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In Bed with a Mosquito

In Bed with a Mosquito

2008 • 18 min
Betty Brassell, a 78-year-old retired telephone operator born and raised in rural Georgia, spends nearly every day - rain or shine - protesting in the streets of New York City, her walker currently emblazoned with “Arrest Cheney.” Although she still holds on to her thick Southern drawl, Betty has called Manhattan’s Lower East Side home for more than 50 years, after escaping an abusive marriage and relocating with her children to New York in 1954. When she retired in the mid-1990s, activism became a new calling, even though she had never voted before. Her weeks soon filled with protests, meetings and campaigns. But as life tends to do at unexpected moments, it throws Betty a curveball - she injures herself at a large protest and must be homebound for months. The documentary follows Betty through several protests and her three-month recovery, leading up to her preparation for a large protest against the war in Iraq.
Invisible

Invisible

2008 • 11 min • Sweden
INVISIBLE tells the story of a woman named “Veronica” and her two children. Both the mother and her young daughter are HIV-positive and face the bitter effects of discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS in Trinidad & Tobago. Subsequent to the making of this video, Duncan and friends partnered with Habitat for Humanity to build a home for “Veronica” and her children. This film was created for the Trinidad & Tobago Coalition for the Convention on the Rights of the Child (TTCCRC). Part of the CaribbeanTales Collection.
Nearly forgotten

Nearly forgotten

2008 • 60 min • Mexico
In the most inhospitable terrain of the legendary Saharan desert, lies the refugee camps of the Sahrawi Arab Republic. It is there that 5 young Sahrawis, through their drawings, reveal their hopes and dreams to us.
The Big Shave

The Big Shave

2008 • 4 min
Student film re-imagining of Scorsese's first student film THE BIG SHAVE. A bathroom, clean and empty, is occupied by a man who needs a shave. Soon the space flows with red as Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" dreadfully dances along with the self-mutilation of the man's face as it is torn apart from a razor on the outside and something else within.
Des Tarentelles

Des Tarentelles

2008 • 22 min • France
In southern Italy, in the 1960s, women danced into a trance to free themselves from the tarantula's venom. A remnant of an ancient rite, I set out to see what remained of it in Galatina on June 28th, a feast day. Reusing the trance images from Mingozzi's film Taranta (1962), I contrast them with the beauty of Puglia and what happens today on June 28th, when the tarantella is danced until the early hours. "Des Tarantelles" is a poetic reflection on transformation, the survival of rites in our contemporary world.
Delete

Delete

2008 • 6 min • Bulgaria
A young man with old-fashioned clothes is riding his bike along an old dirt road. A sad girl is browsing her pictures on a PC. Then she abruptly presses the Delete key.
From Here to There

From Here to There

2008 • 19 min • Spain, Netherlands
The film explores the notion of home within the context of the urban expansion of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country. It follows young adults who prepare for a new stage in their lives: How to plan the furnishing of a recently purchased apartment yet to be finished? How to cater for the birth of the first child? These personal experiences are juxtaposed with documentation of a lottery organized by the authorities to allocate subsidized apartments and of activists claiming the refurbishment of empty buildings in the center of the city.
New Dawn Fades

New Dawn Fades

2008 • 5 min
Two videos are projected on two walls of the small viewing space. The videos present two classes from a reorganized future society—the Crunch Division and the Peace Division. The people of the Crunch Division wear strange uniforms and do peculiar, regimented exercises to the blinking and buzzing of a red light. The people of the Peace Division sit and lay on the ground lackadaisically in empty hallways and rooms, and sip water out of extremely long straws.
We Are

We Are

2008 • 2 min • Iran
The message of the film is a tribute by representatives from various segments of society to Anonymous Martyrs.
The Lost Twelve Seconds

The Lost Twelve Seconds

2008 • 1 min • United Kingdom
The Lost Twelve Seconds was a documentary looking at the missing twelve seconds of the Doctor Who story The Time Meddler.
Tiempos de utopia

Tiempos de utopia

2008 • 52 min • Paraguay
This documentary recounts a deeply humanistic episode based on testimonies and conversations with Miguel Sanmartí, who stirred the hearts and consciences of a segment of Paraguayan youth and was accused in 1976 of being the head of the Political-Military Organization (OPM). The importance of preserving Paraguayan historical memory, upholding human rights, publicly refuting accusations, and demonstrating that utopias are possible are the pillars upon which this documentary is built.
Eyes on the Skies

Eyes on the Skies

2008 • 60 min
This movie explores the saga of the telescope over 400 years - the historical development, the scientific importance, the technological breakthroughs, and also the people behind this ground-breaking invention, their triumphs and failures.
Bave Circus

