All Films

The Three Teas in Algeria

2004 • 27 min • France

Thierry Damilano and his team of Tuareg guides will take you on a trek in the Algerian Sahara, to discover the local culture with a mandatory visit to the hermitage of Father de Foucauld facing Assekrem, then climbing the legendary peaks of the Hoggar massif.

Fliehendes Land

2004 • 47 min • Germany

Odd People Out

2004 • 54 min

"Odd People Out" tracks the process of marginalization and the repression of homosexuals during the first two decades of the Cuban revolution through the biography of the writer Reinaldo Arenas—as told by himself and other intellectuals and artists who shared his life and suffered the repression of a regime that named them “extravagant.” For many years none of them existed; they were considered non-people. Filmed clandestinely in Cuba in 2003, "Odd People Out" was never exhibited on the island.

The Very Best Of British Steam Today

2004 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Although British Railways retired the last of its steam fleet in 1968 interest in steam engines has continued to grow. Hardly surprising really as the country that invented the steam engine has always had a love affair with this most human of all machines. Without the efforts of Britain's many heritage steam lines, the opportunity for families to savour the nostalgic atmosphere of a steam railway would have been lost many years ago.

Asesino Discreto

2004 • 3 min • Mexico

A surreal crime has been committed in the streets of México.

A Family

2004 • 28 min • Sweden

Balkan 1992. Ariana is in her parents' home country to sing on a peace gala. She brings her Swedish husband and nine-year-old daughter. But the war breaks out.

The Grassland

2004 • 21 min

Pema's graduation film made for Beijing Film Academy, Set in rural Tibet ; it is a timeless allegory of an old nomadic couple searching for a stolen yak.

One Minute Past Midnight

2004 • 11 min • United Kingdom

In 2058, two apathetic friends run the night shift in a 24-hour convenience store. Robert likes the Japanese girl who works the day shift, but in spite of encouraging signs from her, he won't - or can't - act. Instead, Robert and Steve discuss their views on life. Winner of Gold Hugo for best short film at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival.

The Garden of Delights

2004 • 4 min

The male and female protagonists are like the physical incarnations of Adam and Eve in Bosch’s masterpiece "The Garden of Pleasure". The film has become a living record of life and death.

She Came to Win

2004 • 60 min • Netherlands

Documentary about an unusual music project by vocalist Frédérique Spigt. For two weeks, a mobile recording studio is isolated in a historic house. Together with her musicians, singer Spigt meets a Dutch artist each day with whom she has a profound encounter and argues about singing a duet they wrote together.

Britney Spears: Innocent Beauty

2004 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Britney Spears is the subject of in-depth analysis by a panel of experts who've studied the singer's music and achievements throughout the years. This wide-ranging documentary includes film footage of Britney, plus candid photos and revealing interviews with family, neighborhood friends and acquaintances. This disc, which aims to illuminate, is a definite (and welcome) departure from the usual loop of music videos and banal TV-show outtakes.

On the Loose

2004 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A broken love affair, a lost wallet, a distraught young woman, a curious streetwise child. Two worlds are brought together by chance.

Restoring a Legend: Gone with the Wind

2004 • 17 min • United States of America

DVD featurette on the restoration of Gone with the Wind (1939).

Zumba Beginners

2004 • 18 min

Zumba for Beginners will show you step-by-step how to perform all the Zumba moves. You will learn the exclusive and fun Latin dance steps that Beto has put together to create an exhilarating aerobic workout. You will easily be able to follow Beto's instructions and moves, and you will be Zumba-ing like a pro in no time!

Tropic of Cancer

2004 • 54 min • Mexico

In San Luis Potosi, Mexico, residents survive by hunting animals and selling them on the freeway.

Pilala

2004 • 15 min • Greece

During the hot summer of 2004--the year of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens--somewhere in a small Cretan village, Andipas, a spirited twelve-year-old boy, dreams of becoming a runner. However, without a coach on his side and no real training routine, the determined boy has no other choice but to turn the whole village into his running track. Now, even the smallest of errands are a reason for a battle against the clock--but, when everything goes wrong all at once on the big day of the 200m final--a frenzied race against Andipas' friends, the villagers, and ultimately, the clock, will be on. But, will he make it in time to watch the event on TV?

Julia

2004 • 13 min • Czech Republic, Sweden

11-year old Julia is sent to her grandfather, against her will. The stay in the countryside soon turns into something far from expected.

Loretta Lynn: In Concert

2004 • 50 min • United States of America

In 2004, Loretta Lynn underwent a critical reappraisal after producing an album with hip young guitar slinger Jack White (from The White Stripes). In the same year, this concert from the 1970s was re-released, offering a glimpse of Lynn's talents as a young up-and-coming country singer. Sixteen tracks are performed, including heartbreaking epics such as "I Fall to Pieces," "Let Your Love Flow," "Coal Miner's Daughter" and many others.

Escarnio

2004 • 25 min • Spain

Porcelain

2004 • 6 min • United States of America

A gay Filipino man goes home with a non-Asian man that he meets at a club. When he finds a chinaman figurine and other Asian knickknacks he's confronted with the issue of how race affects desire.

Seda: People of the Marsh

2004 • 52 min • Latvia

In Seda, a remote peat miners' town in Latvia, time seems to be frozen in the Soviet era. Built in 1952 and inhabited by a multi-ethnic workforce from different parts of the former USSR, it still preserves intact the inflated style of a Stalinist "shock work" construction project. Culturally Seda's people feel like a community apart. Their lingua franca is Russian, and their social life is a mixture of Soviet and Russian Orthodox traditions. They don't want the European Union, they want to live in their own state - the Marshland.

34 Taxi “On Duty in İstanbul”

2004 • 53 min

Video-documentary about Istanbul taxi drivers. Traffic reveals the character of the big city, reflects the behavior patterns. For many people it is part of the boring routine, but for others it is a way of life. 34 Taxi is a video-documentary work that tells Istanbul from the point of view of taxi drivers. The film, shot mostly during the journeys, is based on the conversations of taxi drivers with their customers.

Brother 2 Brother

2004 • 40 min • Canada

A documentary that follows Corey Lucas, a 21-year-old African Canadian, as he tries to reconcile his urge to be a hustler with his need to be a responsible father and a supportive partner. Life in Jellybean Square, a housing project in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, was a world away from the things Corey grew up wanting: a fancy car, a big house, a great job and a bright future. With a head full of dreams and empty pockets he turned to selling drugs on the street. Central to the film is the transformative power of a weekend retreat for young Black males, organized by BROS (Brothers Reaching Out Society) together with the film's director, Russell Wyse. At the heart of the film lies Wyse's conviction that despite all the odds against them young Black men can succeed if they have the will, the opportunity, and the support of a community. -NFB

Formigas

2004 • 19 min

Two young women go to live in a boarding-house, and in their room there's a box with bones of a dwarf, which belonged to the former tenant. Each night, thousands of ants come to move the bones to their natural position.