All Films

The Seedling

2005 • 35 min

An asteroid falls to earth and a young girl falls victim to its spores and starts to transform into an alien.

James May's Top Toys

2005 • 58 min • United Kingdom

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Meccano, Lego, Scalextric and Airfix. James's all-time number one is the train set.

God Sleeps in Rwanda

2005 • 28 min • Rwanda, United States of America

A powerful documentary about five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide. With the country left nearly 70% female in the wake of the massacres, "God Sleeps In Rwanda" is a lucid portrait of the much larger change affected by women in the East African country.

Dark Legacy

2005 • 45 min • Germany

Dark Legacy is a production in the tradition of the great masters of the genre, like Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter and not to forget Edgar Wallace, which understands itself as an experiment in Mystery & Horror. After a sudden and tragic lost in the family, four relatives of the deceased met again when the last will should be announced.

Gigolo

2005 • 15 min • Germany, Switzerland

He is young, good-looking and of Arab descent and gets lost amongst the glamour of Paris international jet set.

Alaska: Silence & Solitude

2005 • 57 min • United States of America

Alaska Silence & Solitude is the follow up to Alone in the Wilderness, filmed 20 years later. Bob Swerer and Bob Swerer Sr. visit Dick Proenneke at his famous cabin on Twin Lakes where the wildlife is still abundant and the scenery is spectacular.

Little Lise

2005 • 19 min • Denmark

A man carries his dead wife to the trunk of a car in front of their 4-year-old daughter. All together they drive to a lake far into the forest, where the father plans to dump the body and end the lives of himself and his daughter. However, everything is not what it seems...

Frankenstein

2005 • 9 min

Dr. Frankenstein, in an effort to become the greatest scientist that ever lived, succeeds in bringing the dead back to life.

Philip Glass: Looking Glass

2005 • 59 min • France

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New York to London and from Paris to Boston. He speaks about his beginnings, his moving to Paris for two years of intensive study with Nadia Boulanger, his meeting with Indian musician Ravi Shankar and director Robert Wilson, who had a deep influence on his career. The film also shows him at work on the last details of his opera The Sound of a Voice, directed by Robert Woodruff and conducted by Alan Johnson. Éric Darmon's camera, with its poetic shots and original framings, takes us for a musical journey into seven months of the life of the composer who, rising from the underground scene of the seventies, brought on a revolution in modern theater.

Women's Memoirs

2005 • 31 min • Uruguay

The Punta de Rieles prison was where most female political prisoners were incarcerated during the dictatorship in Uruguay. The way up to the building led through “the meadow” where there were animals grazing, and the prison itself was surrounded with flowers. The place seemed eminently liveable, almost comfortable, and at first sight there was no sign of the silent struggle going on behind those walls. This documentary is an attempt to reconstruct life at the prison through the testimony of some of the hundreds of women who were there and who resisted the military regime's attempts to grind them down and destroy them.

El futuro está en el Porno

2005 • 15 min • Spain

A telephone operator tired of her work and her life, suddenly decides to tease her customers

Day of John

2005 • 16 min

"Day of John" is an ensemble dark comedy set in the small town of Desbarats, Ontario.

The Genie in a Tin of Ravioli

2005 • 8 min • France, Switzerland

Armand works on the assembly-line of a tinned pasta factory. One evening he opens up a tin of ravioli for dinner. Much to his surprise, a Genie jumps forth, promising to fulfill any two wishes.

Last Day At EDHS

2005 • 6 min

The Last Day of school... Is always the best

Paris in the Springtime

2005 • 44 min • United Kingdom

A 45-minute look at the making of City of Death, and in particular, the contribution of writer and script editor Douglas Adams.

A Cat and a Fox

2005 • 13 min • Russia

The cat was chased out of the house by the owners, and the fox sheltered him and scared his friends with his new friend.

John Pinette: I Say Nay Nay

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

John Pinette has been cracking up audiences around the world for more than 15 years. He was named Stand-Up Comedian of the Year by the American Comedy Awards in 1999 and he received a Gemini Award nomination for his superb televised performance at The Montreal Comedy Festival in 2000.

White Bloody Christmas

2005 • 17 min • Germany, Italy

Peace, joy and pancakes! This is also the case in little Karichen's house. When little Karl meets his mother and his father Albert, a dealer, on Christmas Eve. When he sees the man who has just done the “big deal” having a quickie in the kitchen, he is overcome with anger! Spurred on by his father's white "snow", he mutates into a brutal, brain-dead killer!

Hung

2005 • 12 min

Living in a world that seems rife with phallic symbols, five lesbian friends take a teaspoon each of a concoction from Prague that will give them, for only one day, a penis. Next morning, the cock crows and the women seek men's experiences: they measure and compare, pee standing up, and look for women who'll sleep with them. At the end of the day, they gather to compare scores. It's a jungle out there.

Forest

2005 • 7 min

Video installation, 2005, at LOKAAL_01 Breda 2007, Burning Marl, curator Frederik Vergaert in Seppenshuis Zoersel, 2005. A woman walking through 3 video images. Three screens display how the day’s light passes by: from the early morning light until late at night. Along with the woman the artist walks through the forest, in the same rhythm, the same pace. Off-screen she looks through the camera, fragmenting time. The age-old androgynous trees are a vertical constant along which the woman moves, as if in an interval between visibility and invisibility, between sound and silence, while the light keeps on evolving metabletically.

When Shaun Met George

2005 • 15 min

The star, director and co-writers of "Shaun Of The Dead" travel to Toronto to film their cameo roles as zombies in the latest film from the man who inspired them in the first place: George A. Romero ("not George B.Romero, he's not as good")

Blindgångare

2005 • 24 min • Sweden

The Time-Bomb waiting to go off reflects the fear of the times in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself squeezed between the pressures of political office and the very real, personal security threat that gives rise to his deepest, innermost fears. Fear is a strong and intractable human mechanism, the expression and form of which has changed throughout time. Once it was the darkness and its’ unknown power that terrified but today that fear has other faces.

Bonnard

2005 • 26 min • France

"I have been lucky enough to be able to film the cleaning and restoration work on a painting by Pierre Bonnard: Nu dans la baignoire. I completely inhabited this canvas. It drew me to it and allowed me to record the palpable cinematic evidence of Bonnard's art of painting. It has led me along the hidden path of his private life." (Alain Cavalier)

Audition One

2005 • 5 min

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night.