All Films

Fly, Fly

2004 • 56 min • Croatia

Ines is a young and beautiful flight attendant who has everything – free trips to the world’s most attractive cities, expensive wardrobe and a pilot-boyfriend with whom she lives in his luxury apartment. But when he dumps her for another stewardess, Ines tries to get her life back to normal.

Steve Hackett: Live Legends

2004 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Steve Hackett's reputation was founded on his outstanding guitar playing with Genesis covering much of the 1970s and encompassing Nursery Cryme through to Seconds Out. Having left the band in 1977, Steve built on the success of his earlier solo outing Voyage Of The Acolyte with a series of critically acclaimed albums that spawned a large worldwide following. Here we present Steve live in concert in Nottingham filmed in 1990 performing a selection of his best known solo work. FEATURING • Camino Royale • Please Don't Touch • Everyday • In That Quiet Earth • Depth Charge •In The Heart Of The City • Horizons • Theatre Of Sleep • Jazz Jam • Clocks

Vida del Ahorcado

2004 • 8 min • Ecuador

Adaptation of Pablo Palacio short story that through a teacher and a group of his students, presents an exercise of dispersion and annihilation converted into an aesthetic object.

Tax Me If You Can

2004 • 54 min • United States of America

As the documentary “Tax Me If You Can” explored, the tax shelter became one of corporate America’s biggest hidden profit centers in the 1990s and early 2000s. The General Accounting Office estimated that bogus tax shelters at the time cost the government more than $85 billion. Correspondent Hedrick Smith spoke with government officials, tax experts and industry insiders to expose these tax shelters. His reporting led him to some unexpected places — from the city of Dortmund, Germany, to the Cayman Islands. The documentary examined how difficult it was for the Internal Revenue Service to find tax shelters and how the tax shelter wave prompted a federal investigation. The ultimate victim in this scheme, experts in the documentary said, is the honest taxpayer who is left to make up what companies aren’t paying.

Faith

2004 • 3 min

A bridge is falling, and now just one hero can save us... what if he make a mistake?.

Legend of the Blue Hole

2004 • 22 min • United States of America

A New Jersey resident decides to investigate the local legend of the Blue Hole.

Yakov Smirnoff: Jokes from the Folks

2004 • 45 min • United States of America

Experience some of the funniest moments from Yakov's "Branson Today" talk show. There's always something funny about Yakov, but there's something even funnier about his audience!

Traffic Warden

2004 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A comic short – in fact, a bite-size romantic comedy – in which a serendipitous series of events leads a traffic warden to find true love.

Ron White: They Call Me Tater Salad

2004 • 56 min • United States of America

Ron White does an hour long standup routine about his life, things that bother him, and other thoughts.

Sous le bleu

2004 • 21 min • France

A man persuades a young mechanic to sell him his work overalls for a fancy dress party. The father of the mechanic, employed in the same garage, witnesses this transaction by chance. He is appalled that his son has accepted the deal. He takes him aside and a quarrel breaks out.

The Man Behind the Duck

2004 • 6 min

This featurette is available on the 'Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Vol. 1' (1934-1941).

Satoyama II: Japan's Secret Watergarden

2004 • 52 min • Japan

Each home has a built in pool or water tank that lies partly inside, partly outside its’ walls… A continuous stream of spring water is piped right into a basin, so freshwater is always available. People rinse out pots in the tank and clean their freshly picked vegetables. If they simply pour the food scraps back in the water, they risk polluting the whole village supply. However, carp can scour out even the greasy or burnt pans. They do the washing up in Satoyama villages. This traditional arrangement is called the riverside method. It’s used all over Japan. Cleaned up by the carp, the tank water eventually rejoins the channel.

Somos a Ralé!

2004 • 36 min • Brazil

Mparntwe Sacred Sites

2004 • 25 min • Australia

This documentary focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of rapid urban expansion and property development.

The Grinding Machine

2004 • 22 min • India

After her husband died, a mother buys a grinding-machine in order to make a living. Initially fascinated by the machine, her son starts getting irritated by its noise. He tries to destroy the machine to regain his childhood.

The Crawl

2004 • 26 min • Finland

A visual and delicately poetic story about the relationship between a swimmer and water. A young competitive swimmer meets the world's fastest woman swimmer in her dreams and races her.

Le compteur d'oiseaux

2004 • 52 min

Five hours from Montreal, at the end of an endless road, is a lake, a favorite haunt of northern ospreys. The Lac Villiers Foundation, managed by a small family whose destiny is punctuated by the peace of the immensity of the boreal and by the demands of a life on the fringes of civilization, has set up its quarters there. This film plunges into his world and shares his way of life which, like ospreys, is on the verge of extinction.

Rivers of Danger

2004 • 50 min • South Africa

The rivers of Africa bring life and abundance to their inhabitants, but they can also be the arena for some of nature's greatest challenges and dramas. Harsh seasonal cycles dictate the course of life - and death - along the rivers. Only the fittest survive crossing the crocodile-infested Mara, the extreme drought of the Luangwa Valley or any of the many other perils harbored by rivers all over the continent. With cunning and opportunistic hunters of all sizes lurking in the waters or prowling the banks, "Rivers of Danger" is a predator's world.

Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive

2004 • 57 min • Canada

In this feature-length documentary, 8 Inuit teens with cameras offer a vibrant and contemporary view of life in Canada's North. They also use their newly acquired film skills to confront a broad range of issues, from the widening communication gap between youth and their elders to the loss of their peers to suicide. In Inuktitut with English subtitles.

Ice Ages

2004 • 2 min • Canada

Seeking shelter from a thunderstorm, a man sits in a pub watching the ice in his glass melt away. Howie Shia marries his graphic illustration style with subtle animation and a haunting soundtrack to conjure up anxiety and foreboding. He used pen and ink on tracing paper and later composited and coloured digitally. This film was made as part of the second edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Schlimmer

2004 • 8 min • United States of America

Sebastian is eager to show off his latest acquisition to a cadre of eccentric — and soon-to-be-jealous — art collectors, even hiring his photographer nephew to capture the unveiling for posterity. But when the “Schlimmer” turns up missing, accusations of theft begin flying, and long-simmering resentments begin to undermine the group’s cohesion.

Late Bloomer

2004 • 13 min • United States of America

Loosely based on the dark tales of HP Lovecraft, "Late Bloomer" is a compelling and humorous journey through a young boy's first sexual education class.

Auschwitz: The Forgotten Evidence

2004 • 49 min

The Nazi extermination camps at Auschwitz in Poland were photographed in extraordinary detail from the air. By combining emotional memories of those who experienced the camp and an almost forensic analysis of the shocking process of genocide, this film evokes details of the horror of Europe's darkest hour in a uniquely compelling way.

Dear Mr. Tzabar,

2004 • 27 min

A short film about the late, celebrated Israeli journalist, poet, artist and satirist SHIMON TZABAR, and his last public protest against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, made shortly before his death in 2007 after forty years of self-imposed exile in London.