All Films

Inukami! The Movie: Tokumei Reiteki Sousakan Karina Shirou!

2007 • 27 min • Japan

In 2007, the Punishment of Sexual Perversions Law came into effect. The city is surrounded by a squadron wearing protective suits and they begin to arrest any who look like perversions. No wonder that Inukami Master Keita and Inukami Yoko are wanted for Class A perversions. What will happen to Keita, Yoko, Kaoru's Inukami, and the other lovely perversions? What about Karina? Source: AnimeNfo

Outsourcing

2007 • 6 min

The smallest business is the family. What if we only looked at this business from an economic point of view? What if the family suddenly dismisses its members in order to be able to manage more effectively?

Christmas Tree

2007 • 39 min • Philippines

A family spends their Christmas vacation at their grandmother's house after a painful tragedy, all the while a strange monster is waiting for the right time to eat all the family members for its Christmas feast.

Validation

2007 • 16 min • United States of America

A cheerful parking attendant considers it his job to do more than validate parking. He wants to validate the customers themselves, delivering compliments about their appearances and the inner qualities behind them. Everyone who comes up to him with a ticket walks away validated as a worthwhile human being. Soon, the parking attendant becomes so popular that people line up for validation...

Elmo's Christmas Countdown

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

There's a miracle on Sesame Street in this special holiday tale. Elmo, Abby Cadabby, and their new friend Stiller the Elf are going to count down to Christmas with the Christmas Counter-Downer. But all the counting boxes have gone missing and Christmas may never come again!

King Lines

2007 • 55 min • Spain, United States of America

King Lines follows Chris Sharma on his search for the planet's greatest climbs. From South American fantasy boulders to the sweeping limestone walls of Europe, Sharma finds and climbs the hardest, most spectacular routes. Off the coast of Mallorca he discovers his most outrageous project yet, a 70 foot arch rising from the Mediterranean Sea...

New Boy

2007 • 11 min • Ireland

A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.

Shrek the Halls

2007 • 28 min • United States of America

The Christmas tree isn't the only thing green in this new holiday classic. Shrek is back and trying to get into the spirit of the season. After promising Fiona and the kids a Christmas they'll remember, he is forced to take a crash course in the holiday. But just when he thinks he has everything for their quiet family Christmas just right, there is a knock at the door.

One Rat short

2006 • 10 min • United States of America

A city rat pursues a nearly empty bag of cheese snacks that's drifting in the breeze. His journey takes him through a vent into a highly mechanized rat lab, where one particular white female gets his attention.

Refused Are Fucking Dead

2006 • 38 min

Refused Are Fucking Dead is a 2006 documentary about the punk band Refused and the last year of their career. The film was directed by the band's guitarist, Kristofer Steen. It includes live performances of "Spectre," "Life Support Addiction," "Circlepit," "New Noise," and "Rather Be Dead."

Color Dream no. 246

2006 • 3 min • United States of America

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore.

11 Donkeys Fall in an Empty Stomach

2006 • 27 min • Portugal

“Some kind of popular surrealism about people that live in Northern Portugal, their relationship with donkeys and the way they live. They are so musical that it is possible to manipulate without losing their essence...” - Tiago Pereira

The Healing Prophet: Solanus Casey

2006 • 58 min • United States of America

Solanus Casey might very well become the first America born male Saint. He was a beloved Capuchin Friar who many believe had the ability to heal the sick and prophesize the future. Stories abound of how Solanus' prayers made miracles happen. He was a role model for his time and continues to be so for people today, which is why he has become a candidate for Sainthood. Solanus Casey was born in 1870 on a Wisconsin farm to Irish immigrant parents. He had a very religious upbringing, along with 15 brothers and sisters, two of whom died during the Diphtheria Epidemic.

Sway

2006 • 34 min • United States of America

SWAY is a free-form documentary edited from fourteen years of daily subway video shooting. It is filled with music and poignant New York City moments.

Kristall

2006 • 15 min • Germany

The film creates a melodrama inside seemingly claustrophobic mirrored cabinets. Like an anonymous viewer, the mirror observes scenes of intimacy. It creates an image within an image, providing a frame for the characters.

Railway Roundabout 1961

2006 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Another volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series about the vanishing train lines. Includes a journey from Bath to Evercreech Junction; the last train from Bala to Ffestiniog; the Lancashire and Yorkshire Special and the Severn and Wye in the Forest of Dean. Welsh narrow gauge highlights are also featured in addition to the locomotives of London Transport and Swindon.

Proximity

2006 • 4 min • Norway, United Kingdom

A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.

Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker

2006 • 8 min • Germany

Animated short film from Stephan Muller. Disturbed by loud music of one of his neighbours Mr. Schwartz calls the police. But initially the officer can't ascertain anything... Then the film starts again from the view of every lessee and allows the spectator to see what really happened in every apartment:The history of a butterfly-effect...

Hells

2006 • 13 min

A film poem about Nauro Machado, one of the greatest poetry of Brazil.

Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language

2006 • 21 min

A short film by Michael Pattison.

L.A. in My Mind

2006 • 5 min • United States of America

A captivating montage of notable Los Angeles sites, laced with free-floating names of places and people and accompanied by street noises, becomes a delightful and personal canon of spiritually sustaining quantities. —Shannon Kelley

Wolf-Passerelle II/06

2006 • 5 min

Experimental short about running.

A Lesson of Belorussian

2006 • 53 min • Belarus, Poland

A documentary about young activists who never give up believing that Belarus will one day be free. Franek Viacorka studies at an elite school established by his father to promote the Belarusian language. However, the school has been banned and operating underground since 2003, a victim of the anti-democratic rule of President Alexander Lukashenko. Franek and his classmates are both passionate and thoughtful, expressing their critical attitude to the government by issuing an underground newspaper, recording music with activist lyrics and organizing an opposition concert.

Ephemeral 87

2006 • 12 min

A quick trip outside and inside in which our protagonist explains the 24 hours of a day that must assimilate its present and its future.