All Films

El oficio de actor

2005 • 55 min

Three of Spain's most renowned actors discuss the acting profession and share experiences and feelings from their different shootings. The ego, the characters, the fears, the preparation and the way each one approaches this profession.

From Walt's Table: A Tribute to Disney's Nine Old Men

2005 • 22 min

Film critic Joel Siegel gets together with a group of animators, directors and producers to discuss and pay tribute to their mentors and Walt Disney's core group of animators, The Nine Old Men

The Hallway

2005 • 17 min • France

A young couple finds themselves in difficult financial straits. The man is out of work and spends his days walking the streets, without so much as a cent in his pocket to buy food. He’s so weak that he collapses in front of a store window. The store’s owner, an elderly man, comes to the man’s aid and offers him a job. His new job requires him to spend all day sitting and keeping watch on the small room at the end of a corridor.

The Soldier's Heart

2005 • 55 min

FRONTLINE tells the stories of soldiers who have come home haunted by their experiences during the Iraq War and asks whether the government is doing enough to help.

Dear Parents,

2005 • 12 min • France

A young man sends a film to his parents after twelve years of silence. He wants to show them the man he has become.

The Secret Transit Code of America's Highways

2005 • 11 min

A salesman contemplates suicide as he studies a notebook of collected graffiti in a motel. Based on the Stephen King short story "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away".

Lucy

2005 • 33 min

Single channel video, 2003. Installation on view at Locus Loppem, Kunsthalle Lophem, 2005. Lucy was found in Ethiopia. She's considered to be the eldest human being ever discovered. She was born about 3.5 million years ago. She was small and lightly built, probably not much more than 1m tall. In a pink bed lies a naked young girl with a pink felt doll. The girl is about ten, eleven years old. The doll has the same size and physiognomy as the girl. It may be her alter ego, or it may be the girl that soon will be a woman, or maybe it’s just the last doll a mother sewed for her daughter. These two fragile images show the search for identity in a kind of reflection. The contact between the girl and the doll slowly disappears, the child soon becomes a woman.

Captain's Daughter

2005 • 28 min • Russia

A cartoon based on the novel of the same name by A.S. Pushkin.

The Werewolf Cult Chronicles: Vietnam 1969

2005 • 20 min • Sweden

Vietnam 1969. Three soldiers are on a secret mission in Skull Bay, north of Laos. Sergeant Jones, Private Maddox and Private Turner shall find and kill a female Vietnamese CIA infiltrator. During the night Sergeant Jones disappears. Something is following the soldiers in the dark. A bloodthirsty werewolf is out for revenge.

Dear Santa

2005 • 42 min

Dear Santa is based on a selection of the most compelling letters the U.S. Postal Service receives from children asking for Santa's help. Their dramatic and heartwarming stories will be told as their holiday dreams are fulfilled.

Ivor Cutler: Looking For Truth With a Pin

2005 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An affectionate tribute to the Glasgow-born Cutler who has been Britain's best kept secret with his mix of poetry, music, painting and comedy.

Sur les traces de Mélanie

2005 • 12 min • France

Rachid learned of Mélanie's accidental death. He decides to follow in his footsteps by taking his friend's last walk again. That day, Mélanie had met her sister Madeleine, for a last face-to-face meeting. What happened? What will Rachid discover?

Keep the Secret in the Memory

2005 • 18 min • South Korea

A couple gets a phone call while they are on their way to the train station to go on a trip. Cheol-min hears from her friend that his girlfriend had previously lived with her friend. Hearing this, Cheol-min is worried and does not want to go on a trip. He is very excited by the feeling of betrayal that he cannot trust this woman.

Desire Management

2005 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Desire Management is a film by Noam Toran comprising five sequences in which objects are used as vehicles for dissident behaviour. In the film, the domestic space is defined as the last private frontier, a place where bespoke appliances provide unorthodox experiences for alienated people: An airline hostess with a unique relationship to turbulence, the owner of a mysterious box which men ritually visit to look inside, an elderly man who enjoys being vacuumed, a couple who engage in baseball driven fantasies, a man who is forced by his partner to cry into a strange device.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

2005 • 52 min • France, Italy

This documentary delivers a moving portrait of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The narrative of the life of this Jesuit and scientist of international reputation is read as an adventure novel.

D77

2005 • 11 min • France, Monaco

A deserted secondary road under a blazing sun. A 50 year-old peasant driving a very dirty pick-up truck. The discovery of four corpses along the road.

Becoming Alexander

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Colin Farrell and his intensive preparation to play Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's epic movie.

The Man Who Predicted 9/11

2005 • 43 min

After the planes hit on 9/11, Morgan Stanley security chief Rick Rescorla put into effect plans that he had developed years before. Rick had seen the potential for an airborne suicide attack on the twin towers as part of evaluating the risk posed to his wards within their building. After the attack in 1993 Rick took it personally to prepare and avoid the chaotic scenes that came with the 93 attack. This documentary tells the story of the man who predicted the 9/11 attacks and saved thousands of lives and died in the process.

Viva Les Amis

2005 • 49 min • United States of America

Viva Les Amis looks at one local café as an example of a national trend: The loss of the mom and pop shop. The film explores the 27 year history of Les Amis Café – a sidewalk café that served almost three decades of eclectic customers and staff. Through the eyes of Newman Stribling, once manager of Les Amis Café, now cab driver, the film delves into the long history of Les Amis, and reveals the present: Les Amis Café replaced by a Starbucks.

School Master - an Inch from Black

2005 • 21 min • Sweden

Schoolmaster Hoffmann on his way far down in the basement to the Janitors office to get coal for his chilly classroom, hears no warning signals. Gorm, the janitor, manipulates the gullible Hoffmann into signing a contract with a dark context.

Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

Abbey is seen a rare 1991 performance at the Promenade Theater in New York. She is at once beautiful, insightful and at the top of her musical gifts. The appearance represents the beginning of a great comeback that has since established her as a legendary jazz vocalist and composer.

À l'époque...

2005 • 8 min • France

There must have been very few Germans who sought refuge in France after the Liberation. My father was one of them. His nightmare was that someone would find out his nationality.

A Good Time for Tragedy

2005 • 57 min

A documentary dealing with the life of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, an Iranian Poet.

The Dark Side of Porn: Porn Shutdown

2005 • 48 min • United Kingdom

In 2004, The San Fernando Valley porno industry came to a virtual standstill after it was revealed that popular performer Darren James became infected with HIV during a porno shoot in Brazil.