All Films

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.

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.