Cinematic Era: 1985 Vintage

Serafin, a young and cheerful muskrat, is one of the inhabitants of Wicker Bay. He quickly befriends Ogryzek, a resolute and somewhat pedantic rat who teaches him about adult life.

Based on actual events surrounding a New Zealand drug scandal that involved the murder of Martin Johnstone of the UK, in the early 1070's. Johnstone had been dubbed "Mr Asia" by international police who were about to arrest him. Then when police were about to arrest his killer, that person was killed while in Police custody. Some feel the real "Mr Asia" is alive today. The film tries to tell about private efforts to try and reach the real killer and villain.

A raw, live-in-studio performance of "The Perfect Kiss" by New Order.

Tells the story of a Scotch boy who can't decide whether he wants to be like his father, a Highlander, or his mother, a Lowlander.

Set against the backdrop of Burmese Thingyan celebration, the movie follows the life of Nyein Maung, a musician, from 1959 to 1982.

Work on a range of comedy show events deals with conflict and differences between the rich and the poor.

Animation short.

The gift of a child turns out to be a superintelligent computer that has escaped from security facilities becoming the most wanted child of deep Spain.

A man wants to invite an angel into his home and therefore steals some items from a church to make his task easier.

A profile of individuals who knowingly risked their lives during the Holocaust to aid Jews.

The Loved One is a home-made film created by Mick Foley and Dan Zucker, detailing the fictional life of Dude Love, from his roots as pathetic loser Mick Foley into a wrestling superstar who captures the WWF gold as well as the hearts of ladies all over the world.

A drama of a family whose members pay the price for their desire for material well-being.

A glimpse of the pre-history of cinema starting with the projections of Etienne Gaspard Robert (also known as M. Robertson), who used magic lanterns and other optical illusions to develop the genre of the Gothic phantasmagoria in the late eighteenth century.

Two very different friends who share an apartment in Amsterdam have reached a dead end in their lives. The arrival of a parcel looks like an opportunity for a change.

The Road to Royalty

A famous Vietnamese modern folk opera from the composer Trần Hữu Trang starring Lệ Thủy and Minh Vương as star-crossed lovers separated by class and prejudices.

A documentary about the history of the Free Cinema movement, made by one of it's greatest proponents, Lindsay Anderson, to commemorate British Film Year in 1985. Produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Unlike Richard Attenborough's celebratory episode of the same series, or Alan Parker's more aggressive show, which was balanced between celebrating the greats and attacking Parker's bugbears, Greenaway and Jarman and the BFI, Anderson's show accentuates the negative, painting an image of a British cinema in terminal artistic decline and trashing the ambitions and approach of British Film Year itself. It's mordantly funny and very savage.

An advocation for a new and personal take on the alphabet reveals multi-layered, comical meanings. ABCD is an experimental animation, decidedly crude in approach and part socio-political commentary and surrealist whimsy.

On November 18 1982, a 22-year old Aucklander, Neil Roberts, daubed a washroom wall with the graffiti slogan: ‘WE HAVE MAINTAINED A SILENCE CLOSELY RESEMBLING STUPIDITY’. He then placed a bomb outside the State Security Computer Centre at Whanganui where files are kept on all citizens. The bomb blew him to pieces.

Recorded on April 27, 1985 at Shin Kokugikan, Ryogoku, Tokyo. 1. Down Upbeat 2. The Continental Way 3. Fabby Dabby 4. Twilight Solitude 5. Marine Blue 6. Looking Up 7. Eyes Of The Mind 8. Asayake 9. Galactic Funk

1929. The owners of a roadside hotel-a man and a woman-kill the merchant. To solve the murder, the investigator sends his undercover agent to the hotel. A passionate love begins between the agent and the woman. She confessed to her lover about the murder. The killer managed to escape, and the woman was sent to prison.

A young professor of art history is pressed by communist superiors to write a positive review to an amateur scholar. He plays with an old man as well as with a young worker girl until he realizes he has lost everything.

Two young sociopaths are bested by an old blind woman and an ancient deer spirit.

In this film, Buba struggles over whether he should make a film about a food bank, or just use the money to donate food to the bank. In the end, he leaves it up to the viewer.

I'll be Home for Christmas cuts through social taboos to explore the subculture of people commonly dismissed as ‘derelicts'. In its portrayal of five homeless men, the film challenges conventional views of alcoholism and homelessness by depicting these men as members of a social network with a highly developed sense of mutual concern and camaraderie.

Through interviews with former players such as O.J. Simpson and John Madden, examines the physical and emotional trauma that many athletes undergo as retired players

A boy promotes paper towels.

Small creatures on strings, seemingly absolutely alive, play out amazing stories that make you laugh and cry, reflect, worry and empathize.

Moosavi, a country schoolteacher, must undertake an arduous journey to fetch medicine for his village's sick. Accompanied by his student and a villager, he travels through a blizzard and is pursued by a pack of hungry wolves.

A movie about a talented kid Koko whose song gets stolen by a greedy producer. Desperate Koko influenced by his fierce friend Pini to pull a job on a jewelry store.

In which a child in the Pacific Northwest narrates his world, interviewing people and animals with equal curiosity.

A young Dublin couple illegally move into a local authority flats complex with their two young children in an effort to start a new life together. Things begin to unravel for the young couple and they soon come into contact with the hard pressed local social services.

A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. This short was to premiere on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of East Germany. Officials rejected it, however, as an ostensibly negative portrait of GDR family life presented by an atypical woman. It was released under a different title a year later.

A woman threatens to jump off a crane with her two young children in order to secure affordable housing.

A hand-drawn cartoon based on the fairy tale "The Cat and the Mice" by Ubaid Zakoni.

A play by Sergei Mikhalkov based on the story by Mark Twain, staged by the Moscow Art Academic Theatre named after M. Gorky. London, mid-16th century. Two boys are born on the same day — Tom, the son of a thief, John Canty, living in a foul alley called the Court of Filth, and Edward, the heir to King Henry VIII. All of England awaits Edward's birth. Tom, on the other hand, is barely wanted even by his own family.

A case of mistaken identity.

A girl is saved by a young man this experience brings them together. Their union faces obstacles in the future.

"It became easier to understand Kren's method of approaching film when he illustrated his matter-of-factness with a story: he was asked to shoot and deliver a film, for a festival, given four day's notice, which he did ('foot'-age shoot'-out'). He normally takes a long time with a film; this one he terms a "rape." He removed his name and copy-right from the piece. "Probably my last film." I asked whether he'd ever seen a print. "Yes, it's great," he replied..." (April Rapier)

A newly arrived actress in tinseltown who needs to act with more sensuality is instructed by her agent to attend sex workshops with a highly sensual gypsy girl and her boyfriend.

She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de lettres. In this interview, the late novelist and filmmaker talks openly about the hardship and the romance of her childhood in French Indochina, sharing how this period haunted her life and shaped her work. Excerpts from her films and readings from her books by actress Elizabeth Rider and Duras herself—including The Lover, winner of the Prix Goncourt and translated into more than forty languages—bring to life those formative years in Vietnam.

A troubled teen is lost in the wilderness for a year.

Carole Roussopoulos shoots the life of under-priviledged families living on a model estate at Herblay (Val d’Oise), where volunteers of the ATD Fourth World movement also live with their families.

Japanese horror short from 1985.

Documentary about West Indian cricket captain and batsman Viv Richards, looking at his home in Antigua and his illustrious career for Somerset and the West Indies.

A dramatic romantic comedy narrative featuring a pre-menopausal woman who tires to join the Hot Flashes.