All Films

Margin

2007 • 54 min • Brazil

Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips.

Thomas & Friends: Thomas and the Toy Workshop

2007 • 49 min • United States of America

Thomas, Percy and their friends learn about the 'Spirit of Sodor' and the secret of the cliffs. Join them as they prepare for the grand opening of the Toy Workshop and find out what lies at the end of the rainbow! Hop on board for these non-stop adventures today!

The Hairdressers

2007 • 26 min • Chile

Ana Luisa is single and has been getting up early to open the hairdresser's shop in her living room for 30 years. Tato is married, and has been getting up even earlier to go to the Brasil neighborhood and attend Ana Luisa's hairdressing salon for 40 years. Hairstyles and cuts, it is the only thing left to offer. The hairdresser's is her refuge in the middle of a neighborhood that has become too young for their eyes. Among those who visit them is Aurora, a goddaughter who offers Ana Luisa an opportunity to try to revive the business. The plan is simple: she makes some flyers to be handed out in the square. Ana Luisa doesn't see the point of trying something like this, Tato believes that nothing is lost. They agree on one thing: handing them out will mean accepting anyone who wants to go for a cut, even the young people who they say mistreat the neighborhood.

No Love Lost

2007 • 5 min • Spain

No Love Lost opens on an abandoned factory, or industrial space. Blood on the concrete floor and the sound of violence off-screen. The back of a blonde torso flicks in and out of view, smacking down methodically. Neither the sound heard nor the body shown can be attached to a gender, and the viewer is even unsure which limbs belong to which bodies. There are long pauses where the screen goes dark and only the sounds of grunts and impact can be heard. A fight scene without the fight: just sounds, flickering images of limbs and hair.

Echo Park

2007 • 7 min • United States of America

Automatic-writing on film, using double exposures, macro imagery, dissolves, and in-camera editing to create a dream collage of Los Angeles, from the perspective of a plane and an arachnid dancing between water and sun.

O Último Kuarup Branco

2007 • 52 min • Brazil

The creation of the Xingu Indigenous Park is reassessed by indigenous peoples and anthropologists. Almost 50 years after the initiative, which had the decisive participation of the indigenist brothers Cláudio and Orlando Villas-Bôas, the older indigenous people still have not forgotten the original lands they left behind. Some want to go back to their old origins.

Heavy Metal

2007 • 29 min • Finland

The end of the 80s, a village in the middle of Finland. 15-year-old Hevari, the only long-haired boy in town, is the coolest guy in the world - at least according to Kake from next door. No-one else seems to agree. Short-tempered Hevari is used to being the laughing stock among the gang and the girls. But when the Friday night comes and there's a disco at the community hall, it's time to go again. Maybe tonight everything will be different.

Heaven Above Holland

2007 • 42 min • Netherlands

Hemel Boven Holland tells the story of Mohammed B., who was the murderer of filmmaker 'Theo van Gogh'. The film especially shows how the welfare worker turns into a merciless killer.

Belgrade's Radio Warriors

2007 • 60 min • Germany, United Kingdom

In 1989 a youth radio station, B-92, started up in Belgrade. It almost immediately became a symbol of the resistance to Serbian nationalism and all that Slobodan Milosevic decreed. Here, the young radio workers give a candid account of life in Belgrade throughout the years of war. They also describe their own contribution, despite all the authorities' efforts to suppress them, to the liberation of their city and their country.

Last Stop

2007 • 9 min • Sweden

Bertil is an old man from Norrbotten in Sweden. His brother has just died, and the shipping of the deceased brother turns out to be very expensive. Bertil decides to solve the whole thing in his own way ...

Beirut City Guide

2007 • 50 min • Lebanon

Beirut, Lebanon's capital has a long history of political and social unrest that still makes headlines today. Globe Trekker's Beirut City Guide captures the city in more optimistic days, two weeks before the latest outbreak of hostilities in Lebanon between Israeli and Hezbollah forces in July 2006. Globe Trekker Megan McCormick explores the neighborhoods of Basta, Solidere, Gemayze and the Hezbollah District and finds a city in the midst of regeneration. She gets a glimpse at Beirut's future when meeting up with a group of young Arabic hip hop artists, who are eager to live in peace and put the country's political troubles in the past.

The Father of Godzilla: Eiji Tsuburaya

2007 • 7 min • United States of America

The life of Eiji Tsuburaya, pioneer of Japanese special effects.

Love Basketball

2007 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short film about basketball.

Nico y Tina

2007 • 9 min • Spain

A love affair between two smokers becomes complicated when they run out of fire and tobacco. A miniature satire, featuring tango, absurd humor, and criticism of smoking.

The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes

2007 • 45 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Ben Underwood had both his eyes removed at the age of three. He taught himself to perceive and locate objects by making clicking sounds with his tongue and using the echoes as they bounced off his environment.

Around the World in 21 Days

2007 • 52 min

Our story begins with the introduction of two female Londoners on the first leg in South Africa of their 21-day journey around the world in the bicentenary year of the abolition of the slave trade act. The world of middle aged West Indians now intrudes upon the year out backpacking community and the conflict within our documentary thereby begins.

Western Sunburn

2007 • 9 min • Canada, France

A re-photography in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.

Lions of Crocodile River

2007 • 50 min

Lazy relatives. Jealous neighbors. Runaway kids. The everyday troubles of one family - except this family is a pride of lions. Shot over three years during the most extreme seasonal changes in Africa, the film follows Mfumu - the pride's leader - as he struggles to defend his turf, and his mate Chipazuwa as she tries to produce offspring. Among the threats: a river infested with crocodiles that have taken every litter of cubs -- and a rival male, bent on taking over the pride.

Bad Chemistry

2007 • 23 min • Norway

One day, the 11-year old chemical prodigy and boy wonder Frederik gets a substitute teacher with ultra-liberal educational methods on her mind.

Vision of the Dark Tower

2007 • 5 min • Netherlands

Vision of the Dark Tower is a dream within a dream. Based on the Dark Tower novels by Stephen King, this animated short describes the call of the Dark Tower to one of the main characters.

Mystery Train: Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes

2007 • 34 min • United States of America

This video essay, featuring film scholar Leonard Leff, addresses the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes' British context and political underpinnings and the details and techniques that undeniably make it a 'Hitchcock picture.'

An Imaginary Life

2007 • 5 min • Australia

For an imaginary friend, living an imaginary life, there's nothing worse than being forgotten.

Judy Chicago & the California Girls

2007 • 27 min • United States of America

Judy Chicago & the California Girls is an historical documentary by and about women, at the birth of the Women’s Art Movement in Fresno, California, 1971

Koryo Saram the Unreliable People

2007 • 60 min

Koryo Saram (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the harrowing saga of survival in the open steppe country and the sweep of Soviet history through the eyes of these deported Koreans, who were designated by Stalin as an "unreliable people" and enemies of the state. Through recently uncovered archival footage and new interviews, the film follows the deportees' history of integrating into the Soviet system while working under punishing conditions in Kazakhstan, a country which became a concentration camp of exiled people from throughout the Soviet Union.