Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

'Narir Kotha' (Women and War) is a tribute to the sacrifice and contribution of women during the Bangladesh Liberation War. The film explores issues of rape, genocide, and militant resistance through several stories of women from different backgrounds. Their wartime stories, whether as victims of rape and violence, as freedom fighters, as refugees, or as religious and ethnic minorities, are a testament to dignity and courage and a call for justice.—tarequemasud.org

Before South Africa’s apartheid government in the 1970’s destroyed District Six, being gay, or “moffie,” was an accepted part of this racially and religiously diverse community in Cape Town. Kewpie's hairdressing salon was the epicenter of this culture, a meeting place where the “girls” organized drag balls and cabaret performances, all of which are captured through her amazing collection of snapshots.

Aroka Jom-Ya-Kub-Ya-Jai is the name of the episode of the 7th Bird Bird Show concert, held from 15 - 30 April 2000, performed at the main auditorium, Thailand Cultural Center, Huai Khwang District, Bangkok, for 20 shows. Number of spectators: 40,000, a bird's-eye concert. The first and only time that there will be a musical throughout the concert, with Nat Myria, Nicole Therio playing the lead roles and taking turns performing each round.

Ten-year-old Edgar, the son of a wealthy family, finds his world turned upside down when his parents decide to adopt Anibal, a Peruvian boy, whom Edgar considers an intruder.

The main character manages to expose his faithless friends and a corrupt politician who was supporting a number of illegal activities.

A father and son live in a caravan in the middle of nowhere. When the son burns down the caravan, his father decides to kill him in a bizarre and convoluted execution pact. Having agreed to 'the terms' of the pact, the son plays out his father's game with unpredictable consequences.

A tragicomedy in which an old man has two sons but neither of them, influenced by their wives, want to keep him. In the end, they decide to marry him off to an old woman, to free their houses of him.

Documentary directed by Takashi Shimizu

Horror movie from Hong Kong

Writer Nick Fraser travels the continent in search of a better understanding of the European Union. On the way he visits the European Parliament in Strasbourg, talks to Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, and follows MEPs to Romanian orphanages

The three little Dalmatians lived with an old lady just outside of town. One day they overheard the neighbor talking about a market selling gingerbread, cotton candy and many other goodies. "Gingerbread," beamed Krümel. "Our old lady loves to eat gingerbread!" "Me too," said the icing on the cake. "We'll go to the market and get a gingerbread heart," suggested Krümel. “And then we'll give it to our old lady for her birthday.” But the trader in the market had no sympathy for three little Dalmatians who just wanted to put their gingerbread hearts in their pockets. He called the police and had the dogs taken to an animal shelter. Only the icing on the cake could escape and she decided to free her friends.

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observations about his own funeral. This is the Czech Republic in the late 90s, as detailed in Karel Vachek’s documentary.

Experimental short film made up of still images, by Jun Miyazaki.

Mayor and Chief of Police are sucking a small town dry and killing anybody that stands up to them…

Experiencing problems in their marriages, Dianne and Albert unexpectedly meet and fall and love.

A Tamil and Telugu bilingual devotional film.

Art film about a woman dying and three princes taking a journey. Vipin's diploma film at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata (2003), looks at the ideas of entrapment and liberation.

Eric Paul Fournier's Emmy Award-winning film chronicles the remarkable life of Japanese-American Fred Korematsu, who was stripped of his rights and sent to an internment camp in 1942. For the next 39 years, Korematsu -- an ordinary shipyard worker -- fought against Executive Order 9066. Taking his relentless quest for civil rights all the way to the Supreme Court, he was eventually awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.

The city is gasping for air in the scorching summer heat; everyone is under suspicion; a persistent detective superintendent is burrowing for the truth. A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother's love for her autistic adult son, who is suspected of murdering a local girl. The mother knows her son could have committed the murder, but she conceals her knowledge, and gradually becomes entangled in a thicket of lies. How far is she prepared to go to protect her son who is helpless in so many ways? Does she have it within her to give up the only person she loves?

Scifi action film

The pressures of her job in a hospital forces a young doctor to abandon a colleague suffering from depression to treat another patient.

