All Films

Women's Memoirs

2005 • 31 min • Uruguay

The Punta de Rieles prison was where most female political prisoners were incarcerated during the dictatorship in Uruguay. The way up to the building led through “the meadow” where there were animals grazing, and the prison itself was surrounded with flowers. The place seemed eminently liveable, almost comfortable, and at first sight there was no sign of the silent struggle going on behind those walls. This documentary is an attempt to reconstruct life at the prison through the testimony of some of the hundreds of women who were there and who resisted the military regime's attempts to grind them down and destroy them.

El futuro está en el Porno

2005 • 15 min • Spain

A telephone operator tired of her work and her life, suddenly decides to tease her customers

Day of John

2005 • 16 min

"Day of John" is an ensemble dark comedy set in the small town of Desbarats, Ontario.

The Genie in a Tin of Ravioli

2005 • 8 min • France, Switzerland

Armand works on the assembly-line of a tinned pasta factory. One evening he opens up a tin of ravioli for dinner. Much to his surprise, a Genie jumps forth, promising to fulfill any two wishes.

Last Day At EDHS

2005 • 6 min

The Last Day of school... Is always the best

Paris in the Springtime

2005 • 44 min • United Kingdom

A 45-minute look at the making of City of Death, and in particular, the contribution of writer and script editor Douglas Adams.

A Cat and a Fox

2005 • 13 min • Russia

The cat was chased out of the house by the owners, and the fox sheltered him and scared his friends with his new friend.

John Pinette: I Say Nay Nay

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

John Pinette has been cracking up audiences around the world for more than 15 years. He was named Stand-Up Comedian of the Year by the American Comedy Awards in 1999 and he received a Gemini Award nomination for his superb televised performance at The Montreal Comedy Festival in 2000.

White Bloody Christmas

2005 • 17 min • Germany, Italy

Peace, joy and pancakes! This is also the case in little Karichen's house. When little Karl meets his mother and his father Albert, a dealer, on Christmas Eve. When he sees the man who has just done the “big deal” having a quickie in the kitchen, he is overcome with anger! Spurred on by his father's white "snow", he mutates into a brutal, brain-dead killer!

Hung

2005 • 12 min

Living in a world that seems rife with phallic symbols, five lesbian friends take a teaspoon each of a concoction from Prague that will give them, for only one day, a penis. Next morning, the cock crows and the women seek men's experiences: they measure and compare, pee standing up, and look for women who'll sleep with them. At the end of the day, they gather to compare scores. It's a jungle out there.

Forest

2005 • 7 min

Video installation, 2005, at LOKAAL_01 Breda 2007, Burning Marl, curator Frederik Vergaert in Seppenshuis Zoersel, 2005. A woman walking through 3 video images. Three screens display how the day’s light passes by: from the early morning light until late at night. Along with the woman the artist walks through the forest, in the same rhythm, the same pace. Off-screen she looks through the camera, fragmenting time. The age-old androgynous trees are a vertical constant along which the woman moves, as if in an interval between visibility and invisibility, between sound and silence, while the light keeps on evolving metabletically.

When Shaun Met George

2005 • 15 min

The star, director and co-writers of "Shaun Of The Dead" travel to Toronto to film their cameo roles as zombies in the latest film from the man who inspired them in the first place: George A. Romero ("not George B.Romero, he's not as good")

Blindgångare

2005 • 24 min • Sweden

The Time-Bomb waiting to go off reflects the fear of the times in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself squeezed between the pressures of political office and the very real, personal security threat that gives rise to his deepest, innermost fears. Fear is a strong and intractable human mechanism, the expression and form of which has changed throughout time. Once it was the darkness and its’ unknown power that terrified but today that fear has other faces.

Bonnard

2005 • 26 min • France

"I have been lucky enough to be able to film the cleaning and restoration work on a painting by Pierre Bonnard: Nu dans la baignoire. I completely inhabited this canvas. It drew me to it and allowed me to record the palpable cinematic evidence of Bonnard's art of painting. It has led me along the hidden path of his private life." (Alain Cavalier)

Audition One

2005 • 5 min

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night.

Atrapar un ruiseñor

2005 • 18 min • Costa Rica

A short Costa Rican drama

Brother Yusef

2005 • 52 min • Germany, Switzerland

The path to Yusef Lateef was a journey into the unknown. We were aware that he is one of the great maestros of jazz and one of the last of his generation still alive. In an era of black culture that probably found its strongest form of expression in music, he was a contemporary and companion of those musicians who helped to shape and renew jazz: John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley. Now, at the age of 84, Yusef Lateef lives withdrawn in his house in the woods somewhere in New England – in a room full of musical instruments. He still plays his saxophone today, as he has done for most of his life. (Humbert & Penzel)

Worldly Desires

2005 • 43 min • South Korea, Thailand

One of three films commissioned by the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2005. A couple escaped their family to look for a spiritual tree in the jungle. There is a song at night, a song that spoke about an innocent idea of love and a quest for happiness. Worldly Desires is an experimental project where I invited a filmmaker friend, Pimpaka Towira, to shoot the love story by day and the song by night. The story, Deep Red Bloody Night, was written by my assistant who wanted to reprise a forbidden love story in a more romantic time in the past. I picked a pop song, Will I be Lucky? to convey a sense of guiltless freedom one feels when being hit by love. The video is a little simulation of manners, dedicated to the memories of filmmaking in the jungle during the year 2001-2005. -Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Eu te Darei o Céu

2005 • 17 min • Brazil

Tremble, tyrants

2005 • 17 min • France

From his window, 10-year-old Henry Brulard witnesses the death of a citizen wounded by counter-revolutionaries. When his father tells him he's on a list of people "notoriously suspected of disliking the republic", the hatred between them erupts. Based on Stendhal's "The Life of Henry Brulard".

Open Your Mind

2005 • 35 min • France

The plot of Open Your Mind follows the extraterrestrial origin of life, coming from outerspace as six deities (Intermission act), evolving into water (Sho-ho) then emerging to the air (Hyakkin) and to the ground (Ku-nu). Each one of these creatures rules one of the six elements of the godai philosophy, i.e. Earth, Water, Fire, Wind (referred to as kaze in the Hyakkin chant), Sky and Consciousness (referred to as "Awakening" in the movie's title).

American Beauties

2005 • 23 min • United States of America

We enter the secretive, often misunderstood world of immigrant male to female transgenders. In a series of illuminating interviews, Amanda, Diva, Kim and Kosal give revealing insights on the issues closest to their hearts: discrimination, prostitution, and surgery as well as their former lives, and their dreams for the future.

The French Democracy

2005 • 13 min

The French Democracy is a short film by French filmmaker Alex Chan. The film was made in the 2005 PC game "The Movies," a business simulation game that allowed users to create their own films using pre-rendered scenes and tells the story of three Moroccan immigrants in France who turn to rioting after facing different forms of discrimination. The film was made as a response to the 2005 French riots which resulted from the deaths of two young boys who were electrocuted while hiding from police in a power substation. The civil unrest called attention to racism in France and abusive policing tactics. On its release, The French Democracy sparked controversy in mainstream media both as a political statement and as an example of the then-emerging Machinima genre tackling mature, political themes.

Fareler

2005 • 21 min

Two Istanbul thieves rob the house of prominent jeweler and make off with millions of lira in jewelry and cash. Back at their safehouse, they get little sleep after tensions rise over how they’ll divide the loot. In the morning, the matter is decided.