All Films

Arafat & I

2008 • 15 min

Short comedy about a Palestinian in love.

The Stalker Chronicles: Episode Two - Reflections

2008 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Cary is being followed, she does not see her stalker but he is there in every shadow and every reflection. Once she is home, feeling safe she goes to bed with her boyfriend but in the darkness hides a killer. Watching he waits for his desire to be fulfilled.

Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

2008 • 55 min • France

Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".

Dolor

2008 • 13 min • Iceland

The film deals with unexpected and unexplainable loss. Due to an accident, the life of a happy family turns into a larger-than-life tragedy.

La Pallastrike sull'Isola di Pasqua

2008 • 31 min • Italy

This movie is set on the Easter Island, where a group of children that must face the mean ruler of the island in a pallastrike match in an arena. Their objective is to free a group of kids that have been petrified during the years.

Appassionata

2008 • 16 min

Based on a WW II legend: A German soldier awaiting his doom in the pocket of Stalingrad spots an undamaged piano in the no-man's land between the lines. The urge to play one more time becomes irresistible. -Appassionata- is inspired by an army postal service letter send by a German soldier from Stalingrad to his wife. The movie tells of the short moments in which soldiers try to escape the demons of war - of those rare instants in which longings and emotions out dare the maelstrom of daily cruelty and humanity wins over the frenzy of war.

Linkin Park: Road to Revolution - Live at Milton Keynes - Points of Authority

2008 • 5 min

Bonus video included in the physical copy of the recording, Linkin Park plays "Points of Authority" during the "Linkin Park: Road to Revolution - Live at Milton Keynes" concert.

Officer Relaxing After Duty

2008 • 20 min

The first short by Ali Abbasi, a fiction shot during his studies at The National Film School of Denmark.

Slapper

2008 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather than boxing, this is an adult, brutal version of ‘Slaps’ – slaps that can break a man’s hand. Three years ago, James’ alcoholic father Michael left him and his mother, but promised he’d be back to make them proud – now, James believes the man in the mask is his father, returning as a hero, but things are not what they seem...

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

Cash's concert at Folsom State Prison in California in January 1968 touched a raw nerve in the American psyche and made him a national hero at a troubled time in American history. Using the stark images of rock photographer Jim Marshall, graphic techniques, archive footage and interviews with Merle Haggard, Cash's daughter Rosanne, band members Marshall Grant and WS 'Fluke' Holland, alongside former inmates of the prison, the film documents this explosive concert, the live album that followed and a transformative moment in the lives of Cash, the inmates of Folsom Prison and the American nation in the troubled year of 1968.

Yuppy Cars

2008 • 6 min • Germany

Two young men participate in a radical left-wing demonstration in Berlin. Afterwards, they cruise the streets on their bikes. When they pull up next to a luxury car, it looks like the night isn't over for them yet.

Chimbumbe

2008 • 14 min • Colombia, India, Mexico

A mythical love story between a girl and a fish. Catalina Luango is swallowed up by the waters of a swamp. Her family tries to rescue her from the underworld called Chimbumbe. Adaptation of a legend of oral tradition from San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia.

The Greater Caucasus

2008 • 44 min • Germany

Discover the wonders of the Caucasus, a wild region home to natural riches and rare species, such as the saiga antelope and the short-toothed serpent eagle.

Boy Meets Boy

2008 • 13 min • South Korea

On a warm spring day Min-soo, a small boy, meets tall and broad-shouldered Seok-i inside a bus. Min-soo keeps looking at the intimidating boy whose sharp eyes are hidden under his baseball cap. Min-soo's heart starts beating. What will happen to Min-soo and Seok-i?

The Last Tenant

2008 • 22 min • United States of America

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical

2008 • 58 min • United States of America

The 1920s was a time of great change in Hollywood. This program tells the story of the advent of sound technology for movies and the emergence of talkies and musicals in Hollywood. While audiences cried out for more, the movie industry struggled to adapt to the strange new technology. The result was an explosion of movie musicals by the end of the decade.

Web Warriors

2008 • 49 min • United States of America

Web Warriors is a documentary that defines the conflict, establishes the stakes, and reveals the combatants in the escalating global battle taking place in cyber space. The film features computer hacker Michael Calce (aka Mafia Boy) who explains how as a 15 year old student he shut down Yahoo, Amazon, CNN, and Dell - from his bedroom. Viewers will watch grey hat hacker Donnie Werner (aka Morning Wood) as he comes face to face with the Russian cyber mafia as he searches for the creators of a new computer virus. Web Warriors is a wake-up call that we have entered the era of digital warfare where the stakes continue to escalate in a battle that now costs the global economy more than $500 Billion annually.

David McCullough: Painting with Words

2008 • 37 min • United States of America

Author/historian David McCullough welcomes viewers into his public and private world in this film. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman--who adapted McCullough's 'John Adams' for the 7-part HBO miniseries--this documentary paints an affectionate, first-person portrait of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner as he gives a speech and even visits his old Brooklyn neighborhood.

Kosher Spaghetti

2008 • 5 min

A Jewish young man starts putting tefilim while he hallucinates a dinner with god where things really get out of control.

A Love Story of Today

2008 • 29 min • United States of America

A discussion of the very important and highly controversial film, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, featuring interviews with people like Katharine Houghton, Martin Baum, Louis Gossett, Jr., Norman Jewison, Garry Marshall, Karen Sharpe and Salome Thomas-El.

Takane's Bicycle

2008 • 24 min • Japan

An 11-year-old boy, Takasumi Takane, will be given a new bicycle if his exam results are in the top 100, but his results put him in 112th place. He tells his mother a lie that he placed 92nd, and he tears the answer sheets apart. On his way home from cram school, he accidently breaks the old bicycle that he is supposed to hand down to his little sister, Tamaki. This angers Tamaki. Furthermore, Tamaki accuses him of telling a lie, and he begins to think of her as a nuisance. One night, when he goes to a shrine to look for his missing dog, Chris, he encounters a young man named Yoyogi. Somehow, Yoyogi has the answer sheet marked as “92nd." Yoyogi proposes a trade, but threatens to return the answer sheet to its original owner unless he is given something Takane doesn't need.

Séance familiale

2008 • 28 min • Taiwan

A french TV crew breaks into a Taiwanese family in Taipei for a real TV program during a weekend. After a short thought and seducing by the possible winnings, Lin's family accepts to be followed by the cameraman Pierre for two days. Little by little, Pierre's camera has become a new way of communication in this family. Everyone delivers their way of life and thinking, and maybe a little secret.

The Cell Phone

2008 • 9 min

2008 short film

Clowns

2008 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Daisy Asquith investigates the mysterious world of children's entertainers.