All Films

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.

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'!