All Films

Cousines

2004 • 32 min

Driss, an Algerian emigrant who has settled down in France, is back to Algiers for his month's holiday. What joy it is to hug his relatives and friends, to get to know Nedjma, his cousin Amrane's promised wife and to rediscover the white beauty of his childhood town ! But, a dramatic news suddenly interferes. A fourteen-year-old girl has just been killed for refusing to wear the "hidjab". A spontaneous demonstration is organized, to which the women of the house decide to go. With one exception though : that of Nedjma banned from going by her future husband.

Tale with an Angel

2004 • 13 min • Russia

A Christmas story about a girl, a teddy bear and her guardian angel.

U2 and 3 songs

2004 • 42 min

A documentary and 5 performances from U2 HQ. Filmed on 9th and 10th June at HQ, Dublin, Ireland.

Hotel Saudade

2004 • 24 min • Brazil, Canada

In the style of a Chris Marker essay film, Hotel Saudade follows Bailey on a journey to Brazil. Prompted by a failed love and a disturbing pursuit of danger, this film critic picks up a camera and goes looking for a picture - a picture of the woman he loved, a picture of an accident, a self-portrait.

Song Remains the Same

2004 • 51 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hamdija Šahinpašić (1914-2003) was one of those rare individuals able to memorize songs in their authentic traditional form. Šahinpašić belonged to a family known for its songs. In the early 1950's, Miodrag A. Vasiljević recorded Šahinpašić singing dozen of songs at the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Belgrade. A 1967 publication finally included 300 of his songs, published bilingually in Bosnian and Russian. Šahinpašić himself become the focus of attention of numerous ethnomusicologists and folklorists and his repertoire was preserved on recording of good quality.

A Tale of Five Balloons

2004 • 49 min • Israel

Fall in love all over again with Miriam Ruth's classic childhood stories, A Tale of Five Balloons, Yael's Home and Hot Corn. With Yaron London, the favorite of children and parents, who goes wild, stars and laughs; the charming Nurit Galeron who sings new and wonderful children's songs; and 30 children who participate with them and play captivating characters.

High Hopes

2004 • 30 min • Zimbabwe, Germany

Zimbabweans and their Diaspora. Family live in Zimbabwe is full of myths and speculations about the loved ones living abroad. But what is really happening to those ones far away from home? A close look at the Zimbabwean Diaspora in Germany and their families and friends at home.

Owl

2004 • 3 min

Owls peer out from shadows, looking uncannily human. A mythology is hinted at without provenance - imaginations are disobedient historians.

Bregman, el siguiente

2004 • 13 min • Uruguay

13-year-old Rafael Bregman prepares for his bar mitzvah in the Jewish community of Montevideo, Uruguay.

Baselitz

2004 • 52 min • Germany

Georg Baselitz (born January 23, 1938) is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern Americans as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective, it is more seen as postmodern. His career was kick-started in the 1960s after police action against one of his paintings, (Die große Nacht im Eimer), because of its provocative, offending sexual nature. Baselitz is one of the world's best-selling living artists. He is a professor at the renowned Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.

Clarkson: Hot Metal

2004 • 60 min • United Kingdom

In "Hot Metal", Jeremy Clarkson tells us how everything is slowing down. But is it the same for today's cars? That means the 200-mile-per-hour Jaguar XJ220 taking on a Pagani Zonda. It means pitting a Mercedes McLaren SLR against a Porsche Carrera GT. And it means lining up a Ford GT with the original GT40. The Aston Martin DB9 is here too, taking on the old V8 Vantage warhorses, and just how much faster is the Mitsubishi Evo 8 compared to the first Evo? And just for the hell of it, a Nissan gets riddled with machine gun fire while taking up the new and dangerous sport of 'clay car shooting'!

Puleng

2004 • 3 min • United Kingdom

On a small Kalahari farm things look bleak. It hasn't rained for ages and the well has run dry and the residents are just about hanging on with what little they have. As the farmers' daughter prepares to gamble on the final few seeds they have left something appears on the horizon which could be the salvation they have been praying for.

Full fart med Mulle Meck

2004 • 60 min • Sweden

How does a boat work? When did you start building boats? When did the first trains come? Mulle Meck talks about all this and much more in the second film about Mulle Meck, for children who want to know a little more.

Det nya livet

2004 • 60 min • Sweden

It has been three years since Tom Alandh made the film "Det svåra livet" about homeless drug addict Pia. This film shows what has happened to her since.

The Other Side of Burka

2004 • 52 min • Iran

The Other Side of Burka is a 2004 Iranian documentary directed by Mehrdad Oskouei. In the southern island of Qeshm, Iran, which is a very strict region in point of tradition and African-Arabic rules, all women are under the pressure of patriarch society. Their sufferance is manifested by different mental (Zar, Possession) and physical diseases which must be only treated by Zar Ceremony. For the first time, despite the danger these women face, this film tells us the sad story of their life and shows their confection in front of the camera. It tries to be an honest mirror which reflects their sufferance and unveils their Burka to reveal their real characters.

The Lunar Pack

2004 • 58 min

Let Mistress Misty (Debbie Rochon) guide you through three tales of the full moon as she follows the stories of different werewolves and how they handle their curse, gift or simple way of life.

Zamboni Man

2004 • 14 min

Zamboni Man is a short story that peers into the lives of two unique and unlikely characters: Walt, a Zamboni driver and Tyler, a young graceful figure skater. The story takes place in the quietness of a vacant ice rink during a late night, after hours, practice session where Tyler rehearses her current skating program. On the evening of our story we witness their improbable and ironic relationship. What these two share by story's end reminds us of the power of imagination and delivers an unexpected message of hope.

Regarding Soon

2004 • 10 min • United States of America

A behind the scenes look, including an interview with Hal Hartley, surrounding his play "Soon," a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas involving the religious sect called the Branch Davidians and their collision with the US Federal Government.

One Step Ahead

2004 • 4 min • United States of America

An office worker tries frantically to outpace his co-workers in this lighting fast dash across the big city. Commissioned for Art of Speed at Nikelab.

Always on a Tuesday

2004 • 28 min • Sweden

Sanna and Moa are best friends. One afternoon a week the two girls are allowed to be home alone instead of going to After-school. It is exciting and of course they have to try everything they normally aren't allowed to do. But after a while the games become more serious and Sanna has a hard time finding a way out.

Ausência

2004 • 8 min • Brazil

Brazilian short film, directed by Julia Murat.

Rotweinrock und Lammfellmantel

2004 • 53 min • Germany

A documentary about Waltraud Koehler - a local institution - and her laundry. For twenty years, day after day, she has run her business in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. Every minute simply shows her devotion for her shop and her customers. But at the age of almost 70 it is time to go.

Great is the Mystery of Godliness

2004 • 12 min • Germany

When an intergalactic space god shows up in the form of a German potato and turns your teeth into drunken, blathering idiots… it’s time to take the chicken and hit the fire escape. That is… unless you really dig having your domicile over run by dirty pots and pans.

A Boy on a Dock Blowing his Nose

2004 • 16 min • Canada

Barry Doupé's lusty A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose features vaguely articulated, quasi-human doodles and Spirographs animated within a bizarre netherworld of its own humid imagination.