All Films

Conflict

2006 • 43 min • Finland

Sami Hurme is a student who has lost his parents, who is half-carelessly in debt to the wrong people.…

Doily's Summer of Freak Occurrences

2006 • 60 min

Doily lives with his psychic wife Haley Comet. She does readings, and has sex with clients on the side. He spends his days dishing with his friends Terrace and Sabado. At the beginning of one memorable summer, Doily is chased by a bee. The insect eventually hunts down and kills his buddy Terrace, who is then brought back to life by a mysterious alien object. Next, a client of Haley finds his hair cut and shampooed - and he didn’t do it. Then a dinner party at friend Colby Jack’s turns weird when the host is transformed into a giant pot pie. In between, our hero is attacked by a monster and a household slipper, and rediscovers his love for crystal meth. But when buddy Terrace turns up again, this time as a talking VCR, Doily starts getting scared. While Haley considers all these events mere “freak occurrences”, her lover man is convinced they are signs that someone is trying to kill him.

Seu Dente e Meu Bico

2006 • 1 min • Brazil

Seu Dente e Meu Bico narrates the friendship between a bird and an alligator.

The Sugarcubes: Live Zabor

2006 • 58 min • Iceland

Live concert footage of The Sugarcubes from 1988 and 1989, mixed with short interview segments.

Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer

2006 • 60 min • United States of America

A profile of the remarkable life and career of tennis legend Billie Jean King, both on and off the court.

Tyger

2006 • 4 min • Brazil

A giant tiger mysteriously appears in a big city. It will reveal the hidden reality in an otherwise ordinary night.

Pikachu's Island Adventure

2006 • 21 min • Japan

Pikachu and co. arrives on the beach. As the others start playing on the beach, Pikachu says that they can play anytime on the beach.

The Wait

2006 • 24 min • Canada

High school is over, summer is ending, and Jake must say goodbye to his best friend Sarah but can’t. Instead, he confesses his true love and his desire to go with her. When Sarah rejects him, Jake seeks out escape by any means necessary: random sex, violence, going crazy, even buying into Charles’ deluded dream of driving to Toronto to become a stand up comic. But Jake’s real escape route leads not along the open road. It leads in the direction of a crazed dancing stranger.

By Invitation Only

2006 • 56 min

New Orleans filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker explores the insular world of the elite, white Carnival societies and debutante balls of Mardi Gras. Questioning their racial exclusivity, she takes an unprecedented insider's look at the pageantry and asks: what does it mean to be the queen of the masked men? As she examines her own place in an alluring tradition, Snedeker challenges viewers to reflect on the roles we all play in our lives. Ideal for courses in gender studies, sociology, anthropology, american studies, multicultural studies, southern history and psychology.

Even If She Had Been a Criminal...

2006 • 10 min • France

French archive images of the Second World War pass in a dizzying tempo. The pace slows when we see images of the liberation. We see happy, liberated citizens, but slowly a cruel scene becomes visible. Women who are alleged to have had a relationship with the Germans are publicly insulted, shaved and beaten.

Cottonland

2006 • 53 min • Canada

In this feature-length documentary, photographer Nance Ackerman describes the havoc prescription painkiller OxyContin wreaked in the already weakened Cape Breton town of Glace Bay. The film guides us through a culture of economic and social depression where we encounter men and women at different stages of dependency. Demystifying the world of the addict while showing us the complex social nexus that led to such despair, Cottonland emphasizes the importance of a collective approach to tackling addiction.

Giraffes Can't Dance

2006 • 7 min • United States of America

Gerald, the giraffe, wants nothing more than to dance. With crooked knees and thin legs, it's harder for a giraffe to dance than the other animals. Gerald is finally able to dance to his own tune when he gets some encouraging words from an unlikely friend.

