2005 Toronto International Film Festival
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The 2005 Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...

ran from September 8–17 and screened 335 films from 52 countries - 109 of these films were world premieres, and 78 were North American premieres.

Awards

Awards presented during the film festival included:
  • The People's Choice Award, presented to Gavin Hood
    Gavin Hood
    Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-winning Foreign Language Film Tsotsi...

    's Tsotsi
    Tsotsi
    Tsotsi is a 2005 film written and directed by Gavin Hood. The film is an adaptation of the novel Tsotsi, by Athol Fugard. The soundtrack features Kwaito music performed by popular South African artist Zola as well as a score by Mark Kilian and Paul Hepker featuring the voice of South African...

    .
  • The Discovery Award, presented to Sarah Watt
    Sarah Watt
    Sarah Ann Watt was an Australian film director.Born in Sydney, Watt completed a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television at the Swinburne School of Film and Television, Melbourne in 1990. Her student film "Catch of the Day" was to reflect the style of future work...

    's Look Both Ways
    Look Both Ways
    Look Both Ways is a 2005 Australian independent film, written and directed by Sarah Watt, starring an ensemble cast, which was released on 18 August 2005. The film was supported by the Adelaide Film Festival fund and opened the 2005 festival. It won four AFI Awards, including Best Film and Best...

    .
  • The Fipresci Prize, presented to South Korean director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     Kang Yi-kwan for Sa-Kwa
    Sa-kwa
    Sakwa is the first film by South Korean director Kang Yi-kwan and stars Moon So-ri. It premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, but was not released in its home country South Korea until late 2008....

    .
  • A tie for the Citytv
    Citytv
    Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...

     Award for Best Canadian First Feature, presented to Louise Archambault's Familia
    Familia
    Familia was the name of a Polish political party led by the Czartoryski magnates and families allied with them, and formed toward the end of the reign of King August II...

    and Michael Mabbott's The Life And Hard Times Of Guy Terrifico
    The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico
    The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico is a Canadian mockumentary film, released in 2005. Written and directed by Michael Mabbott, the film stars Matt Murphy, a musician previously associated with the bands The Super Friendz and The Flashing Lights, as Guy Terrifico, a country singer releasing...

    .
  • The Toronto – City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, presented to C.R.A.Z.Y.
    C.R.A.Z.Y.
    C.R.A.Z.Y. is a 2005 French-language Canadian film from Quebec. The film was directed and co-written by Jean-Marc Vallée. It tells the story of Zac, a young gay man dealing with homophobia and heterosexism while growing up with four brothers and a conservative father in 1960s and 1970s...

    directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
    Jean-Marc Vallée
    Jean-Marc Vallée is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is best known for the film C.R.A.Z.Y. which is one of the most successful films in Quebec history, both financially and critically...

    .
  • The Bravo!FACT Short Cuts Canada Award, presented to Renuka Jeyapalan's Big Girl
    Big Girl (film)
    Big Girl is a short film about a girl and her mom's new boyfriend. It was nominated for a Genie Award for best live action short drama....

    .

Canada First

  • The Cabin Movie, Dylan Akio Smith
  • Les États Nordiques, Denis Côté
  • Eve & the Fire Horse, Julia Kwan
    Julia Kwan
    Julia Kwan is a Vancouver-based filmmaker who studied film and minored in psychology at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto. She was also a director resident at Norman Jewison's prestigious Canadian Film Centre, where she made her award-winning short, Three Sisters on Moon Lake...

  • Familia
    Familia (film)
    Familia is a 2005 multi-award–winning French language Canadian drama film. It was directed and written by Louise Archambault.- Plot :The story revolves around two main characters: Michèle , a free-spirited aerobics instructor with a penchant for gambling, and Janine , a suburban housewife and home...

    , Louise Archambault
  • Fetching Cody
    Fetching Cody
    Fetching Cody is a 2005 film written and directed by David Ray. The film takes place in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and follows the story of Art Frankel as he desperately tries to save his girlfriend Cody Wesson by attempting to rewrite her past...

    , David Ray
    David Ray (director)
    David Gordon Ray, known professionally as David Ray or David Ray is a Canadian screenplay writer and film director.- Selected filmography :* 2005 - Fetching Cody - full length film,...

  • The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico
    The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico
    The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico is a Canadian mockumentary film, released in 2005. Written and directed by Michael Mabbott, the film stars Matt Murphy, a musician previously associated with the bands The Super Friendz and The Flashing Lights, as Guy Terrifico, a country singer releasing...

    , Michael Mabbott
  • Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés, Robin Aubert
  • A Simple Curve, Aubrey Nealon
  • Six Figures, David Christensen
  • These Girls
    These Girls
    These Girls is a 2005 film by John Hazlett, based upon the play of the same name by Vivienne Laxdal. With David Boreanaz and Caroline Dhavernas Holly Lewis, Amanda Walsh, Colin C...

    , John Hazlett

Canadian Retrospective

Featuring Don Owen
  • Cowboy and Indian
  • The Ernie Game
  • Gallery: A View of Time
  • High Steel
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen
  • Monique Leyrac in Concert
  • Nobody Waved Goodbye
  • Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail
  • Partners
  • Richler of St. Urbain Street
  • Runner
  • Snow in Venice
  • Toronto Jazz
  • Turnabout
  • Unfinished Business
  • You Don't Back Down

Contemporary World Cinema

  • 06/05: The Sixth of May, Theo van Gogh
    Theo van Gogh (film director)
    Theodoor "Theo" van Gogh was a Dutch film director, film producer, columnist, author and actor.Van Gogh worked with the Somali-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali to produce the film Submission, which criticized the treatment of women in Islam and aroused controversy among Muslims...

  • Adam's Apples
    Adam's Apples
    Adam's Apples is a 2005 Danish comedy-drama film directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. The film revolves around the theme of the Book of Job. The main roles are played by Ulrich Thomsen and Mads Mikkelsen.- Plot :...

    , Anders Thomas Jensen
    Anders Thomas Jensen
    Anders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director.Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night...

  • All Souls, Ger Beukenkamp, Peter de Baan, Mijke de Jong, Constant Dullaart, Rita Horst, David Lammers, Tim Oliehoek, Rob Schröder, Hanro Smitsman
    Hanro Smitsman
    Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda , is a writer and director of film and television.-Films:*Schemer *Skin *Raak *Allerzielen...

    , Norbert ter Hall, Eddy Terstall, Maarten Treurniet, Meral Uslu, Marco van Geffen, Michiel van Jaarsveld, Nicole van Kilsdonk, Mariecke van der Linden, Gerrard Verhage
  • American Gun
    American Gun
    American Gun is a 2005 film produced by Participant Productions, IFC Films, IFC First Take, and Spirit Dance Entertainment. It was written in 2001 by Steven Bagatourian and Aric Avelino and directed by Avelino as his directorial debut....

    , Aric Avelino
  • Amu
    Amu (film)
    Amu is a critically acclaimed 2005 film directed by Shonali Bose, based on her own novel by the same name. It stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Brinda Karat, and Ankur Khanna...

    , Shonali Bose
    Shonali Bose
    Shonali Bose is an Indian film director, screenriter and producer. She is known for her film Amu which explores the suppressed history of the genocidal attacks on Sikhs in Delhi twenty-five years ago.-Early life:...

  • Angel Rodriguez, Jim McKay
    Jim McKay (director)
    Jim McKay is an American film and television director, producer and writer.He has directed episodes of The Wire, Treme, Big Love, and Criminal Intent as well as writing and directing Everyday People and Angel Rodriguez.-Career:...

  • Backstage
    Backstage (2005 film)
    Backstage is a French film directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, released in 2005. It was screened in the Official Selection category of the 62nd Venice International Film Festival.-Synopsis:...

    , Emmanuelle Bercot
  • Battle in Heaven, Carlos Reygadas
    Carlos Reygadas
    Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican filmmaker known for his three films Batalla en el Cielo, Japón and Silent Light . After Batalla en el Cielo, he was known for his raw depiction of sex in his films and the use of old or ugly-seeming characters...

  • Border Café
    Café Transit
    Café Transit is a 2005 Iranian film directed by Kambuzia Partovi. It was Iran's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not nominated for the award.-See also:...

    , Kambuzia Partovi
    Kambuzia Partovi
    Kambuzia Partovi is an Iranian filmmaker and scriptwriter.Partovi's latest movie, Café Transit, was nominated for the Oscars at 2007 to represent Iranian cinema in the competition for the best foreign language films. He has also written screenplays for other directors, most notably The Circle by...

  • Brooklyn Lobster
    Brooklyn Lobster
    Brooklyn Lobster is a 2005 American drama film "presented" by Martin Scorsese and written, produced, and directed by Kevin Jordan. The screenplay is based on Jordan's family's efforts to salvage their Brooklyn-based wholesale and retail seafood operation when the bank defaulted on a loan they had...

    , Kevin Jordan
  • C.R.A.Z.Y.
    C.R.A.Z.Y.
    C.R.A.Z.Y. is a 2005 French-language Canadian film from Quebec. The film was directed and co-written by Jean-Marc Vallée. It tells the story of Zac, a young gay man dealing with homophobia and heterosexism while growing up with four brothers and a conservative father in 1960s and 1970s...

    , Jean-Marc Vallée
    Jean-Marc Vallée
    Jean-Marc Vallée is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is best known for the film C.R.A.Z.Y. which is one of the most successful films in Quebec history, both financially and critically...

  • Citizen Dog
    Mah Nakorn
    Citizen Dog is a 2004 Thai romance film, directed by Wisit Sasanatieng and based on a story by Wisit's wife, Koynuch , which was illustrated by him...

    , Wisit Sasanatieng
    Wisit Sasanatieng
    Wisit Sasanatieng is a Thai film director and screenwriter of Chinese descent...

  • Dear Wendy
    Dear Wendy
    Dear Wendy is a 2005 film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, and starring Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Mark Webber and Alison Pill among others.It is a co-production of Denmark, Germany, France and the UK.The script was written by Lars von Trier....

    , Thomas Vinterberg
    Thomas Vinterberg
    Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production....

  • The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is a 2005 Romanian dark comedy film by director Cristi Puiu. In the film an old man is carried by an ambulance from hospital to hospital all night long, as doctors keep refusing to treat him and send him away....

    , Cristi Puiu
    Cristi Puiu
    Cristi Puiu is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.Puiu's first interest in art was painting and in 1992, he was admitted as a student at the Painting Department of Ecole Superieure d'Arts Visuels in Geneva. After the first year he switched to film studies at the same school and graduated in...

  • Douches froides, Antony Cordier
  • Dreaming of Space, Alexey Uchitel
  • Eleven Men Out
    Eleven Men Out
    Eleven Men Out is comedy-drama directed by Robert Ingi Douglas. The film participated in the Toronto International Film Festival , the Berlin International Film Festival , and the Hawaii International Film Festival.- Plot summary :Ottar Thor is the star player of the Icelandic football team KR...

    , Róbert I. Douglas
  • The Fatalist, João Botelho
    João Botelho
    João Botelho is a Portuguese film director.He has directed and written the screenplays of numerous films. His films have won several awards...

