All Films

Who's Afraid of Happy Endings?

2007 • 48 min • Canada

Get an insider's view of the romance world and follow the stories of three romance writers who try to maneuver their way to the top of this extremely competitive industry.

Pierre Henry: The Art of Sounds

2007 • 52 min • France

Experimental French composer Pierre Henry, one of the pioneers of musique concrete, is the subject of this documentary that traces his development of a new sound that shocked the music world. During the 1950s, the radical innovator and his colleague Pierre Schaeffer created a unique form of music based on electronically modified environmental noises. Special features include a concert recorded in Paris and the short film "Le Candidat."

Attack of the Mutant Dick from Outer Space

2007 • 26 min • Spain

Janus

2007 • 8 min • Norway

Janus has many great stories to tell. If you meet him at their favorite bar in Oslo, chances to hear some of them.

Quartet

2007 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A sequence of twenty three shots of a room occurs four times, twice in colour, twice in black and white. The two colour sequences follow a strict filming plan, the second, black and white, pair are freer.

The Happy Duckling

2007 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The antics of a reluctant young boy and the relentlessly happy duck who trails him, set in a delightful and surprising pop-up book world where anything can happen.

Walking in Obedience: The Ole Madsen Story

2007 • 40 min • Canada, United States of America

Walking in Obedience contains dramatic scenes and incredible scenery depicting the journey of a Danish family traveling with the Willie Handcart Company. It is told through the words of those that lived through the experience with both the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies.

Hinterland

2007 • 28 min • France

A young woman goes for a mountain walk with her two little sons. The eldest, not yet quite adolescent but already wilful, finds a wounded horse. He doesn't want the animal to suffer any more. The mother wants nothing to do with it. Beautifully shot, attractive mid-length short shot in beautiful nature about a rite of passage.

Hong Kombat

2007 • 9 min • United States of America

Before sanity ruled the land, 7 creatures, some pure and others tainted, came together and decided on the fate of the overworld. The conflict was known as... Hong Kombat

If It Happens

2007 • 39 min • Poland

Tomek, Marcel Lozinski's son, is eighteen now. Exactly twelve years ago, when he was six, his father filmed him while he was visiting a park in Warsaw. Tomek used to stop next to some old people sitting on the benches, and, with childish frankness, would ask them questions about joy, loneliness, fear of death, dreams, love and lack of love. Now, after twelve years, on his birthday, Tomek comes back to the garden of his childhood. A magical encounter will commence.

Alex & José

2007 • 3 min

Alex and José, is a 16mm single channel projection that explores gender, movement and form.

A Little Sun

2007 • 18 min • Syrian Arab Republic, Austria

Osama said, "I often took walks with Luna. We roamed around Damascus, where nothing could compare to the smell of bread and jasmine in the morning. Sometimes, Luna would tell me stories about wonderful cities."

Battle at Kruger

2007 • 8 min

An eight-minute amateur wildlife video that depicts a confrontation between a herd of Cape buffalo, a small group of young lions from a pride, and one crocodile.

Tiffin

2007 • 14 min • Malaysia, United States of America

Shanti is born into the life of a maid for a lonely grandmother, Nai Nai, who runs a tiffin food delivery business. Over the years, Shanti grows up with Nai Nai's love and affection despite their social and class differences. Tiffin is a bittersweet story that reminisces about the way things were, examines the way things have become and ponders about the future that lies ahead.

Hóspedes da Noite

2007 • 53 min

In the colonial era the Grande Hotel in the city of Beira was the largest in Mozambique: 350 rooms, luxurious suites, Olympic-sized swimming pool... At present the building, which is in ruins, with no electricity or running water, is inhabited by 3500 people. Some have been living there for twenty years. In addition to the rooms, the foyers, corridors, service areas and basement of the hotel - here it's always night-time - also serve as residences.

Chainsaw

2007 • 25 min • Australia

Romance is like a chainsaw: a very dangerous beast indeed.

Neo Rauch: A German Painter

2007 • 44 min • Germany

Pitstop

2007 • 14 min • United States of America

Thoughtful and introverted, 12-year-old Maggie feels invisible sandwiched between the limbs of her eight rambunctious siblings as they drive across the desert in the family's aging Pontiac wagon. Maggie escapes her loneliness and the chaos of her family by entering the strangely beautiful world she discovers through the viewfinder of her snap-n-shoot camera. Yet, unable to trust that what she sees is worth capturing, she never takes a picture. When the family makes a pit stop in the middle of nowhere, Maggie's feelings of being invisible are intensified after she is accidentally left behind. There at the gas station she meets June, the desert-worn, reclusive proprietor who proves more than just a passing influence on this little girl's journey to find her own voice.

Bloomed Words

2007 • 3 min • Japan

Two little creatures discuss possible travel plans to Hong Kong. As they talk to each other, their thoughts are animated above their heads.

Unsecured Loan

2007 • 11 min • Malaysia

Brian borrows money from the Triads thinking he'll be treated differently because the Dai Goh is a personal friend. He finds out how differently when he fails to pay on time.

Calango!

2007 • 8 min • Brazil

A starving calango decides that a cricket will be his next meal ... but things will not be as simple as he imagines.

Cyn

2007 • 5 min

Cyn is a twisted tale about Cynthia, a young woman who is taken by two psychopaths (Mr. Sugar and Otto) in the middle of the night to an old abandon kindergarten. Cyn quickly turns the tables on them soon the night becomes a cat and mouse mind game. While this drama is unfolding a lone figure watches from a close circuit monitor. Who is Cynthia and what the hell is going on in this twisted tale?

Elliott's Suicide

2007 • 15 min • United States of America

A homage to the late American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, Elliott’s Suicide is a sentimental 15 minute tribute, lacking Anger’s usual irony for obvious reasons. The film begins with shots of friends’ and fans’ last words written on Smith’s memorial on Sunset Boulevard, then to footage of a Macy’s parade, focusing closely on the oddly outfitted participants, some in renaissance attire, cowboys with lassos, and beauty queens. The film is scored with Smith’s music, resulting in a melancholy effect, especially in the segment that follows Smith through the woods and films him as he digs up a guitar, then plays a song. This footage is repeated in the end of the film, but in a negative reversal print, suggesting pretty damn clearly that the subject matter has moved beyond the veil.

The Multiplication Table

2007 • 17 min • Russia

A girl and a boy of eight and nine years old live in a lost village in the steppes. The school is four kilometers off-road. The boy's daddy dreams of building a snowmobile, and while the girl's mom drives them sometimes on a horse. So they quarrel, and reconcile for a long journey - like a little peasant with a woman. The reason is any - multiplication table, for example ...