All Films

The Possibility of Hope

2007 • 27 min • Mexico, United States of America

A look at different matters of the world such as immigration, global warming and capitalism through the eyes of scientists and philosophers.

The Alps - Climb of Your Life

2007 • 45 min • United States of America

In 1966, John Harlin II died while attempting Europe's most difficult climb, the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. 40 years later, his son John Harlin III, an expert mountaineer and the editor of the American Alpine Journal, returns to attempt the same climb.

Doris Day: Virgin Territory

2007 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Doris Day has often been dismissed as an actress and overlooked as a singer, despite career highs such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk. Covering her early years as a band singer, and her troubled private life, this documentary re-evaluates one of the screen's most enduring legends.

Cinema Asia: India

2007 • 52 min • United States of America

While Northern India’s 100-year-old film industry is best known for flamboyant dance sequences and romantic plot lines, its directors have begun to step outside established formulas and explore grittier subject matter. This program surveys the world of Bollywood filmmaking, examining the personalities as well as the commercial and thematic concerns that drive central Asia’s answer to Tinseltown. Interviews with directors Karan Johar, Ashutosh Gowariker, and Yash Chopra are included, along with commentary from choreographers, musical directors, and Cinemaya Magazine editor Aruna Vasudev. The industry’s newfound attention to poverty, homelessness, and other social concerns is examined. Several film excerpts are included.

The Prince and the Pauper: Double Trouble

2007 • 50 min

Mistaken identities make for a remarkable adventure as Tom Canty, a poor beggar boy swaps places with Prince Edwared, the heir to the throne, in this new animated version of this beloved story. With its brilliant CGI animation, all-animal cast of characters and brand-new original songs and music, it's double the fun for audiences of all ages!

Mirrors

2007 • 14 min • Canada

Julian is a melancholic teenager on holiday at the family cottage. His holiday gets a twist when a mysterious neighbor confuses him. A summertime coming-of-age drama.

Inte alla hästar i stallet

2007 • 25 min • Sweden

Leo brings his girlfriend to his dysfunctional and gambling family.

The Necklace

2007 • 30 min • France

Mathilde and her husband, who works in a minister's office, are not rich. Mathilde, however, loves beautiful clothes and her husband loves her too much that he lets her do anything she wants. One day they receive an invitation for an important party and she wants to look her best. She borrows a beautiful diamond necklace from her rich friend, but then the necklace gets lost.

Script Cops

2007 • 6 min • United States of America

An irreverent parody about officers who arrest people for bad screenwriting.

A Man Under the Influenza

2007 • 14 min

On a hot summer day, a man wearing a sweater coughs as he walks. He enters an underground, gruesome restaurant and orders fried rice. The restaurant owner swears to customers who leave food on their plate unfinished and he struggles to finish everything on his plate. The film takes advantage of the short film form and accentuates its merits, taking the story through a dramatic flow in a simple situation with various characters.

Ecki's World

2007 • 52 min • Germany

The documentary is a portrait of of the oldest video library in the world and its owner, Eckhard "Ecki" Baum. Baum opened the "Video Film-Shop" in Kassel, Germany in the summer of 1975. It all began in the Wolfsanger district with the sale and exchange of Super 8 films, that soon led to a bigger shop and some daring methods.

Cumade Fulozinha

2007 • 60 min • Brazil

A group of Brazilian teenagers are haunted by the Cumade Fulozinha, a forest spirit from old folk tales.

Akira's Hip Hop Shop

2007 • 37 min • United States of America

Asian man. Black woman. Two people from different worlds bond over rap, food and friendship. A hip-hop "When Harry Met Sally". "Save the Last Dance" meets "Tampopo."

The Pixar Shorts: A Short History

2007 • 23 min • United States of America

The story of Pixar's early short films illuminates not only the evolution of the company but also the early days of computer animation, when a small group of artists and scientists shared a single computer in a hallway, and struggled to create emotionally compelling short films.

A Very Brave Witch

2007 • 8 min

One Halloween, a little witch decides she'd finally like to see what this special night is about. As soon as she makes a new friend, she discusses how much fun trick or treating with humans can be.

Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video 24

2007 • 60 min • Japan

The 24th series that introduces the mysterious phenomenon reflected in the home video of ordinary households and the psyche that was mixed in with the surveillance camera !! "Sobbing" Many stone monuments are lined up at the entrance of the pitch-black shrine. In the past, murders have occurred in this place, and it is said that the spirits of victims sobbing at night will appear.

Tóxico, Texaco, Tóxico

2007 • 40 min

The imagination of history in Ecuador never thought that oil, “its redeeming hope”, discovered in the Lago Agrio No. 1 well, was going to mean the beginning of the worst environmental catastrophe on the planet. Thirty years of operation and exploitation of the Texaco company, forever transformed the rivers and estuaries, the forests and the life of the indigenous communities in the northern Amazon of Ecuador.

Bordellaffären från Makten och sanningen

2007 • 28 min • Sweden

"Makten och sanningen" - depicts the Geijer-affair or the Brothel-affair in 1977 where journalist Peter Bratt was forced to publish an apology in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter even though it turned out that everything he had previously written in the case was true. The Swedish Minister of Justice Lennart Geijer was accused of using under age escort girls provided by the Madam Doris Hopp in Stockholm. Geijer denied the charges..

Halo: Landfall

2007 • 7 min • United States of America

Director Neill Blomkamp explores the lives of Marines and ODSTs on a last, desperate mission in a post-invasion Earth – a mission that may secure the salvation, or usher the destruction of the entire galaxy. Edited together as a standalone piece for the first time, these three shorts are the first glimpse at what a live-action Halo could and should look like and a must-see for Halo fans of every stripe.

Alfred's Playhouse

2007 • 21 min • United States of America

Traumatized? Come to Alfred's Playhouse - the place you can escape to mentally, where only silliness is making forced entry! Alfred, the emotionally-disturbed, Dissociative-Identity-Dis order inflicted dog, sucks you into his fantasy world, created through dissociation to escape from his painful reality. But the Playhouse isn't all that it seems - the fun leads to a penetrating flashback, causing Alfred to spiral further into dillusion - and get a visit from the candyman!

Auf der Strecke (On the Line)

2007 • 30 min • Germany, Switzerland

A department store security guard is secretly in love with a clerk in the store's bookshop. When he witnesses a seeming rival being attacked in the train, he gets off instead of helping him. Not being able to deal with his bad conscience, his formerly controlled life breaks down.

From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects

2007 • 20 min • France

In a survey of Agnès Varda's work in short films, the director has a conversation with Anne Huet and Alain Berlaga.

Casting Pearls

2007 • 7 min • United States of America

A short film that illustrates the difficulties transsexual women face in Hollywood via a hectic series of auditions endured by a transsexual actress.

Little Bee

2007 • 55 min • Brazil

When a war threatens a beehive, peace may come from unexpected places. A honey-maker wants to fight, a soldier wants to make honey. Can these bees follow their hearts instead of the rules?