All Films

New Year's Adventure of Two Brothers

2004 • 17 min • Russia

An animated film about an instructive story that happened to two brothers on New Year's Eve.

Brazilian Bukowski

2004 • 15 min • Brazil

Cuban crisis analyzed from the perspective of a decadent filmmaker and his hot neighbor arrived in poetic-philosophical interludes. One of the first films to imply the mastery of the collectivist identity of Timóteo Pinto. Petter Baiestorf's homage to all film festivals in Brazil in the true story of Coffin Souza and his miserable life full of disappointments and, at times, some almost joyful joys.

Snow Maiden

2004 • 26 min • Russia

The tale of the Snow Maiden is well-known, as are its numerous traditional arrangements. However, this version is somewhat different, as is the play by A.N. Ostrovsky, which served as the basis for the film.

Iceland

2004 • 13 min • Iceland

an unforgettable journey across the Icelandic landscape as mixing live action and pixilation to produce an enchanting, timeless short film. Shot on Kodachrome Super 8mm in western, northern, eastern and southen Iceland including interior Iceland in late summer 2004. Dedicated to Buddy King Leiser.

The Bunny Project

2004 • 3 min • Canada

Can an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can.

Golden Road: Today's Senior Drivers

2004 • 27 min • United States of America

Does your parent's car have new dents or nicks? Does mentally reviewing the trip ahead of time help you when driving? When should a senior relinquish the keys or when should someone step in and remove them? The Golden Road: Today's Senior Drivers provides the tools you need in order to recognize, understand and confront these issues with deliberation and care.

Sounds Good to Me: Remastering 'The Sting'

2004 • 7 min

A low-rent sound designer re-dubs 'The Sting' for its 30th anniversary release.

John and Michael

2004 • 10 min • Canada

A gentle tale of love told in halting words. A film about healing after profound loss. John and Michael pays homage to two men with Down's syndrome who shared an intimate and profoundly loving relationship that deeply affected the filmmaker. Animated with clay backlit on glass, the film shimmers like stained glass in motion. Narrator Brian Davis, also intellectually challenged, brings the men alive with great sensitivity. The audience shares in the various emotions that infuse their everyday living. John and Michael, by its artistry, rises above society's traditional ideas around disability, sexuality and death. When the heart is touched, differences melt. Love is what defines humanity.

White on Blue

2004 • 20 min • Lithuania

A small seaside resort on the coast. A young girl lives here with her mother, who keeps breaking out in tears ever since the father left the family.

Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

2004 • 55 min

FRONTLINE offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio, where the local TV manufacturing plant has closed down; the other — a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to $25 billion in annual imports that help the company deliver everyday low prices to 100 million customers a week. But while some economists credit Wal-Mart’s single-minded focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living here at home.

Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock

2004 • 22 min • United States of America

A documentary on Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 film, "Suspicion".

When There's no More Room in Hell

2004 • 31 min • Italy

Documentary about the making of the European version of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead".

Million Dollar Moment

2004 • 9 min • United States of America

Channeling the Gary Cooper/Patricia Neel version of Ayn Rand‘s Fountainhead, David Kramer tells the story of his accidental “big break” in the art world.

The Customer is Always Right

2004 • 3 min • United States of America

Robert Rodriguez wanted to create a film version of Miller's Sin City, he made a three-minute proof-of-concept short called The Customer Is Always Right with actors John Hartnett and Marley Shelton. The short film served as the opening sequence in the final version of Sin City.

DKNY Road Stories

2004 • 14 min • United States of America

Short from Steven Sebring

Árboles y arbustos

2004 • 11 min

”(…) Always green, up to 20 meters high. Right trunk, dark cut, slightly split, thin; rounded, broad, dense, dark, bright green, grayish or blackish crown. It has simple, persistent, hard leaves, with various shapes, ovate or lanceolate, 5 centimeters long ”.

Sara Jeanne

2004 • 21 min

Sara Jeanne, an aging prostitute in a military base-side town, hides her wrinkles with heavy make-up, puts on faded worn clothes, and earns her living by selling her body to American soldiers while under the influence of alcohol. However, as a prostitute, she no longer has any place to stand and her life grows more vulnerable to the danger of violence. Now she decides to leave the military base-side town. No, she desperately needs to leave.

Pinocchio

2004 • 57 min • Brazil

This modern Brazilian animation tells the classic story with Italian traits and quite entertaining mood. The dummy see his nose growing every time he tell a lie comes from the 19th century, charming and thrilling generations, showing that family and love are able to overcome any barrier.

Aljuriya

2004 • 56 min • Puerto Rico

It's 2002. Israel has intensified its military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a result of the new Intifada. Citizens from several countries traveled to Palestine to witness the situation. This is what they saw...

Two Worlds Colliding

2004 • 49 min • Canada

This documentary chronicles the story of Darrell Night, an Indigenous man who was dumped by two police officers in a barren field on the outskirts of Saskatoon in January 2000, during -20° C temperatures. He survived, but he was stunned to hear that the frozen body of another Indigenous man was discovered in the same area.

1 week

2004 • 20 min • Hungary

The film follows seven days of a young gypsy, with a short excerpt from each day. Through these brief 'life' images, the film gives a dark and fragmented portrait of Kristóf, similar in style to Hungarian fiction documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s. A life at a standstill with no possibility of change is documented in the figure of the protagonist: Kristóf has neither the social background nor the education to turn his fate around.

Wildlife Filmmakers: Mishaps and Dangers

2004 • 50 min

Compiling footage from around the globe, a look into the humor and danger of filming wild animals.

Film as Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16

2004 • 56 min • United Kingdom

An hour-long filmed profile of Amos Vogel, 82-year old New York resident and Austrian emigre, founder of the New York Film Festival and America's most important film society, Cinema 16.

Sissy-Boy Slap-Party

2004 • 6 min • Canada

Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful aggression. Soon, the innocent act of slight slapping becomes a relentless and unforgiving orgy of open-palmed face-smacking.