All Films

Operation OPEC - Terroranschlag in Wien

2007 • 53 min • Germany

"Operation OPEC - Terror Attack in Vienna" - On December 21, 1975, six terrorists including the Germans Gabriele Tiedemann and Hans-Joachim Klein, led by Venezuelan top terrorist Carlos, attack the participants of the OPEC conference in Vienna and take eleven oil ministers and dozens of employees hostage. The action kills three people. The lavishly researched film reveals the background of the spectacular attack and establishes connections. The investigators, former hostages and some of the terrorists involved are heard.

The French Lieutenant's Woman

2007 • 21 min • South Korea

On news about the death of the British writer John Fowels who wrote "The French Lieutenant's Woman", a woman suffering from leukemia confesses to her son that she is the woman of the French Lieutenant.

The Blue Door

2007 • 28 min • France

Antoine returns to his motherland after a very long time to attend his mother’s funeral. His daughter Marie-Ange calls him and asks for a story. He starts telling her a tale he was told as a child…

Cincinnati: Great, Near Great and Not So Great Moments in Cincinnati History Vol. 3

2007 • 58 min • United States of America

Highlights include Dan Ransohoff's "Cincinnati Algorithm," the Great Flood of 1937, the Taft political dynasty, a profile of Cincinnati Reds player Ival Goodman, the 1946 Cincinnati Bearcats football team, the last days and rebirth of the Albee Theater, controversy surrounding the Cincinnati bicentennial mascot "Cincinnatus," the walking metal men of Crosley Field fame, saving cash with Kash D. Amburgy, and a shopping trip through Swallen's.

Zapatos nuevos

2007 • 29 min • Sweden

A tale inspired by true events about four children from South America who are brought to Europe to work as pickpockets and thieves. What they have in common is that they have nothing to return to, their lives are all they have and their dreams of a better life is all they can hope for.

Sapak

2007 • 16 min

A film by Firat Mancuhan.

Designing Dogs

2007 • 47 min

Puggles, Schnoodles, Labradoodles-they're not newfangled snack treats, they're actually newfangled dogs. Join us as we chronicle the never-ending search for the perfect canine and look at the world of hybrid, purebred, and rescue dogs.

Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone

2007 • 52 min • Portugal

José Bação Leal has born in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, in 1942, and died in Mozambique, during the colonial war, with 23 years old. A promising writer and thinker, he became a symbol of a youth that could not rise, victim of a country that put in cause its own future in a meaningless war. All the people who were close to him were touch by his fascinating personality and his vanguardist free spirit.

Nights and Days

2007 • 17 min • Lebanon

‘Nights and Days’ uses notes written and filmed during summer 2006 as a personal account of the experience of war. The first part, which resembles yet is not a diary of war, oscillates between day-shots and night-shots and features a soundtrack expressing the idea of time passing, awaiting, interrogations and fears experienced in such an unusual time. The second part is a journey to south Lebanon which was devastated during that war. It alternates between peaceful landscapes and ruins and destruction accompanied only by music, as no words could express this devastation. ‘Nights and Days’ questions the relation between image and sound and reflects on notions of ‘beauty’ and ‘horror through images of urban and natural landscapes, where sometimes a detail betrays the presence of war and its violence.

Color Me Bad

2007 • 23 min

Karim, a Thai boxer of Moroccan heritage, is about to be married. The families have high expectations, but Karim is filled with doubt. Pressured by the upcoming wedding, Karim has to make a choice.

Bastidores de um Sonho

2007 • 45 min • Brazil, Japan

This is a DVD produced exclusively with images made by the players themselves and the coaching staff, during the journey in Japan (in the extras appear interviews made after the Mundial). They are images and sounds with the emotion of the hour of the conquest, without images from television stations or professional resources. A DVD to watch with your heart in your hand and a certainty in your chest: nothing will ever separate us, Colorado.

Câmara Viajante

2007 • 20 min • Brazil

Documentary about the universe and the craft of popular photographers who work at parties, fairs and pilgrimages in the northeastern interior of Brazil.

