Cinematic Era: 2005 Vintage

A documentary by Jackie Raynal about the artistic movement Zanzibar.

In the first week of February in 2005 the mailboxes of those belonging to the art world got the following message: "The most famous Estonian metal girl group F.F.F.F will quit! After their last performance held in Ireland, January 2005, group F.F.F.F. (members: Kristi Paap, Kaire Rannik, Berit Teeäär, Ketli Tiitsar and Maria Valdma) decided that there was no point of continuing the same way." The documentary portrays the artists who belonged to the group F.F.F.F (Fun for Five Females) that was active for almost ten years as well as opens up the reasons for their breakup. As it goes for every divorce, there is going to be lots of talking and confused feelings.

Like every Friday evening, a group of men gather in sports reporter Oskar's huge, cluttered apartment to play poker. But this time it doesn't work out - the group has to practice crisis intervention: Their friend Felix has more or less serious suicidal intentions. His wife not only wants to divorce the bumbling hypochondriac, but has also thrown him out of the house immediately. Oskar, another deserving divorce victim, knows how Felix feels and grants him indefinite asylum.

Daguerréotypes filmmaker Agnès Varda shot this footage of an outdoor concert in Paris’s 14th arrondissement in 2005.

Chinese movie

A compilation of antics from Kali "BLACK AZZ" Wilson, The Hood Superhero.

In December 1997, Tina Petrova drove off a cliff - literally and figuratively. A tragic car crash in the California desert was the beginning of a journey that would lead her to the extraordinary works of 13th century Sufi mystic Mevlana Jellaludin Rumi and to a remarkable array of people whose lives have been transformed by his poetry and philosophy. Rumi: Turning Ecstatic is her true story, a timely, powerful docudrama that take the viewer into the very heart of Sufi mysticism.

We think of the lion as the king of beasts - the perfect predators - built to make a swift clean kill - but think again. Now spectacular footage reveals another side to this hunters killing power. We follow a family of lion cubs as they start out in life. Seven out of the eight cubs are male - for them the clock is ticking, within two years they need to learn to hunt before setting out and finding new territories of their own, to avoid treading on the toes of the dominant pride male. The cubs hunting lessons are perhaps not what you might expect; instead of ambushing their prey and quickly despatching with a clean bite to the throat, these lions wrestle their victim to the ground and tuck in before the hapless beast is dead. When the prey is a young elephant, it means a slow and painful death. Are these lions behaving badly or is it simply that this is what lions do?

A documentary film about the life and work of artist and author Carl Barks, including his lifetime association with Walt Disney and the Donald Duck character family.

The family has decided that it's time for Grandad's funeral - the fact that he's not dead makes no difference to their plans. Cathy is looking at her policeman boyfriend and wondering what kind of husband he'd be. She may find out sooner than she thinks.

A group of young people receives therapy in the City Hall of Manchester.

Skaters: Adrian Mallory, Brian Hansen, Charlie Castelluzzo, Lizard King, Ragdoll, Sammy Baca, Shuriken Shannon. Soundtrack: intro – The Dirtbombs Start The Party. Brian Hansen – Girlschool C’mon let’s go. Shuriken Shannon – Viktor Vaughn Saliva. Sammy Baca – ACDC Rocker. Lizard King – Minor Threat Look Back And Laugh. Charlie Castelluzzo – Sing The Body Electric 4 Leaf Clover. Adrian Mallory – Iron Maiden Burning Ambission. Ragdoll #1 – Iggy Pop Search and Destroy. Ragdoll #2 – Icarus Line White Devil. Credits – The Dirtbombs Executioner of Love. Bonus Ragdoll – Icarus Line Party The Baby Off.

The story of liberation of Saigon by People's Army of Vietnam and National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975.

A kind-hearted, considerate high school teacher quickly earns the admiration of her new class who sees her as an idol. Together, the students undertake a secret operation to help their beloved teacher sort out her personal life.

With the advent of same sex marriage, homosexuals have achieved near-equality in much of Europe. Everything seems rosy, so why should the keep on fighting? RAINBOW'S END is a revealing and entertaining multinational journey from the center to the borders of Europe. It also shows exciting footage of the gay and lesbian manifestations in Warsaw and Cracow (Poland). Touching personal stories and social, religious and political insights. From street activism to the highest political scene at the United Nations in Geneva (Switzerland). A must see and a starting point for the most relevant discussions about the future of lesbian, gay and transgender people within Europe and throughout the world.

