Cinematic Era: 1986 Vintage

A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despite their different background.

The 8th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. Fictionalised documentary about Emile Reynau who invented the praxinoscope and its system of central mirrors. He then projects his paper strips into the projection praxinoscope before creating the Théâtre Optique, presented at the Musée Grévin. The perforated strips are fragile and often break. The show is cancelled. Reynaud tries to apply photography to his praxinoscope, but without success. Desperate and ruined, he throws his strips into the Seine. Only two survived.

A film about the plight of the women in the Shetland Isles who had to rely on knitting to make a living.

About a young geography teacher, Aleksandr Arsenyevich, who tries to approach school problems in a new way.

The autobiographical portrait of Theo Berger, who gained notoriety as the king of burglaries and escapes and spent most of his life in prison. His criminal career includes over 150 crimes committed since the age of 18. Theo Berger was sentenced twice to 15 years and twice to preventive detention. The film was made during his parole, which he received after contracting leukemia. But less than six months after filming was completed, Theo Berger was arrested again. Unprepared for a life in freedom, he was involved in a bank robbery. He was sentenced to a further 12 years in prison.

The hammer is the tool a sculptor uses to chip away at the block. It is the emblematic tool of French artist Jean-Luc Vilmouth. Akerman here instigates a game of musical chairs. The winner is then permitted to hurl the hammer out into the starry night.

1943. Buryad Ulas. In a hinterland in far Siberia, many kilometers far from the front battle line there is a small buryad village. Though there is no place in a country unaffected by War. This village is no exception. All men went to the battle-front, only children, women and old men are left. You need to survive somehow, bring up the smallest, and take care of the ill and old, aid army. 15-year old teenagers shoulders are heavily loaded with war-time and rear chores. They also strive to go to the battle-front, want to fight for their motherland side by side with their fathers and brothers, but they realize that when mothers are out, there are nobody, except them, to take care of kids, graze horses, work on mills and do many other things.

A family drama

Experimental film that, through two narrative lines—dance and photography—reimagines The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca.

In 1938, a young woman leaves Germany to search for her love, Erich, in Reichenburg, Bohemia. Erich is secretly fighting the fascists, so Hilde ends up becoming a housemaid in the home of a German joiner in order to carry on their relationship. The joiner's son notices the passionate love shared between Hilde and Erich. To him, the young lady embodies the feminine ideal. When Hilde receives news of Erich's death, she descends into an uninhibited lifestyle in an attempt to forget.

Carole d'Axelle, young author of "A Dream Has Barely Begun", buys the apartment of Norma Sundberg, a very talented writer to whom she has boundless admiration.

Lawin becomes an unstoppable killing machine as he gets revenge on those who murdered his people.

Documentary about the Swedish band Di sma undar jårdi mixed with recordings from one of their shows.

The short film tells the story of a night (written with Indian ink) with characters who intersect.

The biggest threat to a successful crackdown on drug traffickers and consumers is the international hitman Barták, sent to the Czech Republic to eliminate all his collaborators...

Val, at home and in the studio, prepares for a traditional Christmas with music and fun to start the holiday in a relaxing mood with his guests, including snooker star Dennis Taylor and Scots percussion virtuoso Evelyn Glennie.

Saraswati, a school teacher, is raped and her fiance, Ravi, is killed after the latter attempts to expose political corruption. Her students embark on a mission to bring the perpetrators to justice.

"I Do Not Know What It Is that I Am Like" juxtaposes images of animals, both wild and domestic, and natural environments with human activity as it takes place in an apartment, and during a fire walking ceremony in Fiji. Documentary-style footage is combined with staged events. Despite the piece's lack of a traditional narrative, it bears some relationship to nature works. The segment features material from "Il Corpo Scuro (The dark body)" - animals and natural environments are seen up close and at a distance.

The Topp Twins TV Special is a critically acclaimed 1986 television broadcast featuring New Zealand comedic and musical duo Jools and Lynda Topp. The special showcases their signature blend of country music, yodeling, and satirical character comedy, ultimately helping them win Best Entertainment Programme at the 1986 New Zealand Listener Television Awards.

Brent Towers and his two young friends, Tom and Jenny, often rode the range on adventure and in outreach to others. When the Badrock Valley Gang came to the Pioneer Junction community, however, Brent and the children found themselves faced with mystery and danger beyond anything they had known before.

