All Films

Pictograph

2007 • 21 min • Slovakia, Ukraine, United States of America

Vignettes of life in the village Kryvorivnya in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, where once the novel "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" was written and later filmed and where, to this day, the passage of time has its own pace.

Archive

2007 • 19 min • Portugal

It’s all natural phenomena. There’s no doubt about that. The tide turns in cycles. Water rots wood. Meteors may fall anytime, anywhere. It’s just rock burning in the atmosphere. Fishes die if they stay out of the water for too long. This process takes time and when it ends there’s no turning back. When one of these things does not take place something fundamental has changed. That’s when miracles happen.

The Lead Fish

2007 • 15 min

A skeptical marine biology student travels to a remote fishing village with the intention of doing a study on a strange fish called "The lead fish." There, unintentionally, he finds himself involved in a macabre mermaid tale.

Romeo's Kiss

2007 • 12 min • France

How do we fall in love? While rehearsing the love scene between Romeo and Juliette, Cécile, Thomas and Jérémie, barely twenty years old, each bring, in their own way, an answer to this question.

How The Steel Was Tempered - On Screen and In Life

2007 • 43 min • Ukraine

How the film was made, how the events described in the film actually happened, about Nikolai Ostrovsky and much more.

Good Soil

2007 • 25 min • Japan, United States of America

Ships from Europe brought Christianity to the shores of Japan in 1549. For decades the seeds of faith grew under the watchful gaze of the Shogun, but the fear of foreign influence eventually gave rise to persecution. By 1624, Japanese Christians enjoyed only a few more years of peace. Jinbei Mauda comes to a point in his journey were he has to choose between his family or faith. Jinbei Masuda, a Japanese Christian of the samurai class who draws his strength from his faith, family and kenjitsu (Art of the Sword). However, he is caught up in the shogun's policy of religious persecution and must choose between his loved ones or his God.

The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist

2007 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Short film chronicling the transformation of mainstream media and the balance of political power in the last few decades by looking at how the role of the broadcast journalist has changed since the 1950s. Screened during the third episode of the fourth series of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe.

Áigi (Time)

2007 • 26 min • Estonia, Latvia

A reindeer herdsman’s life is as gently monotonous as the tundra itself. It flows in synchrony with the life of the reindeer herd from one migration to the next. The time between these two points belongs entirely to the herdsman. It’s áigi - the herdsman’s time.

Dane Cook: Rough Around the Edges

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

Dane Cook's smash-hit show Rough Around The Edges is an energetic powerhouse stand-up performance recorded live in front of a packed house at Madison Square Garden.

10 Centavos

2007 • 19 min • Brazil

A day in the life of a boy who lives in the railway suburbs of Salvador and works as a car guard in the historic center.

Show Me Daddy's Ultra-Power

2007 • 21 min • South Korea

Young-hun, a man with supernatural powers, lives with his seven-year old son, Min-ho, who is crazy about pretty girls despite his young age. Young-hun, who used to be a safebreaker, stole his son from his ex-wife. He loves his son very much, so he wants to do everything for him, but he can't seem to manage his life very well. Then one day, an old friend comes to Young-hun and suggests another crime he can't resist.

Spandex Man

2007 • 14 min • Norway

In Ben's home, the walls are decorated with news articles about violent incidents he witnessed. One day he dresses himself to a pastel-colored super hero before a masquerade, and turns out that his superhero will be put to the test.

Bitch Academy

2007 • 29 min • Russia

A documentary on women in St. Petersburg who enroll in a program which will help them land millionaire husbands.

Ekelöf's Blick - En Nordisk Diktarresa

2007 • 51 min • Sweden

Ekelöf's Blick is a film about swedish poet and mystic Gunnar Ekelöf. The film is an attempt to visually articulate how Ekelöf saw things, a world characterized by an enigmatic beauty never previously formulated in such a way.

The Taste of Nothingness

2007 • 50 min • Canada

The Taste of Nothingness is a meditative exploration of the deliberate self-destruction of a seemingly normal teenager and his intimate friend. With his parents away, Julien has decided to commit suicide, with his friend Niels filming him. First seen naked in bed together, the handsome youths awaken, dress, and begin to methodically discard all of Julien's possessions and attachments. Demonstrating a casual ease with one another and their bodies, they wordlessly record both the mundane and unusual aspects of these last two days of life. The Taste of Nothingness is a challenging but rewarding experimental film that haunts the viewer long after it ends.

Corpora Vilia

2007 • 4 min • United Kingdom

An abstract and tense short exploring the inner and outer body via the use of various types of plants.

Alice in Not So Wonderland

2007 • 3 min • United Kingdom

The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.

Idoler mot alla odds

2007 • 44 min • Sweden

Documentary about the theatre group Glada Hudik as they bring their musical about Elvis Presley to Stockholm for the first time.

Working It Out

2007 • 6 min • Australia

Peter and Marcus, like any good couple, do everything together, including going to the gym… so where exactly does gym bunny Jeremy fit in? Working it out may not be that easy.

Get Off My Land

2007 • 5 min

Written and directed by Douglas Ray, starring Ruth Wilson and Rafe Spall, Get Off My Land tells the story of a couple on a walk in the countryside who meet a farmer…

Santa Claus vs. the Taliban Time Travellers from Outer Space

2007 • 10 min • United States of America

Watch in horror as crazed fundamentalists from the future lead by evil commander, Protar Abdul Omar, kidnap Mr. and Mrs. Claus and plot to send an imposter Santa to deliver toys contaminated with radioactive camel turds to unsuspecting earth children on Christmas Eve. The future of Christmas rests in the hands of the Modern Props team! Merry Christmas indeed!

Who by Water

2007 • 18 min

Drawing from a passage from the Rosh Hashana Service, “Who shall live, who shall die… who by water, who by fire,” this short film deals with that which has been preordained—a future history that will in time unfold before us as the faces of passengers on a ship forces us to contemplate our own fate.

The Making of Stranglehold

2007 • 16 min • United States of America

The Making of Stranglehold is a fantastic look into the development of the classic video game being the last time Chow Yun-Fat and John Woo collaborated together.

Sirenas

2007 • 9 min • Argentina

Short film by Iván Fund