All Films

A Morte de Tchaikovsky

2008 • 10 min

Pyotr Tchaikovsky is an acclaimed composer of classical music who died on November 6, 1893, in St. Petersburg, victim of an unidentified cause. Following the process of musical creation of this mythical composer, we understand that his works do not come from where we think. It is revealed, then, that the speculation surrounding his death has a plausible cause. Suicide? Anger? Assassination? How did this immortal composer die?

Maybe Tomorrow

2008 • 12 min • France

Harry wakes up next to a woman he met the day before. Just another woman. Harry’s a regular womanizer, but that day he starts wondering where his life is going.

Proud Iza

2008 • 20 min

Fresh look at a classic… Great writers have left us with characters that still exist today, it is simply their backdrop that has changed. PROUD IZA is a contemporary retelling set in New York City of "The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. First published in 1884, the stirring story of greed, pride, and vanity has become one of the author’s most popular works and is notorious for its surprise ending.

2008mm

2008 • 8 min • Japan

Color short film shot in 8mm

Robin

2008 • 20 min • Germany

Robin is eight when his mother Sabine becomes pregnant again. Because Sabine is overwhelmed with her child, new boyfriend and pregnancy, Robin has to go into care. When he returns home three months later, the situation has by no means improved. His mother's new boyfriend drinks, his little sister screams and the adults are constantly arguing. Then the woman from the youth welfare office turns up at the door, Robin is alone at home and his sister starts to cry...

Rescue Squad Mater

2008 • 3 min • United States of America

Lightning McQueen and Mater are driving in Radiator Springs and drive past Red, who is hosing some plants near Stanley. Mater tells Lightning that he used to be a firetruck, but Lightning doesn't believe Mater.

Don't Mess with Texas

2008 • 9 min • United States of America

A comic morality tale about two cocky young lesbians who bite off more than they can chew at a Texas roadside diner.

Gina Yashere: Skinny B*tch

2008 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Gina Yashere's performance on American TV's Last Comic Standing has led to commitments in the USA. Back in the UK for just a month, here she is on a tour doing all her best bits, new and old.

A Mate

2008 • 7 min • Finland

Pera wants to try something kinky in the bathroom, so he asks his mate to help him. However, Pera’s wife comes home a bit too soon…

Hoover

2008 • 17 min • Macedonia

What happens when the boring everyday life of an old woman and the exciting fun of four young girls become intertwined?

Grand Central

2008 • 51 min

On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at New York City's newest landmark. A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the new Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street housed an underground electric train station that would revolutionize the way people traveled and transform midtown Manhattan.

Mon Ami Charly

2008 • 8 min • France

A ten-year-old girl disobeys her mother to join her friend Charly.

Here Be Dragons

2008 • 40 min

Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.

X-Mess Detritus

2008 • 1 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 eighteenth film in the series.

Minor Revelations

2008 • 55 min • France

"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what is around me, not everyone is able to recognise it -- that is the risk I take. I think that this is good enough reason to make a film that will make visible small yet revealing things in differeent ways. I believe in tropisms and that is what interests me in this film." -- Marie Vermillard [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]

Pocoyo & the Space Circus

2008 • 25 min

Join Pocoyo and his friends on a new fun-filled circus adventure! One day a group of curious aliens arrive in Pocoyo's world. Pocoyo soon realizes that these new friends are not just any aliens; in fact, they are circus aliens! Their new friends treat Pocoyo and the gang to a free day at the circus, where Pocoyo and his friends must work together to help save the show! Will they do it? Find out in Pocoyo & the Space Circus!

Communicate

2008 • 2 min • South Korea, United States of America

By covering the whole history of communication and media, Communicate shows how humankind has been interacting with one another to reach the true answer of life which is illustrated as a red ball. Winner of the Grand Prize Asia Digital Art Awards 2009

Seoul Women Happiness

2008 • 15 min • Germany, South Korea

In fall 2007 the Women's Film Festival Seoul issued a call that did not promise, like the pirate queen Madame X, "gold, love, and adventure," but something as tempting as the opportunity to film a 15-minute short in Korea, which, assembled as one of six parts of an omnibus production, would open the 10th festival in 2008. I signaled my acceptance and voilà: SEOUL WOMEN HAPPINESS.

SVEN Ch II

2008 • 10 min • United States of America

Sven reminisces about an old friend.

She'll Never Know

2008 • 48 min • Israel

Jukebox musical TV special starring the hosts of Arutz Hayeladim, celebrating the songs of Danny Sanderson. Roni wants to invite Alon to be her date for the graduation party. Yet, Alon is distracted because everywhere he goes, he sees strangers sing songs in public.

The Necktie

2008 • 12 min • Canada

A solitary man works in a tall office building. The only moment in his drab life that's out of the ordinary each year seems to be opening the birthday card and gift from his mother. Usually it's a tie, but one year it's an accordion. It goes into the closet with his many ties. A year or two later, he discovers what happens to the papers he processes every day. His discovery sends him first to the building's top floor, then to his closet.

Remembrance

2008 • 12 min • China

Jia Zhangke’s short for Modern Weekly’s special tenth anniversary issue.

Bill Burr: Why Do I Do This?

2008 • 55 min • United States of America

One of America's fastest-rising comedians, Bill Burr wields his razor-sharp wit with rare skill. In this brand-new stand-up performance, Bill takes aim at the stuff that drives us crazy, political correctness gone haywire, and girlfriends, or as he calls them: relentless psycho robots. A keenly observant social commentator, Bill Burr is also one of the funniest voices in comedy today.

900 Metres Below

2008 • 29 min • Sweden

In vast mountain landscapes, high-rise buildings rise. They are empty. The mine eats slowly under them. It rattles in the houses at night when the ore is mined. In one of these demolition houses settles a woman who in her loneliness begins to hear voices. The voices come from a book. It is the voices of the miners that speak. She makes the voices and the former tenants a part of her everyday life. Until one day ...