All Films

At Once

2006 • 37 min

Sabrina is a fourteen year old girl with a passion for biking. She lives with her family in a rural area, her parents have a bakery in a small village. Because of puberty she has troubles in dealing with her feelings. When her best friend gets a boyfriend, she wants to keep up. Although she is in love with the farmers son Martijn, she gets involved with a much older season worker.

Cutting Edge

2006 • 53 min • United States of America

This one-hour verité documentary shows a day in the life of a successful barbershop on Harlem's 125th Street. The film shows the vital role community barbershops play as a forum for black men to discuss any topic, whether controversial or banal, sacred or profane, political or personal, in an environment of heated debate and/or male fellowship. Topics discussed in the film include HIV/AIDS, infidelity, gay marriage, greedy preachers, Bill Clinton, the world's sexiest actresses, and more. Though in some ways this is a quintessential black barbershop, where macho attitudes often prevail, women do play a role in the shop's conversations, and with the increasing gentrification of the area, a number of diverse clients (including a white gay man) occasionally enter the mix.

Waiting for Europe

2006 • 58 min • Bulgaria, Portugal, Spain

This inward portrait of young Vania follows her from Bulgaria to Portugal and Spain and back home. Vania wishes a better life searching her personal independence and identity. She experiences illegality, isolation and exploitation while she tries to find answers for life's major decisions. This is a film about emigration from a feminine point of view. It tells us the hopes and fears of a common person and consists in reflection about everyday life's reality. It's about growing up and putting off life ... while hopping that, one day, the utopia of Europe will actually happen.

Dawn of the Dorks

2006 • 22 min

During the Football World Cup 2006, people turn into football loving zombies. A satirical hommage to Dawn of the Dead and other horror movies.

Growing Up in Streets

2006 • 12 min • Kosovo

A realistic history of the children growing up on the streets of Kosovo and doing hard work in order to survive. The story revers the likes of Besarta, Drenusha, Kosovare and Fitim, who, having no choice, work under dangerous circumstances until the late hours.

Vera Lúcia

2006 • 15 min • Brazil

Two teenagers, Vera Lúcia and Beto, run through the forest, full of expectation, enthusiasm and fear. She seductively invites him to swim in the river. Beto has to choose between going into the water and staying with Vera Lúcia. Many years later, Roberto spends the day at the foot of a waterfall with his wife, and confronts the results of his choices.

Vibracall

2006 • 3 min • Brazil

Two teenagers make good use of their cell phones in class. To receive this type of call you don't need an MP3 player or video camera, just put your cell phone on vibrate mode...

The Tale of the Banished

2006 • 43 min • Sweden

The Tale of the Banished tells the story of the young hobbit Frodo, who flees the Shire when his mother's cousin, Bilbo, disappears. A small outcast group sets off on an adventure, a journey filled with adventure and horror. Known as Sweden's most famous Lord of the Rings dub. The movie had 250,000 views after only 2 months. 3.6 million views as of June 4, 2015.

In Memory of Me

2006 • 22 min • United States of America

After eight years, a young successful lawyer reluctantly goes back to her small hometown for her best friend's wedding. When the memories of an affair she had with another woman during high school resurface, her present starts to unravel.

Scissors

2006 • 2 min • United States of America

Scissors is a hand drawn animated short created by artist and CalArts animation student Daron Nefcy. The film is about a girl working a boring job who decides, though a dream, to take that step into the outside.

Apocalypse

2006 • 11 min • Lithuania

Animated short.

Navy SEALs: The Silent Option

2006 • 45 min

This segment of filmmaker Gordon Forbes's documentary series explores top-of-the-line technological weaponry and artillery as the Navy SEALs unveil the hardware they use to quietly execute their highly specialized operations without a hitch. Forbes's series ushers viewers into the clandestine world of the SEALs and closely examines the elite maritime commando force's operations and procedures, from training and preparation to all-out combat.

