Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

The third film in the Slaughter Day series

A tale of two teens: Violet an actress wandering through the years of her career with remarkable ease and media attention despite her lack of an attention span or talent. And a young man also tries to make it in New York City, but his naivety leads him to a life of hustling. Violet and the hustler may be the same person.

The Orange Alternative was the most unusual and humorous opposition movement in the communist Poland of the 1980s. This is the story of its leaders and most memorable gigs.

This docudrama highlights the complexities of compensation through the legal system for medical malpractice. For when the mother attempts to investigate the hospital procedure of using forceps to deliver her now retarded child, her husband frowns upon this and would rather ignore the whole thing.

A special episode of the 1980s tv show "Welcome to Pooh Corner" that aired on Disney Channel.

Outtakes from the movie

Two themes arise from the story, themes that are interlocked: the theme of love and of man's eternal submission to traditional symbols. The director Živko Nikolić continues his movie saga of human nature. Both themes develop the mythical idea of temptation. It is basic human relation: from the intimate to the families' vying with each other.

A sequel to Mormon film He's Not My Companion shows missionaries innocently breaking mission rules to illustrate good and bad consequences.

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall. Then, with the blood of the animal, she draws a heart pierced by an arrow.

A selfless village teacher, Myint Htwe, strives to reform a proud and troubled palm picker, Tar Tee, whose love for the village girl Nyo Mya and ultimate redemption reveal the quiet power of patience and compassion.

In his film The Idol, Viktor Kubal copes with the socialist regime very originally and directly. This slapstick comedy about an oppressive regime with a happy ending depicts an obedient citizen who bows to well-known busts for so long until his patience runs out.

Based on the play by Mikhail Shatrov, staged by the Theater. Vakhtangov Street. The story of the Brest Peace, a huge and monstrous compromise that the Bolshevik government made to save the revolution, had something Shakespearean in its scope, which allowed Robert Sturua, the creator of the most fascinating Shakespearean plays (Richard III, King Lear), to stage Shatrov's play as a variation of Shakespeare's chronicles.

Ibrahim finds himself under intense nervous pressure as he seeks revenge for his father's murder by one of the sons of his village in a brawl that occurred between them. At the same time, a love relationship arises between him and the girl Ward, so he tries to persuade his family to forgive and distance themselves from bloodshed. On the other hand, Ibrahim tries to monitor what is happening in his work, dealing with theft and looting, attempting to rectify the situation in various ways.

The journey of an intellectual Creole. Before returning from Lisbon to Luanda, he stops in the Cape Verde islands in search of his ethnic and cultural roots.

About the teacher of Cherkasy Music School No. 1, the head of the Ecology Society, S. Silkin, giving an interview at an environmental rally during a lesson.

György Dobrai's movie about the prostitution on the streets. Rákóczi Square is the center of the prostitution in Budapest. Everybody knows this much. But not too many people actually know what really goes on behind the scenes. This documentary attempted to cover these unknown spots of the business. Nude screens, rude language and the forbidden shadows of the Hungarian Socialism - the movie was banned for years in that time.

On a beautiful summer afternoon, in a large apartment, a charming young couple methodically prepares for their departure and a very strange move.

MOVING PICTURES began with a dream I had about a woman walking beside a woods and singing a beautiful aria. I didn’t remember the song, but for the film I selected Plaisir d’Amour by Jean Paul Égide Martini. The film soon became a series of other dream ideas as well. I wanted every scene in the film to be a tracking shot, moving from right to left like a dream scroll. I wanted the film to be quiet and contemplative, and I didn’t want to use subtitles.

There are technical problems in the church and Mrs. Lindblom is the only one who has appeared at the mass, but the priest decides to carry out his sermon anyway.

Film about the Paper Tiger Television non-profit, low-budget public access television program and open media collective based in New York City.

"Jason Still Lives!" tells the tale of Jason Myers who is a hockey masked killer on a cruise ship who comes ashore and starts killing people in Ohio.

The sequel reprises the story of an ugly duckling who turns beautiful with a black dress.

Mexican feature film

A documentary on day-to-day life of a small GDR-Brigade in Zimbabwe educating young Africans as construction workers. Best intentions meet exported narrow-mindedness.

A man comes home at night and is attacked by a bottle.

North of Neuruppin lies the Ruppiner Schweiz, the smallest “Swiss” area on German soil. Fