All Films

Incident On and Off a Mountain Road

2005 • 51 min • United States of America

While driving at night on a mountain road, Ellen gets distracted and hits an abandoned car. When she tries to get help, she is attacked by a backwoods killer and must fight to stay alive.

Monster

2005 • 10 min • Australia

A mother battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the closet, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

Needle Anus

2005 • 7 min • United States of America

A man facing his untimely death returns home.

Michael Powell

2005 • 28 min • United Kingdom

The first episode of a new arts documentary program from BBC Scotland was dedicated to Michael Powell in his centenary year. The program interviews many people who knew or worked with him or were influenced by his work.

Spiral

2005 • 5 min • United States of America

My Air Raid Shelter

2005 • 45 min • Japan

The fourth film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa".

Latch Key

2005 • 11 min • United States of America

Mom's out shopping and the gay boy is smooching with his buddy downstairs while his brother's upstairs with his girlfriend! When the cat is away, the mice will play.

Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes

2005 • 36 min • France

More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening scene to the end, visiting its Paris locales, placing her aged actors in the same spots, telling stories, and listening to others' reflections on the making of the film. She and they talk about making a film on a low budget, its showing at Cannes, and trying to fix a problem in the last shot. Her assistant directors discuss casting, costumes, sets, and the ways the film changed their approaches to filmmaking.

The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'

2005 • 26 min • United Kingdom

In August 1995 Blur and Oasis were engaged in a head-to-head chart battle which divided music fans and led to a wider argument about British pop music. John Harris, journalist and author of The Last Party - the definitive study of the entwinement of music and politics in the 1990s - presents a documentary charting the rise of Britpop, its brief romance with New Labour and the emergence of 'new lad' culture. Finally, as Britpop declines, he asks what legacy it has left. Including contributions from Blur's Graham Coxon, Elastica's Justine Frischmann, Sleeper's Louise Wener, former New Labour insider Darren Kalynuk, and the founder of Creation records, Alan McGee.

Embraced by a Horse and the Sea Breeze

2005 • 60 min • Japan

18 year old Yukio breaks up with his boyfriend in order to work at a horse farm and take care of an injured racehorse.

The Leading Lady

2005 • 29 min • Finland

Maria is an actress, someone who is used to playing with and acting on feelings, her own as well as others’. However, behind the role there is a disappointed person who does not feel she has achieved what she wanted in life. All this changes when she is cast for the leading role in a play.

A Halfway House Christmas

2005 • 51 min • United States of America

When the counselor of a halfway house, Daryl, agrees to let cameras film the residents for reality television, he soon realizes the show's "do anything for ratings" producer has some tricks up his sleeve.

The Scent of Formaldehyde

2005 • 22 min • Serbia and Montenegro

A drunk wanders the streets of a nameless Serbian city, interacting with various weirdos he comes across.

Dani and Alice

2005 • 11 min • Canada, United States of America

Dani and Alice are coming to the end of a tumultuous relationship. As they prepare to leave their favourite girl bar, the ramifications of Alice's actions earlier in the night are brought up in a heated conversation behind the wheel of Dani’s car, with tragic end results. Winner, Best Drama, Planet Out International Film Festival

Ish

2005 • 9 min

With a little encouragement from his sister, Ramon discovers that creativity is about a lot more than getting things just "right."

Le rouge au sol

2005 • 16 min • Canada

A man who has hit rock bottom shares his feelings with his mother on a trip to IKEA.

The True Story of Sawney Beane

2005 • 11 min • Canada, United Kingdom

In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest toil. Forty years on, Mr. Beane croaks his dying wish to Betty, his wife. "Go and find our lost son." And so Betty strikes off on her quest across the land, with the family savings in a hankie and a secret suspicion in her heart.

Rosa

2005 • 22 min • France

Rosa darling, it's nothing against you, but you see, the two of us don't work much. So we're going to find you a wonderful lady who will take care of you. It's going to go well, you'll see.

Lonely Child

2005 • 50 min • Canada

William is constantly shooting video journals of his life to have as souvenirs for himself. Feeling the end of his relationship with Médéric, his young lover, William spends two days camping with him, taking advantage of the situation by filming the trip and their time spent with another young gay couple. The camera never stops shooting, even when Médéric decides to get it on with another guy in a tent. As Canada's first Dogme95 film, the story is shot on location, with natural lighting and live sound, the camera is hand-held and all superficial elements are forbidden. Yet somehow, in spite of these harsh restrictions during the filmmaking process, the result is warm and beautiful.

Invasion of the Space Lobsters

2005 • 7 min • Canada

When an advanced race of giant lobsters from outer space land on Earth, no one can figure out why they've come. A complete failure to communicate on both ends leads to panic and pandemonium. Why are they here? What do they want? In this clever throwback to the ‘50s B-movie, a small neighbourhood learns the value of clear communication.

Dilemma

2005 • 8 min • Netherlands

Just before a truck hits a ten-year-old boy everything comes to a standstill. A man who is witnessing the accident is the only one who can move in the frozen world and he discovers a way to save the life of the child. But in his attempt to alter the boy's fate he has to face a cruel dilemma...

Lesbian in mourning Clothes, shameful Mother and Widow

2005 • 59 min • Japan

Rie, a housewife, spends lonely days without her husband taking care of her. One day, a middle-aged woman, Mitsuko, visits Rie's house to sell mourning clothes. Rie tries to refuse, but after being forced to try it on by Mitsuko, Mitsuko says, "You haven't been with your husband recently, have you?"

Monkeylove

2005 • 9 min

In the evocative landscape of wintry Hokkaido, Monkeyboy (a young man in a monkey suit) searches for his stolen heart – but even the serene beauty of a mountain cannot redeem the failed connection.

Anna II

2005 • 10 min • Netherlands

Not a single word is spoken in the mini-drama Anna II. The sounds and glances produced by the leading character, the cow Anna II, are telling enough. Her mooing and smacking minutely convey her displeasure with her farmer's budding conjugal bliss. When, on the morning after the wedding night, he enters the cowshed but does not pay enough attention to his prize cow yet, Anna II has had it. The cow's sultry gaze registers how the bride brings the farmer a cup of coffee.