All Films

Space Station 3D

2002 • 47 min • Canada, United States of America

Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laboratory that 16 nations came together to build. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this extraordinary structure in this spectacular IMAX film. Viewers will blast off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia for this incredible journey -- IMAX's first-ever space film. Tom Cruise narrates.

Ritratti: Luigi Meneghello

2002 • 60 min • Italy

Marco Paolini interviews Luigi Meneghello about growing up under fascism, his involvement with the Italian resistance movement, his later self-exile, acclaimed literary work and its relationship with dialect.

The Tightrope Walker

2002 • 6 min • France, Italy

The falling letters carry the story of a woman: love, marriage, childbirth. Everything gathers together like a dream. Her story, and the story of the lover she chose, are both written on her body. Fragments of life drift past her gently closed eyes, as she feels the shimmering light of her soul by the seaside.

The Universe According to Universal

2002 • 32 min • United States of America

Narrator Rudy Behlmer guides a look through Universal's place in film history as a source of alien visitation, extraterrestrial life, and other Science Fiction staples. The piece further looks at the political and social implications, parallels, and escapism in the movie. The piece spends much of its screen time on how 'It Came From Outer Space' echoed and influenced the genre, its legacy, performances, adherence to Ray Bradbury's source material, 3D photography and presentation, score and effects, and more. This is a quality piece that informs and entertains alike, one that fascinatingly examines the film, and others like it, as both entertainment and echoes of real life.

Mr. Bill Does Vegas

2002 • 21 min

Mr. Bill heads west to cruise the strip in Las Vegas.

Ultra Maniac OVA

2002 • 21 min • Japan

Ayu Tateishi is a popular second-year student at her middle school admired for being calm, cool, and collected. But this carefully preserved image was all crafted to catch the eye of her crush Tetsushi Kaji, who once complimented her for those qualities. Studying, playing tennis, and finding chances to speak with Tetsushi are all that are on Ayu's mind—until the day she finds a mini-computer underneath a bench.

Star Magician Magical Emi: Beautiful Clouds

2002 • 14 min • Japan

A new life was born into the Kazuki family. How did the baby change the family's life and what are Mai's feelings about him. At the end of an eventful day for the siblings and Shou, another concert is waiting for Emi.

Suspiros Republicanos ao Crepúsculo de um Império Tropical

2002 • 13 min • Brazil

The film tells a little of the history of Brazil immersed in the caricature of the conditions of making cinema in this country. Flora and Carlos Manoel fall in love. She, from a family linked to the Monarchy, and he, a republican activist, live their love in the last days of the monarchy, without knowing that the end of the empire would also mean the end of their romance.

The Hustler: The Inside Story

2002 • 24 min

A brief overview of The Hustler's making and the players involved.

Aquatic Language

2002 • 9 min • Japan

Several people are spending their evening in a café. Two gossiping girls, two debating men, a bookworm and a boy, who just broke up with his girlfriend. The café's waitress starts a chat with him, persuading him to take a look at certain easel, while other customers begin to notice unusual things.

Weregrrl

2002 • 28 min • United States of America

Thanks to an ancient curse, a young woman is transformed into a butch lesbian by the light of the full moon. Will she find a cure? Will she want a cure? Will she ever get used to those comfortable shoes?

Willy Kyrklund

2002 • 11 min • Sweden

Short documentary portrait of the acclaimed author and poet.

Ghiblies: Episode 2

2002 • 24 min • Japan

Ghiblies (pronounced with a hard "g" as in "gallop") is a short film aired during a TV special about Ghibli. It's about a fictional animation studio named "Ghibli" and the people who work there. This rare Ghibli Comedy is a look into who the people making the films are. Plotlines run from office jokes to Nonaka's first love, bringing together a short feature of random events.

À l'abri des regards indiscrets

2002 • 22 min

January 1st 2002. 1st day of Euro currency. The window of a cash dispenser is lifting up on a square, in Paris. 23 amazing characters will be meeting each other there, all along this very particular day...

Ocha Cups for Christmas

2002 • 30 min

It is Christmas in Japan and Karen, an American exchange student, is miserably homesick, in spite of the kindness of the Japanese couple she lives with.

Thomas Quick

2002 • 50 min • Sweden

Previously believed to have been a serial killer, having confessed to more than 30 murders while incarcerated in a mental institution for personality disorders. Convicted of eight of these murders. TV3 aired a documentary that exposed serious flaws with the Quick investigation.

The Foxx and Little Vic

2002 • 6 min • United States of America

A short musical film

Andalusian rose

2002 • 48 min • France

Sister Angèle is a nun just twenty-one years old. She sells the honey gathered by her fellow nuns at the street market. But she also indulges in strange activities – she secretly visits a young man, Paolo, in a bungalow on the beach. She also visits patients in hospital. It’s here that she’s met a young Spanish woman, Rosa Maria Dolorès, whose days are numbered. This encounter, along with her relationship with Paolo, bring her face to face with herself, make her listen to the sound of her beating heart.

The Tower of Babble

2002 • 22 min • United States of America

Three different scenarios, intercut, all using the same words but with very different meanings. A corrupt cop is more interested in the money on the criminals he catches than justice; a young woman discovers she's pregnant, and her boyfriend is unfeeling; and a young man calls a prostitute it's the first time for both, and neither can go through with it. Ultimately, all the stories come together.

Kobayashi Hitomi: Dakitai onna, dakaretai onna

2002 • 59 min • Japan

Since Sadayuki disappeared, Satoko has been waiting for her husband to return at the ticket gate every morning. Sadayuki's junior colleague Wataru says that they should search together. Satoko learns of Kyoko's existence from Sadayuki's boss Ueno. She is the daughter of the general manager of Chikada Bussan and recently returned to Japan after graduating from a university in Europe. Sadayuki disappeared a few days later. Kyoko was in Chiba. Meanwhile, Wataru submitted his resignation to the company and divorced his wife Aki. Then he and Satoko headed to Chiba...

Silver Rivers

2002 • 50 min • Canada

In 2001, the government of Quebec announced a new program to issue permits for the construction of private hydroelectric dams at specific sites. Upset, the population took things into their own hands and decided to act. Citizens formed collectives to protect their waterways, among the most beautiful in the province. This documentary follows several artist and citizen groups who led a crusade to force the Québec government to abandon private hydro-electrical production. It is a thorough inquiry on the environmental impact and other repercussions of such projects.

The Cathedral

2002 • 6 min • Poland

Patricia Cornwell: Stalking the Ripper

2002 • 58 min

Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell has set herself her toughest assignment yet - discovering the true identity of Jack the Ripper, widely seen as the world's first serial killer. Cornwell applies 21st Century scientific methods to these century-old crimes and is now convinced she knows the Ripper's identity. But how will her evidence be received?

Baxter and Bananas in Monkey See Monkey Don't

2002 • 6 min • United States of America

A Oh Yeah Cartoons! Short.