All Films

At Home in Utopia

2008 • 57 min • United States of America

During the economic boom of the 1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish factory workers managed to build the house of their dreams, a cooperative apartment complex at the edge of Bronx Park. Then they were hit by the Great Depression. At Home in Utopia bears witness to an epic social experiment across two generations in the Coops - a place known as "little Moscow" - where people tried to change the American dream into one that included racial justice and workers' rights.

Spanky: To the Pier and Back

2008 • 4 min • Canada

Guy Maddin takes his dog Spanky out for his last walk with him at the lake.

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?

2008 • 28 min • Germany

A newly arrived guest of a Hollywood hotel charms and amazes the regulars, and they decide to invite him to their Christmas dinner.

Howl

2008 • 33 min • Turkey

Howl is an homage to the reading rituals of the Beat poets, to Wholly Communion, to 1965, to Allen Ginsberg, to Jack Kerouac, to William Burroughs, to all those books that we believe to be published in heaven, and to all the restless spirits, from these lands. The film documents the translator of the poem Howl into Turkish, accompanied by a musician.

Inside 'The Apartment'

2008 • 30 min

A 2007 documentary on the making of "The Apartment."

A Day in the Country

2008 • 12 min • United States of America

After his father's car breaks down, a young girl gets lost in the woods. She encounters a fugitive and a deaf woman. At first, she is suspicious of them and runs away. But as she begins to know them, they set out on a journey together to find her father.

Cinema in 7 Colors

2008 • 35 min • Brazil

Cinema in 7 Colors traces an historical panorama of how the queer people were portrayed in the Brazilian silver screens, from its origin in the chanchadas of the 1950s up to the present day. The film investigates the origins of the prejudices, stereotypes, as well as the importance of the identification with constructive representations of these characters.

The Night Before Christmas

2008 • 5 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 twenty-fourth film in the series.

Role Model: Gene Wilder

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

For 4 decades movie funnyman Gene Wilder has been keeping audiences in stitches with his combination of over-the-top neurosis and sweet vulnerability. Gene sits down with Alec Baldwin for an intimate conversation about matters both professional and personal, including Wilder's first meeting with Mel Brooks, the time Zero Mostel kissed him on the lips just before his audition for Brooks' The Producers, and his marriage to SNL star Gilda Radner.

Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Boom Boom! Bang Bang! Movie BANG!

2008 • 35 min • Japan

The Go-Ongers intercept the Recycle Barbaric Machine Beast Army in their Engines, managing to scrap the 13. However, trio of mysterious warriors appear and their actions result in the Go-Ongers losing the primary Engine Casts while being sucked into the Braneworld known as Samurai World, a dimension similar to Edo Japan where power is essential.

Honest

2008 • 6 min • France

From the album "Honest" by Kelly De Martino. "I could say I saw - you walk across water - unless you keep me honest".

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

2008 • 8 min • United States of America

“Wolf! Wolf!” Is there really a wolf, or is the shepherd boy just playing a trick? In this cautionary tale, a boy cries “wolf” one too many times, so when a wolf really does come after the sheep he’s watching, nobody believes him!

Boy

2008 • 16 min • Russia

The life of the old horse comes to end behind that - the death. But before the death, the fortune gives him the last fantastic vision which opens the world filled with an endless life and love.

Streak

2008 • 17 min • United States of America

A self-conscience co-ed anguishes over whether to get out of her comfort zone by stripping naked and joining other students in a run across campus.

Dressed

2008 • 15 min • Brazil

Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk - Jil's Adventure

2008 • 24 min • Japan

Special "back-side" (ura) short which features the background story from the party's side instead of Jil's.

Morella

2008 • 10 min • United States of America

On a fateful day in the park, a lonely man meets Morella, a beautiful yet singularly bewitching woman. And from their first meeting, their souls become inseparable, their lives bound together forever. Morella is a woman of great intelligence and powers of the mind, she spends her days studying the occult and reading to the man from her collection of ancient texts. Given his devotion to his wife, the man abandons himself completely to her, as their life of seclusion and obsession grows darker with each passing day. Joy fades into the deepest horror as Morella's cold, distant nature and ghostly musical voice oppress the man until he can no longer bear the touch of her fingers, nor the luster of her melancholy eyes.

Intangible

2008 • 12 min

Billy believes his friends and family have been replaced by doubles. His psychiatrist believes this is a delusion. Meanwhile, Billy's carrying out an experiment to prove it's no delusion.

Married to the Eiffel Tower

2008 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Imagine a world in which people seem hostile while inanimate objects appear friendly – even affectionate. Imagine dreading the touch of another human but longing for a passionate encounter with a large public structure. This is the strange world of the "objectum sexual"– a group of people, mainly women, whose intimate lives revolve around objects with which they say they share romantic and sexual love. Erika is married to the Eiffel Tower. She has a passion for inanimate objects, and her mission is to fight the stigma surrounding the disorder and create a global network of sufferers - like Amy, in love with a church organ, and Eija Riita, who married the Berlin Wall.

Butcher's Hill

2008 • 10 min • United States of America

It’s the middle of the 17th Century and a brother and sister are hiding in the garden of an isolated cottage in rural New England. When they enter the house and investigate the kitchen, they gorge themselves on the tempting cakes covering the table. It seems to good to be true.

Mudanza

2008 • 20 min • Spain

"Mudanza" (Removal) came to be made after the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist was asked for involvement in a project in the Huerta de San Vicente, the home and museum of the García-Lorca family in Granada. The film records the removal of furniture and objects from the building, leaving visitors able to move freely amongst its empty spaces and a silence charged with feeling and resonance and the take from the experience whatever they demand from it - thus making poet Federico García Lorca's emotive and historic absence even more powerful, evident and heartfelt.

Forever Québec

2008 • 52 min

A Canadian documentary depicting Quebec City as it celebrates its 400th anniversary.

God Only Knows

2008 • 17 min • Philippines, United States of America

In a dirty, decaying slum in the Philippines, single mother Maria is torn between her love for her 10-year-old son Santiago and providing a better life for him. In order to give Santiago a chance to have a decent home and a good education, she decides to send him away for adoption. But what start out as an innocent journey to the market quickly turns into a devastating loss for both mother and son.

Making Generation Kill

2008 • 25 min • United States of America

A behind the scenes look at HBO's critically acclaimed reality-based seven part miniseries 'Generation Kill' about some marines which was apart of the Iraqi invasion in 2003. You'll get an inside look in how the series was made.