All Films

The Curse of the Medallion

2004 • 38 min • Sweden

A medallion whose curse consists of unspoken evil, falls into the hands of a young man. What follows is a way towards anger, unsustainable tantrums and bloody murders.

A Tree in Tanjung Malim

2004 • 24 min • Malaysia

A woman on the brink of adulthood has a conversation with a world-weary older man during the course of one night.

Gray Matter

2004 • 59 min • United States of America, Canada

In the spring of 2002, filmmaker Joe Berlinger traveled to Vienna to witness the burial of the preserved brains of over 700 children killed at a Nazi "euthanasia" clinic. GRAY MATTER chronicles the filmmaker's personal journey as he searches for Dr. Heinrich Gross -- known as the "Austrian Dr. Mengele" -- who allegedly participated in these killings. Along the way Berlinger meets survivors of the clinic, as well as other remarkable individuals, who are confronting a nation that has only begun to grapple with its denial of this horrific legacy.

The Comet

2004 • 29 min • Sweden

Stockholm 1965. A comet is heading towards earth. A man with a super-8 camera documents the city and its inhabitants the days before the end of the world.

Fata Morgana

2004 • 57 min • Finland, Russia

Story about life and death according to Chukchi people who live in Chukchi Peninsula as far in the East as one can go.

Costa Rica is Pura Vida

2004 • 6 min • Costa Rica

On a night like any other, a homeless person listens to a presidential speech offering housing to those who need it. The next day he wakes up in a strange and radiant city. During the afternoon, a builder raises the facade of his long-awaited house. Only the facade.

Once Upon a Time in Franketown

2004 • 29 min • Sweden

Tony is a gambler who loses everything he owns to an evil gangster. He makes one last bet and tries to win it all back. But he makes a bad call and loses his soul. Now he has 24 hours to give the gangster some money. Or he will become his slave forever.

MxPx - B-Movie

2004 • 47 min • United States of America

This rare behind-the-scenes DVD was demanded by and made just for the fans and includes an intimate look at what drives MxPx to make the music that we've been growing up with for the last 12 years. An exciting combination of live concert footage, candid interviews, and everyday behind-the-scenes material, "B Movie" will give you a fascinating insider's glimpse of MxPx. ​Watch as MxPx blows the roof off the Graceland in Seattle, WA. Shot in High Definition as well as DV. "B Movie" takes you through a "day in the life" and tracks the band-mates as they prepare for the show, rock the show and deal with hilarious mishaps along the way. From Bremerton to the streets of Tokyo and beyond, MxPx takes you around the world and back into the studio for a first hand look at the recording of the A/C EP and much, much more.

Ike And Tina Turner - Legends in Concert - Live at the Big TNT Show

2004 • 56 min • United States of America

This video provides you with just under an hour of Live performance footage from the dynamic duo Ike and Tina Turner. There is footage from : ABC entertainment presents 'Now Lets Go with Ike and Tina Turner'. Songs include 'Shake', 'A Fool in Love' and 'It's Gonna Work Out Fine'; and the infamous variety show - The Ed Sullivan Show.

Long live the children

2004 • 25 min • Latvia

A group of boys go on their daily adventures while also facing many dangerous situations.

Bekle Yolu

2004 • 11 min • Turkey

Busy İstiklal Street is considered by many as a place where one belongs. But no one has a fixed place in its flow of people. The visitors’ relation to this street is based on seeing but not quite exploring. Bekle Yolu is interested in the difference between the relation to the street of passers-by, and of four people who have fixed places along the street. While making this comparison, it asks how these people perceive each other.

sound / phantasma / mirror

2004 • 6 min • Japan

A short amateur movie by Kojiro Shishido. Winner at the 10th annual Student CG Contest held in 2005. It shows great sensitivity towards the delicate gradations of light and shadow in the natural world, with a matching delicate soundtrack by Shishido himself.

Free Fall

2004 • 22 min • Serbia and Montenegro

Nikola is getting ready to parachute jump from an airplane. During the jump he falls into a state near death and lives through a series of dream-like sequences in which he recapitulates his life.

Året var 1954

2004 • 57 min • Sweden

1954 - this is the year when Marilyn Monroe wave to the American soldiers in Korea. In Sweden, a black hurricane takes the forest with it and the cargo boat Nedjan goes down with seventeen men. The sooty glasses emerge when the sun is completely eclipsed. And there is competition to look like Audrey Hepburn. Radiotjänst broadcasts television and the author Stig Dagerman dies.

A Funny Thing Happened at the Quick Mart

2004 • 10 min • United States of America

Taking place at a quick mart, something happens and it is funny!

El lugar donde se juntan los polos

2004 • 54 min • Belgium, Ecuador, France

Juan, the film director, is Ecuadorian, his partner, Francisca, is Cuban. They live in Paris where their two children were born, just like Juan 30 years earlier. By switching back and forward from past to present, between the history of a family across 3 generations and that of a whole continent, the film director considers the issue of political commitment and the heritage left to the next generation in the form of a letter from a father to his children.

Village Lessons

2004 • 27 min

There was a split between men and women in the village. Led by the village teachers, the women turned to religion. And then the Finns came... the film is a cross-section of village life in all its diversity. School, students, Aborigines and missionaries, teacher… Their idea of religion and of themselves is a kind of everyday lessons of modern life.

Peaceful Life

2004 • 45 min • Russia, Switzerland

The dramatic story of two Chechens, father and son, living in a remote northern village. During the Chechen war, the Sultan's wife was killed, his house was destroyed. Now he and his son Apti are trying to build a new peaceful life. They are completely disconnected from their usual environment and are forced to work hard without any hope of getting used to a strange and extremely unattractive world for them.

20 Years with the Dolphins

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

An in depth look at the undersea life of dolphins

Unexpected Tours: The Making of Tokyo Godfathers

2004 • 26 min

Stereomongrel

2004 • 12 min • United States of America

Stereomongrel is a twelve minute experimental film which explores the effects of two disparate worlds colliding. Witnessed through the eyes of a gifted twelve year old girl, high and low culture clash in the neutral battle field of a museum. Filmed in Super 35 mm, Stereomongrel style can be described as "hyper, supra, and marvelous real," through the use of 3-D animation, stop-motion animation, and highly choreographed tableaux or set pieces. Genres that are blended and tweaked by this uniquely hybridized film include psychological/supernatural thrillers, Italian horror movies from the 70s and 80s, and the unattainable ideals - both physical and economic - found in hip-hop music videos and fashion magazines.

A Carne é Fraca

2004 • 54 min • Brazil

Alguma vez você já pensou na trajetória de um bife antes de chegar ao seu prato? Nós pesquisamos isso para você e contamos neste documentário aquilo que não é divulgado. Saiba os impactos que esse ato - de comer carne representa para a sua saúde, para os animais e para o planeta. Com depoimentos dos jornalistas Washington Novaes e Dagomir Marquezi, entre outros.

The Alpha-Bots Christmas

2004 • 28 min • United States of America

One Christmas Eve, Santa announces that he's also going to give out twenty-six unique electronic toys! But the toys themselves can't wait until Christmas for the fun to begin - is staying up all night a good idea before such a big, special day?

Farewell

2004 • 27 min • Armenia, Russia

An evocative, impressionistic drama of love and loss.