All Films

Hello

2003 • 7 min • Australia

In a digital world, can analogue find true love? It is the wise old gramaphone who has the answers for a lovesick loner.

Chaplin Today: City Lights

2003 • 26 min • France

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that his Tramp character would not be heard. City Lights would not be a talking picture, but it would have a soundtrack. Chaplin personally composed a musical score and sound effects for the picture. With Peter Lord, the famous co-creator of Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, we see how Chaplin became the king of slapstick comedy and the superstar of the movies.

Ocras

2003 • 12 min • Ireland

In a time of famine a starving girl and her mother are rescued from the roadside by a stranger. But the stranger has other motives.

Day of Independence

2003 • 27 min • United States of America

Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.

I Know I Died with It

2003 • 8 min

A 16mm Joey Smack short film.

Lucie & Vera

2003 • 26 min • Germany

Los No Invitados

2003 • 25 min • Mexico

After years of suffering from a sleep disorder, Asunción turns to a specialist who will help her discover the causes of her insomnia.

Family Bonds

2003 • 16 min • Mexico

A young man is madly in love with his mother, until he discovers a horrible truth about her sexual behavior.

The Fanimatrix: Run Program

2003 • 16 min • New Zealand

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. A short film set in the prison world of the Matrix, our heroes Dante and Medusa undertake a mission called Run Program, using classic bait and switch tactics. Of course nothing ever goes right when an Agent gets involved...

Holy Wood

2003 • 43 min • Philippines

The film illustrates the philosophy of “giving back” to nature, and documents the pinugo, the unique system of sustainable land cultivation developed by the Ifugao to take equal account of forest management and rice growing.This diary film also turns into a travelogue when a group of woodcarvers embark on a trip to Japan to the Takedera temple where they transform a 250-year-old tree, which had been struck by a lightning bolt, into a totem pole.

Museum Scream

2003 • 7 min • United States of America

When Sylvester hears that a children's museum's prize exhibit is Tweety Pie, he tires to raid the museum in order to have lunch. He doesn't succeed in his mission, due to Tweety's smartness, and the children.

The Amazing Johnathan - Live and Uncensored

2003 • 48 min

This video is the ultimate collector's item for the Amazing Johnathan's true fans. A 48 minute live performance of Johnathan taped at The Flamingo in Las Vegas. Be warned that it's not like what you are used to seeing on TV. It contains adult language and is not suitable for all audiences! See hilarious backstage scenes with Tanya, Johnathan's assistant and never before glimpses into the mind of The Amazing Johnathan. You will laugh until you are sore!

If the Weather Permits

2003 • 28 min • Canada

Director Elisapie Issac's documentary is a sort-of letter to her deceased grandfather addressing the question of Inuit culture in the modern world.

Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream

2003 • 24 min • United States of America

A documentary about Brian de Palma's "Femme Fatale."

Kapelusz

2003 • 9 min • Poland

Agnieszka Smoczyńska's Kapelusz is an adaptation of an excerpt from Kazimierz Barandys' short story "For You and Himself." The main character is a 12-year-old boy named Michał brought up by a despotic father. But one day he receives an unexpected gift from his father...

Once Upon a Time in a Lingerie...

2003 • 60 min • Japan

Urashima works at a women's underwear manufacturer in a department where all the employees are female, including the department head Kaoru, also known as Otohime-sama. One day, he is ordered by Sayori, a frustrated lingerie shop owner, to get a contract. Sayori seduces Urashima, but he is unable to get it done at the most crucial moment, which angers her. That night, Urashima picks up a turtle near the garbage dump. He goes back home and falls asleep, and dreams of a sexual feast with Kaoru and the other female employees.

National Geographic : Search for the Afghan Girl

2003 • 53 min

She was one of the world's most famous faces, yet no one knew who she was. Her image appeared on the front of magazines and books, posters, lapel pins, and even rugs, but she didn't know it. Now, after searching for 17 years, National Geographic has once again found the Afghan girl with the haunting green eyes.

Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huck Jam North American Tour

2003 • 60 min

One legendary skateboarder. Twelve of the world’s top athletes. Two raging punk rock bands. Six months of planning. Nine days of rehearsal. One jaw broken in four places. One huge night in Las Vegas. Thousands of screaming fans. This isn’t like any recipe your mom ever made. This is The Making of Tony Hawk’s Boom Boom Huck Jam – a heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat, out-of-your-head display of daredevil talent. In fact, it is the only action sports and music show that matters. This is your behind-the- scenes credential to watch how the show came together for the Las Vegas kickoff at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. Join Tony Hawk and his crew of skateboard wizards, models, and magicians as they gather on a $1.2 million customized ramp/track system for a show that had never before been created, and which others may only hope to imitate.

Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'

2003 • 30 min • United States of America

The magic and creation behind the making of William Friedkin's classic action film To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). It follows cast, crew and the director several years after the film sharing their experiences while working on the project, also including footage from the shooting, and they discuss in detail the conception of the most spectacular scenes filmed there and also the great debate about the different endings developed for the film.

Keanu Reeves: Journey to Success

2003 • 52 min

No actor's private life is more guarded and more mysterious than Keanu Reeves. Within it rests a world filled with rumors and tragedy, love and loss, fortune and fame. But now for the first time ever, the mysteries will be revealed and the rumors put to rest in 'Keanu Reeves: Journey to Success'! Through interviews with Keanu Reeves and his costars, movie premieres, and film clips, experience firsthand the secret life of one of the most mysterious actors in the world: Keanu Reeves.

A Mind's I

2003 • 16 min • Denmark

A young man tangled up in strange family patterns. Or is it his imagination running wild? Different strings of reality interwoven and impossible to tell apart from each other.

Means to an End

2003 • 14 min

While at a cheap motel, a woman is drawn out of a suicide attempt by a suspicious note slid underneath her door, which hints that a hired killer might be residing next door.

Apple Jack

2003 • 16 min

On the eve of Halloween, 1938, CBS radio reported UFO's in the skies over the United States. That same night, two notorious criminals escaped the maximum security prison at Macatawa... They were never seen again. Apple Jack is a high brow story about low brow people caught in a divine intervention

Days in the Shade

2003 • 43 min

In modern-day Kanazawa, writer Tokuda Shūsei returns to his hometown and is quietly drawn to Okine, the daughter of a fading inn. Inspired by four of Shūsei’s works, director Shinji Aoyama (Desert Moon) transforms the inner world of a Meiji-era novelist into a meditative film that drifts between memory and the present, culminating in a luminous live performance that dissolves the boundary between art and life.