Board Control

2006 • 28 min • Norway

From 1978 to 1989 skateboarding was illegal in Norway, as the only country in the world it was not legal to sell, buy or use skateboard in this period. The film follows two generations of skaters - from the underground culture in the late 70s, with skating on secret locations in the forest around Oslo, to the commercial explosion when skating was legalized in 1989. The film says something about the Norwegian governments overprotective policy, but it also shows the paradox of how the prohibition led to a unique and creative environment.

Like the Others

2006 • 22 min • Tunisia

Between an unrewarding job and the daily routine visit to the cafe-shop for a water-pipe, K is eager to give up his condition of frustrated and introverted bachelor to seduce Chahra, the girl of his dreams. Through a series of very particular Chinese massages, he manages to shape his personality according to the ever-changing and whimsical demands of his entourage.

Isaac Babel. The Fatal Triangle

2006 • 45 min • Russia

When the collection of short stories by I.E.Babel "Konarmiya" was published, S.M. Budyonny became one of its first readers. The "horse army" infuriated him. Budyonny called the essays slanderous speculation and threatened to personally hack Babel with a saber. Defending the writer, Gorky wrote: "He showed the fighters of the First Cavalry better, more truthfully than Gogol — Zaporozhtsev." The writer was saved that time. But on May 16, 1939, no one could help Babel anymore. The writer was arrested. He ended up in the most terrible NKVD prison, Sukhanovskaya. Few people managed to get out alive.…

Porch

2006 • 9 min • United States of America

A home-movie portrait of an ordinary American family, taken over many years and framed in the porch of their house.

Blood Sisters

2006 • 30 min • Denmark

"Blood Sisters", Danish filmmaker Louise Friedberg's sophomore short film, is the kind of flick that you simply can't take your eyes off of. It's a relatively simple story that has been played out time and time again: a young girl feels threatened by her best friend's new friend/neighbour, jealousy brews, and tempers flare.

Killings by Jan Hafstrom

2006 • 28 min

A film about the artist Jan Hafstrom.

Stuart

2006 • 12 min • Portugal

Wanderings of a sordid and abandoned city of Lisbon from the graphic work of Stuart de Carvalhais

Long Row to Hoe

2006 • 60 min

Tired of living under a bridge like a troll, middle-aged homeless man Ronzoni decides to reconnect with his roots. Buying a bowling ball as a Christmas gift, he heads out to visit his retired father and distant sister Agatha who live in a local trailer park. Unfortunately, they both think he’s a wholly worthless bum. When a large box lands on his chest, Ronzoni is stuck behind his dad’s double wide and no matter how hard they try, they just can’t seem to get the empty cardboard container off his body. Wanting to escape his incessantly whining, the pair head off to a hotel. There, Agatha meets Nicholas, an in-room escort who opens her eyes to the joy of music and the fun of making anti-porno.

10:25 Ng Gabi

2006 • 19 min

Des agrees to Julius’ plan to generate some money without knowing what the plan is. Meanwhile, Troy, a rich and reckless college student, introduces Nona, his girlfriend with whom he has a child, to his balikbayan mother. The meeting does not end with success. Troy and his mother argue in the car as he takes his mother home. They get out of the car and continue to argue. It is 10:25 at night when the paths of Des and Julius and Troy and his mother meet. Des and Julius carry out their plan.

Everything We Are

2006 • 9 min • Australia

A twelve-year-old boy is forced to leave the female refuge where he lives with his mother. On his way to school he encounters a strange man and tries to find a connection

The Hour Oak

2006 • 60 min • Germany

There’s an oak tree that was familiar to everyone who used to drive along the highway just south of Berlin. Until 2004, it stood between the small suburban town of Ludwigsfelde and the intersection at Nuthetal. In the times of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), it took one hour to drive – in one of the famous East German “Trabant” cars – from the position of the tree to the East Berlin city center, which is why it was called the One-Hour Oak Tree. When the famous oak so steeped in history was cut down, the idea emerged to turn it into a sculpture.

Your Younger Daughter Rachel

2006 • 34 min • Israel

Rachel is experiencing a cruel adolescence, both at home and outside of it; her unemployed father unloading his frustration and rage upon his wife and daughter. Rachel attempts to handle her violent father and protect her mother. Defenceless and exhausted, she and her mother try to comfort one another while awaiting some compassion.