All Films

The Path to Nazi Genocide

2008 • 38 min

This 38-minute film introduces the history of the Holocaust. It begins by looking back at the major changes from 1918 to 1933 that created the political climate for the birth and rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. It explores the basis for the party’s support among ordinary Germans and the military, government, and business establishment before and after Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933.

The Journalist, the Record Collector and the Caretaker

2008 • 12 min • Sweden

Journalist Anders wants to do a story on a record collector of LPs, as his wife Molly is a big fan of them. What could go wrong? And what's the deal with the caretaker who comes between them?

Women's Rebellion

2008 • 58 min

The documentary chronicles women's experiences of discovering, dreaming, acting and rebelling together, namely the early years of the formation of a feminist movement in Turkey.

Nation on Film

2008 • 39 min

A history of the documentary film production company British Transport Films.

Codswallop

2008 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Codswallop is a short animated film based on a series of stream-of-consciousness illustrations by Greg McLeod which were sent on postcards to his son.

What I Was Yesterday

2008 • 3 min • Mexico

An animated adventure through time and space.

Miracles of Evolution

2008 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Miracles of Evolution is a fake BBC film trailer featuring flying penguins made in 2008 as an April Fools' Day hoax. The film was advertised as compelling evidence for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. It was largely set on King George Island, 75 miles from mainland Antarctica.

Raw Love

2008 • 15 min • Argentina

A portrait of the last days of high school. Two friends spend all day long together, but this will inevitably come to an end. A beautiful sincere story of mixed emotions and secrets that dare not speak loud.

The Soul of Godzilla: Ishiro Honda

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

A brief biography of film director Ishiro Honda.

Elefun and Friends: A Tangled Tale

2008 • 24 min

This entertaining tale features Elefun on an adventure to untangle a kite string, which ultimately leads him to the true meaning of friendship.

Echo

2008 • 14 min • Poland

The powerful echo of two schoolboys’ actions resonates as they reconstruct their crime and relive the pain of what they have done.

For Sock's Sake

2008 • 5 min • United States of America, France

Stop-motion animated short produced as a film student graduation project at the Gobelins Animation School of Paris by Carlo Vogele, class of 2008, leading to a career as a character animator at Pixar. It was selected as the winner of the Best Graduation Film award the following year at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

A Space Exodus

2008 • 5 min • Denmark, Palestinian Territory

A Space Exodus quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context. The recognisable music scores of the 1968 science fiction film are changed to arabesque chords matching the surreal visuals of Sansour's film.

Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut

2008 • 60 min • Sri Lanka, New Zealand, United States of America, Thailand

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a full-time vocation. Controversies swirling within modern monastic Buddhism are examined, from celibacy and the role of women to racism and concerns about the environment.

Cam2Cam

2008 • 27 min • France

A young woman, Lucy, receives a message of a girl friend of hers, whom invites her for a Webchat. After a while, her friend begins to get undressed on her Webcam. Intrigued, Lucy looks and is caught at the game, in an erotic and quite disturbing atmosphere.

Script Cops: Cliché Misdemeanor

2008 • 2 min • United States of America

The Script Cops are back! This time, investigating a group of student filmmakers accused of using clichés.

Trial by Fire

2008 • 17 min • United States of America

One man struggles to regain his life after losing everything.

My Father Was a Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse's Life Story

2008 • 52 min • France

Pascal Lamorisse is the son of filmmaker Albert Lamorisse. He is also the little hero of some of his father's films (White Mane, The Red Balloon and Stowaway in the Sky). Over the years, Albert Lamorisse, who took his son on all his shoots, sought to transmit his expertise and his passion for filmmaking, even on his last film, The Lover's Wind. There is something in the story of Pascal Lamorisse that touches on a fabulous story: it is the story of the transmission of cinema from father to child.

Penguins: The Story of the Bird that wanted to be Fish

2008 • 52 min

A look at the evolution of an animal we all know and love -- the penguin. Known for a complex social hierarchy as well as their ability to withstand some of the most harsh temperatures in nature, penguins have proven themselves among one of the most adaptable species on the planet.

She Who Measures

2008 • 7 min • Croatia

Are we truly free? Are our desires truly our own or merely imposed products of the society we live in? The question this film is asking is this: are we slaves to the culture and society we were born in or is there a way to escape after all?

The presentation theme

2008 • 14 min

Simplistic drawings portray the myths and rituals of the ancient Moche civilization as interpreted by the filmmaker from the artwork on Moche pottery, inspired by Donnan McClelland's "Sex and Death."

Finding Anastasia

2008 • 52 min • United States of America

Did Romanov Princess Anastasia survive a Bolshevik firing squad or did she and her brother Crown Prince Alexis perish with their father, Tsar Nicholas II, before another firing squad in 1918? The chance find of human remains in a Siberian forest brings forensic anthropologist Dr.Anthony Falsetti in search of the truth. Marshalling DNA, ballistics and the very latest forensic analysis, an international team works to dispel the greatest myth of the 20th century and tell a real story more remarkable than any fiction.

Acadia Always

2008 • 60 min

A brand new look at one of America's favorite national parks. Jack Perkins, former NBC News correspondent and host of A&E's Biography Series, lends his powerful narrative to this hour long tribute to the people who created Acadia National Park and to those who keep and preserve it.

En la otra camilla

2008 • 21 min • Spain

The quiet day-to-day existence of two kidnappers, Alfonso and Marta, comes to an abrupt end when the elderly businessman they are holding in captivity tries to commit suicide.