All Films

O Amor do Palhaço

2005 • 15 min • Brazil

The end. Grete, beach personality from Canoa Quebrada, is dead. His story goes back in time, moments in his life reveal his trajectory until the moment he makes the fateful decision to leave Circo Maximo and venture out alone. The beginning of the end.

Hidebound

2005 • 20 min • Iceland

Hidebound tells of Aron, a young man who is concerned about communications and the human situation in today's society. He decides to conduct an experiment and observes the reactions of other people to it. Through this unique experiment or observations we meet several characters that each tells us a different story about how people respond to a new experience and how they behave under pressure.

Contratiempos

2005 • 17 min

Short by Antonio Gómez-Olea

Gwank

2005 • 30 min

Gregory is having problems with his mom and dad. He’s getting older and more senile by the day. She is sleeping with live-in handyman Richard. Even worse, all have failed dreams and aspirations. Father wanted to be a poet. Mother had visions of being a singer. And Richard tried a career as a rapper under the name ‘PO Box’. When a secret from the past threatens their domestic bliss, the police must be called in to quell the storm.

Gone!!!

2005 • 15 min • Brazil

An illegal transaction involving a criminal organization, two arrogant foreigners and a jerk taxi driver. By the streets of the South Zone in Rio de Janeiro, this strange mix of personalities and cultures turns out to have an unexpected and hilarious outcome.

The Cubarawi women

2005 • 48 min • Spain

Muslim women who leave the camps as teenagers to study in Cuba. After over a decade living in the land of salsa, they return to the desert... how will their new spirit adapt to Islamic precepts? What reasons do they have for leaving Sahara at such a young age? What is their reason for returning?

The Prince of Chess

2005 • 50 min • Norway

Follow the brilliant mind of 13 year old Chess Grand Master Magnus Carlsen

Drive Thru South Africa

2005 • 56 min

Donavon, Benji and Pat O were joined this time by rookies Noodles, Lossness and the legendary Pottz for an epic two weeks traveling beautiful South Africa. Not only did they score the best J-Bay in five years with their Drive Thru buddy Slater, they also discovered a super sharky secret spot that produced a perfect left point break. Mix this in with some Durban beach break, ostrich racing, the worlds highest bungee jump and you get the Drive Thru South Africa. Starring: Donavon Frankenreiter, Benji Weatherly, Kelly Slater, Pat O'Connell, Nathan Webster, Mike Lossness and Martin Potter.

Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'

2005 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Cast, crew and critics discuss the BBC's 2005 remake of 'The Quatermass Experiment'.

Hibernation

2005 • 15 min

1985. A secret tree house. Two children dressed in animal costumes experiment to revive a bee. But they are searching for a way to bring back something much bigger.

Dena Thompson - The Black Widow

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about Dena Thompson, called the Black Widow by the tabloids, who poisoned her husband and was discovered to have lived a life of deception, fraud and bigamy over the twenty years beforehand. Includes contributions from former husbands and lovers.

The Freaking Family

2005 • 21 min • South Korea

Suddenly, a nuclear bomb drops onto a peaceful family.

Deep Inside

2005 • 7 min • France

In Deep Inside, Camille Henrot's first film, a pornographic film is transformed into a voyeuristic, lovelorn ballad. Drawn frame by frame on the 35mm film stock of a 70s pornographic film, the sexual content is partially revealed and partially hidden by black animated forms that seem to be fugitive memories of an old love. The music is slow and harrowing like a howl for love. The artist works with marker as one might use a stencil, revealing part of the original film in the drawing's negative space. By combining pornographic and sentimental expression, the film posits that emotional misery is also physical. Sexual excitation and heartache are both based on an alternation of empty and full, presence and absence, hidden and revealed things. This manipulated film creates ambiguous images where scopophilia is no longer based on tactile frustration.

Höhenluft

2005 • 25 min • Netherlands

High up in the Alps in Davos a group of patients with lung diseases trying to have fun between treatments at the sanatorium.

Une chapelle blanche

2005 • 39 min • Canada

An elderly woman's quiet routine is interrupted when the local chapel undergoes a makeover.

Inner Depravity 2

2005 • 10 min • Canada

A psychopath tortures and murders more women

The Gifts of Grief

2005 • 52 min

A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more compassion, courage, and awareness. The personal and moving stories include those of author Isabel Allende, Reverend Cecil Williams, writer Alana Laraine, Zen Monk/Vietnam Veteran Claude AnShin Thomas, youth motivator Vinny Ferrero, and filmmaker Lee Mun Wah. With courage, these people invite the viewer to open up to the pain of grief and discover for themselves the extraordinary opportunities their own losses may reveal.

Counterfeit

2005 • 26 min • Argentina

It tells the story of Fabián who lives on the exchange of dollars and pesos. You are tasked by your boss to negotiate with fake $ 5000 to get a good $ 2000 the same day. Pressed by the deadline, Fabián decides to risk everything in one move; fool Narvaez, a veteran street scam artist.

Selnef

2005 • 5 min • Japan

Selnef, the forest musician, plays the strings quietly by himself. Eventually, the forest begins to breathe deeply as the sound echoes.

bODY rEMIX/ gOLDBERG vARIATIONS

2005 • 56 min • Canada

In this new work by Marie Chouinard, the company's ten dancers execute variations on the exercise of freedom. Often, the dancers appear on points: on one, two, and even four at a time. In a spectroscopy of the gesture, we also see them using different devices - crutches, rope, prostheses, horizontal bars, and harnesses - which at times liberate their movements, at others fetter it, and at still others create it.

Life and Deeds of Radovan Karadzic

2005 • 51 min • Serbia and Montenegro

Biography and secret life of war criminal Radovan Karadzic, the leader of Bosnian Serbs.

Il pleut bergère

2005 • 8 min • France

Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti

2005 • 38 min • Canada

Originally, the images of Variations on two photographs by Tina Modotti were engraved directly on 16mm film to be projected as a backdrop for Louis Bédard's choreographic piece entitled Elles, which was inspired by the life and work of the well-known Mexican photographer Tina Modotti. My animations were particularly inspired by two images, first a photography of roses and second a photography of telegraphic wires, suggesting on the one hand an intimate and enclosed universe and, on the other, an infinite opening of space full of potential messages. I have reworked and developed them into an almost abstract meditative drama, caught in a tension between those two photographs.

Apple

2005 • 11 min

This film was shot around the Bangkerohan River in Davao City on the southern Filipino island Mindanao. This area is the backdrop to degrading poverty that apparently can lead to degrading morality. A young girl watches with resignation. She works as mananaptan, someone who sings during funerals for the dead. And more services are expected of her. Fatally indifferent surroundings let it all happen.