All Films

All Aboard the Crazy Train

2005 • 44 min • United States of America

Winner of the 2005 Maui Film Festival's Best Short Film Documentary, this eye-popping video captures big-wave surfing at its most insane. Made by the folks who brought you Step in Liquid and Riding Giants, the film features tow-in trailblazers Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, Darrick Doerner and others taking on Peahi, Maui's enormous swells during the winters of '04 and '05. Fueling the action is a hot soundtrack courtesy of Pearl Jam, U2 and Beck.

Well, Just You Wait! 19

2005 • 11 min • Russia

00s brought a positive change to the lives of Volk and Zayats and they return to their carefree and lighthearted roots on a summer resort.

Piet Piraat: The Enchanted Crown

2005 • 58 min • Belgium

100 years ago, evil Captain Snorrebaard was cursed by putting an enchanted crown on his head. He turned into a painting and his ship sank, along with the crown, to the bottom of the sea. Piet Piraat and his crew find the floating painting and think that it could help them find a hidden treasure, but Captain Snorrebaard has something more sinister in mind...

Mostly Harmless

2005 • 6 min • United States of America

A retired hitman is forced to do one last job.

The Man Who Met Himself

2005 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Who is Stephen Maker? Did he fake his own death, or do doppelgangers really exist? A mysterious call, a photograph of a man and a private detective compelled by the one case that has finally got to him. One stark but brilliant day in London, Austin Peterson takes a job from an anonymous client, a demand he knows he should refuse. He uses the feelings of the woman who loves him to get information. But this only raises more questions than it answers, leading Petersen deeper into the maze.

Debbie Does Dallas Uncovered

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

A look at the making of the film Debbie Does Dallas and the mystery surrounding Bambi Woods.

Roots

2005 • 11 min • Canada

Roots is a one-of-kind produce's-eye journey through a supermarket-and through the highly sensitive issue of adoption disclosure. As a series of fruit and vegetables each drop into a shopping cart, they quickly get caught up in a conversation about origins.

The Fan and the Flower

2005 • 7 min • United States of America

A narrator tells us the story of a ceiling fan, ensconced in the spare room of a house occupied by an old woman. The fan is lonely, and its life takes a turn for the better when the old woman puts a flowering plant in the spare room. A romance develops between fan and flower, until the old woman's decrepitude puts one of the lovers' life at risk. The fan must act.

Keane | Strangers

2005 • 60 min

Strangers tells the story of Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley and Richard Hughes, who formed Keane in '97 at school in Sussex, did their first gig in '98, signed a record deal in 2003, released their debut album Hopes & Fears in 2004 and went on to conquer the world with a voice, a piano and a set of drums. The film charts Keane's musical progression from a four-piece guitar band to the three-piece piano-based group that they've become today, and shows how they went on from playing tiny gigs on the UK pub circuit, to winning 2 Brits awards and selling nearly 5 million albums around the world.

Untitled

2005 • 14 min • Norway

A poetic film about a cruel theme, told in a way that doesn't make the spectators close their eyes.

Jesse McCartney/Live: The Beautiful Soul Tour - Concert DVD

2005 • 55 min • United States of America

Concert Recorded July 9th 2005 at the Redwood Amphitheater Santa Clara, California

Spin the Bottle

2005 • 22 min

A drag-umentary exposing life behind the scenes at San Francisco's infamous summer midnight movie series, Midnight Mass, headed up by drag célèbre, Peaches Christ.

The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On

2005 • 18 min • United States of America

This documentary is featured on Warner Brothers' DVD for The Roaring Twenties (1939), released in 2005.

Yellow Fella

2005 • 25 min • Australia

In 1978, Tom Lewis appeared in the Australian feature film, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. The life of the character he played was hauntingly close to his own, a young, restless man of mixed heritage, struggling for a foothold on the edge of two cultures. Tom's mother is a traditional Indigenous woman of southern Arnhem Land, his father a Welsh stockman who he never really knew. Yellow Fella is a journey across the land and into Tom's past, as he attempts to find the resting place of his father and to finally confront the truth of his most inner feelings of love and identity.

Suppr.

2005 • 14 min • France

A screenwriter lacking inspiration is given a very special typewriter by a strange friend that will make his dreams come true... And turn them into a nightmare.

I'm Not Gay

2005 • 12 min

Two friends are erroneously taken for a gay couple, and have their lives turned upside down.

Eggs

2005 • 3 min • Ireland

Something is growing in the silage bales in the field near you. What emerges is a blast... from the past.

The Agatha Christie Code

2005 • 50 min

What makes Agatha Christie such a successful writer? On the 75th anniversary of the creation of her immortal character Miss Marple, this documentary introduces viewers to new fields of scientific inquiry using sophisticated computer analyses of Christie's every written word, her sentence structure, story arcs, poisons used, red herrings, clues and more. From British Pathé TV's Arts Collection.

Stuart Sutcliffe: The Lost Beatle

2005 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about Stuart Sutcliffe and his life with the Beatles

Alice

2005 • 15 min • Brazil, United States of America

Unable to meet in the city, Alice and Alex embark on an emotional journey of love and loss.

Change Nothing

2005 • 12 min • Portugal

A short film showing a rehearsal and live performance by Jeanne Balibar. Costa would go on to make a feature-length documentary with the same title and subject matter in 2009.

The Littlest Angel's Easter

2005 • 26 min • United States of America

Ryan is having a tough time making friends in his new neighborhood. The Littlest Angel is eager to help, but this is his very first earthly assignment. With faith, hope, understanding, they soon discover that miracles happen.

Capitulation, the Final Hours that Ended World War II

2005 • 60 min • France

A film made of archives mostly unknown, on the last day of the Second World War in Europe and on the events which preceded it. This film also shows the growing tension between the Allies and the Soviets at the time: May 8, 1945 is also the first day of the Cold War.

Leaving

2005 • 15 min • Greece

Why didn't Vicky go get her passport sooner? What happened and she was caught crying in a bank? Why does she ask Alexis if he's bored? Will Harris text her? When will her hypochondriac neighbor see her again? None of these questions will be answered. Vicky is leaving tomorrow and she just wants to have fun.