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2006 all films » order by title (120)
| 3PM  Dir: Iris Bernblum, United States, 6 min, 2005, Experimental A short story about the irrepressible desire to escape from one's immediate situation. We watch as two friends work together to relieve themselves... more | | |  |
| 50 CENTS  Dir: Mathijs Geijskes, Netherlands, 5 min, 2005, Short a street, a woman and a man… A young woman has to pass a homeless man in her street. She doubts if she will give the man some money; Will he buy al... more | | |  |
| AHLAAM  Dir: Mohamed Al-Daradji, Iraq, 110 min, 2005, Feature Scarred Baghdad 2003... Confusion, uncertainty and death engulf the bombed ruins of a psychiatric asylum. Voyeuristically we move between the past a... more + winner: Best Actor & Spirit Award | | |  |
| ALIVE  Dir: Lucy Blackwell, United States, 3 min, 2006, Animation Two insects are born into a luscious alive world of food. As they explore their home, they realize they are living inside a tiny bubble. One of the... more | | |  |
| ALL PEOPLE IS PLASTIC  Dir: Harald Hund, Austria, 10 min, 2005, Animation In the history of cinema the modern big city has often served as a screen onto which dystopian fantasies are projected: The idea of the urban space... more | | |  |
| AVATAR  Dir: Lluís Quílez, Spain, 15 min, 2005, Short AVATAR: [1] Accidental event that usually implies a sudden change in the course of something. Change of fortune. [2] Trials somebody goes through.... more | | |  |
| BEG, BORROW OR STEAL  Dir: Andreas Koefoed, Denmark, 36 min, 2006, Documentary Rahi has seen it all: 36 countries on three continents - on his bicycle from India! Now, 89 years of age and a self-appointed Professor of the World... more | | |  |
| BLACK DAY FOR FREEDOM  Dir: Rob Chiu, England, 4 min, 2005, Animation Created as a fictional back story to the global problem of the displacement of peoples, Black Day to Freedom portrays a city in turmoil with the los... more | | |  |
| BOB LOG III'S ELECTRIC FENCE STORY  Dir: Sebastien Wolf & Tinka Stock, Germany, 2 min, 2004, Animation Big difficulties are encountered by Bob Log III, one-man-band from Tucson, Arizona, while trying to knock over sleeping cows in the Black Forest, Ge... more | | |  |
| BUDDHA STYLE  Dir: Jung-Hyun Yoo, Korea, 10 min, 2005, Short There is the monk of "bong-wha" temple who has much interest in hairdo thinking of the wig in the NIKE shoes box secretly as his the most important... more | | |  |
| buttons  Dir: Hector Berrebi, United States, 16 min, 2005, Short Billy is gone forever. Bobby knows she will not visit again, he is alone now. In a rundown boardinghouse where he spends his days gazing out windows... more | | |  |
| CALL IT DEMOCRACY  Dir: Matt Kohn, United States, 87 min, 2005, Documentary Call It Democracy is a fresh perspective on voting rights, election reform and the unresolved electronic voting controversies threatening to undermi... more | | |  |
| CHALAZAE  Dir: Samantha Krukowski, United States, 5 min, 2005, Experimental Eggs, shot on glass from below and above, were the primary image material for Chalazae. Of particular interest are the cellular and cosmic forms th... more | | |  |
| CHAMBER, THE  Dir: Yu Seock hyun, Korea, 5 min, 2005, Animation With sound of knock, an old guy who looks like a salesman comes into an empty room. When he sees a miniature house in the room, he puts his hand int... more | | |  |
| CONTACT  Dir: Sergej Stanojkovski, Germany, 95 min, 2006, Feature Forty year-old Janko is such a troublemaker, even the warden at his prison wants him let out on parole. He is soon released into the care of his ha... more + winner: Best Cinematography | | |  |
| CROSSING ARIZONA  Dir: Joseph Mathew & Dan DeVivo, United States, 95 min, 2006, Documentary An up-to-the-moment look at the hotly debated issues of illegal immigration and border security on the U.S./Mexico border. With Americans on all sid... more + winner: Audience Award | | |  |
| DAD, LOOK...  Dir: Bohdana Smyrnova, United States, 4 min, 2005, Short Teenager follows the couple he ran into on the street of Chelsea. They then go to the Chelsea flea market. It is in the end, in Brooklyn cort-yard,... more | | |  |
| DARK ROOM  Dir: Bart Wasem, Switzerland, 3 min, 2005, Experimental Dark Room tells the story of a man and a woman who are waiting for a desired but already lost moment in their love.
