All Films

Un Nuevo Trabajo

2007 • 24 min • Argentina

An unemployed man lives with the constant disdain of his wife and those around him in general. From one second to the next, he finds practically magical solutions to his financial problems and notices around him that people in Argentina have forgotten the meaning of evils such as inflation and poverty. This will change his relationship with those around him and plunge him into a sea of ​​doubt and confusion. Now the big question is: why is everything so good? This short film is a comic and ironic metaphor for how we Argentines are governed by the discourse of power, as ridiculous as it may be.

Rest Stop for the Rare Individual

2007 • 14 min

After being berated by his Acting Coach, struggling actor Paul Denby embarks on a new line of work. His infatuated colleague George Sheperd offers him a part-time gig while he is out in L.A. Desperate for cash, Paul finds himself in the confines of the infamous Chelsea Hotel, locked in a room with a strange old man who has a unique role in store for him.

Experiment 18: Das Hexenhammer-Projekt

2007 • 10 min • United States of America

A German soldier attempts to use to use the occult powers of The Necronomicon to save the Third Reich.

Today I Like This Song

2007 • 12 min • Germany

Alexandra is spending the weekend at her parents' house. As she arrives at the familiar apartment, nobody's home. Yet successively, the mother, a friend of the family and the father get in. The rooms, which were quite in the beginning, slowly fill up with noises, conversations and activity. Alexandra withdraws from the social world of the family structure repeatedly. Finally, the mother, the father and the friend go to the movies together. Alexandra is left behind by herself.

The Latvian

2007 • 9 min • Latvia

A testament to the power of film – a witty summary of the entire history of Latvia from ancient to modern times in eight minutes.

Love High Diving

2007 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short film about high diving.

What You Do

2007 • 30 min • Norway, Sweden

What You Do – A practical guide. This book shows you how to use your model A1. Using one hundred and twenty three illustrations, it shows how even the hopeless can make a film.

Pope Benedict XVI

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

The story of Joseph Ratzinger from his place of birth in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany, to his appointment as reigning Pope in Rome.

Atchafalaya Houseboat

2007 • 27 min • United States of America

The Atchafalaya is a mysterious land, as much underwater as above. Its lush environment is home to alligators, egrets, black bears – and for a time two people who yearned for a simple, natural life. Atchafalaya Houseboat shares the experiences of Gwen Roland and her companion Calvin Voisin, who left civilization in the turmoil of the early 1970s for the unspoiled beauty of the nation’s largest river swamp, Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin.

BIONICLE: Toa Mahri

2007 • 2 min

The six Toa Mahri descend to the ocean depths to recover the lost Mask of Life

In the Quiet Valley

2007 • 54 min • Slovenia

The film presents the interesting childhood of Lojze Slak and his beginnings in "Barbov Slak", school years, wartime, the testimony of his large family (10 sisters and brothers), colleagues, members of the ensemble, songwriters, editors, producers, etc. The film also contains interesting footage from tours (USA, Canada, Australia), concerts and TV shows throughout the entire period of the Lojze Slak Ensemble.

Groucho

2007 • 19 min • Spain

David, a sixteen-year-old teenager, approaches Enrique in the lift. With the excuse of helping with shopping bags, he gets into his house and tries to seduce him.

Dark Secrets Of The Black Sea

2007 • 56 min

The Black Sea is a place of great mystery and antiquity. Ancient legends describe a time when the oceans rose above the land, causing an entire civilization to vanish beneath the cold waters of this ocean region. Could this be the great flood described in the Bible during the time of Noah?

The Boot of War

2007 • 28 min • France

Normandy, June 5, 1944. In a cave serving as a hideout, a small group of resistance fighters find a wounded soldier unable to speak. He wears an American uniform with German boots. Who is he ?

In Bed with Surrealism. Augusts Sukuts

2007 • 30 min • Latvia

The international film festival Arsenāls has been a fixture on the Riga scene for the last 20 years. It has introduced new film aesthetic and was one of the only creatively free events during Soviet times. Over the years the festival has influenced culture and society in Eastern Europe, continually dazzling us with its creativity. The film is a portrait of the director, the father of Arsenals and trusty knight of surrealism.

Chapeuzinho Vermelho

2007 • 41 min • Brazil

The bright, cheerful Little Red Riding Hood sets out to visit her beloved grandmother, but in the woods she encounters the Big Bad Wolf.

Året var 1957

2007 • 57 min • Sweden

1957 - this is when the space age begins. The Soviets send up Sputnik 1 and 2. The whole world searches the sky for moving stars and the radio amateurs listen in their headphones for beeps from space. Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries are shown in cinemas. Stockholm gets its first female parking attendants and Tommy Steele comes to visit.

Float

2007 • 34 min • Bahamas

The story of a young painter from the Bahamas, Jonny Roberts, who travels to an exotic island to find inspiration but finds unexpected love and adventure in a complex and tortured Romeo.

Christmas Roast

2007 • 59 min • Serbia

A middle-aged man invites his young colleague for Christmas. Hilarious situations follow as they both have different opinions on how to celebrate the holiday.

Engine 371

2007 • 9 min • Canada

This animated short looks at the building of Canada's transcontinental railroad with wit and whimsy. Engine 371 illustrates the struggle humans have with nature and how this fundamental tension united a country.

Q2p

2007 • 54 min

Director Paromita Vohra's novel film explores the dearth of public lavatories in Mumbai, India, focusing on the scarcity of women's restrooms throughout the city. In looking at who has to "queue to pee," Vohra delves into other social issues such as gender, class, caste and urban growth in this incisive journey into a usually unmentionable topic. Q2P won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2007 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.

Pay Per View

2007 • 7 min

A blind man. A belvedere. One coin.

Corps étrangers

2007 • 21 min

A young Chinese, lands after a long trip illegally in France, somewhere around Paris. She does not know where she is, neither she speaks the language. Straying around she meet Felipe, son of spanish immigrants. He offers her to stay one night in his apartment. His frustration and the young woman's need for protection draw them together. The language barrier instead blocks real communication. Soon Felipe gets tired of her. How should he get rid of her?

The Vampire Princess

2007 • 52 min • France, Austria, Germany

Introduces the theory of the Viennese media scholar Rainer Maria Köppl that Bram Stoker was indirectly inspired by the figure of Princess Eleonore zu Schwarzenberg.