Cinematic Era: 1986 Vintage

Animation short.

Nora, a farmer's wife, attempts to protect her family's inheritance by sabotage,

A collection of unrelated sequences featuring people in various situations.

Stories in a community where there is a neighborhood that does not like to mix with the neighbors.

Joginder Trance

A film interpretation of an interesting theory by French scientist Rene Thom, concerning certain events that occur in biology, physics, and economics in a violent way, involving a change of structure or state. This theory allows for a better understanding of phenomena occurring in the world around us.

A documentary following Indigenous struggles in the Americas and the pursuit for audience at the United Nations.

Documentary about the life of József Béres.

Thai action film. Scenes from this ended up in the Filmark release Twinkle Ninja Fantasy.

An animation film by Roze Stiebra and Imants Ziedonis

The main themes of this film are WAR - FLIGHT - FAMINE - DISEASE from the viewpoint of children. Refugees from Afghanistan, Palestine, Nicaragua and Cambodia. Military training of Persian and Cambodian (refugee) children in camps. The soundtrack accompanying these frames consists of poems which prisoners scratched on the walls of their cells before they were executed.

An unauthorized turkish adaption of "First Blood" (1982).

Children’s film from Peng Xiaolian.

Meticulous stop-motion techniques, brilliant set-design and an eerie percussive musical score distinguish this unlikely mini-epic about a showdown between a Japanese homebody and a volatile magenta-haired invader.

While playing in the meadow, the boy accidentally broke a silver bell. Once in a fairyland, he finds himself in the kingdom of Sukhovey and saves a casket with the seeds of this delicate flower.

The story takes place in a village at a time that is deliberately undetermined, but could be current. Two girls is told to a guest passing through their mother withdrawn from the world: Saadia was raped after a fierce resistance. Despite killing her assailant, the village men's council felt provocative and sentenced her to death. The second is forced to marry a husband chosen by his father.

A hike around the GDR without any record ambitions, just the desire to experience something, to challenge themselves, to get to know the country and its people - their own country, their own people - better. Six men, aged between 25 and 40, set off on a hike, curious about everything they will encounter along the way between Cottbus and Zittau - nature, sights, people. The viewer gradually realizes that there is actually a sensation behind this seemingly natural, visibly unspectacular, cheerful process. This is already the 13th stage of the planned hike around the country. Memories of previous stages make the scale clear. The men, who we have already got to know quite well over the five days, manage the daily 25 to 30 kilometers with such ease because they are passionate athletes: Mountaineers in Saxon Switzerland.

Oliver Knussen's operatic adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic picture book. Designed by Sendak for Glyndebourne's stage.

In the turbulence of Auckland, Ska (Hunter) is a streetwise 19 year old, whose father is a drunkard and whose older sister works at a high-class massage parlour. When he decide to “rescue” her, he is thrown out. With some friends, he take revenge by trashing the place, but the reply results in Ska's best friend being killed. The massage parlour boss is also a crooked concert promoter, so Ska, and his gang, “hijack” a concert which incites the audience to riot.

Peem is married to Wannaree and they have two kids. She is a dedicated wife but Peem doesn't appreciate her kindness and efforts. He grows tired of her. Wannaree's closest friend is Putkrong, a lonely and young rich widow. She and Peem start an affair.

A film documenting the work and personal lives of five physically disabled women. It shows how they are coping with the problems they share with all women, the problems they share with other disabled women and those unique to their particular circumstances.

When a person lacks a sense of rational attitude towards nature, what happens is what the film tells about: people built another city, displacing the last tree from it.

In this feature documentary, a Haitian, exiled in Canada for twenty years, returns to his country after the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier. Through his encounters with former friends, professors and colleagues, the face of this newfound Haiti gradually takes shape… Shot in Haiti after the fall of the Duvalier regime, this film, beyond a simple observation, shares with us the hopes of the Haitian people as well as their fears and uncertainties regarding this country that has yet to be built.

Marika is an ordinary Greek housewife living with her family in Athens. Her everyday is a living hell.

The relationship between the mother and daughter is psychologically very tight. The isolated husband is irritated and becomes violent whenever he drinks but the two women cannot understand the reason of his violence. The mother lets the daughter marry for appearance's sake although in reality she hangs onto the daughter forever.

People who have experienced fear - those involved in the peace movement, a child, a politian and a film director - discuss the psychological and physical aspects of this emotion.

In the years after the People's Revolution, hundreds of temples were scattered in rural areas, and folk schools were established to teach literacy to the gangs who were studying in the monasteries.

A teenager wakes up at the last moment, and has just five minutes to get himself into shape before running to school which is right across his street. Will he make it to classroom before it's too late?

A Swedish documentary that describes the people and the land of Ireland. Tells how the Irish are attempting to preserve their history and culture as well as develop their future.

A prisoner draws the outside world on his prison wall. Can he escape captivity this way?

Tadeusz reminisces about his childhood, when he met his current wife.

For the first time, the filmmaker, who has previously focused his camera on his parents, friends and cats, chooses a woman as his subject for this film, which consists of three parts, each of which captures a different woman. In each of the three parts, the camera captures a different woman: the first woman dances in a muddy clearing, returns to her room, smokes a kisser, takes off her clothes and enters into a strange world of sensuality with the artist; the second woman just stands there. The third woman strolls through the winter streets in high spirits, performing wherever she can. The artist simply stares at the three women and says nothing. However, he does not miss the eroticism that emerges from his subjects, and the women's sexuality drifts through the succession of unhurried, diary-like images.

“Roda Lume”, 1968, was Melo e Castro’s first video poem. Lost or destroyed in 1969, the author created a reconstruction of the poem in 1986 from the frames and storyboard he had kept, entitled “Roda Lume Fogo.”

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...

About what four men understand about the men in their lives. Examines masculinity and male self-image through a collection of quasi-documentary stories.

Mexican feature film

Basically a courtroom drama, Sumi is arrested and brought for a trial after her husband, Aditya’s penis is stabbed and he is rendered dysfunctional. Sumi is suffering in her marriage because of her husband's illness. She doesn’t leave him for the sake of her children. However, when she finds that her husband is having an affair with Lena, she loses her patience. She plans to kill her husband while he is sleeping, but the plan fails. Instead of actually killing him, she accidentally stabs him in the penis. At the end of the trial, their second baby dies, and it creates a lifetime of regret.

An accident on a frozen lake. A story told in a visual matrix paralleled by the spread of melting ice.

A dragumentary about a day in the life of a score of drag queens on the lookout for photo opportunities at Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, Tiffany’s, and in SoHo. A tripped-out Hapi Phace shares her haiku, and The “Lady” Bunny pouts about the concept of unisex clothes. Also featuring Sister Dimension and Dagmar Onassis.

High school psychology students accidentally summon the ghost of a young newleywed from 1938 and must locate her husband, who is still alive.

A small-time henchman dreams of a big career in the drug business. Bobo is unscrupulous and unpredictable in his selection of methods. He plays with high stakes: the life of his girlfriend Inga. In his blind ambition, he overlooks the fact that Inga has long since made her own plans. Deadly plans!

Women in love features black women talking about their public and private lives. Their discussion of families, lovers, and the way they move through society is as entertaining as it is informative.

How does the Wall affect the Berlin psyche? This film shows some possibilities, via artistic antics with Vera Schrankl, Thierry Noir and Arthur Kuggeleyn. With the help of the filmmakers' experimental signature, the wall of shame (West) and protective barrier (East) experience a transformation from political entity to a subjective projection surface that can make concrete crumble.