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2007 • 22 min • Lithuania

Very unusual, because it is very modern or even ahead of its time.

Winter Dawn

2007 • 15 min • Brazil

Somewhere between reality and fantasy, Jonas plunges into a world where the impossible is absorbed in desires and consciousness is lost in the darkness of the cold dawn.

On Our Watch

2007 • 55 min

The world invoked its vow “Never Again!” after the genocide in Rwanda and atrocities in Srebrenica. Then came Darfur. Over the past four years at least 200,000 people have been killed, 2.5 million driven from their homes, and mass rapes have once more been used as a weapon of war in a brutal campaign by Janjaweed militias and the Sudanese government against civilians in Darfur. FRONTLINE producer Neil Docherty asks why the international community and the United Nations have once again failed to stop the slaughter.

Sahrawis, the eyes of the desert

2007 • 29 min • Spain

An approach to Sahrawi culture, different aspects of daily life, culture and the struggle of the Sahrawi people in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, and in the area of the liberated territories of Tifariti.

Directing Who: Michael Hayes

2007 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Michael Hayes talks about his directing career on Doctor Who.

Macedonian Dream

2007 • 30 min • Germany, Macedonia

This is the portrait of a young accordionist in the 21st century. It is a film about the joys of life and survival strategies on the forgotten stage of Macedonia. This is the story of a 17-year-old accordionist, who is searching for her place in the world. Corridors are her practice rooms – at home and at school. The whole year she practices diligently and passionately on her old Supita accordion. Obviously, she wasn’t given the name Emilija, meaning „the keen one“, for nothing. She wants to become a professional accordionist, but for this she needs a new accordion. Something that is unattainable for her poor family. But the family‘s poverty also releases their creativity and Imagination. Her father, an art teacher, begins to work as a bodyguard, while Emilija‘s mother illegally sells sweets in the family garden. This is a film about becoming an adult in one of Europe‘s more desolate corners.

Spirit Trap

2007 • 7 min • United Kingdom

An unlucky couple seek shelter from rough weather in a nearby derelict building. Something didn't want them there, and now it won't let them leave.

The Talkbackers

2007 • 58 min • Israel

A fast-paced and entertaining documentary about the people who simply cannot keep quiet.

Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia

2007 • 39 min • Canada

If it weren't for a series of cataclysmic events, a comet impact being first on the list, our planet could well still be the domain of dinosaurs. Following Pr Rodolfo Coria, a world-renowned Argentinian paleontologist, we visit sites of major discoveries he has contributed to in Patagonia and travel back in time to see these amazing beasts come to life in 3D...

Tuolumne

2007 • 15 min • United States of America

Short film by Paul Clipson.

From the Opposite Side

2007 • 38 min • Germany

Shot with a hidden camera, from the perspective of someone wandering the streets, the 40-minute film loop tracks 24 hours in the life of the area around the railway station. Actors play passers-by, and passers-by thus become actors.

Including Samuel

2007 • 58 min • United States of America

Photojournalist Dan Habib rarely thought about the inclusion of children with disabilities before he had his son Samuel eight years ago. Now he thinks about inclusion every day. Habib documented his family's efforts to include Samuel in every facet of their lives, a journey that transforms each of them.

Drift

2007 • 4 min • Germany

Drift by Max Hattler sees the body as a metaphorical landscape. Eerie and sometimes too close for comfort the film manages to transform the familiar and mundane into something poetic and mysterious. A narrative grows out of what at first seems like nothing, but by the time the journey is over the viewer is left wanting more. What has happened is uncertain and maybe unimportant. The mood is at the heart of this piece. One part horror film and one part nature study certainly makes for a compelling mix.

Far Away From London

2007 • 20 min • Russia

The hero of the film, the famous director, screenwriter, playwright Vasily Sigarev, tells stories from his life, which, when slightly transformed, become the stories of his plays. For the residents of his native Verkhnyaya Salda it's everyday. For the capital's theaters - an unprecedented reality of provincial life. For the audience - and laughter and horror. For the playwright - numerous prizes and endless pain.

Chechnya No Politics

2007 • 52 min • Latvia

A TV film about what has been experienced in this troubled corner of the Caucasus. Three journeys capture the lives of ordinary people in a war-torn land who, despite everything, have retained their self-respect and honor their traditions. What we see with our own eyes breaks negative stereotypes and makes us admire the moral resilience and self-respect of a people who have suffered so much.

I Just Want to Eat My Sandwich

2007 • 7 min • United States of America

Susan is a busy QA tester trying to eat her lunch at her desk, but she keeps getting interrupted by her co-workers. What's a gal to do when she can't get a bite in edgewise?

ZombieWestern: It Came from the West

2007 • 17 min • Denmark

Virgil lives alone with his bully father and a mute bartender and he is being mocked by the two tough cowboys Eddie and Hank. Because of The Dark Butcher who has been terrorizing the local Indian tribe, the Indians see no other way, than bringing the dead to live by performing The Forbidden Rituals. When the Zombies suddenly attack the saloon, action begins and true characters are brought to daylight. And who is The Dark Butcher?

Hic Rosa, Botanical Score

2007 • 53 min • France

From what was to me a gift of friendship day: a book makes some of Rosa Luxemburg's prison letters written by her friends Sonia Liebknecht and Mathilde Wurm between July 1916 and October 1918. And all the jingles who composed this period: songs of birds, plants, colors and sounds passages. Those for events in the events of the being-locked. As for the outside: October, World War Revolution, The emigrant and Chaplin The Adventurer, The affliction flowers and Klee's zoological garden. Appearances / disappearances, present stories, their intertwined. Destinies.

Yellow Fever

2007 • 12 min • Spain

A man is trying to tell funny news to a friend. A short film about arrogance, machismo and racism.

The coffee

2007 • 3 min • France

Too much coffee can be dangerous!

The Eloquent Carpet

2007 • 9 min • Iran

Ghali-e sokhangoo in Persian Carpet

Margins

2007 • 1 min • Canada

This short animated film looks at the relationship between social spaces and taboos surrounding mental illness and other forms of marginalization. The film is intended as a mood piece, a chance encounter between a lone figure and an indifferent crowd. This film was made as part of the fourth edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Love Ski-Jumping

2007 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A short film about ski-jumping.

The Unobtrusive Plot

2007 • 12 min

Josh strives to keep his creative vision alive despite meddling forces.