All Films

Dounreay: The Atomic Dream

2006 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Documentary telling the story of the rise and fall of a daring experiment into atomic energy as the history of the Dounreay fast reactor is charted by the pioneers involved.

Headshot

2006 • 9 min • Netherlands

A surprisingly intimate portrait of sex, accomplished without any explicit imagery. Originally inspired by the 1963 Andy Warhol film “Blowjob,” the erotic documentary “Headshot” portrays an intense, shared sexual encounter in which we see only one participant, a leather-jacketed (and, in our version, eventually naked) young man.

Unspoken

2006 • 13 min • United States of America

Two high-school, lesbian girlfriends deal with the intrusion of two teenage boys, jealousy, betrayal and drugs.

EngoleDuasErvilhas

2006 • 8 min • Brazil

The repulsive, the ignoble and the deplorable. The bloodthirsty, the despicable and the humiliating. Peas, dinners and monkeys.

The Norman Rockwell Code

2006 • 33 min

A parody of The Da Vinci Code. When the curator of The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts is murdered, police call in symbology professor Langford Fife (son of Mayberry Deputy Barney Fife) to investigate. Teaming up with Sopha Poisson, the Québécoise granddaughter of the murdered curator, they set out to decode secret messages hidden in Rockwell's paintings and uncover a grand conspiracy that they may have already had an unwitting part in.

God and Devil on Top of the Wall

2006 • 54 min • Brazil

Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only a few unarmed employees. Small in number, these employees work in shifts. They are almost prisoners themselves, in a routine of tension, but also of humor and emotion. This prison was all too real. While it was in existence, the Carandiru was the largest prison in Latin America, administered by a reduced number of employees. The documentary shows, from the point of view of these few employees, holding the keys, how the prison operated: the delicate balance in the relationship with the prisoners, affinity among employees, moments of tension and, even, of happiness. These are stories told by former employees, among them, Dr. Dráuzio Varella, author of the book Estação Carandiru. These are the secrets of a place that no longer exists.

Vrai faux passeport

2006 • 55 min • France

A dense work, citing everyone from Tarantino and Verhoeven to Artaud and Chaplin, made for Godard's exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Voyage(s) en utopie.

The Diary of Immaculée

2006 • 39 min

In this moving documentary, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Peter LeDonne and Steve Kalafer chronicle the extraordinary life of Immaculée Ilibagiza, a young African woman who escaped genocide in Rwanda and ultimately found refuge in the United States. Seeking shelter with an Episcopalian minister, Immaculée hid from her attackers inside a bathroom for three long months but stayed centered through prayer and faith.

Laddy and the Lady

2006 • 11 min

Laddy and the Lady follows an out-of-control golden retriever, owned by a Lady, on a pheasant shoot. Scenes of the shoot are intercut with flashbacks to Laddy’s troubled past as a puppy, wrenched from his mother’s side. On the shoot, Laddy is subjected to forms of physical and verbal abuse associated with gun dog handling. His inability to behave and retrieve the dead birds results in relentless punishment. Laddy becomes a receiver – a golden receiver- of abuse.

The Real Blue Nuns

2006 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An investigation into nunsploitation, and why men find images of nuns involved in sexual situations erotic. The programme also controversially covers the Muslim hibab and burka.

Laid Off

2006 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Martin (1966-2002) introduces himself. More than three years ago, he was struck by a car in the city centre; he died of the injuries. Now he wanders the streets, unseen by the living, waiting to find out if he'll be sent up or down. He fills his days walking, going to movies, and thinking. He regrets that he didn't dispose of his stash of pornography - he meant to. His grieving widow found it. Every two weeks, he goes to grief therapy. He waits.

Female Fast Food Grifter: Foxy Croquette Ogin ~Mortal Struggle in Palestine~

2006 • 24 min

Foxy Croquette Ogin disappeared after the protest incident in front of the National Diet building in 1960, but there are rumors of a mysterious Japanese woman amongst a band of guerillas in Palestine...

The Lake

2006 • 8 min • Finland

Two sisters, Mailis and Henna, are rowing on a lake at the heart of a summer midnight.

8: Sida

2006 • 18 min • France

In a hospital in Burkina Faso, a man infected by HIV tells his story.

The Tunche

2006 • 50 min

A group of students go to the jungle to get medicinal plants for their experiments.

Vanya vet

2006 • 28 min

Two young boys meet Russian immigrant Vanja, who tells them exciting stories about his life.

The Searchers: An Appreciation

2006 • 31 min • United States of America

Three directors (Curtis Hanson, Martin Scorsese and John Milius) discuss the movie "The Searchers."

Zan Saber: Chapter 1

2006 • 45 min • Japan

When evil forces descend on Osaka, brave men take up powerful legendary weapons with the power to transform them into armored super heroes to defend their city.

Violet, Fisher of the Black Sea

2006 • 9 min • Spain

Violeta loves best fishing into the darkest depths.

Emily Cries

2006 • 33 min • Poland

Two teenagers fall in love against the backdrop of Martial Law in Poland in 1981.

Remains

2006 • 15 min

Hell is full, over populated with evil. The devil decides the time is right to attack earth so he sends hordes of evil zombies through space till they arrive on earth. The plan is to not only eat the humans but to start a new master race of half zombie/half human creatures. A renegade group of warriors in a small backwoods town learn of the devil's plot and go to battle with the zombies to save the world. Who will win? The living or the dead?

The Thieving Headmistress

2006 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.

A Mother's Daughter

2006 • 33 min • France, Vietnam

Thi was born in a traditional family in the country. Her parents are teachers. She came to Hanoi to study languages. Today, she works as a translator. In the city, she gains more freedom: she meets foreigners and some of them have become friends. But when her mother comes to visit, she reminds Thi of the principles of traditional education, the duties and obligations of a young woman, and is insistent on the issues of marriage and children.

Opus Dei - Una cruzada silenciosa

2006 • 53 min