All Films

Time Stranger Kyoko: Leave It to Chocola!

2001 • 11 min • Japan

Preparing a party for her anniversary with the King, when he failed to show up Chocola decided to run away from the castle.

Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers

2001 • 50 min • Japan, United States of America

Omnimon confronts Mephistomon (who was formed from Apocalymon's data) in a dark corner of the Digital World over Mephistomon's attempt to destroy both the Digital World and the Real World and incorporate the data in order to become truly invincible. They fight, but then Mephistomon sees a chance and slips into the Real World.

Barstow 2008

2001 • 5 min

The City of Barstow, California pitches to host the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Spirit of Wonder: Scientific Boys Club

2001 • 60 min • Japan

The now 50 year old Scientific Boys Club decides to build a ship with which they plan to sail to Mars on the "Ethereal Current", curious to see if there is life on Mars.

Cmylmz 0100111000110000111011

2001 • 16 min

This is the movie that Cem Yılmaz showed to his audiences before he started his stand-up show in 2000s.

Salvation

2001 • 51 min • Canada

This documentary portrays the front-line street workers who serve the needy under the umbrella of the Salvation Army. Shot in Toronto at Christmastime, the film chronicles the small hopes and tiny victories of life lived below the poverty line and the daily rewards for those who work to serve others.

The Pitch

2001 • 3 min • Australia

A young filmmaker pitches his latest masterpiece.

Paperboys

2001 • 41 min • United States of America

This documentary follows six paperboys from Stillwater, Minnesota, showcasing interviews and scenes of them biking through their daily delivery routes. It highlights the shift in American culture, where adults are now taking on a job once dominated by young teens.

Santa, Baby!

2001 • 60 min • United States of America, Japan

Songwriter Noel is struggling to write a hit song, and so he takes his frustrations out on his family. His daughter Dakota is granted one wih for doing a good deed and she wishes that her daddy will write a hit song. There is a sub-plot about kindness to animals that has almost nothing to do with the main story.

Police

2001 • 60 min • Japan

Natsuo, a new gay detective, has his first experience with Koide, but he secretly has feelings for Kirino, a senior detective. One late night, Natsuo and Kirino, who were on duty, hunt down a convenience store robbery, but are instead caught and tortured. Disillusioned with Kirino, Natsuo gradually rejects Koide. Frustrated, Koide starts going to the bar, meets Kirino by chance, and buys him with money...

Ao to Shiro de Mizuiro

2001 • 47 min • Japan

Uchiyama Kaede and Shiina Kasumi used to be best friends. Now in high school, Kasumi grew more popular than Kaede, which has led her to continually bully her ex-best friend. One day after school, Kaede meets Kishida Takumi, a bike thief who's especially talented in picking locks. She asks him for a favour: if he could possibly open the key to the school roof. Meanwhile, the arrival of a new teacher seems to bring changes to the school.

Caminantes

2001 • 60 min • Spain

In 2001, a group of Zapatista Mexicans marched to Mexico D.F. to protest against the oppression of the indigenous population of rural Mexico.

Football

2001 • 8 min

Lots of young British boys want to become great footballers. Does young Midge have what it takes? Watch as he goes from cradle to...?

Golden Dreams

2001 • 23 min • United States of America

Califia, the Queen and spirit of California, gives the audience a quick and somewhat romanticized look at history of California, as well as trials and tribulations, but also hopes and dreams of its various ethnicites and cultures.

Kai Doh Maru

2001 • 45 min • Japan

The battle for the Capital city of Kyo rages as warring political factions vie for power against hereditary rulers. After the murder of her parents at the hands of her seditious uncle, a young girl named Kintoki flees to the mountains to lead a harsh life; she is renamed Kai Doh Maru by the local villagers. Rescued by Raiko, the Captain of 'The Four Knights' - honorable defenders who protect the peace of the city, she is raised within their group as a boy. Living among the Knights, she learns the practices of martial arts and develops into a skillful samurai, becoming a permanent member of their team. Now, as a young woman of seventeen, she begins to discover new feelings of passion and love for Raiko... but she also discovers that these new emotions cause a storm of jealousy and rage in another woman linked to her past.

Pavle

2001 • 18 min • Slovenia

Pavle is a student of biology. He plays chess and lives alone with his mother. One day he meets Marija, a gentle girl who is exactly like him, lonely and yearning for love. An honest emotion and the beginning of a happy life together are born, but only until his cruel mother starts to interfere.

Rope Unleashed

2001 • 32 min • United States of America

A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly making a movie about gay murderers in the 1940s.

Azumanga Daioh: The Very Short Movie

2001 • 6 min • Japan

In this short movie featuring familiar characters from Azumanga Daioh, Osaka is yet again having a strange dream of Chiyo-Chan's pigtails being posessed. As Chiyo-Chan's pigtails bounce out of the window, who knows if young Chiyo will ever be happy again.

Nerve

2001 • 27 min • United States of America

A man seems to possess a psychic link to a serial killer who has abducted his 4-year-old son. This black-and-white short played numerous film festivals in 2001. Parts were eventually folded into Prendes' 2003 feature Corpses Are Forever.

Pikachu's PikaBoo

2001 • 25 min • Japan

At a giant beachside mansion, Pikachu and some of its buddies decide to play a game of hide-and-seek. Pikachu is “it,” and it goes off in search of its friends. Meanwhile, Larvitar, sick of being all by itself, kicks a rock in anger. The rock hurtles through the air—and hits a lawnmower, turning it on and sending it tearing off after Pikachu and its friends! The group draws the lawnmower into a maze and even gets it into the water, but the lawnmower just keeps on chasing. The Pokémon build a road out of logs, hoping to get the lawnmower into a shack, but Psyduck trips and ruins the whole setup. How will the friends ever escape the lawnmower? This fantasy will have you on the edge of your seat!

Woman on the Ferry, Live Voyeur

2001 • 60 min • Japan

Fu-yan, also known as Fujikawa, runs a business producing underground videos that are secretly sold by electronics store owner Umeda and his wife Makiko. One day, he receives a request from Umeda to make a new video. The lecherous old man Kikuchi wants him to make an underground video with him as the main character. Lured by the high fee, Fu-yan boards a ferry with Makiko's stepdaughter, Megumi. On the ferry, Fu-yan saves a woman named Yumeko who is about to jump into the sea. Having failed in life and about to commit suicide, Fu-yan takes Yumeko to Kikuchi in order to make her the queen of underground videos. Filming begins according to the script written by Kikuchi, and with Fu-yan's calming, Yumeko completes the film to the end. Before long, a good relationship develops between Fu-yan and Yumeko, but...

Catastrophe

2001 • 6 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to the last scene of some kind of dramatic presentation, which consists entirely of a man (John Gielgud) standing still onstage.

Intimisto

2001 • 24 min • France

A woman trapped in her everyday life: a love story that she would most like to erase; alone against the impenetrable outside world; an inner pain like an abcess that is freed into the glance of one who welcomes it.

Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger: The Fire Mountain Roars

2001 • 28 min • Japan

The theatrical adaptation of Gaoranger that was a double bill with the Kamen Rider Series film Kamen Rider Agito: Project G4. The film features Gao Kong and the Gao Knight combination.