All Films

The Secret of the First Day

2002 • 25 min • Cyprus

Alkis is a shy young man who lives with his paralyzed, authoritarian mother, who spends her hours nostalgic for her old glory as a theater actress. In an attempt to escape from his sterile environment, Alkis tries one of the dating services by phone, thus starting a journey of self-knowledge.

My Family

2002 • 1 min • Uruguay

The younger members of a big happy family reflect on how lucky they are.

The Helical Heart

2002 • 37 min • United States of America

Video presentation of Paco Torrent-Guasp's groundbreaking discovery of The Helical Heart. This new understanding of heart structure reveals how the helical heart muscle causes normal and abnormal cardiac performance. Winner of the 2005 Freddie Award from The International Health and Medical Media Awards for health and medical videos (the bio-medical equivalent to the Oscars and the Emmys). It won both the Basic and Clinical Science Category, and the overall Surgeon's General Award for Outstanding Health Professional Entry.

Song of the Gallows

2002 • 9 min • Czech Republic, Finland, Norway

The Song of the Gallows is based on a medieval, seventeenth-century story about a magic violin that saves the life of a Roma man from the gallows. The Polish princess Katarina Jagellonica arrives in Finland in order to get married to Duke Juhana; after listening to the Romani musician playing his instrument she agrees to his request that all the gallows should be torn down in the country to save the Roma from execution.

Pencilman

2002 • 4 min

Pencilman comes to life one night and has a drawing contest with a computer.

El Pulover de la Madre de Jason

2002 • 23 min • Argentina

Annie is a bulimic teenager obsessed with her appearance and getting the attention of everyone. One day, she receives the news that one of her friends is succeeding as a TV model. Blinded by rage, she attempts suicide. Almost on the brink of madness, she believes she has found something to achieve her goal, even though it will put her life at risk.

Cyberheidi 3D

2002 • 15 min

Linus is trapped in his own computer-game. Saucy Cyberheidi wants to keep him away from returning to the real world. Meanwhile the combat soldiers threw away their guns. The fight is now for Cyberheidi...

Kosmiczna

2002 • 5 min • Brazil

A desanimation from Coffin Souza

Exposed

2002 • 4 min • Israel

Filmed & Directed by Rami Katzav. Shot on 16mm Kodak film& Bolex camera.

Shojo Blues

2002 • 4 min • Brazil

A desanimation from Coffin Souza

The Duel

2002 • 3 min • Poland

The story of a duel between a knight who, at a certain point, is fighting against himself

And I'm The Odd One Out

2002 • 59 min

Jukebox musical TV special starring the hosts of Arutz Hayeladim, celebrating the songs of Yehuda Atlas. Dudi believes he's just an average kid, without any special qualities, who never stands out. His life is changed when he accidentally injures the school's bully, sparking a widespread rumor that he might be brave enough to stand up to him.

Playboy Exposed: Confessions of a Party Girl

2002 • 55 min

Confessions of a Party Girl

Offered Boy

2002 • 15 min • Greece

The adventures of a child-monk assigned a task by the monastery where he is "pledged". The little one wanders off, following the road with the greatest interest. The trip will take a whole day. When it's all over, he'll make his way back, more mature now. All this happened many years ago, in another era.

Simon and the Spirit Bear

2002 • 47 min • Canada

While most teens spend their days in a self-absorbed haze, Simon Jackson was out in the world connecting with anyone who could help him save the spirit bear. For this, Simon became one of Time's Heroes of the Planet. It's a remarkable accomplishment for one so young, and an inspiring story for lovers of wilderness of all ages. But his devotion to the cause made him an outcast amongst his peers.

Kalado

2002 • 2 min • Latvia

A fun and exciting story about Christmas as an adventurous adventure – the daughters carefully prepare for the holiday, set the table and puck, but then a bunch of stilts invade the house and fascinate everything with them in the Dance Carousel, in which all the masquerade characters usual in the traditions of Latvian folklore swirl.

Heavenly Love

2002 • 10 min • Ukraine

Love, Oleksandr Dovzhenko's cinema, the 20th century... These concepts make up the formula of life for two people. Heavenly love is all that is left for Maria Volkhovska, the widow of the prominent Ukrainian film actor Petro Masokha, who played the leading roles in Dovzhenko's films "Ivan" and "Earth".

Shadows in the Garden

2002 • 21 min • United States of America

Eric Gollinger, Diana Spitzer, and Andy Kumpon star in this unusual micro-budget mood-piece in which the fate of a rainy town rests in the hands, the claws, of a monster. But the real star is the monster itself, who must fit the clues together in time to prevent the next victim -- his own beloved!

The Digger

2002 • 45 min • Vietnam

In Bình Thuận, a South Central coastal province in Vietnam, a former Republic soldier turned farmer went into clearing landmines for over ten years, reclaiming the soil for himself and others, generating also controversies around the legitimacy and safety of his practice.

It's All True

2002 • 10 min

"It's All True...It's All True...It's All True!"

Candabare, fiesta del verano tardío

2002 • 50 min • Argentina

Along Route 34, in the southeast of the province of Jujuy, a group of Guaraní communities are fighting to make their culture known, to defend their right to work and own their own lands, and to teach their native language to their children and grandchildren.

Pernicioso vegetal

2002 • 59 min • Argentina

A policeman lifts a boy who was smoking marijuana in the street and in the patrol car they go through the streets of Buenos Aires.

El día del retiro

2002 • 60 min • Argentina

Pantera and Alejandro join forces to make a robbery and flee the country.

Truth Tigers

2002 • 25 min

We get a glimpse at one of the Tamil Tigers' most effective weapons - the camera teams shooting the Tigers' propaganda videos.