All Films

Tardi in black and white

2006 • 51 min • France

Tardi en noir et blanc is a documentary portrait of French comic auteur Jacques Tardi, one of the world's most significant graphic novelists. Director Pierre-André Sauvageot followed Jacques Tardi for two years to create this intimate insight into Tardi's creative process: from his research into political and historical topics to the actual drawing of his graphic novel panels.

A Vital Activity

2006 • 21 min

A 20-something couple is having a date. They want to make love but they don’t have enough money or time. They look for a place where they can have sex.

The Watermelon

2006 • 11 min • Sweden

Christmas 1978, Sweden. A Chilean father spends his family's last money on a watermelon. But the excitement is brief when the melon doesn't live up to the expectations. The family peace is now ruined, turning their world literally upside-down in this absurd and tragicomic story.

The Man on the Moon

2006 • 17 min • France

The Toll

2006 • 7 min • United States of America

Harvey delves into the realm of not-so-fantastic myth to interview a troll who works as a toll collector and lives under his bridge. He's aggressive, uncouth, temperamental, and has a nasty habit of eating people.

Angel’s Fire

2006 • 13 min

Satyajit Ray Negatives - My Life with Manikda

2006 • 52 min • Belgium

Calcutta, 1950: Satyajit Ray directs his first film and, by opening his eyes on his country's realities, breaks every convention of Indian cinema. During twenty-five years, Ray's personal photographer Nemai Gosh will be his shadow. This movie tells their parallel destinies, it ventures Satyajit Ray's extraordinary artistic journey through the obsessive lens of Nemai Gosh.

Garantia and the Shooting Star

2006 • 8 min • Sweden

A small girl and her homemade mermaid doll - both of them named Garantia - is looking for her mommy's necklace. When she puts her doll into the aquarium the doll becomes alive and the aquarium becomes an enchanted ocean where she encounters the Snapper Gang, the ancient jelly fish Mr Elderling, the huge whale Nora and a small fish on a bicycle on her quest for the necklace.

Dear Bill Gates

2006 • 17 min

A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay exploring the ownership of our visual history and culture. Combining original and archival film, video and images from the internet, Dear Bill Gates draws unexpected connections among mining, memory and Microsoft. Original music by Adam Granduciel.

At the Heart of a Sparrow

2006 • 31 min • Canada

An episodic adventure highlighting the riff between mind and body. Through a series of animated narratives, role reversals and associations, images are driven out and stacked one on top another. "A best friend is like a four leaf clover, Hard to find and lucky to have. But I'm beginning to wonder if he knows something the rest of us don't."

Sisters

2006 • 17 min • Russia

The frank conversation of two sisters about their mother against the background of the older sister's daily life.

The Mother Road

2006 • 57 min

"The Mother Road," is a fun and touching one-hour documentary that is a part travelogue, part human interest, and part rock n' roll road trip -- all wrapped up in a mother-daughter experience taken by award0winning documentary filmmaker and journalist Lauren Cardillo and her mother. The documentary explores the heartwarming relationship between our mother-daughter main characters and those they meet on the road.

For Her

2006 • 4 min • Brazil

Experimental film by Arthur Tuoto.

Remake

2006 • 7 min

Stephen and Deb, forced to spend the night in a crappy motel, are subjected to a series of crappy remakes of popular films.

Rundown

2006 • 15 min

A Gold Student Academy Award winner, Rundown follows the events of a single evening as a fledgling TV anchorwoman, who has just killed someone in a hit and run, covers the news and covers up her crime.

Our Man in Nirvana

2006 • 10 min • Germany

John, a famous rockstar, dies accidently during a concert and wakes up in nirvana. There he has to face his wishes and deeds...

Bouts en train

2006 • 4 min • France

When the train suddenly stops in the middle of the line, passengers begin to contact each other.

Fable

2006 • 7 min • United States of America

A woman and man's passions are overshadowed by their predatory instincts.

A Short Film for Adobe

2006 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Adobe’s Photoshop program is demonstrated within the context of a photo shoot in a rather clever way.

Eid Sacrifice

2006 • 2 min

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Two Versus One

2006 • 10 min • Norway

Mats and his friend grew up in eastern Oslo in the 1980s and did not fit in. They have a tormentor that bully them. One day they will have enough.

Revenge Beyond Death

2006 • 28 min • Austria

A few buddies celebrate in the woods. When two of them get a supply of biots, a murderous accident happens that is hushed up by those involved. When the others come back, they soon realize that something is wrong and come behind the terrible secret-yet, everyone decides to forget the whole thing. One year later, they are celebrating another party in this forest, which does not last long. The murdered man climbs out of his damp grave and sets out to kill his murderer, his friends and all who stand in his way.

The Bridge at Midnight Trembles

2006 • 52 min • Australia

On March 15, 2004, Richard Moir underwent an operation for Parkinson's Disease. Called Deep Brain Stimulation, electrodes are placed in the brain that are powered by batteries placed in the chest. The current 'zaps' bad signals in the brain. This film gives you an insight into the daily life of a patient with Parkinson's Disease, which is a view you don't get as a doctor in a clinical practice.

1, 2, 3?

2006 • 29 min • Afghanistan

Award winning short documentary that demonstrates women's problems in Afghanistan. The film consists of 3 parts: 1. The women who are self-immolating and the reasons of self-immolation. 2. Underage marriages. 3. Those sorts of women who are referring to attorney for solving their family problems.