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The 2004 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 9 through September 18.

Canada First

  • CQ2 (Seek You Too) (Carole Laure
    Carole Laure
    Carole Laure is an actress and singer from the province of Quebec in Canada.-Career:Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband...

    )
  • I, Claudia
    I, Claudia
    I, Claudia is a successful one-woman play starring Kristen Thomson, which was adapted into a movie, shown on CBC's Opening Night and at the Toronto International Film Festival....

    (Chris Abraham)
  • Ill Fated (Mark A. Lewis)
  • It's All Gone Pete Tong
    It's All Gone Pete Tong
    -CD 1:#"Pacific State" - 808 State #"Cloud Watch" - Lol Hammond#"Dry Pool Suicide" - Graham Massey#"Moonlight Sonata" - Graham Massey#"Baby Piano" - Lol Hammond#"Ku Da Ta" - Pete Tong...

    (Michael Dowse
    Michael Dowse
    Michael Dowse is a Canadian film director.Born and raised in London, Ontario, he was trained as a film editor. His first full-length movie, FUBAR was shot on a digital camera with a tiny budget, but was selected by the Sundance Film Festival and screened on the prestigious midnight slot, which had...

    )
  • Jimmywork
    Jimmywork
    Jimmywork is a 2004 Mockumentary film written and directed by Simon Sauvé and produced by Atopia.On the eve of his 50th birthday Jimmy W finds himself at the cross roads of his existence. For him it's now or never. The time has come to become rich and maybe even famous...

    (Simon Sauvé)
  • Littoral (Wajdi Mouawad
    Wajdi Mouawad
    Wajdi Mouawad, OC is a Canadian writer, actor and director born in Lebanon in 1968. After living in France for a short time, he moved to Quebec in 1983.- Biography :He obtained his diploma from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1991....

    )
  • Phil the Alien
    Phil the Alien
    Phil the Alien is a Canadian comedy film, released in 2004. It was written and directed by Rob Stefaniuk, who also starred as the titular Phil.Phil is an extraterrestrial who crash-lands in a small town in Northern Ontario...

    (Rob Stefaniuk
    Rob Stefaniuk
    Rob Stefaniuk is a Canadian comedian, actor and writer who has worked in numerous television shows and films as both guest actor and series regular...

    )
  • Saint Ralph
    Saint Ralph
    Saint Ralph is a 2004 Canadian drama film written and directed by Michael McGowan. Its central character is a teenaged boy who trains for the 1954 Boston Marathon in the hope a victory will be the miracle his mother needs to awaken from a coma....

    (Michael McGowan
    Michael McGowan (director)
    Michael McGowan is a Canadian filmmaker who wrote directed the feature films One Week and Saint Ralph...

    )
  • Seven Times Lucky (Gary Yates
    Gary Yates (director)
    Gary Yates is a film director from Winnipeg, Manitoba.Yates has worked on Canadian television since the early 1990s and recently completed a number of feature films starring actor Kevin Pollack, including Niagara Motel and Seven Times Lucky , which was nominated for five Genie Awards.Gary Yates...

    )
  • White Skin
    White Skin
    White Skin is a 2004 Canadian horror film directed by Daniel Roby. It was released on video in the United States under the title Cannibal. This film won the CityTV award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. In this movie, two men discover that...

    (Daniel Roby
    Daniel Roby
    Daniel Roby is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. An alumnus of the film programs at Concordia University and the University of Southern California, he worked as a camera operator and cinematographer on numerous film and television projects before releasing his own directorial debut, La...

    )

Canadian Retrospective

  • Attiuk (René Bonnière)
  • La bête lumineuse
    La bête lumineuse
    La bête lumineuse is a 1982 Canadian documentary film directed by Pierre Perrault, about a group of hunters who gather annually to hunt moose near Maniwaki, Quebec...

    (Pierre Perrault
    Pierre Perrault
    Pierre Perrault was a Québécois documentary film director. He directed 20 films between 1963 and 1996. He was one of the most important filmmakers in Canada although largely unknown outside of Québec...

    )
  • Le Pays de la terre sans arbre ou le Mouchouânipi (Pierre Perrault)
  • Un Pays sans bon sens! (Pierre Perrault)
  • Pour la suite du monde
    Pour la suite du monde
    Pour la suite du monde is a 1963 Canadian documentary film directed by Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival....

    (Pierre Perrault, Michel Brault
    Michel Brault
    Michel Brault, OQ is a Quebec cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s...

    )
  • Le Règne du jour (Pierre Perrault)
  • Tête-à-la-Baleine (René Bonnière)
  • La Traverse d'hiver à l'Île-aux-Coudres (Réne Bonnière)
  • Les Voitures d'eau (Pierre Perrault)

Contemporary World Cinema

  • 3-Iron
    3-Iron
    3-Iron is a 2004 Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk. The plot revolves around the relationship between a young drifter and an abused housewife...

    (Kim Ki-duk
    Kim Ki-duk
    Kim Ki-duk is a South Korean filmmaker noted for his idiosyncratic "art-house" cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit. He is not related to the Kim Ki-duk who directed Yonggary in the 1960s...

    )
  • After the Day Before (Attila Janisch)
  • Almost Brothers
    Almost Brothers
    Almost Brothers is a 2004 Brazilian film. It was directed by Lúcia Murat and written by Murat and Paulo Lins. Switching back and forth in time between the 1970s and the 2000s, the film follows the friendship between a middle-class left-wing political activist and a criminal from Rio de...

    (Lúcia Murat)
  • The Alzheimer Case
    The Alzheimer Case
    The Alzheimer Case is a 2003 film directed by Erik Van Looy, based on the novel De Zaak Alzheimer by Jef Geeraerts....

    (Erik Van Looy
    Erik Van Looy
    Erik Ludovicus Maria Van Looy is a Belgian film director.In Flanders he is also known as a television presenter .His most famous movies are:*Ad Fundum *Shades...

    )
  • Antares
    Antares (film)
    Antares is a 2004 Austrian film directed by Götz Spielmann. It was Austria's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-See also:*Cinema of Austria...

    (Götz Spielmann
    Götz Spielmann
    Götz Spielmann is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.Götz Spielmann grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied film direction and script-writing in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien...

    )
  • As Follows (Federico Veiroj)
  • BOMBÓN - El Perro
    El perro
    El perro is an Argentine and Spanish, drama film, directed by Carlos Sorín, and written by Sorín, Santiago Calori, and Salvador Roselli. The picture features Juan Villegas and Walter Donado, among others.The film was partly funded by INCAA.El perro is a neo-realist fable about a man and a dog...

    (Carlos Sorín
    Carlos Sorín
    Carlos Sorín is a film director, screenplay writer, cinematographer, and film producer. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina....

    )
  • Breaking News (Johnnie To
    Johnnie To
    Johnnie To Kei-Fung, born 22 April 1955, is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas...

    )
  • Brodeuses
    A Common Thread
    A Common Thread is a 2004 French film directed by Éléonore Faucher. The film is known as Sequins in the United States.The film won "Critics Week Grand Prize" and "SACD Screenwriting Award" at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...

    (Eléonore Faucher)
  • Brothers (Susanne Bier
    Susanne Bier
    Susanne Bier is a Danish film director best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding and the Academy-Award-winning In a Better World.-Life and work:Susanne Bier was born to Jewish parents in Copenhagen, Denmark...

    )
  • Cool (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...

    )
  • Crónicas
    Cronicas (film)
    Crónicas is a 2004 Ecuadorian thriller film, written and directed by Sebastián Cordero. The film was produced by Guillermo Del Toro, director of Pan's Labyrinth, and Alfonso Cuarón, director of Y Tu Mama Tambien...

    (Sebastián Cordero
    Sebastián Cordero
    Sebastián Cordero is a film director, writer and editor, often recognized for his work in Ratas, Ratones, Rateros, his debut film which portrays the life in a poverty-stricken Ecuador...

    )
  • Days and Hours
    Days and Hours
    Days and Hours is a 2004 Bosnian film directed by Pjer Žalica. It was Bosnia and Herzegovina's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-See also:...

    (Pjer Žalica
    Pjer Žalica
    Pjer Žalica is a Bosnian film director.He has directed several short films as well as two feature films, Gori vatra , and Kod amidže Idriza , which have been nominated for and awarded several prizes at European film festivals.On May 18 he was the director of the new video of Dino Merlin and Hari...

    )
  • Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows
    Shane Meadows
    Shane Meadows is an English film director, screenwriter, occasional actor and BAFTA winner.-Background:Meadows grew up in the Westlands Road area of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. His father was a long distance lorry driver and his mother worked in a fish and chip shop...

    )
  • Dear Frankie
    Dear Frankie
    Dear Frankie is a 2004 British drama film directed by Shona Auerbach. The screenplay by Andrea Gibb focuses on a young single mother whose love for her son prompts her to perpetuate a deception designed to protect him from the truth about his father....

    (Shona Auerbach
    Shona Auerbach
    Shona Auerbach is a British film director and cinematographer.Auerbach began her career as a stills photographer. She studied film at Manchester University and cinematography at Leeds before completing her Master of Arts at the Polish National Film School in Lodz...

    )
  • Duck Season
    Temporada de patos
    Temporada de patos is a 2004 Mexican film. It is the first feature film by writer/director, Fernando Eimbcke, a former MTV Awards videoclip director....

    (Fernando Eimbcke
    Fernando Eimbcke
    Fernando Eimbcke is a Mexican film director and screenwriter.Fernando Eimbcke studied film direction at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM . He started his career directing music videoclips and short films...

    )
  • Earth and Ashes
    Earth and Ashes
    Earth and Ashes is a 2004 Afghan film directed by Atiq Rahimi. It was Afghanistan's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...

    (Atiq Rahimi
    Atiq Rahimi
    Atiq Rahimi is a French-Afghan writer and film-maker.-Life:He was born in 1962 in Kabul to a senior public servant and attended high school in Lycée Esteqlal...

    )
  • L'Équipier (Philippe Lioret
    Philippe Lioret
    Philippe Lioret is a French film director.- Filmography :*1993: Tombés du ciel*1997: Tenue correcte exigée*2001: Mademoiselle*2004: L'Équipier*2006: Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas*2009: Welcome...

    )
  • La Femme de Gilles (Frédéric Fonteyne
    Frédéric Fonteyne
    Frédéric Fonteyne is a Belgian film director. He studied film at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve.- Filmography :* Short Films** 1998 Bon anniversaire Sergent Bob...

