All Films

Actuality: The Art and Life of Allan King

2006 • 51 min • Canada

"Each of my films is the exploration of a territory that I urgently want to understand", Allan King states in this elegantly structured and inspirational biography of one of Canada's most significant filmmakers. King's work has been central to the development of documentary film and direct cinema around the world, and he continues to make powerful films that confront and move us with the painful and beautiful understanding of what it is to be human. A beautifully constructed homage to the work and life of this accomplished filmmaker - Official Selection, 2006 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

Down with reality

2006 • 22 min

Down With Reality presents a subversive reflection on the art world and gauges a very peculiar collective, one who makes of the night its field of (re)creation, the troup of nocturnal creatures who inhabit the bars, art galleries and streets, and who hide within themselves an exhibitionist spirit, which is more or less pathetic. This is a type of exhibitionism which, when we are being taped, we all take pleasure in.

Szsplatck

2006 • 13 min • Germany

Sebastian's homemade pills pack a punch, and his first customer goes completely crazy. Shortly afterwards, he is mugged and robbed. The perpetrator consumes the loot, the pills, with a buddy, causing both of them to bash each other's skulls in. Sebastian is then mugged again, but this time he fights back with the help of his drugs.

Seeing is Believing

2006 • 13 min • Russia

Blah Blah Blah

2006 • 12 min • Austria

Visual poem based on a song by Iggy Pop.

Sayonara Super 8

2006 • 5 min • Canada

Pia Yona Massie's Sayonara Super 8 uses personal archival footage to ask questions about the fragile nature of memory, human relationships and the foibles of the medium itself.

Through Alan Glass

2006 • 55 min • Mexico

The documentary shows the world of the surrealist Canadian artist Alan Glass, his work, his home, his friends, his boxes, all his universe is presented through the point of view of art critics, artists and friends.

Bacchanal

2006 • 12 min • Austria, Czech Republic

Two young friends reveal their hidden desires by a theatrical presentation of Dionysus. The myth as well as the girl, initiating and redemptive becomes the catalyst of the hidden inner desires.’

Carinthians Speak German

2006 • 60 min • Austria

Documentary about Carinthian Slovenes and the resistance during WWII.

Marion agus an Banphrionsa

2006 • 9 min • Ireland

Ireland, 1961. Princess Grace of Monaco makes her first official visit. Little Marion is determined to meet her.

I Have Nothing Nice to Say to You

2006 • 30 min • Croatia

A film that has the outer structure of the noir thriller, deals with a war crime committed in the center of the city, and actually portrays a community that will have to deal with what has been done in her name. War, night, female movie.

Vi som planerar tågtrafiken

2006 • 10 min • Sweden

First Thursday of each month, the members of Stockholm's model railroad club meet and run their beloved trains on a schedule. The trains pass towns such as Bångfors and Farsarvet. Sometimes, a delay occurs, which then spreads throughout the network.

Holly Gets Even

2006 • 15 min • Sweden

Holly plays basketball at school with her best friend Ramtha. Two boys, Jonny and Daniel, challenge them to a girls against boys game. When Holly and Ramtha is winning, Daniel pulls down Holly’s pants in front of everybody... A clay-animation short film.

Fúria

2006 • 18 min • Brazil

The Old Quarry and Other Haunted Places of Central New York

2006 • 45 min • United States of America

The state of New York is rife with ghosts and other spirits, at least according to this video tour of some of the state's most haunted sites. The supernatural tour starts at the abandoned Split Rock Quarry in Syracuse, the site of a terrible explosion at a TNT factory. It moves on to two spooky castles in central New York and culminates at Fort Ontario (on the shores of Lake Ontario), which boasts two centuries' worth of documented ghost stories.

Bambi Plus

2006 • 20 min • Serbia

An experimental documentary graduation thesis. Conflicting worldviews of a Serbian female artist, Marina Markovic, anorexia nervosa surviver, are contrasted with archive footage of socialistic Yugoslav propaganda.

Even in Dreams

2006 • 7 min • France

Juliette awakes one morning in a panic. She rushes her lover next to her to leave at once because her husband Simon is coming back soon. But Juliette has made a tragic mistake: from under the cover comes the voice of Simon.

Ghul

2006 • 12 min

Various facts prophesy the coming of a curse, but a man will realize it late enough to be able to do something about it.

My Husband Andrei Sakharov

2006 • 52 min • Latvia

Through a vast coverage of exclusive archive materials and interviews and personally narrated by his wife, Yelena Bonner, the story of the life of Andrei Sakharov, the most famous Soviet dissident, Nobel Peace Prize winner and the creator of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, is revealed.

Thick & Thin

2006 • 25 min • Canada

For two best friends, Kathy and Selena couldn't seem more different. Kathy is confident, mysterious and alluring, while Selena is shy and inexperienced, forever standing in Kathy's shadow. However, when Selena is invited over the Kathy's house for the first time, hidden parts of Kathy's life are revealed, and her wall of confidence begins to crack. As brewing tension leads to a bitter face off between the girls, Kathy and Selena must choose between saving face and saving their friendship.

The Mozart of Pickpockets

2006 • 31 min • France

Richard and Philippe live hand to mouth, backing up a gang of Spanish pickpockets on the streets of Paris, posing as policemen who arrest a gang member while the others rifle the pockets and purses of gawkers. When all of the gang except Richard and Philippe are pinched, things look grim. Plus, Richard insists that they take in a wide-eyed immigrant lad, a deaf-mute left behind in the arrests. Philippe suggests a three-person pickpocket trick, using the boy, but when that goes spectacularly badly, they hit rock bottom. Then, at the cinema, the lad finds a solution. It's time to celebrate.

Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine

2006 • 16 min • Austria

An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy. The hero of Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine is easy to identify. Walking down the street unknowingly, he suddenly realizes that he is not only subject to the gruesome moods of several spectators but also at the mercy of the filmmaker.

The Deep End

2006 • 28 min • France

Lucille, an introverted eleven year old girl, live with her parents, who are caretakers of the swimming pool in which they stay. Because of the weirdness of this place, which looks like a flying saucer, an awful anguish comes out of Lucille's mind. The "unidentified frightening object" of her confusion would happen to be even more obsessing than all fears of childhood.

Sun in Winter

2006 • 17 min • France

Michel, a breeder in Eastern France, uses the winter calm to spend some time with his young apprentice, Francis. They soon become close friends.