Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

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.

The mouse falls ill, and the owl advises the mole to find a Matricaria Chamomilla flower. However, she does not have time to tell him where the flower grows. The mole travels the whole world in search of the flower, only to discover that it grows in their meadow.

A Girl on a Carousel

Schroeter casts his tutored eye on Mnouchkine, the legendary founder of the avant-garde Théâtre du Soleil, with whom he shared an affinity for collage and pastiche, improvisation and distillation, ancient Greek drama, commedia dell’arte, opera, and Asian traditions of theater and dance. In this fascinating study of the creative process, Mnouchkine is seen directing her company in a revival of 1789, her defining political work, along with her 1977 film Molière and the theatrical premiere of Hélène Cixous’s The Horrific and as Yet Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia. - MoMA

Like many, another young Israeli, Rafi never gave much thought to the fact that when he reached a certain age, he would be expected to serve in the Israeli Army and that he would experience active duty in combat. It certainly never occurred to him that he might be injured, and if it did, it never occurred to him that he would be crippled, as he was. Now he must try to learn to cope with a life which is vastly different from anything he ever imagined, and at first he has nothing but bitterness. An older veteran tries to help him learn to cope, and his relatives work hard to adjust as well. However, only his sister-in-law Maya seems to understand his state of mind and doesn't freak out at his easily provoked displays of temper.

A smoker arrives at a beach via sports car and is surprised to encounter a cloud who encourages him to be a "quitter." The well-informed nimbus delineates the reasons for cigarettes' allure, including the big screen's notorious puffers: John Wayne in Fighting tigers, Bette Davis and Charles Boyer in Now Voyager and Casablanca's Peter Lorre. It also cites incentives for abandoning the habit: cigarettes' terrible odor and the increased risks of heart disease and cancer caused by smoking. The cloud refutes popular excuses for not quitting, nervousness and weight gain, and offers tips to aid the smoker kick the habit

The science fiction film takes place in historically recognizable places in Valga. During the shooting, local militias also had to be dealt with. The robot misleads gangsters-bank robbers. But who is he and who is his master?

Running Out of Patience documents the Victorian nurses' strike of 1986, revealing various myths and stereotypes which have managed to pigeonhole women as saints first and unionists second.

Mixing fiction and documentary, DAMAS DA NOITE tells the story of Júlia, a street girl who wanders around the city fighting for survival. She sells chewing gum, commits small thefts, until, due to lack of option, she begins to prostitute herself.

Mexican feature film

FRIDAY THE 13TH parody short.

Documentary short about artist Ernst Barlach (1870-1938).

"In a motel in El Reno, Oklahoma, George observes the weather and copes with leaking air conditioning, food shopping, loneliness, television, and eating, among other things." – Video Data Bank.

This moving documentary chronicles the life and musical career of renowned Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau, from his birth in 1903 to his success on the world stage as he stunned audiences with his powerful interpretive technique and vast repertoire. In 1984, Arrau returned to Chile for a final series of concerts, capped off by a performance of composer Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 5 ("Emperor") in Santiago's Metropolitan Cathedral.

The Second Ukrainian Front's combat path, from the Battle of Kursk to the battles for Czechoslovakia.

A vivid, collective portrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II. Three distinct stories are told: the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated military unit in U.S. history; M.I.S. (Military Intelligence Service), linguists who decoded Japanese military plans; and the thousands of draft resisters and army protesters who challenged the constitutionality of the internment camps.

A group of teenagers are keeping a cannibal murderer in the shed. One day he escapes.

A documentary reflecting on what author H.-J. Börner called "socialist architecture" - the monotonous, cookie-cutter prefabricated buildings that defined East Berlins landscape.

From a cloudy sky, a storm erupts, and to the music, a girl gazes at the book of the Great Galician Encyclopedia, transformed into the book of a cannibalistic Galicia that begins with its festivals, the Franco regime, devotion to the saint, and the negotiated transition until the arrival of La Movida.

The scholar Ning caichen, who was poor and short in life, inadvertently lived in lanruo temple, but led to the seduction of female ghost Xiaoqian. Xiaoqian is controlled by the tree demon. She is looking for a man to absorb Yang Qi. Fortunately, caichen is saved by the Taoist Zhang Dezhi. After being rescued, Ning caichen died suddenly due to food poisoning. He started as a thousand people. Ning caichen became a ghost. Under the control of the mother of the tree demon, he followed Xiao Qian to find a man to absorb Yang Qi.

A figure walks through empty space until it comes across walls that leave a permanent mark in it. It is possible to get rid of the mark with the help of another person, but passages through other walls will be more and more difficult. Instead of leaving traces, they will take over the figure’s individuality.

A story about children's fantasy, intended for a child audience. About the search for happiness, which is personified by a blue bird that makes sad people laugh.

The story of the wonderful rabbit slipper.

Twelve years after making the experimental black-and-white 16mm film, Alchemy of the Word, I ran the film through a prototype digital video synthesizer called a Chroma-Chron, and added a soundtrack by the East Village band, Liquid, Liquid and the German electronic music composer, Holgar Czukay. The result is a pulsing, meditational, almost tribal film containing lurid colors and dense, finger paint-like qualities. In a sense, the video is closer to what I’d intended when I made the original black-and-white film and follows the same Rimbaud-esque disordering of the senses.

The film is a testimony of one of the few Hungarians who survived the concentration camps in Germany during the Second World War. Ferenc Göndör's story takes place when he was of school age. As a Jew, he was not allowed to go to school in the same way as his peers. He had to practice pointless and hard work during some lessons. He was not allowed in to his hairdresser, to whom he had been going for many years: "Forbidden to dogs and Jews".

