All Films

The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol

2006 • 57 min • France

Spring 2004, a house with a large garden welcomes filmmaker Claude Chabrol. He is about to celebrate his 54 films and 74 years of age. Thomas Chabrol, the filmmaker's son, as the perfect butler, is checking the table. "Figu", Claude's film sutler, plunges a lobster into the cauldron... The great merry-go-round can begin!

Bomb Hunters

2006 • 57 min • United States of America, Cambodia

Bomb Hunters is an engrossing examination of the micro-economy that has emerged in Cambodia from untrained civilians harvesting unexploded bombs as scrap metal. The film explores the long-term consequences of war and genocide in an attempt to understand the social, cultural, and historical context and experiences of rural villagers who seek out and dismantle UXO (unexploded ordnance) for profit. Part of a global economy, these individuals clear UXO from their land in order to protect their families from harm and to earn enough money to survive. Bomb Hunters is an eye-opening account investigating the on-going residual, persistent effects of war experienced by post-conflict nations around the globe, and the complex realities of achieving "peace".

Damaged Goods

2006 • 22 min • United States of America

After two fractured souls find each other in group therapy, their bond is put to the test when one of them is unexpectedly cured.

Cedric

2006 • 11 min • Germany

Death as a global service provider? Unthinkable! So far Death has thought that too. But then his nephew Cedric had the crazy idea of founding the company AFTER LIFE while his uncle was away. This company takes over the craft of death with the latest technology and markets it worldwide.

Can't Stop Eating

2006 • 60 min

This documentary follows a small number of British people with an incurable genetic disease called Prader-Willi syndrome. This rare disorder makes the sufferer unable to control their eating habits. Prader–Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disorder in which seven genes (or some subset thereof) on chromosome 15 (q 11-13) are deleted or unexpressed (chromosome 15q partial deletion) on the paternal chromosome. The film is set in Gretton House, near Kettering in England, which is a government-funded care home deliberately constructed to assist people with PWS. The film focuses on a new resident, Joe Blackburn, who is 21 and begins the documentary weighing over 30 stone (190 kg, 420 lbs) and with fears for his health. Resident Tamara Allwood is also featured, who was at one point close to death from overeating.

Shadow Falls

2006 • 60 min • United States of America

8 vignettes centering around the mysterious town of Shadow Falls. The only visitors are called there by a town that no longer exists. Everyone in Shadow Falls is looking for something or something is looking for them.

Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'

2006 • 21 min • United States of America

Documentary on the 1985 film White Nights, with interviews from Taylor Hackford, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini.

A Lez in Wonderland

2006 • 28 min • France

A fun, fresh reality-comedy on the largest lesbian event in the world: the Dinah Shore Weekend in Palm Springs.

13 Stages: Diary of a Modern Relationship

2006 • 27 min • Germany

Love is a thing. And live every living things, it has a beginning and an end. And every end offers the promise of another new beginning. On average, the modern relationship consists of 13 stages...

Scummy Man

2006 • 16 min

Nina is easy to find. She is on the industrial estate, near the gas tower, She is fifteen, addicted to drugs and on the game. George is one of her nastier punters. His arrival turns the temperature up on her already combusting life. He is the scummiest of scummy men, someone you really don't want to be involved with, at all. A magician and a taxi driver offer Nina a quick fix but doesn't everyone want something in return? She won't take it lying down. Scummy man is a gripping glimpse into the lost and misplaced lives on todays back streets. The film is brutally honest, intense and not afraid.

The Hunger

2006 • 12 min • United States of America

A man in a slump joins a burger company.

24 Behind the Scenes: The Editing Process

2006 • 30 min

Join the cast and crew for a probing look behind the scenes of the popular US drama series. Keifer Sutherland introduces the programme, which includes in-depth interviews with creators, producers, actors, writers and editors as well as an in-depth exploration of the editing process.

