Cinematic Era: 2002 Vintage

When Bill Clinton agreed to visit Bangladesh in March 2000, the Bangladesh government began the biggest clean-up operation of Dhaka since 1971. This is a diary of a cynical journalist assigned to discover what the man-on-the-street thinks of the hoopla.

A teenage girl is trapped in a mysterious dimension where she cannot leave the girls' bathroom.

Collection of cartoon anecdotes summons the small-town world of the turn of the century, condensed into a single day, with ‘Czech’ good humour. The mosaic-like short evokes locations of the artist’s childhood, the Fin de Siècle milieu of Sopron through the glittering imagination of the graphic artist director, where the stationmaster salutes the rising sun, and the train driver associates himself with a mermaid in his bath, who he caught that day in the lake.

When you’re in a crowd you prefer to be alone. When you’re alone, you want to be part of a crowd. You’re never satisfied with yourself, Wherever you are…… The protagonist of this film is an Indian who is in Finland for three months on a scholarship. His sense of alienation Is not merely because of physical detachment from life familiar to him but also due to a subjective point of view. He feels he is trapped in a dream…a reverie that doesn’t satisfy his soul.

Edgy political comedian Bill Shanks fights to enlighten his potty-mouthed audience, to the dismay of his manager.

A very short film about a dramatic day in the life of a remote answering machine.

The shop mannequin sees endless activity that passes for human existence. People fill their time moving, talking, shopping and looking. They gaze listlessly in at him and he stares impassively back. He is aching for their chance to live, imploring them to make the most of their freedom, outraged that they do not.

HABIT is an autobiographical documentary that follows the current history of the AIDS epidemic along several trajectories. The organizing structure is built around the daily routine of the videomaker -- a veteran AIDS activist in the U.S., and a person who has been living with AIDS for over ten years. As the videomaker moves through his day, attending to mundane errands, eating, taking pills, having conversations with friends (some who have diseases like AIDS and Breast Cancer, and others who are healthy), memories of a recent trip to South Africa reoccur and interrupt the routine. In South Africa, the videomaker meets people with AIDS, fighting to get access to the same life saving drugs that he depends on to survive. It is estimated that there are over four million people infected with HIV in South Africa. The vast majority of people with AIDS in Africa do not have access to medical treatment.

A frenetic night of debauchery, armed robbery, and the consumption of legal and illegal narcotic substances & eating babies - all in a night out for two stowaway bears.

Using only the illumination of a cigarette lighter, D.A. Pennebaker captured Tiny Tim performing a number of traditional songs at Monterey's Hunt Club, the official "green room" for the festival.

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

"In Rock and Roll Alex masochistically undulates in front of a bloody Kurt Cobain poster, slashed scars reaming her pretty, defiant face (surely enacted in thousands of suburban homes nightly)." - Charlie Finch via ArtNet

"AGNO" is an award-winning documentary by the Cordillera Peoples Alliance and Southern Tagalog Exposure that delves on the importance of the Agno River to the people of Itogon, Benguet and Pangasinan and how the San Roque Dam Project will take away the right to land and livelihood of the people.

Tales of haunted houses are a mainstay of horror movies. But what can be made of people's claims that real-life ghosts have turned their homes into places of terror?

At the end of the seventies, in the throes of the Franco dictatorship, Paco Fernández, the teacher of Orellana la Vieja, created Escuela Viva. A renewing pedagogical experience, an assembly school model within a public school. Julián Pavón, a young university student, shot a 16mm short film with an old wind-up camera in 1976. about the experience and projects it in the different cultural athenaeums of Madrid. 25 years later, Julián Pavón himself searches through former students, former teachers and theorists, the echoes of that movement and its reflection in another current experience .

On the 24th May 1972 twenty thousand Rangers fans descended on the Catalan capital, Barcelona, to cheer their team to an epic European Cup Winners Cup victory over Moscow Dynamo in the gigantic Nou Camp stadium. Rangers transcended their poor domestic form of the season when they stepped onto the European stage, beating a series of very strong teams, including French Cup holders, Rennes, Portugal's Sporting Lisbon, Italians Torino and crack Bundesliga side Bayern Munich in the semi-final. This documentary is the untold story of the 1972 Cup campaign and features extended highlights from the final along with key footage from the semi-final against Bayern Munich.

Ebata Kazuki became a psychiatric patient at the age of twenty-seven. With a loudspeaker and firecrackers he shouts his opposition to the Medical Treatment Supervision Bill. He doubts whether we can ascertain that a mental patient who committed a serious crime while non compos mentis is no longer dangerous. The filmmakers reflect on coexistence with others in contemporary society through Ebata’s personal story and life with his fellow patients.

When Rachel Raney and David Murray set out to create a film on suburban sprawl and the rise of “McTowns,” they never imagined the stories they’d find. The result is Livemore, part documentary, part fairytale, part mystery, and mostly comedy: a portrait of a formerly bucolic suburb threatened by rapid growth and change and the handful of eccentric old-timers struggling to hold on to what makes their piece of small-town America unique.

"Camperonix is a trio of defenders of the planet, made up of “Super Camp” (the chick), whose desire is to regenerate nature; “Aquanixer”, who defends rivers, lakes and seas, and “Flotania”, who loves caring for animals and plants. The three fight to defeat “Desper”, a sinister character who is responsible for polluting the water, cutting down trees, destroying wildlife and dirtying everything that comes in front of him."