A man sinks down rapidly into the watery depths, but his inevitable and extended ascension's entire sequence, which was only a few seconds in real time, is slowed down into seven minutes of extreme duration, as if he is reaching Heaven.

"I was Hitler's slave" portrays Silesian-born Rudi Karmeinski, who was kidnapped at the age of 13 years with his father by the Nazis and forced to work in the IG Farben factory Auschwitz-Monowitz. His father was killed there. Karmeinski survived, emigrated to England and changed its name to Rudy Kennedy. The documentary follows Kennedy's five year fight for the compensation of forced laborers.

The dramatic story of two blue-collar Milwaukee families over two decades. As they struggle to find their place in the new economy, living from paycheck to paycheck through good times and bad, the Neumanns and Stanleys confront choices for themselves and their families that have far-reaching consequences for the American way of life.

This video was originally shot in Hi 8 on a winter day in 1992, the last day Ithacans could have their dry garbage and cast-offs hauled away for free by the city of Ithaca. Huge piles of debris and broken household items had accumulated on curbsides throughout the city, awaiting disposal. Then it snowed. These piles, the broken kinks of the comfort machine of consumerism, offer voyeuristic opportunities for incongruous art happenings. The camera collaborates with an old Toyota car, which doubles as a dolly, to photograph these found art installations offered in front yards. These random, quotidian piles transform with monster-like auras and new-found permanence. The Toyota also supplies the musique concrete soundtrack.

When a famous Mexican television presenter is murdered in broad daylight, the police go on the hunt for the hit men.

Sailor Moon - Decisive Battle / Transylvania's Forest (Kessen / Transylvania no Mori) was the second installment of the Dracul Musical Arc.

This documentary by Craig and Damon Foster focuses on the surviving San bushmen in the central Kalahari.

America is drawn to the macabre handiwork of the serial killer. From best sellers to movies and television, there is an insatiable appetite for serial killer related material. Enthusiasts have taken this fascination into reality, reaching out to the murderers through letters and visits, gathering artifacts of the crimes, and collecting serial killer art work. Filmed in the deep South, COLLECTORS journeys into this strange, compelling world to illuminate the outer limits of pop culture's fascination with murder and mayhem.

On the eve of Yugoslav war in 1991, English ecologist Henry comes to the city of Osijek in order to save the world's oldest oak. After many dangerous and funny adventures, they finally arrive to nearby village where the oak is located.

Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop is a cinematic tour de force that is unprecedented in film or hip-hop history. From the mind of Brooklyn actor, performance artist and hip-hop activist Danny Hoch, this film spins out the stories of ten lives shocked by global hip-hop, the prison system and life in general. Moving masterfully in and out of the characters while the camera cuts from film narrative to live performances, Danny blows your mind and makes you look at cultural power in a new way that is hysterically funny, tragically sad and uplifting all at once.

A girl arrives at her audition ten minutes early. Finding it difficult to learn her lines, she approaches a man nearby for help.

Documentary about calypso signer Lord Cobra.

In the wake of their mother's death, two small boys are held captive to their father's grief. But when their mother's last wish heralds the arrival of their estranged grandmother, their fierce independence sets in motion a household power struggle that threatens to confront the ghosts of the past.

A streetsweeper finds a unconscious woman while cleaning the streets and decides to help her out by bringing her to his home, but little does he know that the woman is lives a life of crime.

Olga, a young and sensitive governess, comes to an impoverished aristocratic family full of ideals and determination to love the children entrusted to her. Lonely among people, she experiences the feeling of not belonging anywhere. Neither among the arrogant nobility nor among the servants. She experiences many situations that hurt and humiliate her, but at the same time teach her lessons for her future life.

Why did Ariane Fisher, a young woman in her thirties, come to the hospital to die without telling anyone? To whom should this disappearance be reported? This is what Alice, the night nurse, and Prudence, the social worker, will try to find in the bag containing the few personal belongings brought by Ariane.

