All Films

Tuolumne

2007 • 15 min • United States of America

Short film by Paul Clipson.

From the Opposite Side

2007 • 38 min • Germany

Shot with a hidden camera, from the perspective of someone wandering the streets, the 40-minute film loop tracks 24 hours in the life of the area around the railway station. Actors play passers-by, and passers-by thus become actors.

Including Samuel

2007 • 58 min • United States of America

Photojournalist Dan Habib rarely thought about the inclusion of children with disabilities before he had his son Samuel eight years ago. Now he thinks about inclusion every day. Habib documented his family's efforts to include Samuel in every facet of their lives, a journey that transforms each of them.

Drift

2007 • 4 min • Germany

Drift by Max Hattler sees the body as a metaphorical landscape. Eerie and sometimes too close for comfort the film manages to transform the familiar and mundane into something poetic and mysterious. A narrative grows out of what at first seems like nothing, but by the time the journey is over the viewer is left wanting more. What has happened is uncertain and maybe unimportant. The mood is at the heart of this piece. One part horror film and one part nature study certainly makes for a compelling mix.

Far Away From London

2007 • 20 min • Russia

The hero of the film, the famous director, screenwriter, playwright Vasily Sigarev, tells stories from his life, which, when slightly transformed, become the stories of his plays. For the residents of his native Verkhnyaya Salda it's everyday. For the capital's theaters - an unprecedented reality of provincial life. For the audience - and laughter and horror. For the playwright - numerous prizes and endless pain.

Chechnya No Politics

2007 • 52 min • Latvia

A TV film about what has been experienced in this troubled corner of the Caucasus. Three journeys capture the lives of ordinary people in a war-torn land who, despite everything, have retained their self-respect and honor their traditions. What we see with our own eyes breaks negative stereotypes and makes us admire the moral resilience and self-respect of a people who have suffered so much.

I Just Want to Eat My Sandwich

2007 • 7 min • United States of America

Susan is a busy QA tester trying to eat her lunch at her desk, but she keeps getting interrupted by her co-workers. What's a gal to do when she can't get a bite in edgewise?

ZombieWestern: It Came from the West

2007 • 17 min • Denmark

Virgil lives alone with his bully father and a mute bartender and he is being mocked by the two tough cowboys Eddie and Hank. Because of The Dark Butcher who has been terrorizing the local Indian tribe, the Indians see no other way, than bringing the dead to live by performing The Forbidden Rituals. When the Zombies suddenly attack the saloon, action begins and true characters are brought to daylight. And who is The Dark Butcher?

Hic Rosa, Botanical Score

2007 • 53 min • France

From what was to me a gift of friendship day: a book makes some of Rosa Luxemburg's prison letters written by her friends Sonia Liebknecht and Mathilde Wurm between July 1916 and October 1918. And all the jingles who composed this period: songs of birds, plants, colors and sounds passages. Those for events in the events of the being-locked. As for the outside: October, World War Revolution, The emigrant and Chaplin The Adventurer, The affliction flowers and Klee's zoological garden. Appearances / disappearances, present stories, their intertwined. Destinies.

Yellow Fever

2007 • 12 min • Spain

A man is trying to tell funny news to a friend. A short film about arrogance, machismo and racism.

The coffee

2007 • 3 min • France

Too much coffee can be dangerous!

The Eloquent Carpet

2007 • 9 min • Iran

Ghali-e sokhangoo in Persian Carpet

Margins

2007 • 1 min • Canada

This short animated film looks at the relationship between social spaces and taboos surrounding mental illness and other forms of marginalization. The film is intended as a mood piece, a chance encounter between a lone figure and an indifferent crowd. This film was made as part of the fourth edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Love Ski-Jumping

2007 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A short film about ski-jumping.

The Unobtrusive Plot

2007 • 12 min

Josh strives to keep his creative vision alive despite meddling forces.

The Valentine Nightmare

2007 • 26 min • United States of America

It's February 14th. A well known and well off gentleman decides to treat his long time girlfriend to your typical Valentine's Day dinner along side his twin brother and sister-in-law. Their sibling double date quickly turns into a jealous, hostile and envious lover's quarrel and ends with a group of 4 individuals that don't know who's who until violence and murder reveals a true identity.

Firstborn complex

2007 • 11 min • Italy, Brazil

A David Lynch-style puppet show. In a creepy world, a young nobleman is jealous of a child, so he hatches a plot to get rid of his troublesome brother

Cosmo: Reloaded

2007 • 13 min • United States of America

As Cosmo is found to be the true target of a cat-napping, it is revealed that old rivals and new enemies are behind the master plan. Moving at breakneck speed into its heart-stopping finale, a car chase featuring the Ford GT Supercar and an Apache Helicopter, Cosmo Reloaded offers more thrills per minute than you can handle.

Across the Line

2007 • 15 min

Across The Line is a first hand account of the pressures and temptations that face vice cops while they are undercover. In the high stakes world of undercover police work, the undercover operatives walk a fine line. Where not going deep enough can get you killed, going too deep can have dire consequences as well. When the line between right and wrong starts to become unclear to an undercover cop, he must make a very difficult decision. A decision that not only affects him, but everyone else around him.

Darkness

2007 • 3 min

A short film made for “To Each His Own Cinema”. A pickpocket in a screening of Au hasard Balthazar accidentally connects with an audience member.

Rent, No Utilities

2007 • 48 min • Germany

One of four flatmates starts living behind his locked door. A psychological warfare begins, that finally escalates.

Journey of a Red Fridge

2007 • 52 min • Denmark, Serbia

This is a story of a 17-year-old boy named Hari Rai, who lives in a small village in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal, and his extraordinary journey. Hari is a student. However, he also works as a porter so that he could pay for his tuition and cover his living expenses. Although very young, he already has three years of experience carrying loads up and down the mountain, mostly tourists' backpacks. This time, he gets a job to carry a huge red refrigerator from the top of the mountain, to the nearest town. We follow Hari Rai on his journey through the fascinating Himalayan landscapes, we discover Hari’s inner life, his thoughts, hopes and dreams and we also get to know the culture and the local people’s way of life in this region.

Cot Cot

2007 • 6 min • Canada

How unbelievably boring is the life of a solitary cowboy living in the middle of a vast prairie, surrounded by stupid chickens clucking and a shapeless bovine! Not surprising then if his temper turns fowl. Based on a strip cartoon by the Swiss writer Ibn Al Rabin, Cot Cot is a hilarious parody of the western, featuring a cowboy at the end of his tether and a cow that's much smarter than she looks.

Dream of Samarra

2007 • 1 min

Super 8 video shot by Alshaibi's brother in Samarra.