All Films

Super Heroes United! The Complete Justice League History

2008 • 40 min

This documentary tells the rich, 47-year history of DC Comics' favorite team of characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Green Lantern and The Flash. Lavishly illustrated with comic panels and animated clips, the film features interviews with icons of the comic book world such as Stan Lee and Darwyn Cooke

My Dad Was a Communist

2008 • 30 min

Comedian Alexei Sayle, playwright Arnold Wesker and writer David Aaronovitch recall fascinating episodes from their communist childhood.

After School Horror: High School Girls' Supernatural File Vol.1

2008 • 60 min • Japan

Mysterious psychic phenomena attack the girls as they tour the haunted places with a psychic, Yuko Sou, and others.

Calendar Business/Making of Pretty. Odd.

2008 • 29 min • United States of America

The making of the album, Pretty. Odd. by the band, Panic! At The Disco.

Boyant

2008 • 5 min

Michael Jordan learns how to swim.

Second Guessing Grandma

2008 • 10 min

A simple story exploring a poignant few weeks in the life of a twenty-something gay man who finally comes out to his beloved grandmother in the Jersey City house he was raised in - in spite of mounting pressure from his domineering mother and west village live-in boyfriend.

Ich will!

2008 • 35 min

Composed from footage found in the Imperial War museum, London, of Hitler Youth in full swing.

The War of 33: Letters from Beirut

2008 • 35 min • Lebanon, United States of America

The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman--a mother living through the war in Beirut--carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting images of conflict. She tells the stories of her family and the people she lives the war with--the refugees, the wounded, and the everyday Lebanese, struggling to maintain their sanity and their humanity during a time of war.

Bernd & Katja Eichinger

2008 • 2 min

A playful moment of Bernd and his wife: While he was producing "Baader Meinhof Komplex" in Berlin.

Giraffe

2008 • 4 min

When 300 Malaysian giraffes died, the earth came to the end.

The Cornstarch Gizmo

2008 • 45 min • United States of America

An idealistic young inventor tries to heal the world with cornstarch.

I Don't Understand

2008 • 13 min • Sweden

Jonathan is 15 years old and has changed school 16 times. In central Stockholm he has found his real friends. With them he feels safe.

Call Me Bessie

2008 • 6 min • United States of America

Happy-go-lucky cow Bessie decides that the perfect way to spend a day is to drag her paranoid elephant friend Al to scuba diving lessons. When the duo get lost in shark-infested waters, their underwater survival skills are put to the test.

Camouflage Self-Portrait

2008 • 3 min

Bloom

2008 • 13 min

Love’s labor is lost at an auto dealership when misplaced affections lead to tragedy and self-discovery.

Wisdom

2008 • 59 min • United States of America

Inspired by the idea that the greatest gift one generation can give to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience, 'Wisdom' seeks to create a record of a group of people over the age of 65 who have all made their mark on the world.

New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation

2008 • 45 min • United States of America

Documentary on New Line Cinema, made by the studio for its 40th anniversary

Tales of Symphonia The Animation: Kaette Kita Kratos-sensei no Private Lesson

2008 • 4 min • Japan

Kratos Sensei's private lesson is back! Except this time, since Kratos isn't around to teach, so the great Zelos takes his place! And he brings with him, a special announcement!

Twitch: Hood Rich

2008 • 57 min

Get an inside look at the life of FMX rider Jeremy "Twitch" Stenberg. As you travel with Jeremy, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the reckless, punk, motocross kid from east county San Diego, who makes it to the top of Freestyle Motocross.

Radioactive Paradise: Bikini Atoll

2008 • 44 min • Germany, United States of America

July, 1946. Bikini. It was the first of 23 nuclear tests the US government made in their race against the Soviets during the Cold War. A remote atoll in the Marshall Islands, set in the vast blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Hawaii. Ironically though, it was this isolation, that sealed the atoll's fate: During "Operation Crossroads" in July of 1946, two atom bombs were used to sink a ghost fleet of 84 vessels, destroying the natural environment and leaving parts of the huge atoll ring permanently contaminated in the process. The islanders are still reliant on imported food even today.

Foreplay

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

The training practice of a soccer team – close-up of feet, body parts, muscles – entirely silent except for the noises of the ball being hit – a sort of minimalist, crisp, homoerotic version of Philippe Parreno's and Douglas Gordon's Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait.

Liminal

2008 • 14 min

Ina and Joy are emotional charged, in battle with one another, while fully naked.

Harukanaru jikū no naka de 3 akanotsuki

2008 • 60 min • Japan

Hugo

2008 • 14 min • Australia

Lonely schoolgirl Desma is determined to win the school science competition and beat her arch-rival, Celestine. When Desma discovers an incredible creature, an insect-boy endowed with a pair of moth-wings, she thinks victory is hers. But can Desma ignore her attacks of conscience and condemn the vulnerable moth-boy to win a competition? Or will she forfeit her dreams of glory and suffer another humiliating loss to Celestine? An enchanting short film about human connection, ruthless ambition and entomology.