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FILM LIBRARY
2007 edition, films by category (119)
Feature
7 DAYS Dir: Fernando Kalife, Mexico, 94 min, 2005, Feature "7 Days" is the story of desperate Claudio Caballero, a man who lives in the shadow of how great an event organizer his dead brother was. Claudio c... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
DEEP Dir: Simone van Dusseldorp, Netherlands, 86 min, 2005, Feature A romantic girl in search of love collides with the reality of the turbulent seventies. She experiences a high speed change from a roller skating gi... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
FISSURES Dir: Alanté Kavaďté, France, 87 min, 2006, Feature Charlotte is a sound engineer whose mother is murdered in her house in the countryside. Once in the village, Charlotte realizes that she doesn't kn... more » full details quick view |  |
FORFEIT Dir: Andrew Brendan Shea, United States, 84 min, 2006, Feature FORFEIT explores the human traits of greed, obsession, and revenge. This clever and engaging heist flick tells the story of a man hell-bent on exac... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
HOUNDED Dir: Angelina Maccarone, Germany, 87 min, 2006, Feature In an obsessive sexual encounter with a sixteen-year-old boy Elsa is exposed to the relentless revelation of her own desires.
Elsa Seifert (MAREN... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
RANG DE BASANTI Dir: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra , India, 171 min, 2006, Feature India's submission to the Academy Awards, Rang de Basanti, translated "paint it yellow," is a story about the youth of India today. A young London-b... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
ROCKET, THE Dir: Charles Binamé, Canada, 125 min, 2005, Feature The only thing that matters to 17 year-old Maurice Richard is playing hockey. Every night, after working to earn a living at a Montreal factory, you... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
SLIPPERY SLOPE Dir: Sarah Schenck, United States, 79 min, 2006, Feature In the comedy "Slippery Slope," a fierce young feminist filmmaker who is desperate for cash to finish her documentary "Feminism for Dummies" secretl... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
STANLEY CUBA Dir: Per Anderson, United States, 80 min, 2006, Feature A rectangular black obelisk, intellectual property lawyers from hell, the most gratuitous lesbian kiss ever, five Brooklyn bands, aesthetic transcen... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
Short
AIRPLANES Dir: Jen Heck, United States, 10 min, 2006, Short Airplanes is the story of two teenage girls who secretly hook up one day at a traveling carnival. Although their encounter is brief, like an airpla... more » full details quick view |  |
BARYE Dir: Fred Gasimov, France, 11 min, 2006, Short Manu, a homeless man living on the streets on Christmas eve, finds some pieces of porcelain in a trash can. He carefully reassembles the fragments t... more » full details quick view |  |
BIT ON THE SIDE, A Dir: Steve Sullivan, England, 12 min, 2006, Short A Bit On The Side is a wry story that tries to find some sense in one man's obsession with drills. Tony is fixated with drills of all shapes and siz... more » full details quick view |  |
CHAIN Dir: Dan Chyutin, Israel, 29 min, 2006, Short Rami was never troubled by much till that day in the park when his daughter was bitten by a dog. Since then, he is consumed with guilt. Was I at fau... more » full details quick view |  |
DVD Dir: Ciro Altabas, Spain, 17 min, 2006, Short This short film includes: scene selection / trailer / selected cut scenes / alternative ending / eliminated scene / videoclip / featurette: "What's... more » full details quick view |  |
FAMILY REUNION Dir: Isold Uggadottir, Iceland, 19 min, 2006, Short Filmed in Reykjavik and New York City, "Family Reunion" focuses on the themes of sexuality, secrets, love and family. New York lesbian Katrín is ret... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
FIFTH, THE Dir: Ryan Levin, United States, 14 min, 2006, Short Four friends have invited a fifth player to join them for their weekly poker game. Will the new guy survive the night?... more » full details quick view |  |
FIRST. Dir: DB Woodside & Nick Sivakumaran, United States, 26 min, 2007, Short First love, first kill, first grace. Throughout our lives we experience love, loss, and, in rare instances, rebirth. Meet James Mooney, an American... more » full details quick view |  |
GOLDEN WEDDING Dir: Nimrod Amitai, Chile, 12 min, 2006, Short An old widower carries a red couch through the streets of Santiago City. Every night a tired hooker walks around his neighborhood. Tonight, both of... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
HAJIME Dir: Kenshin Nawa, Japan, 12 min, 2006, Short An elderly couple live in a mountain village in Japan in the years after World War II. One night a young man comes to their home seeking shelter fro... more » full details quick view |  |
