All Films

Last Stop

2007 • 9 min • Sweden

Bertil is an old man from Norrbotten in Sweden. His brother has just died, and the shipping of the deceased brother turns out to be very expensive. Bertil decides to solve the whole thing in his own way ...

Beirut City Guide

2007 • 50 min • Lebanon

Beirut, Lebanon's capital has a long history of political and social unrest that still makes headlines today. Globe Trekker's Beirut City Guide captures the city in more optimistic days, two weeks before the latest outbreak of hostilities in Lebanon between Israeli and Hezbollah forces in July 2006. Globe Trekker Megan McCormick explores the neighborhoods of Basta, Solidere, Gemayze and the Hezbollah District and finds a city in the midst of regeneration. She gets a glimpse at Beirut's future when meeting up with a group of young Arabic hip hop artists, who are eager to live in peace and put the country's political troubles in the past.

The Father of Godzilla: Eiji Tsuburaya

2007 • 7 min • United States of America

The life of Eiji Tsuburaya, pioneer of Japanese special effects.

Love Basketball

2007 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short film about basketball.

Nico y Tina

2007 • 9 min • Spain

A love affair between two smokers becomes complicated when they run out of fire and tobacco. A miniature satire, featuring tango, absurd humor, and criticism of smoking.

The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes

2007 • 45 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Ben Underwood had both his eyes removed at the age of three. He taught himself to perceive and locate objects by making clicking sounds with his tongue and using the echoes as they bounced off his environment.

Around the World in 21 Days

2007 • 52 min

Our story begins with the introduction of two female Londoners on the first leg in South Africa of their 21-day journey around the world in the bicentenary year of the abolition of the slave trade act. The world of middle aged West Indians now intrudes upon the year out backpacking community and the conflict within our documentary thereby begins.

Western Sunburn

2007 • 9 min • Canada, France

A re-photography in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.

Lions of Crocodile River

2007 • 50 min

Lazy relatives. Jealous neighbors. Runaway kids. The everyday troubles of one family - except this family is a pride of lions. Shot over three years during the most extreme seasonal changes in Africa, the film follows Mfumu - the pride's leader - as he struggles to defend his turf, and his mate Chipazuwa as she tries to produce offspring. Among the threats: a river infested with crocodiles that have taken every litter of cubs -- and a rival male, bent on taking over the pride.

Bad Chemistry

2007 • 23 min • Norway

One day, the 11-year old chemical prodigy and boy wonder Frederik gets a substitute teacher with ultra-liberal educational methods on her mind.

Vision of the Dark Tower

2007 • 5 min • Netherlands

Vision of the Dark Tower is a dream within a dream. Based on the Dark Tower novels by Stephen King, this animated short describes the call of the Dark Tower to one of the main characters.

Mystery Train: Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes

2007 • 34 min • United States of America

This video essay, featuring film scholar Leonard Leff, addresses the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes' British context and political underpinnings and the details and techniques that undeniably make it a 'Hitchcock picture.'

An Imaginary Life

2007 • 5 min • Australia

For an imaginary friend, living an imaginary life, there's nothing worse than being forgotten.

Judy Chicago & the California Girls

2007 • 27 min • United States of America

Judy Chicago & the California Girls is an historical documentary by and about women, at the birth of the Women’s Art Movement in Fresno, California, 1971

Koryo Saram the Unreliable People

2007 • 60 min

Koryo Saram (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the harrowing saga of survival in the open steppe country and the sweep of Soviet history through the eyes of these deported Koreans, who were designated by Stalin as an "unreliable people" and enemies of the state. Through recently uncovered archival footage and new interviews, the film follows the deportees' history of integrating into the Soviet system while working under punishing conditions in Kazakhstan, a country which became a concentration camp of exiled people from throughout the Soviet Union.

Oh, Saigon

2007 • 57 min • United States of America

Accompanied by gripping images from the war, 'Oh, Saigon' is an in-depth, compelling documentary about one refugee family's attempts to face its divided past and heal the physical and emotional wounds of the Vietnam War.

Water Spell

2007 • 42 min • China

"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me, this film is about reincarnation and transformation, on both the spiritual and sub-atomic levels. This is not an easy film, but it is a powerful one."

--Nina Menkes

1/10 Zemesmātes biroja

2007 • 20 min • Latvia

The film tells the story of A. Bikše's object "1/10 of Mother Earth's Office" in the Great Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Riga. After its closure, there were plans to create a park here, but at present it looks like a place abandoned to fate, used mainly by drunkards, mothers with prams and dogs. A confrontation between the opinions of cultural critic P. Bankovskis and artist A. Bikše on the fate of the cemetery, the contemporary meaning of art, and the creation of the art object itself.

Wanted

2007 • 22 min • South Korea

One day, a peaceful small town is visited by anold woman with widow’s weed and blackumbrella. Then, all of sudden, the rain starts tofall on the fine day. Next day morning, thewoman comes back and this time, with thunderand rainstorm. Later, the town people find outfrom a police man that the woman is wantedand dangerous, but it’s was too late to save thevillage from the disaster.

Tunnel Trade

2007 • 21 min • United Kingdom

When the Israeli army withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, it built a wall along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt. This split the city of Rafah in half. Today virtually nothing crosses the border. Yet through an underground network of tunnels, people smuggle everything from weapons, food supplies to medicines. The film is produced for Al-Jazeera International.

Small Apartment

2007 • 8 min • United States of America

A middle aged man, his son, and his daughter-in-law explore love and perversion in 700 square feet of space.

Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story

2007 • 54 min

The real life story of the events surrounding the fight for and against public housing and racial integration in Yonkers, New York in the 1980s as portrayed in the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero.

Drugged

2007 • 4 min

he drank the drink

Ballada o Piotrowskim

2007 • 57 min • Poland

The main character is Piotrowski, who seems to be a loser in life. One day, he decides to change his life and make his dreams come true by starting a hairdressing salon. He is not very skilled in this profession, so most people are afraid to use its services.