All Films

Lupin the Third: Return of Pycal

2002 • 49 min • Japan

Lupin steals an extraordinary gem from a Mediterranean party, only to be interrupted by Pycal, the trickster "magician" who had apparently died fighting Lupin early in his career. Pycal, now armed with real magical abilities, is determined to take revenge.

From Darkness

2002 • 9 min • Ireland

A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargained for. Based on an Inuit folktale.

Go! Anpanman: Sushi-roll Maki-chan and Gold Kamameshidon

2002 • 20 min • Japan

Baikinman and Dokin-chan crash the annual mushroom festival and kidnap Kamameshidon’s sweetheart, Kinoko. Kamameshidon is powered up by a lake fairy and turned into Super Gold Kamameshidon. Then he and the rest of the Donburiman-Trio try to rescue Kinoko, but they end up in Mushroom Valley, under the influence of dangerous mushrooms, and Sushi-roll Maki-chan shows up to help save the day.

Neo-Noir

2002 • 10 min • United States of America

In his homage to film noir, a man learns that cheaters can wind up dead.

Sinking into the Moon

2002 • 40 min • Japan

Minamo is a patient at a mental institute who keeps having the same dream. In the dream, there’s a small lake with a big bright moon shinning over it. Minamo sees herself in a boat on the lake. Her eyes are filled with tears of blood, and the boat is sinking slowly into the lake. The moon becomes red and she hears a voice calling her, Kagari… Kagari…

The Boy and the Sea Turtle

2002 • 45 min • Japan

The first film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa"

Premier cri

2002 • 9 min • France

A hardened businessman takes a prostitute to his house. He hopes she can help him feel human again.

Western Deep

2002 • 24 min • United Kingdom

An exploration of the sensory experience of the TauTona gold mine in South Africa, showing migrant labourers working in dark, claustrophobic environments and the ear-splitting noise of drilling. The TauTona mine in South Africa, known as 'Western Deep' is the world's deepest gold mine. Employing more than 5,000 people, it operates twenty-four hours day. The film begins in complete darkness as the miners descend three-and-a-half kilometres underground. McQueen documents an intense work regime where the temperature can reach over ninety degrees celsius. Accompanied by jarring sounds created by the mechanical equipment, Western Deep is a hellish representation of labour that makes the silent resolve of the miners all the more powerful.

Mrs. Meitlemeihr

2002 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Hitler escapes the war to London, where he lives as Mrs. Meitlemeihr, in this what-if black comedy from commercial director Graham Rose.

Maria Yumeno: Private Life of a Super Horny Woman

2002 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film written and directed by Daisuke Yamanouchi and starring Maria Yumeno. Yamanouchi filmed it for Film House, and Xces released it theatrically.

Tied Up

2002 • 15 min • Mexico

A homeless kid addicted to sniffing glue is part of a vicious circle of dysfunction and sexual abuse.

Restauratec

2002 • 3 min

In 1973, at the Restauratec staff canteen, Jean-Pierre Ranu explains and sings his passion for thawed paella.

Fits & Starts

2002 • 10 min • United States of America

A young man and woman spend the afternoon drinking orange soda and conversing through cassette recorders. And there's a musical number.

Drive By

2002 • 15 min • United States of America

A delinquent girl falls in love and, consequently, her life changes.

Bonheur Heights

2002 • 19 min • Japan

Short film by Kenji Yamauchi

Camp Pikachu

2002 • 22 min • Japan

Riding home atop a train, the Pichu Brothers suddenly find themselves knocked off and flying through the air! They hit a Wynaut on their way down, bringing all three of them to the forest where Pikachu, Totodile, and some more friends are playing in a waterfall and building a campfire. When it starts to rain, the group takes shelter in a water mill—but the water mill starts moving! The next morning, the whole group decides to work together to make sure the Pichu Brothers make their train. Will the two be able to make it home safe?

A Charlie Brown Valentine

2002 • 25 min • United States of America

Lovesick Charlie Brown hopes – still – to get a valentine from the Little Red-Haired Girl, as does Sally from Linus, Lucy from Schroeder and Peppermint Patty from Charlie Brown.

Zoku Aizome Kyôko no G no kaikan: Kyûkyoku-hen

2002 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film directed by Kyoko Aizome

Inferno

2002 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Set inside a "Quake" like video game, one of the game's cannon-fodder grunts falls for the Lara Croft-inspired heroine and, in a constantly looping game level, tries time and again to catch her attention before she can "chain gun" him.

Puzzle Punk

2002 • 5 min • Germany

A short directed by Christian von Aster.

Voices of a Distant Star

2002 • 25 min • Japan

It is 2046 when a mysterious alien force begins their annihilation of the human race. Leaving behind the one person she loves, Mikako joins the interstellar battle as a pilot. And so - while Mikako risks her life to save mankind - Noboru waits. The two lovers, worlds apart, desperately strive to remain connected as the gap between them widens at a frightening pace.

Daughter

2002 • 14 min • United States of America

You just woke up from an unspeakable nightmare. How does it feel? Relief? How would you feel if when you woke, the nightmare had just begun?

Family

2002 • 24 min

Marion loses her job as a psychiatric nurse, but cannot let go of her responsibility for former patient, Thomas. When he goes on the run, Marion sets out to find him and learns a painful truth about her marriage and her life as a carer.

Mei and the Kittenbus

2002 • 13 min • Japan

Mei is eating a caramel on one very windy day, when suddenly a whirlwind appears and starts chasing her. The whirlwind turns out to be a baby cat bus. Mei offers the kitten a caramel and the two become friends. That night, the baby cat bus visits Mei. Letting Mei ride inside him, he leaps out into the sky. They head for the midnight forest full of ghosts. Other cat buses large and small have also gathered together.