All Films

Summer Sunday

2008 • 10 min • Germany

Sommersonntag (Summer Sunday) is the dramatic story of Bruno Hansen, a bridge guard of a huge lift bridge in Hamburg. As his 7-year old deaf-mute son climbs down into the restricted area of the lifting equipment while a train is approaching, he has to decide whether to sacrifice his son or to let the fully occupied train drown in the river.

Silence of the Bees

2008 • 50 min • United States of America

In the winter of 2006, a strange phenomenon fell upon honeybee hives across the country. Without a trace, millions of bees vanished from their hives. A precious pollinator of fruits and vegetables, the disappearing bees left billions of dollars of crops at risk and threatened our food supply. The epidemic set researchers scrambling to discover why honeybees were dying in record numbers — and to stop the epidemic in its tracks before it spread further.

Loucos de Futebol

2008 • 23 min

A documentary about how crazy the football fans could be. This sport is much more than 22 men and one ball.

A Child's Christmas

2008 • 28 min • United Kingdom

An old man and a young boy discuss whether or not Christmas has changed. The old man takes the young boy back to the Christmas' of his youth, and teases him with a mysterious assertion concerning snow.

Midnight Lost + Found

2008 • 18 min • India

Arvind spends his nights reading Batman comics behind iron bars at his lonely chemist shop in Bombay. A prostitute stops every night to buy condoms, until their conversations help Arvind break free and find the superhero within.

Guido Magnone - Le Baladeur

2008 • 52 min • France

Guido Magnone's incredible adventure begins strangely on the banks of the Ourcq canal among a group of kids who dream of swimming. Guido, the solitary son of "rital", dives to get noticed, succeeds, takes a liking to it, breaks his first record, collects medals. At the same time, he draws, attends the Beaux-Arts, is accepted with open arms and befriends the sculptors César and Féraud. At the end of the war, during a health stay in Chamonix, it is love at first sight for the mountains, climbing. Guido's ascent is now dizzying. He stormed the west face of the Drus, then the Fitzroy and the Tour de Mustagh, summits reputed to be impossible. He rubs shoulders with the greatest, Lionel Terray, Maurice Herzog, and participates in the Makalu expedition, camera in hand, or those of Jannu and Chacraraju. Later, in his fifties, Guido hangs up the carabiners and participates in the foundation of the UCPA

Autopsy Room 4

2008 • 7 min • Canada

An executive recalls how he may have ended up going from his golf game to an autopsy room. Based on the Stephen King story of the same name.

Victorian Sex Explorer

2008 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Part history, part travelogue, Victorian Sex Explorer is a revealing, witty journey through Queen Victoria’s Empire, from the late 1830s to the turn of the century. Fuelled by the same desire as the infamous Victorian explorer and sexual anthropologist Sir Richard Burton,Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding; St Trinian’s) re-traces his steps in the modern day Orient to explore changing attitudes to sex, the legacy of the Empire and erotica in all its guises.

To Be A Good One

2008 • 19 min

After a fight with her mother, six year old Clara decides to run off to be with her father. But she falls asleep on the way on the bus and somehow ends up with the Wagner family. When Julia Wagner discovers bruises on Clara's body, she feels compelled to act.

The Knights Templar: From History To Legend

2008 • 52 min • Luxembourg

A fascinating exploration of the legends accredited to the mysterious religious and military order of the Knights Templar. The Order of the Templar, created after the first Crusade and disbanded by the King of France in 1307, gave birth to fabulous legends which persist to this day. Despite in-depth research, many enigmas still surround this mythical order and its legends - not least whether mysterious discoveries at Gisors and Oak Island can really hold the fabled Templar treasures. Now, this insightful documentary relives an epic adventure based on facts, places, puzzles and legends that feed faiths and have fascinated generations.

Far Away From Here

2008 • 29 min • Germany, Uruguay

Daniela would like to live far away from here in the future. Here, is a poor part of town in Montevideo, where Daniela lives in a small house with her son, husband, mother, sister and brother-in-law. They are better off than most of the people living in that neighborhood. They all work and the father provides them with whatever they need. He is one of the millions of emigrants from Latin America whose salaries are essential to the survival of their families. The movie carefully approaches Daniela’s world, tells her story, a girl immersed in daydreaming, who is also a down-to-earth mother, beloved daughter and young wife – and about the pain of emigration.

Que Cavação é Essa?

2008 • 19 min • Brazil

A short film that emulates the activities of early Brazilian filmmakers known as "cavadores".

Mobile Men

2008 • 4 min • Thailand

A joyful shot recorded by Weerasethakul himself and two young men who become acquainted by filming each other in the back of a moving pickup truck. Though seemingly playful, the short film is a subtle portrait of migrant workers in the north of Thailand.

Dimensions of the Kitchen

2008 • 18 min • Estonia

Three orchestrated journeys to the hitherto unknown dimensions of a kitchen in the morning.

Vampyros Lesbos

2008 • 20 min • Canada

About young Sophie who is taken to a burlesque club with her husband and is hopelessly enticed by awe inspiring beauty Countess Nadine who seduces, kidnaps, and converts the young woman.

See You

2008 • 33 min • Denmark

When 14 year old Nete's twin brother Noah is killed in an accident, her world collapses. Months later, her parents decide to move to Copenhagen to start anew. Nete, still deeply troubled by her brother's death, begins in a new school - but the day she starts, a new boy, Jonas, also arrives. To everyone else, he is just the new boy - but Nete is in deep shock at what she sees.

Chroma Chameleon

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

Chameleons don't just dance, they "chrome" - an explosive combination of crazy moves with wild bursts of color changing. When a timid chameleon named Hue, who can't change colors, attends a dance party, he finds himself unexpectedly thrown on stage, his shortcomings exposed to all.

The Last Ghost of War

2008 • 56 min

Vietnamese alleged victims of Agent Orange read a letter to the American people appealing for justice and help. Their class action case moves through the U.S. Court system as scientists, military historians and doctors take us to a new battlefield.

Malika is Gone

2008 • 35 min • France

Two friends, Marc and Nicolas, are a little lost in life. Malika, a foreigner living on the fringes, struggles for her survival. Perhaps a love affair begins between Marc and Malika - unless it's something else entirely.

Charlie

2008 • 9 min

When a hapless burglar breaks into a house with the loot of his dreams, his luck soon changes and it may turn out to be his last job.

Buen provecho

2008 • 8 min • Mexico

An impulsive and arrogant man has to share his lunch with an unknown woman. A story of prejudice and discrimination.

Mance

2008 • 57 min • Serbia

The tragic story of Dragan Mance, a promising football star of FC Partizan Belgrade who died in a car accident at the age of 23.

Bam's or Bust!

2008 • 16 min • United States of America

In this video you'll experience first hand what happens when you plan a casual Element team visit to Bam's compound in the woods of Pennsylvania.

From the Life of the Little Trolls

2008 • 8 min • Armenia

The short follows the story of the Last Dragon in the World from the 1962 book Tales from Moominvalley.