All Films

Konchalovsky. Screen

2007 • 44 min • Russia

1979. Andrey Konchalovsky's film Sibiriada receives a special jury prize at the Cannes film festival. For the Director, this becomes a bridge to another world. Having received permission from the authorities to go abroad for a year, Konchalovsky refuses to return and requires a passport for permanent residence abroad... However, it seems that Konchalovsky himself does not yet understand that from now on his life will be divided into "before" and "after". That now all his subsequent paintings will be compared with the previous ones. And even when he returns to Russia 10 years later, his wanderings in search of his own "I" will not end...

Psalm 121 (iShiviti)

2007 • 3 min • United States of America

An animated short set to a Moroccan Jewish recitation of Psalm 121

Powder Keg: Europe 1900-1914

2007 • 27 min

A complex system of alliances and diplomatic tensions helped end peace in Europe.

Burnt Out

2007 • 28 min • Poland

Documentary. An old man works in Bieszczady Mountains burning charcoal. Although he's well educated he chooses to live simple life with a dog as his only possession to protect his freedom.

Ralphie May: Prime Cut

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

Larger-than-life comedian Ralphie May follows up the success of "Girth of a Nation" with this live stand-up performance. From his hilarious take on flip-flop-wearing dudes to the "right vs. happy" war, May's spicy set keeps the audience roaring. Filmed at Knoxville's Tennessee Theatre, the sidesplitting show captures May as he serves up the special brand of humor that has led to numerous television appearances.

Lil Gaither: I'll Fly Away

2007 • 30 min • United States of America

1. I'll Fly Away 2. I wonder How It Felt 3. Can't Stop Talkin' 4. Pirate Mode 5. I've Got that Old Time Religion in My Heart 6. I'm Trying To Get Something Goin' 7. When the Saints Go Marching In 8. The Old Landmark

Cheng Cheng Po

2007 • 18 min • Indonesia

Four children get together to help the poorest of them to find a way to keep coming to school and attend the exams.

An Acid Field

2007 • 7 min • Japan

Flower psychedelia accompanied by the droning cry of a young boy X as he drowns in tens of thousands of cosmos flowers swaying in the wind.

Unca Trans

2007 • 6 min • Canada

Set in an agrarian future, Unca Trans is a short animated Super 8 film in which the title character pontificates about gender theory and activism back in the 2000s.

Trafalgar: The Greatest Naval Battle in History

2007 • 52 min • France

This historical drama takes us back to one of the great battles in naval history. It took place in 1805 during the great Napoleonic Wars and pitted the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of Spain and France. In one of the most decisive engagements ever, the Royal Navy lost only one ship while sinking 22 French and Spanish warships. It put an end to Napoleon's plan to invade England.

Filmbyen: The New Mecca of Cinema

2007 • 54 min

Filmbyen is a cinema-town created by Lars Von Trier (director) et Peter Aalbek Jensen (producer). They founded together a company which regroups all the cinema business industry. That documentary retraces the Filmbyen story, how it functions, the artistic and economic issues that arise.

Late Night Caller

2007 • 19 min

Late Night Caller is a slasher horror machinima centered around a quiet neighborhood where a series of disturbing phone calls escalate into a night of terror. A group of teenagers begin receiving cryptic, threatening messages from an unknown caller — who seems to be watching their every move. When one of them turns up dead, the tension explodes into violence, and what begins as a prank spirals into a full-blown killing spree. As the body count rises, secrets unravel, and the surviving characters must figure out who the killer is — before the next call comes through.

The Hunter

2007 • 1 min • Slovenia

Man having a panic attack in a bistro.

The Phantom Sonata

2007 • 42 min • South Korea

A man named Young-min enters a fantasy where theater and reality intertwine and time and space becomes a new dimension.

Bhima Swarga: The Journey of the Soul from Hell to Heaven

2007 • 40 min

Loosely based on a section of the great Indian Mahabharata epic, Mori's Bhima Swarga (The Heaven of Bhima) is a riveting audiovisual exercise that uses mural paintings from the 18th century Kertha Gosha court in Bali to create a beautiful jigsaw of colour, glitch, figurative exoticism and plastic abstraction

Middle-earth

2007 • 8 min • Thailand

A white dream of a gay film maker. Two naked men on a white sofa. Yet it remains in the imagination. Pansittivorakul is the most outspoken gay filmmaker in Thailand. Or in the whole of Southeast Asia, you could say. The fact that last year he received a Silpathorn Award, an official state prize for artists, was one of the few encouraging events in a country with a military regime and unpredictable censorship. The film is an ode to the male body. Two naked men on a white sofa. And a film maker who restrains himself.

Tranquil

2007 • 20 min • Japan

“The rain” and “white noise” , “the outside of water” , “the inside of water” , everything become to together and drifting. A dark dark film in rain forest inspired by a music term to “Tranquil”.

Accidental Son

2007 • 54 min • Croatia

The documentary Accidental Son is an autobiographic story of Robert Zuber. As a child, Robert grew up in a children’s home and was later adopted by a foster family. He never paid much attention to it because his foster parents loved him as their own child. But, after the death of his foster mother, the bureaucratic apparatus tries to convince him that he actually has no parents. On his 31st birthday, Robert decides to straighten things out. He gets in touch with his biological mother and tries to find out the facts of his early childhood. At the same time, he wants to know who his biological father is. This search is full surprises. The film is a part of UNICEF’s campaign ‘Every Child Needs a Family'.

Boys

2007 • 36 min • Russia

The odyssey of two brothers aged nine and eleven: house entrances in Strogino, the motherís apartment, a boarding school, a gipsy camp and gloomy homecomings. Dramatic adventures, as in every road movie, teach the protagonists a lot about the world, and for the first time they are pushed off into loneliness and treachery.

The Fibros and The Silvertails

2007 • 56 min • Australia

The teams are Wests and Manly. The year is 1978. Manly are the new face of rugby league and have won the premiership three times in the last decade. Wests have to look back to 1952. Then a new coach takes over at Wests. Roy Masters coins the phrase — the fibros and the silvertails — to describe the struggle of the western suburbs against the elite of the city’s north and east. The season will become a war of words off the field and a battle on the field. The game will be overshadowed by violence and refereeing controversy. At the start, Wests and Manly are just two teams among many. By the end, they will be bitter rivals. Fibro and silvertail will be part of our language. And everyone will have two teams — their own team and the team playing Manly. This is the story of one of sport’s classic feuds.

El Regresso de Sehdmeled

2007 • 7 min • Spain

A group of archaeologists travels to Egypt to transfer Sehdmeled's mummy to the London museum. But the guardians of the sands, who are in charge of preserving the pyramid intact, are aware of the curse that Sehdmeled hides.

Rock Pockets

2007 • 5 min • Canada

A sugar rush of sex, politics, and rock 'n' roll, as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy at the fair.

Mate al fondo

2007 • 13 min

During a chess game, you will experience a rather peculiar and tense situation due to a bet.

I Kill People for Money

2007 • 26 min • United States of America

A hit man, a gang rape, an all-white hip hop crew, ultra hot teenage pregnancy, helpful instructional videos taught by puppets, erotic man wrestling, Chuck Norris, and some hard hitting bass. Nothing gets people's respect more than some hard hitting bass. Before this is over we are going to unveil the major weapon in the ongoing battle waged by Hollywood to legitimize hard-core gay pornography. Seriously.