All Films

Lorenzo, The Renegade

2002 • 3 min • Brazil

A great evil from Hell breaks the barriers of reality to bring a host of undead creatures into our world. Lorenzo (the guardian of truth) is called to face them!

The Cicerones

2002 • 13 min • United Kingdom

A tourist encounters some strange characters in a foreign cathedral.

Amongst the Shoes

2002 • 5 min • Mexico

A boy suspects that something lives in his closet, the moment for confirming it, has arrived.

Zoot Suit Riots

2002 • 53 min • United States of America

On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. To white Los Angelenos, the murder was just more proof that Mexican American crime was spiraling out of control. The police fanned out across LA, netting 600 young Mexican American suspects. Almost all those taken into custody were wearing the distinctive uniform of their generation: Zoot Suits. The tragic murder and the injustice of the trial that followed, coupled with sensational news coverage of both, fanned the flames of the racial hostility that was already running rife in the city. Within months of the verdict, Los Angeles was in the grip of some of the worst violence in its history.

The Storm

2002 • 24 min • Iran

Through rich imagery and emotional symbolism, the film explores Kurdish identity, hope, and struggle. portraying life as both resistance and renewal. Despite its brevity, Zrian carries the depth and artistic sensitivity that later defined Karimi’s documentaries, blending realism and metaphor to reveal the unseen boundaries of life in Kurdistan

Karma Cowboy

2002 • 45 min

In search of a person named Jerry Davis, a faceless narrator visits various people across the United States who are connected to him in different ways. The film is described as a documentary with a fictional trace.

American Dummy

2002 • 28 min • United States of America

Sidesplitters stars Lewis Black (the Daily Show, and the owner of the club in American Dummy) and Jim Norton (the clubs Host in American Dummy) as a comedy team in vein of Abbot and Costello or the Marx Brothers. It follows their career together from the Vaudville stage to the retirement home.

Uranisco Disco

2002 • 14 min • Greece

About a producer-director of erotic films and his mistress, a wannabe a singer, making a porn-musical.

Let Me Go Home

2002 • 45 min • Russia

In hustle and bustle of urban life, we sometimes don't know our neighbors next door. And in the village, everyone knows each other and lives with the joys, troubles, and worries of a neighbor, like one big family. That's why a person is pulled to their small homeland, to their roots. The one who forgets their roots experiences a burdensome emptiness and dissatisfaction with their achievements in life.

Mimi

2002 • 13 min • Australia

A white collector of Aboriginal art gets a shock when the Mimi sculpture she purchased comes to life.

The Prince of Porn

2002 • 18 min

A series of interviews with notorious porno filmmaker Phil Prince, intercut with outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage from his best known films.

Lewis Black: Taxed Beyond Belief

2002 • 22 min • United States of America

Lewis Black hosts this comedic documentary about the US income tax system. Set at St John’s University, Lewis, as Professor Black, teaches a ‘Taxes 101’ course to students which highlights the utter stupidity of our tax system. Lessons are supplemented with interviews with a New York City accountant, Bob Dole, John McCain and Larry King.

Procter

2002 • 18 min • Norway, United Kingdom

When Charles Procter witnesses a stranger burn to death he doesn’t expect to become part of the gruesome event. Then he discovers a video camera has captured him at the scene. What he discovers on the tape is more disturbing than the stranger’s death.

Hunted

2002 • 4 min

When Zack listens to a recording of a murdered man describing his last moments he is horrified to realise that exactly the same sequence of events is now happening to him.

Scoring Resident Evil

2002 • 11 min • United States of America

Resident Evil featurette.

The Specimen

2002 • 18 min

When, before the revolution, accidentally arrested, the philistine - a tsarist civil servant of high status - falls in deep, lethargic sleep. 20 years later he wakes up and finds himself in a post-revolutionary, still young Soviet Union. He is stunned. He is shocked. But a philistine always finds his way.

The Dog Who Was a Cat Inside

2002 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A dog has a cat inside him. The two fight to get on, with one's desires always getting in the way of the other's. However the conflict cannot go on forever and the two learn the hard way to find common ground and work out something for themselves.

A Lasanha Assassina

2002 • 8 min • Brazil

A forgotten lasagna mutates into a monster.

When Steptoe Met Son

2002 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The difficult off-screen relationship between actors Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell who grew to hate one another during their years on screen. It charts their rise to fame with 'Steptoe and Son' in the early 60's, to their final falling out during an Australian stage show in the late 70's.

A Home on the Range: The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma

2002 • 56 min

"A Home On The Range" tells the little-known story of Jews who fled the pogroms and hardships of Eastern Europe and traveled to California to become chicken ranchers. Even in the sweatshops of New York they heard about Petaluma where the Jews were not the shopkeepers and the professionals, they were the farmers. Meet this fractious, idealistic, intrepid group of Eastern European Jews and their descendants as they confront obstacles of language and culture on their journey towards becoming Americans. Jack London, California vigilantes, McCarthyism, the Cold War and agribusiness all come to life in this quintessentially American story of how a group of immigrants found their new home, a home on the range.

The Boy Who Rushed

2002 • 53 min • Croatia

An intimate story about the author's search for her brother who went missing in action during war in Croatia in 1991. In a way, the film is a follow-up of the author's grandmother whose husband was killed in World War II. For the rest of her life the grandmother was awaiting his return. The Boy Who Rushed won numerous national and international awards, including the annual Vladimir Nazor Award for Film. It was shown at more than twenty international festivals. In 2001, it was Croatian candidate for Oscar for Best Documentary Film. The Boy Who Rushed is one of the best and most awarded Croatian documentaries in the past two decades.

Becoming Men

2002 • 60 min

Nothing equals that feeling of ultimate conquest like our first sexual experiences. It is a time of mystery, wonder and new adult responsibilities. Here are real-life stories of young men taking the final step on their journey from boyhood to manhood. Superb photography, spectacular guys and candid interviews capture the joys and fears of sexual awakening and evoke memories of those early experiences that define our lives. Tony Award winning Broadway and film star, Alan Cumming, narrates this sensitive look at the challenges and glories of youthful passion, including current information for making safer choices. A must for all men.

Filthy McNasty

2002 • 47 min • United States of America

Two bookish women, whom crave adventure and bad taste, suddenly turn into sexy ladies after being zapped with a spell by a sex-starved ghost.

Selma & Sofie

2002 • 17 min • Sweden

An erotic love story about falling in love with another woman and wanting to have sex with her all the time. Selma has a boring job and a boring boyfriend. When she meets Sofie at the swimming pool she can't stop thinking about her.