All Films

Doppelherz

2003 • 25 min • United States of America

Doppelherz is a short, surrealist film by American musician Marilyn Manson that was created during the making of "The Golden Age of Grotesque" album.

The Anniversary

2003 • 28 min • United States of America

In 1963 a boy and his mother are left in Saigon while his father and brother flee to seek shelter from religious persecution in North Vietnam. The two brothers meet as strangers in a hapless confrontation during the war in 1973.

One Piece Special: Protect! The Last Great Stage

2003 • 46 min • Japan

Aired after Episode 174 - It is the last performance of a great actor and playwright, but several actors suddenly quit. Luckily, the Straw Hats offer to take their place. However, the quitting actors turns out to be more than a coincidence when they meet a Marine with a grudge against the playwright.

Prince Árgyélus

2003 • 22 min • Hungary

The cartoon version of Albert Gyergyai's beautiful story about a prince named Árgilus and a fairy maiden, História, presents a struggling human life path. The youngest of the king's three sons, Árgyélus, fights the most determinedly. Despite all the difficulties and setbacks, he does not give up on finding his love, the beautiful fairy maiden. This is how his life ends, he turns gray, and grows tired of the trials. However, the happiness he finally finds restores his strength and youth.

Antagonia

2003 • 9 min • Canada

The film is an abstract allegory, showing two penguins with different ideas abot sea creatures that are their food or their shadows, depending on the perspective. Basically, sense-twisting animation.

Like a Desperado Under the Eaves

2003 • 41 min • Japan

The main character Akihiko lives in an old apartment. He plays the guitar and sings his own pieces on the street, but this cannot be called his dream. He has a girlfriend. The owner of the apartment next-door constantly repeats Buddhist prayers night and day. On the floor above, there lives a strange middle-aged man who wants to be kicked out of the apartment. Such an ordinary day exists. Akihiko is standing still on the street at dawn.

Pacotille

2003 • 12 min • France

Two lovers are arguing about whether a gift is a declaration of love or not.

The Summit

2003 • 4 min • Mexico

A fleeting instant in filial relations shows us the way in which we transmit to our children and others the meaning we attribute to life.

Body Temperature

2003 • 32 min

Part of Girls Cinema collection. Collaboration between idol Nanase Iwai and cinematographer Noboru Shinoda.

Ashes

2003 • 26 min • France, Lebanon

Nabil returns to Beirut with the ashes of his father who died abroad. He tries to overcome his bereavement while his family insists on respecting rites and customs by burying a non-existent corpse.

Beautiful Blooming

2003 • 60 min • Japan

The third year of Keio. Picked up by Takamori Saigo, Hanjiro pledges his loyalty to him and joins an assassination group led by Kidaro. One day, Hanjiro was taken aback by a man he met on the street, and since then, the man's presence has never left his mind.

Married Women Who Want a Taste

2003 • 60 min • Japan

The film is in a surreal style. The story involves a young high school teacher who has retired for marriage and seduces one of her former students. She prolongs the relationship by seeing the student whenever her husband leaves for work. Eventually she hides the student in a bedroom closet for more convenient access.

Aquarian Age the Movie

2003 • 60 min • Japan

Mayumi, the peaceful daughter of an E.G.O. leader, has never been able to come to terms with her faction's mission or her psychic abilities. Everything changes when, in the middle of a horrific attack on Earth, a mysterious boy named Hokuto appears. Mayumi is suddenly infused with a power she's never felt before. Hokuto convinces a new generation of E.G.O., ARAYASHIKI, WIZ-DOM, and DARKLORE members that the world is in danger. The POLESTAR EMPIRE, led by the ambitious Emperor, seeks to conquer the universe by resurrecting dead warriors. Four young women will discover their own personal strengths to face the ultimate evil in the Aquarian Age, a chaotic period rife with war.

The School

2003 • 12 min • Canada

Based on the short story by Donald Barthelme, this darkly comedic fable explores the strange and unfortunate occurrences in Mr. Gibson's second grade class.

Mondonuovo

2003 • 54 min • Italy

A visual biography of Gianni Celati through the writer's places and his journey.

In Shadow

2003 • 20 min

A young up-and-coming artist works hard to build a future for herself while a shadow from her past threatens to push her into madness.

Slashed

2003 • 31 min

A serial killer stalks women in Las Vegas.

Nokia Short

2003 • 2 min

A short film made with a mobile phone, commissioned by Nokia as part of the promotion of the first model of a cellular phone with a built-in camera.

Interruptus

2003 • 16 min • Spain

A robbery going wrong.

Go! Anpanman: Ruby's Wish

2003 • 51 min • Japan

Ruby is an Aurora Girl who makes northern lights together with her kind. She is banished from Aurora no kuni (Aurora Land) because of her selfishness and horrible behaviour, and she is told to find a stone called Aurora no Shizuku that can grant three wishes. That way she will be forgiven. Ruby meets Anpanman and lies to him that she needs the stone to rescue her land. But when Baikinman is also interested in getting the three wishes, Ruby is torn between the choice of helping her new friends or being able to return to Aurora no kuni.

Plassmangel

2003 • 10 min • Norway

A relatively small hospital experiences a veritable gridlock in one narrow hallway with beds, patients, doctors and nurses all finding their movements unduly restricted. This necessitates an extreme measure imposed by one creative doctor in order to free the flow of traffic: much to the chagrin of one patient, whose bell can no longer be heard by those responsible for his care.

Wasp

2003 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go out with her, she lies and tells him that she is just babysitting the kids. This will be her first date in years.

Creepy Freaks

2003 • 15 min • United States of America

Animated pilot for a series based on the collectibles game of the same name.

Summer Breeze

2003 • 32 min • Japan

A short film starring Miku Ishida, who is the most popular U-15 idol. Set in the ancient city of Ueda, Shinshu, it depicts a girl who grows up through the bond between parents and children.