All Films

Visitors

2005 • 51 min

A mockumentary parodying the subject of aliens and UFOs. The first segment begins during the American Civil War and how a confederate infantry stumbles upon a crashed UFO. Other encounters take place in Britain during WWI and America today.

Midnight

2005 • 12 min

A story about a lonely man who is visited by a raven. He tries to find answers about his long lost love, Lenore.

Songbirds

2005 • 58 min

The film tells the story of the charming, ninety-three year old lady Gudny, who is staying in the nursing home of Hrafnista in Hafnarfjördur, Iceland. She tells tales of her pet rat from her home region in eastern Iceland, paints, sings in the choir, plans to stage a theatrical sketch and play the leading role. We also meet Sigurdur Olafsson, who claims to be in Paradise, and Klara Tryggvason, who gets her visits in mail and by phone; most of her children are living abroad. We visit Leifur Eiriksson, who changes making his bed into a ritual of physical exercise. Gudny has only learnt the Lord's Prayer and the Bible Stories, but she knows how to tell a good story and radiates the wisdom of the ages. "Why can't we talks about death?", she says. "My grandchildren ask: Grandma, are you sure you'll be with God?" "Yes, quite sure".

Caprice

2005 • 7 min • Armenia, Ukraine

The kid is trying to avoid going to the kindergarten, because at home, as he thinks, it is a lot more fun and enjoyable with the beloved cat. His parents and grandmother have to catch the boy and run after him, tearing him off the curtains and dressing the careless child. But they will still deliver him to the garden, and it is still more interesting there than at home.

Orinoco, South's Best

2005 • 24 min

The Greatest Places south of the Orinoco, the Delta, bizarre or extravagant unique, birds, the Guiana Shield, aged over 1.5 billion years has created outstanding tabletop mountains, thousands of rivers and cascades, among which is ANGEL FALLS.

Clean Water, Common Ground

2005 • 17 min • United States of America

A penetrating look at Hawaii’s struggles to address water quality issues in “paradise,” Clean Water, Common Ground contends that the responsibility of maintaining good conservation practice is upon each one of us. We must recognize the dramatic role water has in shaping our environment, and how it affects different species of animals and fish in the ocean. If we address the chief threats to our environment and determine the measures needed to tackle those threats head-on, we may be able to preserve both water and land for many generations to come. But we must act now.

Intrusion

2005 • 8 min • Kazakhstan

How an intruder turns to violence when meeting curiosity.

Tormis' Sledge of Song

2005 • 58 min • Estonia

This is not a biographical film about Veljo Tormis. This film does not browse through old photo albums, nor does it tell stories about the exciting events in the composer’s life. Tormis is sitting in his summer cottage, enjoying the silence around him. He says that he put a full stop to writing music five years ago. He does not create any music any more. Instead of facing his piano he is solving crossword puzzles.

Requiem

2005 • 60 min

As the principal of St Cecilia's Academy gathers his most beautiful students for a violin lesson, he is unaware that the innocent Yukina is about to use the Kannone, the demonic violin that possesses its victims to inflict unspeakable torments.

hesheit

2005 • 38 min • Thailand

Wookey Exposed

2005 • 56 min

Beneath the Mendip Hills of Southern England lies a cave system that has challenged explorers since the earliest times. Wookey Hole witnessed the birth of cave diving back in the 1930s. Filmed and produced by Garry Newman this award winning film looks at the spectacular discoveries made by successive generations of explorers.

The Wall

2005 • 6 min • Serbia and Montenegro

Walls in the city painted with murals and graffiti.

Five More Minutes

2005 • 17 min

five more minutes is an exploration of grief. Two women spend an afternoon recreating lost time. What begins as play-acting breaks open into a world where the tenderness and sorrow of having to say goodbye exist untempered.

Stupid DOG-DANCE Movie

2005 • 1 min

A plastic pink dog tries to dance... The animation is crap but the music rocks!!!

The Belarusian Past

2005 • 31 min • Russia

Pax

2005 • 14 min • Brazil

Four religious men -- a priest, a sheik, a rabbi and a monk -- are met to discuss the violence in actual world end looking for an answer for it. Full of good well but most full of their certains, search for a solution. We wonder if they can find.

Hors chamP

2005 • 2 min • France

Still shot of an urban landscape.

One Love

2005 • 33 min

Known as one of the most creative and innovative film companies in the world, Finger On Da Trigger drops another banging release. "ONE LOVE". Last years soundtrack was HOT, this year is straight FIRE and of course it's mixed by your favorite snowboarder and dj Marco Frank Montoya, a.k.a. MFM. Withness the next generation bad boys, Cory Cronk, Chris Bradshaw, Derek Dennison, Stevie Bell, Drew Fuller, Mark Deadlungs, Tommi Ylianttila and Max Legendre, alongside longtime F.O.D.T. stunners, MFM, Aaron Biitner, Eric Messier, J.P. Tomich, Darrell Mathes, Erik Christensen and Ryne Doppel doing what they do. Showcasing smashing new street moves mixed with fresh backcountry pow ensure ONE LOVE will bring it just like only F.O.D.T. can. Put all the ingredients together, and this is sure to be another classic. ONE LOVE

Contemplating The City

2005 • 3 min

We see how a young woman sings along, unaffected, with a popular song and in doing so launches herself through time and space to Mexico City around the year 1978.

Mooseman

2005 • 15 min • Sweden

Welcome to Kingwood City, a city full of crime and evil masterminds. But from the deepest woods a hero has emerged – his name is Mooseman. Together with his new, slightly pompous sidekick, Forrest, he is facing his toughest adversary yet, the criminal mastermind Dr. Cock. The Doctor is planning a truly evil scheme to upset all of Kingwood's snooze-button lovers. A remarkable hunt is about to begin.

Jim and Heinz and the Electric Bull Riding Contest

2005 • 5 min

Heinz is led by Jim to a snowy wasteland just outside Vienna for the purpose of traveling to the future using a powerful time machine.

Ride of the Mergansers

2005 • 11 min • United States of America

The Hooded Merganser is a rare and reclusive duck found only in North America. Every Spring in the Great Lakes region, the wary hen lays and incubates her eggs in a nest high in the trees. Just 24 hours after hatching, the tiny ducklings must make the perilous leap to the ground below to begin life in the wild. Ride of the Mergansers is a heartwarming blend of natural history, humor, and suspense that will leave you with a newfound appreciation of the phrase "leap of faith."

Don't Scare Us!

2005 • 5 min

The boy thinks of Baubas' family which is more chaotic than his own one...

Iraq Frontline ER

2005 • 49 min • Iraq

Behind the scenes in an Iraqi Military ER MASH documentary. 72 hours filming the men and women doctors and medical staff trying to save soldiers' lives.