It is taking decades for Canada to come to terms with its history in the Arctic, and with its relationship to all its indigenous people. “Kikkik” is the story of government mistakes and neglect, of starvation, murder, freezing death, but, in the end, a kind of justice that helps restore our faith in human decency. In 1958, the Inuit woman Kikkik was charged with murder and criminal negligence leading to the death of her child. Her trial and our visit back to the place and to Kikkik’s children confront us with a legacy that’s still a challenge for Canada.

An estimated half a million women are being transported to Western Europe by sex traffickers every year. It's a multi-million pound business where, for the traffickers, the rewards are high and the risks are low. But, for the girls, the consequences are brutal and potentially dangerous. Following a route which begins in the former Soviet Republic of Latvia and leads to Denmark, Ireland and the UK, Sue Lloyd-Roberts uncovers a murky, cruel world in which employment agencies seduce young women with false promises, unscrupulous pimps abuse them and the police and judiciary turn a blind eye to this contemporary form of slavery.

The scene takes place in 1212 at the beginning of the Middle Ages. The Queen has suddenly taken ill at Riberhus Castle. In her feverish dreams she meets the persona of death with its bony hand holding the white queen on a chessboard. Several mile's away, King Valdemar Sejr, who doesn't yet have knowledge of his wife's illness, is out on a hunt. Suddenly his falcon disappears in the woods and the king pursues it. He finds it on the shoulder of a bony man who is dressed in a black mantle and waiting for him beside a chessboard.

A video by Transworld SKATEboarding

"I'm interested in the topic of homeless people and… there are a lot of things in this world that do not make sense." – Singing Chen Bundled is activist filmmaker Singing Chen's fiction/verite reflection on homelessness in Taiwan.

A tragic portrait of mother and child exploring grief through music and lyrical imagery.

This realistic documentary/drama is a harsh/realistic look at social services based in Canada.

In the dying days of the Civil War, a renegade Union colonel takes possession of the Marley Plantation and holds two beautiful sisters hostage, but with unforeseen consequences as passion and lust blossom. Filmed on location in Georgia and Tennessee.

Art student Jessica and her half-sister model Caroline are told by their wealthy father Mr. Blaine that he has decided to financially cut off both of them. This causes the two women to re-evaluate their lives. Jessica must figure out what is most important to her: family, boyfriend Albert or her studies. Caroline must learn independence for the first time in her life. As Mr. Blaine and his assistant Benton arrive in town to confront Jessica and Caroline, his decision will forever alter their lives and their relationships to one another.

A group of college friends celebrates Valentine’s Day on Necklace Road (beside Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad). As the night unfolds, a deadly game of flirting and rivalry leads to multiple murders. The survivors call in CBI officer Arjun (Suman), who hunts down the masked killer, keeping suspense alive until the final twist

once upon a time in Yokohama ~B'z LIVE GYM'99 "Brotherhood"~ (横浜, Yokohama) is a home video by B'z, released on August 2, 2000. The video captures the finale to the main leg of B'z LIVE-GYM '99 "Brotherhood" as was held at Nissan Stadium. The video was later issued on DVD on March 14, 2001 along with three other older home video releases and the band's then-latest single, "ultra soul".

Film about two sisters, Morana and Ela.

Hubert, Alex and Cathou are brothers and sisters, in their twenties, and share an apartment in a quiet area of the upper city of Quebec. Their little life without a story falls when, in the same week, two similar murders are committed in their neighborhood.

They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of investors, colleagues, friends and family, searching for money to finish his film. They Shoot Movies, Don't They? offers a line-blurring examination of what one might give up, in order to succeed.

A behind-the-scenes look at the tv show Summer Snow (2000)

On March 30th 2006, after a life-time of dedication to his art, John McGahern, one of Ireland's most distinguished writers, sadly passed away after a long illness. Since the publication of his first book in 1963, John McGahern was at the cultural heart of Irish life. He was in the happy position of being universally praised by the critics and equally loved by the reading public. John McGahern: A Private World was filmed in 2004 just prior to the publication of his memoirs and these memoirs form the backbone of the documentary. Through intimate interviews, a strong and compelling sense of the man emerges, offering a rare insight into the creative process.