All Films

The Magician

2005 • 13 min • Iceland

The Magician is a strong and personal story, about how one‘s imagination can help make unbearable situation bearable.

Shepperton Babylon

2005 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A sardonic look at the dark secrets of the British Film Industry of the 1920s and 30s, where scandal and sordid behaviour was almost as rife as in Hollywood.

Leila Khaled Hijacker

2005 • 58 min • Sweden

Leila Khaled was the first woman to hijack a plane. In 1969, she showed her grenades to the terrified passengers by order of the Che Guevara commando unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Through the ensuing media bombardment, she put the Palestinian nation on the global map. The pretty 24-year-old Leila became a hero to many Palestinians, including the Swedish/Palestinian teenager Lina Makboul, who is now a filmmaker. At least Leila dared to do something, Lina thought at the time. She visits Leila 35 years later with a camera, and finds a woman who does not regret anything.

Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery

2005 • 53 min • France

Studio Ghibli is Japan's most successful animation studio, with helmers Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away," "My Neighbor Totoro") and Isao Takahata ("Grave of The Fireflies," "The Tale of Princess Kaguya") creating a bonanza for producer/prexy Toshio Suzuki. Generously adorned with clips from their films and their influences, the docu follows Ghibli's arc from a mid-'60s rebellion against working conditions at Toei Co. to its present powerhouse position, complete with public fun park. All interviews are illuminating, but Miyazaki is teasingly confined to pic's tete-a-tete finale with esteemed French comic artist Jean "Moebius" Giraud. Meeting of the wizened European, whose imprint is on films from "Blade Runner" to "The Fifth Element," and the apparently relaxed Nipponese helmer makes an interesting contrast, and will be of special interest to Francophiles. All credits are impeccable

Raydon

2005 • 12 min

After an inspection, a couple finds out their new home may have come with an unintended addition.

Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

"PERFECT UPSET" is a 2005 sports documentary about the Villanova Wildcats' shocking win against the heavily favored Georgetown Hoyas in the 1985 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.

A View from a Hill

2005 • 39 min • United Kingdom

On holiday, a young man borrows a pair of binoculars when his own are broken. But they seem somehow bewitched, showing things that could only be seen with dead men's eyes... visions from the past. And using them could lead to a sinister rendezvous on Gallow's Hill.

Art, Truth and Politics

2005 • 46 min

Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and unable to travel to Stockholm to deliver it in person.

Happy End

2005 • 30 min • Germany

The Endless Summer

2005 • 2 min • United States of America

SpongeBob goes to work one day to find Mr. Krabs taking advantage of Global Warming.

A Touch of Greatness

2005 • 58 min

In an era when Dick, Jane, and discipline ruled America's schools, Albert Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade public school classroom. Through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play, Cullum championed an unorthodox educational philosophy that spoke directly to his students' needs. Many of Cullum's projects were recorded on film by then novice filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. Weaving stunning black and white footage and rare archival television broadcasts together with interviews of Cullum and his former students, this is a portrait of a maverick teacher who transformed a generation of young people by enabling them to discover their own inner greatness.

The IF Thing

2005 • 10 min • Australia

With 4 weeks and a budget of $5,000, IF Media approached filmmaker Nash Edgerton and Blue-Tongue Films to produce video insert material for the 2005 Lexus Inside Film Awards. Edgerton agreed. But wanted the $5,000 in cash.

Haze

2005 • 49 min • Japan, South Korea

A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he's there, or why he's bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally 'zones out' of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.

D.L. Hughley: Shocked & Appalled

2005 • 42 min • United States of America

Highly outspoken comic D.L. Hughley takes on race, politics, marriage, and the whole "Soul Plane" thing.

Inheritance

2005 • 9 min • United States of America

In an impassioned message from the grave, one concentration camp Liberator forces us to remember the horror humanity is capable of. Utilizing actual photos from the Buchenwald concentration camp, and a soulful performance by Harrison Young, Inheritance is a gut-wrenching experience that not only informs, but puts the burden of defending humanity squarely on the viewer.

Means to an End

2005 • 13 min • United States of America

When two horror-crazed effects artists are blacklisted for using REAL effects, they shoot and star in their own film. Bloodied and beaten, they find the one executive willing to distribute the movie. But there's one condition... They must find a climax that KILLS.

Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation

2005 • 37 min • United States of America

On the road documentary with Prince and the New Power Generation during their 2004 Musicology tour from the west coast Los Angeles' House of Blues to the east coast's Madison Square Garden in New York City with press stops along the way and behind the scenes concert footage.

Alex, Vampire Slayer

2005 • 24 min • Canada

Alex, Vampire Slayer is the world's sole defender against vampires, werewolves, and other forces of darkness. Unfortunately for Alex, none of these things actually exist. Nevertheless, he's got a job to do, and there's no way he's going to let reason, logic, or sanity get in his way.

Flickpingis

2005 • 10 min • Sweden

When Johan is dumped by his girlfriend, he does not know what to feel. He takes help from his loved ones, which may not always be the smartest thing to do.

Positioner

2005 • 44 min • Serbia and Montenegro

A comedy with a romantic twist set in Belgrade in the 1930s. In an idyllic pre-holiday atmosphere, one intrigue, one love and one engagement are spiced up and resolved.

The Happy Elf

2005 • 45 min • United States of America

The Happy Elf is a 3D-animated family holiday special & centres on the lovable character Eubie the Elf, whose quest is to bring Christmas joy to an entire town of naughty children in a gloomy little town called Bluesville. Based on Grammy-winner Harry Connick, Jr.’s original song, The Happy Elf.

Digging Up the Dead: The Lost Films of George A. Romero

2005 • 16 min • United States of America

An interview of George A. Romero discussing his two "lost" films, There's Always Vanilla and Season of the Witch.

Oval x Over

2005 • 9 min • Japan

A promotional video for the Indy Racing League Bridgestone Indy Japan 3000.

The Owls and the Orchard

2005 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A devoted pair of little owls set up home in an old orchard in rural Herefordshire. From spring blossom to autumn apples, a year in the life of the parent birds, their baby owls and the old fruit trees.