
01 Jan 1990

Tolla is Tops
Classic candid camera comedy, with South Africa's late storyteller and comedian, Tolla van der Merwe
A Finnish "candid camera" style short film comedy by Veikko Itkonen. People are filmed reacting to a banknote glued to the street.

01 Jan 1990

Classic candid camera comedy, with South Africa's late storyteller and comedian, Tolla van der Merwe

01 Feb 1996

When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media. To baby-sit Mike, the campaign assigns sarcastic Steve, who gets the experience of a lifetime when he tries to take Mike out of town during the election.

01 Jan 1998

Live From Longmont Potion Castle is a video by Longmont Potion Castle, originally released on VHS in 1998 and later included on the Longbox Option Package DVD in 2006. It includes prank calls to TV shows, prank phone calls to businesses that were surreptitiously videotaped by an accomplice.

01 Jan 1987

Unsuspecting people are placed in confusing, impossible, embarrassing, ridiculous, and hilarious positions, while their reactions are recorded on a hidden camera. Again!

01 Feb 1992

Funny candid camera in which some droll performances depicting real life situations are interspersed artists.

15 Feb 2001

The group of fourteen contestants from the television program "Big Brother" become a privileged witness to the most extraordinary event that the austere region of Extremadura has experienced in its history. Charred remains of what doesn't look like a man-made ship float in a hotel pool. And at night, a thunderous noise and a light that invades everything prevents them from sleeping.

18 Feb 1970

Candid Camera's Allen Funt secretely tapes people's reactions to unexpected encounters with nudity in unusual situations, such as when a naked young woman casually exits an elevator in an office building, or when the nude male art model breaks the wall between artist and model and has off-the-cuff conversations with the clothed women artists. Funt also secretly tapes the test audience watching the preview film and their responses to it, from outright indignation to warm hearted-praise.

27 Oct 1983

"Funny People" is packed with scenes which will make you double up with laughter! What would you do if you were walking along the street and a cute little lady rushed up to you and gave you a smashing kiss, as if you'd known each other for years? And how does one remain cool as a cucumber when you're busy with an important audition and the chair you are sitting on gets hotter until you have to jump up in discomfort to save your behind? Then there is the case of the bank note sticking out from under the wheel of a car. People will always be human and no-one will walk past without trying to pull it out, even if the mudguard comes off or the hooter suddenly starts blowing. The antics to get this note out will make you laugh until tears roll down your cheeks!

21 Aug 1901

A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, the actors, a man in summer attire and a woman in an ankle-length dress, walk toward the camera.

01 Jan 1985

More hidden camera gags with nudity.

01 Jan 1982

Following the blueprint of his film What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1970), Candid Candid host Allen Funt produced a series of comic hidden camera gags featuring nudity for the Playboy Channel. This is the first of six. All were popular video rentals during their day.

11 Jun 2008

A series of 26 short stories, each featuring a protagonist intent on meeting someone at a Kyiv nightclub. These stories depict a real-life scenario of club encounters, where the goal is to “pick up” - achieve sexual satisfaction swiftly for the thrill of it - all captured by a hidden camera.

01 Jan 1988

Brief accidental people are photographed with a hidden camera while two hosts have fun of them.

21 Oct 1988

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

17 Oct 1986

Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.

09 Dec 1995

It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.

01 Jan 2006

Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film, in a remix of the celebrated film Megacities (1997), a visually refined essay on the hidden faces of several world "megacities" by leading Austrian documentarist Michael Glawogger. Novotny complements 30 % of material taken straight from the film (and re-edited) with 70 % as yet unseen footage in which he blends original shots unused by Glawogger with his own sequences (shot by Megacities cameraman Wolfgang Thaler) from Tokyo. Alongside the Japanese metropolis, Life in Loops takes us right into the atmosphere of Mexico City, New York, Moscow and Bombay. This electrifying combination of fascinating film images and an equally compelling soundtrack from Sofa Surfers sets us off on a stunning audiovisual adventure across the continents. The film also makes an original contribution to the discussion on new trends in documentary filmmaking. Written by KARLOVY VARY IFF 2006