Cinematic Era: 2002 Vintage

Documentary regarding two of the "nine old men" of Disney animators.

War and love. tears and laughter, the worst and the best that can happen to someone - in brief, life, in Rome, ruled by the Nazis, in 1943. The man in question is called Vittorio, Vittorio De Sica. Easy to speak well of him now, but then he was just a 'comedian', an actor without future, protégé of no-one: someone who could count only on himself and his own imagination. And, one day, a German patrol turns up on the movie set where he is working. They are looking for him, find him and take him away, to their commander who wants a word with him. Goebbels in person has written to him, sending him a request which is an order. De Sica is trapped, but...

Some 250 million years ago, all but five per cent of life on Earth was wiped out in the greatest disaster our planet has ever experienced, yet the cause of this event has long remained a mystery. Palaeontologists in Greenland explain the answers.

Kiko Goifman always knew he was adopted. At age 33 he finally decides to undertake a journey to find his biological mother, and film it as a documentary. He starts off with the few facts he knows, aided by two private detectives, his adoptive mother, and his wife. He also writes an online diary detailing his activities and findings, which gives him additional tips. The title 33 not only refers to Kiko's age, but also to the famous film noir ".33", the age of Christ - "like Kiko - a Jew" , and other coincidences involving the number 33.

Five friends get curious about the opposite gender and decide to have physical relationship with women. They befriend a girl in the neighbourhood and try to get her consent to fulfil their wish.

A boy and a girl from Uzbekistan have been destined for each other since their youth. However, the boy wants to win his bride by beating a rival when he is old enough to marry. The bride promises to marry the winner.

Two women and two men move around somewhere. They are all just someone.

Music video director and commercial director James Brown shoots a stylized peek behind a yashmak veil, where a traditional Muslim custom is co-opted by a modern twist

In the blue-green light of the tropical rainforest, among the creeks and boulders and fallen trees, humankind's closest relatives drift in and out of meditative states. Also features a hippo and a tapir.

For his last show in Marseille, the city where he grew up, Elie Kakou brought together all the characters in his repertoire. From the unavoidable Granny Sarfati, at odds with her husband and daughter Fortunée, to Mongola, the former "Clodette", the comedian invited to a journey in his so particular universe, revisiting in no particular order the classics of the children's literature, the masterpieces of the French song and even the verses of the great Molière. A varied program, between great successes and new sketches, interspersed with choreography by Kamel Ouali.

Claymation short film.

Alexander Ford was 72 years old when he committed suicide on April 4, 1980 in Naples, Florida. The film is an attempt to answer the question of why this happened. Alexander Ford is told about Alexander Ford by people who knew him privately and professionally, his closest relatives and distant acquaintances: His wife Elinor, daughters Konstancja and Justyna, son Roman, as well as Stanisław Różewicz, Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, Kazimierz Kutz, Zygmunt Król, Andrzej Wajda, Kazimierz Koźniewski, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Bella Bibrowska, Mieczysław Jahoda, Jerzy Płażewski, Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz, Edward Zajicek, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Emil Karewicz and Mieczysław Kalenik.

Wyeth Clarkson directs this movie where three teens make a pact to drive from Quebec City to the west coast and upon arrival, commit suicide.

The Flemish low-budget film Hide & Seek revolves around a number of webcams. These are located in Veroniek's apartment and broadcast every minute of her life on the internet. When Alex, her sister's ex-boyfriend, comes to stay for a few days, she moves elsewhere and keeps an eye on Alex via the web. However, Veroniek's biggest fan, Bernard, is not happy with Alex's presence. A bizarre love triangle develops between the three, with the webcams at its center.

The Call Home sheds light on the lives of foreign workers in Singapore. We discover their world through the eyes of Kasi, an impressionable Indian construction worker. The story starts on his arrival in Singapore and reaches a climax when he makes his first call home. Han Yew Kwang: 'I have always been fascinated, or even felt threatened by the power of environment factors. No matter how hard a man tries to remain his old self, he subconsciously changes to adapt to a new environment each time.'

At the beginning of the 60's, thousands of Portuguese turned up in France through the underground. They were fleeing misery, war and repression. Left to unscrupulous smugglers, they had to cross the Iberian Peninsula tracked by the Portuguese and Spanish police. For many, the voyage towards France turned into a disaster. As a child in a shantytown, the author remembers having heard about these terrible odysseys. Thirty years later, he goes in search of the stories of his childhood and seeks to understand what sparked this unprecedented emigration known as the "plebiscite by foot" against Salazar. Between childhood memories and historical investigation, he looks for the images of this exodus, the largest in post-war Europe.