  • The French Guy, Ann Marie Fleming
    Ann Marie Fleming
    Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist who was born in Okinawa, in 1962, of Chinese and Australian parentage. She has a B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia, a B.F.A. from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Open...

  • Gentille, Sophie Fillières
  • Gilaneh, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab
  • The Grönholm Method, Marcelo Piñeyro
    Marcelo Piñeyro
    Marcelo Piñeyro is an Argentine award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer.-Biography:Born in Buenos Aires, Piñeyro studied cinematography at the University of La Plata's School of Fine Arts...

  • Horloge biologique, Ricardo Trogi
    Ricardo Trogi
    Ricardo Trogi is a French Canadian filmmaker, director and actor.-Career:Trogi’s first two films, Québec-Montréal, about seven twenty-something travellers driving between the two cities, and Horloge Biologique, a look at three men and their decisions about having children, were both critical and...

  • I'm the Angel of Death - Pusher III, Nicolas Winding Refn
  • Iron Island
    Iron Island (film)
    -Synopsis:Old Captain Nemat runs a tight ship. This benevolent dictator is almost a father to the scores of poor, homeless, uneducated families who live on his immensely overcrowded tanker, anchored several yards offshore. The fact that the ship's owner and the authorities have ordered him to...

    , Mohammad Rasoulof
  • The Last Hangman
    Pierrepoint (film)
    Pierrepoint , is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint....

    , Adrian Shergold
  • Linda Linda Linda
    Linda Linda Linda
    is a 2005 Japanese film. Its name comes from Japanese punk band The Blue Hearts' hit song "Linda Linda". The film was directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita and stars Aki Maeda, Yu Kashii, and Shiori Sekine as the band members, and Bae Doona as a South Korean foreign exchange student...

    , Nobuhiro Yamashita
    Nobuhiro Yamashita
    is a Japanese film director.-Career:Born in Aichi Prefecture, Yamashita attended Osaka University of Arts where he worked on Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's Kichiku Dai Enkai. His graduation film Hazy Life, took the Off Theatre Competition Grand Prize at the 2000 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival...

  • Lucid
    Lucid (film)
    Lucid is a 2005 Canadian film written and directed by Sean Garrity. It won the award for Best Western Canadian Feature Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2005 and it was nominated for Best Film at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival in 2006.-Plot:Joel Rothman is...

    , Sean Garrity
  • Mario's War, Antonio Capuano
    Antonio Capuano
    Antonio Capuano was an Argentine actor. He starred in the 1950 film Bólidos de acero under director Carlos Torres Ríos.-External links:. ....

  • Marock
    Marock
    Marock is the 2005 Moroccan film by the female director Laïla Marrakchi. The movie was very controversial as it deals with a Muslim/Jewish love between two high school mates, Rita and Youri...

    , Laïla Marrakchi
    Laila Marrakchi
    Laila Marrakchi is a Moroccan film maker most famous for the controversial film Marock. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival....

  • Mother of Mine
    Äideistä parhain
    Mother of Mine is a 2005 Finnish-Swedish film directed by Klaus Härö. The film is based on a novel by Heikki Hietamies. It received good reviews from the Finnish press, and was selected to be Finland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy...

    , Klaus Härö
    Klaus Härö
    Klaus Härö, born 31 March 1971 in Porvoo , Finland, Finland-Swedish film director. In 2004, Härö won Finland's State Prize for Art.-Films:*Letters to Father Jacob *The New Mankind *Mother of Mine...

  • La Neuvaine, Bernard Émond
    Bernard Émond
    Bernard Émond is a French-language Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his spiritual films and documentaries on the human condition.- Director :* 1992 : Ceux qui ont le pas léger meurent sans laisser de traces...

  • October 17, 1961, Alain Tasma
  • One Last Thing . . ., Alex Steyermark
  • Opa!
    OPA!
    "OPA!" is a song by Greek singer Giorgos Alkaios and Friends. It represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. The song was released by broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation on 26 February 2010 along with the other candidate songs from the national final, while a digital...

    , Udayan Prasad
  • Paradise Now
    Paradise Now
    Paradise Now is a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. It won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category....

    , Hany Abu-Assad
    Hany Abu-Assad
    Hany Abu-Assad is a Dutch-Palestinian film director. His film Paradise Now, about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006.-Early life:...

  • The Passion of Joshua the Jew, Pasquale Scimeca
    Pasquale Scimeca
    -Filmography:* Il giorno di San Sebastiano * Placido Rizzotto * Gli indesiderabili * Il cavaliere sole * Malavoglia -External links:...

  • Perpetual Motion
    Perpetual Motion (film)
    Perpetual Motion is an independent Chinese film directed by Ning Ying. The film follows four wealthy, high-powered women living in Beijing during the Chinese New Year. The film had its North American premiere on September 10, 2005 at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival...

    , Ning Ying
    Ning Ying
    Ning Ying is a female Chinese film director often considered a member of China's "Sixth Generation" filmmaker coterie, a group that also includes Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yuan and Wang Xiaoshuai. However, this is more a result of a shared subject matter than anything else, as chronologically, Ning is...

  • The President's Last Bang
    The President's Last Bang
    The President's Last Bang The original title refers to a famous Korean song of a similar title – "That Man of those Days". According to official sources, this song was performed by Sim Soo-bong during the party the night of Park's assassination. In the movie, however, Sim Soo-bong is summoned to...

    , Im Sang-soo
    Im Sang-soo
    Im Sang-soo is an award-winning South Korean film director and screenwriter.-Early life and film career:Im was born in Seoul. He studied sociology at Seoul's Yonsei University before making a move to The Korean Academy of Film Arts in 1989...

  • Pusher
    Pusher (film)
    Pusher is a 1996 Danish crime film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The film was not only a huge success in Denmark, but also in many other European countries. It was the film that launched Winding Refn's career. It became the first of a trilogy...

    , Nicolas Winding Refn
  • River Queen
    River Queen
    River Queen is a 2005 New Zealand film directed by Vincent Ward and starring Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland and Cliff Curtis. The film opened to mixed reviews but performed well at the local box-office.-Plot:...

    , Vincent Ward
    Vincent Ward
    Vincent Ward, ONZM is a film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Vincent Ward was awarded an Order of New Zealand Merit in 2007 for his contribution to film making. He was born in Greytown, New Zealand. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Silverstream and trained as an artist at the...

  • Riviera, Anne Villacèque
  • Runaway
    Runaway (2005 film)
    Runaway is a 2005 film directed by Tim McCann. It is about two siblings, Michael and Dylan Adler, twenty-one and eight years old respectively, who run away from home and attempt to start a new life because of a pedophile father....

    , Tim McCann
    Tim McCann (director)
    Tim McCann is an American film director and a professor of film and a director at his alma mater SUNY-Purchase.He directed his first feature film, Desolation Angels, in 1995, made on a budget of less than $50,000...

  • Shadowboxer
    Shadowboxer
    Shadowboxer is a 2005 thriller directed by Lee Daniels that stars Academy Award winners Cuba Gooding, Jr., Helen Mirren, and Mo'Nique. It opened in limited release in six cities: New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Richmond, Virginia.-Plot:Mikey and his stepmother...

    , Lee Daniels
    Lee Daniels
    Lee Louis Daniels is an American actor, film producer, and director. He produced Monster's Ball and directed the film Precious, which received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Director; the film won two of the awards.-Early years:Daniels was born on Christmas Eve, 1959, in...

  • Shanghai Dreams
    Shanghai Dreams
    Shanghai Dreams is a 2005 Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai and starring Gao Yuanyuan, Li Bin, Tang Yang, Wang Xiaoyang, and Yao Anlian. The film was produced by Stellar Megamedia, Debo Films Ltd...

    , Wang Xiaoshuai
    Wang Xiaoshuai
    Wang Xiaoshuai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the Sixth Generation of the Cinema of China....

  • Shooting Dogs
    Shooting Dogs
    Shooting Dogs, released in the United States as Beyond the Gates, is a 2005 film, directed by Michael Caton-Jones and starring John Hurt, Hugh Dancy and Claire-Hope Ashitey. It is based on the experiences of BBC news producer David Belton, who worked in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide...

    , Michael Caton-Jones
    Michael Caton-Jones
    Michael Caton-Jones is the director of such films as Scandal, Rob Roy, Memphis Belle and The Jackal...

  • Something Like Happiness
    Something Like Happiness
    Something Like Happiness is a 2005 Czech movie directed by Bohdan Sláma. It is about finding hope in the midst of disappointment by three young people who grew up in the same run-down block of flats and are now coming of age. The film won the Golden Seashell at the San Sebastian Film...

    , Bohdan Sláma
    Bohdan Sláma
    Bohdan Sláma is a Czech film director. He studied at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague .- Filmography :* 2008 – Venkovský učitel...

  • Sud Express, Chema de la Peña, Gabriel Velázquez
  • Summer in Berlin
    Summer in Berlin
    Summer in Berlin is a 2005 German tragicomic film directed by Andreas Dresen.-Reception:The film won the Bayerischer Filmpreis for Dresen as "Best Director", the Silver Hugo Award for Inka Friedrich and Nadja Uhl together as "Best Actress", and sold nearly one million tickets at the box office,...

    , Andreas Dresen
    Andreas Dresen
    Andreas Dresen is an award-winning German film director. His directing credits include Cloud 9, Summer in Berlin, Grill Point and Night Shapes. His film Stopped on Track premiered at the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of Un Certain Regard...

  • Sunflower
    Sunflower (2005 film)
    Sunflower is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yang. Zhang's fourth film, Sunflower is a joint production of Ming Productions, the Beijing Film Studio and the Hong Kong subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Fortissimo Films...

    , Zhang Yang
  • Le Temps qui reste
    Le Temps qui reste
    Time to Leave is a French film directed by François Ozon, released in 2005. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

    , François Ozon
    François Ozon
    François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality....

  • Transamerica
    Transamerica (film)
    Transamerica is a 2005 independent comedy-drama film produced by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company. The film tells the story of Bree, a transsexual woman , who goes on a road trip with her long-lost son Toby ....

    , Duncan Tucker
    Duncan Tucker
    Duncan Tucker is an American film director and screenwriter.Tucker was born in Arizona and graduated from New York University. After the short subject film The Mountain King, which was screened at over 31 international festivals, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Transamerica. Tucker's...

  • À travers la forêt
    A travers la forêt
    À travers la forêt is a 2005 French film directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac.-Plot summary:After a motorcycle accident, Renaud dies. His girlfriend Armelle can’t forget him. Her sisters suggest she could go to a medium for help...

    , Jean Paul Civeyrac
  • Tsotsi
    Tsotsi
    Tsotsi is a 2005 film written and directed by Gavin Hood. The film is an adaptation of the novel Tsotsi, by Athol Fugard. The soundtrack features Kwaito music performed by popular South African artist Zola as well as a score by Mark Kilian and Paul Hepker featuring the voice of South African...

    , Gavin Hood
    Gavin Hood
    Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-winning Foreign Language Film Tsotsi...

  • 12 and Holding, Michael Cuesta
    Michael Cuesta
    Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director. Cuesta co-wrote and directed the 2001 independent film, L.I.E.. He has directed and produced television series including Six Feet Under, Dexter and Blue Bloods.-Biography:He received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in...

