Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

How three people's lives were permanently affected by the TWA plane hi-jack.

Reflections on the medium love: two persons learn to know each other, fall in love, love each other, destroy each other... A jealous lover... love - a condition which ends with itself...

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku

The super-companies of this film are multi-national corporations that treat the world as one market. They take raw materials from one place, process them in another, and sell them everywhere. Shot on four continents, Super-Companies provides a provocative view of the way our world is being shaped by economic powers that are often at odds with the needs of people.

A girl models for her friend, Ippei. Another man plots to become her boyfriend.

Romance novels comprise nearly half the paperback books sold in America. Chiffon-shrouded, jewel-laden, flower-bedecked Barbara Cartland has written hundreds of them. And filmmaker George Csicsery has given his heart to this fascinating subculture where all the women are beautiful, all the men are mysterious and all the endings are happy.

In one neighborhood, Helen has her own band, Rock Panther, which is made up of only boys. In the same neighborhood, Paul has his own band, the Amazons, made up of only girls. Between Helen and Paul there is an unceasing rivalry and an endless hatred, but it hides a great love within. The great dream of both of them is to participate in the Eurovision Festival. Which of them will succeed in getting the golden ticket? Which one will win?

A small meditation on light, wind, and Cecil Taylor

How a wizard tailor turned a nondescript corner into a flowering valley.

As seasons and events unfold in the village of Octeville-sur-Mer, the filmmaker describes the close and affectionate ties that have grown between the villagers and Jean-Jacques, a curious fellow who should in no way be likened to a “village idiot”.

Super 8mm. Details and duration unknown.

In the Gard, an architect, anarchist, libertarian, Jack-of-all-trades, ecologist, has been constructing over the last ten years an ideal "convivial" and "erogenous" palace. An imposing utopia, an exuberant commentary

A documentary chronicling the life and career of horror film actor Bela Lugosi, including interviews with associates and clips from and trailers for many of his films.

Universal Citizen is a multifaceted personal travelogue that brings us to a real Universal Hotel, in Guatemala, and to the same public square in Siena that appears at the beginning of Universal Hotel; at the center of the film are Thompson's off screen meetings with a Libyan Jew and former Dachau inmate who works as a smuggler in Guatemala and refuses to be photographed. (Jonathan Rosenbaum)

The engineer Manuel Iglesias is commissioned to supervise the expansion of the ChihuahuaPacífico railway; for this he wants his adopted son Julián to collaborate, but he is reluctant.

Sydney 1988 - Sally and Robert are hopelessly addicted to jacking Intensity with the "stinger", a device which blasts hyper-heroin straight into the jugular vein. When Intensity supplies dry up, Robert scores from the Burgher Meister and carks it in a public dunny, but not before blabbing about his secret research with Liz and Margaret at the Institute of Brain Research. With the help of super-computer INFORB, Liz and Margaret insert subliminal audio and video triggers into a tape that stimulate opioid peptides in the brain inducing the ultimate high, but its effects are untested. The Burgher Meister and his violent goons go after Sally, Liz and Margaret seeking the tape - meanwhile the CIA hatch Operation Peptide to acquire the tape for their own population control agenda. -charybdias, CG.

A search-and-destroy probe attacks a Jupiter research station manned by Dash's mother and sister. A rescue mission is headed by Crowbar, Slim, Dash and his brother-in-law, Sgt. Victor Rivera.

Vampire Sadism is an obscure Japanese torture porn film with a clown-faced vampire keeping naked slave girls inside cages and performing various bondage tortures on them while laughing hysterically; a woman is dunked in a waterfall, another one hanged from a helicopter.

Anthology film by the group of young Kazakh filmmakers trained by Sergey Solovyov. Includes novels about love-driven suicide attempt, tank division and a summer camp for children. Was never finished.

Waving was made after her grandmother's sudden death of an aneurysm. A poetic monologue drafts the film's narrative, the filmmaker's voice impelling a succession of images drawn from a lifetime of family. Her text hinges on an identification with her grandmother that begins as an infant and carries on into adulthood. "I was just like granny" she says but goes on to hint of a compact too closely drawn--of a bodily sympathy that relates the ills of one generation to the next. Their common ailments join the bodies of young and old beneath the sign of mortality, sharing the certainty of a body's failure.

In Nick Zedd's mock docu-drama Police State, he puts his own body on the line to illustrate his belief that “freedom is an illusion.” A black comedy-satire / protest film featuring Rockets Redglare.

Bill Reeve's The Card Game

Based on the citizens who formed a vigilante group Alsa Malsa, which was created to fight the New People's Army and their insurgency.

A fictionalised account of the brutal oppression experienced by a family living in a labour camp headed by malicious cadres.

Record label manager and producer Manfred Eicher established the record label ECM in 1969. He has been a key promoter of European - and Norwegian - jazz.

Experimental film by Yoshitaka Shimano

Television documentary from BBCs Arena program in which David Lynch, fresh off the release of Blue Velvet, examines his surrealistic influences in cinema which excerpts from several classics works of the avant-garde

1958, Budapest. Gerencsér is a skilled worker at the abattoir, his wife left in 1956. They falls in love with the beautiful Mrs. Hász at the personnel management department, but they only date secretly because of a former relationship of Mária. They go on holiday and travel to the Mátra, just the two of them.

Screen adaption of Alim Keshokov's novel of the same name. The film takes place before and during the civil war.

Documentary on the life and career of choreographer Agnes de Mille, narrated by herself, with excerpts from her dance works throughout the program.

A circus portal takes us to a dreamlike world of colorful clowns and trapeze artists.

Roger Cook investigations and confronts people who buy and sell child pornography.

A History of Black Social Dance on Film, 1900–1986 is a documentary film by Mura Dehn chronicling the evolution of African-American social dance throughout most of the 20th century. In its original form it consists of nearly six hours of rare archival footage shot over the course of thirty years.

Having dutifully served their lord for decades, two nuns find out that ecstasy does not only come from above.

Mickey Mouse visits a police station.

A teenage boy from a respectable family, Stanisław Czajkowski, dies in mysterious circumstances in a Krakow guesthouse. His brother-in-law, Count Maksymilian Rotter, married to Stanisław's older sister, Ksawera, is accused of the murder.

A frozen country road. A young woman picks up male hikers in her car, but will not let them utter a word of communication.

Award-winning short thesis film by Jorge Hoogland. Premise unknown.

Journalist exposé about how power and money ultimately corrupt the innocent.

The hero of the film tries to find the way out from his problems and difficulties.

Bailiffs are people who collect material goods according to the court judgements. In bureaucratic communism, they become ruthless instruments of power, who sometimes resort to violence and don't care about human suffering.

This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock. The viewer never learns their names - there are no interviews. The women are presented simply as workers: cooking, cleaning, hauling, and serving dishes amid clanking pots and hot steam.

The school year is inaugurated by teacher Socrates with an extemporary exam on the theme "How would I like to be the class headmaster?". Socrates' popularity worries the math teacher, Isoscel. But Socrates also has his worries about Anca, his daughter in love.

Two-part TV report aired on the "Home of Elderly People" (老年之家) program on Beijing Television, about old people who still practice martial arts and their lives.

It's almost spring, a bee wakes up a little numb. But a chase begins through the forest...