Cinematic Era: 2001 Vintage

A beautifully painted animation about a deserted holiday resort, an old train, a worn-out old railwayman, an accident, and two girls who wait where no one waits anymore.

Bearing many similarities to Albert Camus' 1946 existentialist text L'Etranger (The Outsider), The Darkest Hour is a powerful portrait of contemporary urban angst, isolation and unrequited love. Pat leads an apparently ordinary life as an attendant in a notorious public toilet where the majority of the clientele are either involved in drug deals or cottaging. The only light in his otherwise solitary life is Kim, a girl he is infatuated with, who works in a local cafe he frequents. When he is 'provoked' into committing an act of extreme violence, Pat's subsequent unorthodox reaction to his crime leads inevitably to his life changing forever.

A few years ago there was a strange incident in a wooded area near Braunschweig. A teacher disappeared with his class during a night hike without a trace. To this day the group is missing. It is said that the teacher murdered his students and buried them in the forest. Their bodies were never found. Residents and relatives of the missing now believe that there is a curse on this forest, as they heard voices and screams from the undergrowth during evening walks. A group of young drug dealers does not bother this old wives' tale very much! They meet in this forest to smoke their shit and to let the world sink in. But then suddenly things never imagined happen...

Carol Morley tracks down her old friend Catherine Corcoran and returns to India where they once travelled as teenagers, in this playfully autobiographical short.

They were handed $280 million dollars at age 28. They were on top of the world with a revolutionary idea to change our daily lives. And then it all came crashing down! This is the unbelievable story following the ups and downs of Joseph Park and Yong Kang, the founders of Kozmo.com. It's about the madness of chasing wealth, the lure of excess and the struggle for the American Dream

A woman in love with a musician has a change of heart on her 18th birthday.

A young film director named Milo Jacobson legally changes his name to Steven Spielberg in order to persuade his girlfriend's uncle (a sleazy movie producer) to finance his first film.

A story about classmates from school: Anka, Inga and Xena. During the prom, two girls murder a third - considered the most beautiful of them. The film is based on real events. The creators are trying to find answers to the questions: what was the cause of the evil that appeared in the girls? Was it stuck in their interiors, or did it appear from the outside world, from the chaos of everyday life? Who was at fault? It is a story about desires, plans for the future, fears and attempts to find a place in the world.

This 2001 Nine special tells the story of St. Louis-based Trans World Airlines (TWA). The story of how the company went from barnstorming to bankruptcy is the story of American air travel.

Forensic detectives present their theories about baffling tales of spontaneous human combustion.

Two Latinos plan to rob dealers and use the money to record a hip hop album. The film's handheld, often POV-style camerawork attempts to add a grimy edge.

Complete Collection of Marilyn Monroe newsreel stories, film trailers, studio performances, plus a digital scrapbook of photos and movie posters.

Shannon is a teenage girl who can be very persuasive when it comes to getting her way. When on a dare, she gets two of her male high school friends to kiss and re-enact certain portions of a gay porn story, unexpected feelings arise.

In 1994, the Latin Kings became the Latin King and Queen Nation. They claimed to have abandoned their criminal past and to be following in the footsteps of the Black Panthers and the Young Lords.

Fanny is ten year old girl and a very talented gymnast, but suddenly she's getting seriously injured and ends in a wheelchair.

Symphony No. 8 is as different musically from the Seventh Symphony as it is close in time since it was finished only five months later. It appears to be caught between the Dionysian scale of the Seventh Symphony and the titanic universality of the Ninth Symphony. The carefree nature of the "little symphony", as the composer called it himself, should not make one forget its welcome smile.

Love is stronger than death. The film is based on a unique photograph from the Holocaust – a symbol of the invincibility of the human spirit.

Yata and Tetsurô look up at the full moon for no reason at all. Yata and moves into his girlfriend Misaki's room. Misaki works as a cashier at a supermarket. Tetsurô works part-time at a hero show and makes a living. Before they know it, the three of them are living a life that seems to be nothing more than an idle digestion of the everyday.

