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Janez Puhar's Missing Formula

Janez Puhar's Missing Formula

2000 • 38 min • Slovenia
The documentary entitled 'Janez Puhar's Lost Formula' introduces the Slovenian inventor of glass-plate photography from the point of view of a foreign observer, that of Scotsman Robin Crichton, who wonders how and why we honour him, since he is virtually unknown in the Western world. Robin decides to single-handedly look into these Slovenian beliefs. Puhar claims that for the light-sensitive matter he used mercury, sulfur, iodine and possibly varnish, which he applied in the end to protect the emulsion. But his real formula has never been brought to light anywhere. Indeed, the whole world knows that no one has used Puhar's ingredients to make photographs, because the said three elements are not sensitive to light - neither separately nor together as a compound. Robin therefore arrives at the key question: are the four Puhar originals, which currently exist around the world, real or are they just a mistake made by Slovenian historians and museum specialists?
Balāde par Kurbadu

Balāde par Kurbadu

2000 • 26 min • Latvia
An animation film based on Latvian folk tales about Kurbads, a son of a mare, who saves princesses and defeats the evil witch.
Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction

Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction

2000 • 48 min
The male bowerbirds of Australia and New Guinea display an incredible artistic talent -- and all in the name of love! Collecting 'jewels' they set them in specially-built showcases and some even paint the walls with mashed berries. If all this isn't enough to woo potential mates, they also perform a most bizarre stiff-winged dance. But displaying darker emotions associated with sex, such as envy and jealousy, males will sometimes destroy a rival's construction and steal his jewels.
Hervanta Homicide 2000

Hervanta Homicide 2000

2000 • 33 min • Finland
Hervanta is being stalked by a mysterious serial killer who uses his video camera to film the murders he commits. For some reason, this sneaky psychopath sends the murder videos he made to inspector Kallinen. Kallinen goes to solve the crime with his partner detective Kuokka. A lot of people have to die before the story gets into the solved cases folder...
Whose Home on the Range?

Whose Home on the Range?

2000 • 55 min
Catron County, New Mexico -- the 'toughest county in the West' -- has been at the center of a struggle between ranchers, loggers, environmentalists, and the U.S. Forest Service over the management of federal land. The only physician in the county, concerned about the health of his community, began a process of dialogue among citizens. This is a story of how health was used as a catalyst to make peace.
Cast

Cast

2000 • 17 min • United Kingdom
Cast creates a claustrophobic and haunting space where people and things invade worlds in which they do not normally belong. Lifeless dolls are heaped inside drawers, dolled-up life size figures lie motionless on a windy beach at the water’s edge; a chair rocks in an empty room, a mirror reflects and observes, and a chest of drawers is caressed by the sea. The film has a dramatic sensibility that sets up a false promise of narrative. Its structure, instead, is akin to that of dreams where different scenic spaces collapse and the inanimate and animate interchange. Wide-angled perspectives, shifting points of view and juxtapositions of sound and silence force inner and outer realities to collide, creating an unsettling psychic world.
The Salt Mill

The Salt Mill

2000 • 6 min • Norway
A young man from Larvik never says no. One day he gets a magic salt grinder from a salt troll. The town's richest person steals the salt grinder, and it ends with disaster.
Rooyackers, Kamps & Kamps

Rooyackers, Kamps & Kamps

2000 • 51 min • Netherlands
Registration of the first theatre program by the Dutch cabaret troupe Rooyackers, Kamps & Kamps, a mix of absurdism, mime, music and dance.
When a Ball Hit Our Heads - The Portrait of Milko Djurovski

When a Ball Hit Our Heads - The Portrait of Milko Djurovski

2000 • 40 min • Slovenia
When he was nineteen Belgrade and a half of the former Yugoslavia admired him. Too much money to spend, a famous and desirable pop singer Lepa Brena. Then he left Marakane and joined the black-and-white stripes soccer club at the famous JLA Stadium in Belgrade. Milko Djurovski. The soccer poetry of Milko’s legs sings of love, which sparkles in his eyes, when he smells freshly cut grass or the leather of the soccer ball. The whole world is trapped in this ball.
Enfrentados