    )
  • Ferpect Crime
    Crimen Ferpecto
    Crimen Ferpecto is a 2004 Spanish black comedy film directed by Álex de la Iglesia.-Plot:Rafael is a women's clothing clerk at a large Madrid department store, Yeyo's. His department is filled with beautiful, comely young women whom Rafael routinely seduces...

    (Álex de la Iglesia
    Álex de la Iglesia
    Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, film producer and former comic book artist.Most of De La Iglesia's films reached cult status due to their weird sense of humour.- Biography :...

    )
  • Hidden Flaws (Paula van der Oest
    Paula van der Oest
    Paula van der Oest is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. Her film Zus & Zo was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....

    )
  • The Holy Girl
    The Holy Girl
    The Holy Girl is an Argentine, Spanish, and Italian drama film, directed by Lucrecia Martel. The picture was executive produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Esther García...

    (Lucrecia Martel
    Lucrecia Martel
    Lucrecia Martel is a film director, screenplay writer, and producer.According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for Mabuse, a cinema magazine, Lucrecia Martel is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c...

    )
  • Hotel
    Hotel (2004 film)
    Hotel is a 2004 Austrian drama film directed by Jessica Hausner. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Franziska Weisz - Irene* Birgit Minichmayr - Petra* Marlene Streeruwitz - Mrs. Maschek...

    (Jessica Hausner
    Jessica Hausner
    Jessica Hausner is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She has directed six films since 1995. Her film Lovely Rita was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...

    )
  • The Keys to the House
    The Keys to the House
    The Keys to the House is a 2004 dramatic family film telling the story of a young father meeting his handicapped son for the first time and attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager...

    (Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...

    )
  • Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (Yvan Attal
    Yvan Attal
    Yvan Attal is an Israeli-born French actor and director.-Background:Born in Tel-Aviv to French-Algerian Jewish parents, he grew up in the outskirts of Paris. His acting debut was in Éric Rochant's Un monde sans pitié , which earned him a César Award for Most Promising Actor...

    )
  • Inconscientes
    Inconscientes
    Inconscientes is a 2004 Spanish period comedy directed by Joaquín Oristrell. It stars Leonor Watling and Luis Tosar. The plot follows the pregnant wife of a renowned Freudian psychiatrist who enlists the help of her admiring brother-in-law to uncover the elaborate mystery of why her husband ran...

    (Joaquín Oristrell
    Joaquín Oristrell
    Joaquín Oristrell is a Catalan film director and screenwriter.He has written scripts to Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Fernando Colomo and others directors before his film debut in 1997 with -Selected filmography:*El próximo oriente *Va a ser que nadie es perfecto...

    )
  • Innocent Voices
    Voces inocentes
    Voces inocentes is a 2004 Mexican film directed by Luis Mandoki. The plot is set during the Salvadoran Civil War in 1980, and is based on writer Óscar Torres's childhood. The film serves as a general commentary on the military use of children. The movie also shows injustice against innocent...

    (Luis Mandoki
    Luis Mandoki
    Luis Mandoki is a Mexican film director working in Mexico and Hollywood.Luis Mandoki studied Fine Arts in Mexico and at the San Francisco Art Institute, the London College of Printing, and the London International Film School...

    )
  • Lila dit ça
    Lila Says
    Lila Says is a 2004 French film directed by Ziad Doueiri. The plot is based on the novel of the same title written by "Chimo" .-Plot:...

    (Ziad Doueiri)
  • The Limb Salesman (Anais Granofsky
    Anais Granofsky
    Anais Granofsky is a Canadian actress, screenwriter, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Lucy Fernandez in the Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High series.-Early life and career:...

    )
  • Little Sky (María Victoria Menis)
  • Ma mère
    Ma mère
    My Mother is a French-Austrian-Portuguese-Spanish 2004 movie about the fictional story of an incestuous relationship between a 17-year-old boy and his attractive, promiscuous, 43-year-old mother. The movie stars Isabelle Hupert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes, Joana Preiss, Philipe Duclos and...

    (Christophe Honoré
    Christophe Honoré
    Christophe Honoré is a French writer and film director born in Carhaix, Finistère in 1970.After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in "Les Cahiers du Cinéma." He started writing soon-after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a movie...

    )
  • Male Fantasy (Blaine Thurier
    Blaine Thurier
    Blaine Thurier is a Canadian musician and film producer. He plays synthesizer with the Canadian indie pop supergroup The New Pornographers. Thurier also directs the band's music videos, and he has released films of his own.-Links:*...

    )
  • Mon père est ingénieur (Robert Guédiguian
    Robert Guédiguian
    Robert Jules Guédiguian is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin....

    )
  • My Summer of Love
    My Summer of Love
    My Summer of Love is a 2004 British drama film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and co-written by Pawel Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne. Based on the novel of the same name by Helen Cross, the film explores the relationship between two young women from different classes and backgrounds...

    (Paweł Pawlikowski)
  • Mysterious Skin
    Mysterious Skin
    Mysterious Skin is a 2004 drama film directed by American filmmaker Gregg Araki, who also wrote the screenplay based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Scott Heim...

    (Gregg Araki
    Gregg Araki
    Gregg Araki is an American independent filmmaker. He is involved in New Queer Cinema.-Early life:Araki was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Santa Barbara, California...

    )
  • Niceland (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
    Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
    Friðrik Þór Friðriksson , sometimes credited as Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, is an Icelandic film director....

    )
  • Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda
    Hirokazu Koreeda
    is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. His films explore themes of memory, death, and coming to terms with loss.Koreeda originally planned to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University instead worked as an assistant director on documentaries for TV Man Union...

    )
  • Oldboy
    Oldboy
    Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on the Japanese manga of the same name written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Oldboy is the second installment of The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr...

    (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...

    )
  • Our Own (Dmitry Meskhiyev)
  • Plastic Flowers (Liu Bingjian
    Liu Bingjian
    Liu Bingjian is a Chinese film director who emerged on the cinema scene in the late 1990s with his LGBT-themed film Men and Women.- Career:...

    )
  • Quill
    Quill (film)
    is a Japanese film structured like a documentary of a guide dog, first released in Japan on 13 March 2004 and on DVD on 25 September 2004. It was also released for the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on 17 September 2004....

    (Yoichi Sai)
  • Real Life
    Real Life (2004 film)
    Real Life is a 2004 Greek drama film written and directed by Panos H. Koutras.-Plot:Aris, 27 years old, returns home after a long absence. His mother, a rich, eccentric and lonely woman lives with her secretary, Sylvia and her loyal gardener Christos, who is mute, in a house famous both for its...

    (Panos Koutras)
  • Rois et reine
    Kings and Queen
    Rois et reine is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor...

    (Arnaud Desplechin
    Arnaud Desplechin
    Arnaud Desplechin is a French film director.-Biography:Arnaud Desplechin is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, and grew up in the Nord department...

    )
  • Rolling Family
    Familia rodante
    Familia rodante is a 2004 comedy drama film, written and directed by Pablo Trapero, and produced by various countries, including Argentina...

    (Pablo Trapero
    Pablo Trapero
    Pablo Trapero is an Argentine film producer, editor and director.His films are known for portraying the lives of ordinary people, and usually involving some form of social criticism to modern society, such as his movie Mundo Grúa , or the highly-acclaimed El...

    )
  • Shiza
    Shiza
    Shiza a.k.a. Schizo is a 2004 Russian language film directed by Gulshat Omarova. The film was in the official selection from Kazakhstan for the 77th Academy Awards...

    (Gulshat Omarova
    Gulshat Omarova
    Gulshat Omarova is a Kazakh film director, actress and screen writer. She was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan and now lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands...

    )
  • Siblings (David Weaver)
  • Somersault
    Somersault (film)
    Somersault is an Australian independent film, written and directed by Cate Shortland and released in September 2004. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...

    (Cate Shortland
    Cate Shortland
    Cate Shortland is an Australian writer and director of film and television.She was born 10 August 1968 in Temora, New South Wales. She graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, where she received the Southern Star Award for most promising student.She has created several award...

    )
  • Spider Forest Song (Il-gon)
  • Stray Dogs
    Stray Dogs (film)
    Stray Dogs is an Iranian film written and directed by Marzieh Meshkini. Its a story about two orphaned children in post-Taliban Afghanistan.-Plot details:...

    (Marzieh Meshkini
    Marzieh Meshkini
    Marzieh Meshkini is an Iranian cinematographer, film director and writer. She is married to film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf who wrote the script for her début film The Day I Became a Woman.-Honors and awards:...

    )
  • The Tuner
    The Tuner
    The Tuner is a 2004 Ukraine/Russia mix film of art house grotesque and a sting comedy. At the heart of Kira Muratova’s film is her characteristic and enduring love of predation—predation for its own sake...

    (Kira Muratova
    Kira Muratova
    Kira Muratova is a Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress. She was born in 1934 in Soroca, Bessarabia, Romania . She was born to a Romanian mother and a Russian father. Muratova is known for her unusual and original directorial style...

    )
  • Turtles Can Fly
    Turtles Can Fly
    Turtles Can Fly Kurdish: Kûsî Jî Dikarin Bifirin) is a 2004 film written and directed by the Kurdish Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, with notable theme music composed by Hossein Alizadeh. It was the first film to be made in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.-Plot:The film is set in a Kurdish...

    (Bahman Ghobadi
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian film director of Kurdish ethnicity. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan Province. Ghobadi belongs to the so called "new wave" of Iranian cinema.-Biography:...

    )
  • Two Great Sheep
    Two Great Sheep
    Two Great Sheep is a 2004 satirical Chinese film directed by Liu Hao and cast primarily with unknown actors.Two Great Sheep tells the gentle story of a peasant couple, played by Sun Yunkun and Jiang Zhikun, who are charged with caring for two foreign sheep that they must somehow breed for the...

    (Liu Hao
    Liu Hao
    Liu Hao is a Chinese filmmaker. He first rose to prominence in the early to mid 2000s.-Early life:Born and raised in Shanghai, Liu Hao spent much of his youth watching films by Ren Xudong and Cheng Yin and, as he grew older, the works of the fifth generation directors. In 1995, as his interest in...

    )
  • Up and Down
    Up and Down (film)
    Up and Down is a 2004 Czech comedy film directed by Jan Hřebejk. The film first premiered in France at the Cannes Film Market on May 19, 2004....

    (Jan Hřebejk
    Jan Hrebejk
    Jan Hřebejk is a Czech film director.-Early life and education:Born in Prague, Hřebejk studied together with his classmate Petr Jarchovský at high school. Now Jarchovsky is a frequent collaborator as a screenwriter...