"The majority of my 8-mm works were made for the three-minute "Personal Focus" film special put on in Fukuoka. This film is an animation of photographs I had taken on a regular basis as a sort of diary, and was made to have a rough feel to it." - Takashi Ito

A story about the director's first true love, and the truer rejection. A man and a woman meet after years. Both have moved on, and yet the past lingers, enticing one with its tale of an unsullied longing, on a lonesome day that held a slow drizzle, at the soggy bus stop.

After Raja's poultry business suffers a huge loss, he decides to search for a job. In the process, he meets a wealthy woman and falls in love with her.

Oliver Twist, orphaned, is raised by a wicked and abusive tutelage, Mr. Bimble. However, an old man who knows about Oliver's family looks for Oliver to rescue him.

Monk, the manager of a hotel in Cocos Island, throws bottles into the sea containing a fake treasure map of the island in an attempt to attract tourists.

A young miner Ahan is fond of photo hunting. During one of the trips to the mountains, he photographed poachers at the crime scene. Despite threats and blackmail, Ahan exposes the criminals...

Animated short film.

A senegalese man searches for a german woman who bought an important mask from him and who is also his lover.

A couple of prison inmates seem to have a communication problem.

Wanda, the young wife of the famous psychiatry professor Stanislaw Czelawa, has been living a nightmare for a long time - every night she is harassed by a repulsive man, twinned with her husband. Unable to bear it, the desperate woman turns for help to another psychiatrist and hypnotist, Dr. Stocki. Not quite believing her, Stocki puts her under hypnosis. Observing the Czelaw house, the man discovers the truth.

George Plimpton takes us through some of the more unsual programming from around the world. Highlights include Japan's 'Screaming Man', kooky workout shows, a topless ad from Denmark, strange gags from Belgium and Egypt and a commercial directed by Federico Fellini.

Mahir and Gülsen's daughter Çiğdem and Basri's son Uğur are married and expecting a child. They invite their families over for dinner to share the good news. After dinner, Çiğdem and Uğur announce the news, and everyone is happy except Mahir. Gülsen wants to bring Çiğdem to their home to take care of her during her pregnancy, but Mahir objects. The two families meet again at the children's home. Basri wants to build a house for his children and have them live close to him, but Mahir objects to Gülsen's insistence. However, the children refuse because they have already moved into a house through a cooperative.

Tsu Feh, a Chinese female doctor, converted to Islam and changed her name to Sofiah. After opening her clinic, she took a vacation to an island, far from busy life. But she was very disappointed to know that the island once thought to be harmonious when its villagers often quarreled among themselves.

The story of a protest, told by Jancis Robinson. Fulbeck is a small, picturesque village, in the heart of some of the best farming land in Britain. It has a squire, a pub, champion bell ringers, a successful cricket team. In February of this year the Government proposed the World War II airfield at Fulbeck as a possible site for a nuclear waste dump. The news came like a thunderbolt. Over the next months the lives of the villagers were transformed.

A man in his fifties returns home accompanied by his dog. Arriving home, he begins to tidy up the belongings of his wife who he has just lost. When he opens his wife's Sunday bag, he discovers a photo of a stranger.

Brought to the screen by award winning animation team Cosgrove Hall, 'The Wind In The Willows' brings to life the charming adventures of our four intrepid animal friends in a truly magical experience for all the family. In 'Winter Tales' join our lovable friends in three exciting seasonal stories - 'The Yuletide Entertainment', 'Winter Sports', and 'The Rescue' - that will both entertain and delight viewers of all ages.

In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family meets in peace.

A film on the life and teachings of Madhavacharya, the renowned teacher and philosopher of the Dvaita school of Vedanta.

The second part of a trilogy of Silesian westerns by Jozef Klyk - an amateur, a great film lover, who has been making amateur productions since 1967, the most famous of which are westerns. In them, Klyk combines western mythology with Silesian mythology. The film covers the period 1881-1886.

To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion as to who she is. Edna has no identity without Harry, an ambitious, successful salesman who seems to love and care for Edna long after other men might become worried about her housewifely obsessions... Edna is reviewing her life - in neatly chronological flashbacks - from the room in the psychiatric hospital where she's been confined ever since Harry's sudden death.

Pastor Robert Ingstrom fights to save his church. Not from fire or flood or financial ruin, but something far more dangerous: Spiritual death.

Hese, the shy owner of a video company, travels on a moped to film a commissioned Christmas party. From the steps of his office, Hese finds an anonymous Christmas present, a Hese slipover, and begins to find out who it is from.

A Rangeela action film.