All Films

Kelly Clarkson: Behind Hazel Eyes

2005 • 40 min • United States of America

Winner of the first American Idol competition, Kelly Clarkson has managed to forge a successful career in pop music while breaking away from the confines of the style endorsed by the contest. KELLY CLARKSON: BEHIND HAZEL EYES features exclusive interviews with the singer as well as behind-the-scenes footage. Kelly talks from the set of a music video and from a movie premiere, offering her insights and feelings and an insider's glimpse into the workings of such events. BEHIND HAZEL EYES views the world of pop stardom through the gaze of regular Texas girl Kelly Clarkson.

Doll Face

2005 • 5 min • United States of America

Doll Face follows a machine’s struggle to construct its own identity. The machine with a doll face mimics images presented on a television screen and ultimately self-destructs from its inability to adopt a satisfactory visage. Created in its entirety by Andy Huang, Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.

Mother and Daughter Robot

2005 • 33 min

A film about the relationship between a mother-daughter robot.

Akumi

2005 • 8 min • Germany

A young woman with katana must withstand a horde of zombies.

Barbra Streisand - Guilty / Guilty Pleasures

2005 • 35 min • United States of America

Guilty Pleasures is an album by Barbra Streisand in conjunction with Barry Gibb released in September 2005. In Ireland and the United Kingdom, the album is titled Guilty Too. It is the follow-up to Streisand's 1980 album, Guilty, which also featured Barry Gibb. The album features a cover of Gibb's late brother Andy's song "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away". In the United States the album peaked at no. 5 and has been certified Gold (500,000 copies sold) continuing Streisand's record of achieving the most gold and platinum records for a female artist, and in second place in general behind Elvis Presley.

Invasion

2005 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A soldier lands on an island and storms it. Only finding it defended by sheep and one old shepherd he claims it on behalf of his king and country. The shepherd though, doesn't seem that bothered and is happy just to see where it goes.

Tea Date

2005 • 21 min • South Korea

An English language student brings a little brightness into the life of her elderly, widowed tutor.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

2005 • 51 min • United States of America

It is the War Between the States and Peyton Farquhar stands at the end of a plank a noose around his neck. He has been betrayed by a stranger, a scout for the Union Army, and now he faces death. He stands to lose a beautiful young wife, family and home. The soldiers make preparations for his death, it is routine for them. Peyton's mind races, he must escape. If only he can free his hands. The plank falls and incomprehensibly the rope breaks. He manages to swim away and evade the gunshots from the soldiers. He unbelievably finds himself on shore running towards home. After what seems like days of weary travel he arrives.

A Few Crumbs For Birds

2005 • 28 min • Belgium, France, Iraq, Jordan

Ruwaysched is a no man's land at the border. The last village in Jordan before Iraq... I went there without a real scenario. I was looking for a story for my film for a couple of days until Anne-Marie, the director of photography, played a song for me from an Iraqi-Palestinian band while our car stalled at the Iraqi border. (Nassim Amaouche)

Peaches Geldof: Teenage Mind

2005 • 60 min

Fifteen-year old Peaches Geldof goes around the country to inquire about the teenage experience.

Pýsi er ennþá á sjó

2005 • 26 min

Documentary about the Icelandic fisherman who lives on a boat in Ålesund, Norway. Ásgeir visits him and inquires about his life. He is the one who has sold his cod for the highest price and other fishermen envy him for it. Beautiful film about a hard life.

Manga World

2005 • 52 min • France

Filmed in Japan, this program looks beyond the stereotypes to objectively examine the history of manga, how manga are drawn, and manga's influence on Japanese life as illustrated by cosplay bars, where people dress up as their favorite characters; manga kissa, 24/7 manga cafes; and Comicket, the twice-annual comics market that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors. The program also introduces viewers to a cross-section of mangaka icons: Vagabond creator Takehiko Inoue; Naoki Urasawa, author of The Pushman and Other Stories; Jiro Taniguchi; Yoshihiro Tatsumi; and Kan Takahama.

Fleeing the Reich

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

In 1940, carried on a wave of rumour and panic, thirty thousand Channel Islanders fled their homes, their livelihoods and the islands for five long years in exile. Arriving in England with just one small case and only twenty pounds in cash, they were sent by rail across the country from Oldham to Glasgow. Children separated from parents, all cast adrift in an alien culture. Homeless and jobless, the adventures that befell them helped forge friendships the length and breadth of Great Britain which survive to this day. This is their story.

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

2005 • 50 min • United States of America

The story of a courageous battle between U.S. Navy "Tin Can" ships and two of the most powerful Japanese ships in the fleet. The Tin Can sailors fought bravely to secure a victory for the U.S Navy and save MacArthur's invasion force.

Drawing Lessons

2005 • 6 min

A woman finds a tape cassette at a yard sale. It comes with a drawing exercise, the upside down drawing lesson from DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN by Betty Edwards. The exercise becomes an obsession yet keeps the woman’s insomnia at bay. Her night visitors, animals of the night, allow her to reconnect with nature.

Night Archives

2005 • 31 min • Germany, Switzerland

Diary sketches of a young gigolo of Arab origin who is confronted with experiences and impressions in the big Parisian world that overwhelms and confuses him.

The Cost of Living

2005 • 35 min • United Kingdom

A disparate group of dancers, preferring to express themselves through dance rather than speech, clash with each other and members of the local community.

Hey, S.O.S.

2005 • 11 min • Hungary

A lonely castaway who is drowning at sea calls for help incessantly. No one helps him, because everyone is busy with their own affairs...

A Good Day

2005 • 16 min • Sweden, United States of America

At a desolate railroad crossing, a middle-aged man's planned suicide, gets distracted by a lonesome farmer.

The Red Shoe

2005 • 5 min • Sweden

A red shoe floats down the river.

Maestro

2005 • 5 min • Hungary

Five minutes before his big performance, the Maestro and his persistent mechanical assistant are getting ready. As the clock ticks, life at the top is not all it seems.

A Family Finds Entertainment

2005 • 42 min • United States of America

A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’. In this over the top celebration of queerness, Trecartin’s film mines the bizarre and endearing in an unabashed pastiche of ‘bad tv’ tropes. Cheesy video special effects, dress-up chess costumes, desperate scripts, and ‘after school special’ melodrama combine in the fluency of youth-culture lingo, reflecting a generation both damaged and affirmed by media consumption.

Life in Transition

2005 • 4 min

At once surreal and poignant, this semi-autobiographical film by American director John Dilworth (Courage the Cowardly Dog) chronicles a turning point in the life of an artist.

Delivery

2005 • 9 min • Germany

An old man lives a lonely life under the dark shadows of industrial smog. One day he receives a mysterious package which gives him the ability to change his environment.