All Films

Outback Christmas

2005 • 45 min • Australia

Everyone is celebrating their invitation to the Koala Brothers' homestead for Christmas when bad news arrives: Penny the penguin is stuck at the South Pole and won't be able to join them! Frank and Buster embark on their longest and most perilous journey ever to fetch Penny and to give her the best Christmas present ever!

White Heat: Top of the World

2005 • 16 min • United States of America

An examination of "White Heat" (1949) by film historians and critics.

Hermie & Friends: Buzby, the Misbehaving Bee

2005 • 41 min • United States of America

In this animated adventure, Buzby the misbehaving bee is kicked out of the hive for his troublemaking and now he has made the garden his new home. His behavior is no less bothersome there, however, and when Buzby neglects to follow the Garden Golden Rules, it comes time for him to learn about why it is best to follow God's rules about kindness.

Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

Crewdson is observed and questioned closely during his work on ten new images in as many different sets.

Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction

2005 • 36 min • United Kingdom

With a writing career spanning 6 decades, this special documentary looks at Terrance Dicks' work for books and television, with contributions from many of his friends and colleagues. Featuring contributions from Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts, Christopher Barry, Louis Marks, Eric Saward, Paul Cornell, Peter Darvill-Evans and Brenda Gardner.

Waiting for Movement

2005 • 10 min • United Kingdom

As a young couple discuss the idea of giving up smoking, the sounds of a neighboring argument spill into their flat. The argument makes them question their own marriage, while doing nothing about the neighboring situation. Meanwhile, a young teenager argues with his mother as he tries to sneak out to a party with friends. His mother blackmails him into staying home, using his guilt against him.

Coach Carter The Man Behind the Movie

2005 • 19 min

The real life counter parts of the 1999 Richmond basketball team that were portrayed in the 2005 film of the same name. Discuss what there coach means to them.

Who?

2005 • 16 min • India

Suggestions of ancient and modern myths and folklore coalesce in dreams to bring alive a colourful animated world.

Eine Nacht in Wilhelmsburg

2005 • 20 min

Martin has a crush on Murat, but doesn't know whether he's gay, too. But Murat invited him over for dinner. Martin's buddy Christopher however is convinced, that Murat is a gay-basher as Murat lives in the worst part of Hamburg. To calm down his friend Martin promises to call him at 10 pm. A mistake as he soon finds out..

Pass Over

2005 • 22 min

The skeletons of three murdered victims are found. Detective Kang (Bang Moon Su,Seducing Mr. Perfect) gets fired from his job when he questions his superiors' decision to close the case as suicide. He decides to carry on the investigation on his own.

I Remember You Now...

2005 • 15 min • United States of America

At a high school reunion, the class geek turns a chance encounter with the class slut into an opportunity to finally get to know her and open her up in more ways than one.

Scary True Stories: Night 2

2005 • 60 min • Japan

3rd installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

The Macabre Sarcophagus

2005 • 53 min • Brazil

A CIA agent discovers a document about a Brazilian crazy scientist that transformed dead Nazis, including Adolf Hitler, into mummies.

Thermopylae

2005 • 11 min

A distraught man in coat and tie grips the guardrail at a remote cliff overlooking the Pacific. At a boys' high school in toney Rancho Palos Verdes, Mr. Radford teaches classics. His best student is the earnest Andrew. Late one evening, Andrew stops by Mr. Radford's office; Andrew's been the only student to do well on a recent exam. They chat, and something happens that brings a sleepless night to Mr. Radford. The next day, Andrew misses Mr. Radford's class, and after, Mr. Radford is aghast to see Andrew and Andrew's father waiting outside the principal's office. What's the teacher's fear, and what will he do about it?

Idol Makers of Kolkata

2005 • 59 min • India

The clay idol-makers of Kolkata practice a unique art— an art that comes with the promise of dissolution and regeneration—a metaphor of life itself, with its impermanence and ebb-and-flow. The painstaking and elaborate process of the making of the idols, the festivities that grow around the worship of the deities that these idols represent; and the ultimate farewell of the deity in immersion, when the straw-wood-clay structures that typify divinity, disintegrate and dissolve in water and earth—are woven together in an exploration of the lives of these master craftsmen who go through hardships and privation in order to be true to their art.

A Luz na Ria Formosa

2005 • 52 min • Portugal

The journey begins in the Roman ruins of Milreu in Portugal, where a mother reads to her son Seneca's advice on the importance of reading. It then takes them through villages and shores where light reigns.

Rocked: Sum 41 in Congo

2005 • 52 min

Rocked: Sum 41 in Congo is a 2005 film documentary directed by Adrian Callender describing the experiences of Sum 41, as they take a break from the music to join War Child Canada in traveling to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for a look at the African country where the rage of war has held a population in fear since 1998. Before being caught in the middle of a battle between rebel soldiers and government troops, band members Deryck, Steve, Cone, and Dave meet with Congolese children to whom death had become a way of life.

The Magic Mile

2005 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Healing and boundless possibility come together in this original short film from the UK. When a deaf girl chances on an abandoned wheelchair, she discovers the incredible secret of 'the magic mile.' Finding herself in a strange and unfamiliar world, she picks up on the trail of the wheelchair's owner who reveals that even miracles have their limits.

The Girl with the Dead Hand

2005 • 16 min • Portugal

Cecília is sixteen years old. She has a prosthesis in her left hand and a new love, but she does not have her mother's attention.

Prayers

2005 • 60 min • Japan

It is the year of 2014, Shibuya is independent from Japan, and it becomes an independent nation. It is a town of chaos where only young people are living. The life necessity, such as electricity, water, and food are transported by the pipelines out from the Shibuya. The pipelines are running like cobweb in the sky, the young people in Shibuya looked like bugs trapped in the cobweb.

Northstar: The Uncomfortable Camera

2005 • 59 min

This DVD showcases a cross-section of songs spanning the band's career, all performed live at The Downtown on Long Island, NY. Also included is exclusive footage of the making of Pollyanna and never before heard acoustic renditions of their songs.

Le Rossignol

2005 • 50 min • France

Getting into his grandfather's pottery workship at night, a little boy finds an unusually large vase. Fascinated, the child feels the still-warm material, which - whether by a miracle ot the hand of a magician, who knows? - at once changes into a magnificent piece of Chinese porcelain. Presently, from behind the great blue-enamelled trees, there appears a fisherman in his sampan... That's how the story of "The Nightingale", told all in music, begins, as the waking dream of a child in the land of Chinese art - and of mobile phones and webcams.

Overtime

2005 • 5 min • France

Little ragdolls find their maker dead in his studio. Unable to understand what truly happened they try to get on with their daily life beside him.

Bikini Girls on Dinosaur Planet

2005 • 58 min • United States of America

Softcore erotica star Misty Mundae is one of the main attractions of the campy and sexy BIKINI GIRLS ON DINOSAUR PLANET, which recalls Raquel Welch and the stop-motion creatures of ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. A pair of time traveling aliens find themselves on a strange planet, where the environment is exactly as it was millions of years ago on Earth. While exploring this unique place, they stumble across three primitive babes (Mundae and other softcore stars Ruby LaRocca and Lilly Tiger), who quickly engage the aliens in a steamy cave-lesbian love fest. But will the rampaging, stop-motion dinosaurs roaming the land interrupt their prehistoric passion?