A nuclear reactor and a factory canteen, the jargon of engineers, and the earthy language of cooks. In her film-survey, the sensitive observer Vihanová observes two contrasting worlds that meet at the Dukovany nuclear power plant during a hydrostatic test on Unit II of the EDU. Science and life are permeated by Badinerie, from Bach’s Orchestral Suite in B minor. Art gives both worlds greatness.

This work began when the filmmaker noticed buds sprouting on a dead branch. He realized that "the dry mountain is actually covered with buds". The story revolves around the way the number of objects appears. Three young women perform in order to create the atmosphere of feeling life in the breath of plants.

An insight into the women fighting against the violent dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua and how poetry underlies and expresses their passion for change and freedom from tyranny.

When a young couple from Barranquilla wants to get married, even with the opposition of their respective parents, problems arise on both sides with numerous setbacks that postpone such a happy event.

The 1987 Lombard RAC Rally would see the destination of the World Rally Championship decided in dramatic fashion. Four days of incredible action, from parks and stately homes to the forests of Wales, Yorkshire and the Borders - get set for some classic rallying drama.

Four women discuss their housing situations. None of them would describe themselves as homeless - after all they've never slept out on the street. However, as they listen to each other's stories, they begin to understand that homelessness is something they've all experienced. The film analyses the inadequacies of housing policies and examines the political thinking that lies behind them.

This documentary explores the imaginative world of Australian novelist Elizabeth Jolley. It combines readings, dramatised segments, and witty and playful interviews in which Jolley talks about the craft and practical problems of writing, and her fictional treatment of old age, women's relationships, exile and displacement. Dramatic sequences bring to life Jolley's unforgettable characters. We see the funny, sad and bizarre worlds created in 'Woman in lampshade', 'Milk and Honey', 'Miss Peabody's Inheritance', 'Mr Scobies' Riddle' and 'Palamino'.

In 1985, US company DuPont received permission from the Ministry of Economic Affairs to set up a titanium dioxide plant near Lukang, Changhua County. The local residents held a series of protests against the plan, even one in front of the presidential office. This rising community consciousness, combined with a growing environmental awareness, ultimately drove DuPont out of the region.

An old lighthouse keeper raises two rats he fished out of the sea. Thanks to his attentive care, the animals feel great, becoming more and more voracious every day, eating everything around them, until they finally turn on their benefactor. The desperate lighthouse keeper sets fire to the lighthouse. The fire department arrives, but the firefighter also falls victim to the aggressive rodents. The insatiable rats set off in search of more victims.

Taken from the multimedia installation "Puccini/Opera", four synthetic settings from excerpts from Tosca, Boheme, Butterfly, Turandot. Production Pitti Immagine, Florence. First presentation within Pitti Trend 1987.

"Cucharita" or Miguel Martínez, is an acrobat and popular musician, who tours restaurants delighting the public with an unusual instrument: a pair of spoons. Behind the few coins that he collects are the painful memories of his childhood, the effort to raise his large family and his religious faith in Sarita Colonia, a saint of marginal towns.

A documentary on the devastating effect of the environmental menace just below our feet - the heat of the earth, and the eruption of this heat in the form of volcanoes.

Blizzards and crevasses make the motorized journey over the glacier almost as picturesque as the exploration under it. Together these two faces of the glacier make a unique adventure film in an amazing landscape.

This is one of the first incursions of post-independence Mozambican production into feature-length fiction films, and it revisits the last stage of Portuguese colonialism. In their everyday life, two boys and a girl handle the arrogance of the Portuguese settlers as best as they can, until violence goes from words to actions. The wind of change blows from the North.

TV documentary by Shi Jian.

Mon grows up with his uncle and learns martial arts after his father dies. He then uses his talents to fight crime and defeat criminals.

Impressions and experiences of the author during his study stay in Liverpool.

Nongma, a ten-year-old girl, goes to join her grandmother in a remote village. An official offers to send Nongma's grandmother to school, but she must go to the city. Through the journey of Nongma and her grandmother, "Dunia" raises the problems of women in Burkina Faso, torn between tradition and modernity.

Short 8mm film by Toshihiko Omote.

Korean movie.

Part Three: TO TASTE 100 HERBS - Dr Shen Fasheng discusses his Catholic religion, medical ethics, rural health services, centuries-old knowledge of herbal treatments and Western medical practices. The warmth, closeness and traditions of family life in China are wonderfully captured in scenes of prayer, play, chores and celebrations.

Second in a series of paper films made from strips of color Xerography. In these films, the filmmaker is concerned with the film as an object or motion picture "soft sculpture" constructed of 16mm-sized strips. The paper (or emulsion) could be a kind of skin complete with hair and pores, half-tone dots, paper fiber - through which the world is viewed.

It is the summer holidays and teenager Jacqueline ("Jake") is visiting her newly remarried father and his family (including teenager Dora and her young brother Lewis) for the first time. Emotions and tensions run high as everyone tries to establish where they fit in this new dynamic. Meanwhile, on a distant planet, Bond is about to embark on a perilous mission to Earth to seek information and to find his sister, Solita. But he is alone and in danger. When their paths cross, Bond and the children must learn a lesson in friendship and family ties and reconsider the notion of what it is to be an outsider.

Film critic and scholar Helmut Färber recounts the life and work of Robert Bresson