All Films

Defaced

2007 • 4 min • Ireland

A man trapped in the confines of a corporate poster tries to escape and become part of the street art on the opposite wall.

The Metamorphosis

2007 • 27 min • Portugal

Pedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different.

Situation Frank

2007 • 26 min • Sweden

Frank finds his wife dead in the bathtub. He can't handle the sudden loss and nearly implodes. Frank's best friend Lars tries his best to cheer him up but without any success.

Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase

2007 • 54 min • Japan

Legendary bicycle racer Marco Rondanini dies as team Pao Pao Beer is set to race in Japan. Team member Ciocci, close friend of Marco, starts to think about quitting. Under heavy rain, Ciocci and Pepe must put that aside as Team Pao Pao struggles to reach another victory. Pepe continues to ride his bicycle both in competition and training. He often spends time with his other team mates while they train in beautiful scenery in Japan. While in Japan a local girl helps out the team before and during the race.

Aquarium

2007 • 17 min

At fifteen, David and his two buddies are the youngest members of the Boston Aquarium Society. The three make their way to a monthly meeting at the New England Aquarium, but David has a secret he is reluctant to share.

Emerald

2007 • 12 min • Thailand

Like Kamanita, the unchanged Morakot is a star burdened with (or fueled by) memories. Apichatpong collaborated with his three regular actors, who recounted their dreams, hometown life, bad moments, and love poems, to re-supply the hotel with new memories.

Exorcising 'Cruising'

2007 • 23 min • United States of America

Part two of the making of William Friedkin's 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

SOS! Tokyo Metro Explorers: The Next

2007 • 42 min • Japan

Summer, 2006. A 5th grader Ryuhei discovers a notebook entitled "Tokyo Exploring Records." It was a journal kept by his father, Shohei, when he was around Ryuhei's age. Ryuhei forms his own exploration party with his friends Shun and Yoshio. One summer day, the party and Ryuhei's younger brother Sasuke who happens to tag along, heads to the dungeon looking for a treasure indicated on the journal

Manchild

2007 • 30 min

Two grown men find themselves suffering from midlife crises at the same time. Remake of British show that was never picked up

Décroche

2007 • 16 min • France

A woman calls a public phone on the street below her apartment and has a conversation with the stranger who answers.

Far Out

2007 • 5 min • United States of America

In 1972, a Hollywood producer's swinging party takes a strange turn when an uninvited guest comes for more than sex and drugs.

In The Morning

2007 • 28 min • Romania

Two characters, one taxi, a crisis and a compromise.

Madrid-Moscú

2007 • 10 min • Spain

A fairy tale about the gentleman who rides in a truck, the princess prostitutes herself, the witch runs a brothel and the castle announces itself in the night with neon lights.

Kino's Journey: Country of Illness -For You-

2007 • 30 min • Japan

The movie adapts a story from volume 5 of the Kino's Journey light novel series: Kino travels to a country divided into two parts: the very clean and peaceful city, closed off from the surrounding wastelands. Kino meets a little girl in the city suffering from a disease which is constantly being researched. The girl, however, does not know just how the research is being done.

An Créatúr

2007 • 24 min • Ireland

A drama examining the relationship between a disabled boy and his brother.

Babysitting Andy

2007 • 11 min • Canada

What do you do if you're nine and nobody will tell you what "fellatio" means? When Andy's Uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit, Andy is not on her best behaviour. Armed with a supersoaker and a devious mind, Andy corners the men, who can do nothing buy comply.

The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View

2007 • 50 min • Japan

The story starts following an incident: a young girl jumps from the top of a building. The image provokes a certain dread, as the girl appears to have been a corpse even before she jumped. The case is dismissed, yet more and more of these suicides occur, and all from the same building. Thus began the rumour, that a ghost inhabited the rooftop of the building.

Dara

2007 • 22 min • Indonesia

Dara, an enigmatic and beautiful woman with macabre secrets, invites an unwitting bachelor into her home. But when two unexpected suitors arrive, all hell breaks loose.

Rubbish

2007 • 13 min

A man dumps the garbage of his neighbours. Little does he know that this is going to affect his relationship to a woman.

The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder (Part 1)

2007 • 60 min • Japan

August 1995: Mikiya first meets Shiki in a white kimono during a snowing day. Later on, at the high school freshmen ceremony, Mikiya sees Shiki in the crowd and chases after her, introducing himself to her. But Shiki hides a big secret: A wave of bizarre murders occur around many loose ends, and no suspects. there are still many questions: Who to believe? Who is the murderer? What is the secret of Shiki? and especially: Who is SHIKI?

Sainte Barbe

2007 • 8 min

Little bald Léon loves his grandfather. He loves the old man's bushy black beard, which seems endowed with magic powers.

Honored

2007 • 18 min • United States of America

After the sudden death of her husband Carl in Iraq, Katie has isolated herself from the world. One afternoon, Philip, a soldier who served with Carl, arrives at her house with letters her husband never sent her. A fragile bond forms between the two as they try to understand and cope with the loss.

The Stronger

2007 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Based on a dramatic monologue by August Strindberg, the short film follows a married woman as she confronts her husband's lover after bumping into her in a café on Christmas eve.

The Colony

2007 • 24 min • Canada

A Mi'gmaq man struggling with life off the reservation descends into drug-addled madness when his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend, turning his rage and despair against the only visible enemy: the swarm of cockroaches that have invaded his trailer.