The story of Steve, an Adélie penguin, on a quest to find a life partner and start a family.

Documentary that poses a profound and critical look at Puerto Rico. Has the progress that was promised with the Commonwealth been fullfilled or accomplished?

In this informative program, special education expert Richard Lavoie offers creative solutions for children with learning disabilities to help alleviate the frustration, anxiety and tension (F.A.T.) they typically experience. Lavoie explores ways to help learning-disabled children build self-esteem, the role of parental responsibility, how to tailor the learning experience to the needs of the student and how to impart individual accountability.

What Playboy magazine was to the 1950's, SuicideGirls is to the new millennium: a revolutionary lifestyle brand that combines the DIY attitude of underground culture with a vibrant, sex-positive community.

By tracing the places of Vittorio De Seta films and looking for people who had contact with him, as the Cozzo Disi sulfur miners, Ganzirri swordfish fishermens and shepherds who attended in drama Banditi a Orgosolo, the documentary focuses on great change started in local cultures of the Southern Italy from 1945. The film includes an interview with De Seta, conversations with the film directors Luciano Tovoli, Franco Maresco, Gianfranco Pannone, writers Vincenzo Consolo, Goffredo Fofi, Eugenio Turri and the critic Marco Gazzano. Set in Calabria, Sardinia and Sicily, the film was shot in 35mm film and digital, contains stock footage and images taken by De Seta.

Two horror-obsessed friends, Pit and Mich, head to their buddy Jos’s remote cabin for a wild weekend with their mutual girlfriend, Susi. Inside, they uncover and unwittingly open an ancient chest, unleashing a zombie outbreak in the surrounding woods. Soon, stranded travelers Jean-Yves, Chantale, Alain, and Trixie arrive seeking refuge after their car breaks down.

"All images were shot on Market Street, one of the main streets in San Francisco. I used Sketch Film #1 and Sketch Film #2 as reference to make a plan of the film structure, and the visual was carefully composed frame by frame, while shooting on the street. This project was commissioned by Exploratorium and San Francisco Arts Commission for the outdoor screening event, A Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005: An Outdoor Centennial Celebration, at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco on Sep. 25, 2005."

This music-video piece denounces the declining state of classical music by throwing a piano into the sea as a symbol of high culture submerging. The experiment focuses a grand piano floating and drifting until it sinks. This video questions the artist's role in today's society and the piano as an icon that submerges, subverted by mass culture.

A young woman gets raped by a group of six vicious thugs, who leave her for dead in the forest. Nine months later, after seeing "I spit on your grave" on TV, she decides to take bloody revenge on her molesters.

Max wants to make a movie so badly that he does not hesitate to get involved in all possible major sins, and as we know there are seven of them...

On the life of the beloved poet David Avidan, his relatives and friends reflect on his challenging personality and the events that changed the man they once knew. A film by Yehuda Kaveh.

With the analysis of historians and political leaders, this documentary anecdotally explores the life of Juan Mari Brás through his own expressions and those of those close to him.

An asteroid falls to earth and a young girl falls victim to its spores and starts to transform into an alien.

Ruth Ziesak, soprano ; Anna Larsson, contralto ; Christoph Genz, tenor ; Dietrich Henschel, bass ; GewandhausKammerchor ; Gewandhausorchester Leipzig ; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor. Recorded in performance May 8, 2005, St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, during the 2005 Bachfest Leipzig. Special features include: Bach and his B minor Mass, an introduction by Herbert Blomstedt (21 min.)

Luc Lagier puts Alain Resnais' film back in its historical context and in the filmmaker's biography. He tells the story, then the development of what was originally intended to be a short documentary film and which turned into an unusual allegory. Composed of fascinating archives, including notably the correspondence between Duras and Resnais, this analysis of 'Hiroshima mon amour' manages to put the film in perspective while detaching itself from it. A rare and captivating work.

An apparition of a man caught on candid video. Producer Lee Min-hyung in Mokdugi production thinks there is a reason for the ghost to appear on the video. He goes to investigate the motel where the candid camera was hidden. He finds out that until recently the owner of the motel had own a haunted house where whole family was killed. It is a fake-documentary style murder mystery.

A portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), this film searches the streets for the ebb and flow of humanity and reflects the changing landscape of a city at once medieval and modern. -Mark Toscano. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

Petrolia takes its name from a redundant oil drilling platform sat in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland. The film looks at the architecture of the oil industry along the Scottish coastline where oil and gas supplies are predicted to run dry in the next forty years. Shooting on 16mm film, using time lapse and long exposure techniques, the film presents a record of industrial phenomena, – the toxic beauty of the refinery at Grangemouth, huge drilling platforms gliding across the water as they come in for maintenance and repair at Nigg and the last dance of the shipbuilding cranes in Glasgow harbour.

A summer of the century in Basel – but no vacation for Inspector Hunkeler. Instead of spending time with his partner Hedwig in Alsace, he has to take on a murky case: his family doctor, a liberal politician well known in the city, has been found murdered in her practice. A few drug addicts who had been supplied with methadone by her come under suspicion. But Hunkeler's instinct for the depths of the human psyche leads him unerringly down a different path.

An atmospheric portrait of four women who leave the factory where they work to go to the beach.

Fifteen-year old Peaches Geldof goes around the country to inquire about the teenage experience.

Obsessed & Scientific is a documentary about the possibility of time travel and the people who dream about it.

The Film looks at the transformation of Dalit women’s lives through their involvement in an ecological movement for sustainable farming in Andhra Pradesh.

Third video album released by Fishmans. Live performance made on March 2, 1996 at Shinjuku Liquid Room.

Closeted gay boy Matthew is having a bit of trouble keeping his feelings to himself and Joe Orton out of his daydreams.

Joe Luga was a singer and accompanied the German soldiers in women's clothing on the Russian front. Nothing happened to him. It was only in the 1950s and 1960s that he was sent to prison in West Germany because of his homosexuality.

It was a fateful August, and devastating floods ravaged Bohemia. Mrs. Gabriela lived alone in a spacious apartment near Prague. Perhaps she just wanted to help, or perhaps she wanted something more: either way, she called the news station to offer accommodation to an elderly disabled woman. The next day, Mrs. Věra arrived with only a bag of personal belongings that she had managed to salvage from her flooded apartment in Karlín. But perhaps this woman was looking for something more than just a roof over her head. As it gradually became clear, everything was a little different than it seemed. In any case, this situation offered both women a chance to resolve their lives, which were already drawing to a close...

Branches of trees reflect onto the surface of the water. The movement and colors of the images are completely natural and unprocessed. Neighboring objects reveal their intrinsic beauty through the eyes of the viewer

Suggestions of ancient and modern myths and folklore coalesce in dreams to bring alive a colourful animated world.

Austin City Limits has, for more than 30 years, honored both artists and music fans, creating an intimate connection between the two. Aiming beyond style boundaries, trends, or geography, ACL promises an authentic music experience while delivering the highest standard of discovery and production. This musical mission has expanded and bloomed at the ACL Music Festival in a convergence of performance, culture, people, and the beloved green expanse of Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. Artists included are The Pixies, Dashboard Confessional, Ben Harper, Los Lonely Boys, Blind Boys of Alabama and many more. Rhino. 2005.

With its rich silver mines, the medieval town of Jáchymov had given its name to the dollar. A few centuries later, the town gave face to the horror of Soviet terror in Central Europe. The film tells of the second and terrible face of the old and idyllic spa town of Jáchymov in the uranium-rich, Bohemian Ore Mountains - a small town that survived despite communist labor camps for Soviet atomic bombs.

From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão," lead by Antônio Conselheiro. The final result was a pentalogy of plays. This forth play deals with the cause of the war, when a judge from Juazeiro stopped a shipment of wood that was paid for from being delivered for the construction of the New Church of Canudos. Three expeditions were sent by the National Army and defeated, the last one commanded by the famous Colonel Moreira César. The Army faced the humiliation of soldiers deserting and running away, and the impaling of Colonel Tamarindo. He ended up being the main character in a macabre installation on the road to Canudos, created by the Jagunços (thugs from the sertão) and the Mandrakes to intimidate new expeditions.

The end. Grete, beach personality from Canoa Quebrada, is dead. His story goes back in time, moments in his life reveal his trajectory until the moment he makes the fateful decision to leave Circo Maximo and venture out alone. The beginning of the end.

Lukas Moodysson struggles to film a scene.