All Films

La maison dans la neige

2007 • 16 min

A burly mustached man breaks into a seemingly abandoned house to escape a blizzard.

Weiss

2007 • 5 min • Germany

He lives in a white expanse, where a monotonous balance reigns and with cheerful indifference wanders through a uniform whiteness. The exit from the enclosed space is hindered by the lack of contact…

50 tons of spruce

2007 • 46 min

50 tons of spruce, a film to discover an unknown trade, while the Quebec forestry industry is on the verge of crisis. A film to get to know men who earn their living by risking it, because the forest has always been part of them.

The Loneliness of the Short-Order Cook

2007 • 22 min • Poland

Living in East Los Angeles and working at a Japanese jazz bar, a young short-order cook faces deportation to Japan when his visa is denied. After what seems to be a connection with a Mexican Bakery worker turns into a misunderstanding, Shin experiences a side of Los Angeles invisible to his social circle of Japanese expats. Subdued and restrained, the film offers an unsentimental and personal portrait of living in between time zones and cultures in a city indicative of a world growing smaller.

Las Agujas del Diablo

2007 • 7 min • Spain

Legend has it that in the depths of the forest a bloodthirsty satanic monstrosity moves in the shadows, trapping all those unwary who venture to enter.

Wild Shaman Maiden

2007 • 8 min • Japan

An eight minute romp in the grass shot from a low angle and a subjective point of view as a small child or a stray dog, in which the main character young boy X who blows a melodica.

Spooky High School Massacre

2007 • 40 min • Spain

Dexter Mc Dillinger and Randy Sherton were two rockers who swore rivalry to each other until death. The night of the legendary 2007 prom at Spooky High School has arrived, and the two rockers return from the grave to continue their fight.

Bordeauxrot

2007 • 8 min • Austria

Marco describes himself as a very visual person even though he is blind.

Yuri Arabov. Mechanics of Fate

2007 • 39 min • Russia

"The fate of a person can not only be explained, but also predicted, using the same laws according to which a screenplay is built," says Yuri Arabov, a well–known Russian screenwriter, winner of the Cannes Film Festival. One day, an inexplicable, at first glance, event occurred in the fate of Arabov himself. He received a call from a man who claimed that he was his father, who had left him with his mother 40 years ago, and whom Arabov himself had long considered dead…

Weddings and Diapers

2007 • 49 min • Kosovo

In this touching and humorous documentary, four Kosovar couples share how they deal with chores, child raising, freedoms and infidelity. How have roles changed and what are the limits to modernity in the sacred union of marriage?

Athiyayam

2007 • 10 min • India

Based on the touching short story by Melanmai Ponnusamy. A Family Man gets into addiction of alcohol and finds hard to feed his family

Real Access Discommunication

2007 • 38 min • Japan

The films of Oguchi Yoko are extremely personal. In addition, Oguchi herself has a special personality that makes her films very special. She is an outspoken masochist and experiments in life and work with her sexual proclivities. She can get surprised about what people think is normal in the field of love and could find little understanding for her own norms. That's why she made a film about it.

Fencing

2007 • 13 min

The film follows a day in the life of a troubled elderly gentleman facing fear of death and visions of his late father who he gets mixed up with his favorite figure of fiction, Captain Ahab from Moby Dick. He has visions of rubber shoes in the sewer where he works leading him to think back on his childhood and the origins of his bizarre work of art for which he has sacrificed even his marriage. His masterpiece is a bizarre fence along a black beach which he tends to with tenderness but dreads to complete.

Lóa, A Loner's Dream

2007 • 11 min

Ben is a outside in the dark a too large too heavy sailor bag on his shoulder, lonely and drunk. During a dream strange dream where he is taller, stronger, smarter, he meets an angel that gives him a flower. When he wakes up, he finds the flowers at his feet.

Spóinn var að vella

2007 • 52 min

Hey Ho, Comrades

2007 • 19 min • Slovenia

The student Darko Zuljan likes the partisan songs so much that he decides to revive the songs and put his idea into practical use as much as possible.

Minute by Minute: The Gulf War

2007 • 45 min • United States of America

They came in the dead of night. Iraqi troops and tanks - hundreds of them - pouring over the desert border. Americans awoke to the news on August 2nd, 1990: Iraq had invaded Kuwait. The White House responded quickly. By January 17th, 1991, eight F-15 fighter jets swept through the Baghdad sky, raining missiles upon the city below. Operation Desert Storm had begun. Within three days, the allied coalition controlled the Iraqi sky. Six days after the invasion of Kuwait, President Bush announced the deployment of 100 thousand troops to the Persian Gulf.

On the line - Paul Flora in the film

2007 • 52 min • Austria

Documentary film portraying the Austrian artist Paul Flora.

Mammoth Dreams: The Story of Dave McCoy

2007 • 56 min

This is the story of Dave McCoy, founder of Mammoth Mountain. Hear from Dave & Roma McCoy, Warren Miller, Rusty Gregory and other long-time Mammoth insiders in this documentary on the quintessential outdoorsman - how he came to the Eastern Sierra, why he decided to stay, and how he persevered through every obstacle imaginable to follow his firm belief that the steep mountain on the back side of California's remote mountain range could one day be the world's best ski resort.

Pagliaccio

2007 • 2 min

Sadness is just a smile away.

She Lost Her Marbles

2007 • 4 min • Canada

This is a short film about marbles who want to escape from a little girl, so they can play with boys instead.

Untitled Stories

2007 • 11 min

A female narrator is telling about her fears and memories. As she expresses herself to an imaginary friend, mental images of enigmatic interiors of buildings, streets and landscapes flow through the story. The characters remain unknown, seen only in glimpses or heard only through fragmented sounds. The video explores mental and emotional disorders by reflecting on questions such as the difficulty of expressing one’s feelings.

Climate of Hope

2007 • 28 min • Australia

Documentary created to demystify climate change and nuclear energy. While the threat of climate change is now widely accepted in the community, the potential for a host of nuclear power stations in Australia has raised questions about the best strategy for the country to move to a low-carbon economy. This animated documentary takes viewers on a tour through the science of climate change and the nuclear fuel chain and the remarkable energy revolution that is under way.

City of Baseball

2007 • 55 min • Italy, United States of America

"City of Baseball" is a documentary that explores both the past and the present of the Italian baseball league in the seaside resort of Nettuno near Rome. Through league pioneers, current players, fans, and local historians, "City of Baseball" captures the story of how the 1944 Allied invasion of Nettuno brought the American pastime to a town which embraced the sport with a passion that continues today.