All Films

The Chemical Generation

2000 • 50 min • United Kingdom

This documentary covers the acid house, rave and club culture revolution in the UK and of course the chemical Methylenedioxymethamphetamine or ecstasy. This era inspired the film 24 Hour Party people and sheds light on the forgotten counter culture movement.

Shinobugawa

2000 • 50 min • Japan

It is the 1950’s, and the protagonist, identified only as ‘I,’ has come from Tokyo to study, burdened by the high expectations of his poor family in northeastern Japan. He meets a young woman named Shino who works in a small restaurant in the Komagome area of Tokyo. They fall in love, and he takes her to his family home through the heavy snow for their wedding. He introduces Shino to his elderly parents and his sister; they spend their wedding night together listening to bells ringing on sleighs gliding past across the moonlit snow. The next morning, wrapped in their small world of happiness, they go to a hot spring in the mountains to begin their honeymoon.

Self-Portrait with Mother

2000 • 56 min

Edvard Oja is the object as well as subject of his own film. This is an honest story about chronical alcoholism, about the author's journey through treatment, religion, death and friendship. Edvard has been always supported by his mother who has provided unconditional love for her son in every situation. Mother is the only one in the documentary who won't ennoble the environment suffering from alcoholism. Yet, her son has no strength to struggle out of his tough situation. Is it possible after all that he will be cured?

The Island of the Skog

2000 • 17 min • United States of America

In pursuit of freedom, a band of Rowdies and their leader set sail to an island inhabited by a seemingly hostile Skog.

The Royal Diaries: Elizabeth I - Red Rose of the House of Tudor

2000 • 27 min • United States of America

Towards the end of her father Henry the VIII's reign, a young Elizabeth quarrels with half-sister Mary Tudor and worries that her beloved stepmother Catherine Parr will face the same fate as Henry's other wives, including Elizabeth's mother Anne Boleyn. Based on the similarly titled children's book, "The Royal Diaries: Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544".

The Song of the Earth

2000 • 49 min

Is there a connection between animal sounds and the music that humans create? Using a surprising and wide variety of evidence from the animal kingdom -- including the humpback whale, the lyre bird, the siamang gibbon and the great reed warbler -- Sir David Attenborough seeks to prove that the origions of music lie in territory, emotion and sex.

Spud and the Vegetable Garden

2000 • 26 min • France

In a vegetable garden, four vegetables find that their good gardener, who has come to harvest them, has forgotten them. A small carrot, a timid leek and a cunning broccoli decide to send Patate, the fourth of the gang, as a scout...

The Firemen's Choir

2000 • 30 min • Romania

H.R. Pukenshette

2000 • 12 min

The Dude's plan to drink himself to death is interrupted by an unlikely Guardian Angel.

Age of Peace

2000 • 25 min • South Korea, Japan

5 boys (portrayed by the K-pop Band H.O.T) live in a futuristic society where they are invaded by aliens by the name of Zeus that wish to take over the world. The only way for H.O.T. to save their society is to win a soccer match against the aliens.

Inside The Living Daylights

2000 • 36 min • United Kingdom

The making of the film that introduced Timothy Dalton as James Bond, who gave Bond a darker edge for a new generation.

Os Idiotas Mesmo

2000 • 12 min • Brazil

A cigarette factory decides to launch a new brand of cigarettes on the market, the Relax 3000. A team of publicists takes action. Thousands of dollars involved, thousands of meetings, thousands of scoldings and a smell of shit in the air.

Tales from Genesis Space

2000 • 44 min • United States of America

There is a place on the backwaters of the Internet where an entire universe has spun off of its own accord. This place is called Genesis Space and it is a birthing ground of imagination. There has been much press given to the "promise" of the Internet, but few know where that promise lies. Consider this video presentation a road map to that place and be prepared to be astounded by what awaits you. I bid you welcome to Genesis Space. The only limits in this place are the ones Self-imposed on your own imagination. Free your mind and take a walk through this strange place. Your feet may never touch the ground...

Hubert Selby Jr., 2 ou 3 choses...

2000 • 53 min • France

In 1998, Ludovic Cantais followed Hubert Selby Jr in his daily life and made him talk about the genesis of his work, his writing, his doubts and his obsessions.

Amityville: The Haunting

2000 • 42 min • United States of America

A two-part documentary of the infamous haunted house on Long Island that inspired the motion picture "The Amityville Horror."

Five Feet High and Rising

2000 • 29 min

Victor, a twelve year-old boy growing up on New York City's Lower East Side experiences what growing up is all about.

With Almost Nothing

2000 • 60 min • Portugal

In Cape Verde, where the majority of the population is young, children use olive oil cans, bits of sandals, leftover tires and pieces of cardboard to build their own toys. The absence of a consumer society and the challenges posed by insularity have led them to invent their own recreational independence with almost nothing.

Hot Vampire Nights

2000 • 57 min • United States of America

Mina is a lesbian vampire prowling the streets of Miami in search of fresh, young victims to seduce and then feed upon.

Nami

2000 • 3 min • Japan

A woman is masturbating when a swarm of fish bursts out from all over her house to disturb her.

Crimson Heather

2000 • 40 min • United States of America

Crimson Heather is a drop dead gorgeous vampire, met by a vengeful huntress, determined to slay this bloodsucker. Heather turns the tables, visits a hot nightclub and leaves with a man for the evening. At every turn, someone is trying to do away with Heather, but she knows how to use her sex appeal and charm to keep living her life of the undead!

The Natural History of the Chicken

2000 • 55 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Through interviews and reenactments, The Natural History of the Chicken investigates the role of the chicken in American life and tells several remarkable stories. A Maine farmer says she found a chicken frozen stiff, but was able to resuscitate it. Colorado natives tell a story of the chicken who lost its head-- and went on living. A Virginia farmer tells about (and demonstrates) the benefits of raising chickens for his own consumption. Perhaps most surprising is the case of the Florida woman: she bathes her pet bird, and takes it both swimming and shopping. Through these and other stories, this documentary illuminates the role that chickens play in (some of) our lives.

Niran

2000 • 50 min • Bahrain

The series revolves around (Bin Zeidan), an evil man who controls the village where he lives in the midst of great injustice to its people, who realize that they will not get rid of this injustice, unless they encounter (Ibn Zeidan), so they kill and chase his followers, and expel him from the village.

Amityville: Horror or Hoax

2000 • 42 min • United States of America

Explores the controversy surrounding the supposed haunting of Amityville's most famous house.

The Way to Nirvana

2000 • 13 min • Estonia

This story is about a young man who wants to go behind the horizon...