All Films

Frankie

2007 • 12 min • Ireland

Frankie is 15 and preparing for fatherhood. He is determined to be the best dad ever, but as his day goes on, he starts to realize how impossible this will be for him.

How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister

2007 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Michael Cockerell tells the story of how prime ministers have coped with life after Number Ten, after Tony Blair became the youngest member of the ex-PMs' club for a hundred years. The film reveals who left office bankrupt, who did TV commercials for Cheshire cheese, who had his own chat show and who has never had a single happy day since leaving Number Ten. Cockerell, who met the eight PMs prior to Blair, looks at what Tony planned do next and just how many millions he could make from being an ex-PM.

The Origin of Atherton

2007 • 22 min

Based upon "The Death Ray" by Dan Clowes, a strange girl's life gets stranger still, when she discovers secrets and powers heretofore unknown. A comic tragedy unfolds when supposed super-heroics and questions of nature versus nurture arise, amid cigarette smoke and 4 color teenage jealousy.

Im In Ur Manger Killing Ur Savior

2007 • 6 min • United States of America

Three nerds turn a nativity scene into a LARP battle; sacrilege ensues.

Un santo para Telmo

2007 • 23 min • Argentina

Only a miracle can save the club San Telmo descending category. Everyone is waiting for the arrival of a Brazilian soccer player, a messiah of soccer that will guide them towards salvation in the match of the outcome. But when stepping on Buenos Aires, Santo will find a city full of dangers and must live an odyssey to get to the field, where he will face his fate.

Frank Caliendo: All Over the Place

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

Frank Caliendo's Standup Special, "All Over the Place", was recorded live in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 15th, 2007. The special was entitled "Frank Caliendo - All over the Place". TBS originally aired the special only a day later on November, 16th 2007, as a precursor to Frank's new TV show "Frank TV". Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, and Jimmy Johnson (all from the FOX NFL Sunday Pregame show) made special guest appearances in bits that started and ran throughout the show. This DVD is the full, unedited show, with more than 20 minutes of unaired standup, outtakes, and multiple other extra special features.

28 Weeks Later: Rage

2007 • 7 min

Dog

2007 • 1 min

Tells the story of the death of a dog and the reactions of the people witness it.

Sting

2007 • 17 min • Norway

Alexander’s schooldays aren’t the happiest. He’s the smallest kid in his class and not the most popular. His life doesn’t become easier when a girl films him under the shower and shares the video with the whole class, earning him the nickname “Mini”.

Pictograph

2007 • 21 min • Slovakia, Ukraine, United States of America

Vignettes of life in the village Kryvorivnya in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, where once the novel "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" was written and later filmed and where, to this day, the passage of time has its own pace.

Archive

2007 • 19 min • Portugal

It’s all natural phenomena. There’s no doubt about that. The tide turns in cycles. Water rots wood. Meteors may fall anytime, anywhere. It’s just rock burning in the atmosphere. Fishes die if they stay out of the water for too long. This process takes time and when it ends there’s no turning back. When one of these things does not take place something fundamental has changed. That’s when miracles happen.

The Lead Fish

2007 • 15 min

A skeptical marine biology student travels to a remote fishing village with the intention of doing a study on a strange fish called "The lead fish." There, unintentionally, he finds himself involved in a macabre mermaid tale.

Romeo's Kiss

2007 • 12 min • France

How do we fall in love? While rehearsing the love scene between Romeo and Juliette, Cécile, Thomas and Jérémie, barely twenty years old, each bring, in their own way, an answer to this question.

How The Steel Was Tempered - On Screen and In Life

2007 • 43 min • Ukraine

How the film was made, how the events described in the film actually happened, about Nikolai Ostrovsky and much more.

Good Soil

2007 • 25 min • Japan, United States of America

Ships from Europe brought Christianity to the shores of Japan in 1549. For decades the seeds of faith grew under the watchful gaze of the Shogun, but the fear of foreign influence eventually gave rise to persecution. By 1624, Japanese Christians enjoyed only a few more years of peace. Jinbei Mauda comes to a point in his journey were he has to choose between his family or faith. Jinbei Masuda, a Japanese Christian of the samurai class who draws his strength from his faith, family and kenjitsu (Art of the Sword). However, he is caught up in the shogun's policy of religious persecution and must choose between his loved ones or his God.

The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist

2007 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Short film chronicling the transformation of mainstream media and the balance of political power in the last few decades by looking at how the role of the broadcast journalist has changed since the 1950s. Screened during the third episode of the fourth series of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe.

Áigi (Time)

2007 • 26 min • Estonia, Latvia

A reindeer herdsman’s life is as gently monotonous as the tundra itself. It flows in synchrony with the life of the reindeer herd from one migration to the next. The time between these two points belongs entirely to the herdsman. It’s áigi - the herdsman’s time.

Dane Cook: Rough Around the Edges

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

Dane Cook's smash-hit show Rough Around The Edges is an energetic powerhouse stand-up performance recorded live in front of a packed house at Madison Square Garden.

10 Centavos

2007 • 19 min • Brazil

A day in the life of a boy who lives in the railway suburbs of Salvador and works as a car guard in the historic center.

Show Me Daddy's Ultra-Power

2007 • 21 min • South Korea

Young-hun, a man with supernatural powers, lives with his seven-year old son, Min-ho, who is crazy about pretty girls despite his young age. Young-hun, who used to be a safebreaker, stole his son from his ex-wife. He loves his son very much, so he wants to do everything for him, but he can't seem to manage his life very well. Then one day, an old friend comes to Young-hun and suggests another crime he can't resist.

Spandex Man

2007 • 14 min • Norway

In Ben's home, the walls are decorated with news articles about violent incidents he witnessed. One day he dresses himself to a pastel-colored super hero before a masquerade, and turns out that his superhero will be put to the test.

Bitch Academy

2007 • 29 min • Russia

A documentary on women in St. Petersburg who enroll in a program which will help them land millionaire husbands.

Ekelöf's Blick - En Nordisk Diktarresa

2007 • 51 min • Sweden

Ekelöf's Blick is a film about swedish poet and mystic Gunnar Ekelöf. The film is an attempt to visually articulate how Ekelöf saw things, a world characterized by an enigmatic beauty never previously formulated in such a way.

The Taste of Nothingness

2007 • 50 min • Canada

The Taste of Nothingness is a meditative exploration of the deliberate self-destruction of a seemingly normal teenager and his intimate friend. With his parents away, Julien has decided to commit suicide, with his friend Niels filming him. First seen naked in bed together, the handsome youths awaken, dress, and begin to methodically discard all of Julien's possessions and attachments. Demonstrating a casual ease with one another and their bodies, they wordlessly record both the mundane and unusual aspects of these last two days of life. The Taste of Nothingness is a challenging but rewarding experimental film that haunts the viewer long after it ends.