Droomtijd

2006 • 20 min • Belgium

In a work-driven world where time is the ultimate dictator, a mysterious sandman spreads chaos and confusion. Even the best employees of the system get infected by his wondrous dream powder and lose sight of the once so dominating clock. Alex Deprins, future employee of the year, becomes one of those ‘victims’. In his dreams he comes into contact with a strange new world, where a lady in red captivates his heart. Once awake he has to make a difficult decision. Does he stay in his familiar, but deadly rule-bound world or does he seek the road to salvation in his dreams?

Colours

2006 • 7 min • Australia

'Colours' is a unique form of expression, the film outlines the differences between all of us and the characteristics we all share. The story of 'Colours' is an inquiry into the expression of our feelings one to another.

Nr. 23

2006 • 28 min • Germany

A rainy night, a car breaks down, an old house in the middle of nowhere with a light burning in the window. Soaking wet, Markus knocks on the door - and interrupts Renee in the middle of her pottery. She’s suspicious of the young stranger, but interested. An Adonis is missing from her artistic collection of dildos. It’s only a matter of warming to the occasion, and she’s in the flush of life. So she reaches for Apollinaire on the book shelf. . .and a jar of honey.

Paradox

2006 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Two men are stranded at the bottom of a well. One, with a serious injury to his head, thinks his has fallen in is own back garden in present-day Britain. But the other tells him they are really prisoners in a medieval dungeon. Who is right, and where are they really?

Murder Island

2006 • 46 min • Sweden

It's summer. A group of teenagers decide to go on a camping trip. They drive far up in the country until they find a small place were they rent canoe's for a cheap price. The group paddle for a long time before they find the perfect island to set up camp on. They have sex, do drugs and drink alcohol. But the next morning they notice that one of them has disappeared. They split up to go looking for her, but that proves to have horrifying consequences...

Here and There

2006 • 10 min • Canada

In this animated short, filmmaker Diane Obomsawin shows how childhood can be a chaotic time, especially if you're bouncing back and forth between two continents. With engaging candour and gentle humour, Obomsawin fleshes out an uncertain identity and takes control of her life. Using drawings on paper and digitized snippets of fabric, she creates a whimsical world of simple lines and pastel tones.

Insomnia

2006 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Short film about the inability to sleep, or to remain asleep throughout the night.

El Marica

2006 • 8 min • Argentina

A short film about the experiences of a few children and their first experiences with women and maturity . One of the boys named César is gay and the only one who understands and supports him is his friend Abelardo, who is the one who tells the story.

Shack Therapy

2006 • 60 min • United States of America

Shack up around the world as the crew explores South Africa, Hawaii, Norway, Mexico, Caroline Islands, and West Oz. Travel in Brian Conley's Hurricane Hunter to desolate Baja breaks... watch Weatherley and Walsh surf the icy waters of Norway's hidden gems... score endless barrels with the Rip Curl team in the South Pacific's Caroline Islands... witness the mayhem of a giant day at Peahi and do a little soul sesh Down Under with a trip to West Australia's untapped coast line. - Written by TGR

Året var 1956

2006 • 57 min • Sweden

1956 - the year when Elvis Presley breaks through and Grace Kelly celebrates a fairytale wedding in Monaco. In Ställdalen, a rail bus carrying schoolchildren is crushed and off New York m/s Stockholm collides with Andrea Doria. Frances Bulwark runs its last race and Swedish UN soldiers are flown to Suez. But most of all, it is the year of the Hungarian refugees.

Sombrio

2006 • 60 min • Canada

SOMBRIO is a an hour long documentary about the eviction of a diverse community of surfers and squatters that existed on the West Coast of Vancouver Island for more than thirty years. It centers on a family with ten children who grew up surfing on the beach and captures them and other residents over a two-year period, revealing their personal stories and convictions as they come to terms with their impending eviction. Sombrio presents a portrait of a vital subculture in BC’s history and challenges our notions of what it means to be a self-determined citizen.

First Date

2006 • 20 min • United States of America

An ex-con will stop at nothing to keep a date with the underage boy he met online.