All Films

Spending the Night

2007 • 12 min • Sweden

A teen couple plans for a night in private when the boy’s parents are away. At first it appears as a cosy night of sofa lounging, snack eating and film. But it soon becomes evident that beneath the façade of relaxed mutuality, there is a relationship based on insecurities and demands. Due to a fight, the parents cut their evening short, and when they return, the situation gets out of hand and feelings of hurt lead to abuse. Adolfsson paints a gruesome picture of adolescent love and how fears and expectations can completely override a young person’s will.

Gli Smile and Go e il braciere bifuoco

2007 • 53 min • Italy

Tell Your Children

2007 • 5 min • Hungary

A little girl manages to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Decades later she is confronted by a group of Neo Nazis, and history repeats itself. Based on a true story.

Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America

2007 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Louis meets the Phelps family — the people at the heart of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church. The Phelps have rabid anti-homosexual beliefs, and often campaign at the funerals of American soldiers. They believe that every tragedy in the world is God's punishment for homosexuality.

The Creek Runs Red

2007 • 57 min • United States of America

The town of Picher, Oklahoma, was once home to the world's richest lead and zinc mining field. After decades of mining, towering piles of mine waste covered 25,000 acres, devastating Quapaw tribal lands and local economies. Acid mine water burned nearby Tar Creek and stained it red. Despite these environmental hazards, many people in Picher desperately wished to stay and revitalize their town.

Hijack

2007 • 50 min

Documentary. September 1970: a BOAC flight with 20 school children on board was hijacked in the name of a Palestinian guerrilla group; the first and last time a British commercial aircraft has ever been hijacked. With hijacks attempted on five planes in total, this was just one part of an audacious plan called Skyjack Sunday. With interviews from hostages and their hijackers, Timewatch goes back to the time when air travel changed for ever.

Nug

2007 • 6 min • United States of America

A crime story told in reverse.

You Pay Your Dues

2007 • 8 min • United States of America

Roland “Rolly” Gentry is a hardened private eye who thought he’d seen it all. But when a mysterious woman steps into his office and asks him to have a “talk” with her ex-husband, Rolly is tossed into a seedy world where not even his entire collection of self-help books and CDs can assist him: Suburbia. As he delves ever deeper into the darkest corners of homeowners’ association politics, he faces a threat not only to the façade of stabilty society presents, but to the inner wisdom within his own secret soul.

Dooby Dooby Moo

2007 • 12 min • United States of America

When Duck finds out about a talent show at the county fair, he and the animals on the farm start rehearsing. While Farmer Brown tries to figure out what the animals are up to, Duck is determined they will enter the contest and win!

Death in Santaland

2007 • 48 min

Jon Ronson travels to North Pole, Alaska, to see what he can find out about a plot by a gang of 13-year-olds to murder their classmates and teachers.

7 Days with 7 Dogs

2007 • 7 min

Seven rescued dogs—mostly elderly and most with health problems. You want to take them on the trip of a doggie lifetime, but where do you go and what do you do? In this “dog-umentary,” filmmaker and animal shaman Billie Dean and her filmmaker husband Andrew Einspruch bundle their seven rescued dogs from Ballyoncree and hit the road on a journey of discovery. Because humans aren’t the only ones who need to smell the roses. Filmed in some of Australia’s most beautiful places, and shot by AFI Award winning cinematograhper Anthony Jennings, the documentary follows Suki, Louie, Tala, Twylah, Cedar, Willow, and Raffi as they do everything from stay in five-star resort accommodation to taking a horse-drawn gypsy caravan ride. It’s the trip of a doggie lifetime.

Space Hackers

2007 • 52 min • France, Italy

The '60s. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, two amateur radio enthusiasts, listened to sound from space with home-built equipment in their hometown of Turin. But one night, they recorded something quite different from the usual static that would change their lives forever...

Aboriginality

2007 • 5 min • Canada

Follow Dallas Arcand, an urban youth, as he heads down the mystical Red Road to re-connect with new and traditional elements of First Nations culture. Dallas is a world champion hoop dancer and hip-hop artist aiming to connect urban Indigenous young people to their rural ancestral histories. He's a 7th generation Cree from Alexander (Kipohtakaw) First Nation.

America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins

2007 • 44 min

1973 Miami Dolphins. It takes a village to win a Super Bowl, and America's Game covers all of those men and women who make it happen

Handing Over

2007 • 14 min • Portugal

A man has to sell the home he has spent such happy times in. His daughters have grown up and left. Reluctantly, he shows the house for some buyers: a young couple with a kid. When they arrive, in love and so happy, the house owner sees a reflection of himself years before. This unexpected glimpse of his past makes handing over somehow easier to bear…

Jesus is Back

2007 • 8 min • Brazil

Espalhadas Pelo Ar

2007 • 15 min • Brazil

On the back staircases of a residential building, girls smoke hidden from their parents. They take off their clothes to prevent being denounced by the smell of smoke. Cora is 30 years old. She lives in the same building as the girls, and is stuck in an unhappy marriage. The woman catches the girls smoking. From then on, she begins her path towards freedom.

Love Your Customers

2007 • 28 min • United States of America

John O'Hurley encounters three employees in drastic need of customer service makeovers: the greeting-less grocer, the touchy teller, and the witless salesman. In a series of good/bad vignettes, O'Hurley teaches each employee how to perform great service, show their customers the love, and want to return for an encore!

National Actress Nina Sazonova

2007 • 39 min • Russia

Nina Sazonova's heroines are inseparable from her personal fate as a man who survived the war, experienced a lot of grief and losses, and endured severe life trials. She rightfully holds a special and honorable place in the wonderful galaxy of artists of the Russian Army Theater. Her roles in the plays "Vassa", "Drummers", "Trees die standing" brought her national love. The images she created in cinema, such as Ekaterina, are also unforgettable. ("Women"), Anisya ("There's a Guy like That"), the Ivanovs' mother ("Our House") and Aunt Pasha from the TV series "Day by Day". All these are not just the roles of a talented actress, they are the fates of a whole generation of Russian women, great workers who endured the torments and hardships of war on their shoulders, lost their husbands, but did not break down, selflessly giving others all their kindness and concern.

Hoy no estoy

2007 • 7 min • Argentina

Can you walk around completely unnoticed for a day?

A Sweet Chamber Music

2007 • 23 min • France

Helena's career as a pianist is over. One day the daughter comes to visit - with her new fiancé.

Meet Me in Berlin

2007 • 17 min

After being hit by a truck in Berlin, a New York guy creates, by cell phone and at the hospital, a kind of connection with the woman that he was going to meet before the incident.

Homestretch

2007 • 52 min

Homestretch chronicles the pairing of two unlikely groups, prison inmates and end-of-career racehorses, as they come together on prison farms. The transformations in both the horses and the prisoners challenge stereotypes and, for some, offer hopes of redemption.

Tarrafal

2007 • 17 min

Pedro Costa's segment from "O Estado do Mundo".