    )
  • Walk on Water
    Walk on Water (film)
    Walk on Water is an Israeli film released in 2004. It stars Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters. It was directed by New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox. The screenplay was written by Gal Uchovsky...

    (Eytan Fox
    Eytan Fox
    -Biography:Fox was born in New York City and moved with his family to Israel when he was two. His father, Seymour Fox, was a Conservative rabbi and a leading professor of Jewish education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His mother, Sara Kaminker-Fox, was the head of the Jerusalem city...

    )
  • Whisky
    Whisky (film)
    Whisky is an Argentine-German-Spanish-Uruguayan tragicomedy film directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll and released in 2004. The film stars Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, Ana Katz, and Daniel Hendler. It has very sparse dialogue and the three principal actors play very...

    (Juan Pablo Rebella
    Juan Pablo Rebella
    Juan Pablo Rebella was an Uruguayan film director and screenwriter.He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow student Pablo Stoll first began.After graduating in 1999 he...

    , Pablo Stoll
    Pablo Stoll
    Pablo Stoll is a Uruguayan film director and screenwriter.He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied Social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow student Juan Pablo Rebella first began...

    )
  • Wilby Wonderful
    Wilby Wonderful
    Wilby Wonderful is a 2004 film by Daniel MacIvor. The film is a comedic drama about 24 hours in the life of the small town of Wilby, where the municipal festival is in preparation. It focuses on the changes occurring in the lives of several different inhabitants as development comes to the island...

    (Daniel MacIvor
    Daniel MacIvor
    Daniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario....

    )
  • The Woodsman
    The Woodsman
    The Woodsman is a 2004 drama film directed and co-written by Nicole Kassell, based on Fechter's play of the same name. The movie stars Kevin Bacon as a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after prison.-Plot:...

    (Nicole Kassell
    Nicole Kassell
    Nicole Kassell is an American film director.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she received her degree from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU...

    )
  • The World
    The World (film)
    The World is a 2004 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. Starring Jia's muse, Zhao Tao, as well as Chen Taisheng, The World was filmed on and around an actual theme park located in Beijing, Beijing World Park, which recreates world landmarks at reduced scales for Chinese tourists. The...

    (Jia Zhangke
    Jia Zhangke
    Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan....

    )

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

  • The Brood
    The Brood
    The Brood is a 1979 Canadian horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle.The film depicts a series of murders committed by what seems at first to be a group of children...

    (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...

    )
  • Diary of a Country Priest
    Diary of a Country Priest
    Diary of a Country Priest is a 1951 French film directed by Robert Bresson, and starring Claude Laydu. It was closely based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos. Published in 1937, the novel received the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française...

    (Robert Bresson
    Robert Bresson
    -Life and career:Bresson was born at Bromont-Lamothe, Puy-de-Dôme, the son of Marie-Élisabeth and Léon Bresson. Little is known of his early life and the year of his birth, 1901 or 1907, varies depending on the source. He was educated at Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, close to Paris, and...

    )
  • Heaven's Gate
    Heaven's Gate (film)
    Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film based on the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s...

    (Michael Cimino
    Michael Cimino
    Michael Cimino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and author. He is best known for writing and directing Academy Award-winning The Deer Hunter and the infamous Heaven's Gate. His films are characterized by their striking visual style and controversial subject...

    )
  • La Noire De...
    Black Girl (film)
    Black Girl is a 1966 film by the Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembène, starring Mbissine Thérèse Diop. Its original French title is La Noire de..., which means "The black girl of...", as in "someone's black girl". The film centers on a young Senegalese woman who moves from Senegal to...

    (Ousmane Sembène
    Ousmane Sembène
    Ousmane Sembène , often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer...

    )
  • Sweet Smell of Success
    Sweet Smell of Success
    Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 American film noir made by Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists. It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison and Martin Milner. The screenplay was written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman...

    (Alexander Mackendrick
    Alexander Mackendrick
    Alexander Mackendrick was a Scottish American director and teacher. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and later moved to Scotland...

    )
  • This Sporting Life
    This Sporting Life
    This Sporting Life is a 1963 British film based on a novel of the same name by David Storey which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award. It tells the story of a rugby league footballer, Frank Machin, in Wakefield, a mining area of Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting...

    (Lindsay Anderson
    Lindsay Anderson
    Lindsay Gordon Anderson was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave...

    )
  • Withnail and I
    Withnail and I
    Withnail and I is a British black comedy made in 1986 by HandMade Films. It was written and directed by Bruce Robinson and is based on his life in London in the late 1960s. The main plot follows two unemployed young actors, Withnail and “I” who live in a squalid flat in Camden in 1969 while...

    (Bruce Robinson
    Bruce Robinson
    Bruce Robinson is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. He is arguably most famous for writing and directing the cult classic Withnail and I , a film with comic and tragic elements, set in London during the 1960s which drew on his experiences as 'a chronic alcoholic and resting...

    )

Discovery

  • Astronauts (Santi Amodeo)
  • Automne (Ra'up McGee)
  • Boats out of Watermelon Rinds (Ahmet Uluçay)
  • The Buffalo Boy
    The Buffalo Boy
    The Buffalo Boy is a 2004 film directed by Minh Nguyen-Vo. The movie was the official entry from Vietnam for Best Foreign Language Film category at the 78th Academy Awards...

    (Minh Nguyen-Vô)
  • Le Cou de la girafe
    Le Cou de la girafe
    Le Cou de la girafe is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.-Cast:* Sandrine Bonnaire - Hélène* Claude Rich - Paul* Louisa Pili - Mathilde* Darry Cowl - Léo* Philippe Leroy - Maxime...

    (Safy Nebbou)
  • Crying? (Alexander Voulgaris)
  • Electric Shadows
    Electric Shadows
    Electric Shadows is a 2004 Chinese film directed by Xiao Jiang. The English title of the film is the literal translation for the Chinese term for movies or "dian ying" ....

    (Xiao Jiang
    Xiao Jiang
    Xiao Jiang is the stage name of female Chinese film director Jia Yan,. Jia graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1995. Jia Yan worked primarily in television, directing three TV movies before joining the China Film Group as a screenwriter...

    )
  • The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade
    Maren Ade
    Maren Ade is a German film director, screenwriter and producer.Ade studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Her gruadation film, The Forest for the Trees, premiered at the 2003 Hof Film Festival, and went on to win the Special Jury Prize for World Cinema at the 2005 Sundance...

    )
  • Hari Om (Bharatbala)
  • Harvest Time (Marina Razbezhkina)
  • In My Father's Den
    In My Father's Den (film)
    In My Father's Den is a 2004 New Zealand film written and directed by Brad McGann and starring Matthew Macfadyen and Emily Barclay. It is based on the novel of the same title by Maurice Gee...

    (Brad McGann
    Brad McGann
    Brad McGann MNZM , was a New Zealand film director and screenwriter.McGann was born in New Zealand in 1964. He completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Otago and in 1988 completed a one-year post-graduate course at the Swinburne School of Film and Television in Melbourne...

    )
  • Innocence
    Innocence (2004 film)
    Innocence is a 2004 French film written and directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović, based on the novella Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls by Frank Wedekind, and starring Marion Cotillard. It takes place at a mysterious girls' boarding school, where new students arrive in coffins...

    (Lucile Hadžihalilović
    Lucile Hadžihalilović
    Lucile Hadžihalilović is a French filmmaker. She became the first woman to win the Stockholm International Film Festival annual Bronze Horse award for best film for her 2004 film Innocence....

    )
  • Mirage (Svetozar Ristovski
    Svetozar Ristovski
    Svetozar Ristovski is a Macedonian film director who now resides in Canada. Largely inspired by filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Robert Bresson and Michelangelo Antonioni, Ristovski developed a passion for filmmaking while living in...

    )
  • Off Beat (Hendrik Hölzemann)
  • Omagh
    Omagh (film)
    Omagh was a film dramatising the events surrounding the Omagh bombing and its aftermath, co-produced by Irish state broadcaster RTÉ and UK network Channel 4, and directed by Pete Travis. It was first shown on television in both countries in June, 2004....

    (Pete Travis
    Pete Travis
    Pete Travis is an English television and film director. His work includes Cold Feet , The Jury and Omagh for television, and Vantage Point and Endgame for cinema...

    )
  • On the Outs (Lori Silverbush, Michael Skolnik)
  • The Overture
    The Overture
    The Overture is a 2004 Thai musical-drama film. A fictionalised account based on the life story of Thai palace musician Luang Pradit Phairoh , it follows the life of a Thai classical musician from the late 19th century to the 1940s...

    (Itthi-sunthorn Wichailak)
  • Oyster Farmer
    Oyster Farmer
    Oyster Farmer is a 2004 Australian romantic comedy / drama film about a young man who runs away to the Hawkesbury River and gets a job with eighth generation oyster farmers...

    (Anna Reeves)
  • Private
    Private (film)
    Private is a 2004 film directed by Saverio Costanzo. A debut film by the director, the film is a minimalist psychological drama about a Palestinian family of seven suddenly confronted with a volatile situation in their home that in many ways reflects the larger ongoing conflict between Palestinians...

    (Saverio Costanzo
    Saverio Costanzo
    Saverio Costanzo is an Italian film director.He was born in Rome, the son of journalist and TV presenter Maurizio Costanzo. His debut was Private in 2004. In 2007 his second feature In memoria di me was presented at the 57th Berlin Film Festival...

    )
  • Producing Adults
    Producing Adults
    Producing Adults is a Finnish drama written by Pekko Pesonen and directed by Aleksi Salmenperä. The original title in Finnish is Lapsia ja aikuisia - Kuinka niitä tehdään, and the film is also known as Children and Adults: How Are They Made? , and Hela vägen in Sweden...

    (Aleksi Salmenperä
    Aleksi Salmenperä
    Aleksi Salmenperä is a Finnish film director. He is a graduate of the University of Art and Design Helsinki; among his films are 2004's Producing Adults, 2007's A Man's Work and 2010 Bad Family.-References:...

    )
  • Les Revenants
    They Came Back
    They Came Back is a French zombie film, originally released in 2004. The film was screened at the Hamburg Fantasy Filmfest in Hamburg, Germany, the Venice Film Festival in Italy, and the Toronto Film Festival in Canada....

    (Robin Campillo)
  • Saving Face (Alice Wu
    Alice Wu
    Alice Wu is a Chinese American film director and screenwriter.-Personal life:Alice Wu was born on April 21, 1970 and raised in San Jose, California, then moved to Los Altos, California where she graduated from Los Altos High School at the age of 16. In 1990, she received her B.S. in Computer...

