All Films

Desperate Housewives, les secrets de la série

2006 • 46 min • France

A French documentary offering a behind the scenes look at the American television series.

The Fear of Trilogy

2006 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Maxine Peake stars in a short film about three fears (birds, falling, sleepwalking) - filmed and edited in a single day on a mobile phone for Cinema Now, a digital conference held at BAFTA.

Do Communists Have Better Sex?

2006 • 52 min • Germany

This is about sex. About sex in Germany and who, on which side of the Iron Curtain, was better at it. At the end of the Second World War, Germans shared the same culture, lifestyle, morals. But four decades later, everything had changed. Forty years of division left their mark in many places—including the beds of the German people.

Bil'in Habibti

2006 • 55 min • Israel, Palestinian Territory

The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palestinian territory at the village of Bil'in. The villagers protest mostly peacefully, while the Israeli army doesn't react peacefully. By now the Israeli High Court has ruled that the building of the wall was illegal.

Propiedad privada

2006 • 16 min • Spain

Le Mans: 100 Years of Passion

2006 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A nostalgic look back at 100 years of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Laban the Little Ghost

2006 • 44 min • Sweden

Daddy Ghost gets ready for a night of ghost work. He shows Laban his scariest ghostly haunts. The little ghost wants to sound scary, but no matter how hard he tries, he sounds cute. The problem is that Laban is scared himself when he walks through the dark corridors.

Globe Trotters

2006 • 60 min • Japan

Released on DVD on Murotimate Breaks & Beats Vol. 2

Verdun: Descent into Hell

2006 • 46 min

Documentary concerning the battle of Verdun which, with its weapons of mass destruction, marked the beginning of modern warfare in what is considered to be the most gruesome military confrontation of World War I. The programme conveys the horror of this military inferno, illustrating the similar experiences of the French and German soldiers and their struggle for survival. It also provides the unknown soldier with a face through various letters, diaries and private photographs.

Dounreay: The Atomic Dream

2006 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Documentary telling the story of the rise and fall of a daring experiment into atomic energy as the history of the Dounreay fast reactor is charted by the pioneers involved.

Headshot

2006 • 9 min • Netherlands

A surprisingly intimate portrait of sex, accomplished without any explicit imagery. Originally inspired by the 1963 Andy Warhol film “Blowjob,” the erotic documentary “Headshot” portrays an intense, shared sexual encounter in which we see only one participant, a leather-jacketed (and, in our version, eventually naked) young man.

Unspoken

2006 • 13 min • United States of America

Two high-school, lesbian girlfriends deal with the intrusion of two teenage boys, jealousy, betrayal and drugs.

EngoleDuasErvilhas

2006 • 8 min • Brazil

The repulsive, the ignoble and the deplorable. The bloodthirsty, the despicable and the humiliating. Peas, dinners and monkeys.

The Norman Rockwell Code

2006 • 33 min

A parody of The Da Vinci Code. When the curator of The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts is murdered, police call in symbology professor Langford Fife (son of Mayberry Deputy Barney Fife) to investigate. Teaming up with Sopha Poisson, the Québécoise granddaughter of the murdered curator, they set out to decode secret messages hidden in Rockwell's paintings and uncover a grand conspiracy that they may have already had an unwitting part in.

God and Devil on Top of the Wall

2006 • 54 min • Brazil

Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only a few unarmed employees. Small in number, these employees work in shifts. They are almost prisoners themselves, in a routine of tension, but also of humor and emotion. This prison was all too real. While it was in existence, the Carandiru was the largest prison in Latin America, administered by a reduced number of employees. The documentary shows, from the point of view of these few employees, holding the keys, how the prison operated: the delicate balance in the relationship with the prisoners, affinity among employees, moments of tension and, even, of happiness. These are stories told by former employees, among them, Dr. Dráuzio Varella, author of the book Estação Carandiru. These are the secrets of a place that no longer exists.

Vrai faux passeport

2006 • 55 min • France

A dense work, citing everyone from Tarantino and Verhoeven to Artaud and Chaplin, made for Godard's exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Voyage(s) en utopie.

The Diary of Immaculée

2006 • 39 min

In this moving documentary, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Peter LeDonne and Steve Kalafer chronicle the extraordinary life of Immaculée Ilibagiza, a young African woman who escaped genocide in Rwanda and ultimately found refuge in the United States. Seeking shelter with an Episcopalian minister, Immaculée hid from her attackers inside a bathroom for three long months but stayed centered through prayer and faith.

Laddy and the Lady

2006 • 11 min

Laddy and the Lady follows an out-of-control golden retriever, owned by a Lady, on a pheasant shoot. Scenes of the shoot are intercut with flashbacks to Laddy’s troubled past as a puppy, wrenched from his mother’s side. On the shoot, Laddy is subjected to forms of physical and verbal abuse associated with gun dog handling. His inability to behave and retrieve the dead birds results in relentless punishment. Laddy becomes a receiver – a golden receiver- of abuse.

The Real Blue Nuns

2006 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An investigation into nunsploitation, and why men find images of nuns involved in sexual situations erotic. The programme also controversially covers the Muslim hibab and burka.

Laid Off

2006 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Martin (1966-2002) introduces himself. More than three years ago, he was struck by a car in the city centre; he died of the injuries. Now he wanders the streets, unseen by the living, waiting to find out if he'll be sent up or down. He fills his days walking, going to movies, and thinking. He regrets that he didn't dispose of his stash of pornography - he meant to. His grieving widow found it. Every two weeks, he goes to grief therapy. He waits.

Female Fast Food Grifter: Foxy Croquette Ogin ~Mortal Struggle in Palestine~

2006 • 24 min

Foxy Croquette Ogin disappeared after the protest incident in front of the National Diet building in 1960, but there are rumors of a mysterious Japanese woman amongst a band of guerillas in Palestine...

The Lake

2006 • 8 min • Finland

Two sisters, Mailis and Henna, are rowing on a lake at the heart of a summer midnight.

8: Sida

2006 • 18 min • France

In a hospital in Burkina Faso, a man infected by HIV tells his story.

The Tunche

2006 • 50 min

A group of students go to the jungle to get medicinal plants for their experiments.