All Films

The Playhouse

2005 • 11 min • United Kingdom

The Playhouse follows the story of a young orphan who is picked on by a group of girls at her new school. She then decides to go adventuring off on her own in an abandoned house, but who or what will she find lurking in the shadows of The Playhouse...

Me and the Mosque

2005 • 52 min • Canada

Using original animation, archival footage and personal interviews, this full-length documentary portrays the multiple relationships Canadian Muslim women entertain with Islam’s place of worship, the mosque. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. In North America, a large number of converts are women. Many are drawn to the religion because of its emphasis on social justice and spiritual equality between the sexes. Yet, many mosques force women to pray behind barriers, separate from men, and some do not even permit women to enter the building. Exploring all sides of the issue, the film examines the space – both physical and social – granted to women in mosques across the country.

American Gothic

2005 • 24 min • United States of America

In 1930 Grant Wood won a painting competition with his masterpiece, American Gothic. Although it's considered to be a visual satire on rural American Life, perhaps the story goes deeper than canvas. In this provocative horror tale by accliamed photographer, Carlos Batts, we see a different interpretation of a rural American Family on the 75th Anniversary of Wood's painting, American Gothic. Batts paints his own story and invites us into a world where the old farmer struggles with his crime of passion, the consequences and his iconic fate. A pcture may be worth a 1,000 words, but this painting's story will leave you speechless.

Dehors novembre

2005 • 7 min • Canada

A haunting tribute for the late Dede Fortin, the frontman of the Quebecois band Les Colocs.

The Pink Diary of Lori Lamby

2005 • 21 min

An eight years old girl writes, on a little pink notebook, her sexual experiences with several men – presented to her by her mother.

Scene

2005 • 54 min • Israel

Chronicle of the casting to participate in the Israeli project "Cabaret". Russian repatriates, many of whom came to the capital from other cities, talk about themselves, followed by rehearsals and the only performance of the emerging theater. People dreaming of a theatrical career are gradually transformed and become real actors. These were the best days of their lives ...

A Wave of Compassion

2005 • 47 min

A journey into the heart of addiction following summer days in the life of Jimmy, a surfer, whose honesty sets the tone for the film, and the resilience of his addiction sets its challenge.

Kare Kare Zvako: Mother's Day

2005 • 30 min • Zimbabwe

Drought has struck. Father pushes his wife away from the family dinner of termites. In anger, when mother challenges him, he digs a pit with a brutal purpose, but little does he suspect that Mother can retaliate just as powerfully. Based on an old Shona folk tale and rendered as a musical celebrating a diversity of contemporaray Zimbabwean music, Mother's Day is the newest and most exciting motion picture development to come out of Zimbabwe.

Fare bene Mikles

2005 • 17 min

It’s a story of a brother and a sister, Sergio and Maria, told backward in time, from adulthood to childhood. Through the years the two siblings invent a game that they call “Mìkles”: their very own survival technique used to resist the abuse brought upon them by their father and, at the same time…

Encontrando a Víctor

2005 • 30 min • Mexico

During the military dictatorship in Argentina, Víctor disappeared on May 19, 1977. His daughter, Natalia, arrived in Mexico with her mother as exiles. At 25, Natalia returned to Argentina to find her father, or to try to find answers to the questions his absence left behind. The search is being conducted through the surviving members of her family.

Thomas & Friends: Thomas' Sodor Celebration!

2005 • 57 min

Let the celebration begin! For 60 years, Thomas the Tank Engine has been "Making Tracks to Great Destinations" with classic stories that inspire timeless values! Ride the rails to exciting adventures with Thomas and his friends in this collection of stories from the #1 engine! Hop on board as Thomas learns to navigate a difficult bend on his new route - in spite of a runaway train. Watch Thomas and Percy work hard to achieve their goal of being the cleanest engines, while learning to never give up! And whether moving a circus or delivering chickens, Thomas finds that sharing the load makes things easier. The celebration continues with more stories, more lessons and more fun from Thomas! All aboard!

Head

2005 • 10 min • Canada

An unfortunate hitchhiker finds herself running for her life after she is picked up by a deranged driver with the most sinister of intentions.

Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds

2005 • 37 min • Morocco

This video research is based on a trip to Morocco in July 2005, during which the director documented irregular migration transiting through Morocco, as well as their control. This geographical project focuses on the main migratory axes: Oujda, entry point for migrants in Morocco; Tangier, from where migrants can try to cross the strait or the fences of Ceuta; Rabat, organization space; and Laayoune, the closest point to the Canaries. The video questions the nature and meaning of these extraterritorial enclaves that structure the Moroccan territory.

Recuerdo de 1988

2005 • 2 min

Included in Carrazana’s Red Videos series. “This series of videos appropriates paintings from the Socialist Realism style, mixed with experiences of a past remembered.” yaimacarrazana.com

Otto the automate

2005 • 2 min • France

Otto, a young robot, dreams about tomatoes...

The Sailboats of the Luxembourg

2005 • 23 min

Edith, a young mother, meets a man at the Garden of the Luxembourg in Paris.

Skateboard Party

2005 • 33 min

Skateboard Party is a collection of skate footage from the 2004 Red Dragons (RDS) skate tour, making up the second skateboarding video from RDS. It's a mix of awesome skate clips and partying. It opens with Tom Green trashing a mirrored closet door and they guys smack him around over it. I didn't know he still had a career... interesting. Aboard two boats the team go to an island, with a lot of beer, to celebrate the finish of their 2004 tour.

Zevango

2005 • 10 min • Lithuania

About betrayal and revenge. A loving couple in the woods is suddenly caught by a runaway thief and his two companions. Some of the weird five will have to start a new life, some will stay in the dark woods forever.

Electra Elf: The Beginning

2005 • 50 min

The birth of Electra Elf & Fluffer!

The Head in the Stars

2005 • 8 min • France

A young man looks out of his window, trying to see the stars. The city is too bright, preventing him from doing so. Disappointed, he decides to leave the city. His car journey takes him to a hill that he considers ideal. He sets up his tent there. He is happy.

Guy 101

2005 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the Internet.

End Note

2005 • 17 min • India

Three women reminisce about their times at school and rekindle and affirm old friendships. They share a strange secret about each other that is never made known to us. The film is a cinematic interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s 1967 dramaticule, ‘Come and Go’.

Memories of Agano

2005 • 55 min • Japan

Satō Makoto discovered documentary film when he visited Minamata (well known as the former site of an environmental disaster) as a student, and worked on Katori Naotaka’s The Innocent Sea. While touring Japan with the film, he met people who lived by the polluted Agano River in Niigata and decided to make a film about them. Living there with seven crew members for three years, Living on the River Agano was completed in 1992 and showed people who live with the river and work in agriculture and fishing, quietly probing the cruelty of nature destroyed. Ten years later, and after attending several funerals of people who appeared in the first feature, the team returned to the area. The resulting film Memories of Agano is a ghostly poem on people, fields, stories, songs and buildings receding into absence, the power of images and the strength of sound to revive the past.

Spiral Nebula

2005 • 45 min

Abstract avantgarde film.