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Loose Ends

Loose Ends

2004 • 6 min • United States of America
Rachael and Frank are longtime detectives who have just completed one of the biggest cases of their career. But as they sit down for a well-deserved celebratory drink, Rachael begins to raise concerns about the neatness with which the case wrapped up. As Frank plays devil’s advocate, the two begin to question some of the conclusions they’ve drawn, ultimately threatening their friendship… and perhaps more.
Walking with Lions

Walking with Lions

2004 • 54 min • United States of America
Husband and wife team Phil and Lynne Richardson live at a water hole with lions, elephants, and baboons in the African bush of northern Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley. Video technologies like miniature infrared cameras and lenses for nighttime vision help them capture natural behavior without interfering with the wildlife
City Scene

City Scene

2004 • 23 min
Zhao Liang’s City Scene shows a poetic portrait of China’s contemporary metropolises.
Papá Iván

Papá Iván

2004 • 55 min • Argentina, Mexico
Dad Iván, is the testimony of the daughter of a Montonero guerilla leader that died during combat: Iván Roqué, the Iván in the title and father of the director. The documentary exposes in a moving way the difficult relationship between a daughter and her heroic, mythified father. At the same time it also becomes not only the reflection of a daughter but of an entire generation, about the feelings of abandoment, abscense, the tragedy, the exile and death. Feelings, ideas, dreams and facts are confronted. Tears are shed as much as admiration is expressed for the father, he is questioned as strongly as he is veneered.
Thong Girl 2: The Return of the Thong

Thong Girl 2: The Return of the Thong

2004 • 19 min
Music City, USA has a new crimefighting superhero! Assistant District Attorney Lana Layonme fights crime in the courtroom in a city that's known for bright lights and country music stars. But sometimes legal justice is just not enough and that's when she becomes THONG GIRL!
Spookley the Square Pumpkin

Spookley the Square Pumpkin

2004 • 47 min • United States of America
Dare to be square! In a world where "The only good pumpkins are round pumpkins!" SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN is often teased by the other pumpkins because of his odd shape. Soon, Spookley is befriended by Edgar, Allan and Poe, three hilarious spiders, who convince Spookley that square or not, he has a right to be the "Pick of the Patch" on Halloween. "A square pumpkin the Pick of the Patch?" Not if mean round pumpkins Big Tom and Little Tom can help it. These two bullies tease and taunt Spookley because of his square roots. Encouraged to continue to become the "Pick of the Patch" by kindly Jack the Scarecrow and his bat sidekicks, Boris and Bella, Spookley isn't sure he has what it takes until a mighty storm threatens to destroy the entire patch. As the storm rolls the round pumpkins uncontrollably across the patch towards the raging river, Spookley realizes "it's fine to be round while the weather is fair, but there are times it's better to be a square!"
Ancient Olympics: Let the Games Begin

Ancient Olympics: Let the Games Begin

2004 • 52 min • United States of America
Come back with us to Ancient Greece, 2,500 Years ago to the original Olympic Games. The ancient Games, like our modern Olympics, included champions and cheaters, glory and scandals, bitter rivalries and contests of strength, speed and savage combat. Set in 448 BC when the pounding of horse's hooves and the brutal hand-to-hand combat could be heard and seen by the crowds that filled the Olympic stadium. This one-hour special event follows the glory and corruption of the arc of a single, five-day Olympiad. The competitions include chariot racing, running, jumping, discus, javelin and two man-to-man combat finals-boxing and pankration, a form of extreme fighting in which death was not uncommon. With the help of sports historians and great athletes such as George Chuvalo and Olympic medallists Donovan Bailey and Angela Schneider, viewers travel back to a very different life-in a very different world.
Factory

Factory

2004 • 30 min • Russia
Masculine and feminine, hard and soft, continuous and interrupted, whole and fragmented. All that is encompassed by just one day at the factory.
Daphnis and Chloe: The Royal Ballet

Daphnis and Chloe: The Royal Ballet

2004 • 54 min
Ravel's work was choreographed by Frederick Ashton for a staging by Sadler's Wells Ballet (now The Royal Ballet) at Covent Garden on 5 April 1951, with Margot Fonteyn as Chloe and Michael Somes as Daphnis; decor was by John Craxton.
Youngster

