All Films

Chanaika

2007 • 20 min

Chanaika (11) threw her violent father out of her family home. After this emotional event, she shows that she doesn't let down easily and now dances in front of a million people during the Summercarnaval in Rotterdam.

Depeche Mode: 1999–2002 “Presenting the Intimate and Delicate side of Depeche Mode”

2007 • 32 min

"Presenting The Intimate And Delicate Side Of Depeche Mode" - A short documentary surrounding the development and release of the Depeche Mode record ”Exciter.”

Fairytale of Kathmandu

2007 • 60 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

Fairytale of Kathmandu is a 2007 documentary by Neasa Ní Chianáin. The documentary focused on visits by the poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh to Nepal during which he had close relationships with many young boys of 16 years old or younger. The documentary questioned whether Ó Searcaigh's relationships with these youths were exploitative and whether they demonstrated a power and wealth imbalance between the 50 year old Ó Searcaigh and the young Nepalese. Ó Searcaigh is presented in the documentary as paying for the housing, food, bicycles and clothing of boys at most 16 years old. He mentions on camera having sex with some of them, denying that he abused them or that he coerced them into having sex with him.

House

2007 • 7 min

A film by Ben Rivers

Ballad of Mary Slade

2007 • 3 min • United Kingdom

The body of a young woman is slowly consumed by insects.

Phone Portrait

2007 • 6 min

More like sketches Phone Portrait and Phone Strip explore the moving image through the uniqueness of the most modern of technologies – the cellphone – that, though being modern, produces a near primitive and raw image reminiscent of the very first moving images.

Katong Fugue

2007 • 10 min

A boy with a hidden life and a mother desperately trying to reach out.

Private Screenings: Norman Jewison

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

Director Norman Jewison discusses his life and career with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.

Justine Clarke: I Like To Sing

2007 • 43 min • Australia

Children ages 1 through 6 will love travelling with Justine Clarke on this musical journey through the 15 unique songs of 'I Like To Sing'. From the beautifully animated 'Watermelon' to the all singing, all dancing musical numbers of 'The Dancing Chicken' and 'It's Starting To Rain'. 'I Like To Sing' is an exuberant, fun, contemporary and colourful foray into a magical world of music for kids.

The Real Middle Earth

2007 • 59 min • United Kingdom

This fascinating documentary takes us in Tolkien's footsteps and investigates the landscapes and buildings, the places and names that helped shape Middle Earth. Sir Ian Holm narrates this fascinating exploration into an imaginary world.

Waterproof

2007 • 45 min • Canada

This second Isuma-Artcirq co-production by Igloolik youth is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol to put reality and the past behind, the past keeps hunting him. When he loses control and beats up a man on the street he is sentenced to two months in an outpost camp, where a hunter is waiting for him.

Sickert vs Sargent

2007 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Sickert vs. Sargent brings to life two of the biggest characters in modern British art; Walter Sickert - the gruff, aggressive man-of-the-people; and John Singer Sargent - the urbane and charming dandy. The film focuses on some of the most beautiful and alarming paintings ever made in this country; pictures of aristocrats and prostitutes, coronations and killings, opera houses and music halls, and will evoke the long-lost atmosphere of Edwardian London. But above all it will show that from their two outposts in Chelsea and Camden, Sickert and Sargent were waging a war whose legacy still haunts us today.

La Bataille d'Alger

2007 • 52 min • France

What remains of the Battle of Algiers in collective memory? A military victory over the FLN. But also an immense political and moral defeat which sealed the fate of French Algeria. A defeat of honor and ethics which reveals the practice of torture by the French army. Even today, the wounds are far from healed. But we can try to honestly tell the epic story of the Battle of Algiers, with its heroes and its traitors, its friendships and its hatreds, its contractions between humanism and barbarism.

Iridisencia masculina

2007 • 10 min

María and Berenice are schoolmates who are in a romantic relationship. They love each other but must face many conflicts, one of which is Gerardo, an homophobic man.

Rihanna - Live From Bell Centre In Montreal

2007 • 48 min

Live performance of Rihanna at Bell Centre in Montreal, 2007

American Crusaders

2007 • 60 min

Documentary - A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11. This film explores an emerging ultra Right Wing mass movement seeking dominion over all aspects of contemporary American society. The film weaves archival video, contemporary Christian Nationalist movement propaganda (recruiting videos, apocalyptic/military videogame imagery, etc.) and original investigative material) to create an intense examination of the totalistic mindset and its will to power.

Strangers on a Train

2007 • 4 min • United States of America

Two strangers meet at a railway station

Washing Machine

2007 • 5 min

Extreme and violent fantasies intertwine around a washing machine.

First Picture

2007 • 27 min

A story of a Palestinian child from Tulkarm Camp for the Palestinian refugees. This child was born in one of the Israeli prisons. He spent more than two and a half years there. Then, he was separated from his mother who is still remaining arrested in prison till now by the Israeli Authority. The child starts an adventure of discovering the natural life under the protection of his father and family and the companions of the released prisoner mates of his mother, but he is still remaining very affected by the memories of his experience in prison.

The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis

2007 • 3 min • United States of America

A short comedic film.

Angel a Foot

2007 • 6 min • Germany

Waltraud was the name of an angel who had fallen from the sky. Her wings were too small and she just couldn't see how this had happened.

Tracing Battleship Potemkin

2007 • 43 min • Germany

Documentary detailing the extensive number of shots long lost from constant film re-cutting of 1925's great silent cinema classic Battleship Potemkin in the last 80 years, and how many of those shots have been returned.

Alba Gu Brath! The Making of 'Braveheart'

2007 • 50 min • United States of America

A three-part retrospective with notes from Gibson, Wallace, producers Bruce Davey and Alan Ladd, Jr., unit manager Kevin de la Noy, cinematographer John Toll, and 2nd unit director/stunt coordinator Mic Rodgers. The show looks at the project's development from the Gibson/studio point of view, Gibson's work as director and the challenges of doing "double duty" as an actor, editing and music, sets and locations, logistics, stunts and action scenes, and various other production concerns.

One

2007 • 5 min • Israel, Turkey

In this abstract animated short, a cityscape rises, falls, and morphs to a galloping jazz soundtrack by musician Jason Lindner.