Cinematic Era: 2005 Vintage

Documentary about an oil spill near the Philippines

An ethnographic field report in which the Anthropologist describes the mythic creation of an unnamed ‘sun-scraping structure’ through the ritualized actions of the Red and the Blue Gods.

MDM explores the relationship between architecture and ideology by focusing on one Warsaw neighbourhood. The Marszalkowska Housing District was one of the first and most famous of Poland's 1950s Socialist-Realist housing developments. Conceived on a monumental scale as a model of socialist planning and an architectural showpiece for the new Soviet-backed Communist regime, it rose up from the ruins of a city almost completely destroyed in World War II.

Ed Ruscha made his very first art in his native Oklahoma, but soon became attracted to Los Angeles . Curator Margit Rowell has examined his extensive body of work and created a brilliant exhibition of his seldom seen drawings. Rowell visits Ruscha in his studio, looking at new paintings with the artist, discussing his progress over the decades and asking him to comment on the many milestones in his large retrospective exhibition at MoCA in Los Angeles.

A documentary about the threat posed to New Zealand's Kaipara Harbour by rapacious commercial fishing and development.

Christopher and Gordy have very different life paths. How will they be judged in the end?

After a middle school's basketball team fails to find a replacement coach, they decide to play the season without one.

The ascent of the soul in the space after death as it is awakened and drawn up in a backwards flowing waterfall.

Jethro Tull performs live at Estival Jazz, Lugano Switzerland, July 9th 2005.

From midnight until early morning you can travel to any suburb of Riga on a streetcar named Help, whose interior becomes a stage for life’s dramas, human exhaustion and hope. The streetcar is a democratic place where anyone can spend some time.

The story of a documentary film crew looking for a black leopard in South Africa.

Royce, a straight-laced accountant and Damien, a playboy real-estate agent are cousins and housemates at the crossroads of their lives. Royce is looking for true love and commitment, while Damien is avoiding it. Things become even more complicated with the arrival of their new and mysterious roommate, Toni, who is in the middle of everything. ISSUES is the anti-romantic relationship comedy about the complications and contradictions of everyday life. Raw, candidly humorous, and emotionally honest. (Van Elder - Director)

Eight martial arts masters trained in a variety of different fighting styles are summoned to the mountains for a fierce competition.

In a social context around journalist Hassan and journalist Naima, who agree to work together to achieve their life’s dream with a big scoop. He wants to expose the largest prostitution network operating in Egypt, and she wants to uncover issues of corruption and money laundering, and things and events develop.

Short animated film about a tree in a park.

A Romantic Drama with humor about two different Misfits who meet by accident in an old devastated Villa and step by step discover their feelings for each other...You must see this picture...

A complex landscape of improvised situations immersed in a perpetual network of mines under the Slovenian town of Trbovlje (Iztok Kovács' hometown and his main source of inspiration). The realistic imagery of this post-socialist city, which seems to still exist outside of time, has triggered the impulse of this introspective introspection by a team of renowned dancers and filmmakers. The physical tension and human flashes of seven bodies crashing into a deliberately chosen enclosed environment, surrounded by the unlit warmth and humidity of the underworld, inhabit and create the poetic mood of the film, echoing Tarkovsky and Beckett.

This film highlights the collapse of Nanyang Education Group, the flagship of private education in China. Other private school principals, teachers and students, as well as scholars who study education, and some government officials were interviewed. They discuss the causes from different angles. Due to the marketization of education, in order to ensure their vested interests, public schools that originally held public educational resources have adopted strategies such as "prestigious schools building branch schools" and "prestigious schools running private schools" to privatize public educational resources in order to enjoy exclusive market share. The education management department is also willing to profit from such practices and use this competition to eliminate the idea of independent and pluralistic education. Under the protection of the monopoly of privileged interests and the "Promotion Law", many outstanding private schools shut down.

