All Films

Around the World in 21 Days

2007 • 52 min

Our story begins with the introduction of two female Londoners on the first leg in South Africa of their 21-day journey around the world in the bicentenary year of the abolition of the slave trade act. The world of middle aged West Indians now intrudes upon the year out backpacking community and the conflict within our documentary thereby begins.

Western Sunburn

2007 • 9 min • Canada, France

A re-photography in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.

Lions of Crocodile River

2007 • 50 min

Lazy relatives. Jealous neighbors. Runaway kids. The everyday troubles of one family - except this family is a pride of lions. Shot over three years during the most extreme seasonal changes in Africa, the film follows Mfumu - the pride's leader - as he struggles to defend his turf, and his mate Chipazuwa as she tries to produce offspring. Among the threats: a river infested with crocodiles that have taken every litter of cubs -- and a rival male, bent on taking over the pride.

Bad Chemistry

2007 • 23 min • Norway

One day, the 11-year old chemical prodigy and boy wonder Frederik gets a substitute teacher with ultra-liberal educational methods on her mind.

Vision of the Dark Tower

2007 • 5 min • Netherlands

Vision of the Dark Tower is a dream within a dream. Based on the Dark Tower novels by Stephen King, this animated short describes the call of the Dark Tower to one of the main characters.

Mystery Train: Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes

2007 • 34 min • United States of America

This video essay, featuring film scholar Leonard Leff, addresses the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes' British context and political underpinnings and the details and techniques that undeniably make it a 'Hitchcock picture.'

An Imaginary Life

2007 • 5 min • Australia

For an imaginary friend, living an imaginary life, there's nothing worse than being forgotten.

Judy Chicago & the California Girls

2007 • 27 min • United States of America

Judy Chicago & the California Girls is an historical documentary by and about women, at the birth of the Women’s Art Movement in Fresno, California, 1971

Koryo Saram the Unreliable People

2007 • 60 min

Koryo Saram (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the harrowing saga of survival in the open steppe country and the sweep of Soviet history through the eyes of these deported Koreans, who were designated by Stalin as an "unreliable people" and enemies of the state. Through recently uncovered archival footage and new interviews, the film follows the deportees' history of integrating into the Soviet system while working under punishing conditions in Kazakhstan, a country which became a concentration camp of exiled people from throughout the Soviet Union.

Oh, Saigon

2007 • 57 min • United States of America

Accompanied by gripping images from the war, 'Oh, Saigon' is an in-depth, compelling documentary about one refugee family's attempts to face its divided past and heal the physical and emotional wounds of the Vietnam War.

Water Spell

2007 • 42 min • China

"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me, this film is about reincarnation and transformation, on both the spiritual and sub-atomic levels. This is not an easy film, but it is a powerful one."

--Nina Menkes

1/10 Zemesmātes biroja

2007 • 20 min • Latvia

The film tells the story of A. Bikše's object "1/10 of Mother Earth's Office" in the Great Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Riga. After its closure, there were plans to create a park here, but at present it looks like a place abandoned to fate, used mainly by drunkards, mothers with prams and dogs. A confrontation between the opinions of cultural critic P. Bankovskis and artist A. Bikše on the fate of the cemetery, the contemporary meaning of art, and the creation of the art object itself.

Wanted

2007 • 22 min • South Korea

One day, a peaceful small town is visited by anold woman with widow’s weed and blackumbrella. Then, all of sudden, the rain starts tofall on the fine day. Next day morning, thewoman comes back and this time, with thunderand rainstorm. Later, the town people find outfrom a police man that the woman is wantedand dangerous, but it’s was too late to save thevillage from the disaster.

Tunnel Trade

2007 • 21 min • United Kingdom

When the Israeli army withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, it built a wall along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt. This split the city of Rafah in half. Today virtually nothing crosses the border. Yet through an underground network of tunnels, people smuggle everything from weapons, food supplies to medicines. The film is produced for Al-Jazeera International.

Small Apartment

2007 • 8 min • United States of America

A middle aged man, his son, and his daughter-in-law explore love and perversion in 700 square feet of space.

Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story

2007 • 54 min

The real life story of the events surrounding the fight for and against public housing and racial integration in Yonkers, New York in the 1980s as portrayed in the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero.

Drugged

2007 • 4 min

he drank the drink

Ballada o Piotrowskim

2007 • 57 min • Poland

The main character is Piotrowski, who seems to be a loser in life. One day, he decides to change his life and make his dreams come true by starting a hairdressing salon. He is not very skilled in this profession, so most people are afraid to use its services.

Saving Mom and Dad

2007 • 15 min

At eight-year-old Ravi Malhotra's school, he learns that non-believers in Christ will go to Hell. Knowing his parents are not Christian, his challenge is "Saving Mom and Dad".

Confessions of a Slacker

2007 • 17 min • Canada

Twenty-five, drunk, two-timed, worn out, and dumped, Jack is having a mid life crisis of sorts. Working at a gas station by day, and trying to be a writer by night, Jack has always, at best, had a tentative grip on sobriety. But when his writers block won't diminish, and his supposed soul-mate informs him she's leaving him for his best friend, Jack finds an all new way of hitting rock bottom. After some severe misadventures due to binge drinking, Jack is forced to face his demons and give himself a good hard look. But admitting you have a problem and doing something about it are two very different things.

Obey The Walrus

2007 • 2 min • Spain

a creepy viral video from 2007 who depicts Johnnie Baima, (from a 90's documentary film called, The Goddess Bunny) tap-dancing for about a minute before the video fades out to a picture of a walrus.

Biology Made Un-easy

2007 • 1 min • Canada

A close look at the microscopic world that surrounds us. Within each basic human interaction there is something strange festering under the surface, and we just need a good magnifying glass and a strong stomach to see it. This film was made as part of the fourth edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Missing

2007 • 4 min

they went missing

Tolya

2007 • 9 min

On International Women’s Day, when all his fellow migrant workers call their distant wives, Tolya remains speechless as he calls his wife, Natasha. He can’t produce anything except a whistling mumble with his toothless mouth. Tolya is ready to give up on words, but not on his romantic message.