  • U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha, Mark Dornford-May
    Mark Dornford-May
    Mark Dornford-May is a British-born South African theatre and film director.-Early life:Mark Dornford-May was born on his Grandfathers farm near Eastoft in Yorkshire. His paternal Grandfather was a miner on the Yorkshire coalfields...

  • Va, Vis et Deviens, Radu Mihaileanu
    Radu Mihaileanu
    Radu Mihăileanu is a Jewish Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 and graduated the IDHEC cinematographic institute in Paris. In addition to his work in the cinema he published a book of poems in 1987 titled Une vague en mal de mer...

  • La Vie avec mon père, Sébastien Rose
  • Viva Cuba
    Viva Cuba
    Viva Cuba is a 2005 Cuban film, directed by Juan Carlos Cremata and Iraida Malberti Cabrera, and written by Cremata and Manolito Rodriguez...

    , Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
    Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
    Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti is a Cuban Film Director. He started his career as an author and actor for children’s TV shows, made for the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television from 1981 to 1987...

  • Whole New Thing
    Whole New Thing
    Whole New Thing is a 2005 Canadian dramatic film which was directed by Amnon Buchbinder. The script is co-written by Amnon Buchbinder and Daniel MacIvor. Filmed entirely on location in Mahone Bay and Halifax, Nova Scotia, during winter and over the course of 15 days, the film is an unconventional...

    , Amnon Buchbinder
  • The Willow Tree
    The Willow Tree
    The Willow Tree is a 2005 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi. It tells the story of Youssef, a man blinded in a fireworks accident, when eight years old. After an operation he regains his vision, changing his life in unexpected ways...

    , Majid Majidi
    Majid Majidi
    Majid Majidi is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Majidi's films have touched on many themes and genres and he has won many international awards.-Biography:...

  • With Blood on My Hands - Pusher II, Nicolas Winding Refn

Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

  • Ghosts… of the Civil Dead, John Hillcoat
    John Hillcoat
    John Hillcoat is an Australian screenwriter and film director.Hillcoat was born in Queensland, Australia, and was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As a child, his paintings were featured in the Art Gallery of Hamilton. He has repeatedly worked with Nick Cave and also the band Depeche Mode...

  • Liza with a 'Z', Bob Fosse
    Bob Fosse
    Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse was an American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction...

  • Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
    Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
    Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream is a 2005 documentary written and directed by Stuart Samuels, based on his book on the subject....

    , Stuart Samuels
  • My Dad Is 100 Years Old, Guy Maddin
    Guy Maddin
    Guy Maddin, OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba...

  • Rome, Open City
    Rome, open city
    Rome, Open City is a 1945 Italian war drama film, directed by Roberto Rossellini. The picture features Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani and Marcello Pagliero, and is set in Rome during the Nazi occupation in 1944...

    , Roberto Rossellini
    Roberto Rossellini
    Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...

  • Stranded In Canton, William Eggleston
    William Eggleston
    William Eggleston , is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries—which, until the 1970s, often tended to privilege work by photographers making black-and-white prints.- Early years...

    , Robert Gordon
  • The Wild, Wild Rose
    The Wild, Wild Rose
    The Wild, Wild Rose is a 1960 Hong Kong film directed by Wang Tian-lin. The story line and the songs' melodies are derived from the opera Carmen.-Cast and roles:* Yeung Sha Fei Au - Hanhua's Mother...

    , Wong Tin Lam
  • William Eggleston in the Real World
    William Eggleston in the Real World
    William Eggleston In The Real World is a documentary film about the photographer William Eggleston, made by Michael Almereyda, released in 2005....

    , Michael Almereyda
    Michael Almereyda
    Michael Almereyda is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His most well known work is Hamlet , starring Ethan Hawke.-Early life:...


Discovery

  • 7 Virgins, Alberto Rodríguez
    Alberto Rodríguez
    Alberto Rodríguez Barrera is a Mexican football defender, currently playing for Cruz Azul Hidalgo.He has been capped for the Mexican national team, and he was an unused substitute at the 2002 FIFA World Cup....

  • Bam Bam and Celeste, Lorene Machado
  • Benares, Barlen Pyamootoo
  • Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon, Khalo Matabane
  • Dam Street
    Dam Street
    Dam Street is a 2005 Chinese film directed by Li Yu. Dam Street is Li's second feature film, after 2001's Fish and Elephant and was produced by screenwriter Fang Li's Laurel Films and Sylvain Bursztejn's French company, Rosem Fims....

    , Li Yu
    Li Yu (director)
    Li Yu is a female Chinese film director and screenwriter. Li began her career in entertainment at a young age, serving as a presenter at a local TV station...

  • Day Break
    Day Break
    Day Break is a television program for which one 13-episode season was produced. The series starred Taye Diggs as Detective Brett Hopper, who is framed for the murder of Assistant District Attorney Alberto Garza. Due to a time loop, Hopper lives the same day over and over...

    , Hamid Rahmanian
  • Do U Cry 4 Me Argentina?, Bae Youn-suk
  • Dreaming Lhasa
    Dreaming Lhasa
    Dreaming Lhasa is the 2005 Tibetan language debut feature film of veteran documentary filmmakers, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, who have been making films about various aspects of Tibet under the banner of White Crane Films since 1990...

    , Ritu Sarin
    Ritu Sarin
    Ritu Sarin was born in New Delhi. She studied at Miranda House in Delhi University and went on to finish her studies at California College of the Arts in Oakland. Ritu and her husband, Tenzing Sonam, and have been making films since their student days in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 80s...

    , Tenzing Sonam
  • Festival, Annie Griffin
    Annie Griffin
    Annie Griffin is an American writer and director.Griffin relocated to the UK in 1981. In the early 1990s she worked creating animated idents for MTV. In 1993 she worked as an actress on the Oscar nominated short animated film The Village...

  • Kinetta
    Kinetta (film)
    Kinetta is a 2005 Greek film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It was written by Yorgos Lanthimos and Yorgos Kakanakis. Aris Servetalis, Evangelia Randou and Costas Xikominos are the main protagonists....

    , Yorgos Lanthimos
    Yorgos Lanthimos
    Yorgos Lanthimos is a Greek filmmaker and theatre director.Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens. He studied directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School in Athens. Through the 90’s he directed a series of videos for Greek dance-theater companies...

  • Little Athens
    Little Athens
    Little Athens is a 2005 American independent film directed by Tom Zuber, which stars John Patrick Amedori, Erica Leerhsen, DJ Qualls, Rachel Miner, Eric Szmanda, Michael Pena, and more...

    , Tom Zuber
  • Look Both Ways
    Look Both Ways
    Look Both Ways is a 2005 Australian independent film, written and directed by Sarah Watt, starring an ensemble cast, which was released on 18 August 2005. The film was supported by the Adelaide Film Festival fund and opened the 2005 festival. It won four AFI Awards, including Best Film and Best...

    , Sarah Watt
    Sarah Watt
    Sarah Ann Watt was an Australian film director.Born in Sydney, Watt completed a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television at the Swinburne School of Film and Television, Melbourne in 1990. Her student film "Catch of the Day" was to reflect the style of future work...

  • The Masseur, Brillante Mendoza
    Brillante Mendoza
    Brillante Mendoza is a Filipino film director. He has directed nine films since 2005. He won the award for Best Director for his film Kinatay at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival...

  • Pavee Lackeen, Perry Ogden
  • A Perfect Day, Joana Hadjithomas
    Joana Hadjithomas
    Joana Hadjithomas is a Lebanese film director, screenwriter and producer. She often collaborates with Khalil Joreige. A Perfect Day is one of their most acclaimed films, and earned them the Don Quixote Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival...

    , Khalil Joreige
    Khalil Joreige
    Khalil Joreige is a Lebanese film director, screenwriter and producer. He often collaborates with Joana Hadjithomas. A Perfect Day is one of their most acclaimed films, and earned them the Don Quixote Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival...

  • Sa-kwa
    Sa-kwa
    Sakwa is the first film by South Korean director Kang Yi-kwan and stars Moon So-ri. It premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, but was not released in its home country South Korea until late 2008....

    , Kang Yi-Kwan
  • Shark in the Head, Maria Procházková
  • The Shore, Dionysius Zervos
  • Sisters
    Hermanas
    Hermanas is a 2005 Argentine, Brazilian and Spanish drama film written and directed by Julia Solomonoff, her first feature motion picture. The picture has a number of producers, including: Mariela Besuievski, Pablo Bossi, Florencia Enghel, Gerardo Herrero, Vanessa Ragone, Walter Salles, and Ariel...

    , Julia Solomonoff
    Julia Solomonoff
    Julia Solomonoff is an Argentine film actor, producer, film and television director, and screenplay writer.She works in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:Directing & Writer* Octavo 51...

  • Someone Else's Happiness
    Someone Else's Happiness
    Someone Else's Happiness is a 2005 Belgian-Dutch film directed and written by Fien Troch. The movie was the Belgian entry for the Academy Awards 2006 in the category Best Foreign Language Film but failed to receive the actual nomination.- Cast :...

    , Fien Troch
    Fien Troch
    Fien Troch is a Belgian left field film director, producer and screenwriter. After graduating from the Sint-Lukas art academy in Brussels in 2000, she achieved several nominations and awards in her chosen career....

  • Sorry, Haters
    Sorry, Haters
    Sorry, Haters is a 2005 film written and directed by Jeff Stanzler, starring Robin Wright Penn, Abdel Kechiche, Élodie Bouchez and Sandra Oh, distributed by IFC Films. It was an "official selection" in both the Toronto and American Film Institute film festivals...

    , Jeff Stanzler
    Jeff Stanzler
    Jeff Stanzler is an American screenwriter and director. He wrote and directed the 2005 psychological thriller, Sorry, Haters, an "official selection" in both the Toronto and American Film Institute film festivals. He is currently working on a documentary about politics in West Africa. He's...

  • Stoned
    Stoned (film)
    Stoned, also known as The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones in the UK, is a 2005 film about Brian Jones, one of the founding members of The Rolling Stones...

    , Stephen Woolley
    Stephen Woolley
    Stephen Woolley is an English film producer and director. He is best known for his work with director Neil Jordan, which has resulted in a number of critically acclaimed films including the Oscar-winning The Crying Game....

  • Time Off
    Time Off
    Time Off is a free weekly tabloid-sized music magazine that is released in Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Time Off is the oldest free music/entertainment weekly in Australia. Time Off began on campus at the University of Queensland, and was originally printed on A4 glossy stock. In the late 70s, Time...

    , Francisca Schweitzer, Pablo Solís
  • The War Within
    The War Within (film)
    The War Within is a 2005 American drama film directed by Joseph Castelo. Created by Honet Films and released by Magnolia Pictures, the film stars Ayad Akhtar, Firdous Bamji, Nandana Sen and Sarita Choudhury...

    , Joseph Castelo
  • You Bet Your Life, Antonin Svoboda
    Antonín Svoboda
    Antonin Svoboda was a Czech computer scientist, mathematician, electrical engineer, and researcher. He is credited with originating the design of fault-tolerant computer systems, and with the creation of SAPO, the first Czech computer design....


