All Films

I Want

2000 • 2 min • Uruguay

Two kids merrily play make-believe inside their house, unaware of the inequality that exists in the world.

Los últimos 10 minutos

2000 • 10 min • Puerto Rico

Me: House Orchestra

2000 • 7 min

A girl tells about all the different sounds in her household.

Se a Memória Existe

2000 • 23 min • Portugal

A dozen of the revolutionary Army officers that played eminent parts in the change of political regime in Portugal, from a military dictatorship to a social-democracy, read a book to a young girl, describing in a poetic, yet realistic way, what happened in the streets, and minds, of her People in April 25, 1974.

Harvest

2000 • 18 min • United States of America

An ordinary evening in Tucson, when Kevin and his three friends are having a conversation waiting in line to get into a club. He then encounters a woman at the bar, but this is not just another boy meets girl tale.

Ouaga, the Capital of Cinema

2000 • 60 min • Tunisia

Between 1983 and 1987, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso and the home city of FESPACO, one of the most important Pan-African film festivals in the world, was the scene of an exciting cinema utopia. With the support of the young president Thomas Sankara, the festival became a symbol of the cultural renaissance of a whole continent. The assassination of Sankara stifled the hopes of millions of young Africans, but the dynamism of FESPACO and African cinema did not stop.

Sound Hound

2000 • 3 min

Huckleberry Hound tries to quiet a city so that he can sing

The Bohemian Forest - Wilderness in the Heart of Europe

2000 • 49 min • Austria, Germany

The location of the Bohemian Forest at the former Iron Curtain and the political influences involved, had the result that both forms of country side are united here: natural landscape on the one hand and the ancient cultivated landscape on the other.

Fairy Secter Tentoh Battle 1

2000 • 30 min

An insect intelligent life form called an insectant. They are beyond the time of water hiding. Suddenly, it has begun to invade humans. However, Gattack, one of the Ishisector Ito who wishes to coexist with people, notices her ability hidden in the mysterious high school girl, Yuzumi Fukui, who talks with T Hana. Thus, Yuka Natsu, who awakens as a tent, challenges the battle to save humanity. Finally the legendary fairy sector is back!

Hôtel Artemis

2000 • 18 min

Portrait of Katerina in a hotel room by the sea. Her sunglasses reflect her body and Maria’ s camera in the mirror, thus revealing, albeit in a fragment, the relational principle of their cinema and of their double self-portraits. A constellation of stars crosses her skin. Everything is as blue as the sea and the universe. In this metamorphic alchemy, microcosm and macrocosm intertwine.

The Chief and the Carpenter

2000 • 13 min • Uruguay

The indigenous inhabitants of a Caribbean island are happy living a quiet life in harmony with nature, but their governor wants to be remembered, so he orders everyone to help him be the first man to reach the moon.

Incidental Journey

2000 • 60 min

Ching, a passionate student, and Hsiang, a solitary artist, meet by chance along Taiwan\' coastal highway. Hsiang takes Ching to visit her friend, Ji, who lives on a farm with her husband. Inspired by Hsiang\'s calm strength and the beauty of the landscape, Ching begins to find peace, and Hsiang hesitantly begins to acknowledge the yearning that she has repressed for years. Simultaneously meditative and sensual, the heroines struggling with the problem of how to deal with loss, how to keep heart, mind and body connected. Gracefully acted and shot, Incidental Journey explores the varieties of love and consolations of both solitude and companionship.

Western Eyes

2000 • 39 min • Canada

Two Canadian women of Asian descent are contemplating eyelid surgery. Maria and Sharon, of Philippino and Korean heritage respectively, believe their looks–specifically their eyes–get in the way of how people see them. Layering their stories with pop culture references to beauty icons and supermodels, filmmaker Ann Shin looks at the pain that lies deep behind the desire for plastic surgery.

Jellikins: Christmas Special

2000 • 25 min • United Kingdom

One day in Jolly World something very strange happens, it begins to snow. Strum, Bouncey, Amber and friends, have never seen anything like this before and are most perplexed. Things get even stranger when a jolly old man with a white beard and red suit turns up. Who is he? What does he want with them? What does 'Ho ho ho' mean?

The Land That is Not

2000 • 18 min • Netherlands

A black-and-white study of ennui and emotional disconnect, where ordinary gestures, of rising, walking, dreaming, fracture within a world already eroding.

Dar kjem dampen

2000 • 49 min • Norway

Dar kjem dampen is about the restoration of D/S Oster until the entry on Vågen in Bergen under Nord Steam on August 3, 2000.

The king of the 21st century

2000 • 48 min • Japan

Animated with drawings that are a collage of pop and grotesque. The surrealistic design and the generous viewing experience give the impression that it is a "picture book for adults", but the thoughtful storyline, poetic narration and songs that suddenly appear are pleasantly unrestrained as if the film were aimed at children. However, this unrestrainedness is accompanied by a high degree of perfection, and although it is a flat animation that seems to be the opposite of the latest CG, it gives the impression of possibilities for expression that may even broaden the definition of cinema.

Morrocoy: The Last Mangrove Standing

2000 • 23 min • Australia

Morrocoy, a marine and submarine National Park, one of the greatest ecological sceneries of the Venezuelan coastline, with marine birds, mangrove and submarine fauna, The most important mangrove system found in the southern Caribbean, is now endangered.

Fade

2000 • 22 min • Spain

The story of a salesman who deals with implants that allow the user to blur the line between reality and dream.

Tape 0: The origin of a Doppelgänger

2000 • 5 min

3 young people performed a mystical ritual and were possessed by professional actors, with their bodies already taken over by possession, they opened discord and shared their screen, pouring out hatred and resentment and anger and smegma and sadness for all human beings on planet earth. After 24 hours, they realized that this was all for nothing, as it was a lie. La ele.

Este año no hay cosecha

2000 • 60 min • Chile

This documentary introduces us on the daily life of a group of kids who live on the street. Through the narrative and experiences of the protagonists, we discover the Latin American marginality hidden beneath a contemporary city like Santiago de Chile. The camera turns into another one of the group, eventually becoming part of this type of family life born from the tight friendship with which these kids survive.

I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts

2000 • 26 min • Germany

Images from the maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California. A surveillance camera shows a pie-shaped segment of the concrete yard where the prisoners, dressed in shorts and mostly shirtless, are allowed to spend half an hour a day. When one convict attacks another, those not involved lay flat on the ground, arms over their heads. They know that when a fight breaks out, the guard calls out a warning and then fires rubber bullets. If the fight continues, the guard shoots real bullets. The pictures are silent, the trail of gun smoke drifts across the picture. The camera and the gun are right next to each other.

Souls in Flames

2000 • 11 min • Brazil

A fireman encounters more than he bargained for when rescuing a fiery temptress. Almas Em Chamas is a hot love story, told through boldly drawn characters.

Eleven

2000 • 15 min • China

Eleven, which played at the 2001 Venice Film Festival, is the first short film of director Zhang Lu. He is a forty-year-old writer whose works engage with issues of cultural difference stemming from his own background as a member of the Korean cultural minority in China. Eleven is a fourteen-minute long vignette, virtually silent, of an eleven-year-old boy's encounter with a group of soccer players his own age.