It's Magic Time follows the vicissitudes in and around 'multi-channel experience marketing company' Magic Minds, brainchild of the irrepressibly optimistic ('On moratorium day, I play the piano') entrepreneur Erik Bartels. In a time when many good digital things must come to an end, this company converted its office for 3.6 million euros. Despite 'experience domes', a roof club and workout facilities, the relaxed Magic Minds atmosphere is soon replaced by rigorous commercialism. Sales targets and utilisation rates are not met, creditors are on their doorstep, and moneylender Nesbic is making things hot for them. After the first round of dismissals, the company gets in a free fall that leads to the verge of bankruptcy. Filmmaker Marco Zuilhof registered the developments at first hand. Negotiations, quarrels, dismissals and Bartels's fits of rage: Zuilhof was present. This makes It's Magic Time a stirring and disconcertingly concrete drama in a world of brand values and hot air.

A film by Masakatsu Takagi.

The genre of the film is unusual. These are "animated ditties" based on the poems of Yu.Entina, or even this film can be called a "Cartoon micro-musical", which is based on a crazy cocktail of folk tales, famous cartoons, "Entina ditties" and the author's subconscious.

A stupid and clumsy pirate, tormented by a great white shark, attempts to catch a treasure.

You see them on some of the biggest, highest-rated shows on Prime Time TV - but only Playboy shows them like this. Tune in and watch the action the networks can't air.

Kornél, a 20-year-old boy tries to re-integrate himself after returning from war but realizes that both he and his home have completely changed. The war did not go away without a trace.

Follow Warrior Chef Masaharu Morimoto as he opens his flagship restaurant in Philadelphia that blends Japanese tradition with Western technique.

An experimental musical film celebrating the art of blacksmithing.

The protagonist is forced to confront his depression and isolation as the contents of his life are mysteriously pulled from his apartment, during a TV, game show.

In the early 2000's, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators nearly reached a peace agreement. Within weeks, the opportunity vanished. Frontline examines the faltering quest for peace in "Shattered Dreams of Peace: The Road from Oslo" - a film by Charles Enderlin, a Franco-Israeli journalist, specializing in the Middle East and Israel - beginning with the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The two-and-a-half-hour documentary traces the peace process through years of negotiations, with new footage of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and interviews with key figures on both sides.

What will happen to queer in a playmobil world.

Video presentation of Paco Torrent-Guasp's groundbreaking discovery of The Helical Heart. This new understanding of heart structure reveals how the helical heart muscle causes normal and abnormal cardiac performance. Winner of the 2005 Freddie Award from The International Health and Medical Media Awards for health and medical videos (the bio-medical equivalent to the Oscars and the Emmys). It won both the Basic and Clinical Science Category, and the overall Surgeon's General Award for Outstanding Health Professional Entry.

2002 DCI World Championships held in Madison, WI on August 10, 2002 1. Cavaliers (1st Place 99.15) 2. Blue Devils (2nd Place 97.30) 3. Cadets (3rd Place 96.75) 4. Santa Clara Vanguard (4th Place 95.65) 5. Boston Crusaders (5th Place Tie 92.40) 6. Phantom Regiment (5th Place Tie 92.40) 7. Bluecoats (7th Place 91.50) 8. Glassmen (8th Place 91.00) 9. Crossmen (9th Place 89.10) 10. Spirit of Atlanta (10th Place 85.45) 11. Magic of Orlando (11th Place 84.85) 12. Seattle Cascades (12th Place 84.05)

Leeds-based drama about an opera singer.

Video installation by Carloni-Franceschetti.

"When Voices Rise..." tells the important, but little-known story of dismantling segregation in the polite society that was Bermuda in the 1950s. Working in secret, the Progressive Group organized the 1959 Theatre Boycott to end segregation in movie theatres in Hamilton. Context is provided by those who protested against segregation and the limited franchise earlier in Bermuda by authoring a "Secret Document" that analyzed the social problems of the island. The film also features a rare interview conducted in London, England with Kingsley Tweed-a powerful, public figure during the boycott that changed the island forever. -- Chris Campbell

Film from James Herbert

Short documentary directed by Ulf von Mechow

A labourer from Anhui has been working in Beijing. In June of 2000, he went back hometown to get married. The day following the marriage, he brought his bride to Beijing and spent a night there. On the way to visit his sister, the couple was accommodated by the police without reason. From then on, the bride disappeared, and he began his search for his wife.

It narrates Fede's trip from the time he leaves Tierra del Fuego until he arrives in the city of Buenos Aires, and also his meeting with Natalia in the middle of the route.

Documentary about Susan Berman, daughter of mobster David Berman. She was murdered in December of 2000.

Interview with Emmanuelle Laborit, actress and director of the company l'International Visual Theatre (IVT). Complementary bonus film to the DVD edition of "Le Pays des Sourds/In the Land of the Deaf" (autumn 2002).

Interview with Jack Thiney, taxidermist at the National Museum of Natural History, in Paris. Complementary bonus film to the DVD edition of "Animals" (autumn 2002).

This disc features a collection of songs performed by Latin singing sensation Frank Reyes. Consisting of songs that appeared on his Dejame Entrar album. Songs include "Nada De Nada", "Adolecente", "No Te Olvides De Mi", and a half-dozen others.

Set on the seabed, the spirit of young woman emerges from the sand and dreams of the life she might have had. The animation is projected on to sand and the dancers.

Examination of the modern old man, Gösta Lindén talks about the life he has lead and his present life as a 91 year old widower.

A short film by Matthew Giaquinto

The giant business "Finow" works successfully in Berlin, Germany. But what does this success cover?

A drag queen and a punk rocker have a charged encounter over a pair of stolen shoes.

Independent animation by Hotchi Kazuhiro.