All Films

Thomas & Friends: Percy Saves the Day

2005 • 32 min

On the Island of Sodor, Sir Topham Hatt is always stressing to the engines the importance of working together and listening to one another. Sometimes, though, the engines don't always do what they are told. Hop aboard and see what happens when Thomas ignores Percy's warning of a wobbly track. Cheer Rusty on as he races to save a reckless Duncan. Meet Fergus, the traction engine, and find out how he proves that even new engines can be really useful.

Butterflies

2005 • 3 min • Latvia

An audiovisual interpretation of one of the "epiphanies" by Imants Ziedonis.

The Little Monsterette

2005 • 8 min • Germany, Switzerland

A little monsterette doesn't want to sleep alone in her bed and finds a hundred excuses to stay awake until a solution is found by her tired parents.

Made in Chinatown

2005 • 6 min • United States of America

“Jennings, a prolific and consistently wonderful filmmaker, excels at constructing near-perfect short films out of glimpses of fleeting, ephemeral visual phenomena. Made in Chinatown is a street film in which the human presence is represented only indirectly and in fragments, either through its reflection in shop windows, cars, and other surfaces, or through the shadows it casts. There is nothing extraneous here, nothing which upsets the film’s fragile, delicate balance between what is physically substantial and the immaterial traces of that substantiality.” -Nathaniel Dorsky

Business Trip to Forest

2005 • 27 min • Latvia

Circumstances force two former friends and schoolmates to meet again after a long separation. There’s an unresolved conflict from their past. Will this chance meeting result in reconciliation?

The Avenging Apes of Africa

2005 • 53 min • China, United States of America

Six great apes orphaned by a cold-blooded poacher in the heart of the Congo jungle must avenge the lives of their families and those of the exploited animals around the world. Using their superior strength, magnificent intelligence, and outlandish humor, they scour the globe in search of the notorious poaching kingpin Harry B. Richbone and his evil group of merciless minions.

Music Palace

2005 • 9 min

Previously a central part of communal life, the movie palaces of New York’s Chinatown are now extinct. This documentary short takes us inside the title theater located on the Bowery, as it’s about to close its doors, with its caretakers ruefully looking back at the life that once was. Eric Lin’s poignant first film serves as a glimpse into the usually private—and, according to the Music Palace’s projectionist, “lonely”—operations of a theater, and mourns the loss of a once-vital movie-going locale.

Banned from Broadcast 4: Troublesome Neighbor Terror

2005 • 46 min • Japan

A couple are harassed endlessly by their neighbors.

Timur. History of the Last Flight

2005 • 26 min • Russia

In 2001, near Pskov, at an air show, a disaster occurred in front of 10,000 spectators. The crash of the plane, which was controlled by Timur Apakidze, was filmed by dozens of cameras. The film also contains the voice of Apakidze himself, who, shortly before his death, as if anticipating it, managed to talk about how the pilot feels in an emergency flight, being on the verge of life and death. And how painful is the choice between ejection-life and the desire to save the plane.

coffee and milk

2005 • 30 min

Homesick Blues

2005 • 15 min

Hiroko spends her final days in Osaka before running away to Chicago, hell-bent on becoming a blues singer.

Aven

2005 • 60 min

Performance, 23 September 2005, at Zoersel, Seppenshuis. Avens are relics from prehistoric times (3000 BC). They are natural cavities in the limestone soil that have been washed out by water. The early inhabitants used those cavities as a quarry from which they extracted the clay for their pottery. When the clay ran out or had become too difficult to reach these caverns were used as depositories for food. Usually an AVEN was connected to an underground vein of water. I saw AVENS like this in Cambous, Languedoc. They date from 3000 BC. "I think they’re wonderful. Time and time again it surprises me that as soon as I perform a work existing in my head, it begins to lead a life of its own. During the try-out I discovered that an AVEN could also be the crater of a blue meteor fallen from Sirius into our garden or just as likely a hole in the ground caused by the impact of a poisonous gas bomb."

Dual Injustice: Feminicide and Torture in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua

2005 • 17 min • United States of America

This documentary short explores disappearances and murders of women in Mexican border towns.

Panaginipan

2005 • 15 min

Two young, deeply disturbed women discover a different kind of bond despite their contrasting personalities. Mona, with her seemingly calm and controlled façade, has already reached a point in her life wherein she can no longer hope that life will ever get better. Sara, on the other hand, wishes to escape the constant and pointless pain of her uncontrollable need to fall in love. Both women have already attempted several times to kill themselves, seeing that death is their only escape from this repetitive suffering. After exhausting all means of suicide, they discover a foolproof way to end it all.

Negezi!

2005 • 24 min

When his friends introduce him to a pretty girl, Aras falls in love with her and wants to propose to her.

Honto ni Atta! Kokkuri-san no Noroi - Jitsuroku Kokuri

2005 • 60 min • Japan

This horror documentary film examines the current state of the forbidden game "Kokkuri-san," which became a social phenomenon during the occult boom of the 1970s.

Wasps, Geese, Pear-tree

2005 • 7 min • Hungary

The chalk-drawing animated film is based on Richard Brautigan’s novel: „Revenge of the lawn”. This is a remembrance, the story of a childhood memory about grandma’ and grandpa’. After the death of grandpa’, Jack took over the domesticities, and delivered grandma’s bourbon on his truck. Grandma’s whisky served as a salutary refreshment during prohibition times. Her house wore the traces of two accidents. The film tells the story of these accidents.

Domino

2005 • 12 min

Lotte Schreiber undertook a journey through Greece in winter to film anonymous architectures, the frequently found concrete skeletons.

Véio

2005 • 20 min • Brazil

On the outskirts of the city of Nossa Senhora da Glória, in the hinterland of the state of Sergipe, Northeast Brazil, we will find an unexpected open-air sculpture park. This unusual “art gallery” is the result of the work of Cícero Alves dos Santos, known as Véio, a farmer, artisan and sculptor. In it, Véio installed his Nation, his family, made up of common and mythological beings, animals and extraterrestrials.

Bird's Foot

2005 • 13 min • Russia

About how the boy Yumagul and the girl Galia defeated the evil Deva.

Crying of Angels

2005 • 54 min

Crying of Angels is the first documentary film about the gay community in the history of Slovak cinema. The collage of stories from the lives of the protagonists does not attempt to objectively portray this minority in post-communist society, but is an author's testimony about the existence of a people in conflict with social norms and with themselves.

Once When I Served My Dear Landlord

2005 • 10 min • Belarus

Based on a Belarussian folk song, movie tells a story of a poor peasant who goes to serve the landlord and is not successful in it.

The Christmas Tree Thieves

2005 • 13 min • Russia

A musical New Year's film about how aliens come to Earth in search of a Christmas tree. Funny situations related to the New Year are unfolding in Italy, Africa, Mexico, and America.

Working Stiff

2005 • 14 min • United States of America

Most of us spend the greater portion or our lives working for someone else, and are constantly reminded that we are all merely "human resources"... one guy finds out the true meaning of "Cubicle Hell" when he is unwittingly drawn into the bowels of the corporate world, and quickly learns the he's truly in a 'dead-end' job. Never mind the benefits... the overtime will kill you.