All Films

Tuning the Instruments

2000 • 15 min • Poland

Various animated depictions of movement, accompanied by different instrumental and ambient sound arrangements.

Big City Socks

2000 • 15 min • Russia

The story is about a pair of old romantic socks who dreamed of flying like birds. Socks were thrown out of the window when life became unbearable, and went wandering the streets. Fate scattered them to different parts of the Big City, and they turned into ragged, unnecessary rags. The socks sought refuge, and finally met in their native entrance.

Cavaleiro Jorge

2000 • 14 min • Brazil

The film tells the story of the knight Jorge before he became a saint.

Code Rush

2000 • 56 min • United States of America

Life on the edge in Silicon Valley - home of high tech, high anxiety, and high stakes. Take a revealing look at Netscape Communications engineers as they set out boldly and brazenly to save their company. A virtual panorama of human drama and techno-thrills, Code Rush puts you at the center of the high-intensity clash of science, engineering, and commerce.

A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow

2000 • 22 min • Australia

Genevieve Snow is a piano teacher at a school for girls. Genevieve is lonely. Nigel is lonely too - he telephones people he doesn't know. One day, Nigel calls Genevieve. Nigel wants to talk about wolves and Genevieve seems prepared to listen.

Golden Whore

2000 • 15 min • Spain

Adrian is a young fame seeker who rents himself out at social events. He cries at funerals, tells jokes at parties and applauds on opening nights. Suddenly, his luck changes and Adrian becomes an overnight smash...

Hi-Fi

2000 • 6 min • United States of America

A car drives through the streets and tunnels of New York City. On board, four teenagers talk, play, and flirt. An innocent joyride amongst friends? Right away the viewer understands that this is not just simple fun as the drugs get in the way.

Brain Storm

2000 • 19 min • United States of America

Santa Monica College's Student Filmmakers Association presents an hysterical ride into the world of movie making. Mac (Anthony Aulisio III) and Wendy Storm (Tina Reynolds) are a happily married couple with a "perfect little life". But as characters in a movie being written by two aspiring filmmakers (Curnal Aulisio and Glen Diller), they're thrust into a life and death struggle between good and evil

The Halt

2000 • 25 min • Russia

Trains travel through the night without stopping. The clatter of the carriages quickly disappears, along with the wail of the locomotive. The people at the station are all asleep. But why are they so exhausted ? And what are they waiting for? Set inside an isolated train depot, The Train Station is one of Sergei Loznitsa's most haunting films. It is also one of his most pointed social critiques. In this film, we are brought to a remote train station deep in the Russian woods. It's nighttime. In the distance, we hear the clatter of locomotives. The station, a small wooden building, sits silently, surrounded only by snow and train tracks.

Exorcist

2000 • 5 min • Turkey

Dracula XXI

2000 • 12 min

Dracula XXI is newcomer Paul Raila's hilarious version of a "straight" young vampire who learns from a newly "out" God that he's been hanging around the wrong coffins. With the help of a few friends a long they way, he struggles through coping with the idea of being gay.

Raoul et Jocelyne

2000 • 12 min • France

Bosse Högberg - en film om kärlek, sjukdom och feta smällar

2000 • 60 min • Sweden

Bosse Högberg - once a tough European champion in light-middleweight since suffering from aphasia after stroke in 1988. The toughest fighter of Sweden ever. Against a Frenchman, he boxed fifteen rounds with the rejected jawbone.

On and Off the Res' with Charlie Hill

2000 • 57 min • United States of America

Documents the art of stand-up comedy and Indian humor through the experiences of comedian, Charlie Hill. Will Rogers, Steve Allen, Dick Gregory, Floyd Westerman and others are featured.

Nowhereland

2000 • 32 min • United States of America

Three men are stranded on a planet, work in a bunker-like area, fiddling with equipment, and are dominated by a tyrannical overlord whose logo is Boston Terrier with a pipe. Into our hero's drab gas masked existence a woman appears, luring him away from his duties and the social order.

O Velho, o Mar e o Lago

2000 • 21 min • Brazil

The old man is all of us. The sea is life. The lake, solitude.

The Bridge on the River Kwai: An Appreciation by Filmmaker John Milius

2000 • 8 min • United States of America

Filmmaker John Milius discusses David Lean's classic Academy Award winner "The Bridge on the River Kwai."

The Napoleon Murder Mystery

2000 • 47 min

An historical documentary thriller that explores a Swedish dentist's discovery of what may have actually killed the famed French Emperor using extensive re-creations and modern DNA testing.

Losing the Thread

2000 • 55 min • Italy

This is a portrait of Lorenzo, a Florentine artist who has been repeating the creation of the same work of art for more than twenty years: a pliant and pointed blue-yellow-red acrylic "thread."

Traditional Family Vampires

2000 • 15 min • United States of America

An over-the-top comedy about a right wing / conservative family of vampires that go door to door sucking blood, until they meet up with a particularly unsavory character. They morally object to one victim's sexual orientation, thereby not finishing the job.... and we all know what happens if you don't drain 'em dry!

Fini Zayo

2000 • 7 min • France

Hands are restless, they break, they denounce, then they leave, guilty and innocent. Objects are absences from which ancient quarrels echo. Sometimes, a few happy memories resurface in the shells. A touch of warmth, enveloped in acid yellow.

The Suspect

2000 • 25 min • Portugal

A train compartment, four people, a ticket collector, a Barcelos penknife and a potential assassin. Will they all make it to the end of the journey?

Mother Teresa

2000 • 54 min • Macedonia

The first film about Mother Teresa.

Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos

2000 • 39 min • Brazil

Xuxa presents a series of musical educational videos dedicated exclusively to a new, much younger generation of kids.