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Overview of films
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Seven Days
David Barker | 10' | USA | International premiere
A new American president gets a new dog. The country is at war, but the president is only interested in training his Irish setter. -
Texas Sunrise
Lluís Escartín | 17' | Spain | European premiere
Beauty and decay in a classic Texan landscape. In the background, a bum grumbles his sombre predictions. -
This Ain’t No Heartland
Andreas Horvath | 100' | Austria | World premiere
Film maker with a sensitive photographic eye looks around in amazement in the flattest countryside in the USA. America is at war with Iraq, but… -
Trailer Town
Giuseppe Andrews | 80' | USA | -
The scum of the country in a trailer park near Hollywood. Filthy jokes are for infants from now on: this is on a different level.… -
The UnAmerican Film Festival
Esther Bell, Ted Passon | 90' | USA | -
A mini festival as an irritating parasite for this and other major festivals. Flown in fresh from New York. The latest in the field of… -
Uncle Sam Wants You!
David Houts, Andrew Dunn | 90' | USA | World premiere
Revealing documentary made at the gateway to the Marines Corps. Boys and girls are plucked off the streets of New York’s Queens before they land… -
The United States in a Chaotic World
Jenny Perlin | 4' | USA | World premiere
French Fries turned into Freedom Fries. Leaf through a history book and there’s lots that could be changed. As long as you can draw. -
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
Richard Ray Pérez, Joan Sekler | 50' | USA | -
Very tenacious documentary sinks its teeth into the messy presidential elections in Florida, 2000. The bottom voting card came to the surface. -
Viva la guerra
Paul Hanley | 30' | USA | International premiere
Frenzied animation film about making war the American way. With a plastic Harrison Ford and lots of ingenuity. -
War
Jake Mahaffy | 84' | USA | International premiere
Atmospheric and sparse black & white film about the disappearance of country life. No bomb fell, but it might have done. A few people resist… -
Watching
Laurie Halsey Brown | 4' | USA | World premiere
Four cameras permanently spy on trouble. They were once pointing at the WTC. -
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Matthew Rankin, Walter Forsberg | 6' | Canada | European premiere
Bizarre video captured from terrorists. About training birds as a threat the state.