| Film | Running Time | Description | Country | Director |
Paid |
91 |
Underworld characters who regret the choices they have made and looking for a way
out, but have to challenge fate to succeed; the question is do they. Stars Corbin Bernsen, Tom Conti Festival: Sao Paulo film festival 2006 Australian Premiere |
Netherlands | Laurence Lamers |
Patriotic |
3 | Music clip of parts of the US Patriot Act sung to the tune of "My heart will go on" | Netherlands | Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay |
Photograbber |
19 |
1952. A very strange camera. It makes it possible to steal reality? the pictures
rebel against the photographer...Who will win: the pictures or the photographer? Festivals: Flickering Image Festival Shorts Competition 01/2006 (Winner), Carolina Film Festival 02/2006 (Kodak award for cinematography), Foursite Film Festival 03/2006 (Best Foreign) |
France | Pascal Tosi |
Piece o' Cake |
4 |
In a household of teenagers, it's better not to know what goes on in the kitchen
when you're not looking. Filmmaker Gretchen Kelbaugh conscripted her own children
into this too-close-to-real-life ice cream cake drama. Festivals: Continental Drift International Short Film festival 2006, Silver Wave Film Festival 2006 |
Canada | Gretchen Kelbaugh |
Puppet. |
7 |
Animation: A young man fabricates a simple sock puppet, not knowing the abuse the
entity will soon inflict upon it's creator. Through an escalating series of torture,
the possessed puppet takes on the embodiment of fear and willful self-destruction. Festival: Tribeca Film Festival 2006 |
USA | Patrick Smith |
Ra Choi |
118 |
Set in a Vietnamese populated suburb of Sydney Australia, Ra Choi is the story of
four street kids down on their luck and trying to make a life for themselves. It's
a moving and emotional journey where the strength of the human spirit is often the
only hope they have in their intertwined lives. Ra Choi, is a Vietnamese expression,
which translated means 'Coming out to play.' It refers to the immersion into street
life. Dac Kien, Lanh, Trinh and Lucy and their friends are more than just kids on
the street. They are family who cannot survive without each other's support. They
will soon discover the true meaning of friendship and loyalty. Festivals: Australian Writers Guild AWGIE Awards 11/2005 (Best Feature) |
Australia | Michael Frank |
Real Men |
10 |
Best friends, Luke and Marcus, are at a grungy dive bar well after midnight. Luke
has just come back from the worst date of his life -- he has just discovered that
his latest girlfriend was not only a stripper, but that she knows his father 'in
the biblical sense'. This latest humiliation puts Luke over the edge. He believes
that his problem with women stems from the fact that he might be gay. He asks his
best friend to help him find out if he is gay by kissing him... just once... on
the lips.
|
USA | Sean Hanish |
Relief |
8 |
He works at night. She works at day. They have been trying for more than three months
and still nothing has happened. Festival: Basque Film Festival 2006 |
Spain | David González Rudiez |
rendezvous |
96 |
What starts almost in a comedy style as a harmless dinner of two couples is during
the night becoming a furious, tragic drama which ends with the dead of one women.
It is a contemporary version of "Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in
Dogma style. Festival: Filmfest Lünen 2005, start of distribution in German theaters 2006 |
Germany | Alexander schuler |
Richard |
4 | Animation: Meet Richard, an ordinary guy with an unfortunate affliction: he has a penis for a head. Apart from that he is a regular, everyday guy with dreams and aspirations like everyone else. In this short animated comedy, we hear first hand the challenges experienced by Richard as he strives to keep his head up in the face of adversity. RICHARD is the 3rd independent claymation short from Australian writer/animator Mick Elliott, whose previous film AFTER DOLLY screened at over 35 festivals around the world. | Australia | Mick Elliott |
Rommel and the plot to kill Hitler |
68 |
DOCUMENTARY: The struggle between the individual conscience and the dictates of
state sponsored ideology with all its attendant evils (Nazism, Communism) is well
documented today. We see here a living picture of a few individuals who knowingly
risked their lives to follow their conscience. The July 20, 1944 plot to kill Hitler
was the culmination of years of struggle not only to kill the beast but to win over
men of good will to their cause. One of them was Erwin Rommel who came late upon
the scene due to his political naivete and his absence in the desert battles that
covered 1941-43, during which he was unaware of the Holocaust in the occupied East.
When awakened, he acted. Festival: Roving Eye Documentary Film Festival 2006, Palm Beach International Film Festival 2006, BIG BEAR LAKE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2006, Bluegrass Independent Film Festival 2006 |
USA | Nicholas Natteau |