All Films

Namibia's Bat-eared Foxes: Survivalists of the Desert

2007 • 52 min • Germany

Their huge ears locate the underground crawling sounds of beetles, larvae, and other insects in the sands of the Kalahari desert. But their resemblance to the thieving jackal lead to their inadvertent targeting by farmers defending their livestock. With their numbers dwindling, the bat-eared foxes of southern Namibia have become the passion project of veterinarian Margit Du Toit.

Puddle of Mudd: House of Blues Chicago 2007

2007 • 59 min

Puddle of Mudd's performance at the House of Blues in Chicago.

Sopralluoghi per un attentato terroristico

2007 • 12 min • Italy

While some individuals are intent on organizing a terrorist attack, a disguised voice-over theorises the annihilation of a society now completely emptied of meaning. The only possible outcome seems to be a clean sweep, a necessary and inevitable catastrophe.

Hanging There

2007 • 12 min • Spain

There are many ways to escape and many reasons to do it. Paula and Luis escape from sadness, reality and pain in their own way. Although he has decided to get off while driving and she prefers to ignore the obvious. This tragicomedy is the revealing dialogue of a conversation as surreal as it is impossible.

Borrowing Kyoto

2007 • 32 min

miniDV film by Yukiyasu Shimada, dedicated to Toshiro Mayuzumi.

Te Whiringa Taura o Whanganui

2007 • 52 min • New Zealand

In this documentary, tā moko artist and kapa haka teacher Sacha Te Utupoto Keating rode the Whanganui River on a journey to discover his whakapapa. Director Howard Taylor followed Sacha's personal story and the wider histories of the awa, weaving reconstructions, archival footage and lush river images into a rich story of people and place. "Taylor's investigation of the mythical, historical, ecological and spiritual aspects of the Whanganui River is deeply moving." said Grant Smithies in The Sunday Star-Times. "You're left entertained, enlightened and politicised."

J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation

2007 • 30 min

One of the greatest landscape painters of all time, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) rendered the subtle effects of light and atmosphere in revolutionary ways. This documentary chronicles the rise of Turner, a barber's son who entered the Royal Academy art school at age fourteen to become, over the course of six decades, Britain's most renowned painter. It includes footage of locations important to Turner in Wales, England, Switzerland, and readings from writers and artists of the era, including John Ruskin and Lord Byron.

Search for the Mystery Bomber

2007 • 52 min • Australia

Ben Cropp returns to a mystery bomber found in 2005 and identifies it as a B17 Flying Fortress that carried an American general who was lost in the crash.

Poles Apart

2007 • 7 min

In big cities it's easy to feel isolated, especially if you're Pang Pang, who is the only panda in a city of polar bears. His attempts to fit in always end in failure. What's it going to take to make these polar bears realize that Pang Pang is just another kind of bear?

A Tale of a Giant

2007 • 57 min • Slovenia

Story of “IMV”, a Slovenian car factory from Novo Mesto.

Another Passion

2007 • 20 min • Egypt

Heba is an 18-year-old girl who has just graduated from high school and wants to join the Film Institute to study her true passion which is Art. But her family meets this decision with rejection, out of concern for her because as a girl studying art will only bring her misfortunes.

Fur Fatale

2007 • 5 min

A girl encounters a cursed fur coat.

Fighting for the Vote: Women’s Suffrage in America

2007 • 32 min

The American suffrage movement began when two women were barred from an anti-slavery meeting.

Penis Envy

2007 • 4 min

For a moment a little girl wants to be a boy.

Farmer's Requiem

2007 • 9 min

The film documents rural landscapes and vernacular architecture on the cusp of urban sprawl and transformation.

Maracaibo con Vista al Lago

2007 • 52 min

Documentary that narrates the evolution of Maracaibo during the 20th century

Jag ska bara tvätta händerna

2007 • 1 min

You don't get any privacy when you live with 3 friends.

Glad semester med Niclas och David

2007 • 7 min

Two friends travel to Örebro with a map that's too big.

Rise of Alfred

2007 • 10 min

When Alfred Alfer the mentally ill dog gets promoted to manager of Burrito Bell, flashbacks of a neglectful and unloving childhood haunt him and give him an idea - to rule as Dictator. Alfred uses his burnt-out employees as Love Pawns in his sick and twisted desire to fill the emptiness of his childhood and to be loved. Oh yes, did i mention Alfred has Multiple Personality Disorder and he can talk to his dictator alter and that hitler and stalin's souls are stuck in his head for all of eternity and can control him too?

Peter

2007 • 3 min

An animated paint on glass film about lost family and the strangeness of Suffolk.

Side Walk

2007 • 57 min

A documentary poem interweaving seven parallel stories of children on their way to school and back, Sidewalk offers a glimpse into the rare moments of true independence afforded to these young schoolchildren. Along the way we witness the playful, the stressful, the cruel, the magical and the thrilling moments of this daily journey, which become a lucid voyage into the very heart of childhood.A meditation on children’s consciousness and the rite of passage between childhood and adulthood that passes in the blink of the eye, Sidewalk challenges us to grapple with questions of how we become who we are today and how any of us managed to survive the very real tribulations of childhood.

The Substance of Earth

2007 • 10 min

Mixed medium ecological horror short.

Football vs Rabbit

2007 • 1 min • Sweden

An 30-second animated short film when the Yellow Rabbit kicks the Football in to his Face.

Pushkin

2007 • 5 min

An old woman looks for her lost cat.