All Films

Bambi Plus

2006 • 20 min • Serbia

An experimental documentary graduation thesis. Conflicting worldviews of a Serbian female artist, Marina Markovic, anorexia nervosa surviver, are contrasted with archive footage of socialistic Yugoslav propaganda.

Even in Dreams

2006 • 7 min • France

Juliette awakes one morning in a panic. She rushes her lover next to her to leave at once because her husband Simon is coming back soon. But Juliette has made a tragic mistake: from under the cover comes the voice of Simon.

Ghul

2006 • 12 min

Various facts prophesy the coming of a curse, but a man will realize it late enough to be able to do something about it.

My Husband Andrei Sakharov

2006 • 52 min • Latvia

Through a vast coverage of exclusive archive materials and interviews and personally narrated by his wife, Yelena Bonner, the story of the life of Andrei Sakharov, the most famous Soviet dissident, Nobel Peace Prize winner and the creator of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, is revealed.

Thick & Thin

2006 • 25 min • Canada

For two best friends, Kathy and Selena couldn't seem more different. Kathy is confident, mysterious and alluring, while Selena is shy and inexperienced, forever standing in Kathy's shadow. However, when Selena is invited over the Kathy's house for the first time, hidden parts of Kathy's life are revealed, and her wall of confidence begins to crack. As brewing tension leads to a bitter face off between the girls, Kathy and Selena must choose between saving face and saving their friendship.

The Mozart of Pickpockets

2006 • 31 min • France

Richard and Philippe live hand to mouth, backing up a gang of Spanish pickpockets on the streets of Paris, posing as policemen who arrest a gang member while the others rifle the pockets and purses of gawkers. When all of the gang except Richard and Philippe are pinched, things look grim. Plus, Richard insists that they take in a wide-eyed immigrant lad, a deaf-mute left behind in the arrests. Philippe suggests a three-person pickpocket trick, using the boy, but when that goes spectacularly badly, they hit rock bottom. Then, at the cinema, the lad finds a solution. It's time to celebrate.

Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine

2006 • 16 min • Austria

An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy. The hero of Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine is easy to identify. Walking down the street unknowingly, he suddenly realizes that he is not only subject to the gruesome moods of several spectators but also at the mercy of the filmmaker.

The Deep End

2006 • 28 min • France

Lucille, an introverted eleven year old girl, live with her parents, who are caretakers of the swimming pool in which they stay. Because of the weirdness of this place, which looks like a flying saucer, an awful anguish comes out of Lucille's mind. The "unidentified frightening object" of her confusion would happen to be even more obsessing than all fears of childhood.

Sun in Winter

2006 • 17 min • France

Michel, a breeder in Eastern France, uses the winter calm to spend some time with his young apprentice, Francis. They soon become close friends.

The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"

2006 • 50 min • United Kingdom

An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London

The Aroma of Tea

2006 • 3 min • Netherlands

The Aroma of Tea is a 2006 Dutch animated short film made by Michaël Dudok de Wit. It shows how a small sphere travels in a determined and rhythmical manner through landscapes, emerging at the end into a larger sphere of white light. Both the graphic brushstroke and the music, with its haunting rhythms, are strikingly simple and direct. The theme of the film, a quest followed by a union, is as old as time and recognizable despite its limitless variations.

In the Neighbourhood of the City

2006 • 9 min • Croatia

Love, passion, poetry, abuse and everyday survival connected two young people who came from the sea and who will return there. The have spent their whole lives across the bay, across the city they have never stepped foot in, but they became its metaphor. Their lost experience of life transposed into the dim lantern light showing the way in the endless darkness of the open sea to new nameless roamers…

The Priest, Deacon and Groom

2006 • 10 min • Iceland

The door of the Sahara

2006 • 45 min • Spain

In December 2004, 120 years after it was built by the Spanish, Fort Villa Cisneros, a unifying symbol of tradition and modernity in the history of the Sahrawi people, was destroyed by Morocco, ignoring the voices of those who pleaded for its preservation in favour of respect for the community’s past.

The Way We Played

2006 • 13 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Kingdom

On the eve of war in Bosnia, two boys go looking for treasure in an abandoned hill fort oblivious to the encroaching danger. Instead of gold they find a gun and overnight both their lives are changed forever.

Salzburg - In the Shadow of the Crags

2006 • 50 min • Austria

An ancient fortress, a historic centre of true baroque, the venue of a legendary stage festival - this is the Salzburg familiar to everyone. But Georg Riha's documentary presents Mozart's city from perspectives never seen before.Unshackled by space and time the viewer enters upon a unique filmic foray into one of the world's most popular cultural centres, discovering the still unknown and hidden beauties of this fascinating city off the beaten tourist tracks.

Alex's Party

2006 • 11 min • Australia

A young thief, Christie, learns that some things in life are priceless in the course of watching a video she and her friends have stolen as part of a robbery they committed one life-altering night.

Punam

2006 • 27 min

Nine-year-old Punam Tamang, lives in Bhaktapur, Nepal. She lost her mother when she was five years old and since that time she has been the family caretaker to her small siblings while her father works from dawn till night. Punam tells us her story and she introduces us to her family, neighborhood, teachers, and friends.

Bear Wants More

2006 • 8 min • United States of America

When springtime comes, Bear wakes up very hungry! His friends help him find good things to eat, but will his hunger EVER be satisfied?

Cercando Marlene

2006 • 10 min • Italy

Indipendent short film about a group of young friends obsessed over a fascinating prostitute called "Marlene".

Humans: Variations of Life

2006 • 33 min • Portugal

One day, a forgotten box of shoes is discovered in a shelf of the record company. Inside this box, there were tapes containing home made recordings of the famous Portuguese composer - Antonio Variacoes. When one listens to these tapes, where Variações sings in the most pure ways - without any musical background, many times whispering to the recording not to wake up the neighbors - one perceives that this treasure could not remain hidden. The HUMANOS project was born; a "super"-band, composed by "super"-musicians, where the famous Portuguese singers Manuela Azevedo, David Fonseca and Camane; give their voice to music and lyrics from Antonio Variacoes. This film is about the process of preparation of the live concerts in the summer of 2005 and about the approach that these musicians had to the legacy left by Antonio Variacoes.

Voodoo Secrets

2006 • 50 min • United States of America

To uncover the truth behind Voodoo we travel to where it began at least 5000 years ago on the central west coast of Africa, in the tiny nation of Benin.

Ecce Homo

2006 • 2 min • France

Also punningly known as Ecce Homo; Excès oh! Mot.

La escuela fusilada

2006 • 50 min

The documentary is about the destruction of the republican educational model. It narrates the cleansing that Spanish teachers underwent during and after the Civil War.