All Films

Lindansaren

2006 • 60 min

Documentary about wheel-chair bound stand-up comedian Jesper Odelberg. He was born with cerebral palsy and largely uses this as his material, but mixes his comedy with an overall serious message about inclusion and understanding.

Hoist

2006 • 15 min

Commissioned as part of the Destricted Short Film Series, 'Hoist' was shot in Bahia, Salvador. It's described by the director as "a juxtaposition of sexuality and industrial machinery".

Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball

2006 • 58 min • United States of America

THE SITUATION facing the pinball designers at Williams Electronic Games in 1998: come up with something new, or see the world's largest pinball manufacturer be shut down forever. And Williams' designers did come up with something amazing: a brand new kind of pinball machine—"Pinball 2000"—that fused video with classic pinball gameplay, preserving what was great about pinball yet opening up all-ne

Rabbit from Cabbage Garden

2006 • 13 min

A lonely woman asks a stork for a little boy. And he brings her a rabbit instead of a child. What came of it is told in a funny and sad story.

Guy Hamilton: The Director Speaks

2006 • 5 min

An interview with Guy Hamilton.

Women on Death Row

2006 • 60 min • United States of America

Look into the personal lives of women currently awaiting execution on Death Row. Though each woman is convicted of committing society's ultimate crime, there is often another side of the story.

Homo homini lupus

2006 • 21 min • Italy

November 1944, Latium countryside. The last hours of a partisan's life. An attempt to remember what it means, and how difficult it is, to be free.

Burning Safari

2006 • 2 min • France

Small alien robots land on Earth for a photo safari. Their encounter with a wild ape man will prove communication between the two species to be... difficult.

Getting Up

2006 • 29 min

A documentary short on the history and culture of graffiti, featuring many of the major players such as JA, Ket, Noxer, Skuf, Chino and more. Produced by Ecko Unltd and released in conjunction with the video game Mark Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure.

Mr. Loveday's Little Outing

2006 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Satirical drama by Evelyn Waugh, adapted by Sam Hobkinson. Visiting her father Lord Moping in the county asylum, Angela meets a fellow inmate who appears far too sane to be locked up in an institution. She manages to get him released, but he returns two hours later, having achieved a terrible ambition.

Badly Drawn Roy

2006 • 22 min

Roy is Ireland's only living animated character. He was born in 1972 into an ordinary 'live action' family. This documentary film allows us exclusive access into Roy's life where we learn of the prejudices he must overcome on a daily basis.

Infierno Grande

2006 • 29 min

Based on a real event, where the municipal president, in order to clean the image of his people before a politician's visit, "throws" a group of mentally ill people into the desert.

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

2006 • 55 min • Italy

italian documentary

Fangs of Darkness

2006 • 14 min • Philippines

Hukbalahaps in the forests are suddenly terrorized by an "aswang" who seems to be killing them one by one.

The iDol

2006 • 52 min • Japan

Ken is a mild-mannered man in his mid-twenties who like many his age has interests that stopped developing during adolescence. On a visit to a local toy collectors shop he acquires a rare alien action figure. Unexpectedly, Ken's world is turned inside out as the somewhat silly looking toy alters his life by benevolently giving him everything he has ever dreamed of, and then callously taking it all back...

Linerboard

2006 • 19 min • Sweden

Linerboard is a film about thin paper between cardboard. It’s about how fragile items need to be properly protected and about a hesitant but long-term relationship.

Maya, Raya, Daya

2006 • 10 min • Indonesia

The rise of women from three eras who are persecuted in marriage life.

The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'

2006 • 58 min

A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."

Deep Imagination

2006 • 57 min • Japan

A series of five Studio 4°C shorts collected in January 2007 as a direct-to-DVD package film titled Deep Imagination. Featuring Professor Dan Petory's Blues, End of the World, Comedy, Higan, and Junk Town.

North and the Music of the South

2006 • 9 min • United States of America

The score of Alex North for A Streetcar Named Desire is analyzed.

Fiore

2006 • 9 min • Italy

Before the great crossroads that traces the border between the two provinces, there lies a sheet metal cage at the end of Linden Street. Two women walked slowly.

The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge

2006 • 56 min

Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the starting gate of the DARPA Grand Challenge with one thing in common: there's nobody behind the wheel. Sponsored by the Pentagon's research agency, this race for robotic, driverless vehicles has a $2 million prize. Its ultimate goal is to gather new ideas for the future of unmanned warfare.

The Comedians of Comedy: Live at the El Rey

2006 • 54 min • United States of America

For the final show of their successful "Comedians of Comedy" tour, "alternative" stand-up comics Maria Bamford, Brian Posehn and Patton Oswalt pull out all the stops in a grand finale-worthy performance that finds humor in unexpected places. Taped live at Los Angeles's El Rey Theater and featuring fellow funnyman Bob Odenkirk, this farewell gig is sure to please fans who like their laughs with bite.

La Grenadière

2006 • 48 min • Japan

The Japanese painter FUKAZAWA Takeshi expresses in pictures the novel written by Honoré de BALZAC “La grenadière”. Over 70 tempera paintings are beautifully brought to life and put together by FUKADA Koji for this Ga-nime that tells us the story of a mother and child in the 19th century, coated in a music that punctuates the whole experience. FUKAZAWA and FUKADA thus succeed in reproducing the ambiance of this mansion so dear to BALZAC, as the artistic pictures call to the imagination and the emotions of the viewer that only be so aroused by a Ga-nime.