All Films

Popping Eyes

2008 • 3 min • Uruguay

One morning, a girl wakes up and it seems she can make time stop with her eyes.

Frau Mercedes

2008 • 52 min • Switzerland

In Bern, Madame Mercedes has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and subtle portrait about ageing as a prostitute, a documentary about a vanishing chapter of habits in Switzerland.

Somebody's Daughter

2008 • 45 min • United States of America

Because of the internet's accessibility, anonymity, and affordability, pornography addictions have risen to epidemic levels, destroying intimacy, marriages and families, while distorting our definition of sex and sexuality.

Twelve Days of Black Mass

2008 • 3 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 sixteenth film in the series.

Huevos 11

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

Watch the Bomb Squad take ATV freestyle to new heights, take some laps with GNC champ Dustin Wimmer, and undergo a free ride segment that will blow your mind!

The River of the Painted Birds

2008 • 58 min • Uruguay

A north to south canoe trip along quiet bodies of water of Uruguay, exploring the fauna and flora amidst the wilderness.

Small House

2008 • 6 min • Estonia

The story of human error. Every time he goes to bed and turns off the light, he remembers something urgent: the toilet seat is not lowered, the Slippers are not parallel, the tap water is dripping… Unfortunately, the small house where all this happens is on the beach. How does it look at night from the sea? Yes, disaster is inevitable.

Mälestuste Maja

2008 • 32 min

Film about a woman who wishes to sell a house full of painful memories and about a real-estate broker whose life intertwines the woman's life. In a world that seemed to be empty they suddenly notice another person - someone who shares a similar destiny. Nothing takes the past away like the future.

In August

2008 • 14 min • Colombia

In a city transformed by a diluvian cataclysm in the distant future, a young indigenous shaman woman's vision is strangely related to a similar vision of an old man's deceased wife across a vast span of time. In their visions the world's future shall be revealed.

Offres Spéciales

2008 • 13 min • France

Mr Coutou has a plain life until he was contact by an curious agency who propose him to manage a trouble with an irksome and unwanted mammal.

December 23rd

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 twenty-third film in the series.

The Clarification of a Fact

2008 • 15 min

GDR 1985: Within a 24-hour interrogation an officer of the East German secret police STASI is trying to force engineer Jürgen Schulz to withdraw his exit-permit application to leave the country. The STASI-officer pulls out all the stops to succeed ...

Teicēja Anna Ščemeļinska

2008 • 52 min • Latvia

Anna "Buksa" Scemelinska (1925 - 2011) was a Latvian folksinger. She learned her song repertoire and singing style from her parents and villagers. She sang in the Rekova Church Choir in 1956, and has also been a member of the Rekava Ethnographic Ensemble from 1980. Her mother sang religious hymns ,"godzinkas", while Anna sang traditional dainas. The singing was like the rest of her life: in harmony with nature. Marked by hard work and deep religiosity, her songs are a kind of Eastern European blues or gospel. Singers like Anna Scemelinska are storytellers. Their folk songs comprise legends, history and experience from life.

The Medicated Child

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

Ten years ago, stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall were the drugs of choice to treat behavioral issues in children. Today children as young as four years old are being prescribed more powerful anti-psychotic medications that are much less understood. The drugs can cause serious side effects and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. As the debate over medicating children continues to grow, FRONTLINE confronts psychiatrists, researchers, and big pharma about the risks and benefits of prescription drugs for troubled children.

Por qué no me tocó ser Michael Keaton?

2008 • 15 min • Argentina

A guy who is at home and speaks alone...

Henry van Loon: Live in Toomler

2008 • 26 min • Netherlands

A stand-up comedy set by the Dutch comedian Henry van Loon, recorded live in Toomler in January 2008.

Snow Angel

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

John Malkovich wrote the opening scene of a short film and invited fans to write the next chapter as part of the Sony VAIO Online Script Project. The finished script was turned into an animated film called Snow Angel.

Red Spot

2008 • 8 min • Latvia

Pēteris doesn’t get a chance to go pee before the start of the closing race of the semester’s swimming lessons, but he lacks the courage to back out of such a pressure-filled situation. It gets even worse when Pēteris learns that a red spot appears when pool water comes in contact with urine. In facing such a hardship, the boy must become a man.

An Underwhelming Banquet

2008 • 6 min • Sweden

A man goes to buy food for his upcoming guests when he realizes he has forgotten something.

Private Calls

2008 • 3 min • Sweden

A relationship is being tested during a war.

Adam's Day

2008 • 22 min • Israel

14 year old Adam runs away from home and makes his way into the house of Yoav, his psychologist, as the latter and his family are about to fly abroad. Adam messes up their plans.

Au bout du rang

2008 • 17 min

Olivier, a young boy who lives in the countryside, sees his father doing something he will never forget.

In Chambers

2008 • 9 min • Norway

A portrayal of how reality is experienced for those who are in coma, and further how the system works in this seemingly macabre and hostile place.

Scratches

2008 • 22 min

Scattered children and youngsters hang around in a deserted industrial estate where there isn't much to do — apart from longing for love.