All Films

A Butcher and a Stepmother

2005 • 60 min • Japan

Shizuka, a university lecturer with a dazzling Lucia of the Heisei era who has grown from a girl to an adult, was married to Shinichi and living a happy life. However, except for the lack of sex, Shizuka was frustrated deep down. One day, on the way home from university, she casually looked into the window of a meat processing shop and saw a man and a woman having sex inside. The woman was pushed up by a strong man and moaned like an animal. It was the owner of the butcher shop and his wife. When Shizuka returned home, her desire was ignited and she sought Shinichi, but she also came in an instant. A few days later, unable to forget the scene, Shizuka went to the butcher shop and said timidly that she wanted to buy some meat. The owner of the butcher shop saw through her true feelings and invited Shizuka inside...

Kamen Rider Hibiki: Asumu Transform! You can be an Oni, too!!

2005 • 15 min • Japan

Asumu Adachi imagines if he could be like Kamen Rider Hibiki, and are approached by talking Disc Animals who teach him how to be like Hibiki, eventually allowing Asumu to transform into Kamen Rider Armed Hibiki.

The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish

2005 • 16 min • Ireland

A silent love story about an inventor who loses and then wins his love from a villainous cad.

Go! Anpanman: Princess Black-Snow and Popular Baikinman

2005 • 21 min • Japan

Baikinman is snatched by a black cloud inhabited by a princess who loves black, Kuroyuki-hime (Black Snow). She is immediately thrilled with him and starts making trouble with him, turning everything black. However, both Dokin-chan and Anpanman are determined to stop her.

Salitre

2005 • 12 min • Portugal

A short time has passed. Both arrived to a point of no return, a break is the only way out. One of them has to take the first step. This morning both decide to leave, definitely, without the other realizing it. The house remains empty.

Beautiful Awakening

2005 • 59 min • Japan

A strange man with saran wrap wrapped his whole body in wrap and played with him with a vibrator. A man who is a vegetable fanatic thrusts a bitter melon into him. A man who is a seafood enthusiast shoves shrimp into his mouth... Right now, he's facing his true self for the first time." At that moment, the man remembered that he had been in a traffic accident...

Crazy Watto

2005 • 2 min • United States of America

A commercial for Watto's Junkyard, the best used vehicle dealership in the galaxy.

Hentai taii: Iyarashii seikatsu

2005 • 60 min • Japan

Pillowtalk

2005 • 9 min • Canada

When two halves of a young couple can't get to sleep one night, a petty argument starts over nothing. As their frustration grows and the fight escalates, it becomes clear that what they aren't telling each other is what's really bothering them.

The Outsider

2005 • 54 min

Nicholas Jarecki follows director James Toback on the 12-day shoot of his thriller, When Will I Be Loved -- a movie made without a script or distribution deal.

The Prince of Tennis: A Gift from Atobe

2005 • 29 min • Japan

Hyōtei Gakuen's strange (but impossibly wealthy) captain Atobe Keigo decides to throw a giant party for his friend and teammate Kabaji. He invites both friends and rivals. Together they participate in many different sports and events: dancing, swimming, soccer, a relay race, a haunted house, and more.

Like a Beast... Almost

2005 • 35 min • United States of America

Director Umberto Lenzi, writer Ernesto Gastaldi and stars Ray Lovelock & Gino Santercole discuss the making of Lenzi's Almost Human.

Signs of the Times

2005 • 30 min • United States of America

Jesus uses the parables of the King’s Wedding Feast and the Thief in the Night to teach His disciples to have to repent and to be prepared for the day He comes again. Jesus teaches His disciples to patiently watch for the signs of His Second Coming. You’ll see how the disciples misunderstood the meaning of His parables. Even with these insights, will we also misunderstand the signs of His coming today?

Rockman.EXE: The Program of Light and Darkness

2005 • 50 min • Japan

The Dematerialization Phenomenon, in which the real world becomes digital, has become a problem and must be resolved immediately. After hearing of this incident, Netto and Rockman left off after their father and Network Researcher, Yuuichirou. He also had found news of an invasion in the computer of the Trinity Brain trust company: 'The Earth itself will understand the way things stand in the cyber world'. In order to destroy the program causing the incident, Netto and Rockman have to go deep underground. But old enemies await them there, as well as new ones. As they fought each other, the vicious cyber-life, Nebula Grey, awakens. The Dematerialization Phenomenon will not be stopped unless Nebula Grey is defeated.

Pitch Perfect

2005 • 10 min

Bob and Ellis are screenwriters with integrity, talent and the willingness to do absolutely anything to sell their movie. Over four frustrating meetings with film executives, they desperately rethink their pitch, ready to go to any lengths to make that elusive sale. But how far is too far?

Mumbo Jumbo

2005 • 10 min • United Kingdom

In a misguided attempt to do something for the war on terror, self-styled suburban warriors Gool, Rube and Simmo are ready to carry out their first operation, but things don't go quite as they planned.

Zarin

2005 • 20 min • United States of America

The story of a young woman who has been working as a prostitute since childhood. The film traces her slow disintegration into psychic delirium. Wracked by both guilt for her actions and a strong desire for salvation, her madness manifests itself in her perception of the world around her. Chronicling the course of her breakdown with imagery that is both graphic and beautiful, Neshat evokes the torment of one so tortured by her subjugated role in society that she feels completely powerless. As the men Zarin encounters appear without faces, horror, shame, and guilt overwhelm her. Viewing this as her punishment from God, she flees the brothel for a bathhouse. Scrubbing her skin raw and bloody, she attempts to make amends with her past; however, she descends deeper in madness as she strives for redemption.

The Prince of Tennis: Two Samurais, The First Game

2005 • 60 min • Japan

The regular players from Seigaku participates in an exhibition game aboard a cruise ship. However, they discover that the event is being run by a corrupt millionaire heavily involved in illegal gambling and betting, who demands that they lose the match on purpose. To add to the confusion, one of the players on the rival team introduces himself as Ryoma's brother.

Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: The Wish

2005 • 50 min • Japan

A lonely schoolboy discovers a block of wood carved into the shape of a human head. Seeking companionship he and the puppet-doll become best playmates. Soon things begin to change and the situation goes from innocent to downright sinister.

First Round

2005 • 13 min • United States of America, Canada

The Punisher kills his way up the ladder of organized crime in NYC. He is relentless in his hunt for the Kingpin but before he can complete his revenge, one man stands in the Punisher's way, Wolverine. Straight from the comics. It's the ultimate Battle royal. Skull vs. Claws! Only one will walk away!

Mr. Incredible and Pals

2005 • 4 min • United States of America

An animated short film produced by Pixar included as a bonus on the DVD edition of the 2004 feature film "The Incredibles."

Making Demons

2005 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Jack Kine and Bernard Wilkie talk about making special effects for Quatermass, taken from The Lime Grove Story (1991)

Tältprojektet 2004

2005 • 46 min • Sweden

A recording of the comedy and music tour from 2004 mixed with interviews with the writers Robert Gustafsson and Johan Rheborg.

Basilisk Stare

2005 • 13 min • Australia

A film about obsession, sexuality, devotion and paranoia.