A documentary that follows the efforts of aid workers to re-open a hospital in Kabul from October to December 2001, while fighting between US and Taliban forces was still underway.

A child in anaphylactic shock after an insect sting is brought by her father to a doctor, a foreigner who doesn't speak the language well and is looked at by the town with diffidence.

The Great Silk Road is the name for a mountain trade route now identifiable only by train tracks; it is on these tracks that our film finds four children at play, not far from their Kirghizstan village. A train meanders down the mountain and, following an argument, an artist is unceremoniously thrown-off a carriage and (so) eventually encounters the children.

Animated retelling of the Devil May Cry video game set to the soundtrack.

It had become a nice tradition - shortly before Christmas Anke Engelke gathers the most popular comedians and musicians around her to enjoy a contemplative and hilarious Christmas party with them just in time for the festival of love.

A man abuses and kills a woman.

This lush and vibrant animation combines found footage, scratch and inking techniques. A fine demonstration of individual experience within the common world.

Performance, 2002, in SISTERS BEGUINE, a group exhibition under the curatorship of Peter Morrens and Rik de Boe, the Voorkamer Gallery, Lier(B). In the transparent house she turns blue and hums a monotonous melody. The reading of Hadewijch's visions, who is said to have been a beguine or at least a religiously independent woman, was one of the reasons for the performance that explores the field of tension between physical consciousness and spiritual sensibility.

A film about the Russian writer Anatoly Gavrilov.

A mysterious film making one think what was real or unreal, visible or invisible.

About the political controversy surrounding the Argentine World Cup football (1978).

A collection of 14 videos from 1993 to 2000, including: 01. The River 02. Save me 03. Certain slant of light 04. Fire in the head 05. The Bazaar 06. Shadows on the mountainside 07. Sister awake 08. Temptation 09. Babylon 10. Release 11. Psychopomp 12. Heaven coming down 13. The messenger 14. Walking wounded

Death's Assistant ( Robert Forster)abandons three spirits in a Hollywood Hills home. A hair stylist (Alexandra Paul), a salesman (Wing Hauser) and a legal secretary (Robin Mattson). They awaken to fear, anxiety and bewilderment: How did they get here? Who is the other person? How do they get out? This raw display of emotion continues until Death's Assistant's appears. Angered by his superiors disregard of his work, he must now explain Death's bureaucracy is overloaded. A mistake has been made. Only two people were supposed to come over. One gets to go back! With this declaration, Death's Assistant's disappears. Who gets to go back?

Ma is the best investigator in the homicide division, but his wife's accidental death devastates him. When a case of serial murders surfaces, he vows to track down the killer in hopes of escaping from his own personal nightmare.

The authors of the film attempt to answer the questions: Why was the Latvian Legion created? Who were the Latvian legionnaires in World War II – victims, Nazis, or heroes? The film uses materials from the Latvian State Film, Photo and Sound Archive and the memories of former legionnaires.

It's Halloween night and death has come knocking at your door in this masterly crafted film. Will Jill's sharp instincts keep her one step ahead of the Grim Reaper?

Filmmaker Mark Moskowitz finally reads a critically acclaimed novel he bought back in 1972, and discovers that both the book and the author have long since vanished. STONE READER documents Moskowitz's quest to find out why. As he solves the mystery, the twists and turns of the journey reveal something more-the singular bond literature can create among strangers.

Three adult children have returned to their parents' home to live. Future dreams, past failures, and the present struggles of daily life are captured in close-up over a nine-month period. Through conversations, anecdotes, arguments, and unpredictable emotional highs and lows, it sheds light on the myriad of issues triggered by adult children moving back in with their parents - a growing phenomenon in today's society. As the documentary unfolds, it becomes painfully clear that being a parent or a child is a lifelong calling that requires patience, compassion, and strength.

The Billabong surf movie based on the life of Shane Dorian and titled "The Blueprint" is an action documentary, 45 minutes in length, directed by Chad Campbell, showcasing Dorian's unique explosive brand of surfing in Hawaii, Tahiti, Indonesia, Australia, and Fiji. "The movie has really, really current stuff from the past six months. I started filming right before I went on the Billabong Odyssey training camp up on the Oregon Washington border", stated Shane Dorian. Along with Dorian, the movie features surfing by Conan Hayes, Kelly Slater, the Irons brothers, Taj Burrow, Pat O'Connell, Dan Malloy, Sunny Garcia, Taylor Knox, Ross Williams, Rob Machado, Brian Pacheco, Mick Fanning, Kalani Robb, Benji Weatherley, and Donavon, plus interviews with Dorian and others. "The Blueprint" is Campbell's second time in the director's chair. His first effort, titled "the 5th Symphony Document," won the 2001 Surfer Magazine "Video of the Year" award.