    )
  • Summer Storm
    Summer Storm
    Summer Storm is a 2004 German coming-of-age film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner, starring Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann, Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, and Marlon Kittel...

    (Marco Kreuzpaintner
    Marco Kreuzpaintner
    Marco Kreuzpaintner is a German film director and screenwriter.-Life:Kreuzpaintner was born March 11, 1977 in Rosenheim in Bavaria, Germany. He studied History of Art in Salzburg. He is a self-taught filmmaker with a background in film, advertising and music video production. He was the assistant...

    )
  • Symmetry (Konrad Niewolski)
  • Uno
    Uno (film)
    Uno is a 2004 Norwegian drama film, directed by Aksel Hennie, who also stars in the film. The film was hailed by critics, and won Hennie an Amanda Award for Best Director.-Plot:...

    (Aksel Hennie
    Aksel Hennie
    Aksel Hennie is a Norwegian actor, director and writer. He has acted in a number of successful Norwegian movies, and has received several awards....

    )
  • Vento di Terra (Vincenzo Marra
    Vincenzo Marra
    -Filmography:* 2001 - Tornando a casa* 2002 - E.A.M. - Estranei alla massa * 2003 - Paesaggio a sud* 2004 - Vento di terra* 2005 - 58% * 2006 - L'udienza è aperta * 2007 - L'ora di punta...

    )
  • A Way of Life
    A Way of Life
    A Way of Life is a British film released in 2004 starring Stephanie James and Brenda Blethyn. It is directed by former child actor Amma Asante, and was filmed in South Wales...

    (Amma Asante
    Amma Asante
    -Biography:As a child, Asante attended the Barbara Speake stage school in Acton, London, where she trained as a student in dance and drama. She began her film and television career as a child actress, appearing as a regular in the British school drama Grange Hill...

    )
  • Whisky Romeo Zulu
    Whisky Romeo Zulu
    Whisky Romeo Zulu is a 2005 Argentine drama film, directed by Enrique Piñeyro and written by Piñeyro and Emiliano Torres. Aqua Films' Verónica Cura was the executive producer and Enrique Piñeyro was the producer....

    (Enrique Piñeyro
    Enrique Piñeyro (actor)
    Enrique Piñeyro is a pilot turned film actor, producer, crash analyst, aeronautical physician, film director, and screenplay writer, working partly in Argentina. Piñeyro and Verónica Cura own Aqua Films, a film production company in Argentina.- Biography :Piñeyro was born in Genoa, Italy, 1956...

    )

Masters

  • 10 on Ten
    10 on Ten
    10 on Ten is a 2004 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival....

    (Abbas Kiarostami
    Abbas Kiarostami
    Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...

    )
  • 10e Chambre, instants d'audiences (Raymond Depardon
    Raymond Depardon
    Raymond Depardon is a French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker.-Photographer:...

    )
  • À tout de suite
    À tout de suite
    Right Now is a 2004 French film by director Benoît Jacquot. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...

    (Benoît Jacquot
    Benoît Jacquot
    Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...

    )
  • Bad Education
    Bad Education
    Bad Education is a 2004 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Lluís Homar. The plot is about two reunited childhood friends in the vein of a murder mystery...

    (Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...

    )
  • Brides (Pantelis Voulgaris
    Pantelis Voulgaris
    Pantelis Voulgaris is a Greek film director and screenwriter. His 1989 film The Striker with Number 9 was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival...

    )
  • Café Lumière
    Café Lumière
    is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien for Shochiku as homage to Yasujiro Ozu, with direct reference to the late master's Tokyo Story . It premiered at a festival commemorating the centenary of Ozu's birth...

    (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:...

    )
  • Chased by Dreams
    Swapner Din
    Swapner Din is a 2004 Bengali drama film directed and written by Buddhadev Dasgupta, who won the National Film Award for Best Directing for the film.-Plot:...

    (Buddhadeb Dasgupta
    Buddhadeb Dasgupta
    Buddhadeb Dasgupta is a poet and prominent contemporary Indian filmmaker, most known for films like Bagh Bahadur, Tahader Katha, Charachar and Uttara...

    )
  • Cinévardaphoto (Agnès Varda
    Agnès Varda
    Agnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....

    )
  • Demain on déménage (Chantal Akerman
    Chantal Akerman
    Chantal Anne Akerman is a Belgian film director, artist, and professor of film at the European Graduate School. Akerman's best-known film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , exemplifies a dedication to the ellipses of conventional narrative cinema.-Early life:Akerman was born to...

    )
  • Eros
    Eros (film)
    Eros is a 2004 portmanteau film consisting of three short films: Wong Kar-wai's The Hand, Steven Soderbergh's Equilibrium and Michelangelo Antonioni's The Dangerous Thread of Things.-Releases:...

    (Wong Kar-wai
    Wong Kar-wai
    Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...

    , 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...

    , Michelangelo Antonioni
    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...

    )
  • Five (Abbas Kiarostami
    Abbas Kiarostami
    Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...

    )
  • Human Touch
    Human Touch (film)
    Human Touch is a 2004 film directed by Paul Cox and starring Jacqueline McKenzie and Chris Haywood. The plot follows the story of Anna who is a singer trying to raise money for her choir's trip to China. She does this by posing nude for an ageing artist and upon seeing the finished results goes on...

    (Paul Cox
    Paul Cox
    Paulus Henriqus Benedictus "Paul" Cox is an award-winning Australian film director.Cox was born in Venlo, Limburg, the Netherlands, the son of Else , a native of Germany, and Wim Cox, a documentary film producer. Cox emigrated to Australia in 1965...

    )
  • Land of Plenty
    Land of Plenty (2004 film)
    Land of Plenty is a 2004 drama film directed by Wim Wenders starring Michelle Williams and John Diehl. The title of the film comes from the song "The Land of Plenty", written by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson, which was used in the movie.-Plot:...

    (Wim Wenders
    Wim Wenders
    Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...

    )
  • Low Life
    Low Life (film)
    Low Life aka Raging Years is an internationally presented and award-nominated South Korean film directed by Im Kwon-taek.-Synopsis:...

    (Im Kwon-taek
    Im Kwon-taek
    Im Kwon-taek is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards as well as considerable box-office success, and helped bring international attention to the Korean film industry.- Early life...

    )
  • Midwinter Night's Dream (Goran Paskaljević
    Goran Paskaljevic
    Goran Paskaljević is a Serbian film director. He was raised by his grandparents in Niš, following the divorce of his parents, and 14 years later returned to Belgrade where he worked in his stepfather's cinema....

    )
  • Moolaadé
    Moolaadé
    Moolaadé is a 2004 film by the Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembène. It addresses the subject of female genital mutilation, a common practice in a number of African countries, especially those immediately south of the Sahara Desert...

    (Ousmane Sembène
    Ousmane Sembène
    Ousmane Sembène , often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer...

    )
  • The Ninth Day
    The Ninth Day
    The Ninth Day is a German film, made in 2004 and directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It was released by Kino International.The film is about a Catholic priest from Luxembourg who is imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp, but released for nine days. The story is based on a portion of Pfarrerblock...

    (Volker Schlöndorff
    Volker Schlöndorff
    Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States...

    )
  • Notre Musique
    Notre musique
    Notre musique is a 2004 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film reflects on violence, morality, and the representation of violence in film, and touches especially on past colonialism and the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

    (Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....

    )
  • Salvador Allende
    Salvador Allende
    Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....

    (Patricio Guzmán
    Patricio Guzmán
    Patricio Guzmán Lozanes is a Chilean documentary film director. He is internationally renowned for films such as The Battle of Chile and Salvador Allende....

    )
  • Sucker Free City
    Sucker Free City
    Sucker Free City is a 2004 film directed by Spike Lee. The film examines white, black, and Chinese characters in San Francisco and the conflicts they encounter with each other. The film was intended to be the pilot for a Showtime television series. Showtime declined to pick up the series...

    (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....

    )
  • Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Theodoros Angelopoulos)

Midnight Madness

  • Calvaire (Fabrice du Welz
    Fabrice Du Welz
    Fabrice Du Welz is a Belgian film director and screenwriter.- Biography :Du Welz studied at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Liège and at INSAS, a film school in Brussels. In the 90's he directed many films in Super 8 and wrote humorous sequences for Canal +...

    )
  • Creep
    Creep (film)
    Creep is a 2004 British horror film about a woman locked in overnight on the London Underground who finds herself being stalked by a hideously deformed killer living in the sewers below...

    (Christopher Smith
    Christopher Smith (director)
    Christopher Smith, is a British film director and screenwriter.- Career :His four most prominent pieces of work are Creep, Severance, Triangle and Black Death. Smith was last working on a movie based about the UK children's book series CHERUB...

    )
  • Dead Birds
    Dead Birds (2004 film)
    Dead Birds is a 2004 American horror film directed by Alex Turner.-Synopsis:A handful of thieves discover that they have more to worry about than the law in this independent horror story, set during the American Civil War.-Plot:...

    (Alex Turner
    Alex Turner (director)
    Alex Turner is an American film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for his work in the horror film genre, including the cult classic Dead Birds....

    )
  • Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, known simply as in japan, is a 2004 science fiction film and sequel to the anime film, Ghost in the Shell. Released in Japan on March 6, 2004, with an U.S. release on September 17, 2004, Innocence had a production budget of approximately $20 million...

    (Mamoru Oshii
    Mamoru Oshii
    Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director, and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of popular anime, including Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Ghost in the Shell, and Patlabor 2...

    )
  • Kontroll
    Kontroll
    Kontroll is a Hungarian comedy-thriller released to theatres in 2003. Shown internationally, mainly in art house theatres, the film is a darkly comic thriller set in a Hungarian Metro system....

    (Nimród Antal)
  • The Machinist
    The Machinist
    The Machinist is a 2004 English-language Spanish psychological thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Scott Kosar....

    (Brad Anderson)
  • Rahtree: Flower of the Night
    Buppah Rahtree
    Buppah Rahtree is a 2003 Thai comedy-horror film written and directed by Yuthlert Sippapak. With its comic references to The Exorcist and Audition, Buppah Rahtree gained a cult following through screenings at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival and the Fantasia Festival...

    (Yuthlert Sippapak
    Yuthlert Sippapak
    Yuthlert Sippapak is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He's best known for his genre-blending films Killer Tattoo and Buppah Rahtree .-Biography:...

    )
  • The Raspberry Reich
    The Raspberry Reich
    The Raspberry Reich is a 2004 film by director Bruce LaBruce which explores what LaBruce calls "terrorist chic", cult dynamics, and the "innate radical potential of homosexual expression". It is about a contemporary terrorist group who set out to continue the work of the Red Army Faction , also...