The situation of the couple is... more | | |  |
| DEF SONG, THE  Dir: Doctor L & Xavier Reyé, France, 4 min, 2004, Experimental At the sound of the « Big Bang » in an end of the world atmosphere, a surrealistic and inspired collage on the war and conflicts of our century.... more | | |  |
| DEVIL'S CANYON  Dir: Kelly Sears, United States, 6 min, 2005, Animation Devil's Canyon weaves together a narrative growing out of a collection of abandoned images and super 8 landscapes of the American West. Mechanical... more | | |  |
| DOVES: SKY STARTS FALLING  Dir: Reuben Sutherland, England, 4 min, 2005, Animation This anachronistic video features a stunning blend of live action and VFX work and is based around madness in the sky as a result of a conductor lea... more | | |  |
| DRAGON  Dir: Troy Morgan, United States, 7 min, 2006, Animation After her parents die in a tragic fire, a young girl is sent to an orphanage where she begins sketching fiery visions. When the head of the orphanag... more | | |  |
| E=NYC2  Dir: Kimi Takesue, United States, 5 min, 2005, Experimental E=nyc2 captures the dynamic energy and movement of New York City. Structured in a series of observational vignettes, this piece features New Yorker... more | | |  |
| EVERYONE THEIR GRAIN OF SAND  Dir: Beth Bird, United States, 87 min, 2005, Documentary This award-winning documentary reveals the struggles of the citizens of Maclovio Rojas in Tijuana, Mexico as they battle the state government’s atte... more | | |  |
| EVICTION  Dir: Steve Loff, United States, 5 min, 2006, Documentary A family is forcefully evicted from a Harlem apartment.... more | | |  |
| EXPLODING BUDS  Dir: Petra Schröder, Germany, 20 min, 2005, Short The young girls Kate and Echo live in their own land of make believe. When one of them stumbles across the real world, their friendship faces a seri... more | | |  |
| FACTOTUM  Dir: Bent Hamer, Norway, 93 min, 2005, Feature Henry Chinaski (Dillon) considers himself a writer, and on occasion writes. Mostly he quests for the booze and women that sidetrack and seduce, rat... more | | |  |
| FALL OF ADAM, THE  Dir: Gail Sneddon, England, 6 min, 2006, Experimental The Fall of Adam is an urban regeneration of Adam’s fall from grace. Taking the story to new hi-rise heights and wrestling his descent down through... more | | |  |
| FALSE ALARM  Dir: Casimir Nozkowski, United States, 7 min, 2005, Short A romantic comedy about a slightly taboo, perfectly acceptable expression of love in contemporary society.... more | | |  |
| FINGER AND BODY  Dir: Kei Horie, Japan, 109 min, 2005, Feature Jun, a young pimp in Tokyo, is so emotionally estranged from himself and the world around him that he has forgotten much of his past. With the help... more | | |  |
| FOOT STEPS OF WATER, THE  Dir: Alireza Darvish, Iran, 6 min, 2006, Animation A message from a long journey which remember us everything that we know and that we don't know. One story about the quality of every level of live.... more | | |  |
| FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW  Dir: Pedro Touceda, Spain, 20 min, 2005, Short The song of a story-teller will plunge us into a sciencie fiction tale: "The Legend of the Starmonster". A tale about the loss of innocence and huma... more | | |  |
| FOREST CLEARING  Dir: Simon Robson, England, 3 min, 2005, Animation A dark figure wants to take over the last forest. A lame deer wants to be king. One holds the key to the others dreams. But if you sell your soul, b... more | | |  |
| FROM WHERE I AM STANDING  Dir: Carl Stevenson, England, 4 min, 2005, Experimental A view of an average day through tilted spectacles, where the forces of gravity conspire to make the easiest task the hardest thing in the world. F... more | | |  |
| FUMI AND THE BAD LUCK FOOT  Dir: David Chai, United States, 7 min, 2006, Animation A heartwarming tale of female empowerment and overcoming one's adversities; along with shotgun barrage, wild moose attack, and infant electrocution.... more | | |  |
| GENIE IN A TIN OF RAVIOLI, THE  Dir: Claude Barras, Switzerland, 7 min, 2005, Animation Armand works on the assembly-line of a tinned pasta factory. One evening he opens up a tin of ravioli for dinner. Much to his surprise, a Genie jump... more | | |  |
| GOD ON OUR SIDE  Dir: Michal Pfeffer & Uri Kranot, Netherlands, 7 min, 2005, Animation Inspired by Picasso's Guernica (1937), this film is fundamentally about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the name of God, people are infused wit... more | | |  |
| GOODTIMESKID, THE  Dir: Azazel Jacobs, United States, 77 min, 2005, Feature When two men’s paths cross due to having the same names, lives intertwine, and the girl between them gets the chance to escape her daily routine.... more | | |  |
| HA HA HA AMERICA  Dir: Jon Daniel Ligon, United States, 17 min, 2005, Experimental A poorly translated love letter from China to America that thanks us for all the business.... more | | |  |
| HALF MAN, A  Dir: Firas Momani, Canada, 5 min, 2005, Animation A half of a man has trouble living in society without his organs falling out.... more | | |  |
| HARRACHOV  Dir: Matt Hulse & Joost van Veen, Scotland, 10 min, 2006, Experimental Combining live action, stop-frame animation and a kinetic sculpture, HARRACHOV explores the effect of an arcane force that, like a black hole or imm... more | | |  |
| HEADLESS SAILOR, THE  Dir: Lorenzo Recio, France, 19 min, 2005, Short Alonso Samoza is a sailor who felt in love with 2 twin sisters. But to be able to marry one he has to kill first the other one. One day, the cargo h... more | | |  |
| HEAVY SOUL  Dir: Oren Shai, United States, 14 min, 2005, Short 1959. In a world of teenage lust and twisted morals, of drive-in movies and rock 'n' roll, it is hard to keep one's innocence. With a simple roll of... more | | |  |
| I KNOW WHO I AM!  Dir: SAKANAMA, France, 20 min, 2006, Experimental Set on L'Île-d'Yeu, a fishing island off the coast of Brittany, 'I KNOW WHO I AM !' is a carnivalesque multinarrative in the form of an epic trailer... more | | |  |
| I LOVE MY SUIT  Dir: Peter Brogna, United States, 11 min, 2006, Short A man wears a seersucker suit all the time.... more | | |  |
| IN THE SHADOW OF THE PALMS: IRAQ  Dir: Wayne Coles-Janess, Australia, 90 min, 2005, Documentary As the world is engulfed in a storm of propaganda, we capture a very different reality
in Iraq. We document how life really is for the society and... more | | |  |
| IN THOSE DAYS  Dir: Nadine Buss, France, 8 min, 2005, Animation Rare it must be that Germans came to take refuge in France after the Liberation. It is the case of my father. His nightmare: that someone discover... more | | |  |
| INFINITE JUSTICE  Dir: Karl Tebbe, Germany, 2 min, 2006, Animation INFINITE JUSTICE takes fragments from war reports shown on German television - Iraq war at its best - and reconstructs these frame by frame with act... more | | |  |
| INVULNERABLE  Dir: Alvaro Pastor, Spain, 25 min, 2005, Short Elias, a young high school teacher, is after discovering he is HIV positive. Right then he is starting a relationship with Pedro, one of his co-work... more | | |  |
| JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN  Dir: Lizbeth Mejia, United States, 7 min, 2005, Documentary My film is about three people, two in the present and one in the past. My friends Marilyn and Yasmine both became pregnant last spring. I know ab... more | | |  |
| KOKOYAKYU: HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL  Dir: Kenneth Eng, United States, 53 min, 2006, Documentary Taking Western viewers inside a never-before-seen world, the film follows two of the 4,000 high school baseball teams in Japan striving to make it t... more | | |  |
| KONTROL ESKAPE  Dir: Stephane Beve & Mathieu Auvray, France, 11 min, 2005, Animation In an out of time urban universe, a crowd of small bits of paper slowly wander, like zombies, under the yoke of tyrannical and violent hands. Their... more | | |  |
| LAST BREATH, THE  Dir: Paola Charuand Lara, Mexico, 18 min, 2005, Short An elderly villager, is about to pass away. His state of health is severely fragile, but he mantains all his strenghth to stay alive. His family,... more | | |  |
| LAST QUEEN OF THE EARTH, THE  Dir: Mohammad Reza Arab, Iran, 89 min, 2006, Feature A simple yet powerful film about a young Afghani immigrant who works in a Henna grinding factory in Iran. As a US-led attack becomes more likely in... more | | |  |
| LIFE IN TRANSITION  Dir: John R. Dilworth, United States, 4 min, 2005, Animation Life in Transition is a visual and symbolic journey depcting the continual transformations of life from birth to death to re-birth.... more | | |  |
| LITTLE FUGITIVE  Dir: Joanna Lipper, United States, 90 min, 2005, Feature Joey and Lenny don’t realize how much they love each other. Like so many siblings, they fight often. Each brother sometimes wishes the other were d... more + winner: Best Editing | | |  |
| LOWER CITY  Dir: Sergio Machado, Brazil, 97 min, 2005, Feature Deco and Naldinho are best friends in a constant struggle to earn an honest living in the gritty world of Salvador de Bahia’s Lower City. When a bea... more | | |  |
| LUCKY  Dir: Avie Luthra, South Africa, 20 min, 2005, Short Lucky is an AIDS orphan desperate to leave his rural Zulu village for the bright lights of Durban. He is full of excitement and hope but Lucky has t... more | | |  |
| MADE IN THE BRONX  Dir: Stephen Dypiangco, United States, 10 min, 2006, Documentary In the middle of the Bronx, a group of inner-city teenagers learn how to succeed by working together to create something extraordinary.... more | | |  |
| MAGNETIC POLES  Dir: Maria Rosenblum, United States, 29 min, 2005, Short "Magnetic Poles" is about life's attractions and repulsions. Sonja, a cater waiter, is having a bad week. Her most recent intimate moment is with a... more + winner: Audience Award | | |  |
| MARILENA FROM P7  Dir: Cristian Nemescu, Romania, 45 min, 2006, Short Andrei, a 13 year old teenager, living on Bucharest outskirts, decides one day to steal a trolleybus in order to impress Marilena, a prostitute he f... more | | |  |
| MELODRAMA  Dir: Filip Marczewski, Poland, 19 min, 2005, Short A tale of 14-year-old boy who is in search of love.... more | | |  |
| MINISTRY MESSIAH  Dir: Gints Apsits, Latvia, 3 min, 2005, Animation One day I woke up from my deepest dream .... my dream was reality. So, I'm in strange house. Rooms have no windows, no doors - like in prison. Not... more | | |  |
| MUSKRAT LOVELY  Dir: Amy Nicholson, United States, 57 min, 2006, Documentary Every year in the town of Golden Hill, Maryland, contestants gather for two important competitions in the National Outdoor Show. Local high school g... more | | |  |
| NEW AMERICAN CENTURY, A  Dir: Anthony Wilson & Sam Hollenshead, United States, 36 min, 2006, Documentary In October 2004, artist Anthony Wilson traveled across the United States publicly displaying six paintings of Bush Administration figures. "A New A... more | | |  |
| NOT THERE YET  Dir: Jason Tammemagi, Ireland, 5 min, 2004, Animation Not There Yet, the title taken from Irish Rail’s inspired advertising campaign, is a journey into Irish transport, one of the finest examples of tra... more | | |  |
| NOVECENTO, PIANIST  Dir: Sarah Van den Boom, France, 17 min, 2005, Animation Born during an ocean crossing, Novecento is thirty-years-old and has never been ashore. Sailing endlessly the Atlantic, he spends his life in the pi... more | | |  |
| OH IN OHIO, THE  Dir: Billy Kent, United States, 88 min, 2006, Feature Priscilla Chase seemed to have everything going for her with one small private exception: She never thought much of sex. When her husband unexpect... more + winner: Audience Award | | |  |
| OUR DAILY BREAD  Dir: Khavn De La Cruz, Philippines, 5 min, 2006, Documentary A short documentary on how one family lives out each day to earn their daily bread. How one man’s trash is literally transformed into this family’s... more | | |  |
| OUSMANE  Dir: Dyana Gaye, Senegal, 15 min, 2006, Short Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane a 7 years old child, who begs in the streets, decides to write a letter to Santa Claus…
... more + winner: Best Short | | |  |
| PAGÜEY RIVER, THE  Dir: Ramón París & Tere Castillo, Spain, 4 min, 2005, Animation At the shores of the Pagüey River, Honorio prepares to leave his home due to the coming flood, when an unexpected scream transforms his fled into a... more | | |  |
| PINK MINUTE  Dir: Sunita Prasad, United States, 16 min, 2006, Short Having discovered that she is pregnant, 20-year-old Luisa prepares to have an abortion. Feeling alternately detached and anxious about the situatio... more | | |  |
| PITCH PERFECT  Dir: J Blakeson, England, 10 min, 2005, Short Bob and Ellis are screenwriters with integrity, talent and the willingness to do absolutely anything to sell their movie. Over four frustrating mee... more | | |  |
| PREACHER WITH AN UNKNOWN GOD  Dir: Rob VanAlkemade, United States, 16 min, 2005, Documentary Compelled to somehow cover the 2004 political season, but finding himself profoundly alienated with politics, protests, and even much of the filmmak... more | | |  |
| PRESENCES  Dir: Patrick Lecomte, France, 11 min, 2005, Short A young man enters into the bedroom of a house. He takes keys, a jacket leather, the scooter in the garage and runs away. A woman goes out of the ho... more | | |  |
| PULPVILLE  Dir: Nina Martinek, United States, 17 min, 2005, Experimental Valentine visits the the town of Pulpville and becomes
entangled in a triangle of seduction, treachery and
murder. Her father, husband and her lov... more | | |  |
| RACER, THE  Dir: Yao Guofa, China, 33 min, 2005, Documentary Pak Goo is the head of her Female Dragon Boat Racing Team. The team won the runner-up position last year in Guangzhou International Dragon Boat Tour... more | | |  |
| RAZOR WIRE RODEO  Dir: Nicolas Pallay, Switzerland, 52 min, 2006, Documentary On June 16 1995, Jerry Brown, 18, killed a man for a small bag of marijuana. He was sentenced to life without parole and sent to the Louisiana State... more | | |  |
| RECYCLED LIFE  Dir: Leslie Iwerks, United States, 38 min, 2006, Documentary For over sixty years, children have been born and raised here, parents and grandparents eat and survive here… Thousands of families have thrived in... more | | |  |
| REFLECTIONS  Dir: Suki, France, 8 min, 2006, Animation One year ago, Thomas Bresson, a brilliant and ambitious lawyer, and Elise, his fiancée, hit a man on the street by accident and ran away. From this... more | | |  |
| REMAINING DAYS, THE  Dir: Simon Olivier Fecteau, Canada, 8 min, 2004, Short While cleaning out his closet, a very old widower finds a list of things he wanted to do in his life.
Seeing that he might not have much time left,... more | | |  |
| RINGFINGER, THE  Dir: Diane Bertrand, France, 100 min, 2005, Feature Iris is twenty years old and works on the assembly line of a fizzy drink factory. One day, she loses the tip of her ring finger in an industrial inj... more + winner: Best Actress | | |  |
| ROAD  Dir: Leslie McCleave, United States, 92 min, 2005, Feature Two ex-lovers set out on a road trip when Margaret (Catherine Kellner), a freelance photographer, gets her first big assignment: to survey environme... more + winner: Best Original Score | | |  |
| SANS SUPERVISION  Dir: Andrew Betzer, United States, 11 min, 2005, Short A young couple finds many ways to distract their little girl
while they spend intimate time together. Over three seperate outings, the young girl... more | | |  |
| SCENTSORY DESIGN®  Dir: Jenny Tillotson, England, 5 min, 2005, Animation Scentsory Design® is a film that explores the fusion of "Emotional Fashion" with health and olfaction science, to create a new concept in perfumery.... more | | |  |
| SCOPE  Dir: Makoto Yabuki, Japan, 3 min, 2005, Animation A primitive part and the consideration that exists in bases of various one to change shape easily with "Substance" as the theme are expressed.... more | | |  |
| SHOOTING UNDER FIRE  Dir: Sacha Mirzoeff, Germany, 72 min, 2005, Documentary This moving and sometimes shocking film shows the lives behind some of the strongest photos taken in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza during the co... more | | |  |
| SLOUGH POEM 1  Dir: Anders Bramsen, Denmark, 3 min, 2006, Experimental An anti-drug picture. An electric look at the silence before the storm. A Cocaine poem. The horrifying experience of mind-altering substances. We s... more | | |  |
| SLUMBER PARTY  Dir: Variety Shac, United States, 5 min, 2005, Short Comedic short film. See what happens when four grown women have a slumber party. It's supposed to be tons of fun! It's a humorous look at those weir... more | | |  |
| SPACE CHASE  Dir: Daniel Duncan & Jonathan Pearson, England, 5 min, 2006, Short A fast-paced short film from Catsnake Studios. Our hero and heroine become locked in a frantic race using elements of Parkour to reach their goal.... more | | |  |
| STALK  Dir: Leigh Hodgkinson, England, 8 min, 2005, Animation Lonely Bunny has an unusual admirer whose desperate attempts to get her attention intrigues her. In this dark fairy tale, emptiness is substituted f... more | | |  |
| STONE  Dir: Samantha Yu, United States, 5 min, 2005, Experimental A man wakes from a dream and sees his world collapsing. He wants it to stay the same, but try as he may fate and the outside world are stronger than... more | | |  |
| SWAN, THE  Dir: Nin Brudermann, United States, 13 min, 2005, Short An intimate miniature of an urban fable that unfurls in front of the artist’s window upon the unexpected arrival of a beautiful and stubborn swan in... more | | |  |
| THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT  Dir: Stephen O' Regan, United States, 8 min, 2005, Short A strange conversation about an unusual discovery. Based on the award winning short story by writer Terry Bisson. Staring acclaimed NY actor Tom Noo... more | | |  |
| TIME OF THE CHERRIES  Dir: Jean-Julien Chervier, France, 15 min, 2005, Short A 75 year-old man and woman meet through a small advertising to do a demonstration. But the demonstration will quickly turn into one of their desire... more | | |  |
| TRA LA LA  Dir: Magali Charrier, England, 3 min, 2004, Experimental Tra La La is a poetical reflection on the ephemeral nature of innocence and childhood. It magically combines live action with chalk drawing animatio... more | | |  |
| TRANSIT  Dir: Bani Khoshnoudi, France, 30 min, 2004, Short On the road to England, Arya, a young Afghan boy, crosses Europe's borders with other exiles. Near Italy he is separated from the group and sent by... more | | |  |
| VANCOUVER  Dir: Jesse McKeown, Canada, 11 min, 2005, Short It's 3am in the city of Vancouver. Two cops make a startling discovery when they respond to a report of a disturbance at an elementary school.... more | | |  |
| WINTER, THE  Dir: Zhao Jing, China, 16 min, 2005, Short A stray dumb child met a thief in an escaping event. He got curious and tailed the thief, then got beaten up as cahoots while he was together with... more + winner: Spirit Award | | |  |
| WOLF'S DREAM  Dir: Maria-Anna Rimpfl, Germany, 15 min, 2006, Short In a gothic mansion nestled at the edge of a deep forest, lives a family caught in a web of secrets and veiled horror. At the center of the psycholo... more + winner: Audience Award | | |  |
| WRAITH OF COBBLE HILL, THE  Dir: Adam Parrish King, United States, 15 min, 2006, Animation On a cold, winter street in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, in a worn-down shoebox apartment, lives a teenage boy named Felix. It's just him and his unrespon... more | | |  |
| YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!  Dir: Marçal Forés, Spain, 12 min, 2004, Short Annika has made out with almost all the guys from her high school. Passion, Bananas, blood, kissing, death and dancing. This is a teenage love sho... more | | |  |
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