All Films

Bird's Foot

2005 • 13 min • Russia

About how the boy Yumagul and the girl Galia defeated the evil Deva.

Crying of Angels

2005 • 54 min

Crying of Angels is the first documentary film about the gay community in the history of Slovak cinema. The collage of stories from the lives of the protagonists does not attempt to objectively portray this minority in post-communist society, but is an author's testimony about the existence of a people in conflict with social norms and with themselves.

Once When I Served My Dear Landlord

2005 • 10 min • Belarus

Based on a Belarussian folk song, movie tells a story of a poor peasant who goes to serve the landlord and is not successful in it.

The Christmas Tree Thieves

2005 • 13 min • Russia

A musical New Year's film about how aliens come to Earth in search of a Christmas tree. Funny situations related to the New Year are unfolding in Italy, Africa, Mexico, and America.

Working Stiff

2005 • 14 min • United States of America

Most of us spend the greater portion or our lives working for someone else, and are constantly reminded that we are all merely "human resources"... one guy finds out the true meaning of "Cubicle Hell" when he is unwittingly drawn into the bowels of the corporate world, and quickly learns the he's truly in a 'dead-end' job. Never mind the benefits... the overtime will kill you.

Tales of Isop

2005 • 38 min • United Kingdom

Many of the original cast and crew recall the making of this story. Featuring contributions from William Russell (Ian), Maureen O'Brien (Vicki), Martin Jarvis (Hilio), Verity Lambert (Producer), Richard Martin (Director), John Wood (Designer) and Sonia Markham (Make-up).

Charlie the Unicorn

2005 • 4 min

Despite not wanting to, Charlie the Unicorn goes with two other unicorns to find the magical Candy Mountain until finding out that it was a trap.

Sweets to the Sweet

2005 • 6 min • Russia, Switzerland

“Time… Hours… Minutes… Seconds… Time does not exist, we invented it ourselves. This is a beautiful illusion that fills our life with mystical meaning. The whole of human history is a search for a loophole in time, a desire to use Him not against oneself, but for the good." The film shows the expectations of twelve people happening in parallel on a certain day at five o'clock in the evening. A subtle, thought-provoking film about the essence and meaning of time in life. For RADO Switzerland.

Lo Rojo

2005 • 10 min • Argentina

Lo Rojo is an experimental collaboration between a musician, a filmmaker and a dancer. The film obsessively explores the dancer's movement to the rhythm of Murga, the popular Mardi Gras music of Buenos Aires. The gaze of the camera enters the female body, making its shapes explode into multiple fragments: the heartbeat, the blood, the red.

Yellow Bird

2005 • 14 min • Canada

Fayette and Roy are an elderly couple in a dysfunctional relationship. Roy is dependent on Fayette for the basics in life, such as cooking and cleaning, yet he is always yelling at her that she can't even do these things right. To add what she considers a little sunshine in her life, Fayette buys a canary, which she initially hides from Roy. The yellow bird will eventually fundamentally change the nature of Fayette and Roy's relationship.

Born Forbidden

2005 • 46 min • United Kingdom

Story of a girl who was thrown on garbage after being born as a result of prostitution, picked up by the servant of a rich man and was adopted by his maid Zainab. BBC later on made a documentary about the child and a lady from England went and adopted that baby. When she grew up and watched the documentary somewhere, she came to know who she was and what happened with her. She went to meet that lady, Zainab, who adopted her first, and was still living in the same area. When she arrived to pass time with that family, people started pointing fingers on her, remembering her childhood. Zainab, once again could not accept the disrespect for her daughter (Meharun Nisa) and Mehar had to leave again to go back to Alina 's House, where she had been a respectable citizen always.

Dew Line

2005 • 5 min • United States of America

An acronym for Distant Early Warning Line, Dew Line refers to the array of radar stations built in the Arctic during the Cold War, and to the elegant shapes created by condensation. This animated tapestry of biomorphic forms elegantly dances through the life cycles of cells while hinting at the loss of botanical diversity.

Queer Spawn

2005 • 29 min • United States of America

Queer Spawn allows young people stemming from homo-parental families to express their ideas, feelings, concerns and questions.

Jealous

2005 • 5 min • Sweden

A girl sneaks in to her boyfriend and tries to invisibly retrieve her wallet, but the door is open and there is a tense silence inside.

Moonlight

2005 • 6 min • Serbia and Montenegro

Moonlight is an experimental film. It was made by playing with different video techniques, which synthesised with the music, capture the dance of the moon and the night shaddows on the path where they meet and touch in the process of cosmic blending.

Agent Emes 4: Agent Emes and the Giant Ego

2005 • 45 min • United States of America

Something's wrong with Agent Emes and the timing is making things worse.

37°c

2005 • 30 min • Georgia

A small country road in 40°C heat. A groom on his way to his wedding is stranded by a car breakdown. He then encounters a mobster having a heart attack and recovers a suitcase stuffed with cash. Trouble with the underworld and misunderstandings with the traffic police are not long in coming...

Defect

2005 • 40 min • Canada, United States of America

New from the makers of Universe and Universe 2: Dan Heaton of Syko Productions introduces Defect, the DVD. See a handful of world-class riders demonstrate the latest innovations in street, mountain and trials unicycling. Defect combines groundbreaking filmmaking with a fresh soundtrack and bonus rider commentary, to showcase the skills and personalities of this rapidly emerging sport. Highly technical and highly entertaining, this video features some gee-whiz riding that will make you wince many times. Dan Heaton's skill as a filmmaker is as outrageous as his riding. Released on DVD in 2005, Defect became the most popular full-length unicycle highlight film to date. Building on the street and trials riding featured in previous films (UNiVERsE - 2000, UNiVERsE 2 - 2004), it also introduced the beginnings of flat-land unicycling.

Legal Errorist

2005 • 15 min • Austria

A body junkie: man must lay bare his hidden ingredients, dismantle his body, his integrity, his presence, and his identity in order to create a challenge both physical and metaphysical.

City of Festivals

2005 • 47 min • Brazil

Historical film that rescues the memory of the early Brazilian film festivals through photos, films, testimonials, and posters.

8.1

2005 • 11 min • Netherlands

An abstract film on the music 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony, part 1, by Franz Schubert by Oerd van Cuijlenborg

86 Camaro

2005 • 11 min

The film within the film SLACK. Johnny Boy is back, and he wants it all, the money, the drugs, all of it. Unfortunately, it's all left town in an 86 Camaro.

Bunnykill 2

2005 • 5 min • Finland

Snowball returns in this action-packed sequel, where the stakes are higher, and the battles are deadlier. This time, he’s on a mission to eliminate Dust, a ruthless Carrot Lord at the center of a violent turf war. With his sword in hand, Snowball infiltrates Dust’s stronghold, cutting through waves of enemies in a brutal showdown that will push his skills to the limit.

The Gender Puzzle

2005 • 46 min

Science is identifying new biological processes that determine a person’s sex. How will these findings affect the transgender and transsexual community? This program explores the latest research into gender development and the medical, cultural, and legal issues at the heart of the “brain sex” school of thought. Showing how human genome research has shifted scientific focus away from chromosomes, the video examines the role of brain receptors and the discovery of the SRY protein, which establishes maleness. Interviews featuring people with intersex and transsexual experiences shed light on how gender identity emerges, and how it figured into one man’s legal battle for the right to marry.