All Films

Cidade de Deus: Oficina dos Atores

2003 • 52 min • Brazil

Documentary on the preparation of actors for "City of God".

I magicanti e i tre elementi

2003 • 31 min • Italy

System Error

2003 • 1 min • Canada

A pithy critique of society's commercialization of water, abetted by an utter disregard for the future. The film is a mixed media whirlwind of hyperactive animated collage. This film was made as part of the first edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Narc: The Friedkin Connection

2003 • 10 min • United States of America

Documentary on the connections between Narc (2002) and William Friedkin's filmography.

Did You Ever

2003 • 28 min • Germany, United States of America

The Californian desert, somewhere between Death Valley and Los Angeles. She - pert, forward, a ball of fire - has just thrown her mobile away after an angry tete-a-tete with her (ex-) boyfriend. He - rugged, handsome, the independent outdoor type - is hitching a ride back to LA and knows a good bet when he sees one.

At That Point… Rebeca

2003 • 23 min • Mexico

One morning, Rebeca wakes up to discover that her weight has drastically increased without her experiencing any change in her appearance. As the story evolves, Rebeca, overwhelmed by her weight, that keeps increasing even more at each moment; tries to develop her daily life as usual, until it becomes completely impossible. From that moment on, Rebeca suffers a progressive deterioration that starts affecting the people around her.

The Fast Life

2003 • 57 min • United States of America

Young Chris' (Frantz St. Louis) street debts result in the murder of his father by a dangerous thug, who is subsequently jailed. When the thug is released, Chris plans a bank heist to pay off his debts, but his plan quickly goes dangerously awry.

Father

2003 • 60 min • Russia

Documentary about director's father

The Role of a Lifetime

2003 • 17 min • Lithuania

The Role of a Lifetime raises questions about the ethical and social responsibilities of the artist and about the relationship between cinematic representation and historical record. Narkevicius's film emphasises the value of doubt and the impossibility of objectivity, while providing an intimate portrait of one of Britain's most distinguished and original filmmakers, Peter Watkins.

Hagström: Everything in Music

2003 • 58 min • Sweden

"Hagström - Everything in Music" is a documentary about Albin Hagström who, based on his love of music, built an international empire with manufacturing accordions, guitars and amplifiers. Hagström started a variety of music stores, music schools, and published booklets. The headquarters were located in the small village of Älvdalen, Sweden, but already in the 1930s Hagström had a branch in the Rockerfeller Center in Manhattan. Among Hagström's customers and friends were Jimi Hendrix, Carl Jularbo, Frank Zappa, ABBA, Owe Thörnqvist. Larry Coryell and many others.

Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina

2003 • 52 min

Beginning with William Wrigley's acquisition of the Santa Catalina Island Company in 1919, the history of the island is explored with archival footage, stills, interviews of residents, historians and celebrities.

Platypus: World's Strangest Animal

2003 • 52 min • Australia

One of only two living mammals to lay eggs, the platypus has baffled and inspired the scientific community for hundreds of years. Three years in the making, this stunning natural history film takes us down the East Coast of Australia to the many serenely beautiful habitats of the platypus. Technology specially created for this film captures images from inside the nesting chamber of a wild platypus, and records the extraordinary sounds of the mother suckling her offspring. We watch as they grow from newborns to adulthood. Join renowned documentary makers David Parer and Elizabeth Parer-Cook (Dragons of Galapagos, Wolves of the Sea) on this fascinating journey from the rainforests of Queensland to the frozen mountains of Tasmania, as they reveal new insights into this mysterious creature.

Rossetti: Sex, Drugs and Oil Paint

2003 • 29 min

Andrew Graham-Dixon considers the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter and poet who reinvented the Victorian ideal of female beauty... and who dug up his wife's coffin to retrieve poems he had buried with her. (2003)

行け！レインボー仮面対ホームレス怪人軍団

2003 • 50 min • Japan

77 Beds

2003 • 10 min

One sleepless night Ishmael, a young spacey urban nomad, starts counting back through all the beds he has ever slept in.

False Saints

2003 • 2 min • Canada

This experimental animation film examines society's deification of architecture and urbanization in the modern world and the impact on our relationship to nature. This film was made with the NFB Hothouse program for emerging filmmakers.

This Is Rockbitch

2003 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Rock Bitch is a group of female musicians who live in a sex commune. The girls see themselves as striking a blow for women everywhere, and they are doing it through the medium of rock music.

No tengo nada que decir

2003 • 10 min • Chile

Formal exercise on the use of the foreground and the configuration of the world through detail.

Burden of Innocence

2003 • 60 min

Billion settlement for securities violations, FRONTLINE investigates what New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer calls Wall Street's "corrupt business model" that cost American investors trillions.

Pinoi Rock and Rhythm

2003 • 55 min

Pinoi Rock & Rhythm sheds the spotlight on four obscure yet significant figures in contemporary Philippine Popular Culture. Rebel Disc Jockey Dante "Howlin" Dave David, Stills Photographer and former stuntman Mr. Johnny Albia, Elvis Presley devotee Mr. Chito Bertol and Pinoy Rock guitar icon Mr. Jun Lopito. The documentary unfolds lighthearted, candid and sometimes outrageous introspection from the four individuals on the ups and downbeats of their respective careers.

Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer?

2003 • 54 min • France

Whatever happened to this promising young actress from Hollywood? A search for "the woman in the car" through the never-ending suburbia of Los Angeles, where the myth of cinema reigns. A sort of thriller without a corpse.

Burning The Bed

2003 • 12 min • Ireland

A man and woman spend a last night on the beach together after deciding to split up

No More Hot Carls

2003 • 50 min

A documentary of the 2003 Captain Ahab & Rose For Bohdan tour across the US.

Le Pays des ours

2003 • 29 min

The desperate wandering of three persons at bay. Gérard Maubuisson, a fifty-six-year-old firm manager, decides to close up shop and to leave his wife. Geneviève Maubuisson, his wife, goes round in circles in her apartment, at a loss for news from him. There is also Henri, a disillusioned surgeon, who sleeps with the wives of some of his patients and conducts illegal euthanasia...