Earthquake

2006 • 45 min • New Zealand

The Hawke’s Bay earthquake was New Zealand’s worst civil disaster. Over 250 people died following the 7.8 quake on 3 February 1931. In this full-length documentary, director Gaylene Preston (Hope and Wire) gathers eyewitness accounts from survivors, including kuia Hana Lyola Cotter, who recounts joining the rescue effort as a teen, poet Lauris Edmond, and a student from Greenmeadows Seminary. Included is eye-opening newsreel footage of the damage. Earthquake was nominated for Best Popular Documentary at the 2006 Qantas TV Awards; it won best sound at the NZ Screen Awards.

6Teen: Snow Job

2006 • 43 min • Canada, United States of America

It's three days before one of the biggest dances of the winter, and a humongous overnight snowfall means one thing - SNOW DAY! To Ron's horror, every teen in town immediately heads to one place - The Mall. Jude and Jonesy immediately wreck havoc with their wild stunts and get Ron-the-Rentacop on their bad side. Jonesy proceeds to get fired - again - but Jude's day off leads him to the opportunity of a lifetime - a chance to drive the ice rink's zamboni. Unfortunately he drives it right through The Penalty Box and is banned from the mall - forever

The New Life

2006 • 10 min • Australia

Inspired by Dante Alighieri's "La Vita Nuova", albeit not an adaptation, "The New Life" shows us how a man's ideal world crumbles as he discovers his life is nothing but a fantasy dreamed by the darkest of beings.

The Cracked Share

2006 • 31 min • South Korea

It is in the spirit of an experience and experiment that Hang Jun Lee's «The Cracked Share» must be viewed. Seized in moments of visual detachment during periods of emotional contact, these images are oxidized residues of fixed light and chemical elements of transformed from living organisms. No plastic expression can ever be more than a residue of the experience and yet, the residue is the recognition of the experience, loss permeates the work and yet somehow the experience endures, recalling the event more or less clearly, like the undisturbed ashes of an object consumed by flames. The recognition of this object, so little representative and so fragile, speaks to us of this artist's isolation. «The Cracked Share» is quite wonderfully dense and visceral in nature ...

No. My Other Possessed-Zombie Girlfriend.

2006 • 24 min

A heartwarming tale of a young man who is coping with the reality that his girlfriend has become a hideous possessed-zombie. Armed with a healthy fear of commitment and a silver cross, the young man and his best friend must fight for their lives and their manhood, as the drooling she-beast threatens to feast on their succulent brains.

The Dark Side of Porn: Hunting Emmanuelle

2006 • 60 min • United Kingdom

This documentary follows the concept of the groundbreaking 1974 movie Emmanuelle, through to its release, its cultural impact, and the large amount of sequels and impersonations.

Cross Breeze

2006 • 30 min

Giuseppe is working on some new tracks. He seeks advice from Ed. Turd Cramp.

Starved

2006 • 29 min

Starved is a short documentary that delves into the dysfunctional relationship most women face with food and their bodies. The film follows five women with varying degrees of disordered eating (anorexia, bulimia, yo-yo dieting, obesity, overall body dissatisfaction), their paths to recovery, and beyond. Experts like Anita Johnston, Mary Taylor and Geneen Roth examine the historic, social, familial and psychological factors of disordered eating and speak about their experiences in the recovery field. Most importantly, Starved reveals the inner landscapes of women's suffering. It provides a mental, emotional, and spiritual lens into this pervasive and devastating issue.

Primeiro Movimento

2006 • 6 min • Brazil

Kaleidoscope

2006 • 8 min • Ukraine

On the eve of New Year celebrations, everyone is getting ready for the upcoming feast, dressing up Christmas trees and preparing gifts. The boy, who lives in one of the cities, looks forward to the moment when he opens the colorful boxes with surprises inside prepared for him. One of them was a kaleidoscope, which opened a new world to the hero, full of tales, colors and wonders.

Lego Batman: Bricks, Bats & Bad Guys

2006 • 5 min • United States of America

An official animated short film was produced with Cartoon Network to promote the LEGO product line.

Momoiro no Crayon

2006 • 28 min • Japan

An educational film about discrimination upon intellectually disabled children.