    (Bruce LaBruce
    Bruce LaBruce
    Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.-Biography:...

    )
  • Saw
    Saw (film)
    Saw is a 2004 American independent horror film directed by James Wan. The screenplay, written by Leigh Whannell, is based on a story by Wan and Whannell. The film stars Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, Whannell and Tobin Bell...

    (James Wan
    James Wan
    James Wan is a Malaysian-born Australian producer, screenwriter, and film director of Chinese heritage. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw and creating Billy the puppet. He also directed Dead Silence, Death Sentence and Insidious.-Life and career:Wan was born in Kuching, Sarawak,...

    )
  • Zebraman
    Zebraman
    is a 2004 film directed by Takashi Miike. The film's name references the main character, a superhero named "Zebraman". A sequel, Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City, was released in 2010 featuring the addition of Masahiro Inoue of Kamen Rider Decade to the cast.-Plot:It is 2010...

    (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...

    )

National Cinema Program

  • Cape of Good Hope
    Cape of Good Hope (film)
    The Cape of Good Hope is a 2004 South African comedy drama film written and produced by Suzanne Kay Bamford and her husband Mark Bamford under the direction of Mark Bamford...

    (Mark Bamford
    Mark Bamford
    Mark Bamford was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but raised mostly in New York. He graduated from New York University in 1989 with a double major in French Literature and Linguistics and a minor in Anthropology...

    )
  • Drum
    Drum (2004 film)
    Drum is a 2004 film based on the life of South African investigative journalist Henry Nxumalo, who worked for the popular Drum magazine, called "the first black lifestyle magazine in Africa." It was director Zola Maseko's first film and deals with the issues of apartheid and the forced removal of...

    (Zola Maseko
    Zola Maseko
    Zola Maseko is a Swazi film director and screenwriter. He is noted for his documentary films related to xenophobia.-Biography:Maseko was born in exile in 1967. Educated in Swaziland and Tanzania, he joined Umkhonto We Sizwe, the armed sector of the African National Congress, in 1987...

    )
  • Forgiveness (Ian Gabriel
    Ian Gabriel
    Ian Gabriel is a South African film and commercials director, based in Cape Town, South Africa.He directed the film, Forgiveness, that starred Arnold Vosloo, and which treats the theme of forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa.-References:...

    )
  • Max and Mona (Teddy Mattera)
  • Mozart - The Music of the Violin (Mickey Madoda Dube)
  • A South African Love Story - Walter and Albertina Sisulu (Toni Strasburg)
  • Zulu Love Letter (Ramadan Suleman)

Planet Africa

  • Aïcha (Newton I. Aduaka)
  • above & beneath (René Alberta)
  • Bullet Boy
    Bullet Boy
    Bullet Boy is a 2005 film directed by Saul Dibb, written by Saul Dibb and Catherine Johnson, and stars Ashley Walters. The film's original music was composed and performed by Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack, who released it as an album...

    (Saul Dibb
    Saul Dibb
    Saul Dibb is the British director of Bullet Boy, for which he was nominated for the Douglas Hickox Award, The Line of Beauty, and The Duchess. He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia.-Notes:...

    )
  • Gardiens de la Mémoire (Eric Kabera
    Eric Kabera
    Eric Kabera is a Rwandan journalist, film-maker and founder and president of Rwanda Cinema Center.-Early life and career:Kabera, an ethnic Tutsi, was born in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

    )
  • Le Goût des jeunes filles (John L'Ecuyer
    John L'Ecuyer
    John L'Ecuyer is a Canadian film and television director. He is the younger brother of Gerald L'Ecuyer, a noted Canadian film and television director. L'Ecuyer studied at Ryerson University in Toronto, where his classmates included screenwriter Brad Abraham.His first feature, Curtis's Charm , was...

    )
  • Le Grand Voyage
    Le Grand Voyage
    Le Grand Voyage is a 2004 film written and directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi. The film portrays the relationship between father and son as both embark on a religious pilgrimage trip by car. It was shown at the 2004 Toronto and Venice International Film Festivals.-Plot:Réda is a French-Moroccan...

    (Ismaël Ferroukhi
    Ismaël Ferroukhi
    Ismaël Ferroukhi is a French-Moroccan film director.Ferroukhi was born in Kenitra. He gained exposure with his 1992 short film L'Exposé, which won the Kodak Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...

    )
  • The Hero
    The Hero (2004 film)
    The Hero is a film about the life of average Angolans after the Angolan Civil War. The film follows the lives of three individuals; Vitório, a war veteran crippled by a landmine who returns to Luanda, Manu, a young boy searching for his soldier father, and Joana, a teacher who mentors the boy and...

    (Zézé Gamboa)
  • Kounandi (Apolline Traoré)
  • La Nuit de la vérité
    Night of Truth
    Night of Truth is the African director Fanta Régina Nacro's first full length film.Set in a fictional West-African country, this film tells the story of the night of reconciliation between two ethnic groups, the Nayak and the Bonandes...

    (Fanta Régina Nacro
    Fanta Régina Nacro
    Fanta Régina Nacro is a film director from Burkina Faso. She received her first degree in audiovisual science and techniques from INAFEC in 1986 and also earned a Master’s Degree in Film and Audiovisual Studies at the Sorbonne....

    )
  • Off Duty (Buboo Kakati)
  • One Flight Stand (Saladin Patterson)
  • A Spoonful of Sugar (Andrea Williams)
  • Time Out (Xelinda Yancy)

Real to Reel

  • Andrew and Jeremy Get Married
    Andrew and Jeremy Get Married
    Andrew and Jeremy Get Married is a 2004 British documentary film written and directed by Don Boyd for the BBC. It tells the story of two Englishmen, Andrew Thomas and Jeremy Trafford, as they plan for their commitment ceremony...

    (Don Boyd
    Don Boyd
    Donald William Robertson Boyd Hon D.Litt is a Scottish film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist...

    )
  • Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
    Be Here to Love Me
    Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt is a 2004 documentary film directed by Margaret Brown which chronicles the often turbulent life of American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. The film includes interviews of Van Zandt's immediate family and contemporaries such as Willie Nelson,...

    (Margaret Brown
    Margaret Brown
    Margaret Brown was an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous due to her involvement with the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, after exhorting the crew of lifeboat 6 to return to look for survivors. It is unclear whether any survivors were found after life boat 6...

    )
  • Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat (Zev Asher)
  • Darwin's Nightmare
    Darwin's Nightmare
    Darwin's Nightmare is a 2004 French-Belgian-Austrian documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper, dealing with the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. It premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, and was nominated for the 2006...

    (Hubert Sauper
    Hubert Sauper
    Hubert Sauper is a documentary filmmaker best known for the highly controversial Darwin's Nightmare which was nominated for an Academy Award....

    )
  • Double Dare (Amanda Micheli)
  • Le Fantôme d'Henri Langlois (Jacques Richard)
  • Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (Michael Epstein)
  • Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    Going Upriver
    Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry is a documentary film on U.S. Senator John Kerry's military service during the Vietnam War and his subsequent participation in the peace movement...

    (George T. Butler)
  • Gunner Palace
    Gunner Palace
    Gunner Palace is a 2004 documentary film by American documentary filmmaker Michael Tucker, which had a limited release in the United States on March 4, 2005. The film was an account of the complex realities of the situation in Iraq during 2003–2004 amidst the Iraqi insurgency not seen on the...

    (Michael Tucker
    Michael Tucker (director)
    Michael Tucker, an American documentary film director, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is currently best known for his recent documentary The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair...

    , Petra Epperlein)
  • I Died in Childhood... (Georgy Paradjanov)
  • Kings of the Sky (Deborah Stratman)
  • The Last Victory (John Appel
    John Appel
    John George Appel was an Australian politician, lawyer, and farmer. He served from 1908-1929 as a delegate for the electoral district of Albert and from 1909-1915 as the Secretary of Mine and Public Works and Home Secretary of Queensland....

    )
  • Letters to Ali (Clara Law
    Clara Law
    Clara Law is a Hong Kong Second Wave film director, now having relocated to Australia before the 1997 Hong Kong handover....

    )
  • Lightning in a Bottle (Antoine Fuqua
    Antoine Fuqua
    Antoine Fuqua is an American film director. He directed the film Training Day as well as Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter and Brooklyn's Finest...

    )
  • Mondovino
    Mondovino
    Mondovino is a 2004 documentary film on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions written and directed by American film maker Jonathan Nossiter...

    (Jonathan Nossiter
    Jonathan Nossiter
    Jonathan Nossiter is an American filmmaker. Son of Washington Post and New York Times foreign correspondent Bernard Nossiter, he was born in the United States in 1961. He was raised in France, England, Italy, Greece and India...

    )
  • Scared Sacred
    Scared Sacred
    Scared Sacred is an independent film produced in 2004 and released in 2006 by director Velcrow Ripper.Scared Sacred is an award winning feature length documentary that takes viewers to many of the places in the world that have experienced great suffering in recent years including Bhopal, Hiroshima,...

    (Velcrow Ripper
    Velcrow Ripper
    Velcrow Ripper is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer, and public speaker, best known for his Genie Award-winning 2006 film Scared Sacred and his newest feature documentary, Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action...

    )
  • Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire is a documentary film about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It was directed by Peter Raymont and inspired by the book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda , by now-retired Canadian Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire...

    (Peter Raymont
    Peter Raymont
    Peter Raymont is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker and producer and the president of White Pine Pictures, an independent film, television and new media production company based in Toronto...

    )
  • Small Mall (Róbert Ingi Douglas
    Robert Ingi Douglas
    Róbert Ingi Douglas is an Icelandic film director, screenwriter and cinematographer who made his feature film debut with Íslenski draumurinn . That film became a sleeper hit in the summer of 2000 becoming one of Iceland's biggest box-office hits that year...

    )
  • Tell Them Who You Are (Mark S. Wexler)
  • Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
    Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
    Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family is a 2004 documentary directed by Susan Kaplan. It spans several years of a polyamorous relationship between two men and one woman....

    (Susan Kaplan)
  • Touch the Sound
    Touch the Sound
    Touch the Sound is a 2004 German film and documentary directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer-Reception:The movie received favourable reviews, and currently holds an 88% score at Rotten Tomatoes.-External links:*...

    (Thomas Riedelsheimer)
  • Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson is a documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward ....

    (Ken Burns
    Ken Burns
    Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...

    )
  • A Whale of a Tale (Peter Lynch
    Peter Lynch (director)
    Peter Lynch is an Canadian filmmaker, the director and writer of Project Grizzly and Cyberman.Lynch won a Genie Award for his short film Arrowhead, starring Don McKellar.He attended York University in Toronto, Canada.-Early life:...

