Cinematic Era: 2002 Vintage

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

The blind Colonel and the confraternity of naked gymnasts, simple men immersed in nature and the tired eye: notes for a homoerotic atlas.

Deportation... Russians, Kazakhs, Germans, Ukrainians, Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Koreans, Poles — entire peoples turned out to be outcasts and traitors in the eyes of their state. Tens of thousands of people in the 30-40s of the XX century were torn from their roots and brought to the North Kazakhstan steppes in the vicinity of the city of Akmolinsk.

A clear-eyed view into the lives of contemporary Mexican American migrants and their struggles to educate their children while obtaining employment.

Amid the gay nightlife, a young man searches for the ideal love.

A couple makes love. Nothing seems to be up. Yet they feel guilty... Then we find out why.

shatter something beautiful with perverse ugliness

A mockumentary about the perils of child stardom, Crazy Richard has as its hapless subject Richard Veed, a former child actor attempting to make a comeback after nearly dropping dead of a drug overdose at the age of 13. Now playing a gay teen in the late-night TV offering "I Can't Even Think Straight," Richard is hell-bent on regaining his former luster, and, as such, allows filmmaker Katrina Mathers to record his every move on film. From his trailer tantrums to naked cavorting on the beach, there is nothing Richard will not allow on film, resulting in footage more satisfyingly awful than a typical episode of E! True Hollywood Story.

Next to the producers, scriptwriters, directors, actors and cinematographers, is another group of people who are also responsible for the magic of movies. They are the men and women who work behind cameras: the technicians, always ready, preparing the next scene; they are the ones who appear in the final credits, which are generally ignored by the audiences. This documentary is their story: their voice, their memories, their experiences, anecdotes of a lifetime in film.

A young woman, who has lost faith in life and love, comes to see a psychiatrist with the intention of changing her gender. However, this meeting radically changes both her plans and her perception of life.

This stand-out collection contains 20 top tunes from these prototypical rocker girls: Barracuda - Crazy on You - Dog & Butterfly - Dreamboat Annie - Heartless - How Can I Refuse - Little Queen - Lucky Trumble - Magic Man - Never - Straight On - Tell It like It Is - These Dreams - This Man Is Mine - What About Love? - Who Will You Run To - and more. Includes a bio and photos.

Audrey and Marc are arriving in their new apartment. Everything looks good exept one detail : in front of the apartment, there is a sex-shop, which makes Audrey jealous. The worst soon happens when Marc meet Cindy, blond and pulpy, an employee of that famous store. Every evening, while Audrey is sleeping, Mark slips out of the apartment and goes to see the beautiful creature of his fantasies ...

This release contains a series of live performances by the ska influenced rock band Sublime dating from the mid nineties. Over a dozen songs are featured during the course of the collection including "Date Rape," "We're Gonna Die for Our Own Arrogance," "40 Oz. To Freedom," and "Let's Go Get Stoned." The DVD release of the collection offers additional footage. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

In 1975, as the Vietnam War was ending, thousands of orphans and Amerasian children were brought to the United States as part of "Operation Babylift." Daughter from Danang tells the dramatic story of one of these children, Heidi Bub (a.k.a. Mai Thi Hiep), and her Vietnamese mother, Mai Thi Kim, separated at the war's end and reunited 22 years later. Heidi, now living in Tennessee - a married woman with kids - had always dreamt of a joyful reunion. When she ventures to Vietnam to meet her mother, she unknowingly embarks on an emotional pilgrimage that spans decades and distance. Unlike most reunion stories that climax with a cliché happy ending, Daughter from Danang is a real-life drama. Journeying from the Vietnam War to Pulaski, Tennessee and back to Vietnam, Daughter from Danang tensely unfolds as cultural differences and the years of separation take their toll in a riveting film about longing and the personal legacy of war.

A deranged woman with amnesia is hypnotised so that she may explore her own mind. While trying to recover lost memories, she finds that her mind is a nightmare landscape of violence and horror. Recollections of reality mesh with the terrifying otherworldly images, deepening the mystery of this woman's blood-soaked past.

Two Norwegian women are on their way home from vacation. There is a dark skinned boy sitting in the backseat. A short film inspired by the Norwegian christian political party KrF.

A unique horror film from the staff of "The Legend of Sugisawa-mura". Based on requests from the general public, the team decides to conduct human experiments to find out if it is possible to escape from the sea of trees, and if torture really works.

The hardships a group of Kurdish immigrants face when they try to cross the Aegean Sea and eventually find a better life in Europe.

Solar Breath (2002) is a 62-minute loop of fluttering curtains that reveal and conceal an idyllic landscape in rural Newfoundland.

A documentary on the 1955 Crispus Attucks basketball team, whose revolutionary style of play helped to define modern basketball and whose team members, like NBA All-Star Oscar Robertson, went on to become basketball legends.

2002 release

The Song of the Gallows is based on a medieval, seventeenth-century story about a magic violin that saves the life of a Roma man from the gallows. The Polish princess Katarina Jagellonica arrives in Finland in order to get married to Duke Juhana; after listening to the Romani musician playing his instrument she agrees to his request that all the gallows should be torn down in the country to save the Roma from execution.

