All Films

Dying Living Woman

2005 • 7 min

In the original horror movie The Night of the Living-Dead, a young girl is followed by an army of zombies. In Dying Living Woman, her character has been scratched out, image by image. Physically erased, she is even more visible, glowing with a surnatural light. The fictional character is erased, but her disapearance haunts the film.

Rosita

2005 • 58 min

The plight of a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl, who becomes pregnant as the result of a rape, triggers a battle of whose life has precedence.

Hymn

2005 • 6 min • United Kingdom

An artist realises the very thing causing his creative block is the one thing he wishes to give expression to - a break-up.

Untitled #1

2005 • 4 min • Russia

A young girl’s fiery dance, accidentally caught on 16 mm film in the street. The viewer is confronted by the sacrificial and the passionate, the strong and the fragile, the fleeting and the eternal. These are the faces of femininity.

Un día con Leopoldo María Panero

2005 • 21 min • Spain

After the publication of a CD book with the poems of Leopoldo María Panero, musicians Carlos Ann and Enrique Bunbury travel to the Canary Islands to meet the "cursed poet", who is hospitalized in the psychiatric hospital of Las Palmas.

Before Vanishing

2005 • 13 min • Syrian Arab Republic, France

The Barada, the river around which the city of Damascus was built, is drying up. The film follows his journey through the city, its neighborhoods, its inhabitants, its noises and its smells.

Woman

2005 • 21 min

A coming of age story of two women set in the city slum community beside railroad tracks.

Karma, Hopes and Dreams in the Boulderfields of Nepal

2005 • 48 min • United States of America

The Khumbu region of Nepal, home of the world's biggest mountains and the backdrop for generations of mountain climbers' dreams, is the stage for a whole new generation of visionaries. A dozen individuals, both American and Nepali, some of them among the highest ranked climbers in the world, join forces to explore the possibilities of bouldering in this breathtaking land. Witness the magic that unravels as each of them discovers the landscape, the history, the customs, the people, and of course, the boulders. Featuring Adam Stack, Lizzy Asher, Justin Bourque, and Janet Bergman. A film by Brian Solano and Tim Kemple.

Origem dos Nomes

2005 • 17 min • Brazil

A Kayapó-Xikrin (brazilian indigenous people) origin myth.

In Search of Happiness

2005 • 52 min • Russia

Follows the lives of Boris and Masha Rak, Soviet Jews who in 1934 moved to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

A descoberta da Amazônia pelos turcos encantados

2005 • 54 min • Brazil

An ancient myth from brazilian Amazon.

Deu no Jornal

2005 • 3 min • Brazil

Living Lives

2005 • 6 min

Two adolescents deal with one of the hardest things in high school: being gay. The couple’s strength is tested when their sexuality is exposed to the entire school. One of them is willing to come out, the other wants to deny everything and keep it a secret. The very validity of their relationship hangs in the balance…

Olivier Curchod presents 'The Rules of the Game'

2005 • 28 min • France

An interview with film scholar Olivier Cuchod on Jean Renoir's 1939 film THE RULES OF THE GAME.

Freedom to Marry

2005 • 56 min

This uplifting, poignant, and soul-opening documentary, aired on PBS stations, highlights a momentous, historical milestone when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom engaged in ground-breaking civil disobedience as he allowed same-sex couples to marry at San Francisco City Hall. With rousing speeches from beloved comic Margaret Cho, top marriage equality leaders, and interviews with seven long-term same sex couples, Freedom To Marry brings a joyful, personal face to marriage equality at the height of this burgeoning, world-wide civil rights movement.

Kopflastig

2005 • 5 min • Germany

If you can not see the forest for the trees, life sometimes seems like a postcard.

A Day to Remember

2005 • 13 min • China

With a camera and one simple question, the Chinese filmmaker Liu Wei heads for the University of Beijing and Tiananmen Square. "Do you know what day it is today?" he asks passers-by, mainly students and young people. "June 4th, 2005," most people answer correctly, but many of them already guess where the conversation is leading. This is the 16th anniversary of the student uprising at Tiananmen Square, which was bloodily quashed by the government.

Meeting Me

2005 • 5 min • Germany

A poem about a child's dreamlike fantasies where she meets herself in different shapes.

Recognize and Realize

2005 • 14 min • Sweden

Julia Eriksson is a 25 year old girl who has been working in different service occupations, like most young people. Although she is indeed educated, she can't get a real job in her profession due to the current situation on the job market. When she is once again unemployed after a short deputy job, she decides to attend to her situation herself - she is starting her own business. Whilst not having any real money to begin with, she turns to the government's employment agency to apply for a grant to start her own company, a service available in special circumstances in Sweden.

Please! Have a Seat!

2005 • 9 min • France

Documentary about the furniture design in Jacques Tati's 1958 film MON ONCLE.

Santa's Camels

2005 • 6 min • United States of America

Caught in a raging sandstorm on Christmas Eve, Santa must find a way to bring presents to children of the Middle East. With the help of Camels Akhmed, Moshe, Yosh and Amir, Santa delivers.

Dracenstein

2005 • 6 min • Australia

A mad scientist's life turns pear-shaped after accidentally installing a vampire brain in his monster creation.

NCR: Mass Media Destruction

2005 • 38 min • United States of America

Life in your early 20's is simple. Drive somewhere, skate, eat, drink, and cause general mayhem. The NCR Crew and friends take you on a journey through iconic, local South Bay skate spots.

An Open Window

2005 • 52 min • France, Senegal

Can madness be described? Is it possible to express the pain that it entails? In 1994, when she was about to fall prey to her illness, Khady Sylla met Aminta Ngom, who exhibited her madness freely, without fear of provocation. During her years of suffering, Aminta was her window to the world.