    )
  • White Tower (Su Qing
    Su Qing
    -Life:She was born in 1914 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province.Su Qing was admitted to the National Centre University in 1933 at the age of 19. Her parents however, did not think it was proper business for a girl to accept such an education. As a result, she stopped schooling and married somebody her...

    , Mina)
  • Writer of O (Pola Rapaport)
  • The Year of the Yao
    The Year of the Yao
    The Year of the Yao is a 2004 documentary film telling the first year of basketball player Yao Ming in the United States. The film is narrated by his friend and former interpreter Colin Pine, who stayed with Yao during Yao's rookie year, and interpreted for him for three years....

    (James D. Stern
    James D. Stern
    James D. Stern is an American film director and producer, and Broadway producer, and a member of the Producers Guild of America. He won a 2003 Tony Award for "Hairspray," has been nominated for many Tony awards, and was a Drama Desk Award Winner for "Stomp."...

    , Adam Del Deo)
  • Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
    Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
    Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession is a documentary about Los Angeles pay cable channel Z Channel that accompanied the DVD release of uncut version of Heaven's Gate...

    (Xan Cassavetes
    Alexandra Cassavetes
    Alexandra Cassavetes , nicknamed "Xan", is an American actress and director. She is the daughter of Greek actor-director John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands. She is the granddaughter of actress Katherine Cassavetes...

    )

Short Cuts Canada

  • Accordéon (Michèle Cournoyer
    Michèle Cournoyer
    Michèle Cournoyer is a Canadian animator.Cournoyer studied graphic arts, photography and animation in Quebec, England and Italy...

    )
  • Almost Forgot My Bones (Katrin Bowen)
  • Between Science and Garbage (Pierre Hébert, Bob Ostertag
    Bob Ostertag
    Robert "Bob" Ostertag is an experimental sound artist based in San Francisco.- Early career :...

    )
  • Birdlings Two (Davina Pardo)
  • Boyclops (Jay Dahl)
  • Build (Greg Atkins)
  • choke. (David Hyde)
  • Corps étrangers (Simon Lavoie)
  • Desastre (Jay Field)
  • Deux Enfants qui fument (Sarah Fortin)
  • Elephant Shoe (Christopher Behnisch)
  • Elliot Smelliot (Anita Doron)
  • Encre noire sur fond d'azur (Félix Dufour-Laperrière)
  • Filth (Wrik Mead)
  • The Finite (Alexi Manis)
  • Girl Cleans Sink (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...

    )
  • Groomed (Joseph Raso)
  • The Hill (Deborah Chow)
  • Hogtown Blues (Hugh Gibson)
  • Hotel Saudade (Cameron Bailey)
  • The Human Kazoo (Fabrizio Filippo
    Fab Filippo
    -Personal life:Filippo, who also goes by the name of Fab Filippo, was born in Toronto, Canada. His parents are first generation Italian immigrants . He briefly attended York University's Film & Video Programme in 1993...

    )
  • Man Feel Pain (Dylan Akio Smith)
  • mary/me (Kelly Egan)
  • Milo 55160 (David Ostry)
  • More Sensitive (Gail Noonan)
  • Mothers, Fathers and Other Strangers (Carl Knutson)
  • My Old Man (Alex Levine)
  • Pigeon (Anthony Green)
  • Le Pont (Guy Edoin)
  • Rodéo (Mélanie Dion)
  • Ryan
    Ryan (film)
    Ryan is a 2004 animated documentary by Chris Landreth about the Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who in later years lived on skid row in Montreal following a history of drug and alcohol abuse....

    (Chris Landreth
    Chris Landreth
    Chris Landreth is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film, Ryan. He has made many CGI animated films since the mid-90s, including The End, Bingo, The Listener, Caustic Sky: A Portrait of Regional Acid Deposition, and Data Driven The Story Of Franz...

    )
  • The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles (Jeffrey St. Jules)
  • Sissy Boy Slap Party (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...

    )
  • Sombra Dolorosa (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...

    )
  • Stronger (Debra Felstead)
  • Superhero (Wannabe Patricia, Harris Seeley)
  • A Tale of Bad Luck (Brad Peyton
    Brad Peyton
    Brad Peyton is a Canadian-born film director, writer and television producer, born in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. His latest film is Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.-Career:...

    )
  • Trouser Accidents (Semi Chellas
    Semi Chellas
    Semi Chellas is a writer and screenwriter who has written for film, television and magazines. She was born in Palo Alto, California in 1969 and grew up in Calgary, Alberta....

    )
  • white out (Matt Sinclair-Foreman)

Special Presentations

  • 5x2
    5x2
    5x2 is a 2004 French film directed by François Ozon, which uncovers the back story to the gradual disintegration of a middle class marriage by depicting five key moments in the relationship, but in reverse order.-Plot:...

    (Cinq fois deux) (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....

    )
  • The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    The Assassination of Richard Nixon is a 2004 American film, directed by Niels Mueller. It stars Sean Penn, Don Cheadle and Naomi Watts, and is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon in 1974. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004...

    (Niels Mueller
    Niels Mueller
    Niels Mueller is a filmmaker currently resident in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Tufts University where he earned a BA. While an undergraduate, he collaborated with fellow-student Gary Winick on a number of independent film projects. Mueller subsequently...

    )
  • Bluebird
    Bluebird (film)
    Bluebird is a 2004 Dutch television movie directed by Mijke de Jong. It was selected by the Netherlands as its official Foreign Language Film submission for the 78th Academy Awards, but was rejected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because it had aired on television....

    (Mijke de Jong)
  • Celebrating (Brian Linehan)
  • Childstar
    Childstar
    Childstar is a 2004 comedy film directed and written by Don McKellar. It was screened at several film festivals between September 2004 and July 2005.-Plot:...

    (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...

    )
  • Les Choristes
    The Chorus (2004 film)
    The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...

    (Christophe Barratier
    Christophe Barratier
    Christophe Barratier , son of actress Eva Simonet and nephew of film director Jacques Perrin, is a French film producer, film director and screenwriter. He has directed three hugely successful features films The Chorus...

    )
  • Crash
    Crash (2004 film)
    Crash is a 2004 American drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, California. A self-described "passion piece" for Haggis, Crash was inspired by a real life incident in which his Porsche was carjacked outside a video...

    (Paul Haggis
    Paul Haggis
    Paul Edward Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director. He spent his early career producing and directing various American and Canadian television network series.-Early life and education:...

    )
  • A Dirty Shame
    A Dirty Shame
    A Dirty Shame is a 2004 satirical sex comedy written and directed by John Waters, and starring Tracey Ullman, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Shepherd, and Mink Stole.-Plot:...

    (John Waters
    John Waters (filmmaker)
    John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...

    )
  • Enduring Love
    Enduring Love
    Enduring Love is a 2004 British film directed by Roger Michell with screenwriter Joe Penhall, based on a novel by Ian McEwan. The story is about two strangers who become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. It stars Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans and Samantha Morton with Bill Nighy,...

    (Roger Michell
    Roger Michell
    Roger Michell is an English theatre, television and film director.-Personal life:He was born in Pretoria, South Africa but spent significant parts of his childhood in Beirut, Damascus and Prague as his father was a diplomat. He was educated at Clifton College where he became a member of Brown's...

    )
  • The General
    The General (1927 film)
    The General is a 1926 American silent comedy film released by United Artists inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, which happened in 1862. Buster Keaton starred in the film and co-directed it with Clyde Bruckman...

    (Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton
    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

    , Clyde Bruckman
    Clyde Bruckman
    Clyde A. Bruckman was an American writer and director of comedy films during the late silent era as well as the early sound era of cinema. Bruckman collaborated with such comedians as Buster Keaton, W.C...

    )
  • Haven
    Haven (film)
    Haven is a 2004 feature film set in the Cayman Islands, a British offshore financial centre. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2004. It is written and directed by native Caymanian Frank E...

    (Frank E. Flowers
    Frank E. Flowers
    Frank E. Flowers is a Caymanian independent filmmaker, film director and screenwriter, writer and director of the award-winning 2003 short film Swallow and the 2004 feature motion picture Haven, the latter photographed on the island of Grand Cayman...

    )
  • Head in the Clouds
    Head in the Clouds
    Head in the Clouds is a 2004 drama film written and directed by John Duigan. The original screenplay focuses on the choices young lovers must make as they find themselves surrounded by increasing political unrest in late-1930s Europe.-Plot synopsis:...

    (John Duigan
    John Duigan
    John Duigan, is an Australian film director.Duigan emigrated to Australia in 1961, having been born to an Australian father...

    )
  • Hotel Rwanda
    Hotel Rwanda
    Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 American drama film directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay written by both George and Keir Pearson. Based on real life events which took place in Rwanda during the spring of 1994, the film stars Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, who attempts to...

    (Terry George
    Terry George
    Terry George is an Irish screenwriter and director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland much of his film work involves the Troubles in Northern Ireland...

    )
  • Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal (Jim Brown)
  • Keane
    Keane (film)
    Keane is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Lodge Kerrigan. Set in New York City, it focuses on a mentally disturbed man trying to come to terms with the abduction of his daughter several months earlier and the relationship he develops with a young girl and her mother.The film...

    (Lodge Kerrigan
    Lodge Kerrigan
    Lodge Kerrigan is an American motion picture screenwriter and director. His 2010 film Rebecca H. entered into the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Clean, Shaven...

    )
  • Kung Fu Hustle
    Kung Fu Hustle
    Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 action comedy film directed and produced by, and starring Stephen Chow. The other film producers were Chui Po-chu and Jeffrey Lau, while the screenplay was written by Huo Xin, Chan Man-keung, and Tsang Kan-cheung...

    (Stephen Chow
    Stephen Chow
    Stephen Chow Sing-Chi is a Hong Kong actor, comedian, screenwriter, film director and producer.- Professional career :Stephen Chow began as a temporary actor for TVB. He entered TVB in early 1980s, and was trained there, although he had few opportunities to appear in films. Chow graduated from...

    )
  • Ladies in Lavender
    Ladies in Lavender
    The film's original music was written by Nigel Hess and performed by Joshua Bell and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Hess received a Classical BRIT Awards nomination for Best Soundtrack Composer....

    (Charles Dance
    Charles Dance
    Walter Charles Dance, OBE is an English actor, screenwriter and director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains. His most famous roles are Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown , Dr Clemens, the doctor of penitentiary Fury 161, who becomes Ellen Ripley's confidante in Alien 3 ,...

