All Films

The Goat That Ate Time

2007 • 7 min • Australia

A goat with an appetite for life realises that time is dangerously delicious.

Mysterious and Invisible - Magic Hour Part 2

2007 • 12 min • United States of America

Fireflies and water in North Carolina. Music by Asher.

Hello, My Name Is Herman

2007 • 9 min • Canada

"Hello, My Name Is Herman" poignantly and humorously describes the relationship between a 91-year-old Jewish man, his lesbian granddaughter and her girlfriend. This ten-minute documentary explores intergenerational and interracial relationships, coming out, aging, and the process of accepting difference and love.

Servant-Hare

2007 • 13 min • Russia

Russian puppet cartoon 2007, created at the studio "Pilot". Director Elena Chernova created it based on a Tatar folk tale. A similar story is found in the folklore of the Greeks, Kazakhs, Crimean Tatars, and Turkmens (among the Turkmens and Kazakhs, it is included in the cycle of jokes and fairy tales about Aldarkos, and among the Crimean Tatars, the main protagonist of the fairy tale in Mikhail Bulatov's retelling is Khoja Nasreddin.)

Rock'n Roll Bath

2007 • 2 min • Japan

Short animation by Ryoji Yamada

The Cabin Man

2007 • 7 min • India

We are all in a hurry to fulfil our dreams and reach our destination ahead of time. Then suddenly we find, that time has outpaced us leaving us behind stranded and clueless about the future. Is there a destination in life? Is there life beyond a destination?

600 Stories That Have to Be Told

2007 • 52 min • Latvia

Interviews were conducted over a seven year period with 670 people who were deported to Siberia as children in 1941. Fragments of their memories form a mosaic revealing their past experiences of losing fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters. Time heals, but nothing is forgotten and the stories must be told.

What's My Mother Fucking Name

2007 • 5 min • Canada

"What’s My Mother Fuckng Name" is a short video poem that explores the puzzling and often hazardous task of being human. The narrator moves through issues of sex work, queer and feminine identity, class, immigration, consumerism, global health and quality of life. The dense narration is juxtaposed against a voyeuristic, bird’s eye view of a female bondage model struggling to be free from the ropes that bind her. Originally shot on black and white Super 8 film, this four and a half minute video invites its audience to question ourselves and the world we live in.

Aparências

2007 • 8 min • Brazil

A woman walks through a dangerous street at night. Is she able to identify where are the dangers or will her mind deceive her?

Asylum

2007 • 49 min • Uruguay

This documentary focuses on a little-known episode in the recent history of Uruguay: how hundreds of Uruguayan citizens took refuge in the Mexican embassy at the time of the military dictatorship. Between 1975 and 1976, Mexico was the only country whose embassy gave shelter to people persecuted by the regime, and this sparked off a difficult period in the relations between the two nations. We learn about conditions at the embassy at that time and how the fugitives lived. Sixteen of the men and women involved talk about what that period was like and the events that led up to this confrontation between the two countries. The documentary is also a homage to the Mexican ambassador, don Vicente Muñoz Arroyo.

Those New Killings

2007 • 29 min • Uruguay

Two uruguayan lawmakers Zelmar Michelini and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, were looking for a democratic outcame for Uruguay, governed by militars. Those lawmakers were part of an important movement that worked against the uruguayan dictatorship. Michelini and Guitérrez were tortured and ejecuted with Rosario Barredo and William Whitelaw, two members of the Tupamaros guerrilla. The crime was one of the first examples of the Condor Plan, that the dictatorships of South America coordinated to elminate all kind of political opponents.

Mandiyú

2007 • 25 min • Uruguay

We meet a group of rural worker and their families in the north of Uruguay, people who are struggling to continue their lives working on the land. Mandiyú is a group of small milk producers who are landless. In 2007 they finally ran out of patience waiting for an official ruling about a plot of land, and as there was no response from the Institute of Colonisation they occupied an unproductive space belonging to the Uruguayan state. This documentary tells the story of these workers and their families.

The Air Ace

2007 • 9 min • Bulgaria

A frog daydreams of flying like a bird and starts trying different ways to achieve his goal.

Master of Reality

2007 • 22 min

A teenager pours over the obsessive notes he documented during his childhood. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Dallas International Film Festivals in 2007.

Stranger Comes to Town

2007 • 29 min

A Stranger Comes to Town reworks animations from the Department of Homeland Security, combining them with stories from the border, impressions from the online game, World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange.

'Tis the Season

2007 • 6 min

The spirit of humanity is stronger than cultural differences when a little girl mistakes a Hasidic Jew for Santa Claus.

Goddesses

2007 • 42 min • India

Lakshmi is a professional singer and dancer at funerals. Krishnaveni makes her living by burying and cremating unclaimed dead bodies from the rivers and streets. Sethuraku never went to school and instead took to the sea at an early age.

Thank you My teens

2007 • 55 min • Japan

Concert film recorded from YUI's "Can't Buy My Love" national tour. This specific film is from YUI's last day of her national tour.

Party Killer

2007 • 8 min

A killer stalks a slumber party in this tongue-in-cheek parody of classic slasher horror movies.

9 Messages

2007 • 35 min • Macedonia

Macedonian TV drama.

Dutch Cocaine Factory

2007 • 55 min

Through footage derived from a 16 cam self-surveillance videodiary we are swept into the pro-paranoia world view of Dutch Cocaine Factory. Champions league cocaine consumer Arend, a lawyer and a drugs scientist unveil a well-kept secret of the past, the Dutch Cocaine Factory. Until World War II, the Netherlands were the largest producer of quality cocaine in the world. An attempt to fair trade? What if cocaine production prices would not extend the price of coffee? Who surveys the surveillance?

The Journey of the Birdboy

2007 • 4 min • Italy

Short film by Chiara Ambrosio.

Space Girl (First Time on the Farm)

2007 • 10 min

A surreal, sparkling figure (Space Girl) appears on a farm and observes the complicated relationships of its inhabitants.

The Ants

2007 • 8 min • China

Ordinary people, nightmares in the evening...