All Films

The Love Within

2006 • 14 min

Three college students - Ethan, Meg and Josh - share an intense friendship that turns emotionally cataclysmic when unspoken attractions come to light. The inescapable truths of the heart will either strengthen or destroy their seemingly fragile bond, but only if they can overcome the fears of trusting each other -- and themselves.

Hotel Vladivostok

2006 • 35 min • Canada, Russia

In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate stories inter-connect giving time a shape, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls remembering and forgetting.

Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades

2006 • 15 min • United States of America

A featurette about 'Footlight Parade'.

The Frozen Sea

2006 • 28 min • Austria, Germany

Eight year old Marco finds out, that his parents are keeping something from him and take them to a test.

Horst - The Harmonica Man

2006 • 29 min • Sweden

Horst Holtfreter, born in Germany came to be known as Munspelsmannen (The Harmonica Man) as he, homeless on the streets of Stockholm could be found playing his harmonica throughout the evening. This short documentary depicts Horsts life through interviews and footage of his street-based-performances.

Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc's Street

2006 • 27 min

D-Roc, Dee-Dee, DJ, Money, Lissette, Slim, Chad, Gwenny, and Soo Young are working together to find a way to bring the true meaning of Christmas home to less fortunate young Gavin and his family.

Ready and Done

2006 • 26 min • Latvia

Sigurds operates a hundred-year-old lift in a large hospital in Riga, absorbing the sounds of daily hospital life while between floors. Meanwhile, in the adjacent shaft, a new, automatic lift is being installed.

La Morte Rouge

2006 • 34 min • Spain

Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice talks about the first movie he probably ever saw, Roy William Neill's The Scarlet Claw (1944), starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. The remembrances of such a formative cinematic experience leads him to recall the dark days after the end of the Spanish Civil War, to confess the many fears stalking children and to reflect on the nature of memory itself.

The Sinking of the Andrea Doria: The Untold Truth

2006 • 60 min • Italy

Sixty years on from the disaster, the time has come to reveal the mysteries behind one of the worst marine incidents in history. Including new and exclusive images, finally the pieces of the puzzle can be put together to compile the whole truth about what actually happened to the Andrea Doria on that fateful day.

Memórias da Chibata

2006 • 15 min • Brazil

Juca, a black kid, sees his friends and his mother being hit by his stepfather, without being able to do anything against it, but when he knows that he is the great-grandson of João Cândido, the leader of the sailors rebellion against the chibata hits adopted by Brazilian Navy till 1910, he takes an extreme attitude towards changing the course of his life.

Merry Christmas

2006 • 25 min

Hyun-tae, who is a wild goose daddy, is going to the sea to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. At the same day, Kaka who's working at an auto shop is gone to the sea by his boss. Hyun-tae and Kaka don't meet each other, but they connect through Mi-joo, Hyun-tae's daughter. It’s an itinerary of fathers’ Christmas Eve, which look different but the same.

Lily, Frogs, and Little Brother.

2006 • 27 min • Japan

Lily went to an amusement park using the frog as its symbol character with her parents. At the Frog Castle of the park, she happened to draw a sword. It was said that the Frog King would grant any wish if one beat the big snake with the sword. When Lily beat the snake, she went to the Frog Land and met the Frog King. The king said she would become a frog if she couldn't open the Gate of Hope until a child would hatch from the roe in front of her. Suddenly, a man in suits appeared. His name was Knodo, and he was supposed to become her little brother. Lily thought it strange, and she ran away from him. He chased her. Then, they fell over into the water head over heels.

Le plus gros Président du Monde

2006 • 1 min • France

A President tries as best he can to preside over his small planet...

Octave

2006 • 6 min • United States of America

Hubley created this short while at work on her first feature, The Toe Tactic, as a musical exploration of poetry featured in the film. Each frame was drawn on a single sheet of paper using watercolor pencil and ink, and the animation is accompanied by Yo La Tengo’s meditative score.

Boyfriend

2006 • 5 min • Canada

Footage of Vancouver punk band SKINJOBS performing live at Ms T's.

The Case for a Creator

2006 • 57 min

When objectively considered, does contemporary scientific evidence point toward or away from a supernatural Creator? Strobel interviewed scientists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines for the answers. Based upon a New York Times best-seller, The Case For A Creator is a remarkable film about Lee Strobel's journey from spiritual skepticism to a profound faith in the God who has etched His indelible signature upon every galaxy and living cell. The Creator now revealed by 21st century science.

Jimi Sir: An American Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal

2006 • 58 min

Take a journey to the rugged terrain that separates the barren Tibetan plateau and the plains of India. Live alongside Jimi, a Peace Corps volunteer in Melung, a days walk south of the trail from Kathmandu to Mt Everest base camp.

Niagara Falls

2006 • 60 min

NIAGARA FALLS is more than the celebration of a natural wonder: it's a study of human achievement and human folly on an epic scale. It is a tale of exploitation and preservation and the changing nature of love in America - of the way Man has related to Nature over centuries. With spectacular high definition videography, the camera takes us to the edge of the falls via helicopter and boat; we see newsreel footage, actual weddings and much more

Date of the Dead

2006 • 7 min

A guy takes care of his undead girlfriend.

Estamos por todos lados

2006 • 8 min • Mexico

Charles at the Threshold

2006 • 27 min

Two brainy 18-year-olds, recent high-school graduates with fine future prospects, get married and then divorce one year later at age 19. Charles, a tweed-clad "old soul," must reconcile being a teenage divorcee as he attempts to forge a relationship with a new girlfriend, a young single mother.

Sync

2006 • 2 min

'Sync' is made up of sampled images from sex scenes in mainstream and adult films. The formulaic and often derivative nature of the way this subject is interpreted in cinema is emphasised, creating a strong subliminal impression which gradually builds to a state of sensory overload. 'Sync' uses samples as short as single frames edited together to create the impression of motion. The original continuity and narrative in the source material is eliminated, and a new visual choreography emerges.

Face Machine

2006 • 15 min • Canada

In a dystopian future where the air is unbreathable and all citizens must wear elaborate masks in order to live, one young scientist fights to win his lover by defying the state and seeing her face.

The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'

2006 • 26 min • United States of America

A look back at the making of Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot."