Cinematic Era: 2007 Vintage

A low-budget low-fi documentary about the black metal.

Yonemoto’s video recreates the opening sequence from The Sound of Music, replacing the Austrian Alps with the Peruvian Andes, the village of Salzberg with Incan ruins and Julie Andrews with a young Andean boy. Sweeping aerial views and a solitary figure accompany the soundtrack, sung by the Andean boy. His song is a translated version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s infective melody into the indigenous Incan language of Quechua, spoken by 13 million people throughout the Andes and South America. Yet the language is probably best known through its place in popular culture; George Lucas’ villain Jabba the Hut spoke this disappearing language.

"It Came From Another World!" chronicles the continuing adventures of everyone's favorite 'a-rockin' scientist, Professor Jackson.

Pencil Fighting: the life and times of team balderdash tells the story of four of the best pencil fighters ever assembled. After a run in with the HUSKY, the world's deadliest pencil, the team disappears into oblivion. Never to be seen again. Fifteen years later the team must reunite and ban together for one final match. With the training of Vladamir Stevenson, they must achieve their aim.

In Mauritania, a country seemingly bound by tradition and male dominance, three women speak freely about sex, love and money.

A poetic portrait of Lluís Serrat Massanellas, an unprofessional actor and friend of Albert Serra since working with him on Honour of the Knights, and his father, Lluís Serrat Batlle.

Stand-up comedian Ross Noble takes his unique brand of humor Down Under. A live show recorded in front of a rapturous Aussie audience.

Meet a special kind of milkman. Based on the Stephen King short story "Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)".

All hell breaks loose when 2 guys on college break make a deal with the devil and loose. They must survive attacks from a legion of super natural creatures as they drive from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.

The stark white winter landscape of a world overrun with the living dead is just the tip of the iceberg for two survivors of a biological terror attack. Strangers David and Sarah must band together to survive the massive outbreak while at the same time protecting their sanity.

Sign of the Times is the first feature length documentary about New Zealand's Deaf community, their language and culture. It is an inspiring, emotional, and very moving story told straight from the very heart of the Deaf community. I n April 2006 New Zealand Parliament declared New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) to be an official language - the culmination of a 20-year battle by the deaf community, and a true hallmark in the recognition of their native language. Sign of the Times is about the Deaf New Zealanders who fought to have their language recognised as a real language and as a viable means of communication The film documents the community's celebration of the official recognition of their language and looks at the community's ongoing hopes and aspirations for their language and culture. This is your invitation to take a journey into the Deaf world.

An exploration of the work of controversial pop artist Allen Jones, whose erotic sculptures have angered feminists, challenged his contemporaries, and delighted collectors and gallery goers worldwide. WOMEN AND MEN attempts to demystify the artist through discussion with prima ballerina Darcey Bussell, wife Deirdre Morrow, fellow artist Gary Hume, and Jones himself.

“Where’s Molly?” Since he was 6 years old, Jeff Daly kept asking that question. When his sister Molly was not yet 3 years old, she was taken from their “perfect” home, never to return. “When I found my sister 47 years after she was sent away, we reestablished a loving relationship and share our story with the hope that other families will be inspired to ask about and find a missing member.” While his parents refused to talk about Molly, Jeff was left to wonder and to mourn the sudden and mystifying loss of his only sister. Now, 47 years later, Jeff finally learns the truth to the family secret that kept him from his sister in a reunion that will warm your heart and give you hope for the future of “less than perfect” people like Molly.

The short Wang Jing made as the graduation project in Beijing Film Academy.

A biography of the short-lived character actor Laird Cregar.

When a miniature viking funeral ship washes up outside a peaceful college town, nobody expects it to carry a killer puppy.

Piazzolla and his Quintet perform with the Cologne Rundfunk Orchestra conducted by Pinches Steinberg in this film by Jose-Montes Baquer. Piazzolla is also featured in conversation.

A recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement in their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People's War-- "shining trenches of combat". This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.

A mysterious perfume offers Estela the chance to become the assured woman she always wanted to be. But when her desires start to come true she discovers something about her real essence.

Bill Oddie highlights the passionate, eccentric and pioneering individuals who have often risked life and limb to break new boundaries in wildlife films. He charts the extraordinary changes in technology that have driven the industry forward, and reveals how the last hundred years of wildlife films has as much to do with our social attitudes as it has to do with the animals themselves.

A war veteran with post-traumatic disorders talks about his practical inability to start a normal life after his fighting and killing experience. This 35-year-old married man with three children, who joined the Croatian army in the very beginning of the war and saw various Yugoslavian battlefields from his perspective of a sniper, is unemployed today and tries to adapt to his surroundings while still feeling the closest to his former, now similarly dispossessed co-fighters.

The sport of women's roller derby has made an enormous comeback, now with more than 30 leagues nationwide forming the Women's Flat Track Derby Association. Blood on the Flat Track focuses on the Rat City Rollergirls of Seattle, who formed their league from scratch in April of 2004. In the first season, the league started playing at a small rink in front of about 200 fans; they now sell out of 1,500 tickets monthly. This film follows the teams throughout its first two seasons and focuses on the women who comprise the league, their teams' struggle to win the championship bout and their relationships with each other.

After the kidnapping of her daughter, Paris becomes involved in the underworld of extortion and homicides to try to get her back.

About a young martial artist who, in order to win over the girl he loves, gets into a fight with her suitor and injures him using his martial arts skills. The suitor, feeling his pride wounded, decides to seek revenge by going to train under a great martial arts master, ultimately leading to...

2007 release

A Gentle Art is a twistedly erotic psychological horror that combines voyeuristic holds with hyper-kinetic editing, yielding a disturbingly entertaining film that doesnt let go. The film revolves around the relationship between Mark Twomey, whose girlfriend Serena is brutally murdered, and his best friend Lance, who is the murderer. The two men play an inescapable game of homoerotic cat and mouse as a rookie cop ruthlessly seeks the evidence to convict Mark of Serenas murder. Innocents are drawn into the tangled web of love and lies as Lance and Mark rush toward a final confrontation.

Kenneth is a charismatic character whose trade is taking pictures of his neighbours in Curundú. "An almost retired criminal" and also a man with a talent for storytelling. Through Kenneth and his pictures, the documentary talks about Curundú, one of the poorest and most marginalised neighbourhoods in Panama City.

Drawn to each other on September 11th, two former lovers take a second chance.

A short experimental animation from Tomoyasu Murata for Gallery MoMo

Oakley and 1242 Productions' latest HD action sports film showcases the progression of wakeboarding and wakeskating through a travelogue of the world's best riders. Join these athletes as they chase down perfect water in the world's most exotic locations. Collaborating with acclaimed filmmaker Justin Stephens and graphic artist Chase Heavener, Oakley’s “Push Process" combines experimental cinematography, editing and animation graphics with the most progressive riding ever documented on the big screen. Oakley athletes Keith Lyman, Aaron Rathy, Andrew Adkison, Amber Wing, George Daniels, Danny Hampson, Dallas Friday and Jack Blodgett are more than just the stars who create the epic footage-they are members of the production team, all playing pivotal roles in the project since day one. Shot exclusively in HD, Push Process takes viewers on a quest to Australia, South Africa, the Florida Keys, Cuba, Minnesota, the Amazon, Canada and beyond.

A fascinating and unique look back at The Eagles’ recording of their 1973 album “Desperado” and the era of 1970s Los Angeles that it represents.

An old man, Mr. Eguchi accidentally finds a special hotel for gentlemen that are called "House of the sleeping beauties" by the sea. When a guest reserves a room, he can sleep with a young girl who is dead sleep by medicine. But the house has the strict rules and a landlady controls all. Mr. Eguchi fall in impossible love with a sleeping girl and the love remind him of his life. The background of this story is 1960's in Japan. It was the last period that Japonisme and specific morals had remained in ordinary people and their life after the Second World War.

This is the story of the day when Adolfo met Paco, seven intense hours summarized in 10 minutes

The Misled Romance of Cannibal Girl and Incest Boy is a super 8 short film of magnificent cavalcade of violence, gore and sexual mayhem!!!!!! With memorable imagery, a psychedelic soundtrack, and a cameo by Troma president and creator of the Toxic Avenger Lloyd Kaufman, Cannibal Gil and Incest Boy will not disappoint anyone looking for an original shocking piece of art.

Two friends, Björn and Hampus, decide to move in together. If one ignores the fact that the two men are completely different, theirs is a close relationship. Being in love with your best friend and, in spite of this, or because of it, arguing to the point where it becomes unbearable.

The latest in a series of psychic documentaries compiling horror stories submitted by ordinary viewers. The film introduces a number of haunting ghost photos submitted by viewers, and explores the shocking truth behind them. The many frightening images that cannot be seen directly will surely shake all viewers to their very core.

This feature-length documentary lifts the veil on the mystery surrounding rain machines and the legends surrounding them. The making of rain has always fascinated. In Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, these machines fuel daily conversations. Some deny their existence and mock those who believe in them. Others have theories, each more original than the next.