Bave Circus

2008 • 5 min • France
On a rainy afternoon, a child plays with his snails. He falls along with them in a dreamy snail circus.
Killing Me Softly

Killing Me Softly

2008 • 14 min
A couple arranges to meet on a street corner late at night where an unexpected sequence of events occurs.
Opeth: Watershed

Opeth: Watershed

2008 • 53 min
Watershed is the ninth full-length studio album by the Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth. This bonus DVD includes a 5.1 surround sound mix of the entire album (not including bonus tracks), video content featuring rehearsals, and studio footage, as well as expanded artwork.
Disturbed: Indestructible in Germany

Disturbed: Indestructible in Germany

2008 • 28 min
Indestructible in Germany is a live DVD by American rock band Disturbed. The DVD contains six live tracks from Disturbed's performance at Rock Am Ring in Nürburgring, Germany, recorded on June 7, 2008. Set List: 1. Perfect Insanity 2. Liberate 3. Stupify 4. Ten Thousand Fists 5. The Game 6. Down with the Sickness
Get Lucky

Get Lucky

2008 • 45 min • Norway
Field Productions is proud to present Get Lucky. A Norwegian ski movie that includes every aspect in modern extreme skiing: Park/BC/Big mountain and Urban. We have gathered many of the best athletes on the planet to give you the most exciting and varied ski movie possible. Filmed in HD with heli, cranes, dollys, cable and follow cams. "Get Lucky" and the behind the scenes documentary will give you a detailed insight in our whole season, describing how the luck treated us from time to time.
The First World War 1914-1918

The First World War 1914-1918

2008 • 60 min
This informative documentary tells the story of World War 1 and what was thought to be The War to End All Wars , a conflict with dramatic events, entangled alliances, and innovations such as planes, tanks, and telecommunications being used on the battlefield. All of this took place against the backdrop of dramatic industrial and social changes throughout the world.
Plot Point

Plot Point

2008 • 15 min
Real and well-known American cop land, with its howling police cars, uniforms, ambulances and crowded streets, turns into a perfect cinematic scenery questioning the boundaries of reality and fiction, but also narrative codes of cinema.
Dolce Vita Africana

Dolce Vita Africana

2008 • 60 min • France, United Kingdom
A documentary portrait of the African photographer Malick Sidibe, and a journey through Malian history inspired by his iconic images. Sidibe's snapshots from the late 50s through to the early 70s capture the carefree spirit of a youth asserting their freedom from colonialism in the early days of Malian independence - until a coup ushered in decades of austere military dictatorship. So this is a film not only about art, but also about a culture reflected through a camera lens, in a country that today is one of the poorest in the world.
Desert Heart

Desert Heart

2008 • 57 min • Australia
After 40 years in exile, Yulparitja elders take Daniel Walbidi, their most promising young artist, back to the desert heartland they left behind. In the remote Aboriginal community of Bidyadanga a new art movement has emerged. At its helm is a young Aboriginal man who is well on the way to international fame and possible fortune. Daniel Walbidi paints the desert country that his parents walked out of 40 years ago. Now, with the rock holes, sandhills and salt lakes of their country revitalized through the creation of the paintings, they are determined to go back and show Daniel their desert country for the first time.
Holly and Hal Moose: Our Uplifting Christmas Adventure

Holly and Hal Moose: Our Uplifting Christmas Adventure

2008 • 50 min
Holly and Hal Moose travel to the North Pole together to find Santa Claus.
Sled Heads 4

Sled Heads 4

2008 • 45 min
Join award-winning film director, Thomas Opre, as he continues his quest to ride with and film the most dynamic snowmachiners in the world. The Sled Heads 4 snowmobile video will take you to: the Yukon with world record, sled distance jump holder, Ross Mercer; Revelstoke to capture intense POW with Cody Borchers; British Columbia to hang with X Games silver medalist Brett Turcotte; Norway with freestyle rider Aleksaander Noordgaard; to chopper footage of extreme back-country hill climber Randy Swenson; to Boondocker's Jared Sessions technical riding in Idaho; Colorado to catch Miss Extreme Kristy Martin in the powder; to Fernie, BC, to ride with our Be Extreme Contest winner Shawn Dinner. An intense mixture of incredible backcountry riding and sled documentary, Sled Heads 4 is one of those snowmobile videos that offers something for everyone!
Mommy, Mommy

Mommy, Mommy

2008 • 44 min
Examines the challenges faced by a lesbian couple on their quest to become parents. Mommy Mommy is a documentary about a lesbian couple’s struggle to have a child. Set in Quebec, the first province to legalize same-sex adoption, Mommy Mommy chronicles one couple’s dream to adopt and have a family despite local prejudices and a homophobic provincial bureaucracy in the wake of the controversial legislation to recognize gay marriage in Canada.