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The K-9 Files

The K-9 Files

2008 • 12 min • United Kingdom
Several key production personnel look at the making of K-9 and Company: A Girls Best Friend, plus K-9's subsequent life in books and comic strips is examined and explored.
The Green Sheep

The Green Sheep

2008 • 4 min • Germany
Marcel is a green sheep and often teased at school. But in his motley family, both frogs and sheep coexist.
The story of a sign

The story of a sign

2008 • 4 min
A heart warming short, where a blind man is aided by a stranger.
Erotic Coffee

Erotic Coffee

2008 • 10 min • Japan
As people pass by the busy station square, a man wearing a white shirt and a pair of black slacks is standing next to an automatic photo stand. Then a smart, good looking woman passes his side before entering a cafe. The man seems to know the woman. The man follows her in to the cafe. Just a short ten minute conversation over a cup of coffee, shared by the two.
Orchestra

Orchestra

2008 • 7 min • Japan
The harmony performed by players who drawn by lines metamorphose.
Swingers

Swingers

2008 • 15 min • Spain
The husband takes his wife to a swinger club. At first she is reluctant, but later she enjoys more than him and this makes him jealous.
The Escapists

The Escapists

2008 • 34 min
A brother and sister live their whole lives in a mansion not knowing each other. One day they meet between the floorboards.
Shattered

Shattered

2008 • 11 min • United States of America
Four girlfriends hold the man who attacked one of them captive, pushing their friendship to the limit deciding whether he will live or die.
The Peeps vs. Buddytron

The Peeps vs. Buddytron

2008 • 28 min
Set in a dystopian not-too-distant future, this anarchic half-hour sitcom/sketch show follows a cast of crazed characters who are drawn together by a nefarious social networking site called Buddytron.
Tail

Tail

2008 • 28 min • Israel
A bulimic born with a horse tail must choose between a loaded gun which offers her death and a hot line client who might be able to give her a reason to live.
Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

2008 • 3 min • Canada
Commissioned self-portrait of the artist as metaphysical remix of Abbas Kiarostami's "Close-Up" recorded on a cellphone.
Wait for Me

Wait for Me

2008 • 3 min • United States of America
In 1985, a young man from a well-to-do family took a bicycle trip across southern Europe, potter into Bangladesh, traveled through India, and disappeared while hiking in the rugged foothills of the Himalayas. He was never seen or heard from again. Wait For Me is the story of a mother's spiritual and emotional search for her son ceaseless emotional trek, propelled by an unconditional love and an unwavering belief that he may still be alive.
Too Bitter To Love

Too Bitter To Love

2008 • 23 min
High school Seniors Mok-Lyeon and Byung-Hee have their first sexual intercourse at a cramped and non-soundproof study-room at goshiwon. While Byung-Hee is out buying snacks for Mok-Lyeon, the neighboring man enters the room where Mok-Lyeon is alone...
All Roads Lead Away

All Roads Lead Away

2008 • 9 min • United States of America
Richard and Kate have lost everything: Job, home, lifestyle. Now, with everything they own packed into their battered old station wagon, they’re just trying to make it to Cleveland, where Richard’s brother has offered a chance to start over. But making the journey is easier said than done, and when Richard’s plans to borrow money from an old friend fall through, they are left with no choice but to seek out an old flame of Kate’s for help. But will this truly be a chance to move on, or the catalyst for a larger life change?
Way Home

Way Home

2008 • 8 min • South Korea
'Way Home' is a story featuring a fly, a dung beetle, and a farmer.
Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood

Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood

2008 • 58 min • United States of America
To escape Hitler's regime, thousands of intellectuals and radicals fled Europe for the United States in the 1930s; this documentary focuses on the prominent figures who moved to Hollywood and made contributions to American music, art and culture. Well-known exiles profiled here include Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Salka Viertel, Thomas Mann and many others.
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

2008 • 59 min • United States of America
From superheroes to superstars, Hollywood has always turned to comic books for imagination and inspiration. In this Starz Inside documentary, discover the history of comics from page to screen through the evolution and revolutions that have changed entertainment forever. It's a hero's journey of hits, misses and unstoppable powers, featuring the Spider-Man, X-Men, and Batman films (including The Dark Knight), Iron Man, Superman Returns, Hellboy II, Sin City, Incredible Hulk, American Splendor, Wanted, and beyond, plus revealing interviews with Guillermo del Toro, Stan Lee, Zak Penn, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Neal Adams, Roger Corman, Avi Arad, Mike Mignola, Paul Pope, Richard Donner, Jim Steranko, and many more.
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.

Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.

2008 • 44 min • United States of America
In a series of interviews with the KND after they're all grown up, the former operatives are temporarily brought out of their decommissioned haze to discuss what happened during their very last mission with Numbuh one - where he disappeared and was never heard from again! It all started with a routine mission to get the Delightful Children's birthday cake, but when a mysterious boy steals it instead, he makes it available to whoever wants it, IF they can solve his 'simple' scavenger hunt first. Soon it's a mad, mad, mad, mad chase around the world as the KND, their friends, and virtually all of their enemies compete to win the yummiest cake ever
Expired

Expired

2008 • 10 min • Cambodia, France
Young people tell the strange story of a french family's holidays in Cambodia.
Bunky Blum and the Talking Train

Bunky Blum and the Talking Train

2008 • 14 min
Bunky Blum is picked on in school. His only peace comes during lunch hour, when he and his mentally ill Mother eat McDonalds and visit a talking train named Train. The 83 year-old train is now a caged monument in the center of a children's park. However, Bunky believes that the train will break out of its confines and save him from the bullies of the schoolyard. When Bunky realizes that the train is not magical, all hope is lost and Bunky has a moral melt down. In a fit of rage, Bunky punches a girl in a wheelchair. The unsympathetic move lands Bunky on the losing end of a full out brawl. Bunky's Mother witnesses the schoolyard violence and she erupts into her own fit of rage, which ultimately sends her back to the psych ward. In the end, Bunky is left without hope, without family and without security. He returns to the old train to make a final plea for vengeance. But Bunky's giant steal savior has not come for vengeance. Rather, it offers Bunky what he needs, a shush of peace.
Nicky

Nicky

2008 • 2 min
A child is watching a music video on his television screen.
Romance .38

Romance .38

2008 • 15 min • Brazil
Jorge is a writer trying to finish his first novel with the help of his girlfriend. But she doesn't know how real is the fiction of his book.
Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution

Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution

2008 • 57 min • India, United States of America
In 1959 thousands of unarmed Tibetan women took to the streets of Lhasa to oppose the violent Chinese occupation of their country. For the first time on film, three generations of Tibetan women and His Holiness the Dalai Lama recount one of the great movements of nonviolent resistance in modern history.
Two/2

Two/2

2008 • 4 min • United States of America
Music scores are atomized and recompiled into instructions for visual edits and cues. Ties are uncovered between sight and sound.