All Films

Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas

2004 • 44 min • United States of America

Davey and Goliath go on an exciting snowboarding adventure, where Davey learns some dazzling snowboard moves, as well as important lessons about the real meaning of Christmas and respecting people who are different.

What Grown-Ups Know

2004 • 30 min • Australia

Teenage boy Roy and his ailing mother Elizabeth live an aimless life on the road, shuttling between gas stations, temp jobs and cheap motels. When they end up at a desolate caravan park, fractures begin to appear in Roy's relationship with his mother as he starts to fall head over heels for park manager Maurice.

Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!

2004 • 52 min • France

Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his main films, apart from the opinions about him by other filmmakers such as Takeshi Kitano or Kinji Fukasaku.

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

2004 • 52 min • France

Written and directed by Hitchcock historian Noël Simsolo, this 2004 French television documentary explores the earliest years of Alfred Hitchcock's film career, beginning with his success in the production of The Lodger (1926) and following the filmmaker through his transition to sound films and his early thrillers.

Two Cars, One Night

2004 • 12 min • New Zealand

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.

Moth

2004 • 12 min

Tommy is an unhappy seven year old boy who is still grieving for the death of his father, whilst battling with his new stepfather. When a moth dies in the palm of his hand he is fascinated by the residue it leaves behind - "magic dust, that helps the moths to fly" his mother tells him. Tommy becomes obsessed with moths, seeing them as the only way to escape from the conflict around and within him.

Battle of the Arctic Giants

2004 • 52 min

From National Geographic comes this 52 minute documentary (No 27, in the 'Journeys with Wildlife' collection) which takes a look at the animal life in the bleak Eastern Canadian Artic. Adam Ravetch moved from the sunny environs of Southern California to the frigid ice sheet of this inhospitable land ten years ago and was intrigued by what he saw there. At first glance the area seems to be a place of frozen desolation, however here amidst the ice floes, walruses live an active existence, battling for survival with the elements and against predators such as polar bears. Ravetch ventures into the Artic at the height of the walrus birthing season, braving the cold and extreme conditions for a rare look into the lives of these tusked giants.

Linklater: St. Richard of Austin

2004 • 54 min • United Kingdom

Ben Lewis spends time with Richard Linklater, the highly-respected director of 'Slacker', 'School of Rock', and 'Before Sunset', along with some of the stars of his films. He attempts to discover how an anti-consumerist filmmaker has become a worldwide success.

Blake's Junction 7

2004 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Intergalactic revolutionaries "Blake's 7" make an eventful late night stop at Newport Pagnell Services on the M1.

Kishin Houkou Demonbane

2004 • 24 min • Japan

Lily Bridge, a young journalist, arrives at Arkham City, hoping to find a big scoop. However, with all the strange things occuring around the city, only the exceptional findings are news-worthy, such as the mysterious mecha known as Demonbane. However, upon finding a small piece of machinery that seemed to be connected with the Hadou Combine, Lily is determined to find the truth. Little does she know, she enters into a dark world, involving herself with Demonbane and the powerful forces that control the city.

Caliber 9: Documentary

2004 • 29 min • Italy

Short documentary on the 1972 Italo-crime classic Caliber 9

Built Upon the Rock

2004 • 30 min • United States of America

Jesus is asked to judge an inheritance dispute, but instead He uses this conflict to affirm the eternal ideals of His Beatitudes taught in the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus teaches the wronged brother to forgive and love his brother. All who follow Jesus must learn that what we own has little to do with who we are. Important ideals of stewardship and preparedness are emphasized through the parable of the House Built on Rock.

Godly Boyish

2004 • 22 min • United States of America

Two boys dream of a life together in heaven.

NASCAR: The IMAX Experience

2004 • 48 min • United States of America

A big-screen look into one of America's most successful entertainment industries, NASCAR racing.

Travis

2004 • 12 min • United States of America

An experimental film matching shifting colors with audio taken from an NPR radio interview with a mother who lost her son in the Iraq War.

Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider

2004 • 36 min • United States of America

A frightened little spider named Webster ventures into the garden. He's a walking encyclopedia of fears and phobias, shocked when the other denizens of the garden seem even more afraid of him than he is of them. His primary coping mechanism consists of praying to God for the courage to fact life in this Christian animated film aimed at young children.

Fuyu no hanabi hen - Imouto no teryouri

2004 • 50 min • Japan

About a Ram and a Goat

2004 • 13 min • Russia

The goat and the ram ran away from the owner in search of a better life.

Nôpan tenjôin: Anata o nigiritai

2004 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film directed by Sakae Nitta.

Beholden

2004 • 13 min • United States of America

Experimental short film that combines a theme of child abduction carried out by a lonely woman with images of alien abduction.

Last Letters Home

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Ten families read letters from their loved ones killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in this powerful and moving HBO documentary by Oscar and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Bill Couturie (Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam). Photos of the soldiers in military and civilian life are shown as family members read the final correspondence received from Iraq and share their thoughts and memories about the fallen troops and the realities of war.

The Old Man and the Studio

2004 • 12 min

What if Ernest Hemingway had to endure 'development hell' as he adapted "The Old Man and the Sea" for the big screen in today's Hollywood?

Unfortunately

2004 • 13 min • Poland

Oneiric tale about aging angels.

Sayonara, Sayonara

2004 • 37 min

Johane, the only survivor of a mass suicide, invites people on a bulletin board to die with him.