All Films

The Valentine Nightmare

2007 • 26 min • United States of America

It's February 14th. A well known and well off gentleman decides to treat his long time girlfriend to your typical Valentine's Day dinner along side his twin brother and sister-in-law. Their sibling double date quickly turns into a jealous, hostile and envious lover's quarrel and ends with a group of 4 individuals that don't know who's who until violence and murder reveals a true identity.

Firstborn complex

2007 • 11 min • Italy, Brazil

A David Lynch-style puppet show. In a creepy world, a young nobleman is jealous of a child, so he hatches a plot to get rid of his troublesome brother

Cosmo: Reloaded

2007 • 13 min • United States of America

As Cosmo is found to be the true target of a cat-napping, it is revealed that old rivals and new enemies are behind the master plan. Moving at breakneck speed into its heart-stopping finale, a car chase featuring the Ford GT Supercar and an Apache Helicopter, Cosmo Reloaded offers more thrills per minute than you can handle.

Across the Line

2007 • 15 min

Across The Line is a first hand account of the pressures and temptations that face vice cops while they are undercover. In the high stakes world of undercover police work, the undercover operatives walk a fine line. Where not going deep enough can get you killed, going too deep can have dire consequences as well. When the line between right and wrong starts to become unclear to an undercover cop, he must make a very difficult decision. A decision that not only affects him, but everyone else around him.

Darkness

2007 • 3 min

A short film made for “To Each His Own Cinema”. A pickpocket in a screening of Au hasard Balthazar accidentally connects with an audience member.

Rent, No Utilities

2007 • 48 min • Germany

One of four flatmates starts living behind his locked door. A psychological warfare begins, that finally escalates.

Journey of a Red Fridge

2007 • 52 min • Denmark, Serbia

This is a story of a 17-year-old boy named Hari Rai, who lives in a small village in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal, and his extraordinary journey. Hari is a student. However, he also works as a porter so that he could pay for his tuition and cover his living expenses. Although very young, he already has three years of experience carrying loads up and down the mountain, mostly tourists' backpacks. This time, he gets a job to carry a huge red refrigerator from the top of the mountain, to the nearest town. We follow Hari Rai on his journey through the fascinating Himalayan landscapes, we discover Hari’s inner life, his thoughts, hopes and dreams and we also get to know the culture and the local people’s way of life in this region.

Cot Cot

2007 • 6 min • Canada

How unbelievably boring is the life of a solitary cowboy living in the middle of a vast prairie, surrounded by stupid chickens clucking and a shapeless bovine! Not surprising then if his temper turns fowl. Based on a strip cartoon by the Swiss writer Ibn Al Rabin, Cot Cot is a hilarious parody of the western, featuring a cowboy at the end of his tether and a cow that's much smarter than she looks.

Dream of Samarra

2007 • 1 min

Super 8 video shot by Alshaibi's brother in Samarra.

Un Nuevo Trabajo

2007 • 24 min • Argentina

An unemployed man lives with the constant disdain of his wife and those around him in general. From one second to the next, he finds practically magical solutions to his financial problems and notices around him that people in Argentina have forgotten the meaning of evils such as inflation and poverty. This will change his relationship with those around him and plunge him into a sea of ​​doubt and confusion. Now the big question is: why is everything so good? This short film is a comic and ironic metaphor for how we Argentines are governed by the discourse of power, as ridiculous as it may be.

Rest Stop for the Rare Individual

2007 • 14 min

After being berated by his Acting Coach, struggling actor Paul Denby embarks on a new line of work. His infatuated colleague George Sheperd offers him a part-time gig while he is out in L.A. Desperate for cash, Paul finds himself in the confines of the infamous Chelsea Hotel, locked in a room with a strange old man who has a unique role in store for him.

Experiment 18: Das Hexenhammer-Projekt

2007 • 10 min • United States of America

A German soldier attempts to use to use the occult powers of The Necronomicon to save the Third Reich.

Today I Like This Song

2007 • 12 min • Germany

Alexandra is spending the weekend at her parents' house. As she arrives at the familiar apartment, nobody's home. Yet successively, the mother, a friend of the family and the father get in. The rooms, which were quite in the beginning, slowly fill up with noises, conversations and activity. Alexandra withdraws from the social world of the family structure repeatedly. Finally, the mother, the father and the friend go to the movies together. Alexandra is left behind by herself.

The Latvian

2007 • 9 min • Latvia

A testament to the power of film – a witty summary of the entire history of Latvia from ancient to modern times in eight minutes.

Love High Diving

2007 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short film about high diving.

What You Do

2007 • 30 min • Norway, Sweden

What You Do – A practical guide. This book shows you how to use your model A1. Using one hundred and twenty three illustrations, it shows how even the hopeless can make a film.

Pope Benedict XVI

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

The story of Joseph Ratzinger from his place of birth in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany, to his appointment as reigning Pope in Rome.

Atchafalaya Houseboat

2007 • 27 min • United States of America

The Atchafalaya is a mysterious land, as much underwater as above. Its lush environment is home to alligators, egrets, black bears – and for a time two people who yearned for a simple, natural life. Atchafalaya Houseboat shares the experiences of Gwen Roland and her companion Calvin Voisin, who left civilization in the turmoil of the early 1970s for the unspoiled beauty of the nation’s largest river swamp, Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin.

BIONICLE: Toa Mahri

2007 • 2 min

The six Toa Mahri descend to the ocean depths to recover the lost Mask of Life

In the Quiet Valley

2007 • 54 min • Slovenia

The film presents the interesting childhood of Lojze Slak and his beginnings in "Barbov Slak", school years, wartime, the testimony of his large family (10 sisters and brothers), colleagues, members of the ensemble, songwriters, editors, producers, etc. The film also contains interesting footage from tours (USA, Canada, Australia), concerts and TV shows throughout the entire period of the Lojze Slak Ensemble.

Groucho

2007 • 19 min • Spain

David, a sixteen-year-old teenager, approaches Enrique in the lift. With the excuse of helping with shopping bags, he gets into his house and tries to seduce him.

Dark Secrets Of The Black Sea

2007 • 56 min

The Black Sea is a place of great mystery and antiquity. Ancient legends describe a time when the oceans rose above the land, causing an entire civilization to vanish beneath the cold waters of this ocean region. Could this be the great flood described in the Bible during the time of Noah?

The Boot of War

2007 • 28 min • France

Normandy, June 5, 1944. In a cave serving as a hideout, a small group of resistance fighters find a wounded soldier unable to speak. He wears an American uniform with German boots. Who is he ?

In Bed with Surrealism. Augusts Sukuts

2007 • 30 min • Latvia

The international film festival Arsenāls has been a fixture on the Riga scene for the last 20 years. It has introduced new film aesthetic and was one of the only creatively free events during Soviet times. Over the years the festival has influenced culture and society in Eastern Europe, continually dazzling us with its creativity. The film is a portrait of the director, the father of Arsenals and trusty knight of surrealism.