All Films

Where is the Land of Christmas?

2006 • 25 min • Denmark, Sweden

An animated Christmas story for children.

Magic Lessons - The Red Clover

2006 • 25 min • Italy

Ding Dong Denny’s History of Ireland

2006 • 5 min • Ireland

A tourist walks into a Dublin pub looking for directions and encounters Ding Dong Denny O’Reilly at the bar. Ding Dong insists on telling him the ‘real’ history of Ireland over a number of pints. From the Normans to the Famine to 1916 and the sex shops of O’Connell Street, we hear Ding Dong Denny’s delusional take on events that shaped this nation. Ding Dong is a comic creation of comedian Paul Woodful, and is his first adventure into animation.

Last Riot

2006 • 23 min • Russia

The virtual world generated by the real world of the twentieth century is growing exponentially, like an organism in a Petri dish. Crossing its own borders in to new zones, it absorbs its founders and mutates in to something absolutely new. In this new world real wars look like a game on americasarmy.com. Prison torture appears more like the sadistic exercises of modern-day valkyries. Technologies and materials transform the artificial environment in to a fantasy landscape of a new epoch. This paradise is a mutated world where time is frozen and the past is neighbor to the future.

Taylor Swift: A Place in This World

2006 • 23 min • United States of America

The first documentary made about Taylor Swift, which aired in 2006 as part of GAC’s “Shortcuts” series.

Itse valtiaat -länkkäri: Haaveratsastajat

2006 • 41 min

An animated tv movie satirizing Finnish politics of the era

The Common Sense Farm

2006 • 17 min

‘The Common Sense Farm’ is a documentary short that brings us into the world of the Twelve Tribes, a communal Judeo-Christian religious group often referred to as a cult. Their insulated way of life has led to a fragile relationship with the outside world, sparking controversies, conflicts and misunderstandings on both sides of the fence.

Mouse in the Square

2006 • 1 min • Lithuania

Immortality

2006 • 1 min • Russia

The daily process of cooking fried eggs becomes a parable about chick's life after death.

Blacklist

2006 • 10 min • Lithuania

Is It Just Me...

2006 • 3 min • United Kingdom

About small vexations in private life. You think you're the only one, but you're not.

It's Time

2006 • 43 min • United States of America

C1RCA Footwear presents it's full length video with team members Adrian Lopez, Jon Allie, Colt Cannon, Peter Ramondetta, and others.

Robber of the Cruel Streets

2006 • 59 min • Germany, United Kingdom

This program presents the life and ministry of George Muller, who cared for thousands of orphans in 19th century England. He never asked anyone for money. Instead he prayed, and his children never missed a meal.

Evicted: The Hidden Homeless

2006 • 60 min • United Kingdom

In a country where people can own two or three homes, these are the stories of those who don’t have one.

The Story of Bubbleboy

2006 • 6 min • Australia

In a stab-happy world, a sad outcast wrestles with his demons. The Story of Bubbleboy is a film about being trapped by the past and redeemed by the future.

Portrait #04: Eliane Radigue

2006 • 15 min • Austria, France

Fourth in the IMA Portraits series, this short introduces us to the life and work of electronic/contemporary composer Eliane Radigue. Radigue discusses methods of composition, the challenges and difficulties of live electronic music, as well as biographical episodes with Pierre Henry and her own goals in soundscape production and consumption.

Merle Haggard: Live from Austin, TX

2006 • 46 min • United States of America

The Live From Austin, TX series takes the classic performances from the award-winning Austin City Limits TV show and makes them available to consumers with improved audio quality and bonus songs that were cut from the original broadcast. This fine performance delivered by the "Hag" was recorded on October 30th, 1985.

The Blue Shoe

2006 • 5 min • Sweden

A man, fishing in his boat, catches a blue lady’s shoe floating along the river. Did it belong to Andrea, the Polish berry-picker, who fled from the tyranny of the Blueberry King, supported by the Blueberry King’s own son, the poetic weakling Stig?

Tree/Gore

2006 • 4 min

A pair of doctors do some preventative maintenance on a very special tree.

Anatoly Rybakov: The Russian Story

2006 • 52 min • Russia, United States of America

The Russian Story profiles Anatoly Rybakov, a best-selling Russian novelist. His personal life follows Russia in the XXth century, a country destroyed in Stalinist purges and in the battlefields of World War II.

Genesis Antipode

2006 • 16 min • New Zealand, United States of America

The fallout from a disastrous blind date forces two polar opposites to find common ground as the rest of the world falls apart around them.

Der Kommunist

2006 • 52 min • Austria

Austria: the conservative People's Party has been in power in Styria for sixty years - but now its position is being jeopardized by the communist city councillor Ernest Kaltenegger of all people. He gives away sixty percent of his salary to the needy, Lenin pictures and Cuba flags hang in his office and people address each other as "comrades". Although this may seem somewhat anachronistic, his KPÖ has already won 21% in the local council elections with this policy and even conservative voters are secretly giving him money. In the upcoming state elections, they now want to try to transfer their successful model to the state level...

Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia

2006 • 56 min • United States of America

The Winter War was an epic life and death struggle that changed the course of World War II, and saved a democracy. Fire and Ice documents this timeless story of courage against all odds by a people united to preserve their freedom.

My Date from Hell

2006 • 14 min • Germany

The Devil moves into his Viagra years, hoping to find the girl to complete his life, in this atmospheric short. He discovers that blind dates, personal ads and video dating are simply pitfalls along a road of good intentions.