Youngster

2004 • 8 min • United States of America
A twelve year-old drug dealer makes makes a costly mistake.
Glou Glou

Glou Glou

2004 • 1 min • Canada
Marielle Guyot uses her computer skills with great artistic sensibility to bring the sea to life, death, and hopefully, life again. This film was made as part of the second edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
Teresa Forever

Teresa Forever

2004 • 19 min • Brazil
Olhando a Cor da Melodia de Baixo para Cima com a Cabeça Raspada Parada

Olhando a Cor da Melodia de Baixo para Cima com a Cabeça Raspada Parada

2004 • 7 min • Brazil
A bunch of drunks at a party. Video poetry.
Same Blood

Same Blood

2004 • 11 min • France
Ted hangs out on the river banks where he lives his homosexuality in secret. One night his brother's gang shows up for some gay bashing. Shocked by the violence of his brother, Ted decides to confront him...
Alexander the Great - The man behind the Legend

Alexander the Great - The man behind the Legend

2004 • 53 min • United States of America
More than 2,000 years after he conquered the known world, Alexander the Great continues to fascinate. But what personal demons fueled Alexander's unquenchable thirst for danger, fame and conquest? Discover the astonishing truth in Beyond the Movie Alexander the Great. Discover how tactical battlefield savvy and reckless bravado made Alexander the most formidable warrior-leader of all time. Learn why his ferociously loyal men venerated Alexander, then finally, some say, conspired in his still controversial death. Brought stunningly to life with powerful re-creations and in-depth academic insights , it's a journey behind the mists and myths of history that reveals the real Alexander the Great as never before.
Mideast Report

Mideast Report

2004 • 43 min • Japan
Interviews about Japan's deployment of Self-Defense Forces in Iraq collected from Middle Eastern intellectuals, cultural figures, and Palestinians living in refugee camps in March 2004.
What The

What The

2004 • 7 min • United Kingdom
On television, everyone can hear you scream.
$100 and a T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in the Northwest

$100 and a T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in the Northwest

2004 • 51 min
A cultural analysis of what causes zine makers to tick; what the hell zines are, why people make zines, the origin of zines, the resources and community available for zine makers, and the future of zines. Interviews with about 70 zine makers, ex-zine makers, and readers from the northwest. Featuring footage of the Portland Zine Symposium, a zine bicycle tour of Portland, and activities bringing zine culture to life. Music by J Church and Defiance, Ohio.
Scerbanenco Noir

Scerbanenco Noir

2004 • 25 min • Italy
A short documentary exploring the life and work of writer Giorgio Scerbanenco.
Diary of a Teenage Nudist

Diary of a Teenage Nudist

2004 • 60 min • United Kingdom
Documentary from the point of view of a now 18 year old girl who grew up in a nudist club.
Shadows of a Leader: Qaddafi's Female Bodyguards

Shadows of a Leader: Qaddafi's Female Bodyguards

2004 • 60 min • United States of America, United Kingdom
The documentary investigates the phenomenon of Qaddafi's elite female bodyguard corps and the tensions these women embody: tensions between Islam, modernisation in a nomadic society, a militarist feminism and an urban dictatorship.
Big Fish & Chinese Flowering Crabapple

Big Fish & Chinese Flowering Crabapple

2004 • 7 min • China
In 2004, Liang Xuan produced a flash short film which was the prototype of the animated film Da Yu Hai Tang, which won the DIGIID Award of Intel 2004 China Digital Festival.
This Is the House That Jack Built

This Is the House That Jack Built

2004 • 7 min • Russia, United States of America
What happened in the house that Jack built? It all started with the cheese that lay in the house that Jack built.
The Wiggles: Top of the Tots

The Wiggles: Top of the Tots

2004 • 51 min • Australia
It's show time with The Wiggles! The chart-topping Aussies star in Top of the Tots, singing and dancing on the bandstand in the hottest variety show in town! And they've invited Captain Feathersword, Henry the Octopus, Wags the Dog and Dorothy the Dinosaur to wiggle along as they meet a fireman, a dentist, an airline pilot and more! Brand-new show stopping music, endless energy and lots of enthusiastic wiggling - now, that's entertainment!