All Films

The Big Fall

2005 • 5 min • Lebanon

It's dark. It's raining. The streets are empty. A hit man is on his way to Basin Street. Nothing will go as expected.

Venus Flytrap

2005 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Doctor Mordred wants to replace humans with plants. A misanthrope, he lures Dr. Falicia Fairweather into Venus' trap. Represented by six incarnations, she wrestles with Mordred. Are they different versions of one another? We follow their battle via images of light, air, dance, horror, water, fire, tarot cards, masks and swords. Supervised by a Master of Ceremonies, each gender makes 'love'. Who will win? Can you wait till the end to find out? Starring: Jonathan Bowden, Lisa Garner, Nicola Henry, Jane Robinson, Katie Willow, Nicole Wiseman, and Claudia Minne Boyle. Directed by Andrea Lioy. Produced by Jonathan Bowden. Screenplay by Jonathan Bowden & Andrea Lioy. Based upon the short story by Jonathan Bowden.

Cherry

2005 • 13 min

Meet Whipper. Cherry describes a short, but pivotal episode in the life of Whipper, a 16 year old growing up in the North East of England in the early 90's. We encounter Whipper at a difficult age - socially awkward and saddled with the seemingly impossible task of losing his virginity to his 15 year old girlfriend, Alison. This issue gnaws at him daily until he hears his mate Steve brag about his sexual encounter with an older girl called Liz. Whipper is instantly convinced that this girl is the answer to his long-standing problem. When his chance comes, though, he is led into a hilarious and utterly cruel final denouement that sees him learn some lessons about love and sex.

Querelle. The Murder of Joachim or What Fassbinder Didn't Film

2005 • 18 min

Based on a scene from Jean Genet's novel "Querelle".

Maid In America

2005 • 58 min • United States of America

Three years in the making, this documentary takes an intimate and emotional look into the lives of three Latinas who work as nannies and housekeepers in Los Angeles, three of the nearly 100,000 domestic workers living in that city today.

Liberty Avenue

2005 • 37 min • Taiwan

A Vingança da Bibliotecária

2005 • 5 min • Brazil

A librarian's strategies for silencing noisy readers are shown with horror and comedy. The setting and suspense guarantee the entertainment value of this horror short film full of frightening images.

The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten By Absolutely Everyone (Even the Postman)

2005 • 8 min

Peixe Podre

2005 • 20 min • Brazil

A fish caught in the lake in the Perocão region, in Garapari, Espírito Santo, contaminates the people who eat it, turning them into zombies thirsty for human flesh.

The Man Who Got Nowhere

2005 • 3 min • Sweden

A man that no one knows is walking in the park without getting anywhere. When the winter arrives and he dies the local government arranges a big fair in the park. The people are happy and buy things.

Det var en gång en skog...

2005 • 43 min • Sweden

On January 8, 2005, the storm Gudrun pulled over southern Sweden and large parts of the Småland forest blew down. How do you cope when your food disappears overnight? Anders and Lisbeth Ericsson, who run a smaller farm, were hit hard by the storm. 70% of their 250 ha were blown down. This put them in a difficult economic and emotional crisis. They realize that it is important to find new solutions in order to live on now that the conditions have changed so completely. Johan Forsman and his father Jan have a large farm with 1500 ha of forest. For them, it is not just a financial loss, the extensive work to take care of the broken forest feels endless. It is difficult to get enough people to work. Some of the assistance is taken from other parts of the world, including Finnish forest workers. The problem is that the Finns only speak Finnish, and a little Russian…

Becky

2005 • 1 min • India

Follows a young handicapped girl who is tired of the pity she gets because of being in a wheelchair and yearns for equal inclusion in the society.

Gravel In Her Gut and Spit In Her Eye

2005 • 27 min • United States of America

Dorothy Johnson was a Western writer ahead of her time. Women saved men, heroes died unwept and unsung, whites lived with Indians and benefited from the experience. Three of her stories were made into films and many critics consider "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" to be the cornerstone of the modern western. This documentary looks back on Dorothy's life, and her place in history.

Figurants

2005 • 10 min • Latvia

A decoy is an assistant to a dog trainer whose task is to be both a provocateur and a victim. Dogs and their owners have different attitudes towards the decoy's task.

Wired to Win

2005 • 40 min

Cyclists in the Tour de France demonstrate the ability of the human brain to overcome physical and mental adversity and achieve goals.

The Little Things

2005 • 12 min • New Zealand

Fourteen-year-old George has to find her own way to celebrate her birthday when everyone else forgets it.

Who Buried Paul McCartney?

2005 • 25 min • Netherlands

In the late sixties the news about the death of Paul McCartney swept the world. But did Paul really die? This documentary explores the true story behind the Paul-is-dead mystery.

Felony Fights 4: Down and Dirty

2005 • 48 min

CHICK FIGHTS, 2 ON 2 FIGHTS, GIRL VS. GUY, All the Eye Gouging, Throat Choking, Head Lumping, Vicious Knockouts You have come to expect from Felony Fights!!! WITNESS THE BLOODIEST CHICK FIGHT, CRAZIEST WEAPON SCENE & THE MOST BRUTAL RUMBLE EVER RECORDED ON TAPE!

OyBaby 2

2005 • 42 min

Jewish babies and kids will love this all-new collection of 15 fun and familiar Hebrew songs. If you’re a fan of the first OyBaby, you’ll be happy to know that the Schneiderman Sisters return on lead vocals. They’re joined by an all-star lineup of additional musicians, including Craig Taubman and Rick Recht. OyBaby 2 is a visual treat as well, designed to appeal to children up to 5 years old. The DVD is a colorful medley of Judaica, toys, puppets, nature, and children. Between songs, short interlude scenes teach Hebrew letters, numbers, and vocabulary and show the joy of giving tzedakah. The music is a captivating journey of familiar songs for both babies and any nearby adults to enjoy. With popular Jewish favorites such as Shalom Rav, Modeh Ani, and Hallelujah, this is one baby video parents won’t mind watching again and again.

Years of Solitude

2005 • 12 min • Macedonia

In the mountains of Macedonia, a couple lives peacefully together. They are in love and expecting their first child. The tranquility of their live is shattered when a jeep comes to their household to take the father to fight for the country…

3 3ast 3 3urious

2005 • 1 min

An animated parody of the first two F&F movies made in 2005, before Tokyo Drift.

Under The Sun

2005 • 23 min • United Arab Emirates

Follow a Muslim boy through the first day of Ramadan, where he attempts to reconcile the puzzling issues in the world today.

Second Breath

2005 • 11 min • Germany, United States of America

Second Breath presents a portrait of Berlin’s long and intractable history through Holly Zausner’s dramaturgy. Inspired by her time living and working in the city in the 1990s, Zausner created a series of three outsized figures made from rubber silicon and knitted material. This film features Zausner interacting with these figures in a sequence filmed at key landmarks in the city, including the Potsdamer Platz, Neue Nationalgalerie, Spree River, and the now-demolished Palast der Republik. In every scene, we see the heft of the figures counteracting her manoeuvres of them, turning the idea of the body as a metaphor for the weight of history from abstraction to physical reality.

Invisible Left

2005 • 45 min • Uruguay

During the 2004 electoral campaign, before the left came to power for the first time ever in the history of Uruguay, a film crew sets out to record the opinions of young people who are going to vote for the left, and to find out what they think about politics, militant action, the left wing parties and citizen participation. Under the impact of today's global economic slowdown and political crisis, stereotypes of militant action have changed since May 1968 and the utopian thought of the 1970s, and in this documentary some of these new forms of political thought find expression.