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Piet Piraat Special: The Pumpkin King

Piet Piraat Special: The Pumpkin King

2008 • 26 min • Belgium
The four pirates want to celebrate Halloween and decide to get some fresh pumpkins from Pumpkin Island. Steven is too scared and shows his friends the legend of the great pumpkin king...
Part of the Weekend Never Dies

Part of the Weekend Never Dies

2008 • 60 min
A documentary about Soulwax: Director Saam Farahmand filmed Soulwax on their recent international dates, capturing all the excitement, chaos and humour of the world tour. Where the Beastie Boys filmed one gig with 50 cameras, Soulwax filmed 120 shows with one camera, in Europe, Japan, US, Latin America and Australia. The result is a snapshot of life on the road with one of the most exciting live bands in the world, and features their friends including 2manyDJ's, James Murphy & Nancy Whang (LCD Soundsystem), Erol Alkan, Tiga, Justice, Busy P, So-Me, Peaches, Klaxons and many more in interview, as well as behind-the-scenes footage, and LOTS of music.
The New Sofa

The New Sofa

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom
Festive special edition of the hit family sitcom. Inspired by Nigella Lawson, Denise decides to cook Christmas dinner for the family. Jim provides the yuletide log and, much to his dismay, Dave's mum and dad are invited to join the festivities.
Trail of the Spider

Trail of the Spider

2008 • 54 min • United Kingdom
Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western’s portrayal of the “Vanishing Frontier” , the film extends the metaphor to the material and psychological conditions of a present day city increasingly dominated by volatile financial speculations and private interests.
Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett

Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett

2008 • 4 min • United States of America
PBS favorite "Charlie Rose" is recast as theater of the absurd.
Dispatches from Nicaragua

Dispatches from Nicaragua

2008 • 51 min • United States of America
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Alex Cox's 1987 film WALKER.
The Quiet One

The Quiet One

2008 • 4 min • United States of America
A lonely woman orders a friend in the mail.
Zodiac Deciphered

Zodiac Deciphered

2008 • 55 min • United States of America
An exhaustive behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Zodiac (2007).
The Masked Girl

The Masked Girl

2008 • 44 min • Japan
Released as part of a Neo Action double bill with Tsujimoto Takanori's Hard Revenge, Milly, Kaneko Isao's The Masked Girl follows the giddy action adventures of a high school superheroine called upon to battle supreme evil. On the way home from school one day, high school girl Hoshino Ai (Shimizu Yuki) gets kidnapped by an evil crime organization called Joker, led by devil incarnate Black Maria (Sato Aiko). Ai manages to escape with the help of teacher Aoyama (Kida Tsuyoshi), but realizes she's gained superhero powers after being genetically modified by Joker. She reveals her problems to friend Yumi (Nakamura Shizuka), only to discover that Yumi also been genetically modified and brainwashed to serve Joker. Friends become foes as Ai is forced to fight Yumi, but that's only the beginning of the battle. To take down Black Maria and Joker, Ai must trade in her sailor skirt for superheroine threads, and become The Masked Girl!
Dada

Dada

2008 • 13 min • United States of America
An absurdest short film set in the roaring twenties that chronicles two brothers who are obsessed with stealing Marcel Duchamp's shovel back from their arch nemesis, a greedy, drunk, fat, perverted aristocrat.
The Seasons

The Seasons

2008 • 30 min • Japan
A presentation of an expanding formation of "Elements of Nothing". The systematic harsh noise shaped by water and trees gives birth to a storm of novel imagination in the viewer's emotions.
Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom
Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans

Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans

2008 • 57 min • United States of America
Two years after a harrowing rescue from Hurricane Katrina, music legend Fats Domino headlined a 2007 benefit concert for New Orleans hometown, performing hits to an adoring audience. The special captures Domino's triumphant return to the stage and provides an up-close, biographical look at Domino's storied career.
Dime que yo

Dime que yo

2008 • 14 min • Spain
HE and SHE meet exactly at the same time they break up with their own couples... Is it possible for two strangers to begin a conversation full of recriminations, arguing until they get hoarse, and passionately reconcile as if they were a couple in the end?
The Company Man

The Company Man

2008 • 14 min • United States of America
A short film about work and its power to define how we see ourselves. It was an official selection of several international film festivals including the Nashville Film Festival, AFI-Tisch West Screening Series, and the Tribeca Film Festival where it was nominated for the Special Jury Prize.
Slow

Slow

2008 • 8 min • United States of America
"Slow" is the story of a traffic safety worker who is accidentally caught in a newspaper photograph — and his life is changed forever.
Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

2008 • 15 min • United States of America
Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish actor and director Solomon Mikhoels. An official proclamation mourns the death of "a great People's Artist of the Soviet Union." What people are really mourning is the death of the most popular Jewish theater in the Soviet Union, and the man who kept it alive against all odds for over 20 years. No doubt many suspected the truth: he had just been assassinated by Stalin's secret police.
Extreme Ice

Extreme Ice

2008 • 46 min
In extreme conditions, in ice-covered areas of the Earth, something unprecedented is happening. Everywhere, glaciers and ice sheets have begun to break off and accelerate towards the oceans at an alarming rate. As scientists try to predict the future effects of the great glacial melt, internationally renowned photographer James Balog is risking everything just to capture the phenomenon on film.
The Girl with the Yellow Stockings

The Girl with the Yellow Stockings

2008 • 6 min • Germany
A young couple is spending the day in bed. He asks her to marry him. She says no...
Musha Kero: Ohirome! Sengoku Ran-sei Dai Batoru!!

Musha Kero: Ohirome! Sengoku Ran-sei Dai Batoru!!

2008 • 14 min • Japan
Africa

Africa

2008 • 16 min • Serbia
It's a day like any other, nothing unusual about it whatsoever. Everything is absolutely ordinary. The radio stations are broadcasting the usual program. One announcer is playing "Caladont" with his listeners. But someone else will also play "Caladont" today.
Luxury

Luxury

2008 • 39 min • Poland
The lives of two boys converge on the central train station in Warsaw, the day before Christmas.
Creep

Creep

2008 • 2 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 fifteenth film in the series.
I Am So Proud of You

I Am So Proud of You

2008 • 22 min • United States of America
Dark shadows are cast over Bill's recovery.