All Films

El lugar donde se juntan los polos

2004 • 54 min • Belgium, Ecuador, France

Juan, the film director, is Ecuadorian, his partner, Francisca, is Cuban. They live in Paris where their two children were born, just like Juan 30 years earlier. By switching back and forward from past to present, between the history of a family across 3 generations and that of a whole continent, the film director considers the issue of political commitment and the heritage left to the next generation in the form of a letter from a father to his children.

Village Lessons

2004 • 27 min

There was a split between men and women in the village. Led by the village teachers, the women turned to religion. And then the Finns came... the film is a cross-section of village life in all its diversity. School, students, Aborigines and missionaries, teacher… Their idea of religion and of themselves is a kind of everyday lessons of modern life.

Peaceful Life

2004 • 45 min • Russia, Switzerland

The dramatic story of two Chechens, father and son, living in a remote northern village. During the Chechen war, the Sultan's wife was killed, his house was destroyed. Now he and his son Apti are trying to build a new peaceful life. They are completely disconnected from their usual environment and are forced to work hard without any hope of getting used to a strange and extremely unattractive world for them.

20 Years with the Dolphins

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

An in depth look at the undersea life of dolphins

Unexpected Tours: The Making of Tokyo Godfathers

2004 • 26 min

Stereomongrel

2004 • 12 min • United States of America

Stereomongrel is a twelve minute experimental film which explores the effects of two disparate worlds colliding. Witnessed through the eyes of a gifted twelve year old girl, high and low culture clash in the neutral battle field of a museum. Filmed in Super 35 mm, Stereomongrel style can be described as "hyper, supra, and marvelous real," through the use of 3-D animation, stop-motion animation, and highly choreographed tableaux or set pieces. Genres that are blended and tweaked by this uniquely hybridized film include psychological/supernatural thrillers, Italian horror movies from the 70s and 80s, and the unattainable ideals - both physical and economic - found in hip-hop music videos and fashion magazines.

A Carne é Fraca

2004 • 54 min • Brazil

Alguma vez você já pensou na trajetória de um bife antes de chegar ao seu prato? Nós pesquisamos isso para você e contamos neste documentário aquilo que não é divulgado. Saiba os impactos que esse ato - de comer carne representa para a sua saúde, para os animais e para o planeta. Com depoimentos dos jornalistas Washington Novaes e Dagomir Marquezi, entre outros.

The Alpha-Bots Christmas

2004 • 28 min • United States of America

One Christmas Eve, Santa announces that he's also going to give out twenty-six unique electronic toys! But the toys themselves can't wait until Christmas for the fun to begin - is staying up all night a good idea before such a big, special day?

Farewell

2004 • 27 min • Armenia, Russia

An evocative, impressionistic drama of love and loss.

Our Summer

2004 • 57 min • Finland

A documentary film about the phases of a family and the cycle of generations. A story about a middle-aged woman who decides to change the direction of development, even just for one summer.

Mira corpora

2004 • 46 min • France

The film appears like a ritual with splendids and crypteds psalms. The Great Master of Order (Marcel Mazé, new fetish actor after Aloual) seduces the young male prey with a running cinema projector which carves Murnau's Nosferatu extracts on their bodies. Metamorphosis, rituals passages, Eros and Thanotos, illusion and reality, film into the film are the themes and images in perpetual osmosis in this Stéphane Marti's opus.

Fluxus Hair Tainer

2004 • 6 min • Hungary

So my caring mother would rub the Fluxus Hair Tainer into my scalp, comb my disobedient locks, and then send me off to school looking like that ass-wipe kind on the bottle. I was an independent kid by gum, and this hair meant that I belonged, that my parents knew what was fucking what. This film is an adaptation of Paul Auster story: "Timbuktu".

Control Alt Delete

2004 • 1 min • Sweden

A short horror/gore film from Sweden.

Lamp: For Lovers

2004 • 6 min

An intimate short documentary of Lamp strolling beachside, wandering Ibaraki Prefecture, accompanied by songs from their 2004 album "For Lovers"

Battle of the Bogside

2004 • 60 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

Feature documentary on the 3-days of riots in Derry, Northern Ireland that led to the deployment of British Troops into Derry in August 1969.

Cops: Shots Fired

2004 • 30 min • United States of America

From the producers of the hit Fox TV Series COPS comes a frightening collection of criminal confrontations where the bullets fly and the danger never ends. You'll ride shotgun as law enforcement officers cruising the mean streets of America come up against violent suspects that refuse to give up without a fight. This is death-defying, adrenaline-charged action you have to see to believe. SHOTS FIRED is gritty, graphic, raw and real!

Moments

2004 • 4 min • Australia

There are approximately 6.5 billion moments that occur on Earth everyday... Some remembered. Some forgotten.

Kill or Be Killed

2004 • 13 min • United States of America

After his mother's departure, 13-year-old David is headed down a dangerous path. Neglected by his alcoholic father Paul, who blames David for his failed marriage, David takes solace in shoplifting, playing violent video games and doing drugs. One day, David forms an unexpected and intense friendship with Edward, the new kid in town. David and Edward's friendship is tested after they have an intimate encounter that reveals David's closely guarded secrets.

Beetle, Ship, Apricot

2004 • 14 min • Russia

The story is about two city boys who spent their summer holidays in a village where everything is so unusual and new. Here all the wildlife is at a glance: both large and small beetles, which can sometimes land right in the soup, and a real turtle that hides in its house from danger, and an apricot that gives ripe fruits similar to a small sun. And there is also an interesting place — the attic, where you can find a lot of old things. But soon the summer will end and mom will take the children back to the city...

Toni Mandza's List

2004 • 31 min • Macedonia

On the night of May 10, 1998, 18-year-old Toni Mandza escaped from prison in order to kill all the people from his hit list. Gevgelija, a quiet small town in southern Macedonia is suddenly not so quiet any more.

White Men in Seminole Flats

2004 • 24 min

Two men race across a remote desert wasteland, one in desperate need of a doctor. What should have been a routine arms deal has gone terribly awry, and now, if they want to live, they'll need to get the lead out in more ways than one.

Dream No. 631

2004 • 3 min • United States of America

An experimental film by Chel White

A Wonderful Day

2004 • 13 min • Australia

During the Sydney Olympics, a young drag queen runs her own race.

The Offshore Reserves

2004 • 15 min • Russia

The head of the American humanitarian organization has a serious problem. She is "narcotic" dependent on American dollars. The psychoanalyst advises her to leave the States. Hannah arrives in Moscow. And he heads the humanitarian fund. Her foundation imports chicken legs to Russia. When checking another large batch of chicken legs, Hannah discovers that the chicken legs are infected with a dangerous virus. Her Russian counterpart offers her $ 1,000,000 in cash so she can give permission to import chicken legs to Russia. Hannah physiologically cannot refuse such an amount. But she cannot live on, becoming a bribe taker. And then a mental transformation takes place with her...