All Films

Words of Truth

2004 • 54 min • Spain, Uruguay

The documentary looks in the life and work of Mario Benedetti, especially in his poetic work, the keys to an illustrious Montevideo. A man who has had to live several exiles and has received all the awards that this world can give. But above all, the affection of an unconditional, massive and faithful audience that follows him everywhere and pampers him every day with their applause and reading. A sad childhood, a youth full of work and reading, and a maturity full of commitments marked Benedetti. His work testifies the history, that which only artists can tell.

The Persuaders

2004 • 55 min

PBS Frontline takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations and how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into the fabric of our lives. Through sophisticated market research methods to better understand consumers and by turning to the little-understood techniques of public relations to make sure their messages come from sources we trust, marketers are crafting messages that resonate with an increasingly cynical public.

Joe Blow

2004 • 5 min • United States of America

Poor Joe puts his all into making his first date a perfect evening, only to have the effort of seduction get the better of him.

Netrun-mon the Movie

2004 • 29 min • Japan

Conceived by Netrunner Magazine to celebrate their 5th birthday. This 30-min OVA is directed by Poyoyon Rock (of "Popotan" fame) and stars cute Netrunner characters Nin'i-tan and friends.

L'Armadio

2004 • 14 min • Italy

Fragment from Adaghietto from 5th Symphonie by Gustav Mahler.

Twisted Tango

2004 • 6 min

The film takes us into the dreams and desires of a beautiful woman who abandons herself to the arms of Morpheus. A man approaches and dances with her a languorous tango....

Astro Boy: The Glorious Earth

2004 • 20 min • Japan

A boy is chased by a robot through some ruins. There, he finds an Earth ruled by a computer called "Gaia," who has lost patience with humans who repeatedly cause war and environmental destruction. While desperately trying to escape, the boy discovers Atom, which had been put on display 200 years ago after it had finished its role.

Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger THE MOVIE: Full Blast Action

2004 • 39 min • Japan

The Dekarangers must deal with a mysterious undercover agent from another planet while trying to save her world and Earth from one of the universe's toughest Alienizer gangs.

Flame of Recca: Final Burning

2004 • 32 min • Japan

A retold ending based on the final few chapters of the Flame of Recca manga series.

This Car Up

2003 • 16 min • United States of America

In this comedy of errors and elevators, a bike messenger and a businessman can't stop thinking about each other after their paths cross.

Terminal Bar

2003 • 23 min • United States of America

A fascinating pictorial history of a New York City bar whose customers, from the hard-drinking working class Irish to the coiffed African American gay male, continually transform its focus during its 10-year reign.

O Desalmado

2003 • 6 min • Portugal

The odyssey of a man who became a hermit for ills of love and receives a pair of angel wings after defeating the demon.

Farewell 1999

2003 • 26 min • Taiwan

Farewell 1999 is a documentary that could move you to tears. Acclaimed director Wu Tai Ren takes viewers on a private and emotional journey contemplating the consequences of life and death, as she searches in her life for traces left by her late mother, who passed away four years ago. Wu captures her mournful self on film with a precise control over the narrative, trying to hold on to the memory of a loved one, while bidding farewell to the haunting sadness of death. Personal yet universal, the feelings conveyed in Farewell 1999 tug at the heartstrings as well as showcase Wu's talent that won her multiple international awards.

Def

2003 • 13 min

A deaf boy dreams about being a rapper.

Skunk Ape!?

2003 • 30 min

It's your average "Punks enrage man-ape with music, man-ape follows punks home, man-ape kills off punks one by one" kinda story.

Thomaz Farkas, Brazilian

2003 • 17 min • Brazil

About the Hungarian photographer, an exponent of the history of the Brazilian documentary, directed by filmmaker Walter Lima Junior and sponsored by Petrobras.

Far and Near

2003 • 22 min

Short about a chinese woman living in Wales.

Chiasmus

2003 • 8 min • Canada

An exploration into perceptual processes in the act of seeing and listening, Chiasmus takes film as a metaphor for the breathing body, through the intercrossing of the medium and the fragmented images of the body in movement. The rhythm and tension created by the interplay between sound and image, and their disjunction and conjunction, aspire to an organic and sensual moment where inside becomes outside, and outside inside.

Y voir, identité

2003 • 10 min • France

An interrogation on the real identity of each one.

Devotion

2003 • 34 min

A sparing and minimal travelogue of Istanbul. A foreigner meditates on the unraveling of a relationship while moving from hotel room to hotel room. In a city simultaneously devoted to Islam and secular nationalism, she finds refuge in the frailty and severity of the rituals of devotion.

Chased by the Light

2003 • 60 min

Chased by the Light: A Photographic Journey with Jim Brandenburg tells the story of how one of the world s greatest nature photographers immersed himself in a Zen-like exploration of his craft and the untamed landscape of the rugged north woods.

Imortal Tricolor - 100 Anos De Glória

2003 • 53 min • Brazil

A documentary about the centuries-old story of one of the biggest clubs in Brazilian football. From its foundation, the early years, the continental and world titles and the achievementes of its greatest stars.

Le complot de famille

2003 • 5 min • United States of America

A psychopathic husband tries to feed his nonexistent family.

The Fence

2003 • 24 min • France, Algeria

The Fence is a cry! In the aftermath of the civil war which bloodied Algeria, Tariq Teguia interviews the young people of Bab El Oued who express their anger. In the fixed shots in which they testify, Tariq Teguia alternates wanderings in a car which extend those of Ferrailles d’anticipations. And it is the violence of confinement that dominates, coupled with the desire for something impossible elsewhere.