All Films

Alphabet of Hope

2003 • 55 min

A mountainous area on the border between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey with a history marked by religious conflict. However, the Bulgarians, Turks and Roma living here have established unwritten rules of understanding in their life together. Until the last day of school, the camera follows the path of children from two families - Bulgarian and Turkish. Under extremely difficult conditions, they travel 140 kilometres every day to the only school not closed for the sixteen villages in the area, where Bulgarian, Turkish and Roma children study together.

Jefftowne 2

2003 • 18 min • United States of America

Jeff Towne revisited four years after the release of the original film.

Inside the Fear Factory

2003 • 20 min • United Kingdom

An overview of the history of Great Britain's Amicus Films, which was a rival of Hammer Studios in the horror field. Included are interviews with company co-founder Max Rosenberg, cameraman Freddie Francis and director Roy Ward Baker, and clips from various Amicus productions.

Live from Shiva's Dance Floor

2003 • 21 min • United States of America

Poet and performance artist Timothy "Speed" Levitch, who starred in a documentary about his life philosophy in 1998, is back in this meditation on life in post-September 11 New York City. Touring "ground zero" with director Richard Linklater, Levitch discusses his ideas on the creation of a memorial, what it's like to live with fear (or not to live with it) and more.

Nephi & Laban

2003 • 45 min

When young Spencer Anderson can't seem to stay focused on the primary class sharing-time presentation, a loving leader shows him how to use his amazing imagination to make the stories come to life.

Welcome to Glaringly

2003 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Grant Orchards impressive independent film debut details a slightly sinister set of situations which reveal both truth, misunderstanding and the consequences thereof... A film for our times.

Big Shorts Mouse

2003 • 14 min • United States of America

A Cartoon about Big Shorts Mouse

Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes

2003 • 50 min

A documentary on the Looney Tunes. Including interviews from people who worked on it, and their family.

Sketches (1990-2003)

2003 • 28 min • Spain

Apuntes is a sort of prologue to ‘The Quince Tree Sun’. With images shot by Erice in the Summer of 1990, as he was preparing such film, observing how the painter Antonio López worked. Erice wrote and selected the texts which illustrate them. Apuntes is split in 6 parts to show López’s 6 projects.

The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show

2003 • 8 min • United States of America

A "trilogy" of surreal and funny cartoons, produced exclusively to book-end the first year of The Animation Show's travelling theatrical tour.

Teletubbies: The Magic Pumpkin and Other Stories

2003 • 60 min

This collection of fantastic episodes from the wildly popular educational series for young children featuring Dipsy, Po, Laa-Laa and Tinky Winky follows the brightly colored friends as they discover a magical pumpkin that tells wild stories. Other adventures in the autumn-themed program include the quartet's discovery of a peculiar pair of boots and the sudden flight of Dipsy's hat on a blustery day.

Deathdealer: A Documentary

2003 • 15 min • United States of America

A short mockumentary about an unfulfilled door-to-door salesman named Vincent who is actually the Angel of Death.

Rhodes Forever

2003 • 60 min • Belgium, Finland

A 500 year history of Juderiya on the Island of Rhodes, Greece. Gorgeous photography and incredible story of how part of the community was transplanted into the Belgian Congo during Italian occupation.

The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film

2003 • 30 min

The making of "The Andromeda Strain".

The Curse of the Elephant Man

2003 • 50 min

The case of the Elephant Man is one of the great unsolved mysteries of medicine. What was the terrible curse that turned Joseph Merrick into history's most horribly deformed man? How did he keep his sanity as the disease ravaged his body?

2+1=

2003 • 5 min • Russia

The film is about the paradoxical nature of everyday life.

Rokia: Voice of a New Generation

2003 • 8 min

Documentary about the life and career of Rokia Traoré, a musician from Mali, an African country, who is one of the few women in her country, perhaps the only one, who manages to have a career in music. She's recorded with Kronos Quartet, and lives between France and Mali.

Anna's Day

2003 • 27 min

Looking For Love

2003 • 2 min

"Looking For Love" by David Lowery was shot in a fit of inspiration over the course of two hours on Valentine's Day in 2003. It took another two hours to clean up afterwards.

Spokane Indians: A Century of Baseball

2003 • 53 min • United States of America

This documents Spokane's love affair with baseball over the past 100 years, tracing the team's historic legacy back to its origins in 1890 and continuing through the decades to the Indians' present day management by Brett Sports.

Beijing Swings

2003 • 49 min

Art critic Waldemar Januzczak explores Beijing's controversial and challenging modern art scene.

Making of 'Demonlover'

2003 • 57 min • France

Twenty years after David Cronenberg prophesied the dark side of the Internet age in Videodrome, acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas updated it for the New Millennium in his startlingly prescient Demonlover, a chilling exploration of the nexus between sex and violence available at the click of a button.

What About the Bodies

2003 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A solitary man drives on an isolated road. He pulls over, checks on something in the back seat, gets out a shovel, and vomits. It seems he's looking for a place to bury a body.

Dead Boys Club 2

2003 • 60 min • United States of America

The Dead Boys Club, a group of gay amateur horror movie makers, wins a trip to Hollywood to work with a professional director who has an interest in making their horror movie. But little do they know that the director has other, more deadly plans for them.