All Films

The Vienna Strangler

2006 • 45 min • United Kingdom, Austria, United States of America

The chilling story of Austrian author and serial killer Johann “Jack” Unterweger. Convicted in 1976 for the brutal murder of 18-year-old Margaret Schäfer, strangled with her own bra, Unterweger was sentenced to life in prison. Behind bars, he reinvented himself as a writer, publishing poetry, plays, and an acclaimed autobiography that portrayed his crimes as the product of a troubled youth. His transformation into a literary figure won him the support of intellectuals and politicians, who campaigned for his release. In 1990, after serving just 15 years, Unterweger walked free — hailed as a symbol of rehabilitation.... or was he?

The Memories of Dogs

2006 • 8 min • France, Italy

My cheeks brush against the stones, I look out from a break in the wall.

Melodies of the mountains

2006 • 45 min

Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people

My Son, a Sexual Maniac

2006 • 18 min • Slovenia

Tone is convinced that his son is a sex maniac because he is supposedly looking under his teacher's skirt. But he is wrong. While he is obsessed with trying to find the reasons for his misfortune and even makes his wife miserable, his friend hints that sexuality is a matter of genes; Tone comes to a conclusion that he himself is a sex maniac.

Emergence

2006 • 9 min • France

In an uncertain time and place, a group of animated shy rock cubes come out from the anonymity of their quarry to mate. Powerful and indescribable forces made them move towards others in the sky, in a sort of dance that attracts some cubes to others, until those compatible latch on each other and produce a fresh new rock cube.

Locked

2006 • 2 min • Germany

April 2nd is the Autism Awareness Day and therefore Jacob Frey thought he'd share one of the first video projects he created. In 2006 Jacob Frey applied at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and as an application exercise had to create a video to "being locked in a room". His skillset back then was very limited and he just started to dive into video software. Even though Jacob Frey got accepted to their course he instead decided to gamble and wait for the application results at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. Luckily he managed to get one of the few spots and started his path towards becoming an animator.

CMT Pick Toby Keith

2006 • 44 min

This limited edition DVD contains: Homecoming: Toby Keith In Oklahoma A true-blue Oklahoman, Toby shares many of the places and events that helped make him the man he is today. Watch Toby join friends and family as they talk about his life as a former roughneck, football player and honkytonk man. You'll also see Toby suit up with his beloved football team, the Oklahoma Sooners, and perform a few exclusive acoustic numbers including "Honkytonk U." CMT Insider Interview: In a rare in-depth interview, Toby talks about his current album and his upcoming motion picture debut. Plus get a sneak peek of Toby's lead role in the soon-to-be released film Broken Bridges, a production of Paramount Pictures and CMT Films.

Actuality: The Art and Life of Allan King

2006 • 51 min • Canada

"Each of my films is the exploration of a territory that I urgently want to understand", Allan King states in this elegantly structured and inspirational biography of one of Canada's most significant filmmakers. King's work has been central to the development of documentary film and direct cinema around the world, and he continues to make powerful films that confront and move us with the painful and beautiful understanding of what it is to be human. A beautifully constructed homage to the work and life of this accomplished filmmaker - Official Selection, 2006 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

Down with reality

2006 • 22 min

Down With Reality presents a subversive reflection on the art world and gauges a very peculiar collective, one who makes of the night its field of (re)creation, the troup of nocturnal creatures who inhabit the bars, art galleries and streets, and who hide within themselves an exhibitionist spirit, which is more or less pathetic. This is a type of exhibitionism which, when we are being taped, we all take pleasure in.

Szsplatck

2006 • 13 min • Germany

Sebastian's homemade pills pack a punch, and his first customer goes completely crazy. Shortly afterwards, he is mugged and robbed. The perpetrator consumes the loot, the pills, with a buddy, causing both of them to bash each other's skulls in. Sebastian is then mugged again, but this time he fights back with the help of his drugs.

Seeing is Believing

2006 • 13 min • Russia

Blah Blah Blah

2006 • 12 min • Austria

Visual poem based on a song by Iggy Pop.

Sayonara Super 8

2006 • 5 min • Canada

Pia Yona Massie's Sayonara Super 8 uses personal archival footage to ask questions about the fragile nature of memory, human relationships and the foibles of the medium itself.

Through Alan Glass

2006 • 55 min • Mexico

The documentary shows the world of the surrealist Canadian artist Alan Glass, his work, his home, his friends, his boxes, all his universe is presented through the point of view of art critics, artists and friends.

Bacchanal

2006 • 12 min • Austria, Czech Republic

Two young friends reveal their hidden desires by a theatrical presentation of Dionysus. The myth as well as the girl, initiating and redemptive becomes the catalyst of the hidden inner desires.’

Carinthians Speak German

2006 • 60 min • Austria

Documentary about Carinthian Slovenes and the resistance during WWII.

Marion agus an Banphrionsa

2006 • 9 min • Ireland

Ireland, 1961. Princess Grace of Monaco makes her first official visit. Little Marion is determined to meet her.

I Have Nothing Nice to Say to You

2006 • 30 min • Croatia

A film that has the outer structure of the noir thriller, deals with a war crime committed in the center of the city, and actually portrays a community that will have to deal with what has been done in her name. War, night, female movie.

Vi som planerar tågtrafiken

2006 • 10 min • Sweden

First Thursday of each month, the members of Stockholm's model railroad club meet and run their beloved trains on a schedule. The trains pass towns such as Bångfors and Farsarvet. Sometimes, a delay occurs, which then spreads throughout the network.

Holly Gets Even

2006 • 15 min • Sweden

Holly plays basketball at school with her best friend Ramtha. Two boys, Jonny and Daniel, challenge them to a girls against boys game. When Holly and Ramtha is winning, Daniel pulls down Holly’s pants in front of everybody... A clay-animation short film.

Fúria

2006 • 18 min • Brazil

The Old Quarry and Other Haunted Places of Central New York

2006 • 45 min • United States of America

The state of New York is rife with ghosts and other spirits, at least according to this video tour of some of the state's most haunted sites. The supernatural tour starts at the abandoned Split Rock Quarry in Syracuse, the site of a terrible explosion at a TNT factory. It moves on to two spooky castles in central New York and culminates at Fort Ontario (on the shores of Lake Ontario), which boasts two centuries' worth of documented ghost stories.

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.