All Films

David Hockney: Double Portrait

2003 • 49 min • United Kingdom

The film charts David Hockney's return to the theme of the double portrait, using interviews with his family and closest friends to explore the personal and private nature of his art. It creates an intimate psychological portrait of the artist as he paints the relationships in his own life.

Ignition

2003 • 3 min • Canada

This animated short evokes the experience of driving alone on an unlit rural road at night. Darkness is broken by the beam of headlights, creating dancing shadows that obscure what lies beyond the road.

Junji Inagawa: Extremely Scary Stories Selection 3

2003 • 58 min • Japan

Junji Inagawa, the "preacher of the spirit world," invites you into the world of ghost stories.... Third film of the series.

Keep Off the Flowers

2003 • 55 min • Uruguay

At the time of the dictatorship in Uruguay, the University was one of the main centres of repression and a channel for the dissemination of state ideology. The institution's freedoms and rights that had been won through the process of autonomy and co-government were revoked. This documentary shows us university students during that period, their activist strategies, their struggles for participation, and the long road they travelled before finally playing an important role in the transition to democracy.

Alien Gods

2003 • 55 min • United States of America

Alien Gods is a one hour documentary that explores the theory that life on Earth may have been created by Extraterrestrials. It is a documentary that explores the ever popular UFO issue, but with twist. Alien Gods starts with the examination of ancient artifacts and religious manuscripts for some sign of evidence that can prove alien intervention. In addition, Alien Gods explores the religious cul

Barry White and Love Unlimited in Concert

2003 • 45 min • Germany

The man with the legendary satin smooth voice. Barry White, came to Frankfurt at the peak of his career in 1975. Accompanied by Love Unlimited, the female vocal group which Barry had formed in 1969, he enchanted the audience with a truly memorable concert performing some of his celebrated declarations of love.

Alemanya

2003 • 15 min • Germany

A dubious refugee smuggler cheats Mahmut of all his money. Not wanting his wife and children to regard him as a failure, he tries to get to Germany after all by hiding in the boot of a Mercedes belonging to two German tourists.

Butch Mystique

2003 • 35 min • United States of America

Nine African American butch lesbians talk about various aspects of the butch lifestyle and their own personal lives.

Sweet Sweet Virgin

2003 • 6 min • Japan

Short animated film by Kojiro Shishido.

Carolina

2003 • 15 min • Brazil

Carolina Maria de Jesus. Her favela diary was a success in 1960. Despite her recognition, she died forgotten and poor.

Daf

2003 • 30 min • Iran

This documentary shows us how a Daf elaborated. It's about a family that all their children are blinded and they're running their family business. They're making Dafs which is an Iranian hand percussion musical instrument and nowadays it's mostly played in Kurdish folk songs.

The Musical Legacy of Paul Smith

2003 • 11 min

A Disney featurette about composer Paul Smith.

Security Anthem

2003 • 3 min

An exercise in post-September 11th dementia, in which banal lines delivered by talking heads become increasingly sinister.

Fear LESS

2003 • 5 min • Norway

Childhood is not necessarily as rosy as we adults want it to be. It can be full of worries and anxiety.

Clarisse's Neck

2003 • 40 min • France

Antoine loves Clarisse and wants to marry her. Or how a simple story about a lost ring leads a young woman to say yes, finally!

Summit of the Wave

2003 • 32 min

Part 3 of documentary trilogy about Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad. This part focuses on her theatre and film work.

Damian's Demons

2003 • 40 min • United States of America

A man driven to murder by his mother's horror stories terrorizes women at a house party.

Tachuela, Varilla y Lechuga

2003 • 4 min • Uruguay

Three characters try to build something in isolation and find that they will only succeed if they unite.

Zu Besuch im Knödelländchen

2003 • 58 min • Germany

Karl-Heinz Schneider travels once again to his former homeland. In his pictorial and masterful narrative style, the author lets us participate once again in his childhood and youth days and vividly shows us the history, culture and people of the former Brandenburg district of Weststernberg.

Dandelion

2003 • 53 min • Germany

This is someone who is driven to escape by himself and whose own actions catch up with him and part of his conscience demands more and more ready accountability on this torturous journey.

The Bull

2003 • 13 min • Denmark

On a chilly morning an old hunter passes the farm of his old friend Preben. The wind blows the gates open and reveals a terrible tableau in the yard. The day before, Preben's wife has left him with their boy. With his family gone, his pride is overwhelming: The bull stands there solid as a rock. The hunter reaches for his gun - but a bull like this is hard to kill.

The War File: The Battle Of Midway

2003 • 55 min

A ferocious battle fought between the Japanese and United States Carrier Fleets, which proved to be one of the most decisive victories and a major turning point for America in the war in the Pacific. The Japanese lost four of their powerful carriers and from that point on, no longer able to risk a major fleet versus fleet action, went on the defensive. By the time they had recovered enough to rebuild their fleet, American power had mobilized into the unstoppable force that Japan had so feared.

Petrograts

2003 • 4 min • Russia

About days of St. Petersburg art in the city of Graz, Austria, which was the cultural capital of Europe in 2003.

Laibach: The Platform

2003 • 47 min • United Kingdom

A 2003 Slovenian language documentary written and directed by Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik, starring Laibach.