HAPPINESS Dir: Sophie Barthes, United States, 11 min, 2006, Short What if happiness was for sale? One evening, after work, Iwona buys a box of happiness in a strange discount store and has to decide what to do with... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
LAST CHIP, THE Dir: Heng Tang, Australia, 21 min, 2005, Short Madam Fang, Mrs Nguyen and Sister Ah Lan appear to have little more in common than unfulfilled dreams. Yet together they're tempted to leave their e... more » full details quick view |  |
LAST DAY OF DECEMBER Dir: Bogdan George Apetri , Romania, 15 min, 2006, Short A man tries to reconcile a harrowing tale from his past and confront old questions that will keep on haunting him forever. But what will it mean for... more » full details quick view |  |
LOVE THUNDERBOLT Dir: Vincent Primault, France, 5 min, 2006, Short Two friends are chatting in the street when one of them sees a girl he falls immediately in love with. He decides to go talk to her.... more » full details quick view |  |
MACHINE Dir: Gabe Ibańez, Spain, 17 min, 2006, Short A girl breaks through pain and bewilderment to discover her new
essence and finds the way to reconcile with mankind.... more » full details quick view |  |
MAGIC PARIS Dir: Alice Winocour, France, 20 min, 2007, Short Kate comes alone to Paris for the week-end. In this city she doesn't know, she is going to meet a man and his dog.... more » full details quick view |  |
MING OF GOLD Dir: Jennifer Devoldčre, France, 14 min, 2006, Short For the first time in her life, 16-year-old Ming is in love. And nothing will prevent her from loving Paul. Neither their cultural differences, nor... more » full details quick view |  |
NOT A WORD Dir: Cathy Mooney, Ireland, 10 min, 2006, Short Sheila, Maggie and David work late shifts in a department store. Overexcited Maggie heads off on holiday leaving Sheila behind yearning for some exc... more » full details quick view |  |
PICK UP Dir: Manuel Schapira, France, 17 min, 2006, Short From her apartment a young woman calls the public phone across the street. Unknown people pick up.... more » full details quick view |  |
PROOF OF BIRTH Dir: José Luis Orbegozo, United States, 21 min, 2007, Short Proof of Birth tells the story of Luis Gonzalez, a young illegal Mexican immigrant on a quest to obtain a legal driver's license in New York City.
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REBEL SONG Dir: Simon Arthur, Scotland, 15 min, 2007, Short A woman and two men play out their broken lives amongst the swaying trees, singing hymns of love, lust and murder.... more » full details quick view |  |
RHYME ANIMAL Dir: PHIL ROC, United States, 22 min, 2007, Short A unique blend of hip hop and psychological horror, RHYME ANIMAL is the tale of a Brooklyn DJ who rides the coat tails of an up and coming rapper...... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
SEE ME Dir: Omar Mouldouira, Morocco, 9 min, 2006, Short Saďd drives through the streets of Casablanca like a lost soul. At twilight, he comes across Leila in a deserted street, as astray as him. Saďd offe... more » full details quick view |  |
SPYHOLE Dir: Nicolas Bary, France, 17 min, 2005, Short Alone in his apartment, an old man is listening to his neighbors partying. The old man is grasping every sound. He is watching too, through the coun... more » full details quick view |  |
SUB- Dir: Maia Horniak, Australia, 10 min, 2005, Short A girl born and raised in a leaky junk submarine finds an image of a cloud and becomes determined to find out if clouds exist.... more » full details quick view |  |
WINDOWBREAKER Dir: Tze Chun, United States, 11 min, 2006, Short When a string of break-ins occurs in a racially-mixed suburb, residents are abuzz as to who is responsible. In eleven short minutes, this film weav... more » full details quick view |  |
WOODSMEN Dir: Timo Korhonen, Finland, 10 min, 2006, Short Woodsmen is a film about the collision between man and nature. It is a tale about two woodsmen who encounter a wolf-like creature in a beautiful for... more » full details quick view |  |
ZEITGEIST Dir: Navot Papushado & Guy Raz, Israel, 25 min, 2007, Short During a serene voyage to her late grandfather's house, a young woman and her estranged boyfriend stumble upon an old camera. What seems at first as... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
Documentary
99 DAYS ON THE ICE Dir: Jean-Gabriel Leynaud, France, 52 min, 2006, Documentary Crossing the Arctic, leaving one shore of the ocean and joining up with the other, 100 days later, 2000 km farther... This is the story of the coupl... more » full details quick view |  |
AT THE EPICENTRE Dir: Ruhi Hamid, England, 50 min, 2006, Documentary Lampuuk was close to the December earthquake epicentre. The village was flattened. Just one building - the Mosque - was left standing. Out of 7,000... more » full details quick view |  |
