All Films

The Sky Is Falling: Making 'The War of the Worlds'

2005 • 30 min • United States of America

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the 1953 sci-fi classic "The War of the Worlds". Included are interviews with some of the cast and crew and unreleased footage from the film itself.

La belle dame sans merci

2005 • 15 min • Japan, United States of America

1819. A shipwreck-survivor, the Navigator, encounters an Old Knight who recounts his tale: Long ago, the Knight fell in love with a mysterious Lady. But in a dream he saw her true form and begged his release. Awoken and alone, he realized his failure. Thus he has waited, kept alive for centuries by his regret. Based on the John Keats poem of the same name.

Looking for Alfred

2005 • 10 min • Belgium, United Kingdom

Obsessed with de/reconstructing our corrupted visions of media, celebrity and appearance, Johan Grimonprez assembled a bewildering gaggle of Hitchcock lookalikes, staggering in girth and exacting in attitude, in a quest to find the most accurate specimen.

Red Mudh

2005 • 30 min • Belgium

The son (Julien) returns to his father (Arié), who offers him rabbit for dinner, but the son only wants honey. The father goes to get some from the hive but gets stuck inside. Fairy tale or pastiche, it all ends badly. With the murder of the father. Then a hunter arrives who tries to restore some order and ends up praising chocolate. A play by Claude Schmitz, premiered at the Épongerie in 2006.

Closework

2005 • 8 min • Norway

In a bed at a treatment centre, a severely disabled boy lies. Nobody understands him. Everybody has given him up, except for one person. A warm film about the fact that solutions are not always the solution.

Sista bussen

2005 • 26 min • Sweden

In Henrik's world problems do not exist. It's a world so well organized that he even gives lectures about it. One day, after holding a lecture in a small town, Henrik misses the last bus home. It now becomes impossible to deny the existence of his problems. As if that wasn't enough, the following morning he is supposed to meet his Internet date for the first time. —Erik Lundin

The Massie Affair

2005 • 55 min • United States of America

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five nonwhite islanders. What unfolded in the following days and weeks was a racially-charged murder case that would make headlines across the nation, enrage Hawai'i's native population, and galvanize the island's law enforcers and the nation's social elite.

Darts Players' Wives

2005 • 46 min • United Kingdom

These women are the unsung heroes of the sport. They keep the show on the road and their men at the oche! They always give 180%, without them the players would be lost and darts would be... just another game.

The Youth In Us

2005 • 12 min

A young couple confronts a painful future by looking to the past.

Jona / Tomberry

2005 • 12 min • Netherlands

Borges meets Murnau in a spinning nightmare. And the baby sings: “No, not be scared old bird, to awake and see I am dreaming you”.

Pisces

2005 • 13 min • United States of America

Explores the family dynamic between an introspective teenage girl and her single mother

Outback Christmas

2005 • 45 min • Australia

Everyone is celebrating their invitation to the Koala Brothers' homestead for Christmas when bad news arrives: Penny the penguin is stuck at the South Pole and won't be able to join them! Frank and Buster embark on their longest and most perilous journey ever to fetch Penny and to give her the best Christmas present ever!

White Heat: Top of the World

2005 • 16 min • United States of America

An examination of "White Heat" (1949) by film historians and critics.

Hermie & Friends: Buzby, the Misbehaving Bee

2005 • 41 min • United States of America

In this animated adventure, Buzby the misbehaving bee is kicked out of the hive for his troublemaking and now he has made the garden his new home. His behavior is no less bothersome there, however, and when Buzby neglects to follow the Garden Golden Rules, it comes time for him to learn about why it is best to follow God's rules about kindness.

Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

Crewdson is observed and questioned closely during his work on ten new images in as many different sets.

Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction

2005 • 36 min • United Kingdom

With a writing career spanning 6 decades, this special documentary looks at Terrance Dicks' work for books and television, with contributions from many of his friends and colleagues. Featuring contributions from Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts, Christopher Barry, Louis Marks, Eric Saward, Paul Cornell, Peter Darvill-Evans and Brenda Gardner.

Waiting for Movement

2005 • 10 min • United Kingdom

As a young couple discuss the idea of giving up smoking, the sounds of a neighboring argument spill into their flat. The argument makes them question their own marriage, while doing nothing about the neighboring situation. Meanwhile, a young teenager argues with his mother as he tries to sneak out to a party with friends. His mother blackmails him into staying home, using his guilt against him.

Coach Carter The Man Behind the Movie

2005 • 19 min

The real life counter parts of the 1999 Richmond basketball team that were portrayed in the 2005 film of the same name. Discuss what there coach means to them.

Who?

2005 • 16 min • India

Suggestions of ancient and modern myths and folklore coalesce in dreams to bring alive a colourful animated world.

Eine Nacht in Wilhelmsburg

2005 • 20 min

Martin has a crush on Murat, but doesn't know whether he's gay, too. But Murat invited him over for dinner. Martin's buddy Christopher however is convinced, that Murat is a gay-basher as Murat lives in the worst part of Hamburg. To calm down his friend Martin promises to call him at 10 pm. A mistake as he soon finds out..

Pass Over

2005 • 22 min

The skeletons of three murdered victims are found. Detective Kang (Bang Moon Su,Seducing Mr. Perfect) gets fired from his job when he questions his superiors' decision to close the case as suicide. He decides to carry on the investigation on his own.

I Remember You Now...

2005 • 15 min • United States of America

At a high school reunion, the class geek turns a chance encounter with the class slut into an opportunity to finally get to know her and open her up in more ways than one.

Scary True Stories: Night 2

2005 • 60 min • Japan

3rd installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

The Macabre Sarcophagus

2005 • 53 min • Brazil

A CIA agent discovers a document about a Brazilian crazy scientist that transformed dead Nazis, including Adolf Hitler, into mummies.