All Films

Poldek

2004 • 12 min • Switzerland

Small dog Poldek lives with a poor old lady in a small one-room apartment. The tenement block is part of a tumbledown grey town out in the nowhere, forgotten by prosperity. The dog is hungry, howles and eats flies that are magically attracted by the old woman. She leaves home every day to seek some eatable stuff. An unsavoury little horrorstory with a lot of action.

The Last Communists

2004 • 25 min • Norway

The film is about the Norwegain Communist Party in Oslo. It portrays the last standing true believers and raises questions like; What makes them tick? Why do they still fight for the Utopian - some would say dystopian - ideas of Lenin and Mao? In short, how is it at all possible to be a Norwegian communist today?

The Cordial Man's End

2004 • 3 min • Brazil

The rebel group SUB v2.7 kidnaps the greatest politician in the state of Bahia and requests the footage,recorded by them, to be shown on the local news of his own TV channel.

Tragic Love for the Cheating Nuska

2004 • 20 min • Ukraine

The story of two boys, best friends, who are both madly in love with a beauty of the village. This love is a big challenge for their friendship. What is more, they can no longer withstand the third competitor. A young man in a military uniform appears (the story is set in the postwar period). He immediately “gets down to business” in the hayloft. The two losers decide to commit suicide and thus punish the treacherous Nuska.

Bibleman: A Fight for Faith

2004 • 51 min

With Miles Peterson enjoying his retirement, Cypher, Biblegirl, and U.N.I.C.E are introduced to their new team member, Josh Carpenter—the new Bibleman! Not to be outdone by a new Bibleman, the Wacky Protestor formulates a plan to not only re-invent himself, but to create a world where there will be no Christians, no churches, no Bibles, and no God!

Birds from the Gods

2004 • 52 min • Papua New Guinea

A Japanese animal photographer, Tadashi Shimada, captures crucial photographs of wild birds in Oceania. This episode of Shimada filmed in high-definition, focuses on the rare and fascinating Birds of Paradise in New Guinea and their beautiful yet humorous courtship behavior. In yellow, red, and hybrid orange, the long-feathered Greater Bird of Paradise and Raggiana Bird of Paradise dance together in the air. The Paradise Riflebird with its distinctive jet-black body and long blue feathers lives deep in the jungle. The program captures splendid images of the Magnificent Bird of Paradise's courtship dance that's never been seen on film before. Shimada's brilliant camera work creates the supreme art of nature..

Jack Nicolson

2004 • 5 min • Japan

Short film directed by Mitsuyuki Ishibashi set to the song Jack Nicholson by Japanese rock band Bloodthirsty Butchers.

Unbroken

2004 • 52 min • Latvia

A documentary about Latvian partisans ("forest brothers") who were fighting against the Soviet occupation long after the end of WWII.

ws.2

2004 • 8 min

Seoungho Cho continues his sophisticated investigation of the moving image, its manipulation through video processing, and the ways in which these technologies can be made to represent the natural world. In ws.2, Cho's precise camera movement and hypnotic post-production techniques deliver an enigmatic tour, not simply of stark landscape and sky, but also of our status as viewers and our relation to what we perceive.

Brass Monkey

2004 • 19 min

On the 23rd August 2004 The Great War Society undertook a charity march in full period uniform to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the opening moves of the Great War 1914-1918 Over the following five days our troops marched from Mons in Belgium to St. Quentin in France in remembrance of the soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force. The march was in honour of the men who fought the famous Fighting Retreat which stemmed the German advance and ultimately turned the tide of the war. Filmed in Super 8 black and white, Brass Monkey is the first documentary by William Hamper

Happy Youth

2004 • 36 min • Slovenia

A documentary short about the Slovenian rock band Srečna mladina (Happy Youth).

To Have and to Hold

2004 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A humorous look at relationships and sex.

El Espino

2004 • 18 min

Born in a lonely wasteland, three characters live together: a man, a lame girl and an old man. An invisible premonition haunts the place and the characters who live in it. The man and the girl decide to leave; one of them stays: the old one. The characters flee to a place without a destination, a place that they themselves do not know what it is. The old man, alone, under those black hills, decides to make a resolution before that place and before himself.

Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place

2004 • 34 min

Laszlo

2004 • 15 min • Mexico

A man refuses to take off his bear suit.

Zombie Xtreme

2004 • 20 min • Spain

The Golem

2004 • 39 min

The story of estranged siblings returning to their childhood home after their father dies to discover a golem living in the family garage will have audiences agreeing -- not since 'Frankenstein' has a monster movie had such pathos and feeling. Ms. Roventini's thoughtful direction and stand-out performances by Victoria Reid Taylor and the rest of the cast help to prove a no-budget monster movie can have heart too!...

The Last Dalek: Making of 'The Evil of the Daleks'

2004 • 10 min

A short film, with commentary, showing the making of 'The Evil of the Daleks' (1967).

The Legend of Lady Godiva

2004 • 13 min • Belarus

Ancient English legend. The early Middle Ages: Lady Godiva was a noblewoman, who according to the legend, took pity on the people of Coventry, who were suffering grievously under her husband's oppressive taxation, and rode naked through the streets of Coventry, in England, in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.

Los sabuesos de Sófocles

2004 • 40 min • Argentina

Adaptation of "Los sabuesos" written by Sófocles in the 5th century B.C.

Ballerinaliv

2004 • 60 min

Gerd Andersson and Ellen Rasch are both prima ballerinas who now look back on their rich dance lives and their collaborations with various choreographers.

Nun Fight Club

2004 • 3 min

Nuns have underground clubs too!

Anaesthetics

2004 • 22 min • Turkey

A veiled character struggles to see reality.

Images of Daily Life in Slovenia's Past

2004 • 13 min • Slovenia

A short documentary film that gives an insight in the formation and early development of the heritage elements of Slovenia. At the same time, it is a condensed presentation of Slovenian ancestors’ lifestyle from their settlement in the sixth century to early modern times.