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Search 2008, Documentary Short films by title (9)

BLOOD AND INCENSE

Dir: Carl Valiquet, Canada, 17 min, 2008, Documentary Short

In Bali, during certain ceremonies, blood must be spilled to pacify the bhutas, the evil spirits that live underground. A cockfighting arena is built next ... more »


COCAIS, THE REINVENTED TOWN

Dir: Ines Cardoso, Brazil, 15 min, 2008, Documentary Short

A poetic documentary film made with the patients and employees of an asylum town in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This is the story of a town that reinve ... more »


CROWN, THE

Dir: Isabel Vega & Amanda Micheli, United States, 40 min, 2007, Documentary Short

The contestants in this beauty pageant are thieves, murderers, and guerillas. The runnerup wipes her tears with a tattooed hand when the tiara is not place ... more »


DANCE LIKE YOUR OLD MAN

Dir: Gideon Obarzanek & Edwina Throsby, Australia, 10 min, 2007, Documentary Short

Six women imitate their dads' dancing in a film about fathers as seen through the eyes of their daughters. The unseen men come to life through the dances a ... more »


ELEGY FOR THE ELSWICK ENVOY

Dir: Nancy Willis, England, 24 min, 2007, Documentary Short

Disabled artist Nancy Willis is in search of a home for her much loved, but aging car - the Elswick Envoy. This unique small car was designed to be driven ... more »


END FOR BEGINNERS, THE

Dir: David Lale, England, 23 min, 2007, Documentary Short

In a retirement home in Paris, the elderly residents wait out their last days. Nothing much happens other than the odd bout of Muzak and trouble with the l ... more »


ESMA

Dir: Alen Drljevic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 26 min, 2007, Documentary Short

In 1995, during official negotiations inside a UN protected area in Zepa, the Bosnian Serb Army abducted Colonel Avdo Palic, the Bosnia and Herzegovina Arm ... more »


GAZA SOUVENIRS

Dir: Samuel Albaric, France, 46 min, 2008, Documentary Short

In a succession of phone calls between a young Palestinian, Wissam, and a young French filmmaker, Sam, they bring back memories of a phantasmagorical Gaza, ... more »


RA, THE MECHANIC

Dir: Mamadou Cisse, Mali, 26 min, 2007, Documentary Short

In the busy streets of Bamako, a young woman, about 25 years old, repairs generators. Engaged to be married, Ra does "a man's job" and supervises a crew of ... more »