All Films

Propriedade Privada

2001 • 58 min

Private Property is built of a thick matter from the mixture of cement, desire, past dreams, lies, lime, perverse games, pain, a hidden camera, water, passing time, blood and imminent danger.

Grandmother, Hitler and I

2001 • 17 min

Carl Johan De Geer as a boy spent some happy years with his grandmother who, even after the war, remained a firm believer in Nazism.

Jamie's Nights

2001 • 13 min • Italy, United Kingdom

A story about a young boy and his obsessive fear of ghosts at night.

Kingdom Under the Sea: The Red Tide

2001 • 29 min • United States of America

A deadly red tide concocted by Professor Pinch and the evil squid Krakken threatens the reef village where the Finely family lives. When King Pacificus intervenes and offers an unlikely shelter of protection, he teaches the reef fish about trust and forgiveness.

Der Schlangemann

2001 • 7 min • Sweden

A fake commercial in pseudo-German about a toy called Schlangemann, a Ken doll with an interchangeable penis in three sizes: normal, large, and gigantic.

The Misadventures of Pussy Boy: Sick

2001 • 5 min • Canada

Our trans/2spirit/Intersex hero Alick gets bashed in school, Kay shows our hero the best revenge

The Silence of the Zapatistas

2001 • 13 min • Mexico

On December 2, 2000 the day after the change of government in Mexico the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) declared an end to it's silence and announced it's decision to travel to Mexico City to speak in front of the Mexican Congress in support of the San Andres Accords. This silence was the result of the Mexican Government's refusal to ratify the San Andres Accords and the extensive military build-up in the Zapatista communities that began in 1995. The Silence of the Zapatistas documents the many non-violent protests organized by the Zapatista communities during this silence against the military presence in the Autonomous Municipality of San Pedro Michoacan.

Jacadi

2001 • 1 min • France

Nyarlathotep

2001 • 14 min • United States of America

A traveling show comes to Arkham in 1920, and its leader brings horror and destruction to the city.

Fever

2001 • 4 min • Italy

Lysergic video between pure Found-footage and mash-up, it gained a number of shows in different festivals; it is an aggression to the woman image, meant to be the creativity, idea and inspiration figure and metaphor. Burning and melting and deforming creativity, the destruction of which generates a trick of light and color, and creates a small creative divertissement.

Souvenir

2001 • 20 min • Iran

A laborer father has no choice but to take his mentally retarded son to an asylum. But will it solve his problems?

Bintou

2001 • 31 min • Burkina Faso, France

Bintou wants to make sure that her daughter goes to school, but her husband Abel doesn’t think it’s worth it and claims there is only enough money to educate their sons. But Bintou won’t give up and starts her own business to make the extra money. Abel, wary of losing control and scared that Bintou’s newfound financial freedom will lead her to adultery, tries to sabotage her efforts. Bintou tackles sexuality, gender relations, and the fraught relationship between tradition and modernity with joyful satire.

Simulacra

2001 • 13 min • Turkey

The film was completed during the huge economical crisis in 2001 in Turkey. Heavily inspired by films like Pi and Matrix, I tried to tell the story of a man who is about to lose his sense, perception and connection with reality. The film is one of the two shorts from Turkey awarded in Clermont Ferrand to this day.

Chaffinches and Others

2001 • 4 min • Ukraine

How much do you know about the life of birds? Watch this film, and you will have something to share with your kids.

The Hillbilly Bears in: Miss Understanding

2001 • 2 min

This shortie features the Hillbilly Bears on a jerry springer type show as they try and figure out their differences

The Stumble

2001 • 16 min • Latvia

Late in a winter evening an amateur walker with his pals takes a short cut through a spooky cemetery. Everything would be fine except he stumbles. He wakes up in strange, haunted place, where time and space have lost the boundaries.

National Hero

2001 • 13 min • Latvia

A comic fantasy of the most famous characters in the Latvian literature. A story about their adventures throughout the 800 year-long history of Riga city.

Dêmokratia

2001 • 18 min • France

Face to the firing squad a dictator is awaiting death. As the soldiers shoulder their rifles, the man remembers. He recalls with wicked jubilation his devouring ambition, his complete absence of scruples, his brutal lack of humanity, his taste for manipulation, the cowardice of his entourage, his ambiguous relationships with a woman named Dêmokratia.

Singing Lesson 1

2001 • 14 min • Poland

A group of deaf-mute students sing mass at a church in Warsaw. Accompanied by a dolorous organ they express themselves in a hitherto impossible way. The students cannot hear themselves or one another, but music is music. Particularly in God’s ears.

A velha, o canto, as fotos

2001 • 7 min • Brazil

Brazilian short film, directed by Julia Murat.

And Deliver Us from Evil

2001 • 55 min • Taiwan

According to the Tao people’s traditional beliefs, illness was a sign of supernatural possession by evil spirits. Many patients thus became isolated, unable to receive any medical care. A native of the Orchid Island (Lanyu) where she worked as a nurse, the filmmaker initiated a program in 1997, recruiting some 40 volunteers to visit and care for homebound elderly patients against considerable social pressure. This documentary captures the powerful dilemma when traditional values clash with compassion.

Bright Personality

2001 • 10 min • Ukraine

Puppet animation about a city of light bulbs. The existence of this remarkable city depends on one big lantern. Every day, a lamplighter switches it on and off. One day someone steals the light bulb from the lantern.

Storia del mondo per chi ha fretta

2001 • 2 min • Italy

The history of the world for those in a hurry: Bruno Bozzetto shows us that sometimes just a few minutes are enough to tell great stories!

breakSurface

2001 • 41 min • Canada

When sculptor John Greer and filmmaker Stewart Applegath began shooting, they had no destination, only a desire to journey together in a row boat with camera in hand. Over six years, they rowed a fair distance. breakSurface documents these travels, and the extent to which Greer’s world is leavened with debilitating anxiety. Greer’s powerful sculpture is visually simple, conceptually complex, but silent; he identifies with Jonathan Swift’s "man of objects" who lays out things, not words, to be understood. Applegath, however, doesn’t make this film to replace words, but by embracing them.