All Films

Middle-earth

2007 • 8 min • Thailand

A white dream of a gay film maker. Two naked men on a white sofa. Yet it remains in the imagination. Pansittivorakul is the most outspoken gay filmmaker in Thailand. Or in the whole of Southeast Asia, you could say. The fact that last year he received a Silpathorn Award, an official state prize for artists, was one of the few encouraging events in a country with a military regime and unpredictable censorship. The film is an ode to the male body. Two naked men on a white sofa. And a film maker who restrains himself.

Tranquil

2007 • 20 min • Japan

“The rain” and “white noise” , “the outside of water” , “the inside of water” , everything become to together and drifting. A dark dark film in rain forest inspired by a music term to “Tranquil”.

Accidental Son

2007 • 54 min • Croatia

The documentary Accidental Son is an autobiographic story of Robert Zuber. As a child, Robert grew up in a children’s home and was later adopted by a foster family. He never paid much attention to it because his foster parents loved him as their own child. But, after the death of his foster mother, the bureaucratic apparatus tries to convince him that he actually has no parents. On his 31st birthday, Robert decides to straighten things out. He gets in touch with his biological mother and tries to find out the facts of his early childhood. At the same time, he wants to know who his biological father is. This search is full surprises. The film is a part of UNICEF’s campaign ‘Every Child Needs a Family'.

Boys

2007 • 36 min • Russia

The odyssey of two brothers aged nine and eleven: house entrances in Strogino, the motherís apartment, a boarding school, a gipsy camp and gloomy homecomings. Dramatic adventures, as in every road movie, teach the protagonists a lot about the world, and for the first time they are pushed off into loneliness and treachery.

The Fibros and The Silvertails

2007 • 56 min • Australia

The teams are Wests and Manly. The year is 1978. Manly are the new face of rugby league and have won the premiership three times in the last decade. Wests have to look back to 1952. Then a new coach takes over at Wests. Roy Masters coins the phrase — the fibros and the silvertails — to describe the struggle of the western suburbs against the elite of the city’s north and east. The season will become a war of words off the field and a battle on the field. The game will be overshadowed by violence and refereeing controversy. At the start, Wests and Manly are just two teams among many. By the end, they will be bitter rivals. Fibro and silvertail will be part of our language. And everyone will have two teams — their own team and the team playing Manly. This is the story of one of sport’s classic feuds.

El Regresso de Sehdmeled

2007 • 7 min • Spain

A group of archaeologists travels to Egypt to transfer Sehdmeled's mummy to the London museum. But the guardians of the sands, who are in charge of preserving the pyramid intact, are aware of the curse that Sehdmeled hides.

Rock Pockets

2007 • 5 min • Canada

A sugar rush of sex, politics, and rock 'n' roll, as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy at the fair.

Mate al fondo

2007 • 13 min

During a chess game, you will experience a rather peculiar and tense situation due to a bet.

I Kill People for Money

2007 • 26 min • United States of America

A hit man, a gang rape, an all-white hip hop crew, ultra hot teenage pregnancy, helpful instructional videos taught by puppets, erotic man wrestling, Chuck Norris, and some hard hitting bass. Nothing gets people's respect more than some hard hitting bass. Before this is over we are going to unveil the major weapon in the ongoing battle waged by Hollywood to legitimize hard-core gay pornography. Seriously.

Margin

2007 • 54 min • Brazil

Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips.

Thomas & Friends: Thomas and the Toy Workshop

2007 • 49 min • United States of America

Thomas, Percy and their friends learn about the 'Spirit of Sodor' and the secret of the cliffs. Join them as they prepare for the grand opening of the Toy Workshop and find out what lies at the end of the rainbow! Hop on board for these non-stop adventures today!

