All Films

Puppetboy

2008 • 27 min • Sweden

For more than a decade, an eccentric animator has worked on films featuring a little clay figure he calls "Puppetboy". Many hours of animation have been completed, yet very little has been made available to the public. Following the artist behind the scenes we discover a very intimate relationship between him an his protagonist.

The Suitcase

2008 • 20 min • Chile

Absurdist short about a man with a suitcase and a man inside that suitcase.

Illicit: The Dark Trade

2008 • 56 min • United States of America

Documenting the shadowy world of illegal trade that in this era of globalization spans the entire planet with a growing web of criminal networks. Counterfeiting is not just about knock-off brand handbags or pirated DVDs; these global supply chains also carry much more dangerous items: drugs, weapons, fake pharmaceuticals, knock-off car and airline parts, and more.

Walter's War

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Drama inspired by the life of Walter Tull who, after years in an orphanage, went on to become a professional footballer and then the first black commissioned officer to lead British troops during WW1. The action concerns Tull's turbulent passage from ordinary soldier to extraordinary officer at officer training camp, where he had to face his own demons as well as fight the prejudice that surrounded him

Beyond Raccoon City: Unearthing 'Resident Evil: Extinction'

2008 • 31 min • United States of America

Resident Evil: Extinction featurette.

Crossing the Line

2008 • 3 min • New Zealand

In WWI, a pilot’s teddy bear and an infantryman’s lost photo drift through chaos, their fragile presence briefly disrupting the brutal rhythm of battle.

The Monday Before Thanksgiving

2008 • 20 min

On the Monday before Thanksgiving, the anniversary of her mother's death, Theresa reflects on the choices she's made and how comfortable she really is being by herself.

Planet Heroes - Slingshot

2008 • 28 min

The Planet Heroes must stop Professor Darkness from destroying the solar system.

Sikumi (On the Ice)

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

An Inuit hunter drives his dog team out on the frozen Arctic Ocean in search of seals, but instead, bears witness to murder. In the microscopic communities of Arctic Alaska there is no anonymity -- the hunter knows both the victim and the murderer. The murderer, claiming self-defense and desperate to avoid punishment, tries to persuade his friend to forget what he has seen, and help dispose of the body. The hunter is forced to navigate the uneasy morality of honoring the body and memory of one friend and destroying the life of another.

Thirteen or So Minutes...

2008 • 13 min • United States of America

Lawrence Jefferies and Hugh Greerey are two straight men who have just met. Thirteen or so minutes later, things have changed for both of them as they open themselves to one another.

West 10 LDN

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A collection of tower blocks and concrete expanse, it has its own rules and codes, its own distinctive languages and culture, both old and new. It is a tightly knit community that is on call to protect those within its boundaries. It is an intense, turbulent, passionate world, rarely depicted other than when the antagonisms and struggles of its young lives spill out onto the surrounding streets and into the news. West 10 LDN invites us into this territory, and delves into the big stories of the lives of the young, multi ethnic generation who live there - with a blast of energy and power, with dynamism, wit and blistering vibrancy.

Lloyd Neck

2008 • 16 min • United States of America

Alex has a crush on her brother's friend, Jesse. But Jesse likes Alex's brother, Taylor. Alex knows something is up with her brother. Caught in an awkward position, Taylor takes Alex and Jesse to his favorite spot.

Trip to the Wound

2008 • 7 min • Indonesia

Shila met Carlo one night, on a bus. Shila is a collector. She collects stories of scars. Shila is always longing for the existence of a wound. This is a trip Carlo can never forget.

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five

2008 • 25 min • United States of America

Ordered to teach a martial arts class of rambunctious bunny kittens, Po tells stories of each of the Furious Five's pasts.

Little Red Riding Hood

2008 • 35 min

Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the seventies, but for her it is not something that belongs to the past. She decides to find something that will allow her to act and which, she claims, is owed to her.

Death in Venice: The Sinking Palazzo

2008 • 24 min

Short behind the scenes making-of documentary about the filming of the sinking house palazzo and the Venetian piazza chase from the James Bond movie Casino Royale (2006).

Ballerina

2008 • 15 min

The film tells the story of an aspiring dancer who from Eastern Europe is reached in Italy with the mirage of realizing the dream of her life which instead turns into a nightmare. Against her will she will be forced into prostitution.

Manson's Missing Victims

2008 • 48 min

It is almost universally believed by those who were involved with, or who have studied, the Manson murders that there are far more victims still out there. This documentary looks for some of their graves.

Lisa

2008 • 18 min • France

Lisa, a little ten-year-old girl, lives in a remote house with her parents and two brothers. Her father, a violent man, domineers over his family, imposing perfect order.

One in Four

2008 • 19 min

Haunted by his involvement in a suicide, train driver Sion struggles to comprehend the consequences somebody else's decision could have on his own life.

Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy

2008 • 8 min • United States of America

Documentary on the Mummy film(s) by Universal Studios.

Carne

2008 • 13 min • Brazil

A woman finds herself preparing a piece of meat at the kitchen while disturbing scenes are playing on the TV

Le Poisson Noyé

2008 • 18 min • Tunisia

This fable tells of an old fishmonger who dies and resuscitates several times. The man is a despicable character and his resurrections gives rise to general curiosity. But superstition soon takes over in the villagers’ hearts, they believe nature should reclaim its rights.

3 Stories About Evil

2008 • 22 min • United States of America

A very black mix of comedy about relationships, the media, children's beauty pageants, sex change operations and personal problems.