All Films

No is E

2006 • 23 min • Japan

With the aid of a layered construction of the image, Takashi has managed to capture the different reflections of light on the surface of water. The acoustic-noise-like music and the dancing particles of light move like swarms of microorganisms and in this way slowly cover the entire screen.

Enemies of Happiness

2006 • 58 min • Denmark, Finland, Norway

In September 2005, Afghanistan held its first parliamentary elections in 35 years. Among the candidates for 249 assembly seats was Malalai Joya, a courageous, controversial 27-year-old woman who had ignited outrage among hard-liners when she spoke out against corrupt warlords at the Grand Council of tribal elders in 2003. Enemies of Happiness is a revelatory portrait of this extraordinary freedom fighter and the way she won the hearts of voters, as well as a snapshot of life and politics in war-torn Afghanistan.

Orchids

2006 • 18 min • United States of America

A young photographer interviews for a caretaker job with a recluse and stumbles upon love.

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'

2006 • 20 min • United States of America

A look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's release in 1959.

Le Plaisir: From Script to Screen

2006 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Film scholar Jean-Pierre Berthome discusses Max Ophuls' original script for his 1952 film LE PLAISIR and its relationship to the three stories by Guy de Maupassant on which the script is based.

Out of the Blue

2006 • 39 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out Of The Blue was commissioned by Channel 5 and broadcast five years after the 9.11 attacks on America.

Presents Aikagi

2006 • 45 min • Japan

Aikagi means "spare key" in Japanese, and this film presents a story of love and remembrance. Even if the owner of the key has left, the memories remain. Yukari (Hirosue Ryoko) and Hiroaki (Tamayama Tetsuji) have been together for eight years. Though they are both constantly busy with work and do not see each other often, Yukari believes that they will always be together. Just before Christmas, the couple finally has a chance to meet up, but Hiroaki tells her that he has found someone else and breaks up with her. The next day, a heartbroken Yukari cuts short her hair. When she sees Hiroaki's spare key, all the past memories come rushing back. Yukari decides to give him one last present.

Will You...

2006 • 12 min

Terry wants to ask Allison to marry her, but can’t afford a ring. She enlists Ben, her guitar-crooning friend, to help her carry out a ring-less proposal, but when Ben is distracted by a handsome passer by, Terry has to wing it on her own.

Feather

2006 • 1 min • Canada

A little creature watches the transformation of a feather and follows a whale to where icebergs melt, leaving birds with nowhere to land. The materials used include old gloves, costume jewellery and Plasticine. Technique: puppet and object animation with drawn animation. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Sounds Like

2006 • 58 min • United States of America

Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive him insane.

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale

2006 • 10 min

Trixie, Daddy and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood laundromat, but their exciting adventure takes an unexpected turn when Trixie realizes something is missing.

Toast

2006 • 47 min • Austria

This video installation pays unnervingly close attention to domestic routine, portraying a young woman in the kitchen methodically preparing food. This quotidian ritual slowly comes to feel like a sort of obsessive sublimation of more obscure psychic energies.

Goodbye to the Normals

2006 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A short film about a small boy from England telling his parents he's off to America.

Capillus

2006 • 15 min • Mexico

When his car breaks down, a man enters a cafeteria. The atmosphere is tense, and a little girl silently asks him for help. Disturbed by her request, he realizes something strange is going on.

Nanny

2006 • 42 min • Philippines

Benjo (Nash Aguas) is a prankster and a very mischievous kid. After sending many nannies away, his mother Grace (Sheryl Cruz) hired another nanny named Cecil (Iza Calzado). Moreover, he suspects that his new nanny is an aswang. On the advice of his teacher Mel (TJ Trinidad), he must do everything to save his little sister and family.

Arakinema KaoRi Iro Injo

2006 • 32 min • Japan

Arakinema KaoRi Iro Injo by Nobuyoshi Araki. A labyrinth of overlapping colors. KaoRi and Araki's dance.

Devilwood

2006 • 11 min • United Kingdom

In a lawless outpost in 17th Century England, the people have ceased to be God-fearing but learn to fear the Devil instead.

Unbalance

2006 • 4 min • Japan

“I cannot help feeling that some mysterious force is upsetting our emotional balance. The theme of my work over the last few years has been the portrayal of this sense of unease. In this work I seized on a very negative image of Tokyo and tried to portray the emotional state of people struggling and suffering in this very superficial world.” (T.I.)

Boz: Thank You God for Bananas, Bubbles and Busy Bodies

2006 • 45 min

As they explore God's world, BOZ, Drew, and Gracie help preschoolers discover the joys of being active, eating healthy, and getting clean!

Tell It to the Fishes

2006 • 10 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

The tide is slowly coming in and Finn, a worthless low-rent hood, has been dropped on an isolated beach, his feet set in concrete. Finn's misery is compounded when Jack, a hard and edgy minor gangster responsible for his predicament, lands a few yards away, feet also set in concrete.

Saturday Night Life

2006 • 12 min • United States of America

Writer-director Ava DuVernay's short drama concerns a poor, struggling single mother whose trip with her three children to a 99-cent store in Los Angeles becomes an unexpectedly uplifting family experience. Melissa DeSousa ("The Best Man") stars.

Hochhaus

2006 • 40 min • Germany

Daniel (12) and his seventeen-year-old brother Patrick live together in a tower block in Germany. As Daniel suffers more and more from Patrick's tyranny, he believes to have found a friend in Bernd, a heroin junkie from the area.

Cherub of the Mist

2006 • 53 min • India

The Film follows Indian biologist Dr. Sunita Pradhan who at that time had been studying red pandas for over 10 years.

Yonna in the Solitary Fortress

2006 • 34 min • Japan

From a young age, Yonna and Stan have been outcasts from society due to Yonna's magical abilities. Hence they stay in a castle away from others who seek to persecute them. The Imperial government over time, recognise the potential of Yonna's powers to benefit society, but Stan rebuffs their approaches. Now years later, Garuda, a young Imperial agent is sent to retrieve Yonna from the castle. To complicate things Piggott, another Imperial lackey, has lied his way into the castle to fulfill his own objectives. [From AnimeNewsNetwork]