All Films

Le Canard à l'orange

2002 • 9 min • France

A housewife is preparing a duck à l'orange in her kitchen. But the reluctant bird tries to escape from her but the woman manages to recaptures it and plucks it savagely. Once the duck is put in the oven, an alligator unexpectedly appears in the kitchen, threatening the cook.

Tlatelolco: The Keys to the Massacre

2002 • 58 min • Mexico

Gather all materials known film about the events of October 2, 1968, identifies the military leaders that led to the killing and displays key documents to highlight the mechanisms used by the repressive forces and the government against the student movement.

Student Movement In Indonesia

2002 • 43 min

After the fall of President Soeharto in May 1998, the student movement in Indonesia had to face military / police repression while fighting for reform. It was because of this oppression and violence that the student movement became even more brutal. They also challenged the military on the streets. This documentary features gripping and inspiring eye-witness footage of some of the most dramatic clashes in the history of the student movement.

Something for Santa

2002 • 13 min • Canada

Every year Santa Claus comes to town bearing gifts for children all over the world providing they leave him a little something in return... a cup of blood. A skeptical young boy, Billy Bester, refuses to comply each year as he is convinced that St. Nick is not the kind, generous man the world believes him to be. Santa travels at night, wears red, needs to blood of youth, and "Know what you get when you take the letter "n" out of Santa and put it at the end?" Something's not right about all this. Deck the halls with cloves of garlic cause Santa Claus is coming to town...and he's thirsty.

Hills Like White Elephants

2002 • 38 min

Hills Like White Elephants is a 2002 short film based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's story was published in 1927 in the second collection of short stories titled Men without Woman.

Diverted to Delhi

2002 • 55 min

An Australian shopper phoning Coles Myer, an English housewife ringing Harrods and a New York stockbroker calling American Express all have one thing in common―their customer service queries are likely to be re-routed to India and answered by Indians impersonating local operators. It’s an increasingly attractive business proposition―labour and set-up costs are low yet the staff is keen and highly educated. Diverted to Delhi follows university graduates through a training course as they put aside their own identities and learn to speak and think like their international callers.

Miyuki Ogawa: Good at Sucking

2002 • 60 min • Japan

Setsuo is a single man in his thirties with no future prospects, no relationships with women, and lives alone. Sometimes, while working overtime, he fantasizes about his coworker Hiromi. But his days change when he starts living with Yaoko. When Yaoko tries to commit suicide on the beach, Setsuo saves her. But just as they get used to living together like a married couple, a man who claims to be Yaoko's relative arrives...

A Hard Day's Day - A Day in the Life of a Beatles Tribute Band

2002 • 7 min • United States of America

The mockumentary depicts a day in the life of a Beatles tribute band, shot in the spirit and style of "A Hard Day's Night." In the short, "The MopTops" flee their fans, lose their Ringo (who's Chinese) and when they arrive at their gig, its not what they expected.

Somlói galuska

2002 • 15 min • Hungary

We live in an age of unhappiness. Like all people of all ages, we experience our everyday private and public life waiting for redeeming miracles. A bittersweet caffeehouse tale with humor and foam, music and chocolate sauce in 15 minutes.

My Room le Grand Canal

2002 • 32 min • France

Questions of a Dead Worker

2002 • 20 min • Israel

A construction worker kidnaps his boss in order to read off the roof of the building his manifest of social justice. A couple of young filmmakers are looking for a flat. A group of Arab workers are eating their lunch. Whose narrative is it?

The Turbo Diner

2002 • 2 min

Another chore Gromit dislikes is clearing the table after meals. Wallace’s Turbo Diner is designed to do the job fast and efficiently; all they have to do is top up the electricity meter. Everything seems to be going well until the lights start flickering.

End of the World

2002 • 11 min • Japan

Kazumi is at a punk concert and bumps into Yuko. Yuko is a girl from another dimension. Kazumi invites Yuko over to her apartment. There Yuko's robotic sidekick and stead Face comes from out of the t.v. The wall opens up and Yuko and Face enter into different dimension. Yuko seeks to kill the creator of the dimension to end the suffering of it's people. Yuko meets Kazumi, who claims not to be from Earth, at a rock concert, and they become instant friends. Yuko invites her new friend to come live with her. However, onces Kazumi gets to Yuko's apartment, she leaves through the wall with her trusty cybernetic steed and into another dimension to face evil.

The Illusion of Despair

2002 • 24 min • United States of America

Wilmot seeks a higher truth and an end to despair.

Kuidas tehti Eurovisiooni

2002 • 27 min • Estonia

The preparations for the 2002 Eurovision in Estonia and behind the scenes for the contest.

Equilíbrio e Graça

2002 • 13 min • Brazil

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master.

The Glove

2002 • 10 min • Argentina

A man receives a package in his house, which contains a single glove. Once he puts on the glove, his life will change radically.

All for One

2002 • 15 min • France

In a closed locker room, rugby players perform the last pre-match rituals. Warming up their souls and bodies, all tense in anticipation of the fight.

Boys Alone

2002 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Take ten boys aged 11 and 12. A variety of backgrounds. Put them together in a house, with no adult control. Followed by a camera crew, the boys form hierarchies, rarely organise meals, and argue about where to sleep.

Red-White

2002 • 26 min • Russia

¡De potra!

2002 • 12 min • Spain

Two thugs, the veteran "Ducados" and the inexperienced Toñin, have to go in a club ruled by their rivals and fire a couple of shots in order to scare the hostesses. But...

Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk

2002 • 40 min • United States of America

Adrenaline Rush: the Science of Risk takes audiences on a breathtaking journey from extraordinary heights, featuring spectacular footage of extreme skydiving while delving into both the biology of risk-taking and the physics that make human flight possible

In Spite of Wishing and Wanting

2002 • 51 min • Belgium

A dynamic, contemporary dance performance about how it is impossible to explain your deepest wishes or desires... how these can only be expressed in dreams and sleep. In the final sequence, we see the importance of effort and hope in the dancers' attempt to escape gravity. The all-male company performs to the music of David Byrne.

O Cineasta das Platéias

2002 • 52 min • Brazil

This documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researchers, historians, intellectuals, and popular artists. As a bonus, it shows parts of Mazzaropi's last appearance on TV, on Hebe Camargo Show.