All Films - Short Movie Database

Josephine Baker: Black Diva in a White Man's World

2006 • 46 min

A tender, revealing documentary about one of the most famous and popular performing artists of the 20th century. Her legendary banana belt dance created theatre history; her song "J'ai deux amours" became a classic, and her hymn. The film focuses on her life and work from a perspective that analyses images of Black people in popular culture. It portrays the artist in the mirror of European colonial cliches and presents her as a resistance fighter, an ambulance driver during WWII, and an outspoken activist against racial discrimination involved in the worldwide Black Consciousness movement of the 20th century.

Bleierne Wellen

2006 • 1 min • Germany

Gletscher

2006 • 3 min • Germany

Broadway

2006 • 3 min • Germany

From the Inner

2006 • 10 min • Mexico

This film, which was mainly shot in Mexico, deals with the spiritual power of this country, which can be found in both the nature and in its people. De dentro attempts to portray or conjure up the atmosphere of various rituals of the shamanic Maya and Huicholes tradition at a documentary and physical level.

Quelques fleurs pour un chant d'amour

2006 • 3 min • France

Two merry partners, fleshy roses and an improvised dance celebrate this glamrock jewel that glorifies the ambiguity of desire.

First Stories - My Indian Name

2006 • 6 min

This short film documents Darryl Nepinak's journey as he receives his Indian name, while exploring how traditional culture continues to shape and influence our modern sense of self.

Why be Catholic?

2006 • 55 min

Dr. Ray relates the story of his return to Catholicism after 10 years as an Evangelical Protestant. Christian Apologetics has never been so entertaining… or logical.

First Stories - Patrick Ross

2006 • 5 min

In this short film, we meet 29-year-old Patrick Ross, an ex-prison inmate-turned-artist. Watch Patrick as he creates one of his extraordinary paintings while sharing his thoughts on his art, his time in jail, and his hopes for the future.

First Stories - Nganawendaanan Nde'ing (I Keep Them in My Heart)

2006 • 6 min

In this short documentary, filmmaker Shannon Letandre examines the importance of traditional knowledge and how it can be shared from generation to generation.

Elegy

2006 • 6 min • United States of America

"This poignant and unassuming color film interprets the dreams and memories of an elderly woman as she looks back on her life, The film searches for a deeper image of death. A sense of loss weighs heavily in this work as what appears to be a home movie of a grandmother alone at the grave of her husband plays unaltered. Hope is symbolized in images of cherry trees in bloom and stained glass church windows, perhaps implying the promise of an afterlife." -- Black Maria Film Festival catalogue

Amants des hommes

2006 • 27 min

During the Nazi regime, 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality and 15,000 were deported, including 210 Frenchmen. After the depenalization of homosexuality, only one of the deported men from France had the courage to go public about an extradition that even now is not officially recognised. Alternating excerpts from Pierre Seel's autobiography "Moi Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel" and conversations with militant gays, "Amants des hommes" seeks to shed light on a forgotten history, linking the past with the present and yesterday's homophobia with that of today.

Echoes

2006 • 7 min

While battling the stress of her everyday life, a harried woman gets a mental visit from an unwelcome yet all-too-familiar guest.

Coming Out

2006 • 7 min

A mockumentary about coming out straight in a gay world.

Jumpin' the Broom

2006 • 28 min

Intimate stories with gay and lesbians couples reveal the historical role of family, marriage and commitment in the African American Community.

Ginger Gora and the Gentles

2006 • 13 min

Mrs Chakravarty is woken early one morning by an urgent phone call from her sister Susheela. There's something wrong with her wayward niece Preeti and Susheela is demanding that she get to the root of it. Things don't quite go to plan when Preeti arrives for lunch with her ginger gora 'friend' Celeste. This ginger catalyst ultimately leads Preeti and Mrs Chakravarty to bridge a generation gap with a new and deeper understanding of each other.

Luna and the Moon

2006 • 7 min

Luna struggles with her loneliness in the isolation of a heartless city. How can a young transgender woman find love in the streets of Kings Cross, when she can't find any beauty in herself?

Act of Being Polite

2006 • 1 min

This short film deals with what appears to be about a man who has no attraction for his wife or lover, keeping this secret is the act of being polite. When he finally lets this out (he’s so exhausted of keeping it bundled) deeply hurts the lover in the situation.

Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life

2006 • 13 min

How can we make visible the invisible? How can we "see" our lost loved ones? In EPILOGUE, Vietnamese-American filmmaker Tran T. Kim Trang looks for answers to these questions in the audio recordings of her dead mother, the handwritinng of the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida and the ultrasound photos of her newborn baby. Finding no ready-made answers, Tran invites us to reflect about life and death in this moving video essay about motherhood and mourning. EPILOGUE is the eight and final installment of Tran's THE BLINDNESS SERIES.