All Films

Styx

2004 • 23 min • Germany

Long-term partners Marc and Adrien live a seemingly perfect existence close to Lake Constance. Only whilst Marc is content to spend his days working for the local ferry service, Adrien yearns for the bright lights of Berlin and the clubs in which he hopes to realize his dream of becoming a musician. Yet life has a way of turning out not as you expect and here events culminate on a lengthy ferry crossing, one that sees Marc soon to spot Adrien onboard, complete with a one-way ticket and a car packed full of his belongings. Suffice to say that the stage is set for a traumatic farewell.

LSD a Go Go

2004 • 10 min • United States of America

An army officer jumped to his death from an apartment on the tenth floor in Manhattan early in the morning of 19 November 1953. Not long before, he had taken part in LSD experiments with the CIA. This film describes this CIA programme, for instance using educational drug-scare films and other archive material.

Lo Llevo en la Sangre

2004 • 19 min • Argentina

Mario is a fanatical fan of Chacarita, a soccer club of which his grandfather was a founding member. Your greatest desire is about to be fulfilled. His son Lucas is going to make his debut for the club against its eternal rival, Atlanta. But first, Lucas must undergo AFAF: "Analysis of the Football Adhesion Factor."

Solo de guitarra

2004 • 55 min • Argentina

The life and music of Walter Malosetti, one of the most important guitar and jazz exponents in Argentina.

The Quiet One

2004 • 32 min

The Japanese 18-year old Kiyoshi has been living in the kitchen of his parental home for 2 years. His parents cannot seem to get through to him anymore and they are ashamed of him. To the outside world they pretend that he studies abroad. The only person Kiyoshi communicates to is his little sister. On the internet he has contact with youngsters who have all retreated from society and family life. It is with them that he talks about the things that occupy him most, such as drumming, sex, computer games, films, life and death. When Kiyoshi frightens the dinner guests the family is pushed into crisis.

The Silent Exodus

2004 • 58 min

They were more than a million Jews. Between 1946 and 1974, this million is the number of forgotten fugitives, expelled from the Arab world, and whom history would like to forget, while the victims themselves have hidden their fate under a veil of modesty.

Pissed on the Job

2004 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Experimental dramadoc about high-functioning alcoholics and problem drinking in the workplace. Based on the testimony of real people, with actors playing out their stories and the whole film mimicking the texture of a witty and gritty observational documentary.

Misty Mundae: From Skin to Scream

2004 • 17 min

Documentary short covering the early career of actress Misty Mundae.

A Belated Premiere

2004 • 60 min • Russia

A prominent Russian ballet dancer and teacher Alexander Shiryaev had another talent hidden for almost a century. Archive materials that date back to 1906 reveal his bold experiments at stop-motion and paper animation.

Oh What a Nico

2004 • 1 min • Netherlands

A short made for the surprise dinner in honor of 50 years Nico Crama as filmmaker. A knight defies hideous dangers to save a princess. Rearranged and slightly modified version of Oh What a Knight from 1982.

Guinea Pig Kids

2004 • 25 min

BBC documentary that exposed how the city of New York forced HIV-Positive children under its supervision to be used as human guinea pigs in tests for experimental AIDS drug trials.

En ton absence

2004 • 36 min • France

Léa and Luc were living together. During the day, Léa would take photos. At night, she could not sleep and oftentimes looked out the window. One day, Léa told Luc that a man was watching her from the opposite building. But Luc did not believe Léa's stories.

Monte Cassino: The Soldiers' Story

2004 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The months-long battle of Monte Cassino, one of the bloodiest of the second World War, is related by the Germans and Allied troops who fought it. Men of the 1st/4th Essex Battalion and the German paratroop regiment are to the fore here, as they were 60 years ago.

Baby Pranks

2004 • 4 min

A short film by H. Jon Benjamin and Bill Buckendorff.

All That You Love

2004 • 15 min • United States of America

Alfie Zimmer is a traveling salesman at the end of his road and ready to say goodbye. But there is one bizarre love he just can’t seem to part with.

The Lady of the Palace

2004 • 58 min • Egypt, Lebanon

Sayedat Al-Kasr traces the history of the Joumblatt family of Mount Lebanon from the 17th century to the present, focusing on early 20th century leader and politician Nazira Joumblatt. Born in 1889, Nazira ascended the throne of the Moukhtara palace in 1923, following the assassination of her husband Fouad and the resignation of her brother Aly Joumblatt. She presided over the region as Lady of the Palace for twenty-five years while raising her son Kamal, preparing him to take his place in a long line of Jumblatt leaders. Famous for her wisdom and strong personality, Nazira boldly entered the Lebanese political scene at a time when this field was entirely dominated by men. Unwavering, she contributed to maintaining peace and stability in Lebanon for many years, earning the respect of men and women, whether Druze or Maronites.

Ingmar Bergman Bids Farewell to Film

2004 • 59 min • Sweden

A conversation between Bergman and film critic Nils Petter Sundgren recorded for Swedish television in 1984.

Mr. Bliss

2004 • 33 min • Russia

Based on a children story by J.R.R. Tolkien, Mr. Bliss is a tale of a man who set out to buy a motor-car and of what followed afterwards. The adventures include meeting with three bears, a visit to a fat family of Dorkinses, and a nightly adventure in the woods.

Haircut

2004 • 8 min

John gets more than he bargains for during a routine haircut. He goes on a provocative journey from the terrifying to the sublime. Shot with a miniature surveillance camera, entirely in first-person, haircut is a search for connection in the most surprising of circumstances.

Impermanence

2004 • 60 min

A documentary about HH the Dalai Lama.

Nosferatu, The Friendly Vampire

2004 • 5 min

He may be "Lord of the Undead," but that doesn't mean poor Nosferatu has an easy time making friends.

Wrestling with the North

2004 • 47 min • Canada

Every year for the past 26 years, a courageous team of semi-professional wrestlers goes on what has been called the toughest wrestling tour on Earth. Rookies with stars in their eyes join tough-as-nails veterans like Chi-Chi Cruz, Leatherface, Eric the Lumberjack, and Crash Crimson to pack into a van and head for the far northern reaches of Manitoba. Only accessible in winter by frozen lake roads, these remote First Nations communities get a rare show of live wrestling entertainment, complete with stunners and body slams. Wrestling with the North captures all the pain, glory and determination of these die-hard wrestlers and through the wrestlers' eyes we glimpse northern aboriginal communities holding fast to their traditions while embracing a pop-culture circus with zeal.

Mykhailiuky

2004 • 24 min • Ukraine

A Russian man arrives in the Ukrainian village of Mykhailiuky to meet the woman to whom he pays alimony. He was charged with this by accident—there was a complete coincidence of the name of a malicious non-payer and a stranger.

The Stalker Chronicles: Episode One - Shadows

2004 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Followed by a man she claims she does not know, a woman tells her tale to the police, but she is hiding the truth and when it catches up to her, past deeds will come back to take their bloody revenge.