All Films

To Be Continued

2001 • 46 min • Japan

Marie, who lives alone and attends university, receives a visit from her mother one day. The purpose of the visit was to report her remarriage. She is surprised at her mother's decision without consulting her or her brother but congratulates her on her happiness.

The Secret and the Sacred: Two Worlds at Los Alamos

2001 • 58 min • Germany

Hidden in the mountains of Northern New Mexico lies the birthplace of the Atomic Age: Los Alamos, home of the „Manhattan Project“. Here Robert J. Oppenheimer and his staff created the first atomic bomb, „Trinity“, the scientific prototype to „Little Boy“ and „Fat Man,” the bombs which hastened the end of World War II by leveling Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although the laboratory is today also a leading center of genetic research, it remains a place of secrecy, for its main mission is to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal – a task that hides behind the name, “Stockpile Stewardship”.

Vermino

2001 • 7 min • Canada

Short animation by Nicolas Brault

Visiting Uncle Dick

2001 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Margaret is visiting a relative in hospital. Victor is his usual self, complaining about everything; and Margaret is her usual self, pretending not to hear him...or is she?

Necrosluts

2001 • 47 min • United States of America

WARNING: The film you are about to witness will shock and disturb you. Nothing like this has ever been documented before and that is the reason why this film has been lost for over twenty years. You will meet Sky, a woman who video tapes herself performing a shocking crime that you have to see to believe.

Mihai and Cristina

2001 • 15 min • Romania

Teenager Mihai decides one night to pay a visit to Cristina, one of his classmates that he is madly in love with. On the way, he goes through a series of adventures that change him irreversibly.

Family Outing

2001 • 5 min • Australia

A young man is surprised by what he discovers in his first trip to the baths.

Changing Life - Der Fluch Der Zombies

2001 • 45 min • Germany

A few years ago there was a strange incident in a wooded area near Braunschweig. A teacher disappeared with his class during a night hike without a trace. To this day the group is missing. It is said that the teacher murdered his students and buried them in the forest. Their bodies were never found. Residents and relatives of the missing now believe that there is a curse on this forest, as they heard voices and screams from the undergrowth during evening walks. A group of young drug dealers does not bother this old wives' tale very much! They meet in this forest to smoke their shit and to let the world sink in. But then suddenly things never imagined happen...

Roozi Ke Farsi Dashtim

2001 • 8 min

In a school, Persian literature teacher wants the boys to read a poem from the book, but everybody has an excuse…

First Death Experience

2001 • 25 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dado Bratovic is comic-strip artist from Sarajevo. In 1996, after the war, he goes to get his ID card issued and finds out that he was reported dead just after the war started in 1992. Now he has to prove that he is alive.

Fairy Secter Tentoh Battle 5

2001 • 25 min

One morning, Risa Missjima, a member of the drama club, rushed to school to practice the school festival. Around that time, her insectors killed the girls one after another, and even at the school where Monosa attended, the evil devil's hand was in Fairy Sector Orange Tentoh

The Atlanta Child Murders

2001 • 45 min • United States of America

The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, were a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981. Over the two-year period, at least 28 children, adolescents, and adults were killed. Wayne Williams, an Atlanta native who was 23 years old at the time of the last murder, was arrested, tried, and convicted of two of the adult murders and sentenced to two consecutive life terms.

Born to Sing

2001 • 45 min

The film nostalgically traverses the unique tradition of the Punjab, in which the Mirasans cry on death, bring laughter at birth and marriage and bridge communities. Today, children of Mirasans are struggling to survive with dwindling patronage and are moving out from family space to public space.

The Unusual Rigans

2001 • 26 min • Latvia

An animated film to celebrate the city of Riga's 800th anniversary. Justin, the chicken, longs to become a Golden Rooster and to guard Riga. The city is shown as a dream world full of mystery and strange creatures that live alongside people and are not that very different from humans.

Red Heart

2001 • 14 min • South Korea

In the late 14th century, Joseon was founded, but the activities of "Dansim," a resistance group from the fallen Goryeo Dynasty, only grew stronger. In the midst of this, the Minister of Justice is assassinated by Dansim, and Park Je-myeong, the Vice Minister of War, is held accountable for this. Park Je-myeong, in danger, finds Hwang In-seo, the second-highest ranking official in Dansim, requesting naturalization, and begins a security mission with his son Do-wook, a junior official in the Ministry of War, which will determine the rise and fall of the government. However, the mission is failed by Lee Mu-yeong, and Park Je-myeong commits suicide as a result. Do-wook's persistent pursuit leads to a fateful meeting between Mu-yeong and Do-wook, and their confrontation leads to catastrophe.

Toute l'Algérie du monde

2001 • 53 min • France

The largest country in the Arab world and a producer of hydrocarbons, Algeria has everything it needs to weigh on the international scene. But Africa's second military power seems undermined by its internal problems. While the Bouteflika regime has fallen and the popular “hirak” movement has shown that the people are ready to enter a more democratic era, the country appears as a colossus with feet of clay, which has failed enhance their independence. How did this isolation come about? From the “dark decade” of terrorism to the fall of Bouteflika, via 9/11 or the Arab revolutions, this documentary sheds light on Algerian foreign policy in recent decades, while deciphering the strategy of Western powers towards it.

What a Girl Wants

2001 • 33 min • United States of America

During the spring of 2000, eleven girls aged 8 to 16 from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds and two classrooms of middle and high school students were interviewed about their views on media culture and its impact on their lives. Their insightful and provocative responses provide the central theme of the film, a half-hour examination of how the media presents girls. Juxtaposing footage culled from a typical week of TV broadcasting with original interviews, WHAT A GIRL WANTS will provoke debate and, ideally, act as a catalyst for change in media content.

West Fucks East

2001 • 60 min • Germany

Erik works in the stock market. Cyrus is a waiter. Tim manages a sex store. All three are young, gay, and living in Berlin. These three best friends spend their time having sex, dancing, cruising, modeling, hustling, and having fun.

Backstage

2001 • 26 min

A beautiful and arrogant actor learns a lesson when his double decides that everyone has had enough.

Going Inside

2001 • 4 min

With John Frusciante

Fifty Percent Grey

2001 • 3 min • Ireland

Sergeant wakes up alone with only a widescreen TV for company, in a place designed for him to relax in peace and tranquility, for all eternity...

The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz

2001 • 58 min • France

Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny castaway islands rise away from the coast of French Guyana, in South America: The Devil's Islands. Now buried under an impenetrable jungle, lay the lost remains of what had been for a hundred years the most storied convict prison in history. There, while most of the prisoners faded into oblivion, a few became legends. Some because they were innocent, as in the scandalous Dreyfus Affair, some because they somehow escaped the islands of nightmare, as did the "butterfly", Henry Charrière, immortalized by Steve McQueen in Papillon. Now 50 years after the prison doors slammed shut for the last time, we explore what's left of the Devil's Islands' unbelievably dark and oppressive realm.

To Consent

2001 • 20 min • Iran

Mohammad would not be taken to the cinema, because he didn't get his parent's permission.

Mama

2001 • 12 min • Lithuania

The life of an anti-social family living in Lithuania. The film tells the story of the children's loneliness and their attempts to change their life circumstances.