All Films

Great Women Artists: Frida Kahlo

2000 • 45 min • United States of America

Frida Kahlo began to paint in 1925 while recovering from a streetcar accident that left her permanently disabled. Many of her 200 paintings directly relate to her experiences with physical pain. They also chronicle her turbulent relationship with artist Diego Rivera. Today Kahlo's work is critically and monetarily as prized as that of her male peers, sometimes more so.

Magic Hat

2000 • 58 min • Israel

Rina and Tulik embark on an imaginary journey full of adventures and songs.

Uncle 'Bar' at Barbershop

2000 • 22 min • South Korea

In the early 80s, in a small barbershop on the outskirts of Seoul, there is a barber with a small stature just like the size of the barbershop. When there are no customers, he cleans up the barbershop, drinks tea, and enjoys listening to the radio, which reads sad stories, and is moved. The neighbors of the neighborhood visit him without any burden and share their stories. Sometimes, the neighborhood trio (Mr. Gu, Mr. Jeon, Mr. Park) tease him for being a woman, but the barber just smiles. One day, the barber gets into an argument with Mr. Gu, the owner of the hole-in-the-wall shop, due to a misunderstanding, and when Mr. Gu blurts out the word “woman,” the barber has a big fight with Mr. Gu. Morning comes as always. As usual, the barber’s wife tightly bandages the barber’s bulging chest. And the barber, she, rides her bicycle to the barbershop, hiding her hidden chest.

Tarepanda

2000 • 17 min • Japan

Tarepanda is a character that moves by rolling over (usually to music), with a record speed of 2.75 m/h.

There's a Strong Wind in Beijing

2000 • 50 min • China

Documentary giving a sense of the feelings and attitudes of the residents of Beijing.

Fellini racconta: Passeggiate nella memoria

2000 • 52 min • Italy

This documentary for Italian television features extensive interviews with film director Federico Fellini looking back on his career.

Michael Palin On The Colourists

2000 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Michael Palin explores the lives and paintings of four Scottish artists known as the Colourists: John Duncan Fergusson, George Leslie Hunter, Samuel John Peploe and Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell. Their works hang in 10 Downing Street, but in their own lifetimes their vibrant vision shocked the critics.

Niños del paraíso

2000 • 46 min • Chile

In the Juan Fernández Archipelago, 700 kilometers from the central coast of Chile, is Robinson Crusoe Island. There, a group of children who are in their last year of primary school will soon graduate, leaving the island where they learned to live.

Teenage Zombie House Massacre

2000 • 37 min • United States of America

A small group of teenagers decide to throw a party at the old abandoned place at the edge of the tracks. They expected tons of beer, babes, and high school hijinks. What they didn't expect was to find a house full of flesh eating zombies. It's blood and gore as the kids try to escape their worst nightmare at the Teenage Zombie House Massacre.

Miss Amnesia

2000 • 18 min • Macedonia

A girl wakes up on a park bench. She doesn't remember anything. Filimon Varadinov, an elderly gentleman, tries to help her remember who she is and where she comes from...

Before the Flood: The Last Couple in Vuotos

2000 • 28 min • Finland, Sweden

"If you wish to stay together this long don't ever forget to say good night, my darling, and good morning, dear." Veikko and Impi Schroderus (78) built a house in Pelkosenniemi, Finnish Lapland in the beginning of 1950's. At the time, a state-owned hydroelectric company, Kemijoki Oy, started harnessing the rivers of Lapland. When the company presented its plan to build the Vuotos reservoir, the area to be drowned was inhibited by 150 people including Veikko and Impi. Now they are alone. The fight over Vuotos reservoir has lasted over forty years. In 1982 the Finnish government decided that the reservoir wouldn't be built, but the company didn't give up. A decade later a new government decided that the company can apply Water Court for the permission to build the reservoir, and the fight was on again. Despite the long fight, Veikko and Impi haven't given up hope. They still love their home.

Hitch

2000 • 18 min

Two friends are on a road trip and a one-sided attraction develops.

First Person Plural

2000 • 60 min • United States of America

In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and sent from Korea to her new home in California. There, the memory of her birth family was nearly obliterated, until recurring dreams led her to investigate her own past, and she discovered that her Korean mother was very much alive. Bravely uniting her biological and adoptive families, Borshay Liem embarks on a heartfelt journey in this acclaimed film that first premiered on POV in 2000. First Person Plural is a poignant essay on family, loss and the reconciling of two identities.

The Secret Centre

2000 • 57 min • United Kingdom

The English novelist, John Le Carré discusses his life as a secret agent and writer in this documentary about spies in fact and fiction, produced for British television.

Furniture Poetry

2000 • 5 min

Short stop motion animation Directed by Paul Bush

Andrew Dice Clay: I'm Over Here Now

2000 • 56 min

Andrew Dice Clay live in Las Vegas.

Bad Animals

2000 • 3 min • United States of America

A man encounters some animals. They are bad.

Robert Klein: Child in His 50s

2000 • 59 min • United States of America

Comic Robert Klein performs a solo stand-up show before an audience at New York City's John Jay College. Features Klein's insights into the foibles of society, the follies of politics and the mixed blessings of aging.

Victory March

2000 • 39 min • Russia

"Victory March" is a very accurate and touching recognition to the Veterans of the Great Victory. This is an amazing and unusual portrait not of "unfortunate war veterans", but of Winners, people who have gone through something like this, after which you begin to truly understand the price of Victory and Life. Shahverdiyev's film shows bright and cheerful people from whom you can learn not only to celebrate Victory Day, but also to Live.

Ball

2000 • 3 min • Russia

The life story of one ball.

The Red Car

2000 • 21 min • Brazil

A humble family receives a real Greek gift: a luxury car, which cannot be sold for two years. To make matters worse, no one knows how to drive. Time passes, and the automobile ends up having quite unusual uses.

From Swastika to Jim Crow

2000 • 60 min • United States of America

Before and during the Second World War, Jewish intellectuals and scholars who escaped Nazi Germany and immigrated to the U.S. faced an uncertain future. Confronted with anti-Semitism at major universities and a public distrust of foreigners, a surprising number secured teaching positions at traditionally Black colleges in the segregated South. In many cases they formed lasting relationships with their students and had an important impact on the communities in which they lived and worked. This is a story of two cultures, each sharing a burden of oppression, brought together by the tragic circumstances of war. The film also highlights the role of African Americans such as Ralph Bunche in securing positions for these refugee scholars at places like Howard University, Tougaloo College and Hampton Institute.

Das Taschenorgan

2000 • 11 min • Germany

An organ left over after an operation causes turbulence in sober everyday hospital life.

Time and Tide

2000 • 35 min • United States of America

Peter Hutton’s meditation on the Hudson River.