All Films

At Sea

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

Three segments depicting the life cycle of a freighter boat.

Vestido nuevo

2007 • 15 min • Spain

This is the story of Mario, an 8 year old boy, who comes to his class dressed as a girl.

Mr. Knockout: The Enigma of Valery Popenchenko

2007 • 46 min • Russia

Legendary boxer Valery Popenchenko died on February 15, 1975. A decade of his victories went down in the history of Soviet sports as a time of international triumph for our boxing school.

Ten Pound Poms

2007 • 52 min • Australia, United Kingdom

This heart-warming film traces the extraordinary story of Australia's 'Ten Pound Poms' and their families from the post-war era through to the 1960s.

Pagaré

2007 • 7 min • Mexico

A comedy short film about greed, skyscrapers and flying toupees.

Little Wings

2007 • 14 min

The dramatic short, Little Wings, explores the trauma of child abuse through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy named Thomas. In this emotional tale, Thomas learns about the Legend of the Butterfly from his mother, Emily. The Legend states that if you whisper a wish to a butterfly and then set it free, the butterfly will carry the wish off to the heavens to be granted. Thomas loves butterflies and seeks the escape he needs in the pages of his favorite butterfly book. Butterflies are his only true happiness while growing up on a farm with his abusive father. After Thomas saves a butterfly from a spider's web, a stranger arrives at the farmhouse. As the tale continues, Thomas ultimately finds his freedom and steps into the unknown world of "Joy".

Dear Camilo

2007 • 52 min • Brazil, Costa Rica, Nicaragua

Two documentary makers meet again, through a TV news show, with a friend from their youth, Camilo Mejía, the first United States soldier to fight in the Iraq War, who after being declared a deserter by the military court spent a year in prison. "Why are we here? Do we have a right to do this? Are we, at least, protecting ourselves?" The documentary finds in Mejía, an antiwar activist presently living in Miami, a reflection about the war experience.

The Subject of the Picture

2007 • 6 min

With the complicity of a painter, an elderly man recovers youth and manages to wander through paintings.

Dolly

2007 • 19 min • Spain

Dani feels obliged to acknowledge for her best friend that he's in love with her. It's now or never. The 15 minutes can change his life forever.

Bloody Current Exchange

2007 • 11 min • France

A well dressed old man was waiting on a bed. A telephone rang. A glamorous young lady entered the room. They vaguely introduced themselves and made love. A bloody current exchange in a way.

Don't Get Me Wrong

2007 • 50 min • Romania

A glimpse at the daily lives of patients in a Romanian psychiatric hospital.

Openti Bioscope

2007 • 49 min

Are Friends Electric?

2007 • 39 min • United Kingdom

This documentary examines Tom Baker's introduction as the Doctor and the making of his first story, Robot.

Jim Norton: Monster Rain

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

Jim Norton is back on HBO and holds nothing back in this 60-minute concert performed in front of a live audience at The Lincoln Theater in Washington DC. Norton, known for his straight up comedy that sometimes crosses lines no other comedians dare to cross, gives his hilarious perspectives on contemporary issues, dating, celebrities, prostitutes and much more.

He Can't Be Caught

2007 • 15 min • United States of America

Halloween night on an Indian reservation brings out pranksters and possibly real monsters when a young couple encounters what may or may not be the legendary monster Bigfoot.

Mary Worth

2007 • 21 min • Canada

When they were children, Claire and Andrea would play Mary Worth (An old game where you say her name into a mirror three times). However, they could never muster the courage to say Mary's name the third time. Now curious and bored teenagers, they decide to play once more for fun. What they don't know is that the legend of Mary Worth is actually true, and if her name is recited at the right time of night, they will soon discover the terror that follows speaking the name... MARY WORTH.

The Librarian from the Black Lagoon

2007 • 9 min • United States of America

based on the book of the same name, Hubie's class is going to visit the library for the first time, and rumor has it the library is a dark dungeon of rules and misery. Presiding over the ghastly proceedings is Mrs. Beamster, better known as: The Laminator. Hubie is sure he's doomed...but when he actually gets to the library, will things be as he expected?

The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press

2007 • 58 min • United States of America

In this documentary, Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb, now well into her nineties, tells the story of how she and her husband Jon Webb published the avant-garde literary magazine 'The Outsider' from a small apartment in the French Quarter in the early 1960s. By day Gypsy Lou sold paintings on a street corner, and by night she set the type that introduced the world to the beat poet Charles Bukowski.

O raio transparente

2007 • 9 min • Spain

An acorn and a mussel are arguing about who is the most miraculous saint when they find a magical trumpet at the side of the road.

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

2007 • 17 min • United States of America

A look at the visual design of the film The Shining (1980).

Jet Set

2007 • 40 min • Serbia

When aliens attack a turbo-folk festival in Stepojevac, Boban Zdravkovic, having narrowly escaped the massacre, sets out on a mission of revenge for his friend Saban Saulic and the other fallen singers. With the help of the prophet Sasa Matic, Sejo Kalac, and a secret teleporter, Boban travels through time to prevent the catastrophe. In a comically epic battle between peasants and singers against an alien threat, the fate of turbo-folk lies in Boban's hands — but at what cost?

Serene Hunter

2007 • 13 min • France, United States of America

A randy gay Parisian moves in with his new boyfriend just as an old flame from Los Angeles comes back into town.

Kingz

2007 • 20 min

A botched drug deal spirals out of control in a subterranean night club filled with unnameable evils. The action is furious and so are the villains, so be prepared for some whirlwind brutality!

Working Class Ballet

2007 • 49 min • Latvia

The European championship football madness, drunken "experts" at the provincial stadium, the backstage of National team, raving fans at the streets of Paris and Lisbon. Football is a sport and entertainment through possibly there is more to the game. In the film "Working Class Ballet" philosophers, linguists, neuropsychologist and football coach are contemplating on the parallels between football and drama of life, forming an unusual tale on what football is or could be.