All Films

Jesus is Back

2007 • 8 min • Brazil

Espalhadas Pelo Ar

2007 • 15 min • Brazil

On the back staircases of a residential building, girls smoke hidden from their parents. They take off their clothes to prevent being denounced by the smell of smoke. Cora is 30 years old. She lives in the same building as the girls, and is stuck in an unhappy marriage. The woman catches the girls smoking. From then on, she begins her path towards freedom.

Love Your Customers

2007 • 28 min • United States of America

John O'Hurley encounters three employees in drastic need of customer service makeovers: the greeting-less grocer, the touchy teller, and the witless salesman. In a series of good/bad vignettes, O'Hurley teaches each employee how to perform great service, show their customers the love, and want to return for an encore!

National Actress Nina Sazonova

2007 • 39 min • Russia

Nina Sazonova's heroines are inseparable from her personal fate as a man who survived the war, experienced a lot of grief and losses, and endured severe life trials. She rightfully holds a special and honorable place in the wonderful galaxy of artists of the Russian Army Theater. Her roles in the plays "Vassa", "Drummers", "Trees die standing" brought her national love. The images she created in cinema, such as Ekaterina, are also unforgettable. ("Women"), Anisya ("There's a Guy like That"), the Ivanovs' mother ("Our House") and Aunt Pasha from the TV series "Day by Day". All these are not just the roles of a talented actress, they are the fates of a whole generation of Russian women, great workers who endured the torments and hardships of war on their shoulders, lost their husbands, but did not break down, selflessly giving others all their kindness and concern.

Hoy no estoy

2007 • 7 min • Argentina

Can you walk around completely unnoticed for a day?

A Sweet Chamber Music

2007 • 23 min • France

Helena's career as a pianist is over. One day the daughter comes to visit - with her new fiancé.

Meet Me in Berlin

2007 • 17 min

After being hit by a truck in Berlin, a New York guy creates, by cell phone and at the hospital, a kind of connection with the woman that he was going to meet before the incident.

Homestretch

2007 • 52 min

Homestretch chronicles the pairing of two unlikely groups, prison inmates and end-of-career racehorses, as they come together on prison farms. The transformations in both the horses and the prisoners challenge stereotypes and, for some, offer hopes of redemption.

Tarrafal

2007 • 17 min

Pedro Costa's segment from "O Estado do Mundo".

Tumble

2007 • 4 min

A man encounters a woman he knew.

Moment of Clarity

2007 • 15 min • Sweden

A young couple is about to be deported. The young woman is expecting a child. The man decides to do something really stupid to get money for fake passports... The film is about the consequences of desperate decisions. The entire film is shot P.O.V (point of view) for get inside the head of the main character.

The Cult of Ichi

2007 • 10 min

Documentary on Ichi the Killer, The Cult of Ichi, features a number of folks – writers, producers, directors, actors, magazine editors, authors- from the horror genre. - screenanarchy.com

This Light Rains

2007 • 27 min • United States of America

On the morning a soldier leaves for war, he must bring his family together or risk losing them forever.

Ricky Jay Plays Poker

2007 • 31 min • United States of America

This is the companion video to Ricky Jay's selection of poker tunes entitled "Ricky Jay plays poker." It features John C. Riley and other famous people, sitting around a table headed by the incomparable Mr. Jay, discussing poker, sleight of hand, and proposition bets.

Mysterious House

2007 • 47 min • Vietnam

Truc, a movie director, keeps hearing a lot of bad things about what have happened in a mysterious abandoned house in Da Lat, in which she is interested. Therefore she decides to bring her film crew there to film a horror movie.

Clamp in Wonderland 2

2007 • 15 min • Japan

During an ordinary day at Yuuko's house, the Mokonas beg to be put into the world of the manga Yuuko is reading. She sends them in, and together they explore the worlds of CLAMP and get to know the characters who populate them.

Louis Theroux: Under the Knife

2007 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Louis Theroux: Under the Knife is a TV documentary written and presented by Louis Theroux about the people and doctors involved in plastic surgery operations. Filmed mostly in the USA, in the programme, Louis himself ends up getting liposuction.

La Saint-festin

2007 • 15 min • France

Hurrah! Tomorrow is the 40th of November. It's Saint Feast Day, the great celebration of ogres, so hurry up now if you have not caught a child yet. And good hunting!

& Etc

2007 • 23 min • Portugal

& etc was created in 1973. It is a small publisher, which since then and until today is governed by quite singular parameters - not for profit, does not publish "commercial" works, publishes unknown authors. It has become, over the years, a reference in the national panorama, known both for the plastic / aesthetic side of its square books and for the published characters, such as, for example, João César Monteiro, Adília Lopes or Alberto Pimenta, some of the most alternatives. Victor Silva Tavares and Rui Caeiro recall some episodes during the three decades of operation of this publishing house.

The Strange Tale of a Dream Sphere Dealer

2007 • 24 min • Japan

Fifth grader Naho has been both mama and sister to her baby brother, Jun. After making plans to meet with her friends on her birthday, her father tells her that he has to go out for the day and that she needs to stay home with her brother, but he says that a Helper-san (babysitter) should be coming later. The Helper-san turns out to be a Dream sphere Dealer who offers Naho her choice of three very different dreams, and each one could change her life completely ...

Seeing in the Dark

2007 • 60 min

Stargazing is the subject of Seeing in the Dark, a 60-minute, state-of-the-art, high-definition documentary written, produced and narrated by award-winning filmmaker, journalist and best-selling author Timothy Ferris. The program introduces viewers to the rewards of first person, hands-on astronomy. It is based on Ferris book, Seeing in the Dark (Simon & Schuster, 2002), named by The New York Times as one of the ten best books of the year

Writing the Land

2007 • 8 min • Canada

In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the Musqueam people have lived for thousands of years. Writing the Land captures the ever-changing nature of a modern city - the glass and steel towers cut against the sky, grass, trees and a sudden flash of birds in flight and the enduring power of language to shape perception and create memory.

Spying on the Home Front

2007 • 55 min

Is the Bush administration’s domestic war on terrorism jeopardizing our civil liberties? Reporter Hedrick Smith presents new material on how the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program works and examines clashing viewpoints on whether the president has violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and infringed on constitutional protections. Probing such projects as Total Information Awareness, and its little known successors, Smith discloses that even former government intelligence officials now worry that the combination of new security threats, advances in communications technologies, and radical interpretations of presidential authority may be threatening the privacy of Americans.

Ties

2007 • 7 min • Brazil