Cinematic Era: 1985 Vintage

When Brazil finally came out from its dictatorship period, Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president after 20 years of military rule, got ill with a strange infection and finally died on 21 April 1985 before taking office. Knowing political stability could get compromised, before dying, he tried to look healthy, and the press also helped with the farce. The documentary is about his slow public agony and death.

In the second half of the eighties, this film was shown in cinemas as a full-length series of well-known fairy tales with popular characters: Puppy, Mike the cat, Křemílek and Vochomůrka, Dorotka, Kreček and Brundibári.

A slaughtered and dismembered pig and its severed head are displayed using a flicker effect. This is a study piece from the director's first year of undergraduate studies. The title comes from the British record label, ZTT Records.

An aging piano player looks back on his life.

Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to buy a land...

An unhappy girl of a rich family and a poor girl pretending to be rich go on vacation to the same place.

Set in mid 19th century Italy, this is a romance between a young revolutionary and the daughter of a high-ranking nobleman.

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.

The love affair involving the beautiful Simone and the younger Françoise, coming from a frustrated suicide attempt.

A film which uses the device of developing Polaroid camera shots to present the highlights of a family celebration during the birthday of filmmaker Tony Buba.

1985 Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

The film uses documentary-style scenes, interviews and animated schematic drawings to expose the problems of the menopause as a natural stage of a woman's life, which is predominantly experienced without symptoms, and names individual problems about which Dr. van de Kamp, head of the outpatient clinic in Werder, is interviewed.

A character called Sir Scrabble and two children travel to a land called Nonsense, where education has been forbidden. Sir Scrabble teams up with the residents to defeat an evil ruler, the Muddler, through the power of learning and spelling.

Members of a high school football team decide to present an "award" to the "Ugliest Girl in School."

Australia's strange and often beautiful wildlife is no more apparent than in the Lyrebird with its exotic courting displays and its ability as a mimic, which is unrivalled in the world of birds. Following its life for a year through Australia's great rain forests, we see a large variety of songbirds and the marsupials who share its natural environment.

Joel Lamangan's debut.

Untracked, even confused, but not unfunny, this attempt by two old people to escape. It has become too cramped in the Berlin apartment shared by three generations of a Chilean immigrant family when the paralyzed grandfather decides to return to his Chilean homeland. Under the suspicious gaze and accompanied by impotent attempts at action by the other family members, he sets off with his wife and an uncle. Their odyssey through Berlin lasts exactly one day.

As the new partner in an oil-drilling enterprise, Mace Morgan s future looks rosy, until he meets Monique, his partner s girlfriend.

An early Todd Sheets zombie short

Conductor Herbert von Karajan spent much of his career exploring the work of Johannes Brahms and in particular his A German Requiem. This 1985 concert, representing the sum of von Karajan's study, features vocalists José van Dam and Kathleen Battle. The performance by the Vienna Philharmonic not only exemplifies the maestro's skill, but also ironically reflects his waning years in its funereal subject matter.

In this minimalist stage version of the MGM film, Dorotea is swept to Oz by an offstage tornado, greeted by Glinda and flowery Munchkins, not played by actors. Glinda looks suspiciously like Mother Ema (not Aunt). A Wicked Witch appears with blacked out teeth who looks like Dona Brujilda, who has been trying to get rid of Dorotea's dog.

A voyeuristic panorama of a specific moment in the German independent music scene.

A farce about what happens to citizens A and B and their beloved cars, before, during and after the annual, mandatory vehicle inspection.

Analog video art by Paul Garrin with Ryuichi Sakamoto

Through the history of the traditional female costume and the sum of the signs with which it is charged, the heroine of the film goes in search of her identity.

Huge and just big boobs. Almost everyone loves them. And who does not love, he hides that he loves

A documentary about the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

When you are overwhelmed by obligations and have a large family, you do everything you can to make ends meet. You even become a professional fan. But what happens when you start mixing up the insignia?

Short film by Marty St. James and Anne Wilson.