Gråtass celebrates Christmas in the barn together with Gamlefar, Goggen, and Grynet. As always, they have invited many adults and children to the barn—now they will all sing and dance in Christmas. The musicians have tuned their instruments, the barn is decorated for the party, and everyone is ready. Now they are just waiting for Goggen—he has to put out the porridge for the elf...

A warm, charming and entertaining documentary about several first or second generation immigrants living in Oslo and Bergen. You will among others meet an immigrant on skis, an African woman living in Bergen who refuses to be buried any other place than her native Tanzania, a Norwegian army recruit from Sri Lanka, an Afghan business woman and a drug-addict of Norwegian-African heritage. Welcome Home flips your assumptions of immigrants upside-down whilst being a different take on the term 'home'.

The documentary unfolds through the stories and recollections of his 102-year-old grandmother Mary Mirabito, an outspoken and fiercely independent woman. In a revealing and often hilarious portrait, Mary dispenses homespun wisdom while divulging family secrets and rivalries. The film reveals many of the common truths hidden away in all our families, as well as the unexpected - late night visits from Jack Kerouac, illicit love affairs and the occasional murder.

The story of two little sheep.

Traditional opera is well known in Fujian, and the women clown (played by men) of Gaojia Opera are the most famous. This film records the last days of Master Ke Xianxi, one of four most famous 'clowns' in China, and his caring for the existence and development of Gaojia Opera in modern times. It depicts the major challenges facing Chinese traditional opera today.

Kääriku Farm in Viljandi County is home to one of the cornerstones of Estonian textile art. Together with her elderly mother Valda Rau, the esteemed textile artist and lecturer Anu Raud reflects on life and death.

“We are living on the edge”, says a simple peasant woman from Dubna, a village in Hrodna region. These words sound symbolic: the village is situated on the steep bank of the Neman, and the river keeps undermining the houses and the plots making the villagers seek for new lands.

Re-live the end of an era and journey through the past at Maine Road, home ground to Manchester City FC from 1923-2003. Features include the club's triumphs and memorable moments and the club's favourite players are honoured.

Man has always been fascinated with death. Throughout history there have been people who claim to be able to communicate with those who have passed on. And there have always been many who believe their claims are folly.

Two jewish lesbians hold a naming ceremony for their baby in a melding of old customs and new ideas.

In 1889, a Chinese man using decayed, ancient tortoise shells in his malaria medicine noticed that the shells were covered with scrolls of mysterious inscriptions. The oracle bones, as the shells were called, told the story of an ancient people known as the Shang - a civilisation which had long been dismissed as legend. Since then, historians have found more evidence of this ancient city, but the city itself has never been found.

This film came into being on a farm in the village of Hakushu, Min Tanaka's home. Min Tanaka is a very distinctive personality of Japanese alternative theatre in which the mind questions the tongue and so the body becomes the tongue. Min Tanaka's dance is able to speak even to those who know nothing about Japan and Japanese art. Perhaps it is because, on their road to discovery, Min and his dancers probe deep down to the roots of the culture of all peoples, to the time when we were not yet Europeans and they were not Japanese.

As every morning, a young man goes to the mall where he works as a seller for the workday. But today is not an ordinary day: it's Friday.

In hustle and bustle of urban life, we sometimes don't know our neighbors next door. And in the village, everyone knows each other and lives with the joys, troubles, and worries of a neighbor, like one big family. That's why a person is pulled to their small homeland, to their roots. The one who forgets their roots experiences a burdensome emptiness and dissatisfaction with their achievements in life.

BLT Genesis tracks the behind-the-scenes making and trajectory of Justin Lin’s groundbreaking film, Better Luck Tomorrow.

Jan Jakub Kolski sets out on a quest for the lost city of Eldorado, a place where the Incas took refuge before the Spanish conquistadors, where fabulous treasures were hidden. The film, which is testimony to the efforts and struggles faced by the exploration team, forms a kind of diary of the expedition, chronologically recording the daily events.

Documentary featuring interviews with director Ang Lee and co-writer/producer James Schamus. Produced for the "Eat Drink Man Woman" DVD Special Edition.

Viva Las Vergas! The synthesis of simulacrum and solar max. (Selected Screenings and Awards: Ann Arbor Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, New York Underground Film Festival)

A comedy of floral proportions - now with added features!

What started out as a pleasant school trip has now turned to tragedy. Twelve-year-old Maria is standing on a bridge threatening to throw herself onto the railway tracks below. Her schoolmates are cheering her on, insulting her and daring her to jump, while her teacher is reasoning with her to get her to climb down.

Every morning Zoe counts and comments on Rebecca's (her daughter) nine round sneezing routine. Rebecca's sick of it. Her best friend, Cath, is trying to find a boyfriend for Rebecca but is losing hope because she's SO picky. In truth 'Becca doesn't like boys at all and is kinda smitten with Cath herself.

When Barbie's estranged stepfather Joe tries to quash her romance with young beau Ken, the fur flies.

A look at the first year in the life of the band Blue. Includes film of the boys in the studio recording their first material, behind-the-scenes footage of photo-shoots and roadshows, exclusive interviews, and the promo videos for the band's first singles.