All Films

When A Woman Sings

2004 • 53 min

A documentary about the singing movement in Egypt, and on the role of the song in the social and political conflict, as it shows the lives of Umm Kulthum and Munira al-Mahdiyya and their impact on the women's liberation movement and on the field of singing in the Arab world

Une vie en l'air

2004 • 45 min • France

Far away, in space, on a planet named Titan, few space workers are thinking about the earth.

Sheikhates Blues

2004 • 52 min • Morocco

The female Moroccan musicians known as sheikhates sing about the realities of life – about the land, nature, wars, mountains, crises and, of course, they sing about love.

The Last Day of WWI: 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour

2004 • 45 min • United States of America

The Last Day of WWI: 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour

Love & Numbers

2004 • 8 min

A Two Spirited woman surrounded by spy signals and psychiatric walls attempts to make sense of love, global paranoia, and her place in the history of colonialism. Spliced in between her monologues are the binary codes of all the psychiatric drugs she has taken.

Tonight

2004 • 4 min • Ireland

Artist Declan Clarke reflects on the changing relationship with his brother.

The Lost Reels

2004 • 33 min • Iran

The story of documentaries shot by Ibrahim Khan the photographer that was prepared for Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar. and how to restore and revive the reels by Dr. Shahriar Adl in France.

Money

2004 • 6 min • Iceland

This film tells the story of a young man who finds a wallet outside his home. This wallet gives him a strange feeling he seldom feels, if felt anytime at all. He doesn't want to steal this wallet but deep inside is something that tells him to do it. And he does. Later on he is plagued with so much guilt that he decides to try and make up for this terrible mistake he feels he has done. But that's where the trouble first begins.

Los fusiladitos

2004 • 57 min • Argentina

It is a documentary about the executions of José León Suárez, but it is also the story of the problems and questions that arise for the Director during filming.

Butterflies of Life

2004 • 38 min • Brazil

A film that exposes the reality of young homosexuals who live in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, suffer the effects of poverty and misery, but do not lose their identity, dignity and creativity. They are homosexuals, transformers, butterflies of Brazilian real life.... They experience the possibilities and the limits of gender and sexuality, face discrimination with their heads held high, with courage, and determination... They fight for the right to be different and demand, in many ways, that their difference be respected.

Uggla - Ett litet monster

2004 • 30 min • Sweden

Follows Magnus Uggla behind the scenes as he works on and prepares his 2004 stage show "Best in Show"

Living Dreams

2004 • 14 min • United States of America

Mary searches for forgiveness from her family after being partially responsible for the death of her younger sister. As she attempts to reconnect with her mother in particular, she uses dreams as her escape from the pain. But the more and more Mary goes to her dream world, the harder she finds it to stay in the real one.

Legend of the White Boar

2004 • 60 min

In the well-known "Sanatorium for the treatment of childhood obesity" - on the banks of the Danube, Ilko, Emil and Yaroslav are again together with the rest of the kids, subjected to starvation and salad diets by the head doctor Stoyanov, the nurse Denitsa and the gym teacher Ponchev. In the difficult moments, the old fisherman Bai Angel gives food and support to the little braves.

Yo quiero aprender

2004 • 1 min • Uruguay

A girl sees other kids running with backbacks on their backs, leaving behind numbers and letters, and she decides to follow them.

The Ark of the Covenant Revealed

2004 • 49 min

According to the Bible, The Ark of the Covenant was a box that housed the two tablets of stone inscribed with the Ten Commandments. Over the centuries it has remained an object of great mystery, inspiring infinite questions. But can modern science shed new light on what the Ark really was?

When Hockey Came to Belfast

2004 • 50 min

This documentary tells the moving story of Northern Irish teenage hockey players Andrew and Paul, best friends in a city divided by religion. In Belfast, hockey is bringing Northern Irish youth together in a shared love of the game, providing a respite from the Protestant-Catholic turf warfare that pervades their lives. Set against the backdrop of a post-conflict society, the film provides an intimate glimpse into the realities of life in Belfast—the 12-metre-high walls that divide Catholic and Protestant, the precautions Andrew and Paul must take to be friends, and the safety they find on the rink at Dundonald.

Habana Holiday

2004 • 6 min • Cuba

A man takes his DV cam into the demi-monde of male hustlers in Havana and ends up answering some pointed questions.

Backyards

2004 • 37 min • Russia

The heroes of the film "Backyard" pensioners Nikolai Nikolaevich Churin, Valentina Fedorovna Pikova and the Shatkov family live in the Vyatka hinterland, and each in their own way confront the circumstances in which they found themselves by the will of fate and history.

El señor de los pájaros

2004 • 15 min • Argentina

Based on a Guarani legend. A strange presence lurks in the mountains of the Argentine coast.

Hablonger Bazarey

2004 • 54 min • Bangladesh

Shirin Rani has lots of lovers, one-sided lovers. They find out that she's getting married to a rich person's son who has a seasonal mental issue. However, she makes an elaborate plan to elope with her true lover.

Minnie Monkey Magical Music

2004 • 29 min • United States of America

Meet Minnie as she sings her way into your heart with this lovely collection of children's songs. Each whimsical tune with actions will have your child enthralled.

The Battle of Algiers: A Case Study

2004 • 25 min

Christopher Isham discusses Gillo Pontecorvo's 'The Battle of Algiers' with Richard A. Clarke, former USA national coordinator for security and counterterrorism, and Michael A. Sheehan, former USA State Department coordinator for counterterrorism.

Marco Cavallo

2004 • 25 min • Italy

From a psychiatric hospital, the true story that changed the way of being of theater and care.

Banliyö - Banlieue

2004 • 30 min • France, Italy

One country, two worlds. Montereau, suburb of Paris: in the lower part a normal urban centre; in the "upper city", on the hills, are the homes of Turkish immigrants, a population poised between two identities and cultures...