All Films

At Home with Mrs. Hen

2007 • 8 min • Canada

This animated short is a touching and comical tale that pokes fun at motherhood. Without ever moralizing, it depicts the temper tantrums of a child and the efforts a loving mother makes to set her son on the right path. You don’t need to be a chicken to relate.

Under My Garden

2007 • 19 min • Italy

You can fool everyone, you can fool your neighbors, you can fool the police... but you can't fool the ants!

Pasta

2007 • 8 min • Chile

A man and a woman eat pasta. Through food, they express their love and their heartbreak. They approach, they distance themselves and they play, while a waiter brings them more pasta.

We Don't Play Golf Here

2007 • 33 min

Much to the dismay of residents of Tepoztlan, Mexico, where they still speak the indigenous language of Nahual, foreign investors have brought globalization to their village - building factories, shopping malls, and, most egregiously, a golf resort with 1500 vacation chalets and a country club. The newly elected Tepoztlan mayor sneered: “We don’t play that sport here,” because, he explained, maintenance of a large golf course “would sap badly needed farming water; pesticides and chemical fertilizer to maintain the grass would pollute the town’s aquifers.”

Authentic Recordings! Cursed Urban Legends: A Collection of Urban Legends from the Showa Era

2007 • 59 min • Japan

This DVD highlights the movies based on urban legends that have been passed down from generation to generation throughout the ages. "Headless Rider", "Mr. Kokkuri", "Young Satoru", "Teketeke", "Slit-mouthed Woman", "Bathroom Hanako" These famous legends are covered on two volumes, the Shōwa-era and the Heisei-era. A collection of extreme horror and real drama, reproduced with interviews and photographic evidence.

Louis C.K. Learns About the Catholic Church

2007 • 5 min • United States of America

Driven by simple curiosity, I did some investiagative reporting and found out some surprising things about the Catholic Church...

Yellow Sticky Notes

2007 • 6 min • Canada

An animator finds a unique way to deal with the fact that yellow sticky notes are taking over his life.

Sir Douglas Quintet: Live from Austin, TX

2007 • 57 min • United States of America

Doug Sahm a/k/a Sir Doug was both a Texas rock & roll legend and pioneer. True, there were others before him (Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison come to mind), but the Sir Douglas Quintet counterattacked the British invasion of the mid 1960's with their own brand of Chicano-influenced rock that they had been playing around their hometown of San Antonio. This performance, recorded October 14, 1975, came after Doug had temporarily retired the Sir Douglas name, but features original member Augie Meyer along with musical compadres Martin Steitle, John Barber, Steve McDaniels and Harry Hess.

Funeral Chants from the Georgian Caucasus

2007 • 21 min • France

A short film set in the mountainous province of Svaneti, documents the performance of polyphonic men’s funerary laments common to the region.

Who's Afraid of Happy Endings?

2007 • 48 min • Canada

Get an insider's view of the romance world and follow the stories of three romance writers who try to maneuver their way to the top of this extremely competitive industry.

Pierre Henry: The Art of Sounds

2007 • 52 min • France

Experimental French composer Pierre Henry, one of the pioneers of musique concrete, is the subject of this documentary that traces his development of a new sound that shocked the music world. During the 1950s, the radical innovator and his colleague Pierre Schaeffer created a unique form of music based on electronically modified environmental noises. Special features include a concert recorded in Paris and the short film "Le Candidat."

Attack of the Mutant Dick from Outer Space

2007 • 26 min • Spain

Janus

2007 • 8 min • Norway

Janus has many great stories to tell. If you meet him at their favorite bar in Oslo, chances to hear some of them.

Quartet

2007 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A sequence of twenty three shots of a room occurs four times, twice in colour, twice in black and white. The two colour sequences follow a strict filming plan, the second, black and white, pair are freer.

The Happy Duckling

2007 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The antics of a reluctant young boy and the relentlessly happy duck who trails him, set in a delightful and surprising pop-up book world where anything can happen.

Walking in Obedience: The Ole Madsen Story

2007 • 40 min • Canada, United States of America

Walking in Obedience contains dramatic scenes and incredible scenery depicting the journey of a Danish family traveling with the Willie Handcart Company. It is told through the words of those that lived through the experience with both the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies.

Hinterland

2007 • 28 min • France

A young woman goes for a mountain walk with her two little sons. The eldest, not yet quite adolescent but already wilful, finds a wounded horse. He doesn't want the animal to suffer any more. The mother wants nothing to do with it. Beautifully shot, attractive mid-length short shot in beautiful nature about a rite of passage.

Hong Kombat

2007 • 9 min • United States of America

Before sanity ruled the land, 7 creatures, some pure and others tainted, came together and decided on the fate of the overworld. The conflict was known as... Hong Kombat

If It Happens

2007 • 39 min • Poland

Tomek, Marcel Lozinski's son, is eighteen now. Exactly twelve years ago, when he was six, his father filmed him while he was visiting a park in Warsaw. Tomek used to stop next to some old people sitting on the benches, and, with childish frankness, would ask them questions about joy, loneliness, fear of death, dreams, love and lack of love. Now, after twelve years, on his birthday, Tomek comes back to the garden of his childhood. A magical encounter will commence.

Alex & José

2007 • 3 min

Alex and José, is a 16mm single channel projection that explores gender, movement and form.

A Little Sun

2007 • 18 min • Syrian Arab Republic, Austria

Osama said, "I often took walks with Luna. We roamed around Damascus, where nothing could compare to the smell of bread and jasmine in the morning. Sometimes, Luna would tell me stories about wonderful cities."

Battle at Kruger

2007 • 8 min

An eight-minute amateur wildlife video that depicts a confrontation between a herd of Cape buffalo, a small group of young lions from a pride, and one crocodile.

Tiffin

2007 • 14 min • Malaysia, United States of America

Shanti is born into the life of a maid for a lonely grandmother, Nai Nai, who runs a tiffin food delivery business. Over the years, Shanti grows up with Nai Nai's love and affection despite their social and class differences. Tiffin is a bittersweet story that reminisces about the way things were, examines the way things have become and ponders about the future that lies ahead.

Hóspedes da Noite

2007 • 53 min

In the colonial era the Grande Hotel in the city of Beira was the largest in Mozambique: 350 rooms, luxurious suites, Olympic-sized swimming pool... At present the building, which is in ruins, with no electricity or running water, is inhabited by 3500 people. Some have been living there for twenty years. In addition to the rooms, the foyers, corridors, service areas and basement of the hotel - here it's always night-time - also serve as residences.