All Films

Scissors

2006 • 2 min • United States of America

Scissors is a hand drawn animated short created by artist and CalArts animation student Daron Nefcy. The film is about a girl working a boring job who decides, though a dream, to take that step into the outside.

Apocalypse

2006 • 11 min • Lithuania

Animated short.

Navy SEALs: The Silent Option

2006 • 45 min

This segment of filmmaker Gordon Forbes's documentary series explores top-of-the-line technological weaponry and artillery as the Navy SEALs unveil the hardware they use to quietly execute their highly specialized operations without a hitch. Forbes's series ushers viewers into the clandestine world of the SEALs and closely examines the elite maritime commando force's operations and procedures, from training and preparation to all-out combat.

Board Control

2006 • 28 min • Norway

From 1978 to 1989 skateboarding was illegal in Norway, as the only country in the world it was not legal to sell, buy or use skateboard in this period. The film follows two generations of skaters - from the underground culture in the late 70s, with skating on secret locations in the forest around Oslo, to the commercial explosion when skating was legalized in 1989. The film says something about the Norwegian governments overprotective policy, but it also shows the paradox of how the prohibition led to a unique and creative environment.

Like the Others

2006 • 22 min • Tunisia

Between an unrewarding job and the daily routine visit to the cafe-shop for a water-pipe, K is eager to give up his condition of frustrated and introverted bachelor to seduce Chahra, the girl of his dreams. Through a series of very particular Chinese massages, he manages to shape his personality according to the ever-changing and whimsical demands of his entourage.

Isaac Babel. The Fatal Triangle

2006 • 45 min • Russia

When the collection of short stories by I.E.Babel "Konarmiya" was published, S.M. Budyonny became one of its first readers. The "horse army" infuriated him. Budyonny called the essays slanderous speculation and threatened to personally hack Babel with a saber. Defending the writer, Gorky wrote: "He showed the fighters of the First Cavalry better, more truthfully than Gogol — Zaporozhtsev." The writer was saved that time. But on May 16, 1939, no one could help Babel anymore. The writer was arrested. He ended up in the most terrible NKVD prison, Sukhanovskaya. Few people managed to get out alive.…

Porch

2006 • 9 min • United States of America

A home-movie portrait of an ordinary American family, taken over many years and framed in the porch of their house.

Blood Sisters

2006 • 30 min • Denmark

"Blood Sisters", Danish filmmaker Louise Friedberg's sophomore short film, is the kind of flick that you simply can't take your eyes off of. It's a relatively simple story that has been played out time and time again: a young girl feels threatened by her best friend's new friend/neighbour, jealousy brews, and tempers flare.

Killings by Jan Hafstrom

2006 • 28 min

A film about the artist Jan Hafstrom.

Stuart

2006 • 12 min • Portugal

Wanderings of a sordid and abandoned city of Lisbon from the graphic work of Stuart de Carvalhais

Long Row to Hoe

2006 • 60 min

Tired of living under a bridge like a troll, middle-aged homeless man Ronzoni decides to reconnect with his roots. Buying a bowling ball as a Christmas gift, he heads out to visit his retired father and distant sister Agatha who live in a local trailer park. Unfortunately, they both think he’s a wholly worthless bum. When a large box lands on his chest, Ronzoni is stuck behind his dad’s double wide and no matter how hard they try, they just can’t seem to get the empty cardboard container off his body. Wanting to escape his incessantly whining, the pair head off to a hotel. There, Agatha meets Nicholas, an in-room escort who opens her eyes to the joy of music and the fun of making anti-porno.

10:25 Ng Gabi

2006 • 19 min

Des agrees to Julius’ plan to generate some money without knowing what the plan is. Meanwhile, Troy, a rich and reckless college student, introduces Nona, his girlfriend with whom he has a child, to his balikbayan mother. The meeting does not end with success. Troy and his mother argue in the car as he takes his mother home. They get out of the car and continue to argue. It is 10:25 at night when the paths of Des and Julius and Troy and his mother meet. Des and Julius carry out their plan.

