All Films

A Married Woman Who Keeps Horses

2001 • 60 min

Otani spares no expense in enhancing the beauty of his wife Miyako, even allowing her to cheat on him with a young man, in order to make her look beautiful. However, he continues to worry about whether his wife is truly his, so he orders his subordinate Miyasaka to investigate Miyako's true desires. Around that time, Miyako meets Kurosawa, who is in charge of horse care at a horse riding club. Although he was a former champion jockey, he retired after an accident and treated Miyako coldly. The next day, Miyako gets revenge on him, and the two get into an argument, collapsing into the hay. Miyako invites Kurosawa out, but he leaves with a meaningful sneer. That night, as if guided by something, Miyako heads to the stables and begins to suck Kurosawa's penis...

Dirty Scoundrels

2001 • 60 min • Japan

Yuji is an engaged businessman, who decides to grope Asuka, a pretty young girl, on a busy Tokyo commuter train. The cheap thrill turns expensive as Yuji discovers she took this opportunity to steal his wallet. Later on, Asuka finds Yuji and approaches him with an indecent partnership proposal. This film is another quality installment from the Chikan Densha Groper Train series – the longest running film series in the world. (Over 500 Groper Train films have been made!)

I Magotti e la Pentola Magica

2001 • 25 min • Italy

Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'

2001 • 30 min • United States of America

Retrospective documentary on the making of the cult classic "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."

Queen Bee Honey

2001 • 60 min • Japan

This is another masterpiece by Takao Nakano. A sort of mix of Ed Wood and Russ Meyer. The story ? Well, just a sort of parody of the famous manga/anime "Cutie Honey". If you have liked L.E.G.S, if think that this one will give to you a big big moment of pleasure. No english subs ? Really, I assure you that it doesn't matter at all.

Zone of the Enders: Idolo

2001 • 55 min • Japan

2167, Deep in a hidden laboratory, the Martians are testing new weapons technology that’s going to blow Earth away! Hotshot pilot Second Lieutenant Radium Lavans is taking charge of the program to lead the fight against Earth’s oppressive rule –or is the program taking charge of him? The mineral substance used to power this secret weapon has a mind of its own! As the UNSF works to thwart a possible Martian uprising, the Orbital Frame project development team has no time to lose! Will Radium be able to force the Idolo beta unit to choose a noble destiny, or will the power of Metatron consume him completely?

Franklin's Magic Christmas

2001 • 50 min • Canada

Franklin and his family are off on a Christmas visit with Grandma and Grandpa at Faraway Farm. When a sudden ice storm hits and Grandpa takes a terrible tumble, Franklin and his baby sister Harriet begin a magical adventure as they journey home in search of help. With the aid of a mysterious flying creature and some very special new friends, the two manage to return with Doctor Bear and her family. Once back together, friends and family share an enchanted Christmas Ever and a memory they will hold forever of a magical Christmas night.

Monkey Drummer

2001 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Video installation depicting a robotic contraption with a monkey's head playing the drums along to music by Aphex Twin.

Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema

2001 • 56 min • Italy

A look back at the life and works of Michelangelo Antonioni.

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

2001 • 20 min • United States of America

Mockumentary telling the never before told life story of the fictional robot R2-D2 from the Star Wars film series. The movie was made as a fun project by the cast and crew of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Using interviews, fake archive photos, film clips, and behind the scenes footage the "true" story was told of Artoo's life.

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

2001 • 57 min • United States of America

Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. As star of two of the best comedies ever made, Show People and The Patsy, she combined zany slapstick and exuberant mimicry. Glamorous, witty and kind, both on screen and off, Davies was also famous for her 35-year-long love affair with William Randolph Hearst.

Vincent

2001 • 4 min • Belgium

A young boy with a deformity finds solace with his Blue Hat which is his attempt to fit in.

Boychick

2001 • 12 min • United States of America

In sunny suburbia, a loud-mouthed Jewish mom incessantly nags and humiliates her shy gay teenage son, who she calls her 'Boychick'. Meanwhile, in the classroom, Boychick can't stop ogling a hunky classmate. If only Boychick had the courage to face up to his desires. As if by magic, along comes his idol, pop star Ashley Hart, to give him the hip-strutting, hair-flicking confidence he craves.

Bag

2001 • 3 min • Japan

袋 Fukuro (Japanese for "bag" or "sack") is a 3-minute short film from 2001. It features Pyramid Head and a Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2, the Fukuro Lady, and many monsters from early sketches for Silent Hill 2. The film contains disturbing, surreal imagery.

Necropolis

2001 • 60 min • Argentina

Norman's stepfather is mysteriously killed. With the help of his friends, Freddy and Dan, they investigate what happened. Suddenly a horde of zombies attacks them. Somehow both incidents are connected with a book that brings the dead to life.

La flamme

2001 • 3 min • France

A short comedy directed by Ron Dyens.

Coming Out

2001 • 45 min • South Korea

A young woman asks her brother to videotape her confession. The brother thinks this is all a joke and unnecessarily ridiculous. The woman nevertheless insists on proceeding on telling on tape what she's been hiding to her family including her brother all along. She is coming out.

Play

2001 • 16 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man, his mistress and his wife.

Combat Sheep

2001 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Combat Sheep is a heart warming Christmas story of four army mascots who have been made redundant due to military cutbacks and are jettisoned into the cold to face civvie life and it’s bleak options on offer.

More! Ojamajo Doremi: Secret of the Frog Stone

2001 • 26 min • Japan

Doremi, her friends, and her family are visiting Doremi's Grandparents. Aiko fears Doremi's grandfather due to accident when she was young. The group learn of the legend of the Frog Stone and a story of a couple. The witch apprentices, minus Pop, go in search of the stone.

Wakazuma kairaku lesson: Toriko

2001 • 57 min • Japan

Pink film directed by Mamoru Watanabe.

Sing!

2001 • 36 min • United States of America

Sing! is a 2001 American short documentary film about the Los Angeles Children's Chorus, directed by Freida Lee Mock. How do squeaky-voiced 8 year olds become amazing singers? Sing! tells the story of how a community group, amid severe cutbacks in the arts, is able to develop a children's chorus that is one of the best in the country. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Girl Orphee

2001 • 20 min • Japan

Please!

2001 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Peter is a novelist who is going out of his mind because his wife and daughter have left him. He's bought a Smith & Wesson and put one bullet in it. He's pulled the trigger once in despairing Russian roulette. Driving to his wife's office, he pulls the gun out again when an angry motorist assaults him. Then, he begs his wife to talk to him, and she does - while she holds the pistol. His next stop is the literary agent to whom he's sent his manuscript; the pistol comes out once more. Her response is unexpected, and there's one last stop before the day ends.