All Films

No Law 4000

2002 • 30 min

The year is 4000, the year for lasergunslingers, aliens and scoundrels. DISCLAIMER: may also include revenge, greed, explosions, hologram poker and NO DAMN LAW! (Or horses.) Your typical space western, produced 2002 in Sweden.

The Birth of a Nation

2002 • 6 min • Poland

Short animation from Poland. Directed by Kamil Polak. Polak’s Narodziny Narodu (The Birth of a Nation) won the III prize of the Wiesbaden Film Festival in 2002.

Narayan Gangaram Surve

2002 • 49 min • India

This eponymous film depicts the life and poetry of Narayan Gangaram Surve who is recognized as an outstanding poet of Marathi, through landmark events and a number of his outstanding poems. The film won the National Award for Best Film.

Bringing Down a Dictator

2002 • 56 min • United States of America

A student group called Otpor! ("Resistance!" in Serbian) forms part of the nonviolent opposition movement that toppled the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.

Das Geheimnis des Fliegenden Holländers

2002 • 52 min • Germany

A documentary about the Flying Dutchman.

Dim Sum (A Little Bit of Heart)

2002 • 38 min • United Kingdom

Documentarist Jane Wong films her mother and two Chinese friends as they discuss their lives and experiences as émigrés living in Liverpool.

Trim Time

2002 • 3 min • Germany

The film tells the story of a tree that during the course of the year receives a rather radical pruning of its foliage. In the course of this simple story we go through the four seasons of the year; The transfer from season to season is accentuated by the music, as well as by the change of colors from silent grays of the winter to vivid green in the summer. The comic effect in the film is achieved by the contrast between the lazy and sleepy character of the tree and the active and jumpy character of the barber.

Zheltukhin

2002 • 13 min • Russia

From the series "Russian classics - for children". Based on the story of Alexey Tolstoy. The story of how the boy Nikita found a starling that fell out of the nest and made friends with him.

The Hungry Squid

2002 • 15 min • Canada

The Hungry Squid is 2002 animated short film by John Weldon, about a young girl whose homework and personal life is being disrupted by creatures, including a giant ravenous squid.[1] The film was animated using Weldon's personal style of do-it-yourself filmmaking, combining low-budget computer animation with puppets, photos and stop-motion animation in a technique he calls "digital recyclomation." The film's producer, Marcy Page, had coined the term "recyclomation" during production of Weldon's 1991 film, The Lump

Rooyackers, Kamps & Kamps 2

2002 • 50 min • Netherlands

Registration of the second theatre program by the Dutch cabaret troupe Rooyackers, Kamps & Kamps.

The Soccamatic

2002 • 2 min • United Kingdom

When Wallace takes Gromit to the park for a game of football he plays to win. Unfortunately, he is constantly frustrated by Gromit’s goalkeeping prowess. Wallace is forced to reveal his “Soccamatic”, a circa 1938 penalty taking machine he recently purchased mail order from Preston North End FC. It seems that Wallace has finally got the upper hand as balls whistle past the hapless dog. But Gromit has an ace up his sleeve…

Squash

2002 • 27 min

Two businessmen, Alexandre and his boss, play a game of squash. The game escalates from "fun" to fairly high stakes, as both players demonstrate that squash is a mental game, not just a physical game.

Tsui no Sora

2002 • 23 min • Japan

After the sudden death of a student, mysterious things start to happen and a school seemingly falls into madness. Based on the game by KeroQ.

Circle of Fire: The Dark Lord Kylnor

2002 • 45 min

The land is being taken over by the Dark Lord Kylnor. The people need help of the elves to save them. The Circle of Power is a necklace of power and only one can retrieve it.

The Shadow of Mary Poppins

2002 • 55 min • Australia

THE SHADOW OF MARY POPPINS explores the complex and troubled life of the creator of Mary Poppins, Pamela Travers. The audience will be taken on a journey tracing the parallel lives of Travers and Mary Poppins from their origins through to their transformation from servant to seer. The enigma of Travers is finally revealed in this biography of the creator of one of the most popular characters in children's fiction and film.

Cho Cho Thin Gale

2002 • 4 min

A film by Masakatsu Takagi.

The Cursed Cookies

2002 • 14 min • Brazil

Due to mistreatment in his family, a man seeks revenge through a pact that will change his life! Last film of the first phase of Coruja Caolha Productions!

Dangerous Bright Blue

2002 • 15 min • Brazil

A secret millitary experiment is conducted inside a public university in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The operation is taken down by an evil and powerful individual. However, he wasn't prepared for the intromission of thiefs.

Five Ways John Wayne Didn't Die

2002 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A man has passed away but hasn't been buried yet. Thinking that God has a furtive way about death, the man believes he can get the last laugh.

My Body

2002 • 26 min • Norway

A short documentary about a filmmaker's life and her relationship with her body.

Farewell to the Past

2002 • 47 min • Italy

It is a unusual documentary that mixes the music of famous opera composer Giuseppe Verdi with places, faces and voices from Piacenza, a nice place in the north of Italy where Verdi lived and composed his music. Probably it could have been more interesting if the musical part was not so preminent...recommended for Verdi's fans

Memorial Day 2000

2002 • 22 min

To put it plainly, Memorial Day 2000 is the finest find in the history of FOUND stuff. MD2000 is a home video which surfaced at a yard sale in West Michigan. It's documentary filmmaking at its purest and rawest. An inside job, never self-conscious since it was never intended for you to see. By turns hilarious and alarming, affectionate and absurd, spectacular and devastating.

BlueBob Egg

2002 • 1 min • United States of America

Before our very eyes, BlueBob gets arrested in broad daylight.

Torso

2002 • 2 min • Finland

A man without arms wants an apple up in a tree. A man without legs wants to ride a bike. Can they help each other?