All Films

Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise

2007 • 56 min • France, Senegal

Director Alice Diop was born in France of Senegalese parents. After their death, she felt the need to explore her roots. Armed with her camera, she went to spend a month filming the daily lives of the women of her family whom she had never met: Néné and her two daughters Mouille and Mame Sarr.

The Nebula Dawn

2007 • 54 min • Luxembourg

Professor Hagen (Claude Peiffer) wants to investigate this question together with his assistants Victor (Claude Hansen), Dan (Daniel Paulus), and Lena (Tania Mangen) and their paranormal research. One day, an anonymous tip leads them to a mysterious, previously unknown videotape that may provide revolutionary proof of the existence of ghosts. To find out if the tape is real, the four decide to embark on an expedition, enlisting the help of a dubious ghost hunter, Mr. Montana (Pierre Heinen). But who is this mysterious Montana, and what does he really want?

Manon on the Asphalt

2007 • 15 min • France

On a day in early summer, two young men play squash, a lifeguard watches an indoor pool, a young woman shelves books at a store, another stages a puppet show for children in a park, an older woman cooks, and Manon gets on her bicycle to ride to a rendezvous with her boyfriend. She turns a corner. Something happens. As she lies on the asphalt, a crowd gathers around her and an ambulance arrives; we hear her voice, first confused as to what has happened, then telling us how her friends and her mother will receive word, and how her friends will gather to talk. As images move back and forth in time, she remembers recent events and expresses some small regrets.

Stricken

2007 • 15 min • United States of America

The chilling tale of a young woman pursued by the nightmares of her past. Some things will not stay dead. It waits in the dark.

Roy G Biv

2007 • 1 min • Canada

Dale Hayward brings to life his watercolour on paper. This film was made as part of the fourth edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Talvisota - ensimmäinen torjuntavoitto

2007 • 55 min • Finland

A documentary film about Winter War between Finland and Soviet Union.

Byron Chief-Moon: Grey Horse Rider

2007 • 48 min • Canada

Actor, dancer, and choreographer, Chief-Moon is founder of the Coyote Arts Percussive Performance Association, and member of the Blackfoot Confederacy, member of the Blood Band. Through his art and his life, Chief-Moon's story is one of cultural survival. Themes of his dance creations begin with his people's traditional stories, his attachment to the land and his community, as well as the inner conflict he faces in existing within the Aboriginal culture and the wider community. The documentary also explores his identity as a First Nations two-spirited gay man and a father of three adopted children. His art and his life cross boundaries. Challenging the cultural construct is never easy; but Chief-Moon does.

Darkness of Truth

2007 • 40 min • Sweden

Sandra, a young female student, rents a room from Anna-Lisa, a middle aged actress and former ballet dancer in Berlin.

Bridging the Golden Gate

2007 • 50 min

This documentary is about the iconic Golden Gate bridge and the innovative design solutions that comprise it.

Khufu Revealed

2007 • 52 min • France

The Great Pyramids are the only wonder of the ancient world that still stand today, the greatest of which is the pyramid of Khufu. Many theories have been offered to explain its construction, but none as convincing or unique as this one.

Straight Outta Frayser

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

A documentary of North Memphis / Frayser neighborhood rap scene, specifically focused on DJ Sound and his many collaborators.

A Man Among Wolves

2007 • 50 min

See a man living among wolves as the National Geographic Channel presents the unique story of maverick researcher named Shaun Ellis who raises abandoned wolf cubs and teaches them by example how to survive in the wild. In A Man Among Wolves, see how Shaun has given up everything to take a daring and unorthodox approach to understanding wolves' every move - living and behaving like them, howling, licking and snarling like them, even eating carcass meat like them.

Isla chatarra

2007 • 52 min • Puerto Rico

Isla chatarra describes the phenomenon of the ubiquity of automobiles in Puerto Rico. The island measures slightly less than 9,000 square kilometers, but has 25,000 kilometers of paved road, one of the highest proportions in the planet. Puerto Rico is one of the countries with the largest number of vehicles per kilometer (of road) and third in the world in number of cars per 1,000 inhabitants. The film was produced with the idea to raise consciousness and create a dialogue about the ongoing situation of our dependence on cars. It also shows the dangerous circumstances of an island that is slowly being covered by scrap metal.

Gene Boy Came Home

2007 • 25 min • Canada

A portrait of Eugene "Gene Boy" Benedict from Odanak Indian Reserve near Montreal, Quebec. At 17, adrift and beginning to lose his way, he accepted a dare and enlisted in the US Marines – and was sent to the frontlines of the Vietnam War. This film is the account of his two years of service and his long journey back to Odanak afterwards.

Clean Hands, Dirty Soap

2007 • 25 min • Egypt

The events revolve around Hadi, who works as a washroom attendant at a disco in a hotel in Cairo, and he sees his life slipping away from his hands. On an unexpected visit to a cabaret, he finds himself in love with the dancer Nour.

Foam and Bone

2007 • 20 min • Brazil

The TV, the bathroom, the window, the kitchen, the light and the shadow. Under the surveillance of crickets and cockroaches lives the strange and the common.

Betrayed Women

2007 • 37 min • Portugal

Two married people fall in love and everything else breaks apart. A infidelities story told in a female voice.

Daddy's Home

2007 • 4 min • United States of America

A short film about what happens when a father catches his young daughter in a compromising position.

On Top of the Earth

2007 • 22 min • France

Sophie is both attracted to boys and girls. She is torn between Nicolas and Mathilde.

Nightmare at School

2007 • 9 min • Canada

Who hasn't felt apprehensive at the thought of starting high school? This is the central theme of this short animated film. Playing on imagination and humour, the director offers viewers a thought provoking piece dealing with the transition that young people between the ages of 10 and 13 experience. Inspired by the work of Escher and Magritte, Catherine Arcand has created a graphically rich film through optical illusions and trompe-l'oeil effects. Her style aptly illustra tes the theme of perceptions and is perfectly suited to conveying the dream world into which the film takes us.

Superspy: The Man Who Betrayed the West

2007 • 60 min

The incredible true story of a high-ranking intelligence officer, Robert Hanssen, who betrays US secrets to foreign powers, and the young FBI agent tasked with capturing him.

Secret Yellowstone

2007 • 46 min • United States of America

Discover spectacular backcountry wonders unseen by tourists as you venture off the beaten track to experience the extraordinary hidden wilderness of Yellowstone National Park. Witness towering, newly mapped waterfalls; rarely seen predator behavior by wolves and grizzly bears; and ecological mysteries found only in this uniquely challenging environment.

Lives for Sale

2007 • 58 min

This harrowing film goes beyond the rhetoric to show why immigrants are willing to risk everything – even virtual slavery – for the American Dream. While politicians, activists, and the media wrestle with the thorny issue of immigration Lives for Sale exposes the painful, rarely seen human side of illegal immigration – especially the growing black market trade in human beings. The documentary also looks at some practical alternatives to these tragic realities. Interviews include immigrants, a "coyote" who brings people across the border for money, clerics, activists, and law-enforcement officials.

The Last Road to Hell

2007 • 43 min

"The Last Road to Hell" tells the story of three groups of criminals whose paths bring them together for a weekend they will never forget. Three kidnappers (Russ, Meiko and Kat) kidnap a woman (Patricia) and take her to a warehouse run by a demon conjuring low life (Bill). They are joined there by two young male torture fanatics (Bruce and Ray) and another group of kidnappers (Paul and company). When the two kidnapped females turn out to be more than they bargained for, all roads will lead to Hell.