All Films

Foxy Sisters

2003 • 20 min • Lithuania

Two sisters go to a city. It is the place, they strongly believe, that all their dreams will be fulfilled. Because they are young, cheek and nothing can stop them. However, the more they try, the faster their dreams and hopes vanish.

Born Slave

2003 • 52 min

“Born slave” is the first film ever made about the slavery in Mauritania. The swedish filmmakers succeeded in entering Mauritania “as tourists” and secretly filming the slavery. Mauritania is the only country in the world where a slave class still exists. Humans are owned by a slave master and are forced to work without any compensation. The children are separated from their mothers at the age of one and are brought up as slaves. The film is screened throughout the world. For example in South Africa in Cape Town and Johannesburg, at several universities, schools and different Township communities. “Born slave” caused commotion when it was screened in Washington, USA. Agents from the Mauritanian embassy showed up and after some disturbance, security personel had to turn away the embassy agents. Amnesty International use the film in their activity.

Rudy Burckhardt: Man in the Woods

2003 • 23 min • United States of America

A detailed look at a remarkable artist who died in 1999 at age 85. Aspects of Burckhardt's work in photography, film, and painting are examined in interviews with Rudy Burckhardt, painter Yvonne Jacquette, and curators Robert Storr (former Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Brian Wallis (Chief Curator, International Center of Photography, New York). In his studio in New York, Burckhardt discusses his photography and its significance within its historical framework. In the woods near his summer home in Maine, the viewer sees Burckhardt's easel and painting in front of the scene he is depicting. Whether in city or country, Burckhardt appreciated and transformed the chaos he discovered.

Karaoğlan: He Had Different Dreams

2003 • 41 min • Turkey

How will history remember him? The honest politician who brought the left to power, the reliable plane tree of the state, the poet who adds elegance to politics? Or is it the stubborn, skeptical, lonely leader who hinders the unity of the left? How many people will remember the legend of Karaoğlan, which was written on the mountains and stones in the milestones of democracy? And how many of them will question the reasons for the rise from the top to the prison, from the prison to the top again, and then to be forgotten at the ballot box? How will Turkey remember a leader who left his mark in the last fifty years, a republican intellectual, the captain of the country's most critical days?

Serheldan

2003 • 18 min

Serheldan is a feisty 13 year-old Kurdish girl living in Beirut. Filming her everyday life, Serheldan attempts to document her identity and neighborhood. The footage is comprised of several interviews with family, friends and cats, shot with her best friend Christine

Mountains of the Wolf

2003 • 52 min • Spain

Documentary that shows the life of some individual wolves in the mountains of Spain.

Mom's Little Boy

2003 • 14 min • Norway

A creative mother tries in different ways to figure out if her teenage son is gay.

Emma Shapplin - The Concert in Caesarea

2003 • 51 min • France

Le Concert de Caesarea is the first live album and DVD by singer Emma Shapplin. It is a recording of Shapplin's first concert in Israel, a concert held in the ancient city of Caesarea in 1999. The album was written, composed and produced by Jean-Patrick Capdevielle.

Grandpa's Still in the Tuff Shed

2003 • 60 min

Award winning documentary filmmakers, Robin, Kathy and Shelly Beeck, with the help of filmmaker Michael Moore, have spent the last five years filming a 60-minute feature-length documentary on Bredo Morstoel, a Norweigan who was frozen by his grandson in 1983. Since then, the world famous...well...stiff has been lying under 800 pounds of dry ice in a TUFF SHED behind his grandsons' castle-like house in the 9000-ft Colorado ski town of Nederland. The grandson, Trygve Bauge, has long since been deported back to Norway, but Grandpa Bredo has remained, unwittingly becoming a worldwide symbol of the legal rights of the temporarily dead....

Earth: Inferno

2003 • 11 min • Argentina

A short film inspired by Austin Osman Spare’s first book released on DVD by Fulgur Limited. The film was produced in Argentina by Mor Navon and Julian Moguillansky. Contains nudity and moderate sex references

Story of a Mother

2003 • 7 min

In the coldest night, Death takes the life of a child, his mother will do everything to get him back, even losing everything she has.

Eco y Narciso

2003 • 19 min • Spain

In a garden at the party of the God Bacchus, Narciso's presence is the highlight of the party. Both gods and mortals seek his favors without getting anywhere.

The Garden

2003 • 6 min • France

In the middle of summer, a couple waits in a green garden for a fish growing on a tree to reach maturity. The wait is long, but the fish is finally red and the young woman can pick it.

Unido Vencerás

2003 • 10 min • Brazil

What is most valuable to a football club? Your titles, your tradition, your stars? 90 minutes are enough for us to realize that for the fans of America Football Club its greatest asset is its fans, who are passionate and loyal!

Landscape

2003 • 60 min • Germany, Russia

Winter. A bus stop in a small village. People are waiting for a bus. They talk. Listening to their conversations, the viewer can imagine the world they live in. United by the movement of the camera, the place and the people blend together.

Produto Descartável

2003 • 16 min • Brazil

Phineas Slipped

2003 • 16 min • United States of America

Restless schoolboys in class have daydreams that are sweet and romantic, hot and raunchy, and disturbingly violent.

Cabbage Head

2003 • 18 min

A short comedy about love, life & roughage.

Blood Under the Carpet

2003 • 45 min • United Kingdom

A wry documentary account of properties in the UK in which brutal murders have taken place and the people who have bought them and live in them.

world is so beautiful

2003 • 18 min

A film by Takagi Masakatsu.

Pretty Dyana

2003 • 45 min • Serbia and Montenegro

An intimate look at Gypsy refugees in a Belgrade suburb who make a living by transforming Citroen´s classic 2cv and Dyana cars into Mad Max-like recycling vehicles, which they use to collect card-board, bottles and scrap metal. These modern horses are much more efficent than the cart-pushing competition, but even more important, they also mean freedom, hope and style for their crafty owners. Even the car batteries are used as power generators in order to get some light, watch TV and recharge mobiles ! Almost an alchemist´s dream come true ! But police doesn´t always find these strange vehicles funny... Pretty Dyana is a very funny documentary, but sad in a way... " If Mitic had focused only on the terrible misery these people live in, the film would have been unbearable. Instead, you never know whether you should cry after you laugh, or the other way around " Sara Hultmanm, Goteborg Film Festival

Wind Along the Coast

2003 • 7 min • Russia

A lyrical and funny story about the hard life of a village on the coast suffering from the high winds.

Nocturne

2003 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Composed of a series of twilight images of empty streets, Nocturne is a mesmerising and tonally expressive work that similarly recalls the seminal tone poem Koyaanisquatsi, with the rigourous symmetry and urban desolation of Chantal Akerman’s News From Home. — New York Video Festival 2003 Notes.

What's The Love Making Babies For

2003 • 20 min • United States of America

Trecartin's extraordinary digital manipulations reach a new level as he speculates in vivid animation about reproduction, sexuality, and contemporary moralities. Collapsing footage appropriated from television, the Internet, and pop culture, Trecartin and his elaborately costumed collaborators manufacture an alien yet familiar reality. Inside this startling new video world, technophile gods wearing acid-washed denim argue about the future of gender and produce cryptic TV commercials. In a surreal backyard town meeting, characters deliver disjointed polemics assembled from clashing phrases that could have originated in ad campaigns, instant messaging conversations, or twisted episodes of syndicated science fiction. Constructed from the raw material of disposable media clichés and fads, Trecartin's narrative leaves us to answer the riddles he poses.