Cinematic Era: 2003 Vintage

In a garden at the party of the God Bacchus, Narciso's presence is the highlight of the party. Both gods and mortals seek his favors without getting anywhere.

Playing at North Sea Jazz is always a highlight in my career. This was my 3rd time and now we were recording for a DVD which made it extra exciting! It was the biggest room, 1700 people in the house, it gave me a tremendous kick. Hope it will have that effect on you too.

An intimate look at three urban artists who share living quarters, examining with wry humor their aspirations and disillusions.

Always concerned with freedom of expression, which for him is essential, mounir fatmi also considers sex, and does so with great delicacy. To make this jewel of a film, fatmi edited together censored love scenes (literally cut with scissors) from Une minute de soleil en moins. With Les Ciseaux, fatmi has produced a threefold work of memory: first of all, he preserves Ayouch’s original film, to keep it from being forgotten; secondly, he delivers a frontal critique of censorship, to keep that too from being forgotten; and thirdly, it is a discourse on love, to keep us from forgetting. Furthermore, in Les Ciseaux fatmi achieves a juxtaposition or, rather, a shifting between bodily embraces and the dreams that go with them. The memory of the lovers plays the role of the video maker, and in Les Ciseaux we go from intertwining bodies to inner images.

There's a bad mood rising against the corporate brands. No Logo is the warning on the label. In the last decade, No Logo has become a cultural manifesto for the critics of unfettered capitalism worldwide. As the world faces a second economic depression, No Logo's analysis of our corporate and branded world is as timely and powerful as ever. Equal parts cultural analysis, political manifesto, mall-rat memoir, and journalistic exposé, No Logo is the first book to put the new resistance into pop-historical and clear economic perspective. It tells a story of rebellion and self-determination in the face of our new branded world.

It is a Mongolian feature film released in 2003.

On the occassion of 25 years of the environmental movement, Chipko, the film revisits the Kumaon-Garhwal region in the northern Himalaya. It emphasises the active role of women in this grass-roots movement, which has been one of the major factors for its success.

This is the third installment in the suspense horror trilogy! One day, Maiko, a high school girl, has a strange dream. The next day, the same phenomena as the dream begins to occur around Maiko. The next day, the same phenomena as in the dream begin to occur around Maiko, and a mysterious transfer student, Mayu, appears in front of Maiko, who is terrified.

Vicente is given a promotional gift, but he is not prepared for such an experience.

Interview with "Jake" a young transgendered Brit who is undergoing the process of changing from female to male.

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A stuttering double video projection of a landscape of the body, carnal desire rendered inhuman through surveillance destabilized by one video frame constantly disrupting another.

Nina longs to be a special girl and meet the man of her dreams. However, life for this Filipino transsexual in Sydney is filled with isolation and displacement. Nina is a truly courageous and moving portrait of Noni Benito reflecting on four years of living in Australia through her journey of transformation.

David Miller is an idealist in the colonial frontier of highland New Guinea in 1938. Having given away law to work as an anthropologist and gain a greater insight into the traditional beliefs of the natives he finds himself once again drawn back into law when he reluctantly agrees to represent T'Laupo, a highlander charged with murder, after a traditional pay back killing. As David investigates the case and re-establishes an old friendship with another highlander, Jainantu, he finds that all is not as it seems - and the greatest lessons are the ones we learn ourselves.

In a world where iron and land mix themselves creating unexpected cities, the wind blows life among leaves in the eternal rebirth cycle. This is the wind’s embrace.

Martin Caparros follows on the steps of Hernan Cortez during the conquest of Mexico.

Steely Dan's Walter Becker & Donald Fagen tour Las Vegas in a taxicab.

Polish avant-garde animation that presents Escheresque geometric confounding to a heavy ego bass.

'Plush 2' features all five Norba NCS races, the Whistler Slope Style, the Rye Airfield BIG Wheels Competition, the Red Bull Bike Battle and the Red Bull rampage. Plush 2 also features rider sections for Cameron McCaul, Aaron Chase, Shaums March, Duncan Riffle, Kyle Strait and Kirt Voreis.

Two farmers from Mexico find a plane that crashed with drugs near their farm. They do not know about their monetary value or even what they are for. Soon however, they meet with people who want to do business with them, and their lives take a drastic turn.

On the road between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, two lorry drivers are waiting for help after an accident. But the wait proves to be a long one.

Follow gentle Oswald, the titular star of Nickelodeon's popular children's animated series, as he navigates life in the big city with his good-natured pals, Henry the waddling penguin and Daisy the friendly flower, and his loyal pet, Weenie the pup. Includes eight episodes featuring the bouncy, blue-hued octopus.

A fast-paced and fun series of four one-hour programs showcasing the incredible diversity and spectacular abilities of these remarkable creatures. Millions of years ago, they ruled the planet. These days, they are saddled with a mostly undeserved bad reputation. Meet the reptiles, and the people who love and study them.

A Christmas themed violent short film directed by Ully Fleischer.

Proskurina's personal homage to her friends and mentor Alexandr Sokurov. The intimate yet objective portrait comprises frank conversations with the master and footage of the shooting of Russian Ark,

Uto Ughi recounts the life and artistic career of Johann Sebastian Bach, performing several of his pieces: Concerto in E major for violin and strings, BWV 1042; Partita in D minor, BWV 1004; Concerto in A minor for violin and strings, BWV 1041; Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003.

A biographical documentary film about the life and creativity of the late thinker and poet Dr. Hussein Barghouti 2003. The researcher-director (Dr. Tayseer Al-Masharqa) reads Barghouti’s works and traced his biography through the personalities of those who knew him - approximately 25 personalities. The film is based on important and historical testimonies of a rare elite of Palestinian and Arab intellectuals.

Beautifully filmed story set in a remote village, somewhere ‘to the south of the desert’ in Patagonia; a 13 year old boy starts to take a different view of the world around him and runs away from his parental home. Does he embark on a real journey or is this the (symbolic) point of departure to another, new life?

An educational animation on the problems of bullying and friendship.

AV actress Naomi and AV director Asano live together. One day, a man claiming to be Asano's brother, whom they had never met, suddenly appears and moves in with them. The brother doesn't speak a word, but for some reason, Naomi takes a liking to him, and he gradually opens up to her. Meanwhile, an incident occurs on set…

This chaotic fantasy involves an underground empire of Halloween-type entities that bedevil the surface people of earth with yellow rays that cause civilians to go on murderous rampages. The picture is crammed full of shlock-like sequences and non-stop visual assaults that drop like bombs yet raise a cloud of colorful opulence into the meager stratosphere of low budget movie making. Performed by real young people and somewhat chipped mannequins, The Passion Pot lives up to its name and is a stew of unbridled unmentionables.

Once a week, the dance teacher rolls into a small Hungarian village at the end of the world in his yellow Citroën and, like a magician, gives lessons to women and men: how to rise elegantly into the air and fly to the melody of the music. The film is about how the blue bird of happiness flutters around us here.

After 5-years' observation and recording, the director screened the entire process of villager autonomy of Dongpo Village in the suburb of Chengdu under the background of urbanization and the promulgation of organic law of villager committee. The film focuses on the villagers’ growing participation in political life and the running of their village.

Short film by Declan de Barra.

During the First World War, a battalion of Russian soldiers was sent to France to assist in combat operations. To this day, the French honor the memory of Russian soldiers.

A man with severe stomach pains discovers that a demonologist accidentaly opened a portal to hell inside him.

This documentary looks at distinctive young artist Andrea Cooper's work. Cooper's credo is "home is not Hollywood, and I am not a movie star". Award-winning director Anita McGee examines how Cooper's art was shaped by her large Catholic family and the physical harshness of her birthplace.

Growing up in Navajo Nation, Radmilla Cody was tormented by others due to her mixed Native- and African-American heritage. In her early twenties, Cody entered the Miss Navajo Nation competition, showcasing her fluency in Diné and expertise in traditional Navajo skills. Her election as the first bi-racial Miss Navajo Nation was fraught with controversy. A few years later an abusive relationship with a drug dealer led to her indictment in federal court. Documentary filmmaker Angela Webb follows Cody as she overcomes adversity and eventually finds solace through music.

