All Films

The Dirty Digger

2007 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Director Paul Graham Scott joins a controversial Glasgow magazine, The Digger, as its court photographer naming and shaming gangsters, petty criminals, and pedophiles. The ethics of the paper and the role of vigilante journalism are questioned in this gritty documentary.

Rôjin to bijin helper: Sukebei na kaigo

2007 • 59 min • Japan

Kanako, a former nurse, is now a caregiver. While handing out flyers to attract clients, she is attacked by a suspicious person. Luckily, she is saved by a homeless man named Hasegawa. The next day, Kanako is given a job as a caregiver, but a client comes to her and tells her that he is being abused by his wife...

Four Roads to Hell

2007 • 55 min • Japan

Like a good ghost story? Then turn out the lights and prepare to feel a chill as Japan's masters of the macabre spin some of the creepiest spectral sagas to grace the screen. Four Roads To Hell is an anthology featuring short stories based on true accounts as collected from writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama. This is part of the "Tales Of Terror From Japan" series.

Journey Through the Labyrinth

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

A retrospective look back at Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy film 'Labyrinth'.

Scotch Mist: A Film with Radiohead in It

2007 • 42 min • United Kingdom

Radiohead plays songs from their album In Rainbows for a webcast broadcast on New Years Eve. The film was made by Radiohead, Nigel Godrich, Adam Buxton, Garth Jennings, Stanley Donwood, Ric Jerrom, Hugo Nicolson and Dan Grech-Marguerat.

Sleepwalkers

2007 • 14 min • United States of America

A bike messenger, an electrician, a postal worker, a business man and an office worker make their way through an evening in New York City. A collection of eight large-scale moving images projected on the walls of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 2007

2007 • 43 min

Seven Brazilian models grace the beaches of Brazil, four knockouts dance to Reggae in Jamaica, Oluchi and Tori get the blues in Memphis. The 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit show takes you around the world to where music comes alive. Even body painting has a music theme this year with iconic concert t-shirts painted on some of your favorite models. Your favorites are back: Marisa, Veronica, Anne V, Daniella, Brooklyn and they are joined by some rookies: Bar Refaeli, Selita Ebanks and Tori Praver. So sit back, turn off the cell phone, and prepare for a trip to paradise.

Féminin, Masculin

2007 • 9 min • Iran

In the male dominated society of Iran, Farahnaz Shiri, the first female bus driver in Tehran, has made her own little society in her bus. In Iran there are different sections for men and women on public buses. Women should enter buses from the back door, which is separated from men’s entrance, and should sit or stay in a limited zone at the end of the buses which is separated from men’s zone. But in Mrs. Shiri’s bus everything is vice-versa. She is the governor and the only law maker of her own little society. In her bus, men must enter from the backdoor entrance and must sit or stay in the limited zone at the end of the bus. Mrs. Shiri is struggling to prove herself in this society and resisting a series of injustices that she faces as a woman in the Iranian society.

Archer House

2007 • 16 min

A young outcast braves the petit four-fueled skits and cult-like rituals of a Texas sorority.

The Making of 'Hatchet'

2007 • 40 min • United States of America

Making of documentary for the 2006 horror film 'Hatchet'.

The Humans of Tara

2007 • 21 min • United Kingdom

The cast and crew look back at the making of The Androids of Tara.

A Slice of Lynch

2007 • 56 min • United States of America

David Lynch, Mädchen Amick, Kyle MacLachlan and John Wentworth reminisce about "Twin Peaks" while seated at a diner counter.

Before Dawn

2007 • 13 min • Hungary

Before Dawn has a single shot which is several minutes in length. Technically this is immaculate, visually it is stunning. The story is set in a field; where the field is we don't know, but a lone truck drives up into the field and stops. A horn beeps and from beneath the long grass thirty of so people appear and proceed to enter the truck. We take it they hiding from something and this is their doorway. The truck leaves, but only to be greeted by a mass of police and even a helicopter blocking their path.

Steal This Film II

2007 • 44 min

These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the 'battles' between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won. We know who the victors are. Why then say any more?

Taua

2007 • 15 min • New Zealand

After a successful raid and having captured a rival village's leader, a war party must drag their huge canoe or "Taua" through the forest to reach the sea and escape with their trophy but even in a forest of their native land water can be scarce. As the warriors, driven by their insistent chief, press towards home, two boys are tasked to protect the precious water and keep an eye on the prisoner, but need and desperation grows for all as the story drives to a climax.

Golden Age

2007 • 22 min • United States of America

The shocking true stories of the world's strangest cartoons.

My Little Pony: Positively Pink

2007 • 11 min

Everyone in Ponyville forgot Pinkie Pie pony's birthday. Uh-oh! Watch the story unfold as the ponies quickly plan a party! Will they surprise Pinkie Pie?

Akiho Yoshizawa Temptation: Eating Me

2007 • 60 min • Japan

A sensual coming-of-age drama set in Shonan that carefully follows the trajectory of a woman who is swaying in love. Akiho Yoshizawa, who boasts of idol-like popularity, plays a woman who is bewildered by her love that she pretends not to notice when her rival appears unexpectedly. Aki (Akiho Yoshizawa), who works at an Italian restaurant, has been managing the restaurant with Kawano (Hideki Nishioka), who stands alone in the kitchen since the death of his wife, who was in charge of desserts. For some reason, my heart flutters when I see the motion.

The Skull Man: Prologue of Darkness

2007 • 22 min • Japan

A tokusatsu made for TV prequel movie to the 2007 anime series The Skull Man.

Only in the Castro with Trevor Hailey

2007 • 25 min

An irreverent ambassador of queer culture tours San Francisco's gay mecca.

FCU: Fact Checkers Unit

2007 • 9 min • United States of America

After being assigned to check a bizarre fact about Bill Murray's love for drinking milk, two magazine fact checkers break into Bill's house to spy on him.

Matters of Life and Death

2007 • 28 min

Three siblings struggle to maintain control of their lives after the unexpected death of their parents thrusts them into an uncertain world of adulthood

Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure

2007 • 40 min • United States of America

Journey 80 million years back in time to an age when mighty dinosaurs dominated the land - and an equally astonishing assortment of ferocious creatures swam, hunted, and fought for survival beneath the vast, mysterious prehistoric seas.

Unlocked

2007 • 3 min

A story about a "Skeleton in the closet".