Following Tennessee moonshiner Popcorn Sutton as he produces what he swears will be the last of his product.

Documentarist Jane Wong films her mother and two Chinese friends as they discuss their lives and experiences as émigrés living in Liverpool.

A documentary about the life and works of Charlie Chaplin, made by his son Eugene Chaplin and granddaughter Kiera Chaplin

Gritty, raw and very real, The Fire Within is a compelling feature-length documentary chronicling a year in the life of long-term AIDS survivor Bob Bowers.

Around the world hundreds of thousands of people, most of them over the age of 20, spend a significant portion of their life in front of the screen. Socializing. Making friends. Chasing dragons. Getting armor. Meeting soulmates. they are willing to lose friends, family, and spouses to live a life "more real" than their own.

From Sunday evening, October 16, 1988, through Sunday evening, April 11, 1993, VPRO TV presented a live broadcast of Keek op de Week immediately following the 8 o'clock news. This DVD contains a more than 4-hour anthology from the 112 episodes of this legendary program. You will meet Dirk the vagrant, Prof. Dr. Ir. Akkermans, the Veenendaal sisters, Berendien uut Wisp, Dr. Clavan, Dutch language expert Dr. Kipping, quiz show contestant Lex, the German teacher, Ed van Thijn, Louc Hobbema, Mehmet Pamuk, Memien Holboog, mother and son Van Putten, the Lonely Vandal, Robbie Kerkhof, and 65 other unforgettable creations of Kees van Kooten and Wim de Bie. Three complete episodes ('Hele Keken') and 59 'loose slices of Keek' show you how little has changed in the Netherlands: Keek op de Week was so satirical, hilarious, and prophetic!

Tells the story of the seventh century prophet who changed world history in 23 years, and continues to shapes the lives of more than 1.2 billion people. The film takes viewers not only to ancient Middle Eastern sites where Muhammad's story unfolds, but into the homes, mosques and workplaces of some of America's estimated seven million Muslim to discover the many ways in which they follow Muhammad's example.

It's a movie from 2002.

From Variety: "Guaranteed to never screen in any legit mainland Chinese venue due to its daring depictions of rebellious artistic protest as well as explicit sexuality, Hu Ze’s “Beijing Suburb” is a quietly masterful work portraying really struggling artists. This remarkable case of art imitating life observes a tiny community of painters and various multimedia artists — social critics all — operating clandestinely in a courtyard-style building in the capital’s outskirts. Hu’s film itself is clandestine, in the manner it reveals the hardships these artists must endure, in its quiet advocacy for the artists’ position, and also in its strong erotic content, carried to an extent comparable in the region only to South Korean cinema. Brave fests should do everything they can to secure a print, as difficult as that might be."

Documentary that examines life and dissent in East Germany from 1949-1989.

Commissioner Kool-Aid Adresses Issues Renegade vs. Blitz vs. Diablo (s) Rage vs. Carnage

When the luxury ocean liner Empress of Ireland collided with the Norwegian coal vessel Storstad on May 29, 1914, it took a mere 14 minutes for the ship to disappear beneath the sea, killing 1,012 of the 1,477 people aboard. Using archival photos, underwater photography, animation and interviews with a variety of experts, this fascinating documentary chronicles the story behind Canada's worst nautical disaster of all time.

Legendary jazz pianist, composer and innovator Herbie Hancock performs live on "Jazz Central." This concert was recorded live at Black Entertainment Television's Studio II in Washington, D.C. It features Hancock playing his Grammy Award-winning style of jazz with his complex and earth rhythmic signature.

During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. Israel claimed that the whole affair had been a tragic accident based on mistaken identification of the ship. The American government accepted the explanation. For more than 30 years many people have disbelieved the official explanation but have been unable to rebut it convincingly. Now, Dead in the Water uses startling new evidence to reveal the truth behind the seemingly inexplicable attack. The film combines dramatic reconstruction of the events, with new access to former officers in the US and Israeli armed forces and intelligence services who have decided to give their own version of events. Written by Ørnås