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Me Athlete – 8 stories

Me Athlete – 8 stories

2005 • 26 min • Finland
Eight athletes and eight different mini-documentaries. Finnish track and field athletes tell a short personal story about themselves.
Soulcatcher The Movie

Soulcatcher The Movie

2005 • 13 min
A small group of scientists are assigned to the ambiguous "Soulcatcher Program" that they are told will bring untold prosperity to mankind.
The Quest For Ratchatchara: The Final Battle

The Quest For Ratchatchara: The Final Battle

2005 • 20 min • Brazil
In hold of Ratchatchara, the evil Dark Ninja frees the ancient leader of the evil Scorpion Clan! Will Captain John Russel and his partner Little Axe stop this terrible villain?
Kostas Manoussakis: The Exiled Filmmaker

Kostas Manoussakis: The Exiled Filmmaker

2005 • 50 min • Greece
Costas Manoussakis traced a short but impressive trajectory in Greek cinema and, after making only three films, withdrew into isolation. It was never made clear whether this was a decision to which he had been led due to events or whether this was a peculiar form of self-exiled chosen by a true aesthete. What is certain is that during the sixties, his films, Betrayal and especially Fear, caused quite a stir. Part of the official selection at both the Cannes and Berlin film festivals, the films were box office hits in Greece and were screened in many countries all over the world. At the same time the critics unanimously proclaimed Manoussakis a great talent and a film stylist whose potential went far beyond the narrow limits of Greek cinema. But after 1966, when Fear was screened, Manoussakis never made a film again. At the age of 33 he was a retiree. The documentary looks at the case of Costas Manoussakis in its entirety.
Sorpino

Sorpino

2005 • 9 min
A hitman gets more than he bargained for.
Freedom

Freedom

2005 • 1 min
A simple short movie about freedom produced for the 60th anniversary of italian liberation from nazifascism
Lili Handel

Lili Handel

2005 • 60 min • Bulgaria
Ivo Dimchev’s performance “Lili Handel” at the Szeged Thealter Festival, described as a blend of blood, poetry, and music, offers a unique and genre-defying experience that captivates audiences with its innovative use of stage gestures and lack of coherent text, providing a detailed biography of the enigmatic woman behind the title.
La legge sono io

La legge sono io

2005 • 4 min • Italy
the most common transgressive behaviors among young people, suggesting a norm of civil coexistence and respectful behavior toward others. The film is part of an educational project with which the Province of Bergamo aims to foster a civic culture among young people, not through simple exhortation or fear of punishment, but through the gradual emergence of a collective understanding of the meaning of certain actions, what they express, the risks they entail, and the alternatives for achieving one's dreams.
Stairways To Heaven: The Practical Magic of Sacred Space

Stairways To Heaven: The Practical Magic of Sacred Space

2005 • 54 min • United States of America
From best-selling author Freddy Silva comes a voyage of discovery into ancient temples, cathedrals and crop circles, and their effect on human evolution. Shot with outstanding cinematography throughout Britain, Silva demonstrates how our ancestors hard-wired a spiritual technology into places like Stonehenge to access the invisible Universe.
Ata Whenua - Shadowland

Ata Whenua - Shadowland

2005 • 32 min
A nonverbal film featuring the landscapes of New Zealand. Shot in the south west corner of New Zealand, known as Fiordland. Ata Whenua contains images of the landscapes and animals of the region, through a range of seasons and extremes. The images are beautiful, crystal clear, and set to an impressive soundtrack.
Red Light Go

Red Light Go

2005 • 52 min
As if their day jobs weren't dangerous enough, the hardest of hard-core New York City bike messengers seek out even more thrills in their off time by organizing wild-and-wooly street races. This documentary follows a small group of these riders. The result is an intimate portrait of the madmen (and women) who risk life and limb in a series of harrowing races, culminating in the annual Halloween night Alleycat race through rush-hour traffic.
Torchbearer

Torchbearer

2005 • 25 min • Czech Republic
The mechanism that propels the cycle of the sun and the moon has failed, and endless night falls. A nameless and silent hero must find his way through a dangerous labyrinth of traps, fierce creatures, and mysterious sentinels to restore the mechanism.
Sacredly

Sacredly

2005 • 33 min • Russia
In Russian, "Svyato" means "happy". But it is also a nickname for Svyatoslav, the son of director Kossakovsky, who for two years covered mirrors from Svyato. For the first time in his life, Svyato is going to watch himself on a mirror.
Hardwood

Hardwood

2005 • 29 min
A film about the director's relationship with his father who was a team member of the Harlem Globetrotters.
Skywalker: The David Thompson Story

Skywalker: The David Thompson Story

2005 • 46 min • United States of America
Basketball legend David Thompson earned four trips to the NBA All-Star Game and the nickname "Skywalker," due to his astonishing 44-inch jump that allows him to get the ball far above the rim. This documentary looks at the life of the man who served as an inspiration to many, including the NBA's most famous alum, Michael Jordan. Learn about Thompson through interviews with Jordan, Bill Walton, Dennis Johnson, Norm Sloan, Dr. J and more.
Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam

Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam

2005 • 48 min • United Kingdom
Historian William Dalrymple journeys to Morocco, Turkey, Syria and Pakistan to explore whirling dervishes, Qawwali singing and other forms of music sacred in Sufism, the branch of Islam that emphasizes music as a mystical route to the holy. Capturing performances of renowned Muslim musicians such as Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Sain Zahoor, the film reveals that at the heart of Sufism lies a dedication to tolerance and pluralism.
Virtavalta

Virtavalta

2005 • 2 min • Finland
Breakfast and weightlifting?
The Blind Spot

The Blind Spot

2005 • 9 min • Spain
March the 13th, 1941

March the 13th, 1941

2005 • 5 min • Sweden
The year is 1941. Two Investigators are doing research on an old well. One of the gentlemen climbs down the hole and then they communicate through a military phone. But something is strange, the place, the hole, and then the phone...
A Miss e o Dinossauro

A Miss e o Dinossauro

2005 • 18 min • Brazil
A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970.
Girl in a Mirror

Girl in a Mirror

2005 • 55 min • Australia
Girl in a Mirror documents the work of 1970's photographer Carol Jerrems, in a life tragically cut short. Drawing from hundreds of her photographs, the film traces the passionate and exuberant course that Jerrems took through this turbulent decade.
Civil Status

Civil Status

2005 • 29 min • Russia
A brilliant observational documentary filmed at the Civil Registry office in St. Petersburg, where people come to have births, marriages, divorces and deaths registered. 'It’s like a theatre here', one says in the beginning of the film, and it indeed is, the Theater of Life. The young women working in the office have a job that shifts from being verbally attacked and called idiots, to situations where they are subject to flirt, or where they master the happy ceremony of marriage. Faces, joy, sorrow, fun, despair... It’s all very well composed, rhythmical, with atmosphere conveyed, and lives up to what a documentary should be: multilayered and universal. And about Life.
Between: Living in the Hyphen

Between: Living in the Hyphen

2005 • 44 min • Canada
Anne Marie Nakagawa's documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized. By focusing on 7 Canadians who have one parent from a European background and one of a visible minority, she attempts to get at the root of what it means to be multi-ethnic in a world that wants each person to fit into a single category.
Eyes in the Fog

Eyes in the Fog

2005 • 31 min • Croatia
The portrait of Zdenko Franjić, a record producer of alternative rock bands in ex-Yugoslavia.