In Eberswalde, Germany, just outside of Berlin, Karl Szmolinsky is contacted by the North Korean government to send his "German Giants" to Pyong Yang. What happens next is beyond his wildest imagination.

Rafael (Dumont) is a desolate retiree who doesn't want to live anymore and who travels to Mendoza with the idea of committing suicide. He stays at a small-time hotel called Rex, and there he meets Gladis (Spelzini), a lonely woman who works as a maid and takes care of her blind brother. Both live a sad life, with many marks from their past, but little by little a relationship between them is emerging.

Two little men float into the deep blue sky, tied to balloons. But then each decides the sky belongs to him. This film was made as part of the fourth edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

When a trio of friends goes searching for survivors after encountering a wrecked car on the side of the road, they soon find themselves struggling for survival, as they become lost in the woods and take refuge at a deserted house.

In an era marked by an oversaturated video market, a leader must emerge to challenge the boundaries of what is considered normal, and show the way for generations to come. There is one single team in snowboarding that has led the charge in progressing the level of riding, defining the formula that all others have since tried to duplicate. That team is the Forum team, and the time for THAT team video is now.

The story of three doctor brothers in the same family, all successful and respected by the local villagers. The eldest is a homeopath, the middle one is an allopath, and the youngest is a veterinarian. Their happy family lives take unexpected turns as the story unfolds.

In the middle of a dangerous operation, various armed people take El Chicano, a well known drug trafficker in Guerrero. The bosses of the cartel mobilize themselves to locate their ally until they get information that El Chicano was turned into the U.S. in exchange for a reward. What the bosses don't know is that they are also in the brink of being captured by the same bounty hunters.

Interviews were conducted over a seven year period with 670 people who were deported to Siberia as children in 1941. Fragments of their memories form a mosaic revealing their past experiences of losing fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters. Time heals, but nothing is forgotten and the stories must be told.

In a document from November 1st, 1007, Wellerstadt is mentioned for the first time verifiably. The royal couple Heinrich and Kunigunde make the plan to establish a diocese, with Bamberg at its centre. During the imperial synod in Frankfurt in 1007, the bishops approve the plan. Heinrich transfers his royal court Forchheim together with 14 villages, including Wellerstadt, to the diocese. As “Waldrichesbach”, Wellerstadt is not only presumably earlier mentioned in documents than Baiersdorf but is in fact older than Baiersdorf. A once presumably Thuringian settlement at the river Regnitz has by now become the district of the small Franconian town of Baiersdorf: Founded at a ford, destroyed during the Thirty Year’s War, rebuild, often flooded by the Regnitz, pushed back and forth between the diocese and the margraviate. Waldrichesbach has turned into Wellerstadt, an endearing small village in Middle Franconia.

A young student dissapears and later is found dead. A research starts to identify the killer but a hidden power is surfaces and intervenes in the investigation.

Breakenbacks wife is kidnapped at the airport. Kidnappers request he collects a few items to trade for his wife. Breakenback is out of luck, the items are in the hands of cool assassins, crazy stuntman, wild dancers... and a chiropractor! For some reason there is a bunch of Ninjas on his back too... Well, good luck with that!

Sir David Attenborough takes a look at the potentially devastating impact of climate change.

An unbelievable coincidence, a conclusion based on unconfirmed news, a media and social short circuit. The effects can be devastanting, a life can be completely riuned. Even that of a success man, even that of a surgeon who is trating small bodies affected by the most terrible ills. This is a tragedy that is born from suspicion. Sergio is suspected of being a brutal seriel killer, someone who has been killing for years in a rich provincial city. A tragedy, a black hole that suddendly sucks down all our certains, one by one. This is the worst nightmare that could possibly happen to anyone of us. And infact it happens to Sergio. Voices and insinuations are more dangerous than a sentence. Suspicion spreads more quickly than the penal code and it will ruin a man's reputation. With no appeal allowed.

Polish Jews, who were forced to leave their country in 1968, meet every year in Ashkelon. After nearly 40 years, they share their memories of exile, loss and regret, and still consider themselves Polish.

The filmmaker returns to the city where he made the first video in the series [Frozen War] and looks back at the events of the past six years.

Sixteen-year-old Seb, whose origins are unknown, cannot stand boredom. One day he decides to go looking for his biological parents together with a friend. He finds out that his father's name is Pierre Van Hove, then meets several men with this name and tries to ingratiate himself with one of them. Everything goes smoothly until he meets the seductive Julie, Pierre's daughter and perhaps his sister.

On July 7, 2007, more than 100 musical acts performed at a series of worldwide concerts collectively called Live Earth, kicking off a multi-year campaign to combat climate change and advocate environmentally sustainable living.