All Films

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

2006 • 52 min • Italy, France

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

Boz: Thank You God for Colors and Shapes

2006 • 45 min

BOZ thanks God for colors and Shapes.

He Says He's Dead

2006 • 11 min • France

Hoisted by his rope, a hanged man is lifted up through the branches of a tree. While he is in the middle of his ascent toward the heavens and death, the woman who’d accused him of a crime clears him of it. He gently comes back to life, lying in a field, gazing at everything around him.

Suffer the Little Children

2006 • 19 min • United States of America

Miss Sidley, an experienced, no-nonsense teacher starts to lose her bearings when she suspects one of her students, Robert, is not quite human. In a momentary reflection in her eyeglasses she thinks she may have seen Robert changing into a monster. She soon discovers that not only does Robert change, but he may not be the only one of his kind. Sidley must get rid of them before it's too late.

The Filthy Thirteen: Real Stories from Behind the Lines

2006 • 48 min • United States of America

This is the true story of Jake McNiece, who led a band of tough and determined paratroopers called the Filthy Thirteen (part of the 101st Airborne platoon). His anti-authoritarian and no-nonsense attitude, mixed with his courageous spirit and wild antics, inspired the fictional tale of THE DIRTY DOZEN, both the book and subsequent film.

No is E

2006 • 23 min • Japan

With the aid of a layered construction of the image, Takashi has managed to capture the different reflections of light on the surface of water. The acoustic-noise-like music and the dancing particles of light move like swarms of microorganisms and in this way slowly cover the entire screen.

Enemies of Happiness

2006 • 58 min • Denmark, Finland, Norway

In September 2005, Afghanistan held its first parliamentary elections in 35 years. Among the candidates for 249 assembly seats was Malalai Joya, a courageous, controversial 27-year-old woman who had ignited outrage among hard-liners when she spoke out against corrupt warlords at the Grand Council of tribal elders in 2003. Enemies of Happiness is a revelatory portrait of this extraordinary freedom fighter and the way she won the hearts of voters, as well as a snapshot of life and politics in war-torn Afghanistan.

Orchids

2006 • 18 min • United States of America

A young photographer interviews for a caretaker job with a recluse and stumbles upon love.

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'

2006 • 20 min • United States of America

A look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's release in 1959.

Le Plaisir: From Script to Screen

2006 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Film scholar Jean-Pierre Berthome discusses Max Ophuls' original script for his 1952 film LE PLAISIR and its relationship to the three stories by Guy de Maupassant on which the script is based.

Out of the Blue

2006 • 39 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out Of The Blue was commissioned by Channel 5 and broadcast five years after the 9.11 attacks on America.

Presents Aikagi

2006 • 45 min • Japan

Aikagi means "spare key" in Japanese, and this film presents a story of love and remembrance. Even if the owner of the key has left, the memories remain. Yukari (Hirosue Ryoko) and Hiroaki (Tamayama Tetsuji) have been together for eight years. Though they are both constantly busy with work and do not see each other often, Yukari believes that they will always be together. Just before Christmas, the couple finally has a chance to meet up, but Hiroaki tells her that he has found someone else and breaks up with her. The next day, a heartbroken Yukari cuts short her hair. When she sees Hiroaki's spare key, all the past memories come rushing back. Yukari decides to give him one last present.

Will You...

2006 • 12 min

Terry wants to ask Allison to marry her, but can’t afford a ring. She enlists Ben, her guitar-crooning friend, to help her carry out a ring-less proposal, but when Ben is distracted by a handsome passer by, Terry has to wing it on her own.

Feather

2006 • 1 min • Canada

A little creature watches the transformation of a feather and follows a whale to where icebergs melt, leaving birds with nowhere to land. The materials used include old gloves, costume jewellery and Plasticine. Technique: puppet and object animation with drawn animation. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Sounds Like

2006 • 58 min • United States of America

Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive him insane.

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale

2006 • 10 min

Trixie, Daddy and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood laundromat, but their exciting adventure takes an unexpected turn when Trixie realizes something is missing.

Toast

2006 • 47 min • Austria

This video installation pays unnervingly close attention to domestic routine, portraying a young woman in the kitchen methodically preparing food. This quotidian ritual slowly comes to feel like a sort of obsessive sublimation of more obscure psychic energies.

Goodbye to the Normals

2006 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A short film about a small boy from England telling his parents he's off to America.

Capillus

2006 • 15 min • Mexico

When his car breaks down, a man enters a cafeteria. The atmosphere is tense, and a little girl silently asks him for help. Disturbed by her request, he realizes something strange is going on.

Nanny

2006 • 42 min • Philippines

Benjo (Nash Aguas) is a prankster and a very mischievous kid. After sending many nannies away, his mother Grace (Sheryl Cruz) hired another nanny named Cecil (Iza Calzado). Moreover, he suspects that his new nanny is an aswang. On the advice of his teacher Mel (TJ Trinidad), he must do everything to save his little sister and family.

Arakinema KaoRi Iro Injo

2006 • 32 min • Japan

Arakinema KaoRi Iro Injo by Nobuyoshi Araki. A labyrinth of overlapping colors. KaoRi and Araki's dance.

Devilwood

2006 • 11 min • United Kingdom

In a lawless outpost in 17th Century England, the people have ceased to be God-fearing but learn to fear the Devil instead.

Unbalance

2006 • 4 min • Japan

“I cannot help feeling that some mysterious force is upsetting our emotional balance. The theme of my work over the last few years has been the portrayal of this sense of unease. In this work I seized on a very negative image of Tokyo and tried to portray the emotional state of people struggling and suffering in this very superficial world.” (T.I.)

Boz: Thank You God for Bananas, Bubbles and Busy Bodies

2006 • 45 min

As they explore God's world, BOZ, Drew, and Gracie help preschoolers discover the joys of being active, eating healthy, and getting clean!