All Films

Living and Learning: Springtime at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

2006 • 46 min • Greece

The current crisis facing the Greek tertiary educational system is examined in this documentary which goes into the university and looks at the issues from the varied and sometimes conflicting perspectives of those involved. It’s spring 2006 and the university corridors are bristling with political activity. Students are getting ready for elections, professors are also voting for deans, while a group of engineering students is totally engrossed in preparing for an international competition and doesn’t seem to notice any of this. They all want a better public university system, but how can they achieve it? We witness a crisis in the making. When students decide to occupy the university, it turns into a standoff between the government, professors and students. Finally, as Professor Vokos observes, “perhaps we’re afraid of facing reality.”

Oberättat

2006 • 39 min

Six episodes about people who all live on the fringes of society. Documentary filmmaker Staffan Lamm pauses before some events in his life. He talks about his family with his schizophrenic uncle as a common thread. The maternal uncle's illness has haunted and worried Staffan over the years, and he reflects on the impact of the legacy and how it inevitably leaves its mark on social life, work and dreams.

Blott en afton bor jag här

2006 • 54 min

It's like a miracle, writing a book with the knuckles of the left index finger and the right thumb. Mattias Agnesund is the author who, despite a paralyzing muscle disease, wrote a biography of Einar Ekberg.

What is Indie? A look into the World of Independent Musicians

2006 • 50 min • Canada

At a time when independent artists in the music industry have more power and control over their careers than ever before, "What is INDIE?" tries to determine just what it really means to be "indie". The film features interviews with indie music experts including Derek Sivers (Founder, CD Baby), Panos Panay (Founder, Sonicbids), and Suzanne Glass (Founder, Indie-Music.com), as well as with 20 artists including Ember Swift and Paul Cargnello. Does being an indie artist mean that you're "unsigned" , or does it mean that you're just not signed to a major record label? Is it possible to be "indie" while on a major label?! This film is sure to spark debate among artists, industry professionals and music fans around the world, and could forever change the perception of what it means to be an indie artist!

Gilbert White: the Nature Man

2006 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Michael Wood explores the scientific life of the remarkable man.

Haiku 2: Paper Dragon

2006 • 4 min • Macedonia

Short avant-garde video.

Haiku 3: Long Days

2006 • 5 min • Macedonia

Short avant-garde video.

The Steps

2006 • 54 min • Serbia and Montenegro

The three parts of the documentary are connected by the scenery of the Boka Kotorská bay and the human will on a mountain trail. Three men hike along the narrow paths on steep slopes above the coastline. The camera follows their steps and without words or music, the film asks about the purpose of their walk. A man's paces are counted by the tower clockwork. In the Watchman episode, the second man descends to the coast to night-watch a bankrupt factory. In Smoke, the third man sets fire to the last inhabited house in a mountain village.

Coca, hasis & aliteia

2006 • 39 min • Greece

Extreme Twins

2006 • 43 min • United Kingdom

this documentary follows the lives of various identical twins.

Fun's Over

2006 • 5 min

Life's a beach.

Loan

2006 • 23 min • Russia

There is a knock on the door, interrupting the morning marital duty. The hero opens the door and sees the lender he borrowed from.

The Man in the Tree

2006 • 18 min

An ex-convict and evangelical, Mário has set up his home atop a tree in Brasília, with a view of the Palácio do Planalto and several ministries. There, he strives to prove his innocence while surviving by collecting cans from the embassy trash bins.

First Light: Montauk Point Lighthouse

2006 • 55 min

This Emmy winning documentary tells the story of Montauk Point Lighthouse the first lighthouse in New York and the first sight of a new world, shining on thousands of immigrants coming to America. Reoccurring accounts of courage and compassion by Keepers and local residents, over the 200 year history of the lighthouse, illustrate how this edifice has bound the souls of humanity through time.

Mammal

2006 • 7 min • Germany

The growing pains of adolescence, and a young man's attempt to free himself from the grip of a domineering mother.

Adu Jago

2006 • 8 min • Indonesia

The village community’s democratic maturity is put to the test during the election of a new village head.

The recording of an early start

2006 • 7 min

A documentary about the recording of the Swedish hardcore band 7 Days In Hells demo - An Early Start.

Livets skarpa kant

2006 • 14 min

Martin's job means everything to him. He's been working on a report all night, when the phone rings. It's his boss who fires him on the spot. Martin's life falls apart and he drives off in his car to mourn. But doesn't notice that the car is low on gas. Fortunately, he is picked up by Erik, who is on his way to his new job. What Martin doesn't know is that Erik is going to replace Martin.

The Wheelhouse

2006 • 15 min

In the still dawn hush of a May morn two lovers push out to sea on a weather-beaten fishing trawler off the coast of Cornwall to wait out the repercussions of an illicit love affair whilst at their feet, slumped and bloodied in the boat's wheelhouse a dying body stirs anew.

Zwarte Inkt, een Portret van Wim Hofman

2006 • 55 min • Netherlands

Documentary about the Dutch writer Wim Hofman, the most acclaimed living writer from Zeeland. As a writer, poet and visual artist, Wim Hofman is completely unique. He writes dark stories with a gloomy beginning and a gloomy ending. No fairy tales with a 'happy ending' and certainly no sugary children's books, but nevertheless always full of humor and unexpected twists. The film depicts the production of Hofman's latest work and addresses various thematic periods in his oeuvre by looking back on his life.

Made in Paris

2006 • 4 min • France

Made in Paris presents the Institute of Tropical Agronomy in the Bois de Vincennes and its Asian and African monuments.

Invasion of the Pines

2006 • 9 min • United States of America

Every Fourth of July, the fabulous Invasion of the Pines attracts hundreds of drag queens and thousands of spectators to Fire Island.

With Best Wishes! Enver

2006 • 28 min • Ukraine

A celebration of virtually known and excruciatingly attractive Crimean Tatar culture. It's a portrait of the Ukrainian -Tatar jazz musician Enver Izmaylov, who, after years of displacement and exile, returns to his ancestral land, the Crimea. There, Enver finds a new inspiration to create his amazing music.

Flowers Don't Grow Here

2006 • 52 min • United Kingdom, Ukraine

The film, told through the eyes of a gang of Ukrainian street children in Kyiv, offers an intimate and uncompromising portrayal of the young individuals paying the ultimate price for political reform.