All Films

Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public

2005 • 20 min • United States of America

An examination of "The Public Enemy" (1931) by film historians and critics.

When You Wake

2005 • 22 min

Johan is busy destroying his relationship to his girlfriend Julie. He's no longer himself, and he behaves egoistically and without emotions towards her. It is only a question of time before the love, that once was, is gone. Early one morning after a night out Johan meets a stranger. A man who confronts Johan with his cynical and destructive path.

The Safe Side: Stranger Safety

2005 • 42 min • United States of America

This award-winning, laugh-out-loud video teaches kids how to avoid dangerous situations with people they “don’t know” and those they “kinda know.” Full of important hot tips that are presented with humor, Stranger Safety will empower your child to make super-smart decisions. Perfect for elementary school-aged kids!

Frame for the Picture of My Homeland

2005 • 15 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Based on a true story, the film presents events similar to those in the Lukić indictment.

Still World

2005 • 30 min

Photofilm about a journalist of a local newspaper who feels his life has come to a standstill, until he discovers a conspiracy of mediocrity...

cNote

2005 • 7 min • Canada

In this animated short, filmmaker Chris Hinton and composer Michael Oesterle leap back and forth between picture and sound. The dynamic movement of Hinton's visual art dances in syncopation with the bold musical strokes of an original modern classical composition. Without words.

A Picture of Birmingham, by Benjamin Zephaniah

2005 • 28 min

Poet Benjamin Zephaniah revisits the place of his birth, Birmingham, on a mission to compose a new poem, which he will then read out on the streets of the city. While there, he watches Aston Villa and revisits the approved school he went to when he was a child.

War Movie

2005 • 23 min • South Korea

It is the year 1965. Yu-jeong and Hak-song reaches the marriageable ages. They have the 4th date at the ostentatious Kukje Jungang Cafeteria and feel awkward to talk to each other. Now they find a common point in their ideas.

Blink

2005 • 49 min

An old man escapes from the hospital to visit his "ex-wife", and a young girl who has mother that about to give a birth, all board on a bus.

Philosopher Escaped

2005 • 60 min • Latvia

A film about the eccentric and paradoxical Russian philosopher Alexander Piatigorsky - a specialist on Buddhism and ancient Indian philosophy, a legendary character in Russian intellectual circles since the 60s, and a well-known writer who, "collects interesting people" and "doesn't wish to prepare for death".

Straight Hike for the Butch Dyke

2005 • 24 min • New Zealand

A hetero “femme four” make over a butch dyke, banning her rainbow flags and hiding her dildos in nicely colored containers.

Prophecies of the Passion

2005 • 58 min • United States of America

The Old Testament prophets looked centuries into the future and described the final days of Christ’s life on earth. Their visions were fulfilled in remarkable detail, revealing the true identity of the Messiah—the Savior of the world. Prophecies of the Passion explores these ancient Biblical promises to touch the hearts and minds of both believers and skeptics with an extraordinary message of hope.

Mystic India

2005 • 45 min

On June 29, 1792, Neelkanth begins his journey of awakening. Having resolved to embrace the challenges of nature, he leaves his home in the city of Ayodhya. Neelkanth walks alone into the cold stormy night, wearing nothing over his shoulders or under his feet, carrying nothing - no maps, no money, no food - except inner courage, confidence and a silent spiritual strength. At the Saryu River, he enters the cold, raging current. Neelkanth is swept away, leaving behind all that was familiar.

The Sky Is Falling: Making 'The War of the Worlds'

2005 • 30 min • United States of America

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the 1953 sci-fi classic "The War of the Worlds". Included are interviews with some of the cast and crew and unreleased footage from the film itself.

La belle dame sans merci

2005 • 15 min • Japan, United States of America

1819. A shipwreck-survivor, the Navigator, encounters an Old Knight who recounts his tale: Long ago, the Knight fell in love with a mysterious Lady. But in a dream he saw her true form and begged his release. Awoken and alone, he realized his failure. Thus he has waited, kept alive for centuries by his regret. Based on the John Keats poem of the same name.

Looking for Alfred

2005 • 10 min • Belgium, United Kingdom

Obsessed with de/reconstructing our corrupted visions of media, celebrity and appearance, Johan Grimonprez assembled a bewildering gaggle of Hitchcock lookalikes, staggering in girth and exacting in attitude, in a quest to find the most accurate specimen.

Red Mudh

2005 • 30 min • Belgium

The son (Julien) returns to his father (Arié), who offers him rabbit for dinner, but the son only wants honey. The father goes to get some from the hive but gets stuck inside. Fairy tale or pastiche, it all ends badly. With the murder of the father. Then a hunter arrives who tries to restore some order and ends up praising chocolate. A play by Claude Schmitz, premiered at the Épongerie in 2006.

Closework

2005 • 8 min • Norway

In a bed at a treatment centre, a severely disabled boy lies. Nobody understands him. Everybody has given him up, except for one person. A warm film about the fact that solutions are not always the solution.

Sista bussen

2005 • 26 min • Sweden

In Henrik's world problems do not exist. It's a world so well organized that he even gives lectures about it. One day, after holding a lecture in a small town, Henrik misses the last bus home. It now becomes impossible to deny the existence of his problems. As if that wasn't enough, the following morning he is supposed to meet his Internet date for the first time. —Erik Lundin

The Massie Affair

2005 • 55 min • United States of America

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five nonwhite islanders. What unfolded in the following days and weeks was a racially-charged murder case that would make headlines across the nation, enrage Hawai'i's native population, and galvanize the island's law enforcers and the nation's social elite.

Darts Players' Wives

2005 • 46 min • United Kingdom

These women are the unsung heroes of the sport. They keep the show on the road and their men at the oche! They always give 180%, without them the players would be lost and darts would be... just another game.

The Youth In Us

2005 • 12 min

A young couple confronts a painful future by looking to the past.

Jona / Tomberry

2005 • 12 min • Netherlands

Borges meets Murnau in a spinning nightmare. And the baby sings: “No, not be scared old bird, to awake and see I am dreaming you”.

Pisces

2005 • 13 min • United States of America

Explores the family dynamic between an introspective teenage girl and her single mother