All Films

Hibernation

2005 • 15 min

1985. A secret tree house. Two children dressed in animal costumes experiment to revive a bee. But they are searching for a way to bring back something much bigger.

Dena Thompson - The Black Widow

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about Dena Thompson, called the Black Widow by the tabloids, who poisoned her husband and was discovered to have lived a life of deception, fraud and bigamy over the twenty years beforehand. Includes contributions from former husbands and lovers.

The Freaking Family

2005 • 21 min • South Korea

Suddenly, a nuclear bomb drops onto a peaceful family.

Deep Inside

2005 • 7 min • France

In Deep Inside, Camille Henrot's first film, a pornographic film is transformed into a voyeuristic, lovelorn ballad. Drawn frame by frame on the 35mm film stock of a 70s pornographic film, the sexual content is partially revealed and partially hidden by black animated forms that seem to be fugitive memories of an old love. The music is slow and harrowing like a howl for love. The artist works with marker as one might use a stencil, revealing part of the original film in the drawing's negative space. By combining pornographic and sentimental expression, the film posits that emotional misery is also physical. Sexual excitation and heartache are both based on an alternation of empty and full, presence and absence, hidden and revealed things. This manipulated film creates ambiguous images where scopophilia is no longer based on tactile frustration.

Höhenluft

2005 • 25 min • Netherlands

High up in the Alps in Davos a group of patients with lung diseases trying to have fun between treatments at the sanatorium.

Une chapelle blanche

2005 • 39 min • Canada

An elderly woman's quiet routine is interrupted when the local chapel undergoes a makeover.

Inner Depravity 2

2005 • 10 min • Canada

A psychopath tortures and murders more women

The Gifts of Grief

2005 • 52 min

A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more compassion, courage, and awareness. The personal and moving stories include those of author Isabel Allende, Reverend Cecil Williams, writer Alana Laraine, Zen Monk/Vietnam Veteran Claude AnShin Thomas, youth motivator Vinny Ferrero, and filmmaker Lee Mun Wah. With courage, these people invite the viewer to open up to the pain of grief and discover for themselves the extraordinary opportunities their own losses may reveal.

Counterfeit

2005 • 26 min • Argentina

It tells the story of Fabián who lives on the exchange of dollars and pesos. You are tasked by your boss to negotiate with fake $ 5000 to get a good $ 2000 the same day. Pressed by the deadline, Fabián decides to risk everything in one move; fool Narvaez, a veteran street scam artist.

Selnef

2005 • 5 min • Japan

Selnef, the forest musician, plays the strings quietly by himself. Eventually, the forest begins to breathe deeply as the sound echoes.

bODY rEMIX/ gOLDBERG vARIATIONS

2005 • 56 min • Canada

In this new work by Marie Chouinard, the company's ten dancers execute variations on the exercise of freedom. Often, the dancers appear on points: on one, two, and even four at a time. In a spectroscopy of the gesture, we also see them using different devices - crutches, rope, prostheses, horizontal bars, and harnesses - which at times liberate their movements, at others fetter it, and at still others create it.

Life and Deeds of Radovan Karadzic

2005 • 51 min • Serbia and Montenegro

Biography and secret life of war criminal Radovan Karadzic, the leader of Bosnian Serbs.

Il pleut bergère

2005 • 8 min • France

Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti

2005 • 38 min • Canada

Originally, the images of Variations on two photographs by Tina Modotti were engraved directly on 16mm film to be projected as a backdrop for Louis Bédard's choreographic piece entitled Elles, which was inspired by the life and work of the well-known Mexican photographer Tina Modotti. My animations were particularly inspired by two images, first a photography of roses and second a photography of telegraphic wires, suggesting on the one hand an intimate and enclosed universe and, on the other, an infinite opening of space full of potential messages. I have reworked and developed them into an almost abstract meditative drama, caught in a tension between those two photographs.

Apple

2005 • 11 min

This film was shot around the Bangkerohan River in Davao City on the southern Filipino island Mindanao. This area is the backdrop to degrading poverty that apparently can lead to degrading morality. A young girl watches with resignation. She works as mananaptan, someone who sings during funerals for the dead. And more services are expected of her. Fatally indifferent surroundings let it all happen.

No Ordinary Joe

2005 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Closeted gay boy Matthew is having a bit of trouble keeping his feelings to himself and Joe Orton out of his daydreams.

L'Avocat du diable

2005 • 52 min • Belgium, France

Documentary on Xavier Magnée, defense lawyer of Marc Dutroux, the Belgian who was sentenced to life imprisonment for rape of minors, murdering several girls as well as his alleged accomplice. The film concentrates on how a man can represent the "devil".

Death of an Idealist

2005 • 49 min

Rachel Corrie was aged 23 when she was killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer.

Farm Life's A Killer

2005 • 38 min

When a group of teenagers go to an abandoned farm for a party, they find they’re not alone and must fight to survive being taken by the urban legend: The Dark Killer.

Animal

2005 • 28 min • Finland

A farmer finds out that a wolf's bite has turned him into a voracious beast. Worse still, his only son seems to have swapped brains with one of his sheep.

Zoopraxiscope

2005 • 11 min • Poland

A tribute film in honor of the zoopraxiscope inventor Eadweard Muybridge.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977

2005 • 29 min • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up his film Despair.

The First Christmas

2005 • 59 min

When Amelia's parents decide to share their Christmas with a family in need, Amelia has a hard time figuring out if she should do the same. Though hesitant to join in at first, Amelia discovers the true spirit of Christmas through the stories of Mary & Joseph, Elisabeth & Zacharias, and a pair of shepherds named Sharif & Omar. Watch the Christmas story as you've never seen it before, through the imagination of a young girl who discovers for herself the true meaning of Christmas. Featuring all original songs, this heart-warming musical is perfect for families of all ages.

Time of memory

2005 • 8 min • Peru

Short film about "Yuyanapaq", the photo exhibition of the armed conflict in Peru, at Casa Riva Agüero, Chorrillos, Lima-Peru.