A man is trying to find himself at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There he meets a woman who is trying to find a place for a very special grave.

A young couple from Rosario were watching the news on December 19, 2001, when a friend of theirs, who was on the run, suddenly visited them.

Our friends, who are driving down the coast for a holiday, have their plans interrupted when a man, gagged and bound, jumps in their car. They are presented with a difficult choice: help the stranger escape his captors or leave the man to his inevitable fate. Their choice sets off a chain of events as the stranger is found dead and the four friends are implicated for murder. With police, mobsters, politicians, and a fruitier all after them, the guys can trust no-one...not even each other.

This compelling documentary chronicles the lives of Cuban Jews who left Cuba in 1960, after having resided there since the early 1900s. The film deals with the political impact that the Castro regime had on these people, their lives and their culture. It also profiles the community still living there – looking at their fight to maintain closeness to their Jewish roots and practice their Judaism, as well as tracing how they arrived in Cuba. A fascinating and fresh portrait of a little known group in a country fraught with political turmoil.

The Mayors is a 2004 Nigerian drama film written, produced and directed by Dickson Iroegbu, and starring Richard Mofe-Damijo, Sam Dede, Segun Arinze and Mike Ezuruonye. The film won 5 awards at the maiden edition of the African Movie Academy Awards in 2005, including the awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor in a Lead Role and Best Support Actor.[

Tone and Andreas have a normal conversation together while eating breakfast.

An acronym for Distant Early Warning Line, Dew Line refers to the array of radar stations built in the Arctic during the Cold War, and to the elegant shapes created by condensation. This animated tapestry of biomorphic forms elegantly dances through the life cycles of cells while hinting at the loss of botanical diversity.

A.J. Jamal, Vyck Cooley, and Smaff Fife are three standup comedians introduced by BET host Lester Barrie on this gospel comedy release.

The Angelmakers is a 2005 documentary that provides insight into the epidemic of arsenic murders by women, known as The Angel Makers of Nagyrév, in 1929. The film is shot on location in the rural Hungarian village of Nagyrév, alternating between portraits of the surrounding landscape and first-hand narrations by the elderly inhabitants.

Triathlon: Through the Eyes of the Elite tells the dramatic and compelling stories that revolve around the young sport of Triathlon. From an in-depth and truly unique perspective we share both the historical documentation and evolution of the sport as well as the lifestyle, perseverance and passion of the professional triathlete.

The Dominion, an evil empire of machines, kidnaps robotics expert professor Kotaro Takamiya in a plot to take over the Earth with winged battle robots known at B'Ts that subsist on human blood. All looks lost until the good robot B'TX is revived, and the battle begins. Can B'TX defeat the Dominion? Will Takamiya's younger brother Tepp be able to save his sibling in time? The fate of the world hangs in the balance!

Veteran trannsexual performer Jayne County (formerly Wayne County) captured on film performing a storming full show with her backing group The Electric Chairs at Blackpool's "Holidays In The Sun" festival in 1996. Setlist: I Hate Today, Night Time, Wonder Woman, Paranoia Paradise, Bad In Bed, Are you a Boy or are you a Girl?, Man enough to be a Woman, Rock & Roll Resurrection, (If You Don't Want To F*ck Me) F*ck Off, Brainwashed.

2005 release

12 red balls spring from the ground into the air. They fall down, come to a stop and fade away to show the beautity of gravity's rhythm

In Milkman which was made in 2005, Cao Fei sorrowfully captures the daily life of the nominal main character who is a milkman. He is sprawled all over his bed during the day and agonizes over the temptation of an online sex chatting show. By capturing the moment the character’s simple life and his stimulating online fantasy meet, the artist shows another side to her world of art in the virtual reality in which she has continuously showed interest.

Feature documentary that explores the career of Anne Claire Poirier, a pioneer of Quebec cinema, which takes stock of a unique journey full of humor and depth. Familiar voices who have collaborated with Anne Claire Poirier throughout her career give their impressions and anecdotes to enrich this tribute.

