All Films

Rockumentary

2006 • 40 min • Portugal

Following the lives of Bunnyranch members, Kaló, Filipe, Calhau and André, we get to know the inside outs of a small but strong rock'n'roll wave that thrives in Coimbra.

Apart in the World

2006 • 49 min

Hoping to find his place in the world, Boris Babaev, an Orthodox Jew from Tajikistan, moves to Poland, where he becomes an accidental hero for young Polish Jews.

Down in the Hole

2006 • 24 min • Spain

Lucy has decided to kill herself, crashing his car in the next bend. At that moment Peter went on a bike and he was the one who suffers a serious accident while avoiding Lucia. He was caught in a slag heap next to the road, Peter waited for someone to come to help him, but no one saw him, and Lucy runaway.

High Score

2006 • 52 min • United States of America

Although technology continues to evolve, a group of die-hard gamers refuses to abandon the classic arcade games of yesteryear. The 80's live on for these enthusiasts, who compete against each other and history to record the world's highest scores. Portland gamer Bill Carlton is one of the most brazen, fearlessly taking on some of the toughest records on the books. HIGH SCORE follows Bill as he attempts to take down the Atari classic Missile Command and its twenty year-old record. To get the 80 million points he'll have to play the game on one quarter for over two days straight. There is no pause button. There will be no sleep. There can only be one victor in this classic story of Man versus Missile Command.

The Water Nymph

2006 • 14 min • United States of America

The Water Nymph stars Debbie D and Laura Giglio. Debbie is investigating the disappearance of her friend and she learns too late that Laura is responsible. The two women fight to the death!

Asiemut

2006 • 56 min • Canada

livier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier chose a journey, but most would call it a long adventure, approximately 8000 kilometers long. Riding their bicycles through Asia. Along the way, they discover the world, but over all, they discover themselves. Who are they? What is their place in this world? Do we not all have a common "azimuth"?

House of Nightmares - The Last Dance

2006 • 55 min

Müyesser is a disabled old woman dependent on her daughter-in-law's care. She can neither walk nor speak. In the mansion where they have just moved due to her son's new occupation, Müyesser meets a mysterious guest awaited for years, who proposes a last dance with her.

Checkpoint

2006 • 11 min • Australia

An encounter ends in tragedy when a Lebanese-Australian family is harassed by a group of soldiers at a checkpoint in outback Australia.

Be Quiet, Exam Is in Progress!

2006 • 15 min • Indonesia

On May 27, 2006, 05:55 a.m., Yogyakarta was shocked by earthquake of 5.9 SR that killed over 6,000 people. That day was ten days before elementary school students did final examination and fourteen days before World Cup 2006.

Kodiak: Island of the Great Bear

2006 • 48 min

Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska is home to the largest bear on earth, the Kodiak Bear. At least 2,500 bears live on the island and the animal is regarded as the world’s biggest land predator, reaching an impressive four meters in height when standing on its hind legs. Film maker Stefan Quinth spent three years filming the Kodiak Bear and the wildlife of Kodiak Island. His film is a dramatic story about bear and salmon, beavers and eagles. But it is also a film about the thrill of meeting the giant bear eye to eye in its natural habitat.

Father

2006 • 15 min • Norway

Two Kurdish refugees from Iraq, a father and his son are on the run. With hope for a better life for his son, the father is forced to make a challenging sacrifice to provide for him.

Divina Gloria

2006 • 39 min

The tropical plant Divina Gloria comes to fruition once every hundred years. For the duration of only one night she shows her exuberant beauty. Then she dies. In this bittersweet comedy we follow a number of people in the Hortus Botanicus, who witness this short-lived bloom. During the night, they become more and more entranced by this sultry miracle, with an ecstatic outcome.

Family Reunion

2006 • 19 min • Iceland, United States of America

New York-based Katrín is returning to her native Iceland for her grandfather's 70th birthday. Her family in Reykjavik unwittingly engages her in discussions about marriage, children and her future – while she sneaks in phone calls to her girlfriend in New York. As she struggles with coming out, events reveal that other family members have secrets of their own.

Lotto 6/66

2006 • 14 min • Canada

In LOTTO 6/66, a down on his luck Wretch is offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a million dollars from a government sponsored lottery program. To claim his prize the participant must test the limits of his morality and discover how far into his own personal abyss he's willing to go in order to get rich quick. And so begins a treacherous journey in which nothing is what it seems and the shortcut to untold fortune is paved with blood.

The Signs

2006 • 31 min • France

A mother and her two sons have waited for ten years for her husband and their father to return. One day a stranger arrives and approaches them.

Lord Howe Island: Pacific Eden

2006 • 52 min • Germany

A place of biological superlatives with a flora and fauna that have only just begun to be researched: Lord Howe Island, between Australia and New Zealand. This is the first documentary on what may be the most isolated nature reserve on the planet.

Alonzo Bodden: Tall, Dark and Funny

2006 • 55 min • United States of America

Everything is fair game for controversial comic Alonzo Bodden, and now the funnyman who brought down the house on Last Comic Standing 3 strikes out on his own in his first-ever solo stand-up performance. There are no judges to play to, and no censors to appease, and as Bodden cuts loose to tackle topics ranging from race to relationships and virtually everything in between, viewers can laugh right along with the live audience as they bear witness to a fearless new force in the world of comedy.

South of Ten

2006 • 10 min • United States of America

A girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its owner gazes at the view from her shifting living room. In ten very short stories, residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out atmospheric scenes of everyday life and the relentlessness of labor in their extreme landscape.

Junk Town

2006 • 13 min • Japan

A science fiction story about a young boy who discovers and befriends a small robot at a shopping arcade. The robot is hungry and he grows in size as he devours a number of machines of increasing size.

The Anthem

2006 • 5 min • United Kingdom, Thailand

One of the ingrained rituals in Thai society is the blessing automatically given before certain ceremonies and events such as the playing of the Royal Anthem in movie theaters before feature presentations. This short presents a "Cinema Anthem" which comically praises and blesses the feature to come.

Metal Gear Solid: Operation Mortar

2006 • 33 min • Brazil

Special operations agent Solid Snake embarks on a top-secret mission to retrieve a mysterious briefcase for the government. Mystery and conspiracy unfold as the plot thickens through a series of enigmatic events. Will the Metal Gear compromise the fate of the world?

Birth/Mother

2006 • 39 min • France, Japan

Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working under the theme of family, life and death, presents the bond of life through her own childbirth experience. "First, I was planning to film from the day I conceived a child and to the moment I gave birth. But I realized, while filming, that this is not the story of "one life." In the end, the film sublimed to a higher stage on which we can witness the knot tying one life with another."

Love in the Time of AIDS

2006 • 47 min • India

A documentary that follows a group of kothis (gay men who identify as femme) in Belgaum, a small city in Karnataka, and traces their stories of love, desire, and ostracization, as well as their work with an NGO that promotes safe-sex practices.

La loi de la forêt

2006 • 54 min • France

Alberte has a passionate affair with Mathias, her doctor. He treats her under narcoanalysis to be able to detect a deeper symptom. He enters her without her knowing it and takes possession of his being in order to read what is chasing him, why people blame him, what is the strange disease that inhabits him.