All Films

Lost In Snow

2007 • 8 min • Latvia

In winter some people go ice-fishing. Excitement intensified by freezing temperatures and strong drinks lead to unpredictable consequences.

Primrose Hill

2007 • 57 min • France

On Christmas Eve, a West suburb of Paris. Stéphane, Joëlle, Xavier and Sonia (25 years old) decide to take a stroll down the big park overhanging the city of their youth, musing on pop music, their work, sex and their disappointed ambitions.

The Election

2007 • 8 min

Three days before the gubernatorial election a candidate and his wife find themselves in the middle of the desert with a horrible dilemma.

Two Walnuts

2007 • 45 min • Japan

Ayaka Nakanishi is an ordinary twelve year old girl walking Ryan, her German shepherd, when heavy rain obliges her to seek refuge inside a telephone booth. The storm causes a strange phenomenon that sends both Ayaka and her dog back in time to March 7th, 1945.

Los Pinkerton

2007 • 4 min • Spain

The Strawberries and the Gun

2007 • 60 min

Older brother Kenichi and younger brother Takashi had not seen each other for a while, but they meet at their estranged father's funeral. The father had moved to a small town and remarried and has a daughter, who is supposed to be their half-sister. Her whereabouts are unknown, as she left home at a very young age. One of the brothers mistakenly meets her, under very strange and disturbing circumstances...

Return to 'Twin Peaks'

2007 • 20 min • United States of America

Documentary about 'Twin Peaks Festival'.

Posthumous

2007 • 29 min

Following on from the 2006 Israeli aggression on Lebanon, the filmmaker tries to film the destruction of Beirut. We witness a city deserted by life, and ghostly characters who, featured in his earlier films, talk about living through such a war.

Taxista

2007 • 21 min • Peru

A cab driver struggles to survive in the city of Lima working as a cab driver to improve his difficult economic situation, but realizing that things are not improving, he becomes involved in a clandestine business.

The Substitute

2007 • 15 min • Italy

Il Supplente is a 2007 Italian comedy short film directed by and starring Andrea Jublin. He plays a substitute teacher who seems to be more hormonal than his teenage class and instigates a series of crazy games in which students are marked on their ability to mimic animals. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Heroes & Villains: Napoleon

2007 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French army at the siege of Toulon. Destitute and relying on his success in the new and dangerous revolutionary society, his mother and siblings become embroiled in Napoleon's struggle. The opponents are the English but the enemy are the revolutionaries authorities who seek to keep him in his place. Using his astonishing tactical mind, his sheer audacity and extraordinary military bravery, Napoleon emerges victorious and sets out on a path that would one day lead him to the throne of France.

Kali Ma

2007 • 14 min • India, United States of America

When an Indian mother finds out her son is the victim of a vicious bully, she delivers her own brand of vigilante justice.

Doctor Who: Time Crash

2007 • 8 min • United Kingdom

After Martha Jones parts company with the Doctor, his TARDIS collides with another, and he comes face to face with one of his previous incarnations.

Macau Twilight

2007 • 15 min

Thomas has been having bad dreams. Can he survive a roller coaster nightmare ride through Macau and the dark truth that is awaiting him?

Lucía

2007 • 4 min • Chile

Lucía remembers the summer when she fell in love with Luis and her fear of the dark.

Meatball Machine: Reject of Death

2007 • 10 min • Japan

Shortfilm sequel to the movie Meatball Machine. There is no real action but we'll see a bunch of aliens kill both each other and humans.

Surface

2007 • 14 min • Portugal

No matter how calm the surface of the ocean appears to be, each time we cross the line that divides land and water we enter an unknown and unexpected world. Does our world remain the same when we come back on shore?

Nicky Nicky Nine-Door

2007 • 1 min

Deleted scene from Nirvanna the Band the Show. Nicky Nicky Nine Doors up and down the Scarborough Bluffs.

Notes from the Rogues Gallery

2007 • 45 min • United States of America

What if you decided to become... a super hero?

Fritt fall

2007 • 27 min • Sweden

Voch is ten years old and lives with his uncle Ishvan as an illegal refugee in Sweden, where they get by begging for money in the subway. One day the two of them get separated from each other, and suddenly Voch is completely alone in a strange city in a foreign country. That’s when he meets Agneta, a bitter and lonely woman.

Rússia

2007 • 26 min • Spain

A poetic portrait of Lluís Serrat Massanellas, an unprofessional actor and friend of Albert Serra since working with him on Honour of the Knights, and his father, Lluís Serrat Batlle.

Country Life

2007 • 16 min • Switzerland

Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains. He is gay and just recently outed himself to his best friend Simone. Although Simone has a hard time believing that he's gay, she arranges a meeting with Adi from Zurich. Adi lives a very urban life and frequently goes to gay clubs. Two worlds collide...

Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'

2007 • 31 min • United States of America

A look at the unusual process used in the making of the film Shortbus (2006) featuring interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from the feature film. Director John Cameron Mitchell starts with the concept of using real sex in a film with a positive message. The cast of unknowns is selected from homemade audition tapes and then a callback audition workshop. More acting workshops are used to develop the characters and script. The project overcomes a number of obstacles and the rest of the film's development is followed up until its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Dog Altogether

2007 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Joseph is a man plagued by a violence and rage who is driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil, Joseph scours the landscape in search of a single grain of redemption that might restore hope to his fractured life.