When an approaching storm forces the cancellation of the annual football game between Fortuna and Ferndale, the two towns engage in a civil war of sorts.

A film about the director's relationship with his father who was a team member of the Harlem Globetrotters.

Set in the province of Cajabamba, it is the story of six siblings (three boys and three girls) whose mother dies from an illness. The young father does his best to raise them, but a new tragedy looms.

Life turns out to be much simpler and more down-to-earth than we think about it.

2005. Video/sound installation. Performer: Robin Bonaccorsi.

CD/DVD combo highlighting Grime Hiphop from the UK. CD Features 29 tracks. DVD includes videos and live PAs, interviews and freestyles featuring Kano, Lethal B, Roll Deep, Jon E Cash, J2K, Slewdem, SLK, Crazy Titch, Dizzee Rascal, The Streets, Jammer & Earz, Unorthodox, Terror Danjah, Bruza, Klashnekoff, Lady Sovereign and many more.

Veeranna is a 2005 Tamil drama film directed by B. Kalanithi. The film features Napoleon, Anamika and Preethi Varma in lead roles. The film, written by P. Kalaimani, had musical score by Soundaryan and was released on 18 December 2005.

World renowned guitarist Bob Brozman travelled to Papua New Guinea - one of the last places on the planet to have guitars arrive from afar - to capture a sound largely untainted by outside influences a raw, unique sound developed in isolation. The energetic and distinctive blend of voice and instrument performed by the Rabaul community's local stringbands reflects their unfailing optimism in the face of adversity, be it war or the volcanic eruptions that have destroyed the town twice in one century.

It is a story of two people who have given up love but find each other despite themselves through a twisted turn of hilarious events. Engaged couple, Jada and Caleb try to “hook up” platonic friends Exavia and Drew. Exavia and Drew confide each other about failed loves and nightmarish dates. All the while, Jada and Caleb (who each have no idea what the other is doing) set the friends up on blind dates with each other…on the same night, but at different places.

Ghoulish Chronicles from Bonejack High: Killer Kellerman Strikes Again ...tells the true-life adventures of Steffon, Mowgli, and Jill, three buds for life who are all about having the "good times" until one fateful night when their good times turn into nightmares due to playing with a oujia board. Two busty grim reapers tell the trio they have released the evil ghoul Killer Kellerman, who when alive was a child molester and psycho killer and all around nasty man ...and now he is back to rape more supple young asses. The trio must find a way to send the evil Kellerman back to hell. Check your noggins at the door folks as you are about to be thrust into a world of insane comedy, gore, sex charged romance, witches, big-boobed grim reapers, high school bullies, puppets, rap-off's, 80's music and be forced to ACCEPT this tomfoolery.

Maya took her good life for granted until the day a fire destroyed her home and her faith. Maya awakes up from a coma to find out her mother died in the fire. Her mother's death shatters whatever faith she had in God. Her road to recovery is full of obstacles. Just when she thought things couldn't get worse, she finds herself mixed up with a violent and controlling pimp. With the help of two unlikely people, a homeless man and a devoutly religious woman, Maya struggles to make a new life for herself.Maya's harsh experiences lead her to appreciate the true riches of life and love as she works towards healing her soul.

Julia Eriksson is a 25 year old girl who has been working in different service occupations, like most young people. Although she is indeed educated, she can't get a real job in her profession due to the current situation on the job market. When she is once again unemployed after a short deputy job, she decides to attend to her situation herself - she is starting her own business. Whilst not having any real money to begin with, she turns to the government's employment agency to apply for a grant to start her own company, a service available in special circumstances in Sweden.

Marianne throws a dinner party but finds herself feeling isolated and unloved by her friends and her lover.

Documentary about the Alcântara Family, descendants of Mestre Afonso who keep their roots alive in the streets and on stage.