Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

About the creative path of Leningrad director Dinara Asanova.

The celebration of communion in Christian ceremonies is one of the oldest elements of church tradition. The film shows how young people prepare and celebrate communion together during a leisure activity.

A true story that occurred during the Iraq-Iran war, where one of the Iranian shells hit the bride Lamia on her wedding night. The story narrates the reality of the border city (Mandali) situated between Iraq and Iran, where the girl Lamia maintains loving relationships with everyone, highlighting the role of infiltrators like the madman who transmits information about the city to the other side.

Antonis Alaiporos has just been fired from his job and gets into the world of insurance market.

This educational film is aimed at 12 to 15-year-old boys and girls and depicts the attitudes and experiences of this age group in relation to their first sexual and partner experiences.

A documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Motel Dieu at a large hospital in Paris. The patients arrive on their own, or with considerable help from the police, but all of them are in need of medical attention.

Mexican feature film

In 1787, Friedrich Schiller published his story about a prince who manipulates, seduces, and ultimately falls victim to a murderous intrigue in Rococo Venice. The prince, an enlightened ruler with a penchant for worldly things, travels to the funeral of his brother, a sometimes mentally confused, generally incompetent, alcohol-addicted good-for-nothing who died in a brawl. Having come to fulfill a tedious duty, the prince falls in love with a mysterious beauty against a romantic backdrop of dreamy gondolas, castles, and masks, and she drives him mad. He, who is usually guided by incorruptible judgment, becomes increasingly entangled in the finely woven web of his invisible enemies from the nobility and clergy. For, despite all reason, it is a matter of succession to the throne and thus of power.

A young woman buys a pillow from some gypsies. Upon awakening, she mysteriously feels as if her life is being consumed. Nobody can cure her from the unknown illness that finally leads to her death.

Documentary about the previously untold story of a 1945 massacre of Polish partisans by Russian troupes and pro-Russian Polish security forces.

A collaboration between a video artist and an artist who works primarily in painting and drawing. This collaboration has produced a mix of narratives which receates the delirium of the AIDS epidemic. The Cree myth of a cannibalistic demon (Windigo) becomes a macabre metaphor for the virus and its psychological affects.

A permutation poem by Dream Machine artist Brion Gysin is recited by Monte Cazazza. Each word is linked to an image. Sentences are re-organised in every possible grammatical manner to create new associations.

A mad scientist injects his victims with a formula that turns them into crazed killers.

In Gus Van Sant's loving portrait of his cat, a reflected light leads the subject to explore a domestic composition in a manner that can only be described as wholly feline.

'Münchner Klaviersommer' was an annual concerts series that took place from 1981 to 1998 in Munich, Germany. Although the festival's name suggests a strong focus on piano music, it featured countless famous musicians from jazz and classical music – not just pianists. The concerts were usually held in July at The Gasteig, home of the Munich Philharmonic. In 1988, vocalist Bobby McFerrin appeared...

Short stories based on the popular Sylvanian Families toys

Octave and Alice are in love. Theo, rejected by Alice, whom he also loves, works as an informer for a hospital that sells women's wombs. He makes Alice fall and Octave will not be able to get the young woman out of her situation. But he still loves Alice and will continue to sing for her.

Late era Italian mondo film.

Budding romance and political subversion create a headache for the manager of Superstore in Rik Lander’s colourful satire on capitalism.

An animator tries to get a fictitious audience to sing along to a simple canon.

Mexican feature film

A young aristocrat is seduced by a young man who appeared to her in a dream one spring afternoon. Captive of this impossible love, the young girl is dying of melancholy. But the constancy of her love is stronger than death; she wins the pity of the judge of the underworld, manages to find her lover and come back to life. The opera "The Peony Pavilion" was composed in 1598 by the poet Tang Xianzu (1550-1617), one of the greatest playwrights of the Ming period. Of all the forms of Chinese opera that have followed one another since the 12th century, the kunqu is the one that best preserves the image of a classical art highly appreciated in educated circles for its musical, literary and gestural refinement.

A love triangle among Rerai, Sataya and Chotiwan. They grew up together, play together, but live separately in class hierarchy. One day, their bond breaks.

Animated adaptation of Komi-Permyak epics about chief Kudym-Osh.

Channel 4 docudrama from the series "The Modern Wold : Ten Great Writers" on Marcel Proust and Swann's Way

A lost student film made at Columbia University in 1988, plot is unknown.

It is dedicated to the memory of Heinrich Zveinek, the first commissar of the Inzen Division, who died during the defense of Lugansk and was buried on Red Square.

Reflection on the relationship between the world and humanity. A journey in the 20th century, in a specific time and specific space.

A magnet moves on a floor. A moth beats against a window. A doll child watches the magnet; threads of metal filings gather around the magnet.

A piece of lint from a Beethoven fan's record collection sticks to the clothes of a bank robber. Inspector Koschonsky finds the lint and solves the case using a chain of evidence consisting of lint, musical notes, and sounds.

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Young Ivanka wants to study art history, but she is disappointed when she is not accepted to university. She takes a job at a kindergarten with the possibility of completing her teacher training. At the same time, her worries increase. First, her father becomes seriously ill, then cracks appear in her relationship with her boyfriend, who has no understanding for the profession that is starting to absorb Ivanka very much. And in private, Ivanka may also have a new relationship waiting for her...

1988 short film

Emilie Kappelhoff runs the household for her brother Julius. One day she discovers a savings book with a balance of 350,000 DM, which he wanted to keep secret from the family. Emilie and the children believe they have hit the jackpot, which will solve all their money worries. They quickly spread the news. Suddenly, many so-called friends come forward.

Louie Anderson's second stand-up special

Based on the play by José Ignacio Cabrujas, it is a comedy with deep popular roots and, essentially, Latin American.

Cultural traditions blend as a Japanese American family celebrates Christmas and a young girl tries to find her place within the family structure.

A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.

The first filmed ascent of Mount Eiger.

A gang of women wreak havoc in the city, killing various men who have treated women poorly. And sometimes they do it just for fun.

Descended from a long line of Satanists, a man is given the role of sitting with the dead. He gets fed up with and wants a normal life but is tempted back over to the dark side by necrophilia.

Young American actor comes to Yugoslavia to star in co-production film of the two countries, only to find out that the director was mysteriously killed. Later he discovers that the reason was his involvement in the white slavery trade.

An elegy on the death of the film-maker's mother. Fragments from dreams, nightmares and memories combine with natural sound and landscape in this short film poem "a myriad of instances in transit" M. Maziere, Independent Media. Through various texts and spoken diaries oblique reference is made to the persistence of the imagination; the dark, wild wood of Dante's Inferno with Paolo and Francescs buffeted on an infernal breeze, whilst an iconoclasic re-depiction of a Renaissance painting of the deposition by Raphael, describes an age in which the reality of death and grief were less hidden.

A documentary following future seven time world snooker champion Stephen Hendry as a teenager in the run up to and aftermath of his first ever ranking event win at the Rothmans Grand Prix.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.