All Films

Tankman Begins

2005 • 6 min • United States of America

A movie spoof that finds The Caped Crusader chauffeuring Jimmy Fallon to an MTV award ceremony in 2005.

Heritage Minutes: Dextraze in the Congo

2005 • 1 min • Canada

General Jacques Dextraze of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force rescues a group of hostages from Katangan rebels.

Boris: Heavy Metal Me -Feedbacker-

2005 • 26 min

A live rendition of Feedbacker, recorded on 1 November 2003 at Shinjuku Liquid Room.

Signé Chanel

2005 • 53 min • France

Film adaption of the documentary series with the same name. The documentary deals with haute couture under brilliant leader Karl Lagerfeld.

The History of Hooterville

2005 • 45 min

Documentary and interviews with the cast of Petticoat Junction and stories of the show's production.

A Prayer for Beslan

2005 • 45 min • Norway

Beslan will forever be synonymous with the murder of hundreds of innocent children. One year on, how is the town coping? Our documentary this week is a harrowing and powerful new film on the school siege and its enduring legacy.

Twisty

2005 • 13 min

An abstract exploration of the curves and twists of the Australian alpine tree the ‘Snow Gum’ – Eucalyptus Pauciflora.

The Riddle of the Leaning Tower

2005 • 51 min

When its signature lean threatens to destroy the Tower of Pisa, a team of experts assemble to try save one of Europe's most distinctive silhouettes

Singapore GaGa

2005 • 55 min • Singapore

Singapore GaGa is a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals Singapore's past and present with a delight and humour that makes it a necessary film for all Singaporeans. We hear buskers, street vendors, school cheerleaders sing hymns to themselves and to their communities. From these vocabularies (including Arabic, Latin, Hainanese), a sense of what it might mean to be a modern Singaporean emerges. This is Singapore's first documentary to have a cinema release. With English and Chinese subtitles.

Elektra: Incarnations

2005 • 53 min

A documentary which looks at the evolution of the comic book Elektra. It includes remarks from artist/writer/Elektra creator Frank Miller, inker Klaus Janson, artist Bill Sienkiewicz, and writers Brian Michael Bendis and Greg Rucka. We learn about Miller's start with Daredevil and his creation/development of Elektra, what others brought to the character and her further explorations, facets of the artwork, and various takes on her.

Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation

2005 • 10 min

This short documentary tells about shooting the scene from 'Heat (1995)' where Robert De Niro and Al Pacino meet over a cup of coffee.

The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

The life and times of The Carter Family, one of the earliest and most-influential group in American country and roots music.

Face Value

2005 • 23 min

Gyu-ri struggles with the prejudice and misunderstanding that pretty girls are worth their looks. On the other hand, Jeong-seon is always treated as androgynous because of her easy-going and impressive appearance. Although they are both for different reasons, they are equally hurt by people's stereotypes about their appearance.

João do Vale, Muita Gente Desconhece

2005 • 30 min • Brazil

Latest images of the artist still alive, an unprecedented composition, testimonies of friends, family and icons of Brazilian culture.

Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône

2005 • 54 min • France

Since the beginning of the 70s, committed and willing, Philippe Nahon has been exploring the strangest roles and became at the dawn of the 90s, with "Carne", a rising star and a source of inspiration for a generation of young directors such as Gaspar Noé, for whom he has become a favorite actor. At fifty, he has become an emblematic figure for a new generation of filmmakers. Even today, he is still in full rebellion against age and invests in short films and first films of young directors with an enthusiasm still intact. Through the testimonies of his first partners, filmmakers of several generations, relatives and fans, this documentary sketches the portrait of a committed man, an actor unknown to the general public, an icon for film lovers.

Mr. Christmas

2005 • 56 min

A young father struggling to make ends meet on a Depression-era salary can't afford to buy his 5-year-old daughter what she's expecting Santa Claus to bring her for Christmas. The surprise, uplifting ending is guaranteed to put even the most embittered Scrooge into the Christmas spirit.

Science Detective Ffacce

2005 • 52 min • South Korea

Ffacce, an incompetent detective in New Baker City, accidentally finds professor Cart's bad conspiracy who is the most famous scientist.

Curse: Real Record - Journey of Death Photography

2005 • 42 min • Japan

A late-night variety show about ghosts that was even filmed overseas, but was somehow put on hold just before it was scheduled to air. What is the truth behind it?This is a psychic documentary that approaches the truth of mysterious supernatural phenomena.

The Confession (Short)

2005 • 15 min

An attractive young woman drives through the countryside, thinking about a man, stopping to change from a tee-shirt to a sheer dress. She enters a prison as a visitor, is subject to a careful search, and is placed in a plain room with cheap metal furniture. A guard brings into the room the man she's been thinking about, removes his handcuffs, sits him down in a chair across from her, and hands him a towel and bar of soap. The guard leaves. She asks the prisoner what happened, and he begins an explanation. Where does this lead?

God Wears My Underwear

2005 • 45 min

As Lavinia stands waiting for a train, she ponders her childhood, her fascination with drag queens, and her past life as a Tibetan monk who visited Berlin in 1933.

Chopratown

2005 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Vic Chopra (Sanjeev Bhaskar) investigates Ali Ergun (Omid Djalili) a shady Turkish bakery owner. During his investigation he falls foul of Asian wide boy Ash Desai (Manish Patel) and added to this is the mystery of a missing cow!

Cosmetic Emergency

2005 • 8 min

Cosmetic Emergency explores the idea of beauty through a collage of live action and lyrical animations. Afree-form take on the current trend of cosmetic obsession and the immortal quality of painting, the film searches for "what’s on the inside". Topical news stories (such as the US military offering free cosmetic surgery) and musical film sequences are created with paint-on-glass animation, found footage and documentary techniques. The music was commissioned for the film. Selected musicians, including New Zealand’s Hip-Hop artist, "Coco Solid" and "Half Japanese" founder Jad Fair, wrote and recorded humorously cynical songs about the cosmetic craze. Also included is a rare appearance by the Dutch Ambassador of Cosmetic Surgery, Marijke Helwegen.

The Hyrcynium Wood

2005 • 3 min

A mystery that began as a document of abandoned farms in South East England.

The Queen of Trees

2005 • 57 min

In Africa, the giant fig tree and the tiny fig wasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their extraordinary relationship is a marvel of co-evolution, a marriage which has lasted for millennia. It forms the basis of a complex web of dependency that supports entire ecosystems, providing food for thousands of creatures, from elephants, giraffes, and fruit bats, to forest hornbills, monkeys, insects, and fish.