All Films

Hills Like White Elephants

2002 • 38 min

Hills Like White Elephants is a 2002 short film based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's story was published in 1927 in the second collection of short stories titled Men without Woman.

Diverted to Delhi

2002 • 55 min

An Australian shopper phoning Coles Myer, an English housewife ringing Harrods and a New York stockbroker calling American Express all have one thing in common―their customer service queries are likely to be re-routed to India and answered by Indians impersonating local operators. It’s an increasingly attractive business proposition―labour and set-up costs are low yet the staff is keen and highly educated. Diverted to Delhi follows university graduates through a training course as they put aside their own identities and learn to speak and think like their international callers.

Miyuki Ogawa: Good at Sucking

2002 • 60 min • Japan

Setsuo is a single man in his thirties with no future prospects, no relationships with women, and lives alone. Sometimes, while working overtime, he fantasizes about his coworker Hiromi. But his days change when he starts living with Yaoko. When Yaoko tries to commit suicide on the beach, Setsuo saves her. But just as they get used to living together like a married couple, a man who claims to be Yaoko's relative arrives...

A Hard Day's Day - A Day in the Life of a Beatles Tribute Band

2002 • 7 min • United States of America

The mockumentary depicts a day in the life of a Beatles tribute band, shot in the spirit and style of "A Hard Day's Night." In the short, "The MopTops" flee their fans, lose their Ringo (who's Chinese) and when they arrive at their gig, its not what they expected.

Somlói galuska

2002 • 15 min • Hungary

We live in an age of unhappiness. Like all people of all ages, we experience our everyday private and public life waiting for redeeming miracles. A bittersweet caffeehouse tale with humor and foam, music and chocolate sauce in 15 minutes.

My Room le Grand Canal

2002 • 32 min • France

Questions of a Dead Worker

2002 • 20 min • Israel

A construction worker kidnaps his boss in order to read off the roof of the building his manifest of social justice. A couple of young filmmakers are looking for a flat. A group of Arab workers are eating their lunch. Whose narrative is it?

The Turbo Diner

2002 • 2 min

Another chore Gromit dislikes is clearing the table after meals. Wallace’s Turbo Diner is designed to do the job fast and efficiently; all they have to do is top up the electricity meter. Everything seems to be going well until the lights start flickering.

End of the World

2002 • 11 min • Japan

Kazumi is at a punk concert and bumps into Yuko. Yuko is a girl from another dimension. Kazumi invites Yuko over to her apartment. There Yuko's robotic sidekick and stead Face comes from out of the t.v. The wall opens up and Yuko and Face enter into different dimension. Yuko seeks to kill the creator of the dimension to end the suffering of it's people. Yuko meets Kazumi, who claims not to be from Earth, at a rock concert, and they become instant friends. Yuko invites her new friend to come live with her. However, onces Kazumi gets to Yuko's apartment, she leaves through the wall with her trusty cybernetic steed and into another dimension to face evil.

The Illusion of Despair

2002 • 24 min • United States of America

Wilmot seeks a higher truth and an end to despair.

Kuidas tehti Eurovisiooni

2002 • 27 min • Estonia

The preparations for the 2002 Eurovision in Estonia and behind the scenes for the contest.

Equilíbrio e Graça

2002 • 13 min • Brazil

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master.

The Glove

2002 • 10 min • Argentina

A man receives a package in his house, which contains a single glove. Once he puts on the glove, his life will change radically.

All for One

2002 • 15 min • France

In a closed locker room, rugby players perform the last pre-match rituals. Warming up their souls and bodies, all tense in anticipation of the fight.

Boys Alone

2002 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Take ten boys aged 11 and 12. A variety of backgrounds. Put them together in a house, with no adult control. Followed by a camera crew, the boys form hierarchies, rarely organise meals, and argue about where to sleep.

Red-White

2002 • 26 min • Russia

¡De potra!

2002 • 12 min • Spain

Two thugs, the veteran "Ducados" and the inexperienced Toñin, have to go in a club ruled by their rivals and fire a couple of shots in order to scare the hostesses. But...

Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk

2002 • 40 min • United States of America

Adrenaline Rush: the Science of Risk takes audiences on a breathtaking journey from extraordinary heights, featuring spectacular footage of extreme skydiving while delving into both the biology of risk-taking and the physics that make human flight possible

In Spite of Wishing and Wanting

2002 • 51 min • Belgium

A dynamic, contemporary dance performance about how it is impossible to explain your deepest wishes or desires... how these can only be expressed in dreams and sleep. In the final sequence, we see the importance of effort and hope in the dancers' attempt to escape gravity. The all-male company performs to the music of David Byrne.

O Cineasta das Platéias

2002 • 52 min • Brazil

This documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researchers, historians, intellectuals, and popular artists. As a bonus, it shows parts of Mazzaropi's last appearance on TV, on Hebe Camargo Show.

The Field Is White

2002 • 59 min • United States of America

When things are not going well for John Taylor, he reads his journal and reflects on his missionary life and his companion Elder Alma Johnson. They try to teach people about the gospel and want to give lessons, but the people are not interested. They do teach a lady named Melissa, but does not think she can be baptized. The other missionaries try to make life bearable by having fun and living together. Finally, Melissa learns the lessons of the gospel and knows the church is true and gets baptized.

Artists and Orphans: A True Drama

2002 • 40 min • Georgia, United States of America

Artists and Orphans: A True Drama is a 2001 American documentary film, directed, produced, and written by Lianne Klapper McNally. It documents a group of American artists traveling to the Republic of Georgia for an art festival, and their subsequent effort to provide humanitarian aid to a group of local orphans. It was nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 74th Academy Awards.

Adam

2002 • 3 min • Italy

A flying saucer summarily drops off a solitary man, Adam, on an empty planet. He explores a bit, then, it starts to rain. The saucer returns and drops a box to him marked "SOS" - it has a red button in the middle. He presses it, and the space ship drops an umbrella to him. Later he presses the button when he's hungry and when he wants companionship. The ship delivers food, a dog, a muscular companion, and finally a vivacious woman. The planet is soon populated by squalling children. Adam pushes the button again. The spaceship returns for what is probably the last time: will Adam and Eve get relief?

Terminator - a film about JT LeRoy

2002 • 10 min • Sweden

The literary persona JT LeRoy visiting Stockholm, Sweden in 2002, on a promotion tour for the novel "Sarah". Framed by footage of US highways and Heaviness "Curtains of Rain".