All Films

From pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. Carp stuffed (in the Polish fashion), also called in yiddish (Gefilte Fish) is a traditional dish eaten by Ashkenazi Jews. It is cooked, sweetened and served as a cold dish at the start of the meal. The head is reserved for the head of the family. The film, set in Brussels, on the day of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah), aims to show the culinary preparation together with the accompanying prayers and ritual. It focuses particularly on the sacrifice of the fish and on the issue of mass extermination.

Images of the filming process of Bernardo Montet on a beach.

A pebble sets on a journey to help a sick girl.

Notable painters, writers, poets, and critics discuss Soviet art of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

From Nevis To... is a seven-minute docu-drama that deals with Juliet Jones, a new arrival to Canada. From her arrival to the airport to her ride to the hotel room, many thoughts about her past, present and her future surround her. She tells of what her life was like in Nevis her home country, what she heard about her new country, and the family and lifestyle that she leaves behind. We hear her thoughts in voice over and we see her coming up against and interacting with her new environment, which bears little resemblance to her former home. Canada 1987 7 Minutes, Black and White Docu-Drama English

A wistful little “story-spirit” rides the wind to a child’s doorstep and invites her on a whistle-stop tour through the Latvian seasons. Guided by a gentle water sprite, they drift from spring showers and blue-flower meadows to roaring Midsummer bonfires, stormy autumn seas, and snow-bright winter nights. The imagery—pastel cut-out shapes that melt and reform—visualises verses by the poet Aspazija, while Zigmars Liepiņš’s folk-inflected score (sung by Mirdza Zīvere) turns the whole trip into a lullaby on loop: every tale enchants for a moment, then must move on to the next open doorway. In the end the child waves goodbye, knowing the fairy-tale will return whenever imagination cracks the door again.

The second adventure of the boy Niko and his friend, the dog Kinkley-Minkley.

After school closes, the street children roam the streets playing games, an inexhaustible source of learning. First larceny, street fights, the first feelings of love, football, cinema, dance, cooking, making toys or musical instruments.

A documentary set in São Paulo, Brazil, about transsexuals who talk about theirs lives and problems.

The morning after. The landscape, the environment, leftovers from breakfast, the man. Bruckner´s pathos - all of that upon a rough surface. A woman´s voice says: "ohh - ob - O.B. - ob er..? - Ober - Oberflächen! - Oberfächen-Kontakt... ("Ohh - if - O.B. - if he..? supreme - surfaces! - superficial contact.."), after having previously spelled out the letters, O.B.E.R.F.L.Ä.C.H.E.N. The original material consisted of a S-8 film. It was projected onto the palm of my hand and refilmed with a 16mm camera. The hand is being closed at the end of the film - it opens again at the words "Oberflächen-Kontakt" (superficial contact); frames of film fall out. The surfaces have touched one another but the contact has been superficial. Film on the palm, the touch of an image. To place something in your hand, to feel it, to handle it. The result is part of the whole - single images, splinters of film and thought. O.k., that is the way it is. (Moucle Blackout)

BDSM-drama for home video.

Silas Rand and Charles Leland first wrote down the legends of the great spirit Glooscap before the turn of the century. Since then, Summer Legend has been retold many times, but never more beautifully than in this colourful animated interpretation. It tells of the Mi’kmaq people in the cold white dawning of their world, and of how Glooscap battled with the giant Winter in order to bring Summer to the North.

A boy is locked into the Bastille metro station and discovers a clown. They both escape from the station and find themselves center stage at the circus.

Not a stage direction, but rather something very concrete is hidden behind the technical term. Something which betrays a little of the yearning for intelligent and playful dealings with the medium of short film…

FRIDAY THE 13TH parody short.

Parody short.

As seasons and events unfold in the village of Octeville-sur-Mer, the filmmaker describes the close and affectionate ties that have grown between the villagers and Jean-Jacques, a curious fellow who should in no way be likened to a “village idiot”.

The nine-year-old Mahmud writes a letter to his 'friends in distant countries' and reports on life in Kabul during the years of the Afghan revolution and counter-revolution.

A little girl finds a minitel by chance, and responds to "old dogs looking for puppies" with a nickname "little jesus loves animals."

A new counselor appears in the pioneer camp, whom the guys called the Beard. Boy Petya notices that Beard has a rather strange behavior. The boy decides to figure out what is happening together with his girlfriend Tanya.

Whispered to by an ancient tree, a young shepherd dreams of more than his simple existence among grass and sheep. The journey he embarks on brings him into contact with golden birds, a dragon and a fair damsel.

The Cat shows off his new player. Kesha, jealous, returns home and makes a scene for his owner. After that, he leaves home and tries to sell himself for 1,000 rubles. Meeting Vovka's rich neighbor, he goes to live with him. But life turns out to be not so sweet.