All Films

An Ranger

2008 • 10 min • Ireland

Conamara, 1854 - Five years after the Great Famine. After many years abroad in the service of the British Army, a soldier returns home to find that his family are all dead. He visits a neighbour to establish what happened to them.

La deuxième femme

2008 • 48 min • France

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith (not always recognisable)... It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.

second coming

2008 • 35 min • Japan

Mari's quiet everyday life falls apart when she meets a mysterious boy. Her uncle returns after a long absence and tells her that earth is under alien control and that Mari is half human and half alien, while the strange boy confesses that he is trying to escape because he has stolen the key to liberate human beings from Mari's alien uncle. Mari, who only half believes their stories, meets her sister though she is not supposed to have one. Where is Mari heading for in her upside-down life?

Gli Straspeed a Crazy World

2008 • 59 min • Italy

Trials and Tribulations

2008 • 55 min • United Kingdom

A retrospective of Colin Baker's turbulent three-years as the Sixth Doctor in Doctor Who (1963), covering his casting, the 1985 hiatus, and his sacking on the orders of BBC One controller Michael Grade.

Long Story Short

2008 • 54 min • United States of America

Tells the story of Larry and Trudie Long, a popular Asian American nightclub act of the '40s and '50s, told through the eyes of their daughter, actress Jodi Long.

Dinx

2008 • 13 min • Canada

A dissatisfied bar waiter in a men's burlesque club is thrown back in time to relive a day from his childhood – in short-shorts.

Sexual Harassment Baptism: Eating Disorder

2008 • 60 min • Japan

Kimizuka is rescued by Saya in the form of a sister when she collapses in the park, but she has no belongings and no memory of herself. Saya is expelled from the monastery for writing a pornographic novel, and takes Kimizuka to the hotel where she is staying, and asks her various questions to use her as a model for the novel. In Kimizuka's mind, the image of women crying and crying after being forced to have sex comes to mind.

Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation

2008 • 14 min

A look at an extraordinary era of musical experimentation within Doctor Who, with special emphasis on the musical scores for Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Sea Devils. Featuring producer Barry Letts, composer Mark Ayres and directors Timothy Combe, Christopher Barry and Michael Briant, with an archive appearance from Radiophonic composer Malcolm Clarke.

Bob the Builder: Race to the Finish

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom

When Sunflower Valley needs a new sports stadium, there's only one team for the job. It's Bob the Builder and his Can-Do Crew! Can Bob build it? With the help of his new friends, Gripper and Grabber - YES, HE CAN! Join Bob, Wendy, and the Can-Do Crew as they race to the finish line in their biggest construction job yet. See how teamwork and fun go hand-in-hand in this colossal building adventure.

Twelve

2008 • 44 min • United States of America

Twelve is a unique collaboration of 12 directors, each responsible for a different film shot in a different month of the year. Separately, there are 12 short films shot in and around Boston...  »

The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business

2008 • 30 min • United States of America

Set against the landscape of 80s teen culture and the dawn of yuppiedom, this documentary relishes 'Risky Business' for having the brains to break from convention, while celebrating the film's cultural impact.

René

2008 • 30 min • Switzerland

René is sitting in his car driving through his drab reality. Suddenly, he has to sneeze. He pauses and listens. After a few quiet moments, he murmurs, “Bless you”. Then he moves towards the camera and continues: “I am a scream without an echo.” The film is the tragicomedy of a man searching for his echo, the way out of his loneliness. All paths are blocked and his quest becomes more and more of an odyssey. Evading his own insanity and narrowly escaping death, he gradually notices that the search can only end with oneself.

La Maison en Petits Cubes

2008 • 12 min • Japan

La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.

Kick the Cock

2008 • 16 min • Italy

Kick the Cock is an old Dutch saying, meaning Peek in the Kitchen.

Wolf Ticket

2008 • 9 min • United States of America

Dock Ellis, a Major League Baseball pitcher during the sixties and seventies, candidly describes "beaning" Reggie Jackson in retaliation for the home run that he hit off of him during the 1971 All-Star Game.

Come Here

2008 • 11 min • Sweden

Viktor, 15, and his family go to their summerhouse in the North of Sweden. On a bright, sleepless morning Viktor walks to a lake nearby. Things start disappearing, one after the other, like something in the forest was watching him and wanted to tease him.

Primeval: Through the Anomaly

2008 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Through the Anomaly is a special, featuring behind the scenes of the second series of Primeval. It was primarily filmed, written, directed and hosted by Andrew-Lee Potts, who plays Connor Temple, as the producers wanted a personalised version of the making of the first series.

Sweet Ruin

2008 • 11 min • United States of America

An unproduced screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni provides the basis for this existential tale of a gun-obsessed journalist, starring Gaby Hoffmann in roles originally intended for Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.

Rebecca

2008 • 10 min • Australia

Beyond redemption, Rebecca hides from the world. A psychological addiction to sex manifests itself physically. She lives only to satisfy her desire. Faced with a void she cannot fill Rebecca can no longer hide from the monster she has become.

Bungalung

2008 • 22 min

Around a campfire, on a moonlit night, two Anmatjere Elders, Patsy and Jane Briscoe, sing and re-tell an epic Dreaming story told to them by their father and grandfather. It is a story of two young men who are forced into action when a clan of demon Cannibals devour their entire tribe and kidnap the young men's mother and sister. Alone and outnumbered, the young men defy all odds as they defeat the demons and reclaim their women.

Kite Liberator

2008 • 58 min • Japan

Years after the events that transpired in Kite, Sawa's whereabouts are a mystery. During this time, rumors of a new killer have begun to circulate the city. They call her the Angel of Death, an unfeeling assassin who eliminates her targets with grace and precision, leaving only a flurry of feathers as her calling card. What the public is unaware of is the fact that this notorious hitman is a polite young lady named Monaka. Like her spiritual predecessor, Monaka has lost most of her family, and her father's duty as an astronaut keeps him practically worlds apart. However, they are close despite the physical distances and Orudo promised his daughter that he would return. Until then, daily life for the timid and somewhat clumsy Monaka involves mostly school and her part time job as a waitress, but her nature completely changes once she receives an assignment.

Coffee Break

2008 • 18 min • Sweden

A very nervous man meets an irritating woman in a coffee shop in Stockholm. Despite some initial trouble, there is a chance for the meeting leading to something bigger. If only they could stop interfere each other.

Summers Past

2008 • 45 min • Norway

Renate is afraid that if she allows herself to mourn her dead mother, she will lose control over her own life. When she finally realizes that suppressing her depression is destroying the relationship with her sister, Renate understands that she is about to lose all control over herself.