All Films

Sprout

2006 • 8 min • Germany

The story of a woman who grows her dreamchild in a flower pot. But the perfect motherhood has unexpected side effects.

The Beginning of the End

2006 • 7 min • Brazil

He should flee, he should resist. But this man accepts - no - embraces the fate that comes to him in thundering Dolby Surround.

Cinema 500 km

2006 • 45 min • Saudi Arabia

From the only country in the world with no cinema theaters, a movie young fan crosses borders for the first time ever so he can watch a movie in a cinema for the first time.

Le Corps Humain

2006 • 4 min • Canada

This film is an in-camera portrait of my niece, Mia Larose (who was six months old at the time) captured during a winter family reunion in Lac Saint-Charles, Québec. Shot on a single roll of super 8mm film and hand-processed.

The Wild Gang

2006 • 57 min • Mexico

José Alfredo Jiménez is a cab driver. His friend Reinaldo Cruz (a fascinating, most endearing, one-of-a-kind character) is a shoeshiner. Both live on the outskirts of Mexico City and share a dream: participating in the “jaripeos”, this is, in those rodeos where bulls are ridden. The experience they have in these matters is non-existent and, nevertheless, they challenge some scary pros.

No Passport Needed

2006 • 8 min

Short about a guy who wants to leave the Philippines.

Asthma Tech

2006 • 7 min • Canada

In this animated short, young Winston, who suffers from chronic asthma, isn’t able to participate in the everyday activities of his peers and classmates. He copes with the predicament through his vivid imagination, with paper and crayons. On one particularly rainy afternoon, Winston discovers that the magic of imagination has the power to transform and empower, and his skills and talents save the day.

L'attente

2006 • 7 min • United States of America

The story of one man's suffering for coffee and the search for God.

Where Did This Begin?

2006 • 15 min

An increasingly surreal birthday party.

Eggs for Breakfast

2006 • 4 min • Mexico

After a romantic night, even the simple things like cooking breakfast can highlight impending difficulties.

Yellow Box

2006 • 53 min • Taiwan

The film shows the narrow perspective in the rapid way of life that has burst into Chinese culture.

Banal

2006 • 11 min • Spain

As all teenagers, Ainoa has had an exhausting school day. So this summer, for the first time, she has decided to go on holidays wherever she pleases, and not were her father decides.

The Tears of Junichi the Rough

2006 • 2 min • Japan

McLaren's Negatives

2006 • 10 min • Canada

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his personal view of filmmaking.

Magic Shop

2006 • 10 min • Belarus

Full of fantasy and humor, an extraordinary story that happened on the eve of the New Year. Going to the city for shopping at the New Year's table, the Kid and Daddy find themselves in a mysterious magic shop, where the play of imagination comes true, changing the real world and making you believe in a fairy tale.

Tardi in black and white

2006 • 51 min • France

Tardi en noir et blanc is a documentary portrait of French comic auteur Jacques Tardi, one of the world's most significant graphic novelists. Director Pierre-André Sauvageot followed Jacques Tardi for two years to create this intimate insight into Tardi's creative process: from his research into political and historical topics to the actual drawing of his graphic novel panels.

A Vital Activity

2006 • 21 min

A 20-something couple is having a date. They want to make love but they don’t have enough money or time. They look for a place where they can have sex.

The Watermelon

2006 • 11 min • Sweden

Christmas 1978, Sweden. A Chilean father spends his family's last money on a watermelon. But the excitement is brief when the melon doesn't live up to the expectations. The family peace is now ruined, turning their world literally upside-down in this absurd and tragicomic story.

The Man on the Moon

2006 • 17 min • France

The Toll

2006 • 7 min • United States of America

Harvey delves into the realm of not-so-fantastic myth to interview a troll who works as a toll collector and lives under his bridge. He's aggressive, uncouth, temperamental, and has a nasty habit of eating people.

Angel’s Fire

2006 • 13 min

Satyajit Ray Negatives - My Life with Manikda

2006 • 52 min • Belgium

Calcutta, 1950: Satyajit Ray directs his first film and, by opening his eyes on his country's realities, breaks every convention of Indian cinema. During twenty-five years, Ray's personal photographer Nemai Gosh will be his shadow. This movie tells their parallel destinies, it ventures Satyajit Ray's extraordinary artistic journey through the obsessive lens of Nemai Gosh.

Garantia and the Shooting Star

2006 • 8 min • Sweden

A small girl and her homemade mermaid doll - both of them named Garantia - is looking for her mommy's necklace. When she puts her doll into the aquarium the doll becomes alive and the aquarium becomes an enchanted ocean where she encounters the Snapper Gang, the ancient jelly fish Mr Elderling, the huge whale Nora and a small fish on a bicycle on her quest for the necklace.

Dear Bill Gates

2006 • 17 min

A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay exploring the ownership of our visual history and culture. Combining original and archival film, video and images from the internet, Dear Bill Gates draws unexpected connections among mining, memory and Microsoft. Original music by Adam Granduciel.