All Films

The Farmer's Time on Earth

2003 • 58 min • Sweden

The Wallet

2003 • 10 min • France, Belgium

A man who has just lost a job opportunity finds a wallet. But... what would have happened if he hadn't seen it, or if he decided to return it to its owner, or if he kept the money?

Blue Like a Gunshot

2003 • 5 min

With its interplay of shadow and light, of paint in movement, BLUE LIKE A GUNSHOT is a work of great visual power. It is also a reflection on our world. In its evocation of the conflict between civilization and nature, the absurd vanity of human warfare contrasts with the harmony of the natural world.

Ghosts of California

2003 • 58 min

This documentary investigates five of California's most haunted sites: Alcatraz island, Bodie Ghost Town, Hotel Del Coronado, The Whaley House and The Winchester Mystery House.

Granny

2003 • 7 min • Finland

A lonely grandmother faces love and death. After a heart attack, grandma finds a new meaning for her lonely life.

What Are You Having?

2003 • 11 min

Insecure single guy sees an attractive young woman eating lunch alone. Can he muster the courage to try introducing himself?

White Line Syndrome

2003 • 8 min • Mexico

An imaginary biography of a little girl who dies after being run over, using the image of the enchanted princess, who wakes up looking for domestic bliss and a happy ending.

Women Beyond Borders

2003 • 58 min • Palestinian Territory

Acclaimed director Jean Chamoun looks at the lives and works of some of the women who have joined in the fight for their Palestinian homeland. We learn of young resistance fighter Kifah Afifi’s experience as a survivor of the 1982 Shatila massacre in Lebanon when she was just twelve years old. She tells about fighting the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in the 1990s and of her imprisonment in the Khiam detention facility, which was run by Israel’s auxiliary militia, the South Lebanon Army.

Wildfire

2003 • 12 min • United States of America

Female dancers “clothed” in electronically generated flaming colors reincarnate Thomas Edison’s 1894 hand-tinted film “Annabelle Dances”.

American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i

2003 • 60 min • United States of America

American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i shows the survival of the hula as a renaissance continues to grow beyond the islands. With the cost of living in Hawai'i estimated at 27 percent higher than the continental United States, large numbers of Hawaiians have left the islands to pursue professional and educational opportunities. Today, with more Native Hawaiians living on the mainland than in the state of Hawai'i, the hula has traveled with them. From the suburbs of Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, the largest Hawaiian communities have settled in California, and the hula continues to connect communities to their heritage on distant shores.

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

2003 • 52 min • United Kingdom, Ireland

Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of Samuel Beckett's nineteen plays.

O Poço

2003 • 8 min

Two brothers, one straight one gay reopen old childhood issues.

The Children of Ibdaa: To Create Something Out of Nothing

2003 • 30 min

The Children of Ibdaa: To Create Something Out of Nothing is a 30-minute documentary about a Palestinian children's dance troupe from Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. The children use their performance to express the history, struggle, and aspirations of the Palestinian people, specifically the right to return to their homeland.

Black is the Color of the Gods

2003 • 10 min • Spain

Short animated film

Are You Feeling Lonely?

2003 • 14 min • Peru, United States of America

Massively affected by the big city, Baddi, a janitor in the morgue, makes phone calls to the yet-to-be-informed widows in an attempt to meet the one that will fulfill his fantasy of love, wealth and social status.

Who's Your True Love?

2003 • 9 min

Three people in one emotional bubble encounter three dogs in the natural world.

Verde que te quiero

2003 • 23 min • Chile

Manifestations of human envy in a metaphorical and broad sense.

Moodswing

2003 • 12 min • Belgium

A father and his son are driving through a dark forest when their car breaks down. It’s the beginning of an unusual nightmare. Moodswing is a dark satire on the sitcom genre.

The Firm - Maximum Body Sculpting

2003 • 49 min

Maximum Body Shaping gives serious results with tough body building sets which shapes the entire body with weights. Synchronized to a high-energy music score, this fun-interval training routine leads you through upper and lower-body exercises; adjust weight and intensity to workout as your become stronger. Master Instructor Tracie Long delivers a popular, tested and proven routine that includes high intensity weight work with short aerobic intensifiers.

Da Qui, Sopra il Mare

2003 • 10 min • Italy

Behind a dark window, the childhood home, time is rediscovered. A woman runs into the sunny air ... it is a blast, a color, a reflection of water ... By the sea, one encounters people and things lost.

The Pursuit of Happiness

2003 • 12 min

A young man collects garbage from the ground in what looks like an American highway. Next, we see the same garbage pieces assembled on collages hanging on the walls of a gallery during a vernissage. The young man collects two big chunks of money from the gallerist, burns up his trailer and boards on a plane to France.

Fascism and Football

2003 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Documentary examining how the three most powerful fascist dictators of the 20th Century - Mussolini, Hitler and Franco - used football's popular appeal as vehicle of propaganda. Rare archive footage, combined with evidence from historians and contributions from former stars of the game, is used to expose the cases of corruption, sabotage, intimidation and even alleged murder that affected the lives of supporters and many high-profile players alike.

O prezo da dote

2003 • 20 min

It rains. The millstone continues to turn in the mill, tireless. Winter is coming to an end. In the abandoned village, spring plays its way through the fog. Life and death in a land anchored to the sea and the fog, where the past is as present as the future.

Rewind

2003 • 6 min • Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden

Exactly what happened that day when Henry moved into his new house? A house, eight dancers and a camera.