    )
  • The Libertine
    The Libertine (2005 film)
    The Libertine is a 2004 film starring Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton and Rosamund Pike. Directed by Laurence Dunmore in his first outing and adapted by Stephen Jeffreys' from his play of the same name, the film stars Johnny Depp as John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, a notorious rake...

    (Laurence Dunmore
    Laurence Dunmore
    Laurence Dunmore is a graphic designer and film director whose first major collaboration was the British production of The Libertine in 2005...

    )
  • The Merchant of Venice
    The Merchant of Venice
    The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...

    (Michael Radford
    Michael Radford
    Michael Radford is an English film director and screenwriter.-Early life and career:Radford was born on 24 February 1946, in New Delhi, India, to a British father and an Austrian Jewish mother. He was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford...

    )
  • Millions
    Millions
    Millions is a 2004 British comedy-drama film, directed by Academy Award–winning director Danny Boyle, and starring Alex Etel, Lewis McGibbon, and James Nesbitt. The screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce adapted his novel while the film was in the process of being made...

    (Danny Boyle
    Danny Boyle
    Daniel "Danny" Boyle is an English filmmaker and producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Trainspotting. For Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle won numerous awards in 2008, including the Academy Award for Best Director...

    )
  • Noel
    Noel (film)
    Noel is a 2004 Christmas-themed drama film written by David Hubbard and directed by Chazz Palminteri. It stars Susan Sarandon, Penélope Cruz, Paul Walker, Alan Arkin, Daniel Sunjata and an uncredited Robin Williams.-Plot summary:...

    (Chazz Palminteri
    Chazz Palminteri
    Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri is an American actor and writer, best known for his performances in The Usual Suspects, A Bronx Tale, and his Academy Award nominated role for Best Supporting Actor in Bullets Over Broadway....

    )
  • P.S.
    P.S.
    p.s. is a 2004 drama film directed by Dylan Kidd. The screenplay by Kidd and Helen Schulman is based on Schulman's 2001 novel P.S. I Love You So Damn Much. The film stars Laura Linney and Topher Grace.-Plot synopsis:...

    (Dylan Kidd)
  • Palindromes
    Palindromes (film)
    Palindromes is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz and a sequel to Solondz's 1995 film, Welcome to the Dollhouse...

    (Todd Solondz
    Todd Solondz
    Todd Solondz is an American independent film screenwriter and director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking, socially conscious satire. Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia", a reflection of his own background...

    )
  • Promised Land
    Promised Land (2004 film)
    Promised Land is a 2004 Israeli film, directed by Amos Gitai and starring Rosamund Pike, Diana Bespechni, and Hanna Schygulla, with Anne Parillaud in a supporting role. It tells the story of a group of Estonian girls smuggled into Israel to serve as prostitutes.It is the first film of Gitai's...

    (Amos Gitaï
    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...

    )
  • The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar
    Alejandro Amenábar
    Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos is a Spanish- Chilean film director. Amenábar was born in Santiago, Chile to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth...

    )
  • Shadows of Time
    Shadows of Time
    Shadows of Time is a 2004 romantic Bengali language German film, shot in Calcutta, India. It is the first feature-length film of Academy Award winning director Florian Gallenberger, and stars Prashant Narayanan, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Irrfan Khan and Soumitra Chatterjee in pivotal roles.-Plot:The...

    (Florian Gallenberger
    Florian Gallenberger
    Florian Gallenberger is a German film director. His film Quiero ser was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2001.-Career:...

    )
  • Sideways
    Sideways
    Sideways is a 2004 comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's 2004 novel of the same name, Sideways follows two forty-something year old men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to...

    (Alexander Payne
    Alexander Payne
    Alexander Payne, born Alexander Constantine Papadopoulos is an American film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their dark humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society.- Early life :...

    )
  • Silver City (John Sayles
    John Sayles
    John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.-Early life:Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary , a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. He was raised Catholic and took to labeling himself "a Catholic atheist"...

    )
  • Steamboy
    Steamboy
    is a 2004 Japanese animated steampunk film, produced by Sunrise, and directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release, following Akira. The film was released in Japan on July 17, 2004. Steamboy is the most expensive full length Japanese animated movie made to date...

    (Katsuhiro Otomo
    Katsuhiro Otomo
    is a Japanese comic book creator, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation. Otomo has also directed several live-action films, such as the 2006 feature film adaptation of the manga Mushishi.-Biography:Katsuhiro Otomo was...

    )
  • Throw Down
    Throw Down
    Throw Down is a 2004 Hong Kong film directed by Johnnie To. Director To dedicated the film, one of his most personal films to date, to the late Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying and Tony Leung Ka-Fai...

    (Johnnie To
    Johnnie To
    Johnnie To Kei-Fung, born 22 April 1955, is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas...

    )
  • When Will I Be Loved (James Toback
    James Toback
    James Lee Toback is an American screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Toback was born in New York City. His mother, Selma Judith , was a President of The League of Women Voters and a moderator of political debates on NBC. His father, Irwin Lionel Toback, was a stockbroker and former...

    )
  • Yes
    Yes (film)
    Yes is an 2004 film written and directed by Sally Potter and starring Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Stephanie Leonidas, and Sheila Hancock...

    (Sally Potter
    Sally Potter
    Charlotte Sally Potter is an English film director and screenwriter.-Career:Having left school at sixteen to become a filmmaker, Potter joined the London Film-Makers' Co-op and started making experimental short films, including Jerk and Play...

    )
  • Yesterday (Darrell James Roodt
    Darrell Roodt
    Darrell Roodt is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer.His film Sarafina was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:...

    )

Viacom Galas

  • Arsène Lupin (Jean-Paul Salomé
    Jean-Paul Salomé
    Jean-Paul Salomé is a French director.- Selected filmography :*1994 Les Braqueuses with Clémentine Célarié, Catherine Jacob and Annie Girardot...

    )
  • Being Julia
    Being Julia
    Being Julia is a 2004 drama film with comic undertones directed by István Szabó and starring Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood is based on the 1937 novel Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham...

    (István Szabó
    István Szabó
    István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...

    )
  • Beyond the Sea
    Beyond the Sea (film)
    Beyond the Sea is a 2004 biographical film based on the life of singer/actor Bobby Darin. Kevin Spacey, who stars in the lead role and used his own singing voice for the musical numbers, co-wrote, directed, and co-produced the film, which takes its title from the Darin song of the same name...

    (Kevin Spacey
    Kevin Spacey
    Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...

    )
  • Clean (Olivier Assayas
    Olivier Assayas
    Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:...

    )
  • Der Untergang
    Downfall (film)
    Downfall is a 2004 German/Italian/Austrian epic war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's life in his Berlin bunker and Nazi Germany in 1945....

    (Downfall) (Oliver Hirschbiegel
    Oliver Hirschbiegel
    Oliver Hirschbiegel is a German film director. His works include Das Experiment and the Oscar nominated Der Untergang.- Career :...

    )
  • Five Children and It (John Stephenson)
  • A Good Woman
    A Good Woman (film)
    A Good Woman is a 2004 drama film directed by Mike Barker. The screenplay by Howard Himelstein is based on the 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde...

    (Mike Barker
    Mike Barker (film director)
    - Filmography :*Butterfly on a Wheel *A Good Woman *To Kill a King *Lorna Doone *Best Laid Plans *The James Gang - External links :*...

    )
  • House of Flying Daggers
    House of Flying Daggers
    House of Flying Daggers is a 2004 wuxia film directed by Zhang Yimou. It differs from other wuxia films in that it is more of a love story than a straight martial arts film....

    (Zhang Yimou
    Zhang Yimou
    Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....

    )
  • I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell
    David O. Russell
    David Owen Russell is an American film director and screenwriter. He has been praised for the loose, comic energy that characterizes his work, and is notorious for his explosive confrontations with cast members.-Early life:...

    )
  • Imaginary Heroes
    Imaginary Heroes
    Imaginary Heroes is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Dan Harris. It focuses on the traumatic effect the suicide of the elder son has on a suburban family.-Plot:...

    (Dan Harris)
  • An Italian Romance (Carlo Mazzacurati
    Carlo Mazzacurati
    Carlo Mazzacurati is an Italian film director and screenwriter born in Padua. He started his cinema career in 1980.His better known film include Il Toro and La lingua del santo...

    )
  • Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    Jiminy Glick in Lalawood is a 2004 comedy film. It stars Martin Short as Jiminy Glick, a movie critic who is involved in a murder case at the Toronto International Film Festival.-Storyline:...

    (Vadim Jean
    Vadim Jean
    Vadim Jean is an award-winning English film director, producer, and executive producer.After graduating with a degree in History from Warwick University, he found work on Mike Figgis' Stormy Monday, before establishing his own production company in 1989 covering a wide variety of subjects, from...

    )
  • Kinsey
    Kinsey (film)
    Kinsey is a 2004 biographical film written and directed by Bill Condon. It describes the life of Alfred Kinsey , a pioneer in the area of sexology. His 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate...

    (Bill Condon
    Bill Condon
    William "Bill" Condon is an American screenwriter and director. Condon is best known for directing and writing the critically acclaimed films Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, and Dreamgirls. In 1998, Condon debuted as a screenwriter in Gods and Monsters, which won him his first Academy Award....

    )
  • Modigliani
    Modigliani (film)
    - Plot :Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and...

    (Mick Davis)
  • The Motorcycle Diaries
    The Motorcycle Diaries (film)
    At the end of the film, after his sojourn at the leper colony, Guevara confirms his nascent egalitarian, anti-authority impulses, while making a birthday toast, which is also his first political speech. In it he evokes a pan-Latin American identity that transcends both the arbitrary boundaries of...

    (Walter Salles
    Walter Salles
    Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.-Life and career:Salles was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Elizinha Goncalves and Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a...

    )
  • Ray
    Ray (film)
    Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.Charles was set to...

    (Taylor Hackford
    Taylor Hackford
    Taylor Edwin Hackford is an American film director, and the current president of the Directors Guild of America.-Early life:Hackford was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Mary , a waitress, and Joseph Hackford...

    )
  • Red Dust
    Red Dust (2004 film)
    Red Dust is a 2004 British drama film starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor. It was directed by Tom Hooper. The story, written by Troy Kennedy-Martin, is based on the novel Red Dust by Gillian Slovo...

    (Tom Hooper
    Tom Hooper (director)
    Thomas George "Tom" Hooper is a British film and television director of English and Australian background. Hooper began making short films at the age of 13, and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University Hooper directed plays and...

    )
  • Return to Sender
    Return to Sender (film)
    Return to Sender is a 2004 film written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and directed by Bille August. It is also known under the title Convicted.The film stars Aidan Quinn and Connie Nielsen....

