All Films

Woman In Burka

2008 • 20 min

A darkly comic look at the life of an actress and the types of Middle Eastern roles available to her in a post-9/11 culture. Sarita is up for the coveted role of an Iraqi rape victim’s ghost in a new film. No one's seen the script or knows whether it's a serious drama or a cheap horror movie, but everyone seems to think it's perfect for her. Will she be the "Woman in Burka"?

Pregnant Man

2008 • 50 min • United Kingdom

An exclusive and intimate portrait following the first pregnant transgender man, Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy, into the delivery room as Thomas gives birth to their baby daughter Susan.

Blood and Oil

2008 • 52 min • United States of America

The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East is often disregarded as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. In Blood and Oil, bestselling author and Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare challenges this conventional wisdom and corrects the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years -- rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.

Den utvalgte

2008 • 23 min • Norway

Psykodramaterapauten Solveig comes to the secluded island "Nidøy" for trying out their methods on the island's amateur theater company. A seemingly simple task is shaping up to be a trip to the 'self' - and the beginning of a surreal, metaphysical and very Jungian trills fable.

Connected: The Power of Six Degrees

2008 • 54 min

A very rich documentary about the new science of network. It is built around reproducing the “Six degrees of separation” experience.

The Butterfly from Ural

2008 • 27 min • Czech Republic, Finland

A praised war hero leaves his wife and finds a new love from Ural.

Brüderchen und Schwesterchen

2008 • 58 min • Germany

Little Brother and Sister's new mother is not at all as humble and kind as she pretends to be, they are mistreated by their wicked stepmother and their new stepsister, so much that they decide to run away from home, after she poisoned their father to inherit his money. But the stepmother, who is also a witch, enchants the streams of the forest where the children are wandering, so that drinking from them would turn them into animals.

Sidney Turtlebaum

2008 • 18 min

Sidney Turtlebaum is a bitter sweet comedy that tells the story of Sidney, an eccentric gay Jewish man in his seventies. To punish the world Sidney earns his living as a pickpocket and a conman - his chosen modus operandi is to gatecrash Shiva houses of mourning to steal from the gathered crowd.

Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller'

2008 • 22 min • Portugal

A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his crew's hapless search, during 2007's carnival, for one of Arganil's most storied and elusive characters (who does, in fact, ultimately appear as an interviewee/player in the finished film). Paulo "Miller" is known for taking a dangerous jump into the Alva from a bridge each year during carnival, but what this film is about is, in keeping with the free-roving feature, much less the subject himself than Gomes and co.'s inability to pin him down; not only does he not do his famous jump during this year's carnival, but an ostensible technical/audio failure (as with the feature, it's very difficult to say how much of this film is "fact," how much invented) during Gomes's initial on-camera meeting with Paulo "Miller" leads to five minutes of lip-readers attempting to decipher their conversation.

A Cranberry Christmas

2008 • 22 min

Three days before Christmas and grumpy old Cyrus Grape forbids children to play and skate on the ice over the local cranberry bog near his home. Young Maggie, along with her grandmother and their friend Mr. Whiskers, work together to save Christmas Day for the children by reclaiming their favorite ice skating spot and discovering the land's rightful owner. When Mr. Whiskers learns his sister is coming to visit, it's a scramble to get his house in order and Maggie and her grandmother pitch in to help clean the old house. While working, they uncover a hidden box that holds a surprise for everyone... Maggie and her grandmother make delicious cookies to serve at their Christmas feast.

The Evolution of Clint Eastwood

2008 • 26 min • United States of America

Follow Eastwood's career from television star to matinee idol to Oscar-winning director in this wide-ranging documentary.

The Craft of Dirty Harry

2008 • 22 min • United States of America

A look at the cinematographers, editors, musicians, production designers and other talent of the Dirty Harry series.

Gold Stripe Brushes

2008 • 4 min • United States of America

That feeling of dread you experience before beginning strenuous exercise, but also a movie. 8,000 still photos played back at varying frame rates.

Tease

2008 • 2 min • United States of America

A man in a movie production office partially strips for the camera.

Cassandra

2008 • 27 min

Euripides' Greek tragedy, "The Trojan Women" is played out on the edge of a rocky desolate Mexican border town in this poetic reinterpretation by Director Mauricio Chernovetzky.

Monte Rosso

2008 • 38 min • Finland

On his day off, a carefree man sets out on a quest to buy weed and pay off his debt to a gang. However, his mission is interrupted by the most beautiful woman in Helsinki.

Trent 2 Rent

2008 • 27 min

Trent splits up with his girlfriend Helen. With nowhere to go he moves in with his friend Joey. It does not take long however before Trent figures out how Joey is managing to make a living - this is especially important to Trent as he is not only loveless and homeless but jobless as well. Growing more and more disillusioned at being broke Trent is forced to make a choice, and so he is drawn into the mysterious world of the male sex trade.

Sideline

2008 • 12 min • Finland

Heli, a business student, decides to post an escort ad on the Internet. Soon she meets her first client Risto, the CEO of a Russian oriented trade company. Risto is more than willing to rent Heli's services for longer than just one night. Later, Heli takes her friends out for a fancy dinner without them knowing of her new secret career. Heli soon realizes that the money earned on the previous night is now playing a role in her present and future life.

Pages of a Girl

2008 • 19 min • Brazil

Ingrid is a young woman whose life opens up to new options when she meets her older, more experienced book store manager, Sylvia.

How to Make Love to My Wife

2008 • 60 min • Canada

A comedy that follows the sexual misadventures of Greg Lawrence, a forty-something dud in the sack. The show features Greg and his real life wife Kathy Lawrence as they try to bring the spark back into the bedroom. The laughs are mixed with good advice, sweetness and charm.

Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist

2008 • 8 min • United States of America

This is a short featurette that features famed poster artist Struzan, made legendary for his beautiful Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Stephen King adaptation posters. Thomas Jane's character became modeled after Struzan, which might be easily identifiable at the start of The Mist.

Animated American

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

A toon hating executive has a hare raising experience when he meets an out of work toon rabbit.

Molina's Mofo

2008 • 38 min • Cuba, Spain

Havana 2027: A 38-year-old man, after 10 years of sentence, leaves prison. Sad for the death of his girlfriend, he arrives in the city determined to end his life. A clown, Mofo, host of a TV show, makes him an offer to die in a great way.

The Close

2008 • 15 min • Belgium

Two brothers clean up a cottage in the woods. Why doesn't seem to matter. What does, are the emotions that are uncovered.