All Films

A Água, a Mulher e o Regador

2005 • 6 min • Brazil

Experimental short, focusing on both a woman and a watering can sharing the same swimming pool.

Harsh Beauty

2005 • 53 min

For centuries, Eunuchs have been an important part of Indian society. But the elevated role they once held has now faded. Today they live in isolated communities, working as prostitutes and beggars. Life may be hard but inside the community, there's a real sense of warmth and camaraderie. 'Harsh Beauty' follows the lives of Jyothi, Usha and Hira Bai, three Eunuchs who struggle for acceptance in a culture splintered by religion, caste and politics. Filmed over four years and accompanied by a vibrant soundtrack, it's a warm and poignant look inside this usually hidden group.

Sen - The Lost Light

2005 • 19 min • Germany

When Nadine wakes up, her daughter is missing...

Time to Duel

2005 • 46 min

Adaptation of the hit TV cartoon Yugioh. Yugi and his friends learn to help each other out as they go up against tough duelists. Seto Kaiba challenges Yugi to a duel. Who will win in the end?

Scissorman

2005 • 5 min • Latvia

Little children have a bad habit of sucking their thumbs, so in the old days mothers used to frighten them with the Scissorman - a tailor who will cut-off fingers with a big pair of scissors. This film is about the Scissorman.

How Happy Can You Be?

2005 • 52 min • Norway

How happy can you be? is an attempt to make the practical manual – “Your guide to happiness” by using a modern, scientific approach: science, practical empirical attempts to measure happiness.

Culture is Destiny

2005 • 26 min • Russia

What is culture? Does the culture of its roots in ancient traditions? What role do geographical features of a country play in the history of its culture?

Mr. Fernando Has No Mail

2005 • 5 min • Brazil

Narnia & Beyond: Chronicles of C.S. Lewis

2005 • 56 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis is a 20th Century Classic. But the man behind the magical world of Narnia is the key to an even greater true story. This DVD opens the real wardrobe door to reveal the true life of Clive Staples Lewis, better known throughout his life as "Jack". Retrace his footsteps from his childhood home in Northern Ireland to Oxford, where C.S. Lewis lived the quiet life of a University Professor. Understand the hidden imagination behind Aslan the lion, Mr & Mrs Beaver, Susan & Edmund and the White Witch! C.S. Lewis' most famous work inspired the Hollywood Movie industry - in his own story there is tragedy, joy, love, war, faith and peace.

Bear Snores On

2005 • 9 min • United States of America

In a cave in the woods,all winter long, Bear sleeps in his cozy lair. Surprise guests stop by to warm up, brew tea and pop corn while Bear snores on.Cheerful rhymes will charm children as they wait for Bear's BIG reaction.

Small Ali

2005 • 8 min • Philippines

Absurdist short comedy in the best camp and gore tradition. Little Ali has the handicap as a boxer that he keeps crying continually and heartrendingly. As a result, he keeps losing his bouts with the lightweight boxing champion Mad Cow. One day he sees an advertisement by the Klinika Lakrima, where they can operate to remove his tear ducts. Sensitivity is not the right word to describe this operation.

Stutt kvikmynd án titils

2005 • 13 min • Iceland

Bling Bling: Bling-A-Long

2005 • 60 min

Bling Bling, the crack cocaine–addicted star of the infamous "Bumfights" series of films, invites viewers to join him on a bizarre journey into the drama of his life, from outrageous dreamlike sequences to attempts at scoring some rock. Along the way, Bling tangles with the cops, gets jiggy with mannequins and has his manhood pierced. It's a wild ride into the colorful existence of an urban cult icon.

Las hormigas asesinas

2005 • 20 min • Chile

Paul Kazan can't sleep. He wanders through empty streets. Why is the city of Santiago empty. At night, Kazan is a DJ at the 'Insomnia' disco, one of the few places where there are people. Something is happening. Something weird. There are rumors. Rumors of killer ants and epidemics ...

Gary Gulman: Boyish Man

2005 • 59 min • United States of America

Boyish Man captures the veteran stand-up performing a set full of his observational comedy. He jokes on such mundane topics as food, the differences between men and women, and religious holidays.

La Châtelaine de Banareath

2005 • 51 min • Cambodia

Romance movie, inspired by the French novel "La Châtelaine du Liban"

Bill Burr: One Night Stand

2005 • 28 min • United States of America

Well-traveled comedian and 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' regular Bill Burr steps into the spotlight in this stand-up special.

A Message from Fallujah

2005 • 15 min • Australia

Daniel Crane is an American civilian engineer working to rebuild war torn Iraq who is kidnapped on his last day in Fallujah. Beaten and alone he is hostage caught up in the drama of war.

Prince Loseno

2005 • 29 min • Belgium, Congo, France

This short film utilizes intricate clay animation to tell of King Ngolo, who is without a male heir. Jealousies among his three wives and with his first love — now the court witch doctor — thwart birth of a successor. Finally blessed with a male heir, the king dies during the Prince's coronation; "Birth and death are twins in the destiny of man," concludes the narrator-griot.

Hansel and Gretel

2005 • 16 min

The classic story of a woodcutter's two lost children, who find a house in the forest made of sweets and candy that belongs to a hungry witch.

24 Realities per Second

2005 • 58 min • Austria

A portrait of a dedicated filmmaker who is a charming yet elusive figure in thrall to cinema and the constant perfection of his craft.

Judi: A Series of Memories

2005 • 8 min

The provocative portrayal of a sugar addicted diabetic. Through the mind of her daughter/caretaker we see and experience the disturbing elements of their relationship to each other and the disease.

Aufstellung

2005 • 17 min • Germany

The diagrams used to help represent consumer shopping baskets, the pensions deficit or migration are anachronistic, Farocki posits; Whether pictographs or simple bar or pie charts, their abstractions all display an impotence of information. "Examples of diagrams gleaned from newspapers, school text books and official publications are [...] the history of migration in the Federal Republic of Germany. What we are seeking, therefore, is a conceptual critique of the ways in which migration is presented, pursuing the icons and symbols back to their origins and examining them with regard to content they themselves are unaware of." -HF

Acqua Natasa

2005 • 5 min

A looping video installation depicting the life cycle of a woman (model Nataša Vojnović) scored by Mirwais Ahmadzaï.