    (Bille August
    Bille August
    Bille August is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director. His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme D'or, Academy Award and Golden Globe. He is one of the very few directors to win the Palme D'or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1991 for The Best...

    )
  • Shark Tale
    Shark Tale
    Shark Tale is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation. In the story, a young fish named Oscar falsely claims to have killed the son of a shark mob boss to win favour with the mob boss' enemies and advance his own community standing...

    (Vicky Jenson
    Vicky Jenson
    Victoria "Vicky" Jenson is an animation director at DreamWorks Animation and Disney, most notable for having co-directed Shrek, the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature....

    , Bibo Bergeron
    Bibo Bergeron
    Eric "Bibo" Bergeron is a French animator and film director. His work includes The Road to El Dorado and Shark Tale.Bergeron has served as animator on films like Asterix in Britain, Asterix and the Big Fight, Fievel Goes West, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, All Dogs...

    , Rob Letterman
    Rob Letterman
    Rob Letterman is an American film director who started with animation and moved on to live-action.Before Letterman's filmic subjects took him into outer space with Monsters vs...

    )
  • Stage Beauty
    Stage Beauty
    Stage Beauty is a 2004 British-American-German romantic period drama directed by Richard Eyre. The screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher is based on his play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which was inspired by references to 17th century actor Edward Kynaston made in the detailed private diary kept by...

    (Richard Eyre
    Richard Eyre
    Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE is an English director of film, theatre, television, and opera.-Biography:Eyre was educated at Sherborne School, an independent school for boys in the market town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset in south-west England, followed by Peterhouse at the University...

    )

Visions

  • 9 Songs
    9 Songs
    9 Songs is a 2004 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The title refers to the nine songs played by eight different rock bands that complement the story of the film...

    (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...

    )
  • A Hole in My Heart
    A Hole in My Heart
    A Hole in My Heart is a 2004 Swedish drama film written and directed by Lukas Moodysson, starring Thorsten Flinck, Sanna Bråding, Björn Almroth and Goran Marjanovic...

    (Lukas Moodysson
    Lukas Moodysson
    - External links :*...

    )
  • Acapulco Gold (André Forcier
    André Forcier
    André Forcier is a Quebec film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality....

    )
  • Anatomie de l'enfer
    Anatomy of Hell
    Anatomy of Hell is a 2004 film by Catherine Breillat. The film was adapted by writer/director Breillat from her novel Pornocracy. The explicitly sexual film stars Amira Casar as "the woman" and porn star Rocco Siffredi as "the man". Renowned movie critic Leonard Maltin's review of the film was...

    (Catherine Breillat
    Catherine Breillat
    Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School.-Life and career:Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort...

    )
  • Art Project: Role Play
  • Blood (Jerry Ciccoritti
    Jerry Ciccoritti
    Jerry Ciccoritti is a Canadian film, television and theatre director. His ability to work in a number of genres and for many mediums has made him one of the most successful directors in the country.- Biography :...

    )
  • Días de Santiago (Josué Méndez
    Josué Méndez (director)
    Josué Méndez is a Peruvian director of films including Dias de Santiago and Dioses . Dias de Santiago is about a cab driver in Lima, Peru...

    )
  • Evolution of a Filipino Family
    Evolution of a Filipino Family
    Evolution of a Filipino Family is a Filipino film by Lav Diaz. The film is 593 minutes long and ranks among the longest films of all time.-External links:* Ten Best Films of the Decade, Cinema Scope Magazine...

    (Lav Diaz
    Lav Diaz
    Lav Diaz or Lavrente Indico Diaz is a Filipino independent filmmaker, born in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines, on December 30, 1958....

    )
  • The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things is a 2004 film directed by and starring Asia Argento. It is based on JT LeRoy's novel of the same name...

    (Asia Argento
    Asia Argento
    Aria Asia Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento is an Italian actress, singer, model and director.-Family and early life:...

    )
  • I Like It a Lot (Jay Rosenblatt)
  • L'Intrus
    The Intruder (2004 film)
    L'intrus is a feature film written and directed by Claire Denis, based upon the autobiographical essay by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The film premiered in the official competition at the 2004 Venice Film Festival....

    (Claire Denis
    Claire Denis
    Claire Denis is a French film director and Professor of Film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Early life:...

    )
  • A Letter to True (Bruce Weber
    Bruce Weber (photographer)
    Bruce Weber is an American fashion photographer and occasional filmmaker. He is most widely known for his ad campaigns for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Pirelli, Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon, and Gianni Versace, as well as his work for Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone...

    )
  • The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (Bruce McDonald)
  • Los Muertos (Lisandro Alonso)
  • Primer
    Primer (film)
    Primer is a 2004 American science fiction drama film about the accidental discovery of a means of time travel. The film was written, directed, and produced by Shane Carruth and was completed on a budget of $7,000...

    (Shane Carruth
    Shane Carruth
    Shane Carruth is an American film writer, director, editor, producer, actor and musician.- Life and career :Carruth was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He attended Stephen F...

    )
  • Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette
    Jonathan Caouette
    Jonathan Caouette is an American film director, writer, editor and actor. Caouette is the director and editor of Tarnation , an autobiographical documentary, and director of All Tomorrow's Parties about a cult music festival.-Films:...

    )
  • Thème
    Theme
    -Art:* Theme , the unifying subject or idea of the type of visual work* Theme , the unifying subject or idea of a story* Theme , the initial or principal melody in a musical piece...

    (Je Françoise Romand)
  • Trauma
    Trauma (2004 film)
    Trauma is a 2004 British psychological thriller directed by Marc Evans and written by Richard Smith.-Cast:*Colin Firth as Ben*Mena Suvari as Charlotte*Naomie Harris as Elisa*Sean Harris as Roland*Neil Edmond as Mills...

    (Marc Evans
    Marc Evans
    Marc Evans is a Welsh-born film director, whose credits include the films House of America, Resurrection Man and My Little Eye.-Biography:Evans was born in 1963 in Carmarthen, Wales...

    )
  • Tropical Malady
    Tropical Malady
    Tropical Malady is a 2004 Thai romantic psychological drama film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It is a film in two segments – the first part a romance story about two homosexual men, and the second a mysterious tale about a soldier lost in the woods, bedeviled by the spirit of a shaman...

    (Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004...

    )
  • Undertow (David Gordon Green
    David Gordon Green
    David Gordon Green is an American filmmaker. He has directed dramas such as George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Snow Angels, as well as the thriller Undertow, all of which he wrote or co-wrote...

    )
  • Vital
    Vital (film)
    Vital is a Japanese film made in 2004. It was directed by Shinya Tsukamoto and stars Tadanobu Asano as Hiroshi Takagi, a man whose girlfriend dies and who loses his memory in a car accident....

    (Shinya Tsukamoto
    Shinya Tsukamoto
    is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.-Biography:Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. He made a number of films, ranging...

    )
  • ZERO the inside story (Elida Schogt)
  • SMARTERCHILD
    SmarterChild
    SmarterChild was a chatterbot available on AOL Instant Messenger and Windows Live Messenger networks.-History:SmarterChild was an interactive agent or bot developed by ActiveBuddy. It was distributed across instant messaging and SMS networks...

    (SPLEAK
    Spleak
    Spleak is an IM platform where users could publish and rate content. It exists in the form of six bots covering as many subject areas: CelebSpleak, SportSpleak, VoteSpleak, TVSpleak, GameSpleak, and StyleSpleak.-Overview:...

    )

Wavelengths

  • (film)
    is a 2003 silent film directed by Morgan Fisher. The film is shot entirely in close-ups, considering the "status of the insert shot in an ingenious way", according to film expert Susan Oxtoby....

    (Morgan Fisher
    Morgan Fisher
    Morgan Fisher is an English keyboard player / composer, and is most known for being a member of Mott the Hoople in the early 1970s. However, his career has covered a wide range of musical activities, and he is still highly active in the music industry...

    )
  • --- ------ (a.k.a. Short Line Long Line) (Thom Andersen
    Thom Andersen
    Thom Andersen is a filmmaker, film critic, and teacher. He attended Berkeley in the early 1960s and then returned to his hometown of Los Angeles to attend USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he studied with Arthur Knight and eventually assisted on Knight's project THE HISTORY OF SEX IN CINEMA...

    , Malcolm Brodwick)
  • Anaconda Targets (Dominic Angerame
    Dominic Angerame
    Dominic Angerame is an American experimental filmmaker, who has directed more than 35 films since 1969, and has presented films in film festivals worldwide. Angerame presented his "City Symphony Series" along with Pixiescope, Waifen Maiden, Consume, and Anaconda Targets at the Havana Film Festival...

    )
  • Ber-Lin 99/00 (André Lehmann)
  • Bouquets 26-27 (Rose Lowder)
  • Chateau/Poyet (Lawrence Jordan)
  • Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature (Charlotte Pryce)
  • Daylight Moon (A Quartet) (Lewis Klahr)
  • Enid's Idyll (Lawrence Jordan)
  • Le Fantôme de l'opératrice (Caroline Martel)
  • Flushing Meadows (Joseph Cornell
    Joseph Cornell
    Joseph Cornell was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage...

    )
  • Free To Go (Interlude) (Andrew Noren)
  • Golden Gate Bridge Exposure: Poised for Parabolas (Lynn Marie Kirby)
  • It's Not My Memory of It - Three Recollected Documents (Julia Meltzer, David Thorne)
  • Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall
    Anthony McCall
    Anthony McCall is a British-born American Avant-Garde artist, specializing in cinema/projected film.thumb|Anthony McCall at Gallery Zander , Cologne...

    )
  • Mirror (Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet)
  • Mouths of Ash (Juan Manuel Echavarría
    Juan Manuel Echavarría
    Juan Manuel Echavarria Olano is a present day Latin American artist from Colombia. Born in 1947 in Medellín, Colombia, he now resides in Bogotá, Colombia and New York City...

    )
  • The Observatory (Alexi Manis)
  • Phantom (Matthias Müller)
  • Play (Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet)
  • Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell
    Joseph Cornell
    Joseph Cornell was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage...

    )
  • Skagafjördur (Peter Hutton
    Peter Hutton
    Peter Hutton is an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. He has also worked as a professional cinematographer, most notably for his former student Ken Burns. Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at the San...

    )
  • St. Ignatius Church Exposure: Lenten Light Conversions (Lynn Marie Kirby)
  • Terrace 49 (Janie Geiser)
  • Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Jonas Mekas
    Jonas Mekas
    Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America.-Biography:...

    )
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