All Films

Current

2008 • 25 min • Uruguay

This documentary is called “Current”, which is the title of ansong by Jorge Lazaroff, and the film is a homage to that talented Uruguayan musician, who was a mainstay of Uruguayan popular music during the dictatorship and who died before his time. We feel the spirit of “Choncho” Lazaroff” through words and songs by Leo Maslíah, Daniel Viglietti, Carlos Da Silveira, Jorge Bonaldi, Luis Trochón, Jorge di Pólito, Daniel Magnone, Rubén Olivera, Mauricio Ubal, Raúl Castro, Eduardo Lombardo, Pablo Routín, Cecilia Prato, Fernando Cabrera and Eloy Yerle, to name but a few.

Presumed Guilty - Creating False Confessions

2008 • 48 min • Japan

Lawyers, an ex-police investigator and a former judge denounce Japan's criminal justice system as defendants in a high-profile 2003 election-rigging case in Kagoshima explain how detectives tried to extract false confessions on trumped-up charges of vote-buying. Those who buckled under the pressure and confessed spent over a year in prison. All the "suspects" were finally acquitted, but remain permanently scarred by the ordeal. This documentary is a dramatic reminder that indiscriminate arrests and convictions should be fought with the full force of the law.

Adrift

2008 • 60 min • Uruguay

Shot in only one night following the experiences and methods of the Situacionists about redifining the urban scenario, Adrift tries to find new meanings in the city landscape, to catch furtives atmospheres, to treasure instants, to integrate the chance in a journey that, in retrospective, asumes a new, autonomous form. In that sense, it's an experiment that uses the streets to perform a human comedy in perpetual movement.

Rite

2008 • 8 min

A teenage girl is prepared for a mysterious ritual.

Marat Sade at the Vilardebó

2008 • 60 min • Uruguay

A group of artists adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to show what the reality of madness is really like, but they end up showing the madness of reality. Raquel Lubartowski decided to stage a performance of the play Marat Sade by Peter Weiss at the Vilardebó Hospital, which is the psychiatric hospital in Montevideo. This documentary takes us through from the first meeting to the first rehearsal at an old dilapidated polyclinic.

Us, of Uruguayans and Carnaval

2008 • 58 min • Uruguay

Can you define the identity of a country and its people? This film explores the identity of the uruguayan people through its more authentic artistic expression, the carnaval.

How to Build a Cathedral

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Architectural historian Jon Cannon goes in search of the clues that shed light on how our medieval forebears were able to build the wonders of their world.

Affinity

2008 • 10 min

Anthony is a young man who loves both Danny and Kate, equally. In the span of one morning, Anthony's double life is revealed by his own carelessness. The gradual suspicions of his girlfriend Kate and an ill-timed call from Danny forces Anthony to come clean and reveal his secret.

dilbers' wedding

2008 • 3 min

Dilber Özer, 17 years old, due to not bleeding at the first night of her wedding had been murdered, as if she had suicided...

observation nest

2008 • 3 min

Struggle of putting fallen camera to it’s place like a nestling falling from his nest. Our habit to observation cameras where take place at everywhere of our lives at that.

Rice and Pray

2008 • 22 min • Bangladesh

Some village farmers of a few villages in rural Bangladesh, who grow rice, do believe in prejudice till now. They used to pay the sorcerers, so that their rice crops won't get vaned in the natural calamities.

A Magical Vision

2008 • 60 min

Why is it that societies need magicians to lie to them? It's a question magician and philosopher Eugene Burger addresses as the world-renowned 'Guru of Magic.' In 'A Magical Vision,' Eugene and a circle of other thoughtful magicians reveal why, from past to present, mystery is essential.

The things She can't avoid in the city

2008 • 13 min • South Korea

Her house is the cheapest in city, but one day her house is lifted in to the air by a huge crane. It is too hard for her to balance city life.

Solzhenitsyn: The Word

2008 • 56 min • Russia

Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. Actor Yevgeny Mironov shares his memories of meetings with him. Solzhenitsyn's friend Nikita Struve talks about how he published The GULAG Archipelago abroad. The widow Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyn tells about the last days of Alexander Isaevich's life, thoughts, goals and plans. The authors of the film offer rare shots of foreign chronicles and exclusive interviews of Alexander Isaevich, which have not been published so far.

Welcome to Enurmino!

2008 • 60 min

More than 6000 km from the Russian capital. The coast of the Chukchi Sea. The village of Enurmino. Getting here and getting back out is only a miracle. But if you ask questions, where is the real Chukotka after all? – the answer is obvious: here!

Dancing to Happiness

2008 • 17 min • Switzerland

Anna is working as a cleaning lady. Every night she cleans Helen's office. Helen is a high level broker working in the stock exchange. The two women live in different worlds and normally would never meet each other. However they happen to have enrolled on the same salsa course. Due to the lack of men, Anna and Helen have to dance together. A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.

Little Minx Exquisite Corpse: Rope a Dope

2008 • 6 min • United States of America

A 10-year-old girl goes head-to-head with a professional boxer in a jump rope contest.

Discoveries...Asia Japan: Tokyo & Central Honshu Island

2008 • 50 min • Japan, United States of America

For centuries the Japanese warred among themselves and their neighbors, creating a colorful, rich and sometimes brutal legacy. Intriguing to outsiders for centuries, modern Japan is no less so In the 21st century. Focuses on Tokyo and its environs, with attention to scenery, shopping and shrines.

The Island of Fucking Good Pussy

2008 • 21 min

A film by Kimberly Kubus

Rats For Dinner

2008 • 36 min

A film by Kimberly Kubus

Blue Hour

2008 • 10 min • Ukraine

4857

2008 • 28 min

Tuzla cemetery overlooks the Tuzla shipyards. Now start walking down the cemetery slope. On your left is the military zone, green and devoid of humans. Then all of a sudden you see nothing but concrete blocks of flats. The workers leave their homes around seven in the morning to work "outside".

A Trip to the City

2008 • 37 min • Russia

An irresistible desire for a card game turned out to be the lot of a poor man, a father of two children. Every time, he grits his teeth and tells himself: I won't play, I won't play… But the excitement turns out to be stronger than remorse and guilt in front of his wife and hungry children. "It's obvious that my fate is like this and I can't get away from it," he justifies himself to himself and ... loses his last bull.

From the Perspective of a Dog

2008 • 4 min • United States of America

A dog takes a bath.