All Films

The Real Castaway

2001 • 48 min • United Kingdom

When Martin Popplewell was 15 years old he watched the film 'The Blue Lagoon' starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins. From then on he was determined to live as a castaway on an uninhabited Pacific Island with a girl Friday. When he realised his dream in 1989 he was just 18 years old. The adventure became a media sensation with journalists flying halfway round the world to cover the story. Martin kept a video diary of his experience. In 2001 he returned to the Pacific to make a critically acclaimed documentary. The Real Castaway reunites the two castaways on their desert island 12 years after their experience. It’s a story about adventure, growing up and the pursuit of an impossible dream.

Caught in Time

2001 • 7 min

A tribute to the art of baseball, with a rare focus on an often under appreciated figure of the sport

La Flor al Culo

2001 • 7 min • France

On a hot and humid day, a young woman going bleach in all parts of the home. A man chases throughout his work and tries through provocation and humor to experience his desire. During their love game, a bright and benefactress star accompanies them.

The Trap

2001 • 45 min • Finland

Four bankrobbers escape the police to an abandoned factory which is filled with blood-thirsty zombies. They must fight their way out or die.

Raymond And His Love For Cheese

2001 • 2 min

A small short about a mouse with a burning desire for cheese and needs to sing about it.

Aba the Deported

2001 • 59 min

The movie follows the story of a guy named Abdullah, who wants to leave the country, but stops when he falls in love with a girl named Ivan.

Behind Bars

2001 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

Symphony of the Breeze

2001 • 60 min • Japan

Chihiro is a hospital surgeon in a hospital headed by his father. He is excellent and has a good reputation, but in secret he is using drugs and hallucinating. One day a new nurse named Wataru is appointed. Chihiro and Wataru get to know each other. One night, Chihiro falls ssleep and has a dream, embracing Wataru in a drug hallucination. From that day on he often follows Wataru, pretending it is a coincidence and participating in Wataru's favorite activity of basketball with him. However, there is another person who has an interest for Wataru. It's Shiomi, a secretary-general. Both Wataru and Shiomi confess to Wataru but Wataru sleeps with Chihiro. Shiomi makes plans to tear Chihiro and Wataru apart.

20th Century Gals - According to Babe

2001 • 45 min • Canada

20th Century Gals - According to Babe is a video history that explores the 20th century through the lenses of politics, sexuality, family, and work. It combines historical re-enactments and personal writings. Babe, played by Cathy Jones of "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", provides journalistic commentary in her 1940s style. The production was filmed in period sets at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Herbert von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

2001 • 49 min

Austrian maestro Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in this 1984 performance of Tchaikovsky's last completed work -- Symphony no. 6 in B minor ("Pathétique"), op. 74 -- recorded live at Großer Musikvereinssaal in Vienna. One of classical music's most revered conductors -- and top-selling recording artists -- Herbert von Karajan led the acclaimed Berlin Philharmonic for 35 years until his death in 1989.

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

2001 • 24 min • United States of America

Darryl F. Zanuck ignores the protests of his peers and makes a movie about antisemitism called "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947).

Yee Hah & Doo Dah: Bronco Breakin' Boots

2001 • 7 min • United States of America

A cowboy and his horse, Yee Hah and Doo Dah, reside in Manhattan's Central Park. Yee Hah enjoys the city life until he discovers that the city pavement is giving him a dreadful blister. Much to Doo Dah's dismay, he decides to stop walking and ride his horse everywhere, thereby cramping Doo Dah's power-lunching lifestyle. Eventually, Doo Dah finds the real culprit behind Yee Hah's sore feet: the branding iron, tractor, etc. that Yee Hah has been hiding in his boots.

Ride to the Hills

2001 • 37 min • Canada

Ride To The Hills from 2001 is an all-out metal driven freeride assault. It features all the early Canadian freeriders ripping it up on what have now become the standard locations from The Shore to Virgin, Utah. You will get a glimpse of the short lived urban freeride trend and a lot of XC helmets. There are plenty of big Southern Utah hucks long before Rampage was conceived. Darcy Wittenburg of The Collective/Anthill worked on the cinematography and was there ever a film where Sterl wasn’t somehow involved?

Perforations 2001 Part 2

2001 • 60 min • United States of America

The bodies mount up as eight characters die, three of them twice! Who will be left? Twist follows twist when both the identity of the mysterious Mr. Smith and Connie´s (Barbara Joyce) own secret are revealed! See Carla (Debbie D) and Jade (Laura Giglio) fight to the death! See a gun battle in the woods between Carla and Bob (Dean Paul)! See an innocent victim (Bobbi Madison) meet a violent end! Learn which two characters are lesbian lovers!

Fear

2001 • 19 min • Argentina

Maxi Contenti's first short film delves into the deepest fears of humans.

Paulo da Portela: O Teu Nome não Caiu no Esquecimento

2001 • 55 min • Brazil

Documentary made to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the legendary Paulo Benjamin de Oliveira, Paulo da Portela.

I Am Not What You Want

2001 • 49 min • Hong Kong

Rick was kicked out of his home because of his homosexuality, and takes refuge in the home of his friend Mark. Living under the same roof, these youths realize they have more in common than they thought. But will it lead to heartwarming or heartbreak?

Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

2001 • 4 min

Tom Waits, the brothers Quay, and a dog door.

A Little Adventure

2001 • 6 min • France

A child from the middle of a large forest watches people walking along the sidewalk from the top of a wall. At the end of the day, he returns home, smiling. He has his own unique perspective from his observations atop the wall.

Claire

2001 • 53 min • United States of America

Loosely based on a Japanese fairytale, an elderly gay couple on a farm in the 1920's South find a little girl from the moon inside an ear of corn and raise her as their own.

Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

2001 • 20 min

A documentary-montage of sketches, photos, storyboards, and film excerpts that is accompanied by Volker Schlöndorff's thoughts about his 1979 film THE TIN DRUM.

Aurora

2001 • 5 min • Argentina

Aurora lives in the daily mix of furniture, norms and rules inherited from her parents from the 70s. A short film with still pictures and narration.

Esp

2001 • 5 min • Japan

Spoons and forks bend and these movements remind you of plants. They are unnatural movements but why can we easily accept them? "Supernatural power" is expressed as a "beauty", not with an occult point of view.

Madam SOURAN

2001 • 47 min • Japan

Indie film by Fujiwara Sho, 2001.