The Hairdressers

2007 • 26 min • Chile

Ana Luisa is single and has been getting up early to open the hairdresser's shop in her living room for 30 years. Tato is married, and has been getting up even earlier to go to the Brasil neighborhood and attend Ana Luisa's hairdressing salon for 40 years. Hairstyles and cuts, it is the only thing left to offer. The hairdresser's is her refuge in the middle of a neighborhood that has become too young for their eyes. Among those who visit them is Aurora, a goddaughter who offers Ana Luisa an opportunity to try to revive the business. The plan is simple: she makes some flyers to be handed out in the square. Ana Luisa doesn't see the point of trying something like this, Tato believes that nothing is lost. They agree on one thing: handing them out will mean accepting anyone who wants to go for a cut, even the young people who they say mistreat the neighborhood.

No Love Lost

2007 • 5 min • Spain

No Love Lost opens on an abandoned factory, or industrial space. Blood on the concrete floor and the sound of violence off-screen. The back of a blonde torso flicks in and out of view, smacking down methodically. Neither the sound heard nor the body shown can be attached to a gender, and the viewer is even unsure which limbs belong to which bodies. There are long pauses where the screen goes dark and only the sounds of grunts and impact can be heard. A fight scene without the fight: just sounds, flickering images of limbs and hair.

Echo Park

2007 • 7 min • United States of America

Automatic-writing on film, using double exposures, macro imagery, dissolves, and in-camera editing to create a dream collage of Los Angeles, from the perspective of a plane and an arachnid dancing between water and sun.

O Último Kuarup Branco

2007 • 52 min • Brazil

The creation of the Xingu Indigenous Park is reassessed by indigenous peoples and anthropologists. Almost 50 years after the initiative, which had the decisive participation of the indigenist brothers Cláudio and Orlando Villas-Bôas, the older indigenous people still have not forgotten the original lands they left behind. Some want to go back to their old origins.

Heavy Metal

2007 • 29 min • Finland

The end of the 80s, a village in the middle of Finland. 15-year-old Hevari, the only long-haired boy in town, is the coolest guy in the world - at least according to Kake from next door. No-one else seems to agree. Short-tempered Hevari is used to being the laughing stock among the gang and the girls. But when the Friday night comes and there's a disco at the community hall, it's time to go again. Maybe tonight everything will be different.

Heaven Above Holland

2007 • 42 min • Netherlands

Hemel Boven Holland tells the story of Mohammed B., who was the murderer of filmmaker 'Theo van Gogh'. The film especially shows how the welfare worker turns into a merciless killer.

Belgrade's Radio Warriors

2007 • 60 min • Germany, United Kingdom

In 1989 a youth radio station, B-92, started up in Belgrade. It almost immediately became a symbol of the resistance to Serbian nationalism and all that Slobodan Milosevic decreed. Here, the young radio workers give a candid account of life in Belgrade throughout the years of war. They also describe their own contribution, despite all the authorities' efforts to suppress them, to the liberation of their city and their country.

Last Stop

2007 • 9 min • Sweden

Bertil is an old man from Norrbotten in Sweden. His brother has just died, and the shipping of the deceased brother turns out to be very expensive. Bertil decides to solve the whole thing in his own way ...

Beirut City Guide

2007 • 50 min • Lebanon

Beirut, Lebanon's capital has a long history of political and social unrest that still makes headlines today. Globe Trekker's Beirut City Guide captures the city in more optimistic days, two weeks before the latest outbreak of hostilities in Lebanon between Israeli and Hezbollah forces in July 2006. Globe Trekker Megan McCormick explores the neighborhoods of Basta, Solidere, Gemayze and the Hezbollah District and finds a city in the midst of regeneration. She gets a glimpse at Beirut's future when meeting up with a group of young Arabic hip hop artists, who are eager to live in peace and put the country's political troubles in the past.

The Father of Godzilla: Eiji Tsuburaya

2007 • 7 min • United States of America

The life of Eiji Tsuburaya, pioneer of Japanese special effects.

Love Basketball

2007 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short film about basketball.

Nico y Tina

2007 • 9 min • Spain

A love affair between two smokers becomes complicated when they run out of fire and tobacco. A miniature satire, featuring tango, absurd humor, and criticism of smoking.

The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes

2007 • 45 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Ben Underwood had both his eyes removed at the age of three. He taught himself to perceive and locate objects by making clicking sounds with his tongue and using the echoes as they bounced off his environment.