All Films

The Abortion Diaries

2005 • 30 min

The Abortion Diaries is a documentary featuring 12 women who speak candidly about their experiences with abortion. The women are doctors, subway workers, artists, activists, military personnel, teachers and students; they are Black, Latina, Jewish and White; they are mothers or child-free; they range in age from 19 to 54. Their stories weave together with the filmmaker’s diary entries to present a compelling, moving and at times surprisingly funny “dinner party” where the audience is invited to hear what women say behind closed doors about motherhood, medical technology, sex, spirituality, love, work and their own bodies.

Spin

2005 • 8 min • United States of America

A mysterious DJ is sent to a city block to mend a series of chain reactions that occur in our everyday lives.

Homo Father

2005 • 56 min • Poland

Gabriel and Robert have been together for three years. Robert is hiding their relationship from the world. Gabriel wants the opposite: he would like everyone to find out how much he and Robert love each other. One day, Natalia, a girl with whom Gabriel had a one-night stand three years ago, pays them visit. She brings a little girl Amelia with her and leaves the child with Gabriel. Later, Natalia calls and tells Gabriel that Amelia is his daughter.

Manue Bolonaise

2005 • 45 min • France

Eleven-year-old Manue and Sophie are best friends. Be it one or the other, their main topic of conversation concerns going out with boys. Manue, her time taken up with a succession of passing fancies, progressively neglects Sophie, who really doesn’t try to grow up. Their shared secrets become shameful and their bond childish. Sophie is betrayed, an incomprehending victim; in some ways, this is her first deception in love.

Far Out!

2005 • 33 min • Netherlands

Humorous, melancholy documentary about copywriter, photo model and poet Frans Vogel (1935-2016). A handsome kid who became involved in the art world of the 1950s. Thanks to his absurd humor and provocative behavior, Vogel became a familiar face on the Rotterdam art scene.

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away

2005 • 11 min • United States of America

After 25 years on the road selling frozen food, Alfie Zimmer has reached his breaking point. But letting go isn’t easy—especially when a notebook of bathroom graffiti keeps holding him back.

Crash

2005 • 17 min • Turkey

Three men. From different corners of the crime world: A hired gun, Musta; a con man, Cem; and a thief, Ali. By a twist of fate their paths crosses at Central Station and start to work as a team. But their past won't let them go too faraway...

Now You See Me, Now You Don't

2005 • 30 min

It seemed like an ordinary day. Dad is experimenting in the lab, Mom is at home boiling water, while their six year old son, Alex is playing around her. But this day is different. This day Dad brings something home from the lab. And the next morning...Alex becomes invisible.

Daphne Ashbrook in the UK

2005 • 53 min • United Kingdom

In 1996, Doctor Who returned as a TV Movie, filmed on location in Vancouver, Canada. Actress Daphne Ashbrook was cast as the eighth Doctor’s assistant, Grace Holloway. Bold and new, the film gave Paul McGann the chance to play Doctor Who and Daphne made Grace a powerful and uncompromising character … and a controversial love interest for The Doctor! In the Summer of 2004, Daphne visited the UK to make some personal appearances and re-join the world of Doctor Who, by recording an audio play, The Next Life, for Big Finish! In this unique programme, featuring interviews, appearances, signings … and film of Daphne’s Big Finish recording with Paul McGann, we discover much about this talented actress and her memories of filming the Doctor Who TV Movie.

The Dark Side of Porn: Death of a Porn Star

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

A look at the life and mysterious death of the woman with the largest breasts in the world, French porn star Lolo Ferrari.

Dream on Silly Dreamer

2005 • 40 min

Disney animator Dan Lund documents the studio's decision to shut down its hand-drawn animation department and focus instead on computer-generated animation.

Walking to Nairobi

2005 • 18 min

Katie is an isolated ten-year-old constantly looking for attention from her family. Her equally overlooked Granny, who has Alzheimers, lives with them. Though Granny's condition is at times frustrating, Katie uses it to get extra pocket money and sherry out of her, Granny is the only person who treats her like an adult. But an unexpected friendship begins to develop between them as they become close allies.

Antebody

2005 • 17 min • United States of America

Lois Ambro has just received some terrible news. The body of her husband, Matin, has been found in the Los Angeles River. She is about to receive some even more startling news! The detectives are at a loss to explain it. The medical examiner has never seen anything like it. The Ambro family has no idea what has happened, how it happened, who did it, or why, and are haunted by the prospect of a murder yet to come! The police may know how Marty died, Lois may know how Marty lived, but there's something you don't know about Martin David Ambro...

Molly & Grandpa

2005 • 45 min • Norway

Molly visits her grandparents.

Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz

2005 • 25 min

A featurette about The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Roger Diamantis or Real Life

2005 • 55 min • France

Roger Diamantis owns the Saint-André-des-Arts cinema in Paris. His discovery of the 7th art, his vocation to own a cinema where he could show films that resembled him, and his years in the restoration business to achieve this… He recalls his early days, talks about the filmmakers who found their place with him, and his film “Si j'te cherche, j'me trouve”.

I Know What You Need

2005 • 33 min • United States of America

Told from the perspective of a popular, college-age girl named Elizabeth Rogan, the premise of this story concerns her sudden, unexpected attraction to a social outcast named Ed Hamner, Jr., whose paranormal ability to perceive what will make any person happy has not resulted in his own happiness.

Noroi: Hodo Sosa Saizensen Yori

2005 • 58 min • Japan

The forbidden horror that everyone involved is keeping their mouths shut about Now, we break the seal and ask you. - Is this the truth...?

Mag Bodard, un destin

2005 • 52 min • France

Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.

Airs

2005 • 8 min

A TV show that is so unclear to whom and where it is broadcast. A strange room where the recording and editing is taking place. A middle-aged gentleman like a wax figure sits on a turntable and grabs the microphone as the director signals him to do so. A reading about the mysterious genre "Ficfyon" has begun. 'What the heck did we not have time for?' The monologue of a man sitting in the audience and continuing to talk about his story will soon move into Ficfyon prophecies about the 2000s.

Born to Fight

2005 • 19 min • United States of America

Documentary on the cultural appeal of boxing and its incorporation in the film 'Million Dollar Baby'.

Christopher Ford Sees a Film

2005 • 2 min • United States of America

What would you do if you saw a terrible film and your name was Christopher Ford?

Takanaka Crossover Japan '05 Live

2005 • 57 min • Japan

All recorded at National Yoyogi Stadium on June 4th, 2005.

Serious Miracles

2005 • 10 min • Canada

Andy's situation is everyone's: he is alive in this world, with his own sense of reality, while all around him are people who continually attempt to infiltrate his conception of reality with their own.