All Films

Terra

2003 • 7 min • United States of America

Terra is a beautiful Eden planet inhabited by a peaceful species know as the Terrians, one of whom is the rebellious teenager Mala, who dreams of something more.

海流から遠く離れて

2003 • 19 min • Japan

Commissioned by Yokohama National University, the film follows a man nearly twenty years after his graduation, who, facing a deadlock in his professional life, returns to his alma mater. Wandering slowly under the blooming cherry trees and through laboratories, classrooms, and the university library, he reflects on his past, present, and the meaning of the university in his life. The role is played by Ken Mitsuishi with cinematography by Masaki Tamura.

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

2003 • 22 min • United States of America

Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and his past successes give us an idea what kind of dedicated person he truly is.

Kidneys for Jesus

2003 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The Jesus Christians are unusually committed to their faith. They give up everything they own - including, now, their spare kidneys. For a year, journalist Jon Ronson has exclusively followed the group as they attempt to donate their kidneys to strangers in the UK and the US. But who should they give them to? Where can they advertise? Will the hospitals, the media, and the potential recipients see their gesture as a miracle, or as the self-destructive act of a controversial religious movement? Presented by Jon Ronson.

Busted: Christmas for Everyone

2003 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Whilst doing their last concert before the Christmas Holidays, Busted find that their guitars have all disappeared mysteriously. With their only clue to there where-abouts being a mysterious note signed by 'Sinister Santa' the band take on London in hopes of finding their Guitars but learn the true meaning of Christmas along the way.

Paul Grimault, image par image

2003 • 56 min • France

A Cat and a Half

2003 • 27 min • Russia

A documentary-fiction hybrid film based on the works of Joseph Brodsky.

Travis and the Nitro Circus

2003 • 51 min • United States of America

In January 2003, NC1 exploded on the scene and changed the face of action sports forever. Although Travis Pastrana was already well known in motocross and freestyle motocross, NC1 exposed the world to the real Travis and his band of insane friends known as the Nitro Circus Crew. There is no limit to what Travis and the Nitro Circus Crew will attempt.

Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years

2003 • 55 min • Switzerland

While silent-film star Charlie Chaplin may have charmed American audiences with the onscreen antics of his lovable "Tramp" character, the actor's private life was marred by a series of public scandals that eventually pushed him into exile. In addition to his penchant for much younger women, Chaplin was unjustly hounded by Senator Joe McCarthy's notorious anti-Communist witch hunts, for which the U.S. revoked his visa in 1952. A bitter and disenchanted Chaplin responded by moving his family to Switzerland, where he remained until his death in 1977. This documentary chronicles Chaplin's life and career during those so-called "forgotten years" (during which he became a prolific and highly respected film-score composer) through previously unreleased archival footage and intimate interviews with his friends and family, including his children Geraldine, Michael, and Eugene.

Usagi

2003 • 2 min • Japan

A group of Robbie the Rabbits of varying colors move through the corridors of a hospital, calmly riding elevators, pushing gurneys, and sitting in silence.

The Making of 'The Last Laugh'

2003 • 41 min • Germany

This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.

Durian

2003 • 16 min • Indonesia

A married man in his 30s and a teenage school girl are having their last rendezvous in their regular shady hotel. Smuggled for their dessert is a strong-smelled fruit called durian.

The Teacher from the Black Lagoon

2003 • 8 min • United States of America

An animated adaptation of the iconic 1989 children's book.

Slow Bistro

2003 • 8 min • Russia

The film is about the behavior of people in a state of boring expectation.

Microscopías

2003 • 23 min • Spain

Various objects are observed using a high-resolution electron microscope: some paint pigments from a supposed 19th-century painting, a dollar bill, and a piece of old film celluloid in the process of decomposition. Microscopic observation will reveal the mysteries hidden on the surface of these materials: the infinite number of paintings that can be found in a tiny fragment of paint, the other possible invisible motion pictures that are hidden in each little piece of film.

Vincent Gallo: 48 People Who Should be Dead In Hollywood

2003 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Jacques Peretti's fictional interview with the controversial and quixotic Vincent Gallo, a cult figure in Hollywood despite his criticism of Tinseltown's elite. Based on Gallo's own writings and real interviews with the man himself, Peretti seeks to explode the self-created myths surrounding the one-time author, director, hustler and motorcycle courier

Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Hold On To Your Structure - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon

2003 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Filmed on 24th June 1985 at London Hammersmith Odeon

Mit der Musik groß werden

2003 • 30 min • Germany

Peter Nestler portrays the everyday life of two young music students from Budapest who are trying to balance their family life, which is shaped by Roma traditions, with their academic education at music school. Brigitta, 12, and Tünde Máko, 10, live with their parents and two older sisters in Budapest's 6th district, the city's former Jewish quarter. Music is very important in this family, and both girls have been playing the violin since the age of five, just like their father and grandfather. Their grandfather discovered the girls' talent, and since then Brigitta and Tünde Máko have been attending a music school where they also receive private lessons.

Frank Sinatra glömde aldrig Finspång

2003 • 37 min

Frank Sinatra was at rock bottom as far as his career in Hollywood was concerned, but made his way back to the spotlight via Finspångs Folkets park in 1953 in front of 537 local fans. Hollywood no longer wanted to know about Frank Sinatra, he divorced his wife Nancy in 1951 to marry the actress Ava Gardner, "the most beautiful woman in the world" and he went to Las Vegas to get his career going again. But in 1952 he was fired from Columbia Pictures.. A year later he was in Sweden on tour and performed in Finspång. Only 537 turned up.The ticket was a whopping SEK 4 against the normal 1:50. The arrangement backfired.

The Spongeman

2003 • 19 min • Spain

Jonathan, a ten-year-old boy from a suburb of Barcelona, spends his afternoons listening to the adventures of Sponge Man, a superhero created by the Boss, his summer camp instructor.

Shooting 'Miller's Crossing': A Conversation with Barry Sonnenfeld

2003 • 16 min

A sit down interview with Miller's Crossing cinematographer Barry Sonnenfield about the making of the Coen brothers' classic.

Whatever We Do

2003 • 25 min • United States of America

Twenty margaritas and 10 shots of tequila, with a few ounces of debauchery, bring four friends closer to the truth than they have been for years.

The Real Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2003 • 47 min • United States of America

Robert Elmer Kleasen (1934-2003) was an American who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1975 for the murder of two young men near Austin, Texas.

Love from Mother Only

2003 • 21 min • Brazil

Filho is a miserable bastard. He's divided between the duty of nursing his fanatic mother and his obsessive lust for Formosa - a whore of Satan . His dilemma casts him into an abyss of violence, witchcraft, death and demonic trance.