BUSHMAN'S SECRET Dir: Rehad Desai, South Africa, 65 min, 2006, Documentary When South African filmmaker Rehad Desai travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge, he meets Jan van der W... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
CHARGE FOR THAT Dir: Chris Cassidy, United States, 7 min, 2006, Documentary The streets of New York City have been an endless palette for artist Mark Nilsen. Dog piss, enthusiastic passers-by, and everything in between as Ni... more » full details quick view |  |
EMBER'S GLOW, AN Dir: Niamh Kennedy, Ireland, 12 min, 2006, Documentary This documentary is a personal exploration into the life of the Director's father, Jim Kennedy, a 68-year-old turf cutter attempting to come to term... more » full details quick view |  |
FEAR Dir: Niamh Linnie, Ireland, 12 min, 2006, Documentary Fear... a documentary that digs to the core of this primal human emotion. From childhood and beyond, three personal stories relay the spiral of fear... more » full details quick view |  |
HIP HOP DIARIES Dir: Carlo Lavagna, Italy, 76 min, 2006, Documentary This documentary shows the hip hop crisis by following five characters from NYC as they indulge their own personal conquests for fame: Kez5, one of... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
JULY TRIP Dir: Wael Noureddine, France, 35 min, 2006, Documentary Beirut, July 2006. The Israeli bombings strike the city. While Beirut is still on fire, the filmmaker starts a journey across his natal land. The fi... more » full details quick view |  |
MAKING OF A MARTYR, THE Dir: Alistair Leyland & Brooke Goldstein, Canada, 58 min, 2006, Documentary On March 24th, 2004, 15 year old Hussam Abdu was apprehended at an Israeli border checkpoint with live explosives strapped around his waist. Yet,... more » full details quick view |  |
NADIA'S JOURNEY Dir: Carmen Garcia & Nadia Zouaoui, Algeria, 72 min, 2006, Documentary As a young woman, Nadia Zouaoui vowed that her suffering would not be in vain. When she was 19, her parents forced her into an arranged marriage wit... more » full details quick view |  |
SPECKY Dir: Anne-Claire Pilley, Scotland, 22 min, 2006, Documentary Specky is a humorous short documentary musing on how short-sighted people survived the Stone Age. Through a series of experiments involving her besp... more » full details quick view |  |
SUSAN FOR NOW Dir: Robin Franzi, United States, 54 min, 2007, Documentary The narrator of this first person documentary is in her forties, a finance professional with a Masters Degree who had been celibate for ten years wh... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
WAKE UP WORLD Dir: Carlo Nero, England, 31 min, 2006, Documentary Through exclusive interviews with Kofi Annan (Secretary-General of the United Nations; Ann Veneman (UNICEF Executive Director); UNICEF Ambassadors R... more » full details quick view |  |
WORKING FOR A LIVING Dir: Preeya Nair, India, 23 min, 2007, Documentary Quamer is a 11 year old girl. She has to work at making bangles with her little sisters in order to earn enough money to live. She lives in the old... more » full details quick view |  |
Experimental
AUDIO ADDICTION Dir: Jasmin Jodry & Mo Stoebe, England, 3 min, 2006, Experimental A scientist discovers the incredible power of ultra-low audio frequencies while experimenting in his bizarre laboratory. Amid rats, electronic equip... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
BREATHE ME Dir: Carmen Rozestraten, United States, 9 min, 2006, Experimental This exquisitely shot film takes us on the hypnotic voyage of a beautiful young woman through a playful and sensual collage of broken dreams.... more » full details quick view |  |
CRYSTAL SHIP, THE Dir: Marco Magni, Italy, 4 min, 2006, Experimental "The Crystal Ship" represents a day in the life of a man who is about to die, told by the objects he uses. In the background, the apocalypse of the... more » full details quick view |  |
ENVY Dir: Jasmin Jodry, England, 3 min, 2006, Experimental Envy aims to explore the collaboration between a musician, a dancer and an animator. It is an exploration into how each discipline can express the s... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
HARD TOLD Dir: Jane Mason, England, 8 min, 2006, Experimental Hard Told is a journey of suffocating intimacy and isolation. Through the eyes of an elderly deaf man, a dance emerges. Bare feet...a muddy field...... more » full details quick view |  |
HOLD YOUR BREATH Dir: Claude Chabot, France, 4 min, 2006, Experimental A photographer tries to capture an embarrassing moment in the life of someone in the public eye. He doesn't realize that time is working against him... more » full details quick view |  |
our brief eternity Dir: William Morrison, United States, 23 min, 2006, Experimental Modern ideas of progress rest upon a body of labour, of repetitive, invisible, and often unacknowledged intense effort. our brief eternity pays tri... more » full details quick view |  |