Small-town girl Gillian Tremaine enrolls at beauty school in an attempt to jump-start her stalled life. Enter Lucinda, an old friend whose affair with Gillian's father broke up the Tremaine household. As Gillian instinctively turns away from resurfacing issues, circumstance forces her to confront and resolve them once and for all.

Rare color footage shot by one of the Soviet Union’s greatest filmmakers, Mikheil Chiaureli, who was responsible for the film “The Fall of Berlin” has been restored and edited into what can best be described as a sixty minute ‘you are there’ documentary covering the funeral of Stalin.

Short film by Takagi Masakatsu.

The lack of clean drinking water in Karakalpakya from the view of the well builders. A well made on request yields spoiled unpotable water. A good well with potable water is then ruined by a bulldozer.

Laughing and carefree, the children in Sous un ciel burlesque are playing catch. With a few strokes of Pierre Sylvestre's pen, their innocent game turns into the diabolical dance of adults playing war. When humanity chooses weapons over laughter...

No two adoptees are alike. Harold & Peter, Lynne & Lynn, Maureen & Stephen and Dana candidly share their stories and reveal how being adopted shapes an individual’s identity right into adulthood. Their stories underline the complexity of adoption as it relates to the human impulse to tell stories about ourselves in pursuit of figuring out where we fit in.

No bones about it, this will be a real boost for those looking to inject a little humor and fun into basic facts about the human body.

In this documentary, director Tang records his own son's birth and growing up, his father's recovering from a stroke and a nostalgic trip home to China. (In the 1940's his father evacuated with the Nationalist troops to Taiwan after it lost the Mainland to the Communist in the war. It wasn't until 1980's were people allowed to go home to visit in Mainland China). From his search for the earliest memory of life, with a close observation and sensitivity, he exams the parallels of the different lives of a different time. In his previous work, "HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN," director Tang ends it with the ultrasound image of his unborn child, representing the beginning of a new life. With this work, "HOW HIGH IS THE MOUNTAIN," it is rather a beginning of a series of questions about life and a continuation of examination of his own life and the longing of a perfect world.

With this film, we want to re-establish the fundamental rights of every human being to life and equality. The film short-circuits the hegemony of the Pope and bypasses the power of the Catholic church - indeed, of institutionalized religion altogether. We want to connect with the Creator of all things, wile challenging all religions of the world. We have no organized structure, no rules. Our only mission is to return what rightfully belongs to each individual on this earth. Through this film, we offer a direct connection to that which had been withheld for thousands of years. Help yourselves!

A lesbian with a buzz cut returns home for a family funeral and must deal with her homophobic mother.

Alquimistas do Som is a documentary about experimentation in MPB. Some of the most important Brazilian musicians comment, in exclusive testimonials, on their incursions into experimentalism: the origins, motivations and consequences for their work and for the evolutionary line of MPB. Current testimonials are illustrated with musicals by Fernando Faro, in addition to other images from the TV Cultura archive. Alquimistas dos Sons promotes an exciting reunion of artists with historical television images.

Based on Bright Sheng’s modern orchestral composition of the same name, H’un (Lacerations) finds Wills incorporating representational elements, combined with her signature photograms and abstract images. In Sheng’s 23-minute piece, which is far more extroverted than the sound in Wills’s previous films, she found an opportunity to break out of her typical styles, using everyday objects like a shoe or a cracker to illustrate the film noir-ish score with a touch of humor.

Using dramatic re-enactments, interviews with authors and other experts, provides background information relevant to the historical novels with Royal Navy settings around the period of the Napoleonic wars.

An elderly man cooks himself some noodles and eats them straight from the pot while watching TV by himself. He dozes off at his job as a security guard. Alone since the death of his wife, the father’s daily life is filmed by his daughter. While turning her gaze on ordinary things like garbage, keys, puppies, flies and lizards, we can almost sense the strong smells of summer and the sound of thunder at night. Suddenly, the father turns and waves to us. The father-daughter bond is expressed here in very few words.