All Films

Tama Tū

2004 • 18 min • New Zealand

Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality, and they gather to say a karakia before returning to the fray. Director Taika Waititi describes the soldiers as young men with "a special bond, strengthened by their character, their culture and each other.

Sexual Parasite: Killer Pussy

2004 • 60 min • Japan

Five students enter a deserted jungle and trespass inside an abandoned house only to haunted by a woman with a monster hidden inside her reproductive organs.

Portrait

2004 • 10 min

Esther is beautiful beneath the surface, in an office where the surface is all that matters. Plus she has brains and about 100 extra pounds. Her nasty, brutish, and tall colleagues (Donna, Caroline, and Erica) make fun of her even as they depend on her knowledge. One day, she excitedly offers to show them a portrait she's had taken by Bud, of "Bud's Glamour Shots," who had spammed the office with an e-mail promising a picture that will reveal her true inner self. Cut to Esther, driving home in tears. That night she sleeps with the portrait near the bed and awakes to discover something extraordinary. When the three harpies see the result, will they book a session with Bud?

Green Vinyl

2004 • 17 min • Brazil

A mother gives her daughter a box full of old, coloured little vinyl records. The daughter may listen to them, but she should never, ever, play the green one.

Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger vs. Hurricaneger

2004 • 40 min • Japan

The crossover film between Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger and Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger. After hijacking the Hurricaneger's mechs; Wendinu and Furabijo, who survived their supposed deaths, unleash an ancient Jakanja warrior infused with Dino Guts known as Janil Iga. Iga allies himself with the Evolian to take over Earth and destroy the Abarangers, it's up to both them and the Hurricaneger to stop the newest threat by combining their forces in a way never seen before!

Heinous Crime

2004 • 8 min • New Zealand

Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. Wellington Winner of 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking 2004.

The Tale of the Ginormous Whale That Fell in Love with a Little Submarine

2004 • 45 min • Japan

The third film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa"

Spirit of Wonder: Miss China Short Stories

2004 • 50 min • Japan

Three short stories featuring Miss China: "Shrinking of Miss China", "Planet of Miss China" and "Sake Cup of Miss China".

Dead Girl Walking

2004 • 44 min • Japan

Yuri is an ordinary teenage girl. But one day, everything changes when she learns that she's apparently dead. Even though she's technically not alive, she tries to keep her humanity and life. Her family, however, wants her out of the picture.

Trafalgar Square

2004 • 17 min

Short film set among the various workers and tradespeople in the famous London thoroughfare that spoofs the popular docusoap genre of the day. Writer and star Sharon Horgan would later rework this to form the basis of the 2007 TV sitcom Angelo's

Peach-butt Sisters: Fragrance of Pubic Hair

2004 • 59 min • Japan

Pinku distributed by Okura Eiga.

A Making of Nobody Knows

2004 • 41 min • Japan

The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Ichigeki Sacchuu!! Hoihoi-san

2004 • 11 min • Japan

Undercover

2004 • 20 min • Argentina

A young woman witnesses the attack of a hooded murderer in La Plata.

Transport

2004 • 30 min • Germany

A metropolis sometime in the future. The entire underground rail system is in the hands of a totalitarian transport corporation. Herold used to work as an engine driver for the corporation, but was fired following an accident. The ex-driver wants nothing more than to go back to work; one day, a young man named Karl who was a former colleague, gets in touch. The cor-poration's infallible computer has seconded Herold for a suicide mission: he is to dare the impossible and drive the train through the city's prohibited sector. When the engine breaks down on the underground railway, Herold begins to suspect what he has let himself in for.

Masquerade Madness

2004 • 28 min

This movie follows the My Scene girls as they prepare for a masquerade-themed fashion show.

Sørbøe & Figenshow

2004 • 53 min

A filmed stage performance by Norwegian comedy ensemble Påtryneteatret

Preventive Warriors

2004 • 56 min • United States of America

Preventive Warriors examines George W Bush's foreign policy -- specifically in the National Security Strategy of 2002. The NSS states that the US reserves the right to attack any nation that poses an imminent threat to the US or its interests. The film focuses on terrorism, rogue states, weapons of mass destruction, and how the United States' actions may impact the rest of the world.

Euston Road

2004 • 8 min

A fast car. Two men talking in a hotel bar. Seven questions in eight minutes. And it's 9pm on Euston Road. Figure it out...

The Tutor I Loved, My Pure White Body Was Tainted

2004 • 60 min • Japan

Kazuo, a university student aspiring to be an actor, has had a crush on Reiko since high school. Reiko was a university student at the time and Kazuo's private tutor, and while she was active in theater at university, she also dreamed of becoming a professional. Kazuo passed the audition, but he never saw Reiko again. One day, Kazuo received a request from a senior at university to appear in a pink film. What's more, his role was a high school student who falls in forbidden love with his private tutor. And the film Kazuo appears in is the one that Reiko starred in...

Post

2004 • 8 min

Office loser Jack discovers a lamppost with magic properties which makes him popular whenever he touches it.

Honolulu Blue

2004 • 33 min • Canada

2004 student film by Matt Johnson and Josh Boles.

DysEnchanted

2004 • 8 min

Heliorama

2004 • 15 min • Brazil

A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound regarding the late plastic artist Helio Oititica.