All Films

Marco

2005 • 5 min • Italy

Midnight Massacre: The Donnelly Murders

2005 • 60 min • Canada

February 3rd, 1880. Lucan, Ontario. On a brutally cold night, a horrific plot is about to be executed. Using darkness to conceal their movements, a secret society made up of locals converges on the Donnelly homestead. Many are disguised to conceal their identities.

Stars! Stars! Stars!

2005 • 10 min • United States of America

In this lively story, children take a colorful ride through outer space to visit distant planets and dazzling stars.

The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe

2005 • 15 min • United Kingdom

In an impressionistic rush that combines patina-marked images of shoes made by hand with the attributes of a genre film, Rivers returns to a favorite topic: objects as the bearers of their history. Shots of the cobbler at work highlight the handcrafting process, yet entirely without indicating the need for perfection. In general, purposefulness and the absence of fantasy are unlike Rivers. Ambiguity is thus waiting in the wings, in this case references to genre movies, exemplified in part by image distortion reminiscent of an old horror movie.

Don't Throw Anything Away

2005 • 7 min • Greece

Greed & ecological destruction is the issue here. A toxic substance creates a bottomless hole that is used for waste disposal. Seemingly it is capable of absorbing the whole world's junk but with a significant cost. The 3rd film with The Hole's main character, the hermit.

62 Years and 6500 Miles Between

2005 • 52 min • Taiwan, United States of America

Amidst the political upheavals of a nation and the world, the filmmaker navigates cultural, geographical and linguistic distances in search of wisdom and hope from her 100 year-old Taiwanese activist grandmother (Ama).

Traumata

2005 • 2 min

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Zagor - A Chief without Tribe

2005 • 43 min • Serbia and Montenegro

The story of Zagor-Te-Ney, hero of the Darkwood forest, which is on this occasion situated on the slopes of Fruška gora and other wooded areas of Vojvodina, where this low-budget amateur film was made by a comics/film enthusiasts led by Svetozar Ljubojevic from Novi Sad.

Kiera's 4 Days in Gucha

2005 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Kiera Chaplin visits famous Serbian trumpet festival.

Choripán

2005 • 7 min • Chile

Choripán is a dog that yearns for freedom, manages to escape from his home and runs away from his master. In another place, outside the city, a cow is sold. His chicken friend tries to avoid being taken away and chases her until he reaches the city where he loses track of her. Donato is now alone in a dizzying city, and a girl insists on adopting him as a pet. Choripán and Donato finally find themselves in the same situation, on the run. Donato decides to protect Choripán from the dangers that the place holds, including a gang of children who like to torture animals.

Visitors

2005 • 51 min

A mockumentary parodying the subject of aliens and UFOs. The first segment begins during the American Civil War and how a confederate infantry stumbles upon a crashed UFO. Other encounters take place in Britain during WWI and America today.

Midnight

2005 • 12 min

A story about a lonely man who is visited by a raven. He tries to find answers about his long lost love, Lenore.

Songbirds

2005 • 58 min

The film tells the story of the charming, ninety-three year old lady Gudny, who is staying in the nursing home of Hrafnista in Hafnarfjördur, Iceland. She tells tales of her pet rat from her home region in eastern Iceland, paints, sings in the choir, plans to stage a theatrical sketch and play the leading role. We also meet Sigurdur Olafsson, who claims to be in Paradise, and Klara Tryggvason, who gets her visits in mail and by phone; most of her children are living abroad. We visit Leifur Eiriksson, who changes making his bed into a ritual of physical exercise. Gudny has only learnt the Lord's Prayer and the Bible Stories, but she knows how to tell a good story and radiates the wisdom of the ages. "Why can't we talks about death?", she says. "My grandchildren ask: Grandma, are you sure you'll be with God?" "Yes, quite sure".

Caprice

2005 • 7 min • Armenia, Ukraine

The kid is trying to avoid going to the kindergarten, because at home, as he thinks, it is a lot more fun and enjoyable with the beloved cat. His parents and grandmother have to catch the boy and run after him, tearing him off the curtains and dressing the careless child. But they will still deliver him to the garden, and it is still more interesting there than at home.

Orinoco, South's Best

2005 • 24 min

The Greatest Places south of the Orinoco, the Delta, bizarre or extravagant unique, birds, the Guiana Shield, aged over 1.5 billion years has created outstanding tabletop mountains, thousands of rivers and cascades, among which is ANGEL FALLS.

Clean Water, Common Ground

2005 • 17 min • United States of America

A penetrating look at Hawaii’s struggles to address water quality issues in “paradise,” Clean Water, Common Ground contends that the responsibility of maintaining good conservation practice is upon each one of us. We must recognize the dramatic role water has in shaping our environment, and how it affects different species of animals and fish in the ocean. If we address the chief threats to our environment and determine the measures needed to tackle those threats head-on, we may be able to preserve both water and land for many generations to come. But we must act now.

Intrusion

2005 • 8 min • Kazakhstan

How an intruder turns to violence when meeting curiosity.

Tormis' Sledge of Song

2005 • 58 min • Estonia

This is not a biographical film about Veljo Tormis. This film does not browse through old photo albums, nor does it tell stories about the exciting events in the composer’s life. Tormis is sitting in his summer cottage, enjoying the silence around him. He says that he put a full stop to writing music five years ago. He does not create any music any more. Instead of facing his piano he is solving crossword puzzles.

Requiem

2005 • 60 min

As the principal of St Cecilia's Academy gathers his most beautiful students for a violin lesson, he is unaware that the innocent Yukina is about to use the Kannone, the demonic violin that possesses its victims to inflict unspeakable torments.

hesheit

2005 • 38 min • Thailand

Wookey Exposed

2005 • 56 min

Beneath the Mendip Hills of Southern England lies a cave system that has challenged explorers since the earliest times. Wookey Hole witnessed the birth of cave diving back in the 1930s. Filmed and produced by Garry Newman this award winning film looks at the spectacular discoveries made by successive generations of explorers.

The Wall

2005 • 6 min • Serbia and Montenegro

Walls in the city painted with murals and graffiti.

Five More Minutes

2005 • 17 min

five more minutes is an exploration of grief. Two women spend an afternoon recreating lost time. What begins as play-acting breaks open into a world where the tenderness and sorrow of having to say goodbye exist untempered.

Stupid DOG-DANCE Movie

2005 • 1 min

A plastic pink dog tries to dance... The animation is crap but the music rocks!!!