Norwegian short film

The story of the establishment of Malcolm's crocodile park in Western Australia with dramatic captures of huge crocodiles and the dangers of handling these massive reptiles.

A short film featuring Galax, the puppet man.

The Lebanese film "Fi Mahab al-Reeh" (In the Wind’s Mercy), released in 1985, is a drama set during the Lebanese Civil War. It tells the story of a romantic relationship between two individuals from different social backgrounds, highlighting the deep social and political divisions affecting Lebanese society at the time.

The story is about a drunk who literally got drunk to the devils and then tried to get rid of them.

A young boy driving with his parents sees - or thinks he sees - a murder.

Mysterious experimental animation with dance.

A sequel to Ear to the Ground, Ear-Responsibility finds avant-garde percussionist David Van Tieghem roaming the streets of New York, discovering the inherent rhythms and music in ordinary objects, from sidewalks to subway cars.

Animated short set to the song performed by The Popticians.

A film about the beliefs and customs of the Latvian people during the Midsummer celebrations and Midsummer's Day morning.

Socialist musical comedy made in Cuba

A symphony of found footage scenes, each shot loosely connected to the one before.

A portrait of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's family.

One film projected two times with a difference of a couple of seconds.

Via the New York Times: ""Le Temps Detruit" is a low-keyed, dreamlike recollection of the first year of World War II as recorded in the letters sent home by three French soldiers, each of whom was killed shortly after the "phony war" came to an end with the German offensive in May 1940. One of these was the father of the film's director. The two others were Paul Nizan, the writer and Communist, who became disillusioned with Marxism when the Hitler-Stalin pact was signed, and Maurice Jaubert, the composer who wrote the scores for a number of films, including Jean Vigo's "Zero de Conduit.""

Based on an ancient proverb (which one could translate into ‘it’s dogged as does it’), this film tells about a fisherman who is disturbed by two pelicans and who disguises himself as a scarecrow to catch the two birds.

A strange fantasy about the decadence of the Mexican wrestler "El Santo, The Man in the Silver Mask".

Kasino tries to impress Vera, who wants to act in a movie. Kasino convinces her that he has a famous film director friend, Indro, who recently returned from abroad. On a holiday, Indro, Susan and Henny go on a camping trip. Kasino, who brings Vera along, has initiated this trip. Lola brings along Dono. She is actually after Indro while Dono is after her. Vera, who believes that Indro is a film director, goes after him. More misunderstandings occur until Kasino’s lie is finally exposed. Then Kasino tries to chase another girl, this time is in a restaurant. But the girl, Julia, already has a boyfriend, Tony, a thug. Unfortunately, it is Indro who becomes the boyfriend’s jealous target. Indro is followed wherever he goes and it makes him paranoid. Dono and Kasino suggest that he hides in a coffin and they would announce that he is dead. At first, Tony believes this, but he wants to prove it himself. Luckily, Julia comes to give an explanation so Indro is rescued from his predicament.

In this play, the barrier between Elchin and Gulnar grows even stronger. The tragic changes in Gulnar’s life lead her to leave her job. Elchin’s wife, Sarvinaz, finally realizes that Elchin is still in love with Gulnar, and therefore decides to separate from him. Now independent, Elchin immediately heads to the railway station to follow Gulnar, who wants to leave the city…

A case of mistaken identity.

Since his childhood, Daniel has been trained to be a true gunslinger. And when he discovers a secret, he will travel to find his real parents. Will he ever succeed in his mission?

Nelson Grant, secret agent of the FBI, is traveling to Manila with the order to track down the boss of a powerful drug syndicate and to smash his organization. Simultaneously he wants to avenge his best friend’s death who was killed insidiously by the gangster boss. Totally on his own he fights his way through, and he goes mercilessly his own way, leaving a trail of blood behind him. – He is not able to depend on anyone, with the exception of his weapon, a magnum caliber 357, which he got from his dead friend. Will he be able to solve the task; will he be able to avenge the murder of his friend?