All Films

Barnavännen

2004 • 28 min • Finland, Sweden

"The Childhood Friend." - Tomas lives with her parents. One day, his father's cousin Serkuu comes to visit. At first Serkuu wins Tomas's trust but later he brutally let's him down. Fifteen years later, Tomas has become a police officer and takes his service revolver when calls on Serkuu to retaliate.

Demon of Temptation

2004 • 30 min

A young woman (Debbie D) is haunted by a demon mermaid (Laura Giglio) and driven to the brink of madness and suicide. What does the mysterious Dr. Alexander (Isabelle Stephen) have to do with it? And what do those pills she prescribes really do?

Honto Ni Atta! Noroi No Video 14

2004 • 59 min • Japan

14th entry in the popular "Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video" series.

The Runaway

2004 • 23 min • Germany

Walter is an unemployed architect, who is getting ready to go for an interview. But just as he is about to leave his flat, an eight-year-old boy, Yuri, approaches him at the door, claiming to be his son.

Little Russia

2004 • 16 min • Italy

The story he has been told by his grandfather was about people's dream to go out of their small town to Russia. For them, the greatest pleasure on the earth was taking a prostitute.

Ydessa, the Bears and etc.

2004 • 44 min • France

Ydessa Hendeles' exhibition entitled "The living and the Artificial" (consisting of works of art all comprising a photograph of living persons in the company of one or several teddy bears) had puzzled Agnès Varda so much that she decided to go to Toronto where the artist lives and interview her. In front of Agnes Varda's DV camera, Ydessa tells about the singularity of her artistic approach. She also expresses herself about the Holocaust, which both her parents survived.

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away

2004 • 26 min

A traveling frozen-food salesman checks into a motel to kill himself. Only his notebook, his traveling companion over the years, can save his life.

Coldplay Diary 2002-03

2004 • 41 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Tour diary of Coldplay during their 2002-2003 tour.

Ma Mere l'Oye

2004 • 29 min

A dance set to Pierre Boulez's recording of Ravel's Ma Mere l'Oye

Tin Soldiers

2004 • 48 min • Lebanon, Norway

A group of young UN soldiers in Lebanon enters service with pro-Israeli views and a naive outlook on war. They go through a radical change of heart as they witness and film the Qana massacre. They secure video evidence indicating that Israel deliberately bombed a UN camp killing 106 refugees.

A Present for Sanja

2004 • 56 min • Croatia

Having been ditched by his girlfriend Sanja for a Turk called Murat, a Bosnian refugee who lives in Germany reaches a decision to commit suicide on the New Year's Eve. To cheer him up, his boss sends him a prostitute called Jovanka, not knowing that Jovanka is a Serb. In consequence, Jovanka and the suicidal Bosnian are forced to spend the New Year's Eve together.

Opium for the People

2004 • 4 min • Brazil

"Acid" (1997) is an experiment with color saturation on an analog editing table. It was filmed, edited and manipulated on VHS. "Opium for the People" (2004) is an extension of these experiences.

Cancrena

2004 • 7 min • Italy

A dying person continues their experimentation with radical treatments for their disease.

Jemaa El Fna: Morocco's Rendezvous of the Dead

2004 • 46 min • Morocco

Morocco is a land of ingratiating variety and intense contrast. Its people are as diverse as its topography. The cosmopolitan Atlantic coast fuses with the Berber heritage of the northern Rif and Atlas mountain ranges as the ancient Saharan trade routes wind their way from the south into the city of Marrakech, where all points collide, creating a vibrant mixture of the traditional, the exotic and the supernatural.

The White Sheet

2004 • 15 min • Brazil

A young mother has to face the death of her newborn son.

March 31

2004 • 8 min • Brazil

In Brazil in the 1960s, communist pigs were tortured in the pigsties of the ultra-mega-rightist government to guarantee global democracy.

Does God Play Football?

2004 • 10 min

An endearing tale of faith and fate, with the odd miracle thrown in, set in the 1960's, Tommy is a 7-year-old boy without a dad who fills in the emotional gaps in his life by believing he is Jesus Christ.

Getting Nowhere Faster

2004 • 46 min

Skate video featuring Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins Pastrana, Cara-Beth "CB" Burnside, Vanessa Torres, Amy Caron, Mimi Knoop and others.

Ushigaeru

2004 • 8 min • Japan

A short story depicting a fierce pursuit of a mouse, a dog, and a fully automatic pest control machine.

Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli

2004 • 9 min • France

Film director Agnès Varda reflects on the production of ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS, and presents a brief on-set interview with actor Michel Piccoli

Discovering Cinema: Movies Dream in Color

2004 • 52 min

Over one hundred years of dreams through cinema, Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg tell the story of the history of color on the screen.

Ola's Box of Clovers

2004 • 10 min • United States of America

Puppet animation. After her grandmother's death, a young girl tries to explore the old woman's inner world to discover her unfulfilled dreams.

Out of Joint

2004 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A pink creature's loving wife tries to help her husband, who suffers from short-sightedness, but doesn't have a nose to put glasses on.

Joshua and the Promised Land

2004 • 54 min • United States of America

“Joshua and the Promised Land” comes as a heartwarming tale for the whole family in the tradition of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien – about the courage one learns from trusting God – and as a result, finding the ability to overcome many of life’s problems. Join young Joshua Carter on an epic dream-adventure – from the parting of the Red Sea as the Hebrews escape from Egypt, through forty years in the wilderness, finally to the fall of the sinful city of Jericho.