I'm loooking for the title/director/year/country/where to find it/etc.
of the short film that was made relatevely recently (5-10-15 years
ago).
The plot supposedly goes:
...There's a big dinner table, people are sitting around it. noone is
eating, but instead they are sitting on the toilet sits and everyone
has a roll of toilet paper in front of them. A little boy is asking
his mom that he wants to eat and she starts hushing him, telling him
that it's not appropriate to ask for food @ the dinner table (or he
should ask for it quetly). And there's a tiny room in the house - the
kitchen where ppl go one by one to eat...
This is the basic idea. :)

I believe you're referring to a scene from the 1974 French film "The
Phantom of Liberty," directed by Luis Bunuel. The film's French title
was "Le Fantôme de la Liberté."  Here are some descriptions of the
scene:

"Bunuel, who cowrote the screenplay with collaborator Jean-Claude
Carriere, said the movie is about chance and defying expectations. The
most famous sequence involves people at a fancy table who sit on
toilets and excuse themselves to grab a bite in a tiny room."

Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/entertainment/movies/phant12_20030112.htm 

"This surrealistic comedy is a collection of barely-related sketches
that include a group of patriots in the Napoleonic era egging on a
firing squad to shoot them, a missing girl helping police fill out a
missing person report on her, and the well-known scene of an
elegantly-dressed group sitting on toilets around a dinner table until
hunger strikes, when they retire to stalls in a separate room to eat."

Films and TV
http://www.filmsandtv.com/search.asp?ms=2&uq=Luis%20Bunuel

"In the early 1970s I enjoyed a couple of pictures made by Spanish
filmmaker Luis Bunuel: 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' and
'The Phantom of Liberty.' Bunuel had a ball making these weird,
Goyaesque comedies lampooning middle class ways.

In one scene he reversed the sense of what is shameful, showing a
soire in which the living room is full of toilets and people sit
around chatting and defecating -- and then sneaking off individually
to an antiseptic little room in which to gobble down some furtive
morsels of food."

Michael Finley
http://mfinley.com/articles/down-with-freedom.htm

"There's a great scene in Luis Bunuel's 1974 film The Phantom of
Liberty in which a group of people assemble for an evening of
conversation. Their hostess places them at table and each guest, in
turn, at her invitation, prepares themselves and sits down on a
toilet... This joie de vivre is interrupted as one gentleman, excusing
himself, refers to the subject of food (the guest next to him recoils
in disgust). After a sustained, excited discussion of the volume of
human waste produced per annum, one guest, having unburdened himself
of an uneasy load, flushes and asks the maid, in hushed tones, the way
to the dining room. In the discreet, locked privacy of a gastronomic
cubicle, he hunkers down to a meal of lamb chops... This act, not to
be spoken of in polite society, is interrupted only by the persistent
knocking on the door of one of the other diners, also answering the
call of nature."

Multimedia Art Asia Pacific
http://www.maap.biz/maap02/html/bb_excelsior.asp

Google Web Search: "bunuel" + "phantom" + "toilets"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=bunuel+phantom+toilets

If you are interested in viewing this film, several VHS tapes are
offered at half.com:

Half.com
http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1951936&domain_id=1877&meta_id=3

If this is not the correct film, please request clarification, and I
will resume the quest. I'll be glad to offer further assistance before
you rate my answer.

Best regards,
pinkfreud

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Request for Answer Clarification by tankgirl-ga on 01 Oct 2003 14:39 PDT

sounds right. i'll rent it today/tomorrow and if it's what i'm looking
for - i'll except ur answer :)
thanks

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Clarification of Answer by pinkfreud-ga on 01 Oct 2003 15:06 PDT

I hope this is the right film. Even if it isn't, I think you'll find
it interesting!

~pinkfreud

Thank you so much!!!

This IS the movie that i've been looking for and it's very
cool/hillarious/abstract/independant - the type of movies that i
really enjoy.
And, like you said, besides that particular scene there are so many
more that are totaly worth watching the film.

Thanks again :)