All Films

Freedom

2005 • 1 min

A simple short movie about freedom produced for the 60th anniversary of italian liberation from nazifascism

Lili Handel

2005 • 60 min • Bulgaria

Ivo Dimchev’s performance “Lili Handel” at the Szeged Thealter Festival, described as a blend of blood, poetry, and music, offers a unique and genre-defying experience that captivates audiences with its innovative use of stage gestures and lack of coherent text, providing a detailed biography of the enigmatic woman behind the title.

La legge sono io

2005 • 4 min • Italy

the most common transgressive behaviors among young people, suggesting a norm of civil coexistence and respectful behavior toward others. The film is part of an educational project with which the Province of Bergamo aims to foster a civic culture among young people, not through simple exhortation or fear of punishment, but through the gradual emergence of a collective understanding of the meaning of certain actions, what they express, the risks they entail, and the alternatives for achieving one's dreams.

Stairways To Heaven: The Practical Magic of Sacred Space

2005 • 54 min • United States of America

From best-selling author Freddy Silva comes a voyage of discovery into ancient temples, cathedrals and crop circles, and their effect on human evolution. Shot with outstanding cinematography throughout Britain, Silva demonstrates how our ancestors hard-wired a spiritual technology into places like Stonehenge to access the invisible Universe.

Ata Whenua - Shadowland

2005 • 32 min

A nonverbal film featuring the landscapes of New Zealand. Shot in the south west corner of New Zealand, known as Fiordland. Ata Whenua contains images of the landscapes and animals of the region, through a range of seasons and extremes. The images are beautiful, crystal clear, and set to an impressive soundtrack.

Red Light Go

2005 • 52 min

As if their day jobs weren't dangerous enough, the hardest of hard-core New York City bike messengers seek out even more thrills in their off time by organizing wild-and-wooly street races. This documentary follows a small group of these riders. The result is an intimate portrait of the madmen (and women) who risk life and limb in a series of harrowing races, culminating in the annual Halloween night Alleycat race through rush-hour traffic.

Torchbearer

2005 • 25 min • Czech Republic

The mechanism that propels the cycle of the sun and the moon has failed, and endless night falls. A nameless and silent hero must find his way through a dangerous labyrinth of traps, fierce creatures, and mysterious sentinels to restore the mechanism.

Sacredly

2005 • 33 min • Russia

In Russian, "Svyato" means "happy". But it is also a nickname for Svyatoslav, the son of director Kossakovsky, who for two years covered mirrors from Svyato. For the first time in his life, Svyato is going to watch himself on a mirror.

Hardwood

2005 • 29 min

A film about the director's relationship with his father who was a team member of the Harlem Globetrotters.

Skywalker: The David Thompson Story

2005 • 46 min • United States of America

Basketball legend David Thompson earned four trips to the NBA All-Star Game and the nickname "Skywalker," due to his astonishing 44-inch jump that allows him to get the ball far above the rim. This documentary looks at the life of the man who served as an inspiration to many, including the NBA's most famous alum, Michael Jordan. Learn about Thompson through interviews with Jordan, Bill Walton, Dennis Johnson, Norm Sloan, Dr. J and more.

Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam

2005 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Historian William Dalrymple journeys to Morocco, Turkey, Syria and Pakistan to explore whirling dervishes, Qawwali singing and other forms of music sacred in Sufism, the branch of Islam that emphasizes music as a mystical route to the holy. Capturing performances of renowned Muslim musicians such as Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Sain Zahoor, the film reveals that at the heart of Sufism lies a dedication to tolerance and pluralism.

Virtavalta

2005 • 2 min • Finland

Breakfast and weightlifting?

The Blind Spot

2005 • 9 min • Spain

March the 13th, 1941

2005 • 5 min • Sweden

The year is 1941. Two Investigators are doing research on an old well. One of the gentlemen climbs down the hole and then they communicate through a military phone. But something is strange, the place, the hole, and then the phone...

A Miss e o Dinossauro

2005 • 18 min • Brazil

A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970.

Girl in a Mirror

2005 • 55 min • Australia

Girl in a Mirror documents the work of 1970's photographer Carol Jerrems, in a life tragically cut short. Drawing from hundreds of her photographs, the film traces the passionate and exuberant course that Jerrems took through this turbulent decade.

Civil Status

2005 • 29 min • Russia

A brilliant observational documentary filmed at the Civil Registry office in St. Petersburg, where people come to have births, marriages, divorces and deaths registered. 'It’s like a theatre here', one says in the beginning of the film, and it indeed is, the Theater of Life. The young women working in the office have a job that shifts from being verbally attacked and called idiots, to situations where they are subject to flirt, or where they master the happy ceremony of marriage. Faces, joy, sorrow, fun, despair... It’s all very well composed, rhythmical, with atmosphere conveyed, and lives up to what a documentary should be: multilayered and universal. And about Life.

Between: Living in the Hyphen

2005 • 44 min • Canada

Anne Marie Nakagawa's documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized. By focusing on 7 Canadians who have one parent from a European background and one of a visible minority, she attempts to get at the root of what it means to be multi-ethnic in a world that wants each person to fit into a single category.

Eyes in the Fog

2005 • 31 min • Croatia

The portrait of Zdenko Franjić, a record producer of alternative rock bands in ex-Yugoslavia.

Admirimiriti

2005 • 12 min • Brazil

Belém, northern Brazil, during the Círio de Nazaré. A miriti toy, fan of brega music, is rejected by his girlfrend. Looking for her, he lives some adventures in a miriti Belém, full of popular music and folklore.

Island of Doctor D.

2005 • 13 min • Latvia

Each spring, for many, many years, a new nurse has been sent to work on the island of Doctor D., but rumours persist that none have ever returned. Julia heads to the island to solve its mystery, but it turns out that she herself is the secret.

The Glove

2005 • 5 min • Germany, Austria

Four 13 years old hang out on a railway bridge, going around in circles. Instead of talking things through, they concentrate on their own little pecking order.

Mime

2005 • 30 min

The tragic tale of a mime put on trial for murder for miming a murder.

The Zit

2005 • 5 min • United States of America

Timmy, a young boy preparing for the big school dance, is forced to deal with his first pimple problem--and what a problem it is! Every attempt he makes to rid himself of the ever-growing dilemma only succeeds in making the situation worse. Timmy hatches an ingenious plan to rectify his situation but can't anticipate the surprising consequences of his actions. And neither will the audience.