All Films

El Último Alevare

2003 • 20 min

Two musicians share a passion for tango. After a tragedy, the young man is never the same again.

Francesc lo valent

2003 • 10 min • Canada, France

At dawn an army prepares for battle, but one of the knights shies away from combat and rides his horse beginning a trip crossing the landscapes desolated by the war. Along the way, he joins the victims of the war, helping them to defend their lives.

Cromwell: Warts and All

2003 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Using drama and documentary this film tells the remarkable story of Cromwell, one of the most important characters of British history, yet revered and hated in equal measure. Charles I has been executed and an East Anglian farmer is about to become leader of all England.

Beyoncé: Unauthorized

2003 • 37 min • United States of America

One third of the mega singing group Destiny's Child, a movie star, and now a successful solo artist, the multi-talented Beyonce Knowles is headed for supa dupa stardom. But fame and fortune have come at a price. See the highs and lows of super stardom in this unauthorized biography.

Undiscovered Walt Disney World

2003 • 50 min

This Travel Channel special looks at some of the lesser-known things you can do at the Walt Disney World Resort.

Caramels

2003 • 13 min • Iceland

A short comedy about a mad small town scientist who makes deadly explosive caramels. While he distributes them through the local candy store, a rough-neck detective closes in.

Infidels

2003 • 39 min

Infidels (Koffar) is a film about the Godars—artist-Gypsies living in Northern Iran. The film recounts the four ways which the Godars make their living: dancing, acting, hunting and music, and showcases their dedication to preserve their art and age-old rituals. In this film the Godars sing songs, play music, and tell the ancient tales of their heritage which often deal with their problems with God.

Checkmate: Strategy of a Revolution

2003 • 60 min • Austria, Germany

How does one trigger a revolution? In the Romanian uprising in 1989, everything seemed to happen by itself. The people were fed up and were plagued by poverty and terror. There comes a time when action must be taken! But, it turns out that history is not that simple, as this investigative documentary proves. The film is a thorough and revealing reconstruction of the events leading up to Ceaucescu’s downfall and execution. In actual fact, the Romanian revolution was a strictly managed operation, controlled from the outside. Hungary, Germany and especially America had big fingers in the pie.

To Tom Cortini 3: Damaged Goods

2003 • 24 min • United States of America

Vinnie's long-running empire has crumbled. Jerry has gotten his revenge for being lied to by multiple parties. Everyone has met their ends. Or are they? Suddenly waking from a dream, Jerry relives moments from the first two entries and uses the knowledge of what's to come to prevent the future from happening. But was everything meant to happen for a reason?

A Day Off

2003 • 3 min • Latvia

The story of a lovely snake family. How they spend a holiday by the sea – swim, play ball, sail, sunbathe, eat ice cream. Like all of us. And then evening comes, and the holiday is over.

Dansa med dvärgar

2003 • 14 min

A lonely young woman spends most of the time at home in her empty apartment after her husband left her. Eventually she gets a job at an elephant factory where you make five new elephants from parts of a single. At the same time, she dreams of a dwarf who wants to dance with her. But the dwarf is taboo. And when she tells about her dream to a workmate she is dismissed from work.

The Amateurs

2003 • 49 min

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

Trio For One

2003 • 57 min • France

Daulagiri (8167m), Naga Parbat (8125m) and Broad Peak (8051m) are among the 14 peaks in the world. Jean-Christophe Lafaille has set himself the goal of reaching these 3 peaks in the space of two months. This film takes us on a surprising journey that begins in Nepal and ends in Pakistan, while exploring the soul of this committed mountaineer… Ed Viesturs and Katia Lafaille accompanied Lafaille on his adventure.

Automatic Writing

2003 • 3 min

Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).

Death of a Skyline

2003 • 42 min • Canada

A group of citizens lobbied to save the landmark Alberta Wheat Pool grain elevator, one of the defining features of Mayerthorpe’s landscape, from being torn down in 2003 - as thousands of others had been. This film documents those efforts while exploring the broader history and significance of the grain elevator.

Get the Fire!

2003 • 60 min • United States of America

Three young Mormon men, age 19, embark on a two-year rite of passage in Germany as part of a long-standing worldwide effort by Mormon missionaries to spread their faith at home and abroad.

Roof Man

2003 • 35 min • Latvia

The protagonist of this documentary film is not a sleepwalker. He is not a reckless adventurer. Or a madman. Or a bird - a man with wings. There are things he may lose. He has a big family - sons, a wife, dogs, a house, a job. But Eriks Rugens, the protagonist of this documentary film, has a courageous dream that has become a reality - climbing roofs. He has managed to overcome the natural human fear of height. Climbing the roofs is his hobby and work to be closer to the sky, on the spires of churches, on top of the high-rises. From where he looks at the daily and street life with different eyes.

Pass The Mic!

2003 • 52 min

This ambitious documentary turns up the volume on long-silent voices lurking beneath the surface of the Latin hip-hop underground, revealing the origins of a genre that still has to fight to be heard. Highlights include a behind-the-scenes look at the artists' creative process, plus candid interviews with stars who share stories about making it in the business -- from Mellow Man Ace and Capone to Delinquent Habits and Psycho Realm.

Waiting for the Weekend

2003 • 7 min • Serbia and Montenegro

A young couple enjoys precious few fleeting moments of intimacy during the brief periods between the day shift and the night shift.

Be Good, Smile Pretty

2003 • 52 min • United States of America

A powerfully moving, personal exploration of a grief for the father she never knew, this award-winning film chronicles Tracy Droz Tragos' heart-wrenching quest to understand and cope with a loss shared by the estimated 20,000 Americans whose fathers were killed in Vietnam. Weaving emotionally compelling interviews with home movies, stock footage, and family photos, Tragos travels from Selma, Alabama, to the U.S. Senate in search of her father’s Naval Academy roommates and war buddies, each of whom has been silently mourning his death and remembers her father’s life in his own way. Along her journey, Tragos uncovers a 30-year-old mystery, as she comes to know her father as a man, untangled from the memory of a war that wounded a nation. And while some discoveries are almost too difficult to bear, it is ultimately the truth that allows her, and her entire family, to understand and move forward.

Bad Boy

2003 • 5 min • Russia

A fairy tale about a naughty boy and his parents.

Alfred Hitchcluck Presents School House Flock

2003 • 9 min • United States of America

A animated short created by Alex Hirsch.

Tangier, the Burners' Dream

2003 • 54 min • France, Morocco

Tangier has an open identity on the Strait of Gibraltar. The border here is a presence: it is water. Opposite, Spain. Candidates for illegal departure flock without interruption to Tangier. The film follows the adventure of a few ready to "burn" their identity, to cross or die...

Geraldo José - O Som Sem Barreira

2003 • 54 min • Brazil

The story of the most famous sound technician in cinema and television in Brazil, known as the "noise-man".