All Films

Peter and the Wolf

2005 • 34 min • Italy

Prokofiev's famous musical fairy tale starring Lucio Dalla as director and performer. A stage staging that holds quite a few surprises with textual variants by Lorenzo Arruga and an actualization that will not fail to bring a smile to the faces of young and old alike with the announcement of the news on the news of the wolf escaping here from the Giardini Margherita in Bologna.

Bluebeard's Granddaughter

2005 • 48 min • Italy

Baldo is an enterprising young man looking for fortune. He responds to the mysterious Lucrezia's marriage announcement and decides to go to her town to meet her. Here Baldo meets a series of less than reassuring people who try to dissuade him from meeting Lucrezia about whom various suspicions hover.

Mikuri Han Theater Raw Squeezing Super DX

2005 • 60 min • Japan

Earthshaker is the ultimate weapon developed by the international conspiracy organization Skunk Gang. It is an invasion weapon that causes a huge earthquake throughout Japan, but it looks exactly like a vibrator. Akebi, an Okuhida kunoichi, succeeds in stealing the Earthshaker, but drops it during his escape.

Nanoilusão

2005 • 18 min • Brazil

He observes his reality with astonishment. She multiplies herself in images. An admirable event happens.

Colpi di testa

2005 • 26 min • Italy

Rome, 1968. A football passionate PE teacher formed the first woman team. Thirty eight years later, these women players remember with proud and a tinge of nostalgia how they stood up against all prejudices at a time when a woman wearing shorts was absolutely outrageous.

Farm Force in Send in the Clones

2005 • 5 min • United States of America

A superhero team made up of a fish, chicken and pig must save Tilly the sheep and the farm from the evil of Mujo the Mad Cow.

Little Boy Blues

2005 • 22 min • United States of America

A lonely and shy Michael succumbs to Zeno, a handsome and younger stranger in a gay bar.

Gotham Cafe

2005 • 14 min • United States of America

With divorce on the horizon, a couple are about to find out that a lunch meeting with the wife's attorney is about to get very gruesome.

Ghosts on the Underground

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

More than one billion people use the London Underground annually, yet few of them know just how haunted the tube really is. This hair-raising documentary investigates the supernatural secrets of the oldest underground network in the world, exploring the graves, church crypts and plague pits that tube tunnels have disrupted.

The Legend of the Scarecrow

2005 • 10 min • Spain

A lonely scarecrow tries to befriend a group of birds without success, and he can't understand why they don't want to approach him. A blind wounded crow falls at his feet and the scarecrow takes care of it; through the bird he learns why the crows are afraid from scarecrows. After learning the news, he walks to his owner's house in the middle of the night, wakes him up, and asks him to give him another job. Little does he know that such an innocent request will bring what follows upon him

The Chosen One

2005 • 15 min • United States of America

In this featurette, director George Lucas, along with cast and crew members from "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", explore the story of Anakin Skywalker, the central character of "Star Wars", across the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy.

Full Disclosure

2005 • 16 min • United States of America

Everett reveals every terrible habit, attitude, and hang-up on the first date. Shockingly, women don't react as he'd hoped...until he meets Brinn, who's willing to play his game and try for Full Disclosure.

The Underminer

2005 • 6 min • United States of America

This short film is based on the book by Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan. Albo plays both the role of the Underminer, a passive aggressive backhanded antagonist whose sole purpose is to cast self-doubt onto the Undermined.

Pancho's Pizza

2005 • 20 min

Young man, Pancho's father wants Pancho to take over his pizzarea, but Pancho prefers telling jokes.

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

2005 • 28 min • United States of America

An animated documentary that explores the terrain of father/son relationships, as seen through Canemaker's own turbulent relationship with his father.

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today

2005 • 28 min

The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and features animated maps and archival photographs, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collections. Now expanded and updated, the film's final chapter captures the astonishing – if sometimes challenging – transformations the city has experienced in the first decades of the 21st century.

Estes Avenue

2005 • 3 min • United States of America

Five people, on the very same street, at the very same time, saying the very same word. Each for a different reason.

Slow Map

2005 • 30 min • Japan

The Great Zambini

2005 • 15 min • Spain

The remains of an ancient circus can still be seen on the outskirts of a big city.

Stalk

2005 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A hungry rabbit is stalked by a lettuce.

A Life Among Whales

2005 • 57 min

Dr. Roger Payne explores the unique relationship between humans and whales, weaving together natural history and biography. A pioneer in whale song research, Payne has passionately promoted the protection of these majestic sea creatures for four decades and continues to do so by studying ocean pollution.

Rare Books and Manuscripts

2005 • 12 min

In the reading room of the British Library, Jess falls in love from afar with the gorgeous Heinz. Too shy to talk to him, she starts sending him books spelling out her feelings for him. When she starts receiving books in turn - and not from Heinz - will she able to pluck the courage to meet her admirer?

Journey to Mars

2005 • 16 min • Argentina

Journey to Mars (Viaje a Marte) is an animated stop motion short film. This independent production, which was made in Argentina, is the result of two years hard work. Since then, it has won 50 awards in different festivals around the world, competing in many cases against real action productions. The short tells the story of Antonio, a boy from the 60s, who is a great fan of science fiction tv serials and space trips. In view of the child's passion, his grandfather decides to take him to Mars in his tow truck.

He Swears a Lot

2005 • 42 min • Russia

A documentary portrait of the leader of the Leningrad group, musician, poet and foul-mouthed Sergei Shnurov.