Masters

  • Breakfast on Pluto
    Breakfast on Pluto (film)
    Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...

    , Neil Jordan
    Neil Jordan
    Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :...

  • Brokeback Mountain
    Brokeback Mountain
    Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee. It is a film adaptation of the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx with the screenplay written by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry...

    , Ang Lee
    Ang Lee
    Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman , Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Hulk , and Brokeback Mountain , for which he won an Academy...

  • Bubble
    Bubble (film)
    Bubble is a movie directed by Steven Soderbergh. It was shot on high-definition video and was made for a relatively small budget of $1.6 million. It also featured some unusual production aspects.In traditional terms, the movie has no script...

    , Steven Soderbergh
    Steven Soderbergh
    Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...

  • Caché
    Caché (film)
    Caché is a 2005 Austrian-French film written and directed by Michael Haneke. It stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges and Juliette Binoche as his wife Anne.-Plot:...

    , Michael Haneke
    Michael Haneke
    Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...

  • L'Enfant, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
  • Free Zone
    Free Zone (film)
    Free Zone is a 2005 film directed by Amos Gitai. Shot in Israel and Jordan, the Israel-Belgium-French-Spain production stars Israeli Jewish actress Hanna Laslo, Palestinian Arab actress Hiam Abbass, and Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman....

    , Amos Gitai
    Amos Gitai
    Amos Gitai , born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli filmmaker and director. He is mainly known for making documentaries and experimental / minimalist feature films...

  • Iberia, Carlos Saura
    Carlos Saura
    Carlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director and photographer.-Early life:Born into a family of artists , he developed his artistic sense in childhood as a photography enthusiast.He obtained his directing diploma in Madrid in 1957 at the Institute of Cinema Research and Studies...

  • Manderlay
    Manderlay
    Manderlay is the 2005 sequel to the film Dogville. It is the second part of Lars von Trier's projected USA - Land of Opportunities trilogy. Bryce Dallas Howard replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace Mulligan. The film co-stars Willem Dafoe, replacing James Caan...

    , Lars von Trier
    Lars von Trier
    Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....

  • Memories In The Mist, Budhdhadeb Dasgupta
  • Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company, Allan King
    Allan King
    Allan Winton King, OC was a Canadian film director.-Life:During the Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano, Vancouver...

  • No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
    No Direction Home
    No Direction Home is a documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th century American popular music and culture. The film does not cover Dylan's entire career; it concentrates on the period between Dylan's arrival in New York in January 1961 and his...

    , Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese
    Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...

  • Obaba, Montxo Armendáriz
    Montxo Armendáriz
    Montxo Armendariz, born Ramón Armendariz Barrios, in Olleta, Orbaibar, in Navarra , Spain 1949, is an awarded Spanish screenwriter and film director....

  • The Sun
    The Sun (film)
    The Sun is a 2005 Russian biographical film surrounding Japanese Emperor Shōwa during the final days of World War II. The film is the third drama in director Aleksandr Sokurov's trilogy following on the leaders of Russia and Germany's .-Plot:Towards the conclusion of the Second World War, Japan...

    , Alexander Sokurov
    Alexander Sokurov
    Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a semi-documentary, Russian Ark , filmed in a single unedited shot, and Faust , which was honoured with the Golden Lion, the highest prize for the best film at the Venice Film Festival.- Life and work...

  • Takeshis'
    Takeshis'
    Takeshis' is a 2005 Japanese film directed, written, edited by, and starring Takeshi Kitano. It is the first film in Kitano's surrealist autobiographical trilogy, being followed by Glory to the Filmmaker!, and Achilles and the Tortoise....

    , Takeshi Kitano
    Takeshi Kitano
    is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic...

  • Three Times
    Three Times
    Three Times is a 2005 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. It features three chronologically separate stories of love between May and Chen, set in 1911, 1966 and 2005, using the same lead actors, Shu Qi and Chang Chen.The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film...

    , Hou Hsiao-Hsien
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...

  • Tideland
    Tideland (film)
    Tideland is a 2005 British-Canadian fantasy thriller film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, an adaptation of Mitch Cullin's novel of the same name. The film was shot in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and surrounding area in the fall and winter of 2004...

    , Terry Gilliam
    Terry Gilliam
    Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , The Fisher King , and 12 Monkeys...


Mavericks

  • Mavericks: Albert Maysles
  • Mavericks: Ivan Reitman
    Ivan Reitman
    Ivan Reitman, OC is a Canadian film producer and director. He is known for the comedies he has directed and produced, especially in the 1980s and 1990s.He is the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 2000.-Early life:...

  • Mavericks: Laurie Anderson
    Laurie Anderson
    Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...

  • Mavericks: Nick Park
    Nick Park
    Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep....


Midnight Madness

  • Bangkok Loco
    Bangkok Loco
    Bangkok Loco is a 2004 Thai comedy-musical-fantasy film directed by Pornchai Hongrattanaporn, written by Sompope Vejchapipat and starring Krissada Terrence. The story involves a gifted young rock drummer named Bay who commits a grisly murder and becomes a fugitive from the law...

    , Pornchai Hongrattanaporn
  • Banlieue 13, Pierre Morel
    Pierre Morel
    -Movie career:After spending his formative years in cinema school, Pierre Morel debuted in 2000 as camera operator with the first Richard Berry's film L'Art de la séduction....

  • The District!
    The District!
    The District! is a 2004 Hungarian caricaturistic animated film directed by Áron Gauder. Its original title is a shortened colloquial form of nyolcadik kerület, the eighth district of Budapest, also known as Józsefváros, including an infamous neighbourhood where the film takes place...

    , Áron Gauder
  • Evil Aliens
    Evil Aliens
    Evil Aliens , is a British "splatstick" horror-comedy film directed by Jake West, in the tradition of films such as Braindead, House, and Evil Dead....

    , Jake West
    Jake West
    -Biography:He directed a movie called "Doghouse", a horror comedy starring Danny Dyer , Noel Clarke and Stephen Graham -Biography:He directed a movie called "Doghouse", a horror comedy starring Danny Dyer (Severance, The Football Factory"), Noel Clarke ("Adulthood", "Kidulthood", "Dr. Who") and...

  • The Great Yokai War
    Yokai Daisenso
    is a 2005 Japanese fantasy children's film directed by Takashi Miike and produced by Kadokawa Pictures. In the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and on its June 30, 2006, American premiere, in New York City, it was released under the international English title The Great Yokai War by Tokyo...

    , Takashi Miike
    Takashi Miike
    is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...

  • Hostel, Eli Roth
    Eli Roth
    Eli Raphael Roth is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He is known for his role as Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds for which he won both a SAG Award and a BFCA Critic's Choice Award...

  • Isolation, Billy O'Brien
    Billy O'Brien
    William Smith O'Brien was a Major League Baseball first baseman. He was a native of Albany, New York.O'Brien played for the St. Paul Saints and Kansas City Cowboys, both of the Union Association, in 1884. He also played for the National League Washington Senators and the Brooklyn Gladiators...

  • Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is a 2005 documentary directed by Sam Dunn with Scot McFadyen and Jessica Wise. The film follows 31-year-old Dunn, a Canadian anthropologist, who has been a heavy metal fan since the age of 12...

    , Sam Dunn
    Sam Dunn
    Sam Dunn is a Canadian anthropologist and film-maker whose work focuses on the culture of heavy metal. Together with Scot McFadyen, Dunn owns Toronto-based production company Banger Films, Inc.-Metal: A Headbanger's Journey:...

    , Scot McFadyen
    Scot McFadyen
    "Scot McFadyen" is a Canadian director, producer and music supervisor whose work focuses on the culture of heavy metal. Together with Sam Dunn, McFadyen owns Toronto-based production company Banger Films, Inc.-Metal: A Headbanger's Journey:...

    , Jessica Joy Wise
  • Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic is a 2005 comedy written by Sarah Silverman, directed by Liam Lynch and distributed by Roadside Attractions....

    , Liam Lynch
  • SPL: Sha Po Lang
    SPL: Sha Po Lang
    SPL: Sha Po Lang , , is a 2005 Hong Kong martial arts and crime film written and directed by Wilson Yip, starring Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam and Jing Wu...

    , Wilson Yip
    Wilson Yip
    Wilson Yip Wai-Shun is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker and screenwriter. His films include Bio Zombie, The White Dragon, SPL: Sha Po Lang, Dragon Tiger Gate, Flash Point, Ip Man, and Ip Man 2.-Early career:...


Real To Reel

  • 3 Friends, Mingmongkol Sonakul
    Mingmongkol Sonakul
    Mom Luang Mingmongkol Sonakul is a Thai film producer and independent film director. As the head of her own production company, Dedicate Ltd., she has produced films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul ; Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, including Invisible Waves; Pimpaka Towira's One Night Husband and The Tin Mine by...

    , Aditya Assarat
    Aditya Assarat
    Aditya Assarat is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, producer and cinematographer.-Early career:...

    , Pumin Chinaradee
  • 51 Birch Street
    51 Birch Street
    51 Birch Street is a 2005 documentary film about the universal themes of love, marriage, fidelity, and the mystery of a suburban family, directed by Doug Block.-The characters:...

    , Doug Block
    Doug Block
    Doug Block is an American independent director, cameraman and producer.Doug Block's documentary credits include:*The Kids Grow Up...

  • a/k/a Tommy Chong
    A/k/a Tommy Chong
    a/k/a Tommy Chong, written, produced, and directed by Josh Gilbert, is a documentary film that chronicles the Drug Enforcement Administration raid on comedian Tommy Chong's house and his subsequent jail sentence for trafficking in illegal drug paraphernalia...

    , Josh Gilbert
  • All About Darfur, Taghreed Elsanhouri
  • Ballets Russes, Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine
  • Black Bull, Pedro González-Rubio, Carlos Armella
  • Black Sun, Gary Tarn
    Gary Tarn
    Gary Tarn is a British filmmaker and composer. His debut feature, a documentary entitled Black Sun, was nominated for a BAFTA in the following category: The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director in their First Feature Film, 2007.-Awards:*2007 BAFTA / Nominated for Best...

  • China Blue
    China Blue
    China Blue is a 2005 documentary film directed by Micha Peled. It follows the life of Jasmine, a young seventeen year old worker from Sichuan province, in a Chinese jeans factory, Lifeng Clothes Factory in Shaxi, Guangdong producing Vigaze Jeans , hence the title...

    , Micha Peled
  • A Conversation with Basquiat, Tamra Davis
    Tamra Davis
    Tamra Davis is an American film, television and music video director.-Biography:She is known for directing films such as Billy Madison, CB4 and Half Baked and television shows such as My Name Is Earl and Everybody Hates Chris. She also directed the film Crossroads, starring Britney Spears.She...

  • The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a 2006 documentary film about the noted American artist Daniel Johnston. It chronicles Johnston's life from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his experiences with bipolar disorder, and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession. The film was...

    , Jeff Feuerzig
  • Diameter of the Bomb, Steven Silver (film director)
    Steven Silver
    Steven Silver may refer to:* Steven Silver , film director* Stephen Silver, Disney animator* Steven H Silver, science fiction editor and publisher...

