All Films

Spirit House

2008 • 11 min • United States of America

A tale of 2 passages within the Spirit house. This is the first in a series that looks at the places we find our spiritual presence augmented, inflamed, or simply acknowledged.

It's Not Funny, It's Art

2008 • 3 min • Netherlands

Short animated film about Blanca, who tries to fathom art. When a painting makes her laugh out loud, her father reprimands her: "It is not funny, it is Art", he says. Blanca feels it is quite complicated. So when is something art? How do you have to look at it? And is it allowed to touch art, for example? When she fails to figure it out, she decides to imitate museum visitors. With great consequences.

Passos no Silêncio

2008 • 17 min • Brazil

A German teacher and the translation of a poem.

Fly High

2008 • 52 min • Switzerland

Twelve talented young mountaineers, five geologists from the University of Lausanne and four mountain guides take an unprecedented risk in Patagonia. Trained by the great climbers Ralf Weber, Ueli Steck, Denis Burdet and David Fasel, the young people are collecting rock samples from the granite walls of the Paine Towers, which are up to 1000 meters high, on behalf of science. The challenges are enormous: Climbing a big wall at the highest level of difficulty, cloudy weather, relentless wind that tears at material and nerves - and an urgency that also pushes the group to their emotional limits. "Flying High" not only documents an extraordinary undertaking, but also shows up close what happens when something happens that can happen after every meter of altitude climbed: a fall.

The Speed of the Ceibos

2008 • 15 min • Uruguay

The different inhabitants of a town prepare, each in their own way, for a great event.

Madam President

2008 • 9 min • United States of America

A young girl imagines what her day would be like if she were Madam President.

Meat Dog: What's fer Dinner?

2008 • 3 min

Meat Dog, a mutt made up of cold cuts, is pitted against an occult church of evil pigs while being pursued by a carnivorous rabbit and hounds. It's dogocide when everyone wants Meat Dog on their menus.

Karosta: Life After the USSR

2008 • 49 min • United Kingdom

A portrait of an abandoned Soviet military settlement that was neglected when the army personnel and their families left.

When This Man Dies

2008 • 23 min

The monotony of an office worker’s life is disrupted when he receives a letter offering him money when a particular person dies. As these letters and the promised money is delivered to him regularly, his other fixed daily patters start to alter, as does his life style.

Rains

2008 • 8 min • Canada, France

A sudden rainstorm is unleashed on a city. Everyone seeks refuge. When the clouds thin out, life continues.

It's All Good

2008 • 7 min • Serbia

A Serbian cartoon depicting a party gone horribly wrong.

Greed

2008 • 3 min

A devastated gangster experiences the costs of greed.

A Soldier's Choice

2008 • 10 min • United States of America

Marine private John Rossi is looking forward to a new assignment in New York City on the night he ventures into a Hell's Kitchen bar, and meets a handsome but lonely boy named Damon Conrad. Damon assumes the Marine just wants sex, but when he proposes they go out on a "real date," Damon begins to think perhaps he has finally found the man of his dreams. The next night, John reveals that earlier that day he learned his division would be heading to the Middle East. Later that night, when the boys are caught-up in a moment of passion, John must choose between his devotion to the Marines and his desire for love and companionship.

J.

2008 • 6 min • Brazil

Found memories decayed by the shock patterns of childhood trauma. This films is made mostly with footage found in the bin of an ophanage. The white progressivelly disolve within a darknest more and more dense. Faces progressivelly disolves within one another.

Sacris Pulso

2008 • 15 min • Australia, Brazil

Sacris Pulso departs from the dismemberment of another film, "Brasiliários". This film is an interpretation of Clarice Lispector's chronic "Brasília", her vision of the modernist capital, as it is the film which marks the encounter of my mother, playing Lispector, and my father, composer of the film's sound score. Through the juxtaposition of "Brasiliários" with a series of reassembled found footage, the film takes the form of a voyage of remembrance and imagination, of a past and future time dreamt between personal and collected materials, between memory and fiction.

China vs USA: Empires at War

2008 • 55 min • France

China keeps claiming sovereignty over Taiwan. The USA believes the Tech industry of the island nation needs to be protected. Prominent international experts from both sides, China vs. USA, Empires At War explores all the issues that could lead to war.

Punisher: Hell Tickets

2008 • 30 min • Croatia

Punisher has a chance to finally caught and kill the true killer of his wife and son. Help will suddenly arrive in Nick Fury... This is tirst Croatian Fan Film based upon a Marvel Comic Book "The Punisher".

After Nature

2008 • 11 min • Canada

After Nature, after the Fall, after all - where do we go from here? Digital imagery and optically printed superimpositions combine in a cascading plunge to no(w)here – new beginnings or more of the same?

Första kapitlet, andra paragrafen

2008 • 4 min • Sweden

Homeless people act in this drama about homelessness.

Die Schneider Krankheit

2008 • 10 min • Spain

The fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country.

Hidden Hawaii: National Parks Collection

2008 • 50 min • United States of America

Embark on a month-long expedition to explore stunning coral reefs, shallow water environments, and rare species in America's newest marine sanctuary, Papahanamokuakea Marine National Monument.

Reunited

2008 • 5 min • Panama

A man gets mugged in the underground parking garage after he leaves work to go see his family.

Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze

2008 • 25 min • Spain

An exploration of the world and the work of the most international Catalan filmmaker through the director's entomological vision and his portrayal of the characters and themes he loves and hates.

Fantasmagorie 2008

2008 • 8 min • Serbia

Stereoscopic 3D animation dedicated to Emil Cohl’s Fantasmagorie from 1908, made in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the cartoon film. Red and green glasses required!