All Films

Dear Santa

2005 • 42 min

Dear Santa is based on a selection of the most compelling letters the U.S. Postal Service receives from children asking for Santa's help. Their dramatic and heartwarming stories will be told as their holiday dreams are fulfilled.

Ivor Cutler: Looking For Truth With a Pin

2005 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An affectionate tribute to the Glasgow-born Cutler who has been Britain's best kept secret with his mix of poetry, music, painting and comedy.

Sur les traces de Mélanie

2005 • 12 min • France

Rachid learned of Mélanie's accidental death. He decides to follow in his footsteps by taking his friend's last walk again. That day, Mélanie had met her sister Madeleine, for a last face-to-face meeting. What happened? What will Rachid discover?

Keep the Secret in the Memory

2005 • 18 min • South Korea

A couple gets a phone call while they are on their way to the train station to go on a trip. Cheol-min hears from her friend that his girlfriend had previously lived with her friend. Hearing this, Cheol-min is worried and does not want to go on a trip. He is very excited by the feeling of betrayal that he cannot trust this woman.

Desire Management

2005 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Desire Management is a film by Noam Toran comprising five sequences in which objects are used as vehicles for dissident behaviour. In the film, the domestic space is defined as the last private frontier, a place where bespoke appliances provide unorthodox experiences for alienated people: An airline hostess with a unique relationship to turbulence, the owner of a mysterious box which men ritually visit to look inside, an elderly man who enjoys being vacuumed, a couple who engage in baseball driven fantasies, a man who is forced by his partner to cry into a strange device.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

2005 • 52 min • France, Italy

This documentary delivers a moving portrait of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The narrative of the life of this Jesuit and scientist of international reputation is read as an adventure novel.

D77

2005 • 11 min • France, Monaco

A deserted secondary road under a blazing sun. A 50 year-old peasant driving a very dirty pick-up truck. The discovery of four corpses along the road.

Becoming Alexander

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Colin Farrell and his intensive preparation to play Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's epic movie.

The Man Who Predicted 9/11

2005 • 43 min

After the planes hit on 9/11, Morgan Stanley security chief Rick Rescorla put into effect plans that he had developed years before. Rick had seen the potential for an airborne suicide attack on the twin towers as part of evaluating the risk posed to his wards within their building. After the attack in 1993 Rick took it personally to prepare and avoid the chaotic scenes that came with the 93 attack. This documentary tells the story of the man who predicted the 9/11 attacks and saved thousands of lives and died in the process.

Viva Les Amis

2005 • 49 min • United States of America

Viva Les Amis looks at one local café as an example of a national trend: The loss of the mom and pop shop. The film explores the 27 year history of Les Amis Café – a sidewalk café that served almost three decades of eclectic customers and staff. Through the eyes of Newman Stribling, once manager of Les Amis Café, now cab driver, the film delves into the long history of Les Amis, and reveals the present: Les Amis Café replaced by a Starbucks.

School Master - an Inch from Black

2005 • 21 min • Sweden

Schoolmaster Hoffmann on his way far down in the basement to the Janitors office to get coal for his chilly classroom, hears no warning signals. Gorm, the janitor, manipulates the gullible Hoffmann into signing a contract with a dark context.

Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

Abbey is seen a rare 1991 performance at the Promenade Theater in New York. She is at once beautiful, insightful and at the top of her musical gifts. The appearance represents the beginning of a great comeback that has since established her as a legendary jazz vocalist and composer.

À l'époque...

2005 • 8 min • France

There must have been very few Germans who sought refuge in France after the Liberation. My father was one of them. His nightmare was that someone would find out his nationality.

A Good Time for Tragedy

2005 • 57 min

A documentary dealing with the life of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, an Iranian Poet.

The Dark Side of Porn: Porn Shutdown

2005 • 48 min • United Kingdom

In 2004, The San Fernando Valley porno industry came to a virtual standstill after it was revealed that popular performer Darren James became infected with HIV during a porno shoot in Brazil.

Peter and the Wolf

2005 • 34 min • Italy

Prokofiev's famous musical fairy tale starring Lucio Dalla as director and performer. A stage staging that holds quite a few surprises with textual variants by Lorenzo Arruga and an actualization that will not fail to bring a smile to the faces of young and old alike with the announcement of the news on the news of the wolf escaping here from the Giardini Margherita in Bologna.

Bluebeard's Granddaughter

2005 • 48 min • Italy

Baldo is an enterprising young man looking for fortune. He responds to the mysterious Lucrezia's marriage announcement and decides to go to her town to meet her. Here Baldo meets a series of less than reassuring people who try to dissuade him from meeting Lucrezia about whom various suspicions hover.

Mikuri Han Theater Raw Squeezing Super DX

2005 • 60 min • Japan

Earthshaker is the ultimate weapon developed by the international conspiracy organization Skunk Gang. It is an invasion weapon that causes a huge earthquake throughout Japan, but it looks exactly like a vibrator. Akebi, an Okuhida kunoichi, succeeds in stealing the Earthshaker, but drops it during his escape.

Nanoilusão

2005 • 18 min • Brazil

He observes his reality with astonishment. She multiplies herself in images. An admirable event happens.

Colpi di testa

2005 • 26 min • Italy

Rome, 1968. A football passionate PE teacher formed the first woman team. Thirty eight years later, these women players remember with proud and a tinge of nostalgia how they stood up against all prejudices at a time when a woman wearing shorts was absolutely outrageous.

Farm Force in Send in the Clones

2005 • 5 min • United States of America

A superhero team made up of a fish, chicken and pig must save Tilly the sheep and the farm from the evil of Mujo the Mad Cow.

Little Boy Blues

2005 • 22 min • United States of America

A lonely and shy Michael succumbs to Zeno, a handsome and younger stranger in a gay bar.

Gotham Cafe

2005 • 14 min • United States of America

With divorce on the horizon, a couple are about to find out that a lunch meeting with the wife's attorney is about to get very gruesome.

Ghosts on the Underground

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

More than one billion people use the London Underground annually, yet few of them know just how haunted the tube really is. This hair-raising documentary investigates the supernatural secrets of the oldest underground network in the world, exploring the graves, church crypts and plague pits that tube tunnels have disrupted.