    , Andrew Quigley
    Andrew Quigley
    Andrew Quigley was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Quigley worked for the Post Office. In 1929, he was elected to the Senate of Northern Ireland as an Ulster Unionist Party representative, despite having no previous political experience., He served until his death in 1937.-References:...

  • The Giant Buddhas
    The Giant Buddhas
    The Giant Buddhas is a documentary by Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei about the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan in Afghanistan. It was released in March 2006...

    , Christian Frei
    Christian Frei
    Christian Frei is a Swiss filmmaker. He is mostly known for his two films War Photographer and The Giant Buddhas . Both deal with topics and themes more or less linked to war and intolerance....

  • The Heart of the Game
    The Heart of the Game
    The Heart of the Game is a sports documentary about the Roosevelt Roughriders girls basketball team. The movie is centered around their star player Darnellia Russell and the Roughriders new coach Bill Resler.-Plot:...

    , Ward Serrill
  • Into Great Silence
    Into Great Silence
    Into Great Silence is a documentary film directed by Philip Gröning that was first released in 2005. It is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps . The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the...

    , Philip Groening
  • John & Jane, Ashim Ahluwalia
    Ashim Ahluwalia
    Ashim Ahluwalia is a film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His first feature was John & Jane, which had a world premiere at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival followed by a European premiere at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival...

  • Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man is a 2005 film by Lian Lunson about the life and career of Leonard Cohen. It is based on a January 2005 tribute show at the Sydney Opera House titled "Came So Far for Beauty", which was produced by Hal Willner...

    , Lian Lunson
    Lian Lunson
    Lian Lunson is an Australian actress who became an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She has also written a novel.She was born in Ned Kelly Country in Australia.She moved to Los Angeles in 1987 after working as an actress in Australia....

  • Overcoming, Tómas Gislason
  • Pick Up the Mic
    Pick Up the Mic
    Pick Up the Mic is a documentary film, released in 2006, which profiles the underground LGBT hip hop scene and homohop, which is a subgenre of hip-hop that includes gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rappers, DJ's and hip-hop artists. The film was directed by Alex Hinton.The documentary had...

    , Alex Hinton
  • Sisters in Law
    Sisters in Law
    Sisters in Law: Stories from a Cameroon Court is a feature-length documentary film by Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto portraying aspects of women's lives and work in the judicial system in Cameroon, West Africa.-Plot:...

    , Kim Longinotto
    Kim Longinotto
    Kim Longinotto is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films which highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination...

    , Florence Ayisi
  • The Smell of Paradise, Mariusz Pilis, Marcin Mamon
  • Souvenir of Canada
    Souvenir of Canada
    Souvenir of Canada is a 2002 book written by Canadian author Douglas Coupland. A feature film based on the book was released theatrically in 2006....

    , Robin Neinstein
  • Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
    Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
    Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela is a 2006 documentary film about a generation of men who left South Africa to form the African National Congress and spread their message across the world. Considered terrorists by the U.S...

    , Thomas Allen Harris
    Thomas Allen Harris
    Thomas Allen Harris is the founder and President of Chimpanzee Productions a company dedicated to producing unique audio-visual experiences that illuminate the Human Condition and the search for identity, family, and spirituality...

  • We Feed the World
    We Feed the World
    We Feed the World is a 2005 documentary in which Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat and views modern industrial production of food and factory farming in a critical light...

    , Erwin Wagenhofer
    Erwin Wagenhofer
    Erwin Wagenhofer is an Austrian author and film director.In 1981 he presented his first short film Endstation normal. Two years later his short film Das Loch was shown at the Krakau film festival. From that year until 1987 he worked as a directing and camera assistant for several ORF productions...

  • The Well, Kristian Petri
  • Why We Fight
    Why We Fight (2005 film)
    Why We Fight, directed by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2006 documentary film about the military–industrial complex. The title refers to the World War II-era eponymous propaganda movies commissioned by the U.S...

    , Eugene Jarecki
    Eugene Jarecki
    Eugene Jarecki is an author and a dramatic and documentary filmmaker based in New York.His works include Why We Fight, which won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Reagan, Freakonomics , Quest of the Carib Canoe, and Season of the...

  • Workingman's Death
    Workingman's Death
    Workingman's Death is a 2005 Austrian-German documentary film written and directed by Michael Glawogger. It premiered at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. The film deals with the extremes to which workers go to earn a living in several countries around the world.The film is composed of six differently...

    , Michael Glawogger
    Michael Glawogger
    Michael Glawogger is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.From 1981 to 1982 Glawogger studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and then from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy...

  • Zizek!
    Žižek!
    Zizek!, sometimes written as Žižek!, is a 2005 American/Canadian documentary film directed by Astra Taylor. Its subject is philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, a prolific author and former candidate for the Presidency of Slovenia in the Council of Presidents of Yugoslavia.Zizek! premiered at...

    , Astra Taylor
    Astra Taylor
    Astra Taylor is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker and writer, best known for her 2005 film, Zizek!, about the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, and for her 2008 film, Examined Life....


Short Cuts Canada

  • Une Âme nue glisse à l'eau vive, Denis Chabot
  • The Argument (A 'Burnt Toast' Opera), Larry Weinstein
  • At the Quinte Hotel, Bruce Alcock
  • Benediction, Tess Girard
  • Berlin, Sarah Galea-Davis
  • Big Girl
    Big Girl (film)
    Big Girl is a short film about a girl and her mom's new boyfriend. It was nominated for a Genie Award for best live action short drama....

    , Renuka Jeyapalan
  • Une Chapelle Blanche, Simon Lavoie
  • Claude., Stéphane Lafleur, Louis-David Morasse
  • cNote, Chris Hinton
    Chris Hinton
    Christopher Hinton is a former American football tackle and guard who played thirteen seasons in the National Football League, mainly with the Indianapolis Colts. He was traded from the Denver Broncos for John Elway. He went to seven Pro Bowls, six with the Colts and one with the Atlanta Falcons...

  • Day of John, Christopher R. Nash
  • Dumb Angel, Deco Dawson
  • The First Day of My Life, David Uloth
  • A Half Man, Firas Momani
  • Hide, Byron Lamarque
  • Hiro
    Hiro (film)
    Hiro is a short film about a Japanese insect collector who is forced outof his shell by a series of strange events. As funny as it is touching, Hiro drawsinspiration from disparate sources to weave a unified tale of obsession, love, loss, and...

    , Matthew Swanson
  • Lake, Ryan Redford
  • Leo, David Hyde
  • Letters From R, Ross Turnbull
    Ross Turnbull
    Ross Turnbull is an English footballer who is currently playing his club football for Chelsea as a goalkeeper in the Barclays Premier League.-Early life:...

  • Liberté conditionnelle, Constant Mentzas
  • A Little Death - Cut Keith Cole, Michael Caines, Keith Cole
  • Mixed Signals, Richard Martin
    Richard Martin (director)
    Richard Martin , is an award-winning Canadian television director, film director and film editor. He was born in Vancouver and is the son of comedian Dick Martin...

  • My Uncle Navy and Other Inherited Disorders, Adam Swica
  • Noise, Greg Spottiswood
  • One Balloon, Aram Hekinian, Aruna Naimji
  • Patterns, Jamie Travis
    Jamie Travis
    Jamie Travis is a Toronto-based filmmaker who has written and directed award-winning short films, music videos and television commercials. He received international recognition for his two short film trilogies: The Patterns Trilogy and the Saddest Children in the World trilogy. His six short films...

  • Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriend: Ankara, Don McKellar
    Don McKellar
    -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...

  • Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriend: Istanbul, Don McKellar
    Don McKellar
    -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...

  • The Racist Brick, Adam Brodie, Dave Derewlany
  • Room 710, Ann Marie Fleming
    Ann Marie Fleming
    Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist who was born in Okinawa, in 1962, of Chinese and Australian parentage. She has a B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia, a B.F.A. from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Open...

  • Le Rouge Au Sol, Maxime Giroux
    Maxime Giroux
    Maxime Giroux is a film director from Quebec, Canada. He has directed several short films, videoclips and commercial videos...

  • Shoulders on a Map, Jason Britski
  • Still Life, Jon Knautz
  • Tell Me, Shandi Mitchell
    Shandi Mitchell
    Shandi Mitchell is a Canadian novelist, and short filmmaker. Her novel Under This Unbroken Sky, won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, first novel, Canada and the Caribbean,and Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize...

  • There's a Flower in My Pedal, Andrea Dorfman
  • Troll Concerto, Alexandre Franchi
  • The True Story of Sawney Beane, Elizabeth Hobbs
  • Unlocked
    Unlocked
    Unlocked is ChristianRapper Verbs' third album.----# Live to the Musc# She's Miss Sin # Trippin' # Love Triangle# Pre-Paid # What You Rock Now# Feelin' the Interlude...

    , Sook-Yin Lee
    Sook-Yin Lee
    Sook-Yin Lee is a Canadian musician, filmmaker, actress and media personality.-Background:Lee grew up in a Vancouver suburb, the second-oldest daughter of immigrants. She was raised as a devout Roman Catholic. Her father was a post-World War II orphan from Hong Kong, her mother an escapee from...

  • Unwritten..., Kaare Andrews
    Kaare Andrews
    Kaare Andrews is a comic book writer and artist and filmmaker known for his cover work on Incredible Hulk and Canada's first national recognized award, "The Shuster", for his work on Spider-Man: Doctor Octopus.-Career:...

  • Vancouver, Jesse McKeown
  • Waiting, Jamie M. Dagg
  • The Waldo Cumberbund Story, Simon Ennis
  • what's up with the kids?, Simon Davidson
  • The Wrong Number, Adam Brodie, Dave Derewlany
  • Yesterday in Rwanda, Davina Pardo

Special Presentations

  • 3 Needles
    3 Needles
    3 Needles is a 2005 Canadian drama film directed by Thom Fitzgerald. The title, refers to the three main characters who make a deal with the Devil in order to survive a global epidemic...

    , Thom Fitzgerald
    Thom Fitzgerald
    Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald is an award winning American-Canadian film director as well live theater director.-Life:Fitzgerald was born and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His parents divorced when he was five years old. He moved with his mother and brother, Timothy Jr., to Bergenfield, New Jersey,...

  • All the Invisible Children
    All the Invisible Children
    All the Invisible Children is a 2005 anthology film on the theme of childhood and exploitation. It is a collection of seven short films, each focused on a different child.The film has a total runtime of 116 minutes, averaging 16 minutes each....

    , Mehdi Charef
    Mehdi Charef
    Mehdi Charef is a French film director and screenwriter of Algerian descent. He has worked on eleven films between 1985 and 2007. His film Le thé au harem d'Archimède was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival...

    , Emir Kusturica
    Emir Kusturica
    Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...

    , Spike Lee
    Spike Lee
    Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....

    , Kátia Lund
    Kátia Lund
    Kátia Lund is an American-Brazilian film director and screenwriter. Her most notable work was as co-director of the film City of God....

    , Jordan and Sir Ridley Scott, Stefano Veneruso, John Woo
    John Woo
    John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong-based film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard...

  • Les Amants Réguliers, Philippe Garrel
    Philippe Garrel
    Philippe Garrel is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer. His movies have won him awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival...

