the inhabitants of the Russian provinces can lead to something important for everyone.

The Return of the Musk Ox

2008 • 52 min • Estonia

About 3 thousand years ago, apparently due to climate change, musk oxen in Eurasia became completely extinct. They remained only in hard-to-reach places in North America and Greenland. To return the musk oxen to their historical homeland, scientists decided to conduct an experiment and brought 30 musk oxen to Taimyr. To find out how the experiment went, 35 years later we set off on a long trip to Taimyr and there we try to meet musk oxen.

Time to Go Home

2008 • 26 min • Russia

A film about simple human love in a large family. The head of the family, Grigory Babanin, went through the Chechen war and managed to keep the warmth that he gives to his children, and there are 16 of them, and all are adopted.

EpicGutiar

2008 • 51 min

One of the absolute finest efforts on Patoo Brigham's career remains to be one of the most iconic pieces of animation to ever impact their legacy of Flipnote Hatena

Eye on the Sky

2008 • 21 min

On the outer limits of an Oklahoma town both eyes scan the skies for the terror being foretold by the volatile vapors that pulse with urgent radio frequencies. Meanwhile the tummy works overtime in adjusting to the exotic fare being deposited in its once expansive cavity (which has now shrunk somewhat in self-defense from the onslaught). It comes at the viewer in bursts of electric fury, this onslaught, and only the companionship of local beings can relieve the anxiety one feels at the crushing weight of water vapor in a vengeful mode.

City of Sun

2008 • 49 min • Russia

The protagonist of the film decided to create his own "City of the Sun", based on the ideological platform of the philosopher Tomaso Campanella, in which former alcoholics and parasites would live in equality, justice and Christian brotherhood.

Nashi

2008 • 26 min • Netherlands

In the forests between Moscow and St.Petersburg 10.000 young Russians are preparing themselves for a heroic future. Their aim is to make Russia the global leader of the 21st Century. They are the choses ones of Russia: the future managers and politicians of the country. As the only outsider, Daya Cahen was allowed to film extensively inside the summer training camp of Vladimir Putin’s radical youth movement “Nashi”, known for breaking up anti-Putin demonstrations and using violence against Putin’s opponents.

Anno 7515 From the Creation of the World

2008 • 51 min • Russia

In the summer of 2007, a group of four volcanologists landed in Medvezhya Bay on Iturup Island in the Great Kuril Ridge. The purpose of the expedition is to study the Kudryavy volcano, the hottest on the planet. Volcanologists will have to live on the island for 2 months. And this part of their life will pass away from stuffy cities, from demanding civilization, from endless fuss. It is believed that 7515 years have passed since the creation of the world, but it seems that nothing has changed on Iturup since then.

Sub

2008 • 46 min

Ruminating on the mystery and power of water, Julien Loustau’s otherworldly short lends a ghostliness to the existence of Chinese dams, cryobots, and an impenetrable lake locked under the ice of the Antarctic. Recurring images of dark, nocturnal currents draw out our most primal fears and curiosity.

God Moves on the Water

2008 • 3 min • Germany

In a mischievous media remix, Erik Bünger cross-wires vastly disparate cultural responses to the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, jamming the smooth road by which history becomes popular myth. The music video for Céline Dion’s chartbuster My Heart Will Go On (1997) is manipulated and scored to Blind Willie Johnson’s gospel song God Moves on the Water (1929). Instead of an ode to eternal love, Dion now sings praise of God’s implacable wrath.

God's Footprint Jose Maria Escriva Opus Dei

2008 • 30 min

This animated feature about the life of the founder of Opus Dei blends history and biography in a joy-filled narrative. Called by John Paul II "the saint of the ordinary," he lived each moment with joy and peace. St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer's optimism and ability to find sanctity in the midst of day-to-day life appeals particuarly to children and to the young at heart.

Paddle Pop: Pyrata

2008 • 45 min

Paddle Pop Lion and his friends must find three magical ice creams to defeat the Shadow Master and his army of ghostly pirates to save their kingdom from destruction.

To Betsy From Betsy (Who Turns Tomorrow 65 -T Still Alive)

2008 • 8 min • France

The movie title comes from a note found in a book; i find myself following tracks in New York.

Névralgie

2008 • 12 min • France

Fragments of the international noise scene of the 90's. With Purr, Voodoo Muzak, Arbishop Kebab, Prohibition, Hint, Trottel, Prolapse, De Kift, U.S.Mapple, Melt Banana and Héliogabale.

Goribor

2008 • 49 min • Serbia

Documentary film about the rock group Goribor produced by Television Bor, shot in 2008.

The Most Fearful Stories by Junji Inagawa: Kai 3

2008 • 60 min • Japan

Third "Kai" film in Junji Inagawa's "The Most Fearful Stories" series.

The Garden of Pleasure

2008 • 3 min • Japan

A study of the relationship between movement and music.

Unnatural Causes: Becoming American

2008 • 30 min

Recent Mexican immigrants, although poorer, tend to be healthier than the average American. They have lower rates of death, heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses, despite being less educated, earning less and having the stress of adapting to a new country and a new language. In research circles, this is the Latino paradox. But as they are here longer, their health advantage erodes. After five years or more in the U.S., they are 1.5 times more likely to have high blood pressure – and be obese – than when they arrived. Within one generation, their health is as poor as other Americans of similar income status.

L'intérieur de l'instant

2008 • 3 min

Made with a flash like a rayogram (by aligning pieces of blank film on the ground), this film presents the imprint of two young lovers taken at a decisive moment. The interior of the moment paradoxically projects a succession of different but all simultaneous images, captured at once, and thus attempts to endlessly extend a single moment.