All Films

The Hunt for Lincoln's Assassin

2007 • 50 min • United States of America

Though the end of the United States Civil War gave the nation much to celebrate, there were nonetheless those unpleased with the North's victory, the key example, perhaps, being John Wilkes Booth. Eager to declare one definitive "victory" for the South, Booth shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln in front of thousands of witnesses. However, despite one of the largest manhunts in US history, Booth was able to evade capture for nearly two weeks. This program offers an in-depth look at exactly how Booth nearly escaped successfully after assassinating the President of the United States.

Pasión cibernética

2007 • 29 min • Puerto Rico

Five stories linked by the new trend of how to meet people and the search for love in the world of internet.

Liwanag sa Dilim

2007 • 20 min • Philippines

Liwanag sa Dilim focuses in man's inner struggles and the echoing noise of his conscience. Stalked by his own shadow, the character gets embroiled in a plethora of emotions obscuring his ability to make sound, lief-changing decisions. Man is besieged with seemingly endless travails, yet life's paradox brings about a metamorphosis. Come reckoning time, he realizes that only through proper discernment is he able to break through, redeem himself, and triumph.

Kurosawa and the Censors

2007 • 25 min • United States of America

Danish film scholar, Lars-Martin Sorensen, describes US censorship of Japanese film during the American occupation of Japan (1945-1952) and the challenges Kurosawa faced from these censors on his early films, particularly Drunken Angel (1948).

One Minute Racist

2007 • 3 min

Caveh Zahedi tells the story of a contentious encounter with a college security guard, a story about a moment's lapse into racism. The film attempts to shed light on the mental process by which racism becomes internalized.

Ver Viver Reviver

2007 • 28 min • Italy, Brazil

In September 2007 Júlio Bressane goes to Ferrara. In the cemetery of the Italian city he ends up making two movies.

Suicidal Variations

2007 • 15 min • South Korea

Suicidal Variations shows a woman in a state of total despair after she kills a man. His decapitated head follows her and she decides to escape by committing suicide.

My Daddy, the Crocodile Hunter

2007 • 50 min

Bindi and Terri Irwin host a memorable look back on the life of Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter. The show centers on Bindi's memories of her father. Archival footage starts with Bindi's birth, and goes on to show the interaction and lessons Bindi learned from her father and mother about animal handling and education.

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

2007 • 57 min • United States of America

In a war that has left more than 25,000 wounded, ALIVE DAY MEMORIES: HOME FROM IRAQ looks at a new generation of veterans. Executive Producer James Gandolfini interviews ten Soldiers and Marines who reveal their feelings on their future, their severe disabilities and their devotion to America. The documentary surveys the physical and emotional cost of war through memories of their "alive day," the day they narrowly escaped death in Iraq.

Out

2007 • 8 min • France

Bakom Snart är det lördag igen

2007 • 26 min • Sweden

A film about making a film. Following a production team and their movie director trying to make a BIG action movie about the people of Norrland (a place in northern Sweden). The project fails, but everyone learns something about themselves in the process.

Transformers: Beginnings

2007 • 22 min • United States of America

On their home planet of Cybertron, the Autobots and Decepticons are involved in an explosive battle over the coveted AllSpark. With the fate of the universe at stake, the Autobots send it far from the reaches of the ruthless Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. But there are even more surprises in store when it crash-lands on Earth.

Rudy Haase

2007 • 51 min • Canada

A biography about Canada's great unknown environmental and social activist, Rudy Haase. Rudy was born in the USA and lives in Nova Scotia with his wife Mickey. His life's work has involved preserving wilderness in Canada, the USA, Costa Rica, and New Zealand. In Nova Scotia Rudy Haase has been active for more than four decades on many environmental issues from fighting against the clear cutting and pesticide spraying of forests to opposing uranium mining.

Test

2007 • 12 min • Spain

Four women are waiting for the blue circle and a possible change of their lives.

Hairworld

2007 • 55 min • Australia

This quirky documentary from PBS provides an inside look at the "Hair Olympics," an intense competition pitting hundreds of hairstylists from more than 40 countries against one another in a string of timed tests to determine styling skill. Following Team U.S.A., filmmaker Mark Lewis explores all the highlights and bad hair days as the trainers, competitors and models prep rigorously for the 31st International HairWorld Championships in Moscow.

Assisted Migration

2007 • 5 min • France

A bird requires some assistance for his migratory flight south, but things don't quite go as planned.

Roy Chubby Brown: Britain's Rudest Comedian

2007 • 50 min

Documentary following stand-up comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown as he tours England. The documentary investigates if he is as offensive as he has been labeled.

A Couple of White Chicks at the Hairdresser

2007 • 22 min • United States of America

"A COUPLE OF WHITE CHICKS AT THE HAIRDRESSER" is a Dramady about two very different women who develop an unexpected friendship that is sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious. And always very real. In the pathos of their competition they find their adversary becomes their best friend.

Robin Hood: Quest for the King

2007 • 48 min

In this all-animal version of the familiar story of Robin Hood, retold in stunning CGI animation, Robin Hood is up to his usual heroic antics when he learns that King Richard is finally returning home. However, Prince John arranges for his brother to be captured en route! The race is on -- Robin Hood must reach Richard before the Sheriff of Nottingham does -- or King and Kingdom will be forever lost.

African Booty Scratcher

2007 • 14 min • United States of America

Prom nears and things seem to be spiraling out of control for the typically composed Isatu. In this coming of age story, West African tradition conflicts with American idealism as Isatu is forced to reassess her idea of the perfect dress.

The Ultimate Iceman: Chuck Liddell

2007 • 60 min

As cold and destructive in the Octagon as his nickname, 'The Iceman', would indicate, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell's concussive knockout power has struck fear in the hearts of opponents for close to a decade. Witness his journey from promising newcomer to his unquestioned status as the premier pound for pound fighter in the mixed martial arts world today.

15 Minuten Wahrheit

2007 • 16 min • Germany

Hell hath no fury like an employee scorned.

Troublant

2007 • 3 min

A first film called "narrative", where the story in black, white and grey, of a flying camera pursuing a filmic nightmare... 

Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima

2007 • 38 min • Italy

In the film we find some scrap of slow motion they see a Monica Vitti trying to cry, a meeting between Antonioni and Grifi, a film shot in the concentration camp of Auschwitz with a survivor who recounts those awful moments, a glimpse of Palestine today, Grifi's reflections on the prison.