  • April Snow
    April Snow
    April Snow is a 2005 Korean romance film. Filming commenced on February 4, 2005 under the director Hur Jin-ho. The film was released in September 2005. Despite not making a profit in its country of origin, the film was a box-office success in several other Asian countries, owing mostly to the...

    , Heo Jin-ho
    Heo Jin-ho
    Heo Jin-ho , born on August 8, 1963, is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He is a graduate of Yonsei University with a degree in philosophy and has also studied filmmaking at the Korean Academy of Film Arts...

  • Art Project: Ghosts of Woodrow, Graeme Patterson
  • Bee Season
    Bee Season
    Bee Season is a 2000 novel by Myla Goldberg. It follows a young girl as she attempts to win the national spelling bee, and the repercussions of her success on the other members of her family.-Plot summary:...

    , Scott McGehee
    Scott McGehee
    Scott McGehee is an American film director and screenwriter. He is a Columbia University graduate, born in California, but currently residing in New York City.He is half of a long-standing writing-directing partnership with filmmaker David Siegel....

    , David Siegel
    David Siegel
    David Siegel is an American motion picture screenwriter and director, and part of a long-standing writing-directing team with filmmaker Scott McGehee.-Filmography:*Suture *The Deep End *Bee Season *Uncertainty...

  • Beowulf & Grendel
    Beowulf & Grendel
    Beowulf & Grendel is a 2005 film loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. Filmed in Iceland and directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, it stars Gerard Butler as Beowulf, Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Grendel and Sarah Polley as the witch Selma...

    , Sturla Gunnarsson
    Sturla Gunnarsson
    Sturla Gunnarsson is a Canadian film director.Gunnarsson was born in Iceland in 1951. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, with his parents when he was seven years old. As he grew up he became interested in filmmaking and went to the University of British Columbia where he completed...

  • Capote
    Capote (film)
    Capote is a 2005 biographical film about Truman Capote, following the events during the writing of Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood. Philip Seymour Hoffman won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the title role. The movie was...

    , Bennett Miller
    Bennett Miller
    Bennett Miller is an American film director.Miller is the director of the feature Capote , a film for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Director. He also directed the documentary film The Cruise...

  • Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    A compilation of "music from and inspired by" the film was released on March 14, 2006.The album was released by Geffen Records, and produced by Corey Smyth for Blacksmith Music Corp and Questlove.#Dead Prez - "Hip Hop"#Black Star - "Definition"...

    , Michel Gondry
    Michel Gondry
    Michel Gondry is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Life and career :...

  • Entre ses mains
    Entre ses mains
    Entre ses mains is a 2005 French-Belgian drama film directed by Anne Fontaine. The screenplay was written by Fontaine and Julien Boivent, and was based on the novel "Les Kangourous" by Dominique Barbéris....

    , Anne Fontaine
    Anne Fontaine (filmmaker)
    Anne Fontaine is a filmmaker and screenwriter who used to be an actor. She lives and works in France.Born Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc, sister of actor Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, she went as a young child to live in Lisbon, where her father, Antoine Sibertin-Blanc, is a music professor and cathedral...

  • Everlasting Regret
    Everlasting Regret
    Everlasting Regret is a 2005 Hong Kong film directed by Stanley Kwan, and produced by Jackie Chan. It is based on Changhen Ge, a novel by Wang Anyi, about a woman's turbulent life in 20th century Shanghai, China...

    , Stanley Kwan
    Stanley Kwan
    Stanley Kwan is a Hong Kong Second Wave film director and producer.Kwan landed a job at the TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College...

  • Everything Is Illuminated
    Everything Is Illuminated (film)
    Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 adventure/dramedy film, written and directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz...

    , Liev Schreiber
    Liev Schreiber
    Isaac Liev Schreiber , commonly known as Liev Schreiber, is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having initially appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the Scream trilogy of...

  • Fateless
    Fateless (film)
    Fateless is a film directed by Lajos Koltai, released in 2005. It was based on the semi-autobiographical novel Fatelessness by the Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertész, who wrote the screenplay. It is the story of a teenage boy who is sent to concentration camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz.Its...

    , Lajos Koltai
    Lajos Koltai
    Lajos Koltai, ASC, HSC, is a Hungarian cinematographer and film director best known for his work with legendary Hungarian director Istvan Szabo, and Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore...

  • Harsh Times
    Harsh Times
    Harsh Times is a 2006 American crime film set in South Los Angeles. The film stars Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez, and was written and directed by David Ayer, who wrote the script for the Academy Award-winning film Training Day. The film was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and...

    , David Ayer
    David Ayer
    David Ayer is an American screenwriter, film producer and film director.-Early life:David Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1968. He grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota and Bethesda, Maryland, where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager...

  • The House of Sand
    The House of Sand
    The House of Sand is a 2005 Brazilian film directed by Andrucha Waddington. It stars real life mother and daughter Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres...

    , Andrucha Waddington
    Andrucha Waddington
    Andrucha Waddington is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He has directed eleven films since 1998. His film Eu Tu Eles was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...

  • Imagine Me and You, Ol Parker
    Ol Parker
    Oliver Parker is an English TV writer and director.In 1997, he married actress Thandie Newton, who starred in his first film, It Was an Accident ....

  • Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a 2005 crime/dark comedy film, which engages many conventions of the classic film noir genre in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. It is based, in part, on the novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them by Brett Halliday. The cast includes Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan...

    , Shane Black
    Shane Black
    Shane Black is an American actor, screenwriter and film director. He contributed to some of the biggest blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including work on Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout...

  • Little Fish
    Little Fish (film)
    Little Fish is a 2005 Australian film directed by Rowan Woods and written by Jacquelin Perske. It was filmed in and around Sydney, in Cabramatta and in Fairfield...

    , Rowan Woods
    Rowan Woods
    Rowan Woods is an Australian film and television director, actor and screenwriter. Woods directed The Boys in 1998 and won an AFI award for best direction. His next film, Little Fish was released in September 2005 in Australia, starring Cate Blanchett...

  • A Little Trip to Heaven
    A Little Trip to Heaven
    A Little Trip to Heaven is an Icelandic/United States noir-inspired drama and thriller film from 2005, directed by Icelandic director of The Sea, Baltasar Kormákur. The film is set in the U.S. in 1985 but almost entirely shot in Iceland...

    , Baltasar Kormákur
    Baltasar Kormákur
    Baltasar Kormákur is an Icelandic actor, theater and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films 101 Reykjavík, Hafið, A Little Trip to Heaven , and a film based on the book Mýrin by Arnaldur Indriðason...

  • Mistress of Spices
    Mistress of Spices
    The Mistress of Spices, , set in contemporary Oakland, California, is a novel by Indian American writer and University of Houston Creative Writing Program professor Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.-Plot summary:...

    , Paul Mayeda Berges
    Paul Mayeda Berges
    Paul Mayeda Berges is an American screenwriter and director.Of Japanese ancestry, Berges graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1990. He has collaborated with his wife, British-Indian director Gurinder Chadha, on a number of films...

  • Nanook of the North
    Nanook of the North
    Nanook of the North is a 1922 silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk Nanook and his family in the Canadian arctic...

    , Robert J. Flaherty
    Robert J. Flaherty
    Robert Joseph Flaherty, F.R.G.S. was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film, Nanook of the North...

  • Neverwas
    Neverwas
    Neverwas is a 2005 English film written and directed by Joshua Michael Stern, starring Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Brittany Murphy and Nick Nolte.It was first shown at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival...

    , Joshua Michael Stern
  • The Notorious Bettie Page
    The Notorious Bettie Page
    The Notorious Bettie Page is a 2005 American biographical film directed by Mary Harron. The screenplay by Harron and Guinevere Turner focuses on 1950s pinup and bondage model Bettie Page.-Plot:...

    , Mary Harron
    Mary Harron
    Mary Harron is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter best known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page.-Overview:...

  • Oliver Twist
    Oliver Twist (2005 film)
    Oliver Twist is a 2005 British drama film directed by Roman Polanski. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood is based on the 1838 novel of the same title by Charles Dickens....

    , Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...

  • Romance & Cigarettes
    Romance & Cigarettes
    Romance & Cigarettes is a 2005 American musical romantic comedy film written and directed by John Turturro. The film stars an ensemble cast, including James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale, Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Aida Turturro, Christopher Walken,...

    , John Turturro
    John Turturro
    John Michael Turturro is an American actor, writer and director known for his roles in the films Do the Right Thing , Miller's Crossing , Barton Fink , Quiz Show , The Big Lebowski , O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the Transformers film series...

  • Seven Swords
    Seven Swords
    Seven Swords is a 2005 Hong Kong wuxia film adapted from Liang Yusheng's novel Qijian Xia Tianshan. It was produced and directed by Tsui Hark, and starred Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon...

    , Tsui Hark
    Tsui Hark
    Tsui Hark , born Tsui Man-kong, is a Hong Kong New Wave film director and producer. He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema .-Early life:...

  • Shopgirl
    Shopgirl
    Shopgirl is a 2005 American romantic drama film directed by Anand Tucker. The screenplay by Steve Martin is based on his 2000 novella of the same name.-Plot:...

    , Anand Tucker
    Anand Tucker
    Anand Tucker is a film director and producer based in London. He began his career directing factual television programming and adverts...

  • Sketches of Frank Gehry
    Sketches of Frank Gehry
    Sketches of Frank Gehry is a 2005 American documentary film directed by Sydney Pollack and produced by Ultan Guilfoyle, about the life and work of the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. The film was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Pollack and Gehry had been...

    , Sydney Pollack
    Sydney Pollack
    Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting...

  • Slow Burn
    Slow Burn
    Slow Burn is an American drama thriller film starring Ray Liotta, Jolene Blalock and LL Cool J, which is notable for the extended period between production and eventual release...

    , Wayne Beach
  • The Squid and the Whale
    The Squid and the Whale
    The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach and produced by Wes Anderson. It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents' divorce in the 1980s. The film is named after a giant squid and sperm whale diorama...

    , Noah Baumbach
    Noah Baumbach
    Noah Baumbach is an American writer, director and independent filmmaker.-Background and education:Baumbach was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and Village Voice critic Georgia Brown. He graduated from Brooklyn's Midwood High School in 1987 and ...

  • Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
    Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
    Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is a 2008 South Korean film by director Park Chan-wook. In North America and parts of Europe, the film has been screened under the title Lady Vengeance. The film is the third installment in Park's The Vengeance Trilogy, following Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy...

    , Park Chan-wook
    Park Chan-wook
    Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic. One of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in his native country, Park is most known for his films Joint Security Area, Thirst and what has become known as The Vengeance Trilogy, consisting of...

  • Thank You for Smoking, Jason Reitman
    Jason Reitman
    Jason Reitman is a Canadian/American film director, screenwriter, and producer, best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking , Juno , and Up in the Air . As of February 2, 2010, he has received three Academy Award nominations, two of which are for Best Director...

  • Thumbsucker
    Thumbsucker (film)
    Thumbsucker is a 2005 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Mills adapted from the Walter Kirn novel of the same name. The movie focuses on teenager Justin Cobb and how he copes with his thumb sucking problem, and his experiments with hypnosis, sex and drugs.-Plot:Justin Cobb is a shy...

