All Films

New Boy

2007 • 11 min • Ireland

A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.

Shrek the Halls

2007 • 28 min • United States of America

The Christmas tree isn't the only thing green in this new holiday classic. Shrek is back and trying to get into the spirit of the season. After promising Fiona and the kids a Christmas they'll remember, he is forced to take a crash course in the holiday. But just when he thinks he has everything for their quiet family Christmas just right, there is a knock at the door.

One Rat short

2006 • 10 min • United States of America

A city rat pursues a nearly empty bag of cheese snacks that's drifting in the breeze. His journey takes him through a vent into a highly mechanized rat lab, where one particular white female gets his attention.

Refused Are Fucking Dead

2006 • 38 min

Refused Are Fucking Dead is a 2006 documentary about the punk band Refused and the last year of their career. The film was directed by the band's guitarist, Kristofer Steen. It includes live performances of "Spectre," "Life Support Addiction," "Circlepit," "New Noise," and "Rather Be Dead."

Color Dream no. 246

2006 • 3 min • United States of America

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore.

11 Donkeys Fall in an Empty Stomach

2006 • 27 min • Portugal

“Some kind of popular surrealism about people that live in Northern Portugal, their relationship with donkeys and the way they live. They are so musical that it is possible to manipulate without losing their essence...” - Tiago Pereira

The Healing Prophet: Solanus Casey

2006 • 58 min • United States of America

Solanus Casey might very well become the first America born male Saint. He was a beloved Capuchin Friar who many believe had the ability to heal the sick and prophesize the future. Stories abound of how Solanus' prayers made miracles happen. He was a role model for his time and continues to be so for people today, which is why he has become a candidate for Sainthood. Solanus Casey was born in 1870 on a Wisconsin farm to Irish immigrant parents. He had a very religious upbringing, along with 15 brothers and sisters, two of whom died during the Diphtheria Epidemic.

Sway

2006 • 34 min • United States of America

SWAY is a free-form documentary edited from fourteen years of daily subway video shooting. It is filled with music and poignant New York City moments.

Kristall

2006 • 15 min • Germany

The film creates a melodrama inside seemingly claustrophobic mirrored cabinets. Like an anonymous viewer, the mirror observes scenes of intimacy. It creates an image within an image, providing a frame for the characters.

Railway Roundabout 1961

2006 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Another volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series about the vanishing train lines. Includes a journey from Bath to Evercreech Junction; the last train from Bala to Ffestiniog; the Lancashire and Yorkshire Special and the Severn and Wye in the Forest of Dean. Welsh narrow gauge highlights are also featured in addition to the locomotives of London Transport and Swindon.

Proximity

2006 • 4 min • Norway, United Kingdom

A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.

Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker

2006 • 8 min • Germany

Animated short film from Stephan Muller. Disturbed by loud music of one of his neighbours Mr. Schwartz calls the police. But initially the officer can't ascertain anything... Then the film starts again from the view of every lessee and allows the spectator to see what really happened in every apartment:The history of a butterfly-effect...

Hells

2006 • 13 min

A film poem about Nauro Machado, one of the greatest poetry of Brazil.

Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language

2006 • 21 min

A short film by Michael Pattison.

L.A. in My Mind

2006 • 5 min • United States of America

A captivating montage of notable Los Angeles sites, laced with free-floating names of places and people and accompanied by street noises, becomes a delightful and personal canon of spiritually sustaining quantities. —Shannon Kelley

Wolf-Passerelle II/06

2006 • 5 min

Experimental short about running.

A Lesson of Belorussian

2006 • 53 min • Belarus, Poland

A documentary about young activists who never give up believing that Belarus will one day be free. Franek Viacorka studies at an elite school established by his father to promote the Belarusian language. However, the school has been banned and operating underground since 2003, a victim of the anti-democratic rule of President Alexander Lukashenko. Franek and his classmates are both passionate and thoughtful, expressing their critical attitude to the government by issuing an underground newspaper, recording music with activist lyrics and organizing an opposition concert.

Ephemeral 87

2006 • 12 min

A quick trip outside and inside in which our protagonist explains the 24 hours of a day that must assimilate its present and its future.

The Cardhouse Builder and the Little Dog

2006 • 8 min • Sweden

A stop-motion animation about a cardhouse builder who lives alone in a house, high on a hill. One day a frozen dog stands outside the door and the whole life changes.

Holy Week

2006 • 21 min • Russia

On the streets of a small village is an ordinary evening. There is a passionate week - people clean the yards and houses before Easter, rest. And the ambulance has its own suffering - like the whole year. A minimum of tools, old cars, bad roads, spring slush ...

Circuit marine

2006 • 8 min • Canada, France

"All you need is food," the Beatles could have sung if they had been inspired by Circuit marine, a whimsical fantasy about our cruel, carnivorous world. To be eaten or not to be eaten: that is the question for a ginger cat, a goldfish and a colourful parrot which a tender-hearted pirate tries to get to live happily together along with his hungry crew. We can only wonder who will be the next meal on this ship of food. As the ship pitches and rolls to a sprightly gypsy tune, the cat relentlessly pursues the goldfish, and even the parrot gets into the act. But who is predator and who is prey? Everyone ends up down someone's gullet. Isabelle Favez's colourful and humorous film is a tasteful reminder that we're all links in the food chain.

Cell 719

2006 • 15 min • Belgium

There is hardly any image in Cellule 719: from time to time we see a glimpse of water, but otherwise the film is mainly black. The texts that appear on the screen in grey are from ‘Ein brief Ulrike Meinhofs aus dem Toten Trakt’, a letter written in 1972 by the RAF member Ulrike Meinhof, when she was just imprisoned. For Annik Leroy, this video project is only an intermediate stop in a longer process, a study of the historical RAF and, even more so, into the psychological mechanisms of terror, and the personality structure of a public figure who is left alone in complete isolation with her most private self.

In the Net

2006 • 4 min • Spain

A short documentary about fishing in the Northern Seas.

Collecting Shadows

2006 • 51 min • Russia

This is a kind of memory of memories. The trip is enclosed in three conditional spaces: abandoned in an empty field - a hostel for internally displaced persons who exist outside the present and future, with a scattered, burned past. Cold twilight Moscow with a Chechen guy wandering along its streets, vocalist of the Dead Dolphins band, Arthur, who recalls his once beloved city, but does not want to return and see the place where his house used to be. Exhausted, abandoned by the souls that once inhabited it, the city of Grozny, to which, for the first time after the war, a Russian girl comes to see her native home, return to her childhood and "die in it", saying goodbye to him forever for all those who lost their home and homeland.