PUBLIC SPACES Dir: Martijn Veldhoen, Netherlands, 10 min, 2006, Experimental A man, and later a woman are walking through public space with the phones to their ear. They are carrying a bag containing an electronic counting de... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
TRAINS, THE Dir: Takahiro Hirata, Japan, 3 min, 2005, Experimental The concept of movie is to play music with a picture. This movie is made only by shot movie and sound. This musical scale is played by changing of r... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
Animation
ANIMAL Dir: Tatu Pohjavirta, Finland, 28 min, 2005, Animation Animal is the story of a single father who is turning into a werewolf, his son who has mixed his body with a lamb in an accident, and the doctor who... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
EVEN IN DREAMS Dir: Alice Taylor , France, 8 min, 2006, Animation Juliette awakes one morning in a panic. She presses her lover next to her to leave at once because her husband Simon is coming back. But Juliette ha... more » full details quick view |  |
FISSION Dir: Kun-I Chang, United States, 5 min, 2006, Animation FISSION is a motion graphic film created by Kun-I Chang. It tells the simple story of a man who sees himself as graffiti on the wall. The captivatin... more » full details quick view |  |
GENTLEMEN'S DUEL, A Dir: Francisco Ruiz & Sean McNally, United States, 8 min, 2006, Animation In "A Gentlemen's Duel," a new short film presented by Oscar-Nominated Blur Studio, this time-honored tradition is re-imagined with a fantastic blen... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
GLITCH Dir: Peter Ricq, Canada, 10 min, 2006, Animation When the very fabric of reality collapses around him, George is dragged into a twisted parallel dimension. Relics from his old life confront him as... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
GOLDEN AGE Dir: Aaron Augenblick, United States, 23 min, 2006, Animation Golden Age is an animated dark comedy revealing the sordid lives of eccentric cartoon characters from yesteryear. Ten segments highlight the storie... more » full details quick view |  |
GUIDE DOG Dir: Bill Plympton, United States, 5 min, 2006, Animation "Guide Dog" is a sequel to the Oscar nominated short "Guard Dog". This time our hero dog helps blind people with typical disastrous results.... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
LEVIATHAN Dir: Simon Bogojevic-Narath, Croatia, 15 min, 2006, Animation Jerky but smiling characters from this short film take the audience through an animated pageant inspired by Thomas Hobbes' "The Leviathan," written... more » full details quick view |  |
MATOPOS Dir: Stéphanie Machuret, France, 11 min, 2006, Animation In a village, a young blind man, victim of a storm, will be iniated by a women to overcome his fears. Thanks to the musical quality of a flute, he w... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
MEMORIAL Dir: Matt Clausen & Jon Gutman, United States, 6 min, 2006, Animation After witnessing the death of her father, a young girl's reality blurs with her memories as she journeys into the layered walls of her urban landsca... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
MIRAGE Dir: Youngwoong Jang, United States, 9 min, 2006, Animation MIRAGE is a story of a biomechanical robot who has to fill his glass chest with water in order to sustain his life. He must squeeze a small stem to... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
MY DEAR SON Dir: Antonio Giambanco, Italy, 5 min, 2007, Animation A father is murdered in a Sicilian cottage. Who is the murderer? A "moral will" explores the risks of a father-son relationship and leads to the rev... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
SPORTS AND DIVERSIONS Dir: Bum Lee, United States, 4 min, 2005, Animation Sports and Diversions is a series of black and white animations inspired by Sports et divertissements, a collection of piano compositions written by... more » full details quick view |  |
TOLL, THE Dir: J. Zachary Pike, United States, 7 min, 2006, Animation The Toll is a Computer Animated mockumentary and a character study in the guise of a student project created by fictional film student Harvey Steven... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
TYGER Dir: Guilherme Marcondes, Brazil, 5 min, 2006, Animation A giant tiger mysteriously appears in a big city, revealing the hidden reality in an otherwise ordinary night.
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WHITE WOLF, THE Dir: Pierre-Luc Granjon, France, 9 min, 2006, Animation A child manages to tame a huge white wolf, to ride on it. He and his little brother are delighted. But to feed their family, their father brings hom... more » full details quick view trailer |  |
WOLF PARADE Dir: Adam Bizanski, Israel, 3 min, 2006, Animation Director Adam Bizanski used stop motion animation to re-imagine 1968 as a turning point for industry and creativity. In the film, the Wolf Parade ba... more » full details quick view |  |
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