Enfrentados

2000 • 56 min • Argentina
"We live in a violent time. The country is devastated, citizens are unprotected, and the police are corrupt. Two mafia gangs are fighting over the government of a city, and the end will be... a bloodbath."
Ghost Bird: The Life and Art of Judith Deim

Ghost Bird: The Life and Art of Judith Deim

2000 • 54 min
This award-winning documentary looks at the life and times of Judith Deim, an artist and musician who gained an international reputation for her expressive paintings and her friendships with the likes of John Steinbeck and Garcia Lorca, and who also influenced many of her children and grandchildren to take up lives in the arts.
Kikser

Kikser

2000 • 19 min • Denmark
Kasper, 14, plays soccer with his friend Jon, the goalkeeper. Jon loses the ball and causes the team to lose. The captain and the other team members demand a new goalkeeper. Kasper is unsure what is most important: friendship or winning?
Salut from Saratov

Salut from Saratov

2000 • 10 min • Russia
Follows the history of the city Saratov, ts architectural monuments, and famous residents
El cazador es un corazón solitario

El cazador es un corazón solitario

2000 • 7 min
A photographer has lost his wife in an accident while taking pictures of her. You feel guilty and depressed. But one day, by chance, he will meet another woman very similar to the previous one, whom he will try to replace.
Journey to Justice

Journey to Justice

2000 • 47 min • Canada
This documentary pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. They are Canada's unsung heroes in the fight for Black civil rights. Focusing on the 1930s to the 1950s, this film documents the struggle of 6 people who refused to accept inequality. Featured here, among others, are Viola Desmond, a woman who insisted on keeping her seat at the Roseland movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946 rather than moving to the section normally reserved for the city's Black population, and Fred Christie, who took his case to the Supreme Court after being denied service at a Montreal tavern in 1936. These brave pioneers helped secure justice for all Canadians. Their stories deserve to be told.
Uncle Chatzkel

Uncle Chatzkel

2000 • 52 min • Australia
Dede Chackelis (Uncle Chatzkel) portrays the patient triumph of one man's dignity and intellect over genocide, oppression and personal adversity.
Cars can fly

Cars can fly

2000 • 21 min
Óli sees his sister take part in a matchboxcar rally, and has dreams of following in her footsteps.
Kittie ‎– Spit In Your Eye

Kittie ‎– Spit In Your Eye

2000 • 60 min
Featuring 60 minutes of exclusive footage! 9 Live songs including "Brackish" and "Charlotte", never-before-seen interviews, and behind the scenes footage!
A Floresta Feliz

A Floresta Feliz

2000 • 45 min • Brazil
Six animals live in a forest, they will have to prevent the witch from destroying their habitat.
Los Almendros - Plaza Nueva

Los Almendros - Plaza Nueva

2000 • 24 min • Spain
Bedhead

Bedhead

2000 • 25 min • United Kingdom
A remarkable journey through the mind of a young man as he battles against mental illness and attempts to come to terms with his confused sexuality and a dark event in the past.
Being Dead or Being Alive Is the Same Thing

Being Dead or Being Alive Is the Same Thing

2000 • 3 min • Italy
Dedicated to Pasolini's death and his commemoration in the years following his passing.
Who Owns the Past?

Who Owns the Past?

2000 • 56 min • United States of America
This documentary, narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt and directed by Jed Riffe, tells the story of how the discovery of a 9,000-year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, reignited the conflict between anthropologists and Native peoples over the control of human remains found on ancestral Indigenous lands.
Mai en décembre: Godard en Abitibi

Mai en décembre: Godard en Abitibi

2000 • 26 min • Canada