All Films

Africa's Super Seven

2005 • 52 min • South Africa

On the northern bank of the Sand River in the Mala-Mala Game Reserve in South Africa, seven magnificent creatures reside in an area the size of Manhattan Island. Tracking them for 24 hours reveals a never-ending daily drama.

Iran: The Next Iraq?

2005 • 50 min • United States of America

Long seen as a potential threat to American security, the Islamic Republic of Iran has become an even greater concern since the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. This program explores the current situation in Iran and assesses what danger it poses. After a decline in power, Iran has caught the attention of the world's superpowers by developing its nuclear capabilities and making bold threats. But what risks are real and which merely rhetoric?

The Orangutan King

2005 • 49 min

For fifteen million years orangutans roamed tropical forests from China to South East Asia. In Borneo, one of their last island outposts, lives one today who is a legend. He's won more than just a kingdom, he's won human hearts. They gave him the name Kusasi. The Orangutan King is the story of Kusasi's life told to us by a remarkable witness. Dr Birute M. Galdikas has been researching orangutans in Borneo for over 40 years. Now, for the first time, Dr Galdikas will draw audiences deep into the orangutan universe. With enthusiasm and insight she tells us this special story - taking us back 30 years and unfolding Kusasi's story with detail, energy, and the wonder that she still feels for the orangutan species. As a three year old orphan, Kusasi fell under the care of Galdikas in her forest research camp. But driven by a cunning and tenacious spirit Kusasi did not behave as the other ex-captive infants.

À corps défendant

2005 • 48 min

Marie, thirty-five, is in love. Every day she fights for her relationship with Paul, a long-term prisoner, to live within her. An exclusive relationship that nothing should disturb and that it protects from the gaze of others.

Outerborough

2005 • 9 min • United States of America

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three 90-foot rolls he created were edited together to complete the journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn, entitled Across the Brooklyn Bridge. As a commission by the Museum of Modern Art for the re-opening of their facility, American avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison took this remarkable footage and recombined it with itself to form a new split-screen extrapolation.

Jim Bridwell, The Yosemite Living Legend

2005 • 53 min

Jim Bridwell was one of the best climbers in the world in the 70s, 80s. The documentary chronicles Bridwell's career from those early days to his final ascents in 2001. The film traces Jim Bridwell's journey through numerous interviews with other legendary free climbing personalities such as Leo Houlding and Ron Kauk. See him climb some of Yosemite's historic routes with today's young climbers paying homage to this true legend of free climbing. In an unpublished document from 1981, he is seen in one of his famous Zodiac ascents in El Capitan with and Fred East.

Karnov

2005 • 33 min • United States of America

Picking up where the video game left off, "Karnov" brings to life the story of classic arcade hero Jinborov Karnovski. Called out of retirement to defeat his arch nemesis Ryu, this ex-circus strongman and one time savior of the kingdom finds that time and age may prove to be his most formidable opponents yet. Can the fire-breathing Russian, with the help of his Nintendo friends, regain his legendary form?

A Wicked Tale

2005 • 45 min • Singapore

A Wicked Tale is a thriller based on the story of the Little Red Riding Hood, a tale about manipulation, seduction and innocence lost.

Hearing Things

2005 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Mari-Ann spends her days 'talking' to herself in her head to make working on a production line bearable. However, when Maddy, is assigned to work with her for summer, she discovers that Mari-Ann's refusal to talk to anyone hides a tragic secret.

U2: Vertigo 05 - Live from Milan

2005 • 57 min

'Vertigo 05: Live from Milan' is a concert film included as a bonus DVD with the deluxe edition of U2's 'U218 Singles' compilation album. It features ten songs from the band's concert on 21st July 2005 in Milan, Italy, during the Vertigo Tour. The track listing is as follows: 1. Vertigo 2. I Will Follow 3. Elevation 4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 5. All I Want Is You 6. City of Blinding Lights 7. Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own 8. Miss Sarajevo 9. Original of the Species 10. With or Without You

Cindy, the Doll Is Mine

2005 • 15 min • France

Cindy, the doll is mine is a short film by French director Bertrand Bonello. It stars Italian actress Asia Argento in the double role of photographer Cindy Sherman, a brunette, and her model, a blonde who strangely resemble one another. The film was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

Catholic Ghoulgirls

2005 • 60 min

Sequel to 2003's cult hit Escape from the Dead.

Rausages

2005 • 3 min

'If you've ever been a hungry, wiry, wee dog like Reg you'll know that sitting through mealtimes can be pretty rough. Your owners tuck into their mouth-watering meals, the sound of their slobbering and chomping drowning out the groans of your little empty belly. All you want is one bite of one of those scrumptious looking sausages. That's all. It's not too much to ask.'

Frog

2005 • 4 min • United States of America

It's scorching hot and a breathless frog is delighted at finding a pond where to cool down. Its joy is short-lived as the pond happens to be a family pool and the family happens to be super-scared of frogs.

Pot Zombies

2005 • 54 min

Radioactive weed turns people into zombies with the munchies for human flesh!

The Seedling

2005 • 35 min

An asteroid falls to earth and a young girl falls victim to its spores and starts to transform into an alien.

James May's Top Toys

2005 • 58 min • United Kingdom

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Meccano, Lego, Scalextric and Airfix. James's all-time number one is the train set.

God Sleeps in Rwanda

2005 • 28 min • Rwanda, United States of America

A powerful documentary about five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide. With the country left nearly 70% female in the wake of the massacres, "God Sleeps In Rwanda" is a lucid portrait of the much larger change affected by women in the East African country.

Dark Legacy

2005 • 45 min • Germany

Dark Legacy is a production in the tradition of the great masters of the genre, like Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter and not to forget Edgar Wallace, which understands itself as an experiment in Mystery & Horror. After a sudden and tragic lost in the family, four relatives of the deceased met again when the last will should be announced.

Gigolo

2005 • 15 min • Germany, Switzerland

He is young, good-looking and of Arab descent and gets lost amongst the glamour of Paris international jet set.

Alaska: Silence & Solitude

2005 • 57 min • United States of America

Alaska Silence & Solitude is the follow up to Alone in the Wilderness, filmed 20 years later. Bob Swerer and Bob Swerer Sr. visit Dick Proenneke at his famous cabin on Twin Lakes where the wildlife is still abundant and the scenery is spectacular.

Little Lise

2005 • 19 min • Denmark

A man carries his dead wife to the trunk of a car in front of their 4-year-old daughter. All together they drive to a lake far into the forest, where the father plans to dump the body and end the lives of himself and his daughter. However, everything is not what it seems...

Frankenstein

2005 • 9 min

Dr. Frankenstein, in an effort to become the greatest scientist that ever lived, succeeds in bringing the dead back to life.

Philip Glass: Looking Glass

2005 • 59 min • France

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New York to London and from Paris to Boston. He speaks about his beginnings, his moving to Paris for two years of intensive study with Nadia Boulanger, his meeting with Indian musician Ravi Shankar and director Robert Wilson, who had a deep influence on his career. The film also shows him at work on the last details of his opera The Sound of a Voice, directed by Robert Woodruff and conducted by Alan Johnson. Éric Darmon's camera, with its poetic shots and original framings, takes us for a musical journey into seven months of the life of the composer who, rising from the underground scene of the seventies, brought on a revolution in modern theater.