All Films

Torihada 4: yofukashi no anata ni zotto suru hanashi wo

2008 • 44 min • Japan

A young woman has decidedly strange hobbies. She has fun calling strangers and hanging up on them. However, one night, she dials the wrong number, and on the other side of the line a pre-recorded voice announces her death for the same day, at 2 hours and 5 minutes.

Axe Massacre

2008 • 12 min

An unsuspecting family, celebrating the Christmas holiday, falls victim to an axe weilding maniac known only as, the Santa Slasher.

X Mass

2008 • 7 min

A California winter turns the left coast into a brew of foaming festivities while landlubbers leap for joy in the spray of salty slurpings.

Australia China Experience

2008 • 23 min

“A month long journey through the outback and the far east” David Gravette, Kenny Hoyle, Matt Miller, Nick Trapasso, Richie Jackson, Sean Malto

Midnight Snack

2008 • 13 min • United States of America

A film producer meets an odd couple at a bar. Little does he know, he's about to become part of this couples main course.

Flying On One Engine

2008 • 51 min

Wheelchair bound, without a larynx, and diagnosed with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm, Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet now lives only (and barely) so he can travel to India to perform free operations in marathon-like surgery sessions where up to 700 children receive treatment for their cleft lips and other deformities. Although Dicksheet survives off of social security while living in his Brooklyn apartment, his life is drastically different in India where the eight-time Nobel Prize nominee is treated like a living god.

The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table

2008 • 31 min • Japan

A behind-the-scenes look at Sion Sono’s 2005 film Noriko’s Dinner Table.

Planet Blood

2008 • 57 min • Canada

After the fall of mankind, one man is left to rebuild. The world's other survivors, however, are vampires. Our hero is about to be added to the menu.

Winter

2008 • 22 min • United States of America

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.

Imogen

2008 • 17 min

In a post apocalyptic world, a young man fights to return the perception of color back to a dying society, which has become overrun by Imogen, a color enhancing drug harvested from humans.

Family Band

2008 • 7 min

In this short documentary about The Tragically Hip, director David Battistella uses a split-screen and acid-etched colours to distil the iconic Canadian band’s essence.

The SanMei-Sama: Our Summer Wind

2008 • 60 min

Jumbo, Matsun and Mickey are still having the same loose, delusional talk in a family restaurant late at night. Tonight, they thought they would be talking nonsense again, but for some reason, they started talking about foreign countries. Do you think they're going to leave the family restaurant?

Sarabande

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.

Expectations

2008 • 29 min • South Korea, Chad

Moussa attempts to cross the desert to escape his debts, only to return to his village defeated and dejected.

Positano

2008 • 26 min • France

Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground community. Pierre Clémenti stays there for a while and makes images of dazzling sensuality. Beyond Pierre Clémenti's intimate love of these faces and bodies often naked in this Mediterranean landscape, the film reveals the moving beauty of a utopia where living together could still be achieved in a territory of sharing and permanent creation. Flow of perceptions of consciousness, visual impressions, physical impregnations, the work of Pierre Clémenti is an ode to sensuality and "life-cinema".

Dc Mtn Lab 1.5

2007 • 32 min

Mountain Lab 1.5 follows the DC Snowboarding Team as they hit DC’s infamous Mountain Lab in Utah and all over the globe looking for snow during one of the worst snow seasons on record. Originally named Mountain Lab 2.0, DC canned the name when the snow refused to fall and settled with Mountain Lab 1.5. Despite that, the video still lives up to the Mountain Lab name and showcases the incredible talent coming out of the DC lineup. DC Mountain Lab 1.5 takes an engaging look at the team as they hit spots worldwide and at the Lab. The remodeled Lab provides ample park footage along with big mountain terrain from Chile, Finland, B.C. Canada, Sweden, Tahoe, Colorado and New Zealand.

Visst kan Lotta cykla - Visst kan Lotta nästan allting

2007 • 45 min

Of course Lotta can ride a bike: Lotta on Troublemaker Street is turning five. She only has a lousy tricycle, and she won't be getting a two-wheeler for her birthday either. This makes her so angry that she takes Aunt Berg's old bike and sets off to ride it. But the bike is much too big and the hill is much too steep... Of course Lotta can do almost anything: Her teddy bear ends up in the trash can and Lotta is devastated. But when Jonas and Mia-Maria cry because there isn't a single Christmas tree to buy in the whole town, it's Lotta who saves Christmas. Astrid Lindgren tells the story.

Sweetwater Rescue: The Willie and Martin Handcart Story

2007 • 57 min

In 1856, two emigrant handcart companies and two wagon trains were caught in the October snows of Wyoming. They left too late from England in their 6,000 mile journey to the Salt Lake Valley. Nearly one fifth of these 1200 pioneers perished in the worst overland migration disaster in American history. The tragedy could have been catastrophic had a rescue effort not been launched immediately upon learning of their plight. Facing a series of blizzards, more than a hundred wagon teams and nearly 300 men were ultimately involved in one of the greatest rescue efforts of 19th Century America.

All about Santa Claus

2007 • 27 min

Coming Out to Class

2007 • 48 min

Around 62% of gay teenagers are now choosing to 'come out' to their school. Qboy, Britain's first openly gay rapper, finds out why.

Memory Almost Full

2007 • 15 min

This film features never-before-released footage from McCartney's "secret show" at the Electric Ballroom in London in June, 2007. The video portion of the package includes live performances of material from "Memory Almost Full" including "Dance Tonight," "Nod Your Head," "House of Wax" and "Only Mama Knows," as well as a live performance of "Drive My Car."

Gossip : Standing In The Way Of Control (Live in Liverpool)

2007 • 50 min

During the Gossip's summer tour in 2007, the gritty dance punks descended on the U.K., where they are indie superstars. Most songs are taken from 2006's Standing in the Way of Control, the band's feverish, disco-blues boogie down. Singer Beth Ditto does a less raspy Janis Joplin as she belts out sweat-inducing renditions of "Yr Mangled Heart," "Fire with Fire" and "Standing in the Way of Control." Fans will also appreciate stripped-down covers of Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody" and Wham!'s "Careless Whisper."

Rastafaride 7 - Seventh Heaven

2007 • 37 min

WW Productions are back this year with a new release packed full of freestyle and freeride action, filmed in the Colorado mountains, Alaska, Canada and of course Candide´s home spot, La Clusaz. To the beat of Raga and Hip Hop, come share the extreme feeling with the best international riders and footage that will have you glued to your seat! So sit back and enjoy the sick tricks that will certainly make this film a success.

Orange Goblin: Healing through Fire

2007 • 42 min

Recorded live at The Mean Fiddler in London on December 16, 2006. Includes interviews and studio footage.