All Films

A City Runs Through the Festival

2007 • 46 min • Turkey

A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience.

Intervention

2007 • 14 min

There comes a time in every crack addict's life where he can still beat the addiction and get clean. Once that time has come and gone, the addiction will take him over. This is that moment. What will he choose?

Congratulations Daisy Graham

2007 • 15 min • Canada

Seventy-year-old Daisy Graham is having a hard day. No one in her small town wants to let her forget about the big ceremony tomorrow, a ceremony at the local high school in her honour. But Daisy has more important things to think about than some ceremony - she's dug out her rifle, now all she needs is a box of bullets.

La Revolución de Iguodala!

2007 • 3 min • United States of America

La Revolucion de Iguoadala! tracks one man's passionate message as it travels through various forms and agendas.

In Vivid Detail

2007 • 18 min • United States of America, Canada

In Vivid Detail is the unusual love story between Leslie and Justin, an architect who suffers from Prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder that makes him incapable of recognizing faces. The couple must decide whether their new relationship can overcome the obstacles ahead of them as they try to cope with this bizarre but real condition, meanwhile raising the questions about how beauty is measured.

Versus

2007 • 9 min • Canada

Who's tougher; Star Trek or Star Wars, Uncle Ben or Aunt Jemima? In this dark comedy with an unusual twist, a couple of lifelong friends eat breakfast in a diner at dawn. They debate the outcome of epic fictitious battles while they delay the inevitable.

Niña que espera

2007 • 11 min • Mexico

Eight year-old Angelica bumps into a couple at the airport, insisting that they are her parents, which they deny. Who is right?

The Jena 6

2007 • 29 min

'The Jena 6' is the story of hidden racial inequality and violence becoming visible. It is a powerful symbol for, and example of, how racial justice works in America - where the lynching noose has been replaced by the DA's pen.

Nemureru bijo

2007 • 60 min • Japan

An old man, Mr. Eguchi accidentally finds a special hotel for gentlemen that are called "House of the sleeping beauties" by the sea. When a guest reserves a room, he can sleep with a young girl who is dead sleep by medicine. But the house has the strict rules and a landlady controls all. Mr. Eguchi fall in impossible love with a sleeping girl and the love remind him of his life. The background of this story is 1960's in Japan. It was the last period that Japonisme and specific morals had remained in ordinary people and their life after the Second World War.

Coluboccoro

2007 • 29 min • Japan

A sci-fi, eco-conscious fantasy about a 14-year-old heroine, Suzu, a descendent of a distinguished shaman who saved people from catastrophe in the past. Suzu sets out on a journey, along with the spirit of nature, Coluboccoro, to regain peace and nature to the ruined villages.

My Father Is Sleeping

2007 • 14 min • Germany

Summer. Half a day in the life of 10-year-old Mika, who lives in the countryside with his family in reduced circumstances. His father is very ill and is unable to handle the daily work on the farm. Mika's help is needed. But he is easily distracted by his 6-year-old sister, who is still enjoying the carefree days of childhood, regarding the farmyard as her playground.

Taping Nigel II: The Gimpening

2007 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A follow-up documentary of Ricky Gervais bullying his editor Nigel Williams during the second series of Extras

My Little Pony: A Very Pony Place

2007 • 45 min • United States of America

Three different stories focusing on the new characters exclusively released in the special: Lily Lightly, Storybelle, Star Flight, Heart Bright and lastly, Puzzlemint.

Uncle Bob's Hospital Visit

2007 • 14 min • Canada

Uncle Bob is getting up in years, but manages quite well, thank you. Then an unexpected illness changes everything. Suddenly he's scooped out of his safe and familiar surroundings and deposited inside the foreign and chaotic world of the hospital. Here the once self-reliant Uncle Bob becomes vulnerable and dependent.

The Thick of It

2007 • 24 min

A put-upon member of Congress is harassed by inept politicians. Based on the BBC series, "The Thick of It."

Crossing the Line

2007 • 60 min • Italy

A journey through Italian landscapes as seen through the windows of a long-distance express train.

Brigitte and I

2007 • 55 min • France

In an alternate reality, Brigitte Lahaie has died of AIDS on December 31, 1982. She's the only woman Richard, our narrator, has ever loved, and after hearing an address from President François Mitterrand, Richard decides to tell their story. Comprised of soft excerpts from about 30 1970s X-rated films, this fiction traces the story of an enchanted interlude from the pill to the appearance of AIDS and reflects on the cultural changes of the era.

Fievel Throws Down

2007 • 10 min • United States of America

During a kid's birthday party, a carrot-suit-wearing hors d'oeuvres server is having a bad day and decides to take it out on his competition... another "competitive" hors d'oeuvres server in a mouse suit. Martial art mayhem ensues... obviously!!!!!

Nikamowin

2007 • 12 min

Deconstructing and reconstructing Cree narrative, this film experiments with language to create a linguistic soundscape.

Day 73 with Sarah

2007 • 17 min • United States of America

Day 73 With Sarah tells the story of a little girl, who with the help of her dead father hatches a plan to save herself and her mother from her abusive stepfather, but the plan has unexpected consequences.

Amy Winehouse - Live at Les Eurockeennes de Belfort

2007 • 52 min • United Kingdom

One of the tragic music events of the year was of course the loss of Amy Winehouse. Today's Live Performance remembers her as the outstanding performer she was when in top shape. The Eurockéennes de Belfort is one of France's largest rock music festivals. The Eurockéennes, a play on words involving the words rock and européennes (Europeans), is based in a nature reserve in Malsaucy near Belfort. SetList: 1 Addicted 2 Just Friends 3 Tears Dry On Their Own 4 He Can Only Hold Her 5 Back to Black 6 Wake Up Alone 7 Love is a Losing Game 8 Cupid 9 Hey Little Rich Girl 10 Monkey Man 11 Rehab 12 Valerie 13 You Know I'm No Good 14 Me & Mr. Jones

David Mamet on House of Games

2007 • 25 min • United States of America

A documentary filmed on location and behind the scenes during the making of David Mamet's 1987 film HOUSE OF GAMES

The Afternoon Has Eyes

2007 • 15 min • Mexico

Julián and Alejandro find an abandoned portfolio. The possibility to change their lives. Or not.

Pilgrimage

2007 • 22 min

PILGRIMAGE tells the inspiring story of how an abandoned WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans has been transformed into a symbol of retrospection and solidarity for people of all ages, races and nationalities in our post 9/11 world.