Sentinela

2007 • 15 min

In Brazil, the vigil accompanies the dying as they cross into the other world, helping them take the final step when the body is too weak, and breath too short to take the leap. The vigil has many faces: the visible face of a choir of men and women, of family and friends gathered in prayer at invalid’s bedside, that of a great book containing the rites and prayers, that of slow steps treading the grass between the gravestones, of ritual objects, of amulets laid on the altar, of the candle’s quivering flame, but above all, of an invisible, floating spiritual power, shade and breath wandering over the surface of faces, over wrinkles and folds of skin, and which each of us seeks in vain without seeing it, as it has become the camera’s eye.

Colored Frames

2007 • 56 min • United States of America

A look back at the last fifty years in African American art, Colored Frames is an unflinching exploration of influences, inspirations and experiences of black artists. Beginning at the height of the Civil Rights Era and leading up to the present, it is a naked and truthful look at often ignored artists and their progenies.

L.h.o.

2007 • 4 min • Germany

In a Texas schoolbook storage room in November 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald balances a rifle against a shelf. When the shelves collapse, his careless act inadvertently kills President Kennedy.

The Vampire Assassin

2007 • 19 min • United States of America

After centuries of living the life of a free spirited, spoiled rich vampire, terrorizing the Eastern European countryside, Veronica arrives in the United States for new prey. But when her actions start attracting the attention of humans she is brought before her clan elders and ordered to reign in her "bloodlust" or be ostracized by the rest of the clan, a fate worse than death. In order to get back into the good graces of the elders, Veronica must become an assassin and kill vampires who themselves are attracting the humans' attention.

Headlines: Hybrid Films

2007 • 9 min

These films were made from The New York Times newspaper articles. The semi - automated animation process resulted in sentence recombinations that sometimes made sense while randomly emphasizing certain words and images. Each computer animation was transferred to one 100ft roll of 16mm Tri-X reversal film and then hand-processed. The reversal negative is the original.

Plein d'essence

2007 • 58 min

The Aire de Berchem on the Luxembourg - Dudelange motorway is the most important service station in Europe in terms of fuel flow. Summer and winter, day and night, people of all nationalities, all ages and all social classes meet there in a constant stream of cars and trucks. The film will attempt to highlight both the differences and the similarities in the behavior of this population, which represents a melting pot of Europe.

Kanashibara

2007 • 11 min • Canada

In the wake of his girlfriend's death, a man's sense of the real and the illusory world begins to blur when he is visited nightly by hallucinatory representations of his depression in the form of a Succubus.

Voice Over

2007 • 8 min

A man betrayed by his mind.

The Last Day

2007 • 12 min • France

On July the 1st 2005, the 1867 Schneider and Co power hammer N°125 ceased operating at the former smithy of the Brest military harbour. This is the story of the machine and its workers' last working day.

Kad mano namai būtų pilni

2007 • 56 min • Lithuania

A film about marginalized people who have hit rock bottom and are trying to pick themselves up again. They arrive in a remote religious community, do their daily chores, and perhaps turn to God for the first time.

Parapax

2007 • 58 min • China

A physics professor, a sci-fi writer and a young writer from parallel universes find that their lives are entangled. She thinks she is a replicant of her real self, she is the imprisoned soul in her novel, and she is the mastermind behind all. This is an author's movie about authors, this is a science fiction movie about science fiction, and this is a movie about movies. What kind of existence is our world, and whether our life is existence or nothingness?

Los campos del silencio

2007 • 41 min

Who made the dams of the Ebro, Entrepeñas, Barrios de Luna and many others? Who rebuilt towns and cities like Belchite, Brunete, Oviedo, Teruel... among many other populations? Who built from airports such as Sondica or Labacolla to municipal stadiums like those of Valladolid and Palencia, to prisions like Carabanchel or Cordoba? Republicans who were prisoners condemned to work as slaves, whose only "crime" had been to defend the democratically elected legality. This documentary tries to recover the memory of these events focusing on the battalion of Republican prisoners of Fabero del Bierzo. It investigates the mechanisms of social construction of silence, fear and forgetfulness that even today can be felt where the events occurred and where the descendants of many of those prisoners still live.