All Films

Mariko's 30 Pirates

2005 • 24 min • Japan

While writing his final paper at university, Tetsuya Mariko finds out he is a descendant of pirates. He then dresses as a pirate, gathers some other 30 pirates around him and starts a campaign against the university, which is attempting to tear down a building he has grown fond of.

Somewhere, Anywhere, Everywhere

2005 • 42 min • United States of America

Somewhere in the world, all eyes are on CJ Hobgood. Anywhere Taj Burrow surfs, he is the most progressive surfer in the water. Everywhere the Globe Team goes, there is a unique story to be told.

Smile for the Camera

2005 • 29 min

Double exposures produced by an antique camera lead two New York photography students on a bizarre and unnerving journey to a backwater town, where a cult of mysterious 'boxheads' entrap victims whose smiling photographs appear on the boxes that hide their own faces.

One Night Stand: Flight of the Conchords

2005 • 29 min • United States of America

A quirky live performance feature featuring New Zealand folk-parody duo Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who earned raves at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Melbourne Comedy Festival and who won the Bass Ale Award for Best Alternative Act at the 2005 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

Freedom Calf

2005 • 10 min • Sweden

In a small village in north of Sweden lives a calf that dislikes enclosures. The desperate farmer builds fence after fence, but the calf still manages to get out. When a film team arrives to make a film about the events, everything changes.

Small Station

2005 • 30 min • Taiwan

An older woman and her mentally disabled son arrive at a train station. Even the dispatcher wonders what they are doing there, as they sit and watch passing trains. The film will remind you how nice it is to stop and look around. Best short film at IFF Venice in 2005.

Eux seuls

2005 • 58 min

Simon, former member of a Corsican independence movement, lives in exile in Paris. Cass, a young German girl, lives in exile in Paris. Ludo, a fine, upstanding young man, lives in exile everywhere. The promise of financial gain being their principle motivation, things can only turn out badly.

平田弥里 Fairy Kiss

2005 • 45 min • Japan

2005 release

Nooma Trees 003

2005 • 13 min

We want to know why we are here. If our lives really matter. How our religion is relevant to this life. Today. We want to understand what significance this minute, hour, week, month, and year has to our lives. To our world. We need a God who cares about this life, in this world, right now. We want to understand why everything we think, everything we say, and everything we do matters. We don't want to just sit back and wait for something to happen or someday to come. We want to know if all the choices we make now will shape our world and lives for eternity. Because we want our lives to have meaning today, and our lives today to have meaning forever.

Rubbadubbers: Splish! Splash! Splosh!

2005 • 50 min • United Kingdom

This film was created from 5 episodes from Rubbadubbers (2003-2005), condensed into a single film.

Nooma Luggage 007

2005 • 14 min

Maybe a friend turned their back on you. Maybe someone you loved betrayed you. We all have wounds and we end up carrying around these things that people have done to us for weeks, months, and sometimes even years. It isn't always easy to forgive these people and after a while these hurts can get really heavy. So the only way to feel better seems to be somehow getting back at the people that hurt us, to get revenge. But does revenge ever truly satisfy? Maybe forgiving isn't something you do for someone else to let them off the hook. Maybe forgiveness is about you. God didn't create you to carry these wounds around. God created you to be free.

Dynasty of Depravity

2005 • 30 min

This European flavored melodrama depicts a fictional country of refined manners and debased desires that explode into chaos, sending its prodigal son into the pit of 20th Century technology. That technology externalizes his hidden beauty just as he tries to hide the heritage of horror which was the curse of his lineage. That curse now threatens the already damned.

Thomas & Friends: Quarry Adventures on Sodor

2005 • 10 min

Quarry Adventures on Sodor is a US DVD sampler featuring one fifth series episode narrated by Alec Baldwin and one first series episode narrated by George Carlin.

Let There Be Whistle Blowers

2005 • 18 min

A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while going nowhere. The actual tunnel experience sets off a metaphysical one. Composed to the first part of DRUMMING by Steve Reich.

Portrait: The Making of Henry

2005 • 53 min

Making of documentary from the Ultra HD Blu-ray edition of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer released on the movie's 30th anniversary.

Nooma Noise 005

2005 • 10 min • United States of America

Why is silence so hard to deal with? Why is it so much easier for us to live our lives with a lot of things going on all the time than to just be in silence? We're constantly surrounded with "voices" that are influencing us on how to think, feel, and behave. Movies, music, TV, Internet, cell phones, and a never-ending barrage of advertising. There's always something going on. Always noise in our lives. But maybe there's a connection between the amount of noise in our lives and our inability to hear God. If God sometimes feels distant to us, maybe it's not because he's not talking to us, but simply because we aren't really listening.

Warnock

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

'Warnock' is a frank and revealing fly on the wall documentary behind the scenes at Sheffield United's 2004/05 campaign in the Coca-Cola Championship.

Merry F#%$in' Christmas

2005 • 60 min

Denis Leary and a cast of many others celebrate Christmas Leary-style. Packed with original music and skits, this is a great spin on the usual holiday fluff.

Nooma Rain 001

2005 • 11 min

Things don't always work out the way we want them to, or the way we think they will. Sometimes we don't even see it coming. We get hit with some form of pain out of nowhere leaving us feeling desperate and helpless. That's the way life is. Still, it makes us wonder how God can let these things happen to us. How God can just stand by and watch us suffer. Where is God when it really hurts? Maybe God is actually closer to us than we think. Maybe it's when we're in these situations, where everything seems to be falling apart, that God gets an opportunity to remind us of how much he really loves us.

Steve Morse Band: Live in Baden-Baden

2005 • 60 min

After forming the Dixie Dregs at the University of Miami, Steve won Overall Best Guitarist from Guitar Player/Magazine's Readers Poll five consecutive years in a row (1982-1986) and was then moved to their Gallery of Greats and removed from contention in order to give other guitar players a chance. He has received many Grammy nominations, both for his work with the Dregs and as a solo artist. He has worked with dozens of famous guitarists of various musical genres, and been a member of the Dregs, Kansas, Living Loud, and (of course) Deep Purple. These performances come from 1990, a few years before he joined Deep Purple, when he was touring with the Steve Morse Band, a trio that included bassist extraordinaire Dave LaRue, and drummer Van Romaine. The DVD features two concerts culled from the vaults of the German television program Ohne Filter Show.

David Hockney: The Colors of Music

2005 • 52 min • France, United States of America, Netherlands

This documentary shows a rare and intimate portrait of Hockney's private passion –- designing for the opera stage.

William Powell: A True Gentleman

2005 • 31 min • United States of America

A biography on the life of William Powell narrated by Michael York.

Queens Of The Stone Age: Lullabies To Paralyze

2005 • 47 min

The Way Finds You Someone's In The Wolf Josh's Session

Nooma Flame 002

2005 • 11 min • United States of America

I love those shoes. Really? The same way I love my wife? What's up with the word "love"? It doesn't have much meaning when we use it so loosely. Maybe we don't really get it. Maybe we don't understand what real love is. What it involves to really love somebody. What it means to give yourself to someone else. We mistake things like friendship, commitment, or lust for love, but God wired us a certain way to experience all that love was really meant to be. Not to hold us back or to make us miss out on the best that life has to offer. God created love, and wants us to feel it all in the way it's meant to be felt.