All Films

Voices of a Distant Star

2002 • 25 min • Japan

It is 2046 when a mysterious alien force begins their annihilation of the human race. Leaving behind the one person she loves, Mikako joins the interstellar battle as a pilot. And so - while Mikako risks her life to save mankind - Noboru waits. The two lovers, worlds apart, desperately strive to remain connected as the gap between them widens at a frightening pace.

Daughter

2002 • 14 min • United States of America

You just woke up from an unspeakable nightmare. How does it feel? Relief? How would you feel if when you woke, the nightmare had just begun?

Family

2002 • 24 min

Marion loses her job as a psychiatric nurse, but cannot let go of her responsibility for former patient, Thomas. When he goes on the run, Marion sets out to find him and learns a painful truth about her marriage and her life as a carer.

Mei and the Kittenbus

2002 • 13 min • Japan

Mei is eating a caramel on one very windy day, when suddenly a whirlwind appears and starts chasing her. The whirlwind turns out to be a baby cat bus. Mei offers the kitten a caramel and the two become friends. That night, the baby cat bus visits Mei. Letting Mei ride inside him, he leaps out into the sky. They head for the midnight forest full of ghosts. Other cat buses large and small have also gathered together.

Night Surf

2002 • 33 min • United States of America

One evening on a place called Anson Beach, New Hampshire, with a group of teens, survivors of a catastrophic virus called A6, or “Captain Trips”, that has wiped out virtually the entire population.

Inquisition

2002 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears that is healing the sick and raising the dead. There are rumours that he might be the second coming of the Messiah. He is brought before the Grand Inquisitor. Though questioned and tortured, he chooses to remain silent.

La milpa

2002 • 27 min • Mexico

A sensual and painful memory of the Mexican Revolution.

Doraemon: The Day When I Was Born

2002 • 28 min • Japan

A 2002 Japanese short anime film based on the popular manga and anime series, Doraemon. It premiered on March 9, 2002 in Japan on a bill with Doraemon: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom. The movie's original plot was written by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.

La mer

2002 • 14 min • Germany

A man is swimming in the ocean. Suddenly he is hit by something. Unconsciously he drops to the bottom. When he wakes up on the beach again everything looks the same. But something is not entirely right.

Forever Ealing

2002 • 50 min • United Kingdom

This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known 'Ealing comedies' with Alec Guinness, and the BBC's television productions

Whistle

2002 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Whistle depicts the dreary off-hours of an ultra-technological hit-man who becomes 'involved' in the life of one of his victims. The hit-man's wife is not only fully cognizant of her husband's day job but she is also the cold-blooded contact with his bosses when the conscience crisis sets in!

Lost

2002 • 24 min • United States of America

Hugh, the protagonist, awakens in the desert quite disoriented and seemingly confused and out of place.

Mike's New Car

2002 • 3 min • United States of America

Mike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't last long enough, however, as Sulley jump-starts an ill-fated road test that teaches Mike the true meaning of buyer's remorse.

Playing Unfair

2002 • 29 min • United States of America

Sports media scholars look at the persistence of heterosexism and homophobia in perpetuating gender stereotypes. They argue for new media images which fairly and accurately depict the strength and competence of female athletes.

Showers

2002 • 15 min • United States of America

From bed to bed, shower to shower, a young man searches for answers and finds the realities of urban gay love and sex.

A

2002 • 22 min • United Kingdom

Single-channel video installation commissioned by Public Art Development Trust, London.

Freshening Up

2002 • 20 min

In an elite downtown lounge, a man’s imagination runs wild when his girlfriend leaves the ladies room a bit disheveled.

Last Writes

2002 • 10 min

A screenwriter is on his deathbed when his brother arrives to con him out of his last great script.

One Piece: Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals

2002 • 56 min • Japan

As the Straw Hat Pirates sail through the Grand Line, a sudden eruption of geysers beneath the Going Merry sends the crew flying over a nearby island. In the chaos, Chopper falls overboard and becomes separated from his friends. While Luffy and the others land on the far side of the island, Chopper finds himself hailed as the new king by the local animals. However, danger looms as a group of human “horn hunters” arrives. Their leader, Count Butler, is a violin-playing man who consumes horns to gain strength, and he seeks to devour the island’s greatest treasure to inherit immense power. Can Luffy and the crew stop Count Butler’s scheme and save the island? And will they be able to show Momambi that not all pirates are the villains he believes them to be?

Sweet Charity

2002 • 30 min

Jan and Agnes run a high street charity shop called Sweet Charity. Though friends, cutting remarks fly between the two without warning or long-term ramifications, but they are as one when it comes to handling items donated by customers.

Upheaval

2002 • 15 min

A neurotic and overly-presumptuous mother accuses her family's au pair of stealing a cherished heirloom, much to the chagrin of her husband.

Hamilton Mattress

2002 • 31 min

Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city.

Roxanna

2002 • 36 min • United States of America

When Roxanna discovers her fascination with lesbian sexuality, she finds herself dragged deeper and deeper into it. This leaves her at odds with her boyfriend, with tragic results.

Exit

2002 • 10 min • Switzerland

Erika has cancer and wants to die with dignity. Ruedi, her husband, does not want to live without her, so they decide to depart this world together. Everything is ready: someone is going to help them, but Ruedi suddenly has doubts. A reflection on “assisted suicide”, recounted in a tragicomic vein.