All Films

The Eggplant Lady

2001 • 29 min

Based on the First Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary, The Agony in the Garden, The Eggplant Lady is a heartwarming story about a family’s decision to move to a bigger house in a better neighborhood and how the teen, Jamie, and the grandmother, Rosa, come together to face a situation neither can control. Rosa teaches Jamie the valuable lesson of Christ’s suffering in the garden of Gethsemani. The Eggplant Lady, featuring a recipe with a secret ingredient, tears and laughter, faith and family, will inspire and touch viewers of all ages.

A Calling to Care

2001 • 25 min • United States of America

A Calling to Care is the inspiring story of 55 year-old Grace Stanley, a Canadian nurse who left her home and prestigious career behind to answer a calling halfway around the world in Karachi, Pakistan. Teaching nursing to local women in a strict Muslim culture that forbids them to even to touch men is a formidable task. However, Grace challenges her own values and belief systems to find common ground with her students, helping them to excel and feel respect for themselves in a culture that doesn't respect them. Whether it is getting her hands painted with henna, swimming fully-clothed in the ocean, or marching bravely with them on International Women's Day, Grace bonds with her students in a very special way, and ultimately discovers how the West can learn a lot more from the Third World than she ever thought.

Maillart's Bridges

2001 • 24 min • Germany

Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his engineering masterpieces, which, the film argues, embrace both functionality and aesthetics. Instead of following a traditional journalistic structure, director Heinz Emigholz's spellbinding film reads more like ethereal visual poetry, allowing the beauty of Maillart's work to speak for itself.

TERRORS - Painting of the God of Death

2001 • 28 min • Japan

Horror V-Cinema based on the Wonder Swan game Terrors 2, in which new nurse Nami is assigned to a patient, Saga, who draws pictures that predict the future...

O Ninja das Caldas

2001 • 55 min • Portugal

He just wanted to be happy but they don't let him go in peace...

Zodiac

2001 • 8 min • France

A fable about the human condition in which two people are confronted with their limtations and the opportunities available to them in life. Film without words.

A História Real

2001 • 15 min • Brazil

In a hospital that struggles not to close its doors, two children discover their first love.

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time

2001 • 54 min

This documentary features Islesford Island, Maine, one of many small but inhabited islands off the east coast of America.

Velocity Rules

2001 • 18 min

A housewife discovers that she is actually a superhero and must choose between a life of excitement and glamour or her good old boy husband whom she still loves.

Zahesi 708

2001 • 48 min

A documentary narrative mix of social picture. People in everyday life, political situations, fashion. Youngsters seeking for freedom while creating a renovating electronic music in Tbilisi city.

Everest from Within

2001 • 52 min • Canada

This feature-length documentary retraces the journey of 4 Canadians who set off to climb the perilous north side of Mount Everest without the use of oxygen or sherpas. The group's ordeal gives us a rare insight into the human condition under stress, and, while immobilized on the edge of the mountain by extreme weather, we share the tensions that afflict the group's solidarity - threatening the dream of attaining the summit itself.

The Home Whovian

2001 • 31 min • United Kingdom

In the 1980’s US public television station New Jersey Network produced some groundbreaking documentaries about Doctor Who following the programme’s huge success in America. The Home Whovian was planned to be the first in a series of video releases in the USA featuring interviews with the stars of Doctor Who. In the event it proved to be a one-off. Featuring interviews with Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and John Nathan-Turner. Unique material from a unique moment in Time Travel TV – when Doctor Who conquered America!

Factory Mask

2001 • 1 min • United States of America

Suddenly, in the cramped boiler room, a pressure-relief valve opens and discharges steam. Then, a certified technician approaches to perform a routine check. But, is he wearing his factory mask?

Spring

2001 • 6 min • Latvia

It is a bit funny and a bit sad story about snowmen and…spring. Everyone has got their time and place in this world. Like that rabbit who managed to get fresh carrots in spring.

Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos 2

2001 • 52 min • Brazil

Xuxa's second volume in her series of educational, musical pictures dedicated to young kids.

Space 2

2001 • 27 min • Spain

A detour taken on the way home from work threatens a man's relationship.

Erik van Muiswinkel & Diederik van Vleuten: Mannen op de maan

2001 • 50 min • Netherlands

Registration of the second theatre program by the Dutch comedy duo (Erik) van Muiswinkel and (Diederik) van Vleuten. In their first program, the two comedians limited themselves to the earth and the strange peoples who inhabit it. In their second program they expand their explorations into the world of the unseen, where they test their strength with astrologers, illusionists, millennium preachers and similar figures. What mechanisms drive people to believe in supernatural madness, and to derive pleasure and comfort from it? Have we made any progress in the twentieth century? If Darwin, Freud and Einstein opened humanity's eyes, then a hundred years later there will be enough volunteers to close them again. Van Muiswinkel and Van Vleuten argue about it for a long time during this performance.

Screenwriter John Michael Hayes on 'Rear Window'

2001 • 14 min • United States of America

Screenwriter John Michael Hayes reminisces about his partnership with Alfred Hitchcock during the making of the classic 1954 film Rear Window.

Palindrome

2001 • 11 min • Brazil

A word or phrase whose meaning does not change whether spelt backwards or forwards. A young man loses everything he has in one day. He is fired from his job, kicked out of his hotel, betrayed by his colleagues and turned down by an old flame. We see this ordinary tale told backwards in time

Riga: 10 Years After...

2001 • 58 min • France, Latvia

A story of a city living in the rhytm of youth, told through four people who are part of the new generation - who've grown up after the regaining of independence from the Soviet Union.

Christmas in the Caribbean

2001 • 24 min • Uruguay

The governor of a small Caribbean island is about to be visited by his European nephews, so he decides to treat them with the celebration a traditional Christmas day. This includes eating turkey for dinner, decorating the Christmas tree, and watching the snow fall. His subjects are willing to fullfil this task in order to improve the distribution and protection of drinking water that comes from a spring.

Beast Shadow: Scars of Assault

2001 • 60 min • Japan

Mizuo, a gardener, Kazeo, an apprentice, and his girlfriend, Ishio, come to the campsite on vacation. Mizuo, who likes Kazeo, grows jealous when he sees the two flirting. He went for a walk alone to distract himself from his thoughts, and was raped by a man clad in a piece of cloth who looked like an Arab. While the water man was unable to say anything about it, the stone man became the prey. Burning with anger, Ishio and Kazao decide to uncover the man's true identity. Around that time, the dream man, a former rugby player, met a woman with a single piece of cloth. Yumeo has been raped by a man in a piece of cloth, but since it happened in a moment, he wishes to meet the man again in order to find out whether it was reality or a dream. The woman starts talking about Fuo's true identity...

Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe

2001 • 60 min

This hour-long program, presented by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe and Santa Fe Downtown Kiwanis Foundation, features the Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe Documentary narrated by Gene Hackman and film highlights from the 76th Annual Burning of Will Shuster's Zozobra™ (September 7th, 2000). This documentary gives us the unique history behind one of America's most bizarre annual traditions and some insight into the eccentric artist who created it. "Will Shusters Zozobra" sold out its 2001 premiere at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe with hundreds turned away. This documentary was also screened at the 2001 Santa Fe Film Festival.

Cabinet Confidential

2001 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A revealing one-off documentary that provides an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime ministers - including Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and John Major - have run their cabinet, the highest decision-making body in the land. Through candid interviews, rare archive footage and filming inside No 10, presenter Michael Cockerell opens the door to the Government's own chamber of secrets as he seeks the answer to the question: is the notion of cabinet government an obsolete concept?