Everything We Are

2006 • 9 min • Australia

A twelve-year-old boy is forced to leave the female refuge where he lives with his mother. On his way to school he encounters a strange man and tries to find a connection

The Hour Oak

2006 • 60 min • Germany

There’s an oak tree that was familiar to everyone who used to drive along the highway just south of Berlin. Until 2004, it stood between the small suburban town of Ludwigsfelde and the intersection at Nuthetal. In the times of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), it took one hour to drive – in one of the famous East German “Trabant” cars – from the position of the tree to the East Berlin city center, which is why it was called the One-Hour Oak Tree. When the famous oak so steeped in history was cut down, the idea emerged to turn it into a sculpture.

Your Younger Daughter Rachel

2006 • 34 min • Israel

Rachel is experiencing a cruel adolescence, both at home and outside of it; her unemployed father unloading his frustration and rage upon his wife and daughter. Rachel attempts to handle her violent father and protect her mother. Defenceless and exhausted, she and her mother try to comfort one another while awaiting some compassion.

35 Meters Below Sea Level

2006 • 35 min • Iran

A film about a muslim guy and his sex drive.

Love, Interrupted

2006 • 60 min • Japan

A request came to Sobue, who works in the underground business. The mission is to capture Shiro, an employee who ran away with the proceeds from a pachinko parlor. Together with his apprentice Katsuya, we immediately began investigating. Shiro, who was hiding, was easily found, but he managed to escape despite being attacked. Maggie, the owner of a gay bar, finds a man unconscious in front of the bar and takes him home. That is Shiro, who is covered in scars. Shiro's naked body is beautiful and makes him want to attack, but...

The Vienna Strangler

2006 • 45 min • United Kingdom, Austria, United States of America

The chilling story of Austrian author and serial killer Johann “Jack” Unterweger. Convicted in 1976 for the brutal murder of 18-year-old Margaret Schäfer, strangled with her own bra, Unterweger was sentenced to life in prison. Behind bars, he reinvented himself as a writer, publishing poetry, plays, and an acclaimed autobiography that portrayed his crimes as the product of a troubled youth. His transformation into a literary figure won him the support of intellectuals and politicians, who campaigned for his release. In 1990, after serving just 15 years, Unterweger walked free — hailed as a symbol of rehabilitation.... or was he?

The Memories of Dogs

2006 • 8 min • France, Italy

My cheeks brush against the stones, I look out from a break in the wall.

Melodies of the mountains

2006 • 45 min

Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people

My Son, a Sexual Maniac

2006 • 18 min • Slovenia

Tone is convinced that his son is a sex maniac because he is supposedly looking under his teacher's skirt. But he is wrong. While he is obsessed with trying to find the reasons for his misfortune and even makes his wife miserable, his friend hints that sexuality is a matter of genes; Tone comes to a conclusion that he himself is a sex maniac.

Emergence

2006 • 9 min • France

In an uncertain time and place, a group of animated shy rock cubes come out from the anonymity of their quarry to mate. Powerful and indescribable forces made them move towards others in the sky, in a sort of dance that attracts some cubes to others, until those compatible latch on each other and produce a fresh new rock cube.

Locked

2006 • 2 min • Germany

April 2nd is the Autism Awareness Day and therefore Jacob Frey thought he'd share one of the first video projects he created. In 2006 Jacob Frey applied at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and as an application exercise had to create a video to "being locked in a room". His skillset back then was very limited and he just started to dive into video software. Even though Jacob Frey got accepted to their course he instead decided to gamble and wait for the application results at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. Luckily he managed to get one of the few spots and started his path towards becoming an animator.

CMT Pick Toby Keith

2006 • 44 min

This limited edition DVD contains: Homecoming: Toby Keith In Oklahoma A true-blue Oklahoman, Toby shares many of the places and events that helped make him the man he is today. Watch Toby join friends and family as they talk about his life as a former roughneck, football player and honkytonk man. You'll also see Toby suit up with his beloved football team, the Oklahoma Sooners, and perform a few exclusive acoustic numbers including "Honkytonk U." CMT Insider Interview: In a rare in-depth interview, Toby talks about his current album and his upcoming motion picture debut. Plus get a sneak peek of Toby's lead role in the soon-to-be released film Broken Bridges, a production of Paramount Pictures and CMT Films.