    , Mike Mills
    Mike Mills (director)
    Michael C. "Mike" Mills is an American film and music video director and graphic designer. He is perhaps best known for his independent films Thumbsucker and Beginners.-Early life:...

  • Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
    Corpse Bride
    Corpse Bride, often promoted as Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, is a 2005 stop-motion-animated fantasy musical film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton. It is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe. Johnny Depp led an all-star cast as the voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter ...

    , Tim Burton
    Tim Burton
    Timothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...

    , Mike Johnson
  • Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    A Cock and Bull Story
    A Cock and Bull Story is a 2006 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom...

    , Michael Winterbottom
    Michael Winterbottom
    Michael Winterbottom is a prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features...

  • Trust the Man
    Trust the Man
    Trust the Man is a 2006 romantic comedy film, starring David Duchovny, Billy Crudup, Julianne Moore, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. It was directed and written by Bart Freundlich. The film primarily deals with three relationships, and a realization of just how important those relationships are...

    , Bart Freundlich
    Bart Freundlich
    Bartholomew "Bart" Freundlich is an American film, television director, screenwriter and film producer.-Life and career:...

  • Vers Le Sud
    Heading South (film)
    Heading South is a 2005 French drama film by director Laurent Cantet and based on three short stories by Dany Laferrière, it depicts the experiences of three middle-aged white women in the late 1970s, traveling to Haiti for the purposes of sexual tourism with young men...

    , Laurent Cantet
    Laurent Cantet
    Laurent Cantet is a French director, born on June 15, 1961 at Melle . His parents were schoolteachers in Ardilleux.On 25 May 2008, he received the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes 2008, for the movie Entre les murs.- As director :...

  • Wah-Wah
    Wah-Wah
    Wah-Wah is a 2005 drama film, written and directed by British actor Richard E. Grant and loosely based on his childhood in Swaziland. Filmed and set in Swaziland, the film was premiered at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival and also opened the Edinburgh Festival to critical acclaim...

    , Richard E. Grant
    Richard E. Grant
    Richard E. Grant is a Swaziland-born British actor, screenwriter and director. His most notable role came in the film Withnail and I. He holds dual British and Swazi citizenship.-Early life:...

  • Winter Passing
    Winter Passing
    Winter Passing is a 2005 American drama film. It is the directorial debut of playwright Adam Rapp, also known for his work on the show The L Word. The film stars Zooey Deschanel and Ed Harris, with supporting performances by Will Ferrell and Amelia Warner...

    , Adam Rapp
    Anthony Rapp
    Anthony Deane Rapp is an American stage and film actor and singer best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway production of Rent in 1996 and later for reprising the role in the film version and the Broadway Tour of Rent in 2009...

  • The World's Fastest Indian
    The World's Fastest Indian
    The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical film based on the Invercargill, New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified Indian Scout motorcycle...

    , Roger Donaldson
    Roger Donaldson
    Roger Donaldson is an Australian-born New Zealand film producer, director and writer who has made numerous successful movies. He was a co-founder of the New Zealand Film Commission.-Life and career:...

  • Zozo
    Zozo
    Zozo is a 2005 Swedish-Lebanese film about a Lebanese boy during the civil war, who gets separated from his family and ends up in Sweden. It was directed by Swedish-Lebanese director Josef Fares. The story is mostly inspired by Fares' real life immigration to Sweden during the war.The film was...

    , Josef Fares
    Josef Fares
    Josef Fares is a Crystal-Simorgh winning Swedish film director with Assyrian/Syriac origin. His brother is the actor Fares Fares, who has appeared in many of his films....


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  • Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story, John Gatins
  • Edison
    Edison (film)
    Edison , is a 2005 American thriller film written and directed by David J. Burke, starring Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake, and Kevin Spacey....

    , David J. Burke
    David J. Burke
    David J. Burke, born 8 November 1948 in Raleigh, North Carolina, is an executive producer, screenwriter and film and television director.Burke has produced Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, seaQuest DSV, TriBeCa, and other shows.-External links:...

  • Elizabethtown
    Elizabethtown (film)
    Elizabethtown is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. Alec Baldwin has a small role as a CEO of an athletic shoe company and Susan Sarandon appears as a grieving widow...

    , Cameron Crowe
    Cameron Crowe
    Cameron Bruce Crowe is an American screenwriter and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes....

  • L'Enfer, Danis Tanović
    Danis Tanovic
    Danis Tanović is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter.Tanović is best known for having directed and written the script for the 2001 Bosnian movie No Man's Land which won an Academy Award. He was a member of the jury at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Biography:Danis Tanović was born in the...

  • A History of Violence
    A History of Violence (film)
    A History of Violence is a 2005 American crime thriller film directed by David Cronenberg and written by Josh Olson. It is an adaptation of the 1997 graphic novel of the same name by John Wagner and Vince Locke...

    , David Cronenberg
    David Cronenberg
    David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...

  • In Her Shoes, Curtis Hanson
    Curtis Hanson
    Curtis Lee Hanson is an American film director, film producer and screenwriter. His directing work includes The Hand That Rocks the Cradle , L.A...

  • The Matador
    The Matador
    The Matador is a 2005 American dark comedy film written and directed by Richard Shepard and starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear.As of February 12, 2006, the film grossed a total of $10.5 million in the American box office...

    , Richard Shepard
    Richard Shepard
    Richard Shepard is an American film and television director and screenwriter. In 2007 Shepard received a Directors Guild of America Award and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for the television pilot Ugly Betty....

  • Mrs. Harris, Phyllis Nagy
    Phyllis Nagy
    Phyllis Nagy is a theatre and film director, screenwriter and dramatist.-Theatre career:Nagy moved to London in 1992, where her playwriting career began in earnest at the Royal Court Theatre under the artistic direction of Stephen Daldry for whom she served as the Royal Court's writer-in-residence...

  • Mrs. Henderson Presents
    Mrs. Henderson Presents
    Mrs Henderson Presents is a 2005 British comedy film directed by Stephen Frears. It stars Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly, and Will Young in his acting debut.-Plot:...

    , Stephen Frears
    Stephen Frears
    Stephen Arthur Frears is an English film director.-Early life:Frears was born in Leicester, England to Ruth M., a social worker, and Dr Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant. He did not find out that his mother was Jewish until he was in his late 20s...

  • The Myth, Stanley Tong
    Stanley Tong
    Stanley Tong is a film director from Hong Kong.According to IMDb , he customarily attempts stunts himself before asking actors to risk themselves...

  • North Country
    North Country (film)
    North Country is a 2005 American drama film directed by Niki Caro. The screenplay by Michael Seitzman was inspired by the 2002 book Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler, which chronicled the case of...

    , Niki Caro
    Niki Caro
    Niki Caro is film director, producer and screenwriter who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her 2002 film Whale Rider was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals....

  • Pride & Prejudice
    Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)
    Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 British romance film directed by Joe Wright. It is a film adaptation of the 1813 novel of the same name by Jane Austen and the second adaption produced by Working Title Films. It was released on September 16, 2005, in the UK and on November 11, 2005, in the...

    , Joe Wright
    Joe Wright
    Joe Wright is an English film director best known for Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Hanna.-Early life and career:...

  • Proof
    Proof (2005 film)
    Proof is a 2005 American drama film directed by John Madden and starring Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Hope Davis; it was written by Rebecca Miller, based on David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title.-Plot:...

    , John Madden
    John Madden (director)
    John Philip Madden is an English director of theatre, film, television, and radio.- Biography :Madden was educated at Clifton College. He was in the same house as friend and fellow director Roger Michell. He began his career in British independent films, and graduated from the University of...

  • Revolver, Guy Ritchie
    Guy Ritchie
    Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English screenwriter and film maker who directed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, RocknRolla and Sherlock Holmes.-Early life:...

  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a 2005 American drama film directed by Tommy Lee Jones and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, and Dwight Yoakam....

    , Tommy Lee Jones
    Tommy Lee Jones
    Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....

  • Walk the Line
    Walk the Line
    Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash...

    , James Mangold
    James Mangold
    James Allen Mangold is an American film director and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for Walk the Line which he co-wrote and directed.-Life and career:...

  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 British clay-mation animated comedy horror film, the first feature-length Wallace and Gromit film. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Animations, and released by DreamWorksPictures...

    , Steve Box
    Steve Box
    Steve Box is an English animator and director who works for Aardman Animations.His early work in animation included the popular British claymation television series The Trap Door for Bristol-based animation studio CMTB Animation.Box joined Aardman Animations in 1990. He directed the video for the...

    , Nick Park
    Nick Park
    Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep....

  • Water, Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...

  • Where the Truth Lies
    Where the Truth Lies
    Where the Truth Lies is a 2005 Canadian/British drama film, written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It stars Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison Lohman, and is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Rupert Holmes.-Plot:...

    , Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

  • The White Masai
    The White Masai
    The White Masai , directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, is a 2005 movie about Swiss woman Carola falling in love in Kenya with Maasai Lemalian . The film is based upon an autobiographical novel by Swiss writer Corinne Hofmann....

    , Hermine Huntgeburth

Visions

  • 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous
    50 Ways of Saying Fabulous
    50 Ways of Saying Fabulous is a 2005 New Zealand drama film directed by Stewart Main and starring Jay Collins and Andrew Patterson. It is based on a novel by Graeme Aitken...

    , Stewart Main
  • L'Anullaire, Diane Bertrand
  • Attente, Rashid Masharawi
    Rashid Masharawi
    Rashid Masharawi, film artist, born in Gaza in 1962 to a family of refugees from Jaffa. He grew up in the Shati refugee camp....

  • Be with Me
    Be with Me
    Be with Me is a 2005 Singaporean drama film directed by Eric Khoo. The film is inspired by the life of deaf-and-blind teacher Theresa Poh Lin Chan. It premiered as the Director's Fortnight selection in the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It was also the official entry from Singapore for the 78th Academy...

    , Eric Khoo
    Eric Khoo
    Eric Khoo is a film director from Singapore. He was introduced to the world of cinema at a very early age. He was educated at United World College of South East Asia before attending City Art Institute in Sydney, Australia where he pursued cinematography...

  • Bed Stories, Kirill Serebrennikov
  • Brothers of the Head
    Brothers of the Head
    Brothers of the Head is a 2005 mockumentary featuring the story of Tom and Barry Howe , conjoined twins living in the United Kingdom...

    , Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
  • Un Couple parfait, Nobuhiro Suwa
    Nobuhiro Suwa
    is a Japanese film director working in Japan and France. His directorial works and screenplays often make use of improvisation techniques. Currently, Suwa is the President of Tokyo Zokei University.-Biography:...

  • Delicate Crime, Beto Brant
  • Drawing Restraint 9
    Drawing Restraint 9
    Drawing Restraint 9 is a project by visual artist Matthew Barney consisting of a feature length 35mm film, large-scale sculptures, photographs, drawings, and books. The Drawing Restraint series consists of 16 numbered components and related materials. Some episodes are videos, others sculptural...

    , Matthew Barney
    Matthew Barney
    Matthew Barney is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video...

  • Duelist
    Duelist (film)
    Duelist is a 2005 South Korean martial arts film, directed by Lee Myung-se. The Korean title translates as "The Detective".- Plot :The movie opens with a fish tale narrated by a low-class metalsmith in a tavern in Joseon-era south-western Korea. The scene then cuts to a street circus, in which an...

