All Films

The Amish: How They Survive

2005 • 51 min • United States of America

The Amish live far outside the cultural mainstream. Preferring community to technology, they live in close fellowship with one another. Filmed in the world's largest Amish community, this documentary takes you on an intimate journey into Ohio Amish life and culture. Discover how rapid growth and economic pressures threaten their community. Meet a people who, as a result of creative disengagement with the culture around them, thrive

Meander

2005 • 14 min • Belgium

On a hot summer day, five adolescents try to cool down by a river. We observe the behaviour of the group, their glances, lingering and messing. The delightful, listless peace is in danger of being disrupted. An atmospheric, short film without dialogue.

Dormente

2005 • 12 min • Brazil

Happy Easter

2005 • 12 min • Switzerland

Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news. But his father has set different aims for his son, so the afternoon comes to an unexpected end.

Beyond Sorry

2005 • 53 min

54 years after being stolen from her traditional Aboriginal family under Australian Government policy, Zita Wallace is coming home. Guided by her childhood friend Aggie, a traditional woman who was hidden from authorities when Zita was taken, the two women embark on an intimate and confronting journey into the heart of reconciliation.

Death by Heart

2005 • 7 min • Sweden

It is not always easy to find the right opportunity to say what you had intended to say to a friend.

Sex and Cloister

2005 • 13 min • Brazil, Mexico

A documentary made in Mexico City about a singular character and her feelings about sex and religion.

Violencia Gore

2005 • 26 min • Spain

A well-dressed killer is on the loose in the woods of Spain.

Nuna potosí

2005 • 28 min • Ecuador

In the rich hill of Potosí in Bolivia there is a silver mine that was the largest in the world. It has been exploited since 1546 with the arrival of the Spanish who enslaved the indigenous people to steal the precious metal. To this day, hundreds of meters underground, the indigenous miners continue to exploit the mine in extremely precarious conditions, Martín Cádiz is one of them; hi works in the depths of the hill and desires that his children do not enter these tunnels of hell.

The Station

2005 • 11 min • Iceland, Spain

Pracht

2005 • 5 min • Germany

A gay man on a train daydreams about spending an erotic day in nature with the stranger across from him.

Aftermath of Katrina

2005 • 55 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Larry Wayne Warren hosts an improvised trek through New Orleans in September 2005 to survey the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

The Glassworks

2005 • 5 min • Czech Republic

There is a great deal of magic and enchantment in the glassworks. Motion capture with animation and real glass

Rabbit

2005 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A tale of lost innocence, greed and the random justice of nature. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches. But for how long?

Samoure

2005 • 25 min • Greece

Thomas has always had a passion about Japanese warriors called Samurai. His uniqueness in a small community of a village in Crete causes conflict. The villagers' attitude towards him is not good and he's not going to stand and take it for much longer.

Freaky Circus Guy

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

Sword swallowing, fire breathing, bull whip cracking and the burlesque arts take center stage in Freaky Circus Guy; a documentary about an eccentric collector of 1920's circus art who takes his obsession to the extreme and launches an authentic sideshow on a stormy pier in Seaside Heights, NJ. It's a wondrously strange world of gypsies, freaks, glamazon women... and one madman.

Block

2005 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Day through night Block is a portrait of a 1960s London tower block, its interior and exterior spaces explored and revealed, patterns of activity building a rhythm and viewing experience not dissimilar from the daily observations of the security guard sat watching the flickering screens with their fixed viewpoints and missing pieces of action.

Madonna

2005 • 4 min • Japan

In Madonna, Tanaami employs his signature collage-style animation, combining pop art influences, retro aesthetics, and surrealistic motifs. The film explores themes of desire, fantasy, and memory, often referencing elements of post-war Japanese culture and American pop culture.

Le cercle

2005 • 10 min • France

Rat in the Crown

2005 • 46 min • Poland

Documentary about an alcoholic and his unsuccessful struggle with addiction.

Her Royal Escape to Love

2005 • 6 min • United States of America

Photoplay and Direction by Charles Busch

Pedro, Ana e a Verdade

2005 • 10 min • Brazil

The film surrounds a misunderstood event that ends up changing completely the lives of the characters.

Zombie Mayhem

2005 • 36 min • Sweden

Sharpen your axe and change the bag of your vacuum cleaner, the zombie infestation has at last reached Sweden. Workers are improving a swimming lake in the forest outside Teentown. After setting the explosives in the lake to expand it, workers start to disappear...

Love Letters from a Children's Prison

2005 • 54 min

"Loveletters from a Children's Prison" brings us into a prison for teenagers. Many of the boys here will spend most of their lives imprisoned, convicted for hard crimes such as armed robbery, rape and murder. The film relates the love story of Vadim and Ira, a boy in prison convicted for murder and the girl waiting for him on the outside.