All Films

La Châtelaine de Banareath

2005 • 51 min • Cambodia

Romance movie, inspired by the French novel "La Châtelaine du Liban"

Bill Burr: One Night Stand

2005 • 28 min • United States of America

Well-traveled comedian and 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' regular Bill Burr steps into the spotlight in this stand-up special.

A Message from Fallujah

2005 • 15 min • Australia

Daniel Crane is an American civilian engineer working to rebuild war torn Iraq who is kidnapped on his last day in Fallujah. Beaten and alone he is hostage caught up in the drama of war.

Prince Loseno

2005 • 29 min • Belgium, Congo, France

This short film utilizes intricate clay animation to tell of King Ngolo, who is without a male heir. Jealousies among his three wives and with his first love — now the court witch doctor — thwart birth of a successor. Finally blessed with a male heir, the king dies during the Prince's coronation; "Birth and death are twins in the destiny of man," concludes the narrator-griot.

Hansel and Gretel

2005 • 16 min

The classic story of a woodcutter's two lost children, who find a house in the forest made of sweets and candy that belongs to a hungry witch.

24 Realities per Second

2005 • 58 min • Austria

A portrait of a dedicated filmmaker who is a charming yet elusive figure in thrall to cinema and the constant perfection of his craft.

Judi: A Series of Memories

2005 • 8 min

The provocative portrayal of a sugar addicted diabetic. Through the mind of her daughter/caretaker we see and experience the disturbing elements of their relationship to each other and the disease.

Aufstellung

2005 • 17 min • Germany

The diagrams used to help represent consumer shopping baskets, the pensions deficit or migration are anachronistic, Farocki posits; Whether pictographs or simple bar or pie charts, their abstractions all display an impotence of information. "Examples of diagrams gleaned from newspapers, school text books and official publications are [...] the history of migration in the Federal Republic of Germany. What we are seeking, therefore, is a conceptual critique of the ways in which migration is presented, pursuing the icons and symbols back to their origins and examining them with regard to content they themselves are unaware of." -HF

Acqua Natasa

2005 • 5 min

A looping video installation depicting the life cycle of a woman (model Nataša Vojnović) scored by Mirwais Ahmadzaï.

Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video 15

2005 • 56 min • Japan

15th entry in the popular "Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video" series.

Graffiti in Berlin

2005 • 59 min • Germany

For three decades already a subculture marks the face of the capital. A purpose in life for those who write their names on rooftops, trains, bridges and houses. For others juvenile, delinquency or simply an eyesore.

HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono

2005 • 20 min • Japan

An interview with Sion Sono on his movie Hazard

06 Tiros, 60Ml

2005 • 16 min • Brazil

After a bloody shoot-out, a gangster wakes up in a hospital full of zombies.

Eye on... Blatchford

2005 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Meet Sardoth - the second-to-last of the Jagaroth. Sardoth tries his best to fit into the community of Blatchford and raise money to build a time machine.

Tiny Death

2005 • 11 min • Denmark

Christian (12) and his best friend have been invited over to an older boy from school. There, he enters a mysterious world. It becomes an overwhelming experience - an essential step towards puberty.

Zombie-American

2005 • 9 min • United States of America

Meet Glen. Glen (Ed Helms of The Daily Show) likes to read, do crosswords, and play basketball. He's on the lookout for a girlfriend. Oh, and one other thing-Glen is a Zombie-American. This educational documentary will help audiences understand the challenges zombies face in our society. As a plea for tolerance, it aims to clear up many of the terrible stereotypes and misconceptions we have about zombies. It is the filmmaker's hope that this film will help people understand that zombies are just like everybody else...if everybody else is a walking, talking, rotting corpse.

Amba: The Russian Tiger

2005 • 46 min • Russia, United Kingdom

Gordon Buchanan heads to Ussuriland, Russia on his most testing trip to date, in search of the Russian tiger. It has the largest unbroken area of forest with the single largest population of tigers anywhere in the world. Anatoly Petrov will be his guide; he spends a lot of time in these forests and is one of the few people who have seen a wild tiger. This beautiful and remarkable film gives a unique insight into one of the most precious animals and forests left on earth.

FRAGMENTS Tokyo murder case

2005 • 16 min • Japan

A film unique of it's contrast, capturing a day of an ordinary college girl, eventually overwhelmed by the flooding sound of noise . The noise continues to over flood the peaceful mid day in Ikebukuro public park, until it is shut down by an arrival of a sudden unexpected death. The sound continues to resonate within each and everyone who was at the spot, even after the noise had died out.

Shah Rukh Khan Ki Maut

2005 • 56 min

A young boy called Murad, who aspires to become like Shahrukh Khan.

New Zild - The Story of New Zealand English

2005 • 45 min • New Zealand

Oft-derided across the dutch for its vowel-mangling pronunciation (sex fush'n'chups anyone?) and too fast-paced for tourists and Elton John to understand, is New Zealand's unique accent. Presented by Jim Mora, New Zild follows the evolution of New Zealand English, from the "colonial twang" to Billy T. Linguist Elizabeth Gordon explains the infamous HRT (High Rising Terminal) ending our sentences, and Mora interprets such phrases as 'air gun' (how are you going?). Features Lyn of Tawa in an accent face-off with Sam Neill and Judy Bailey.

West Coast Otters

2005 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Two otters, a mother and daughter, are inseparable as the cub faces the dangers of her first Scottish winter, and Mum works hard to ensure both survive. Never more than a few feet apart, cub and mum exhibit a very special relationship as the cub grows up, learning how to fish and fend for herself on the idyllic west coast of Scotland.

Forced - Zum Töten gezwungen

2005 • 22 min • Germany

Three men are kidnapped and taken to a closed-off forest area! There, they learn that microchips have been implanted in their brains, giving them supernatural powers. They are forced to kill each other. In order to make the "game" more exciting, the organizers rush numerous clone fighters on the three men. The ultimate slaughter ensues.

Ãgtux

2005 • 22 min • Brazil

The Maxakali possess a remarkable plastic and sound refinement revealed in drawings, paintings, clothes, songs and poems. These people have hundreds of years of history. He populated a vast territory, which he traveled nomadicly, from the interior of Minas Gerais and Bahia, to the Atlantic. Today, the Maxakali Indians number around 1,200 people who live in Minas Gerais, in a small territory, between the cities of Santa Helena and Bertópolis. They live under a shadow of poverty widely publicized in newspapers and on television. The film searches for what is missing in the news: the richness of its graphics, its language, its everyday life. Ãgtux means “telling stories”

Paycheck

2005 • 13 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

A man earns his first paycheck by driving his motorcycle, for the pleasure of rich people, through a mine field in Bosnia.