    , Lee Myung-se
    Lee Myung-se
    Lee Myung-se is a South Korean filmmaker.Lee began his career as an assistant producer under Bae Chang-ho for the films Hwang Jin-I , Our Sweet Days of Youth , and Dream...

  • Fallen, Fred Kelemen
    Fred Kelemen
    Fred Kelemen is a European film director, cinematographer and writer. The late Susan Sontag helped to promote Kelemen's work in the mid-1990s, comparing it to the likes of Alexander Sokurov, Béla Tarr and Sharunas Bartas...

  • The Forsaken Land
    The Forsaken Land
    The Forsaken Land is a 2005 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Vimukthi Jayasundara. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or.-Cast:* Kaushalaya Fernando - Soma...

    , Vimukthi Jayasundara
    Vimukthi Jayasundara
    Vimukthi Jayasundara is an award winning Sri Lankan film director.-Early life:Vimukthi Jayasundara was born in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka. He was educated at Mahinda College, Galle. Vimukthi began his cinematic career as a journalist, film critic and screenwriter. He attended the Institute for Film and...

  • Frankie, Fabienne Berthaud
  • Gabrielle
    Gabrielle (film)
    Gabrielle is a 2005 French film directed by Patrice Chéreau. It is a screen adaptation of Joseph Conrad's short story The Return.-Plot:...

    , Patrice Chéreau
    Patrice Chéreau
    Patrice Chéreau is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.-Biography:Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics as director, actor, and stage manager of his high-school theatre...

  • I Am
    I Am (film)
    I Am is a 2010 Indian anthology film by Onir. It consists of four short films: "Omar", "Afia", "Abhimanyu", and "Megha". Each film shares the common theme of fear and each is also based on real life stories. The film was financed by donations from more than 400 different people around the world,...

    , Dorota Kędzierzawska
    Dorota Kedzierzawska
    Dorota Kędzierzawska is a Polish director of feature and documentary films.Kędzierzawska graduated from the National Film School in Łódź in 1981 but prior to that had completed a course in cultural studies at the University of Łódź and studied film directing in Moscow for two years.Kędzierzawska...

  • Lie with Me
    Lie with Me
    Lie with Me is a Canadian drama film with graphic sexual content that played at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. It is based on the novel of the same name by Tamara Berger...

    , Clement Virgo
    Clement Virgo
    Clément Virgo is a Canadian filmmaker of international acclaim. His latest feature, the boxing drama Poor Boy's Game, stars Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland...

  • Mary
    Mary (2005 film)
    Mary is a 2005 drama thriller film, written and directed by American director Abel Ferrara. The film stars Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Marion Cotillard, Matthew Modine and Heather Graham....

    , Abel Ferrara
    Abel Ferrara
    Abel Ferrara is an American film screenwriter and director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer , Ms. 45 , King of New York , Bad Lieutenant and The Funeral .-Early life:Ferrara was born in the Bronx of Italian and Irish descent...

  • Monobloc
    Monobloc (film)
    Monobloc is an Argentine film, directed by Luis Ortega, his second feature, and written by Ortega and Carolina Fal. The film stars Graciela Borges, Rita Cortese, Carolina Fal, and others.-Plot:...

    , Luis Ortega
    Luis Ortega
    Luis Ortega is an award winning Argentine film director, and screenplay writer.He works in the cinema of Argentina.-Biography:Ortega attended film school at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires....

  • The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, released in 2005, was the second feature-length film by the Brothers Quay and their first film in over ten years. It features of Amira Casar, Gottfried John and Assumpta Serna.-Plot:...

    , Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay
  • The Porcelain Doll, Péter Gárdos
  • The Proposition
    The Proposition
    The Proposition is a 2005 western film directed by John Hillcoat and written by screenwriter and musician Nick Cave. It stars Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, John Hurt, Danny Huston and David Wenham. The film's production completed in 2004 and was followed by a wide 2005 release in...

    , John Hillcoat
    John Hillcoat
    John Hillcoat is an Australian screenwriter and film director.Hillcoat was born in Queensland, Australia, and was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As a child, his paintings were featured in the Art Gallery of Hamilton. He has repeatedly worked with Nick Cave and also the band Depeche Mode...

  • The Quiet
    The Quiet
    The Quiet is a 2005 American drama and thriller film directed by Jamie Babbit, and starring Camilla Belle and Elisha Cuthbert. It focuses on a mute teenage girl, Dot who goes to live with her godparents after her father dies, where she slowly learns the disturbing secrets of the family, primarily...

    , Jamie Babbit
    Jamie Babbit
    Jamie Babbit is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She directed the films But I'm a Cheerleader, The Quiet and Itty Bitty Titty Committee. She has also directed episodes of television programs including Gilmore Girls, Malcolm in the Middle, United States of Tara, Nip/Tuck and...

  • Les Saignantes
    Les Saignantes
    Utterly singular, Les Saignantes is a futuristic, sci-fi, erotic, political thriller that traverses all of these genres while bringing a strong political sensibility to proceedings. Two sexy young women win the favors of the corrupt political elite, but when one of these leaders dies in the middle...

    , Jean-Pierre Bekolo
    Jean-Pierre Bekolo
    -Education:* Studied physics at University of Yaounde* Institut national de l'audiovisuel INA in France, under Christian Metz.-Awards and Features:* 1993 - British Film Institute award , for Quartier Mozart....

  • La Trahison, Philippe Faucon
  • Twilight, Victoria Gamburg
  • Wassup Rockers
    Wassup Rockers
    -Plot:Wassup Rockers is about a group of Guatemalan American and Salvadoran American teenagers in South Central Los Angeles who, instead of conforming to the hip hop culture of their gang-infested neighborhood, wear tight pants, listen to punk rock,and ride skateboards. Avoiding the violence of...

    , Larry Clark
    Larry Clark
    Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clark is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa...

  • The Wayward Cloud
    The Wayward Cloud
    The Wayward Cloud is a 2005 film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. The cast includes Lee Kang-sheng and Chen Shiang-chyi. The film was Taiwan's official entry for the 78th Academy Awards in the foreign-language category...

    , Tsai Ming-liang
    Tsai Ming-liang
    Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang...


Wavelengths

  • (Re)collection, Arshia Haq
  • Aerial, Margaret Tait
    Margaret Tait
    Margaret Caroline Tait was a Scottish film maker and poet.-Life:Tait was born and raised in Kirkwall on Orkney, an island off the coast of Scotland.Tait died in Kirkwall in 1999.-Training and career:...

  • Album
    Album (film)
    Album is a 2002 Indian Tamil romantic drama film written and directed by Vasanthabalan, starring Aryan Rajesh and Shruthika. The story portrays the love and affection between two families. The film, produced by Kavithalayaa Productions, was Vasanthabalan's directorial debut and became a commercial...

    , Matthias Müller
  • Black Belt Test Exposure, Lynn Marie Kirby
  • Close Quarters, Jim Jennings
    Jim Jennings
    -Biography:Jennings was born James Benton Jennings on November 14, 1933 in Crystal City, Missouri.-Career:Jennings was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the twenty-sixth round of the 1955 NFL Draft and played that season with the team. He played at the collegiate level at the University of...

  • Douro, Faina Fluvial
    Douro, Faina Fluvial
    Douro, Faina Fluvial is a 1931 Portuguese documentary short film. It was the first film directed by Manoel de Oliveira and is a portrait of his hometown of Porto and the labor and industry that takes place along the cities main river, the Douro River...

    , Manoel de Oliveira
    Manoel de Oliveira
    Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and...

  • Essex Street Market
    Essex Street Market
    The Essex Street Market is an indoor retail market that was one of a number of such facilities built in the 1930s under the administration of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at 120 Essex Street at the corner of Delancey Street...

    , Ernie Gehr
    Ernie Gehr
    Ernie Gehr is an American experimental filmmaker closely associated with the Structural film movement of the 1970s. A self-taught artist, Gehr was inspired to begin making films in the 1960s after chancing upon a screening of a Stan Brakhage film. Gehr's film Serene Velocity has been selected...

  • Fugitive L(i)ght, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
  • Greene Street, Ernie Gehr
    Ernie Gehr
    Ernie Gehr is an American experimental filmmaker closely associated with the Structural film movement of the 1970s. A self-taught artist, Gehr was inspired to begin making films in the 1960s after chancing upon a screening of a Stan Brakhage film. Gehr's film Serene Velocity has been selected...

  • Half-Moon for Margaret, Ute Aurand
  • India, Ute Aurand
  • Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine, Peter Tscherkassky
    Peter Tscherkassky
    Peter Tscherkassky is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker who works exclusively with found footage. All of his work is done with film and heavily edited in the darkroom, rather than relying on technological modes.-Early life:...

  • Lapse Lose All, Kathryn MacKay, Alexi Manis
  • Mouse Heaven, Kenneth Anger
    Kenneth Anger
    Kenneth Anger is an American underground experimental filmmaker, occasional actor and author...

  • Noon Time Activities, Ernie Gehr
    Ernie Gehr
    Ernie Gehr is an American experimental filmmaker closely associated with the Structural film movement of the 1970s. A self-taught artist, Gehr was inspired to begin making films in the 1960s after chancing upon a screening of a Stan Brakhage film. Gehr's film Serene Velocity has been selected...

  • not a matter of if but when, The Speculative Archive
  • Pyramid Lake Piaute Reservation Exposure, Lynn Marie Kirby
  • Ruby Skin, Eve Heller
    Eve Heller
    Eve Heller is an American Filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria.Her work has been shown at the New York Film Festival, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Pacific Film Archives, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and the Austrian Filmmuseum in Vienna....

  • Shape Shift, Scott Stark
  • site specific LAS VEGAS 05, Olivo Barbieri
    Olivo Barbieri
    Olivo Barbieri is an Italian artist and photographer of urban environments.He is recognized for his innovative technique creating miniature still photography from actual landscapes by simulating shallow depth of field via the use of tilt-shift lens photography...

  • site specific ROMA 04, Olivo Barbieri
    Olivo Barbieri
    Olivo Barbieri is an Italian artist and photographer of urban environments.He is recognized for his innovative technique creating miniature still photography from actual landscapes by simulating shallow depth of field via the use of tilt-shift lens photography...

  • SSHTOORRTY, Michael Snow
    Michael Snow
    Michael Snow, CC is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.-Life:...

  • Wavelength
    Wavelength (1966 film)
    Wavelength is a forty-five minute film that made the reputation of Canadian experimental filmmaker and artist Michael Snow. Considered a landmark of avant-garde cinema, it was filmed over one week in December 1966 and edited in 1967 and is an example of what film theorist P...

    , Michael Snow
    Michael Snow
    Michael Snow, CC is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.-Life:...

  • Workers Leaving the Factory (After Lumière), Ernie Gehr
    Ernie Gehr
    Ernie Gehr is an American experimental filmmaker closely associated with the Structural film movement of the 1970s. A self-taught artist, Gehr was inspired to begin making films in the 1960s after chancing upon a screening of a Stan Brakhage film. Gehr's film Serene Velocity has been selected...


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