Hamed is unemployed. Meanwhile, his wife and daughter immigrate to Europe for a better future. Missing his family, he imprisons himself and starts to revise his life in isolation.

Adaptation of the game "Terrors 2" from the WonderSwan Color.

Shao Fang and her late husband, Sheng Pao, were invited to apprentice with Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1940s. Later, in Williams Town, West Virginia, this Chinese couple designed and built a house entirely by themselves. As a woman, as a Chinese, and as an artist, Shao Fang, now in her eighties, has led a highly unusual life. This film is a personal documentary of this indomitable soul and her spiritual house.

Documentary about a slaughterhouse in Quito, where hundreds of people and entire families work everyday. The smell of the place is warm and penetrating, the noise is intense, everything is red. Would that much effort and death have an ulterior purpose?

"Jiyan" takes place in Halabja about five years after Saddam's infamous chemical attack in 1988. Diyari (Kurdo Galali) has come from his new homeland, America, to put up a badly needed new orphanage. As construction proceeds, he gradually becomes acquainted with the tragic individual stories of the survivors. Prime among these is orphan girl Jiyan (Pirsheng Berzinji), and her lively young cousin Sherko (Choman Hawrami). Although he seems to fit right into life in this impoverished town, Diyari can hardly absorb the catastrophe that hit there, nor can he accept the level of injury that he encounters. When the orphanage is ready, Diyari says his goodbyes, plunging Jiyan back into quiet despair.

a film by Gil Portes.

The story of a divorced couple whose "bond," whether pleasant or not for both former partners, remains their teenage son. Problems with him, or rather with his passion for graffiti, as well as a series of unexpected life paradoxes, including one sweet secret, force both former spouses to act against all conventions and surprise not only those around them, but also themselves.

A man who vaguely traces his memories. The things and events he met, and the women. Short film by Yasunori Ikeda.

When Vinod's family is killed in a terrorist massacre, Shiban, a commissioner helps him. Soon, he is forced to enrol Vinod in a boarding school when his uncle tries to make money off of his tragedy.

A website offers people to have their suicides filmed.

"The subterranean world of the Delaware Valley is a treasure trove of history and a hub of activity 24 hours a day. Historical photos and films set up the stories of these and other mysterious places, but the crux of the program consists of our cameras underground exploring these sites ourselves. Secrets Beneath the Streets takes viewers to places that are just under their feet, but scarcely imagined by the people who walk over them."--Container.

Multi-channel video installation (4 overhead projectors, 19 TV sets). Yang Fudong captures the poetic sentiment that arises in moments of individual encounter with the real world, and his own expression of the world inside him. His artistic practice engages in a temperamental dialogue with the traditional culture and literature of China. Yang Fudong constructs a potential platform for dialogue and negotiation between the self and external reality. In so doing, he does not propagate ？xed believes or dogmas. His work is based on process, on what he learns from ceaseless study, observation, and involvement with his social environment and the way it relates to the individual.

The pupils of about fifteen secondary schools in the suburbs of Paris react to the projection of two short films taken from the series "No More Lies ! 12 perspectives on everyday racism". Their comments, questions and reactions are of course focused on the subject of racism, but they also take a stand about what it means to have two cultural identities. Is it enough to be born in France in order to feel French ? What is their vision of a society obsessed with the idea of integration? What do they expect of the future ? With their questions and their protests, they often put their finger on the heart of the issues at stake. Beyond fiction, we discover their reality...

An experimental-documentary of the spirituality in Iceland, and the ultimate freedom it entails, as seen through the eyes of a foreigner. The filmmaker narrates his in-camera edited film. The sound design was recorded live, all in one take.

This simple yet beautiful film, without any dialogue, shows the director's mother engaged in preparing a meal of samosas.

This short documentary takes a look at director George Stevens' making of the classic 1951 film A Place in the Sun.

TV Movie showing the traditions of celebrating Macedonian holiday Saint Basil.

Examines Pulaski, Tennessee, the town where the Ku Klux Klan was founded right after the Civil War, and where today its memory still runs very deep. Combining interviews with local residents, attendees at a Klan rally and counter demonstrators; historical photos; contemporary footage; scenes of a museum exhibit of the last-known original Klan robe; and a cross burning ceremony by the Klan; the video reveals Pulaski's historical and ongoing relationship to this controversial organization. We learn how Pulaski's citizens remember and reconcile the history of the Klan, how they continue to be divided about the organization's meaning and role, and how such history remains contested for Americans.

Although far from a traditional Blues guitarist, even Hendrix’s most psychedelic guitar solos were steeped in the Blues of Howlin’ Wolf and Buddy Guy. Tracing his career from backup musician to the Isley Brothers to rock n’ roll stardom, Jimi Hendrix and the Blues tells the story of how the greatest guitarist of his generation took the Mississippi Delta Blues into the stratosphere.

Vadagupatti Maapillai is a 2001 Tamil-language romantic comedy film produced, co-written and directed by V. C. Guhanathan

While running away from the police, Charan, Giri, Chanti and Kiran reach a village where they face many problems. They get embroiled in a fight against Satyamurthy, a cruel village head.

A Film crew is documenting the behavior patterns of two mock-commando units comprised of adolescent boys admist a paintball war, while they search for hidden prototype of a revolutionary military weapon in the Boreal forest. The rivaling teams are requipped with only basic supplies of food and water, a compass and a map as means of surviving in the deep woods. The boys have almost no experience or survival skills and face increasingly difficult situations, including a frightening night filled with the howls of hunting wolves. Tensions rise and the boys become increasingly confrontational and soon turn their aggressions towards the film crew... leaving these young men thinking that this is more than just a game.

In a brave new world of human flight, today's top athletes push the fragile limits of their ability and courage. Freefall cinematographer and Emmy Award winner, Joe Jennings, traveled the world to capture a fresh view of this global subculture that thrives on the cutting edge of extreme skydiving. On the way, he shot some really GOOD STUFF!

Private Eye animation. A couple deal with the consequences of a giant pile of ice full of faeces crashing into their house.

Film created for inclusion on "Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse", a collection of short films built around the music of indie rock band Sparklehorse.

David is a troubled city boy, being looked after by his uncle on a farm. He is initiated into the drunken partying of the village and stumbles off drunk to find his friend Matthieu and cell-playing girlfriend in the forest. There he finds a brutal and horrifying outlet that will change his life forever...

Starring:- Durgesh Nandini, Amit Pachori, Shahgayaz Khan, Mohan Joshi, Deepak Shirke, Razzak Khan, Anil Nagrath, Gajender Chauhan, Arjun,Vinod K Directed by:- K.I.Shaikh Produced by Bhagat Singh

Two bodies make up one in this send up of the exotic stereotype.

A well-known middle-aged director who reached the top of the world cinema, won an Oscar and is now a pathetic drinker who lives in a stale apartment at the expense of a young woman. A brilliant young pianist who in his youth expected him to climb to the top of world music and is now a dangerous and wanted criminal. A senior doctor in the hospital, a drug addict, who must wait patiently for surgery until his hands stop shaking. A young nurse whose parents, in which she nursed, abused her and lamented that she had to die in the place of her soldier brother. Everyone meets when a poor film producer arrives and invites the director out of the gutter and write a script for him. The film, as well as the screenplay written by the director, track these lost souls crossing each other's paths in the no-go paths in which they roam.

Disguised as popular actor Jayan, a young man roams around the city causing disturbance to others. He joins a travelling theatre group of mimicry artists and becomes a big hit with the audience.

Short film.

Six friends celebrate the end of high school in a remote cabin in the woods of Colorado. They'll seek an adrenaline high in the form of a "suicide run": a night race to the river through the woods to fill a glass of water and return ASAP.

"Pulsar" belongs to "The Angel Cycle" ("Le Cycle de l´Ange"). In this cycle of works we create bonds between the human body and astronomical bodies. Maria Klonaris´ improvised performance is a negative dance which lies between pleasure and catastrophe, a black and blue body language which grapples with the white of the screen and the luminous suddenness of a firework display.

Through dreams and reality, a Cuban woman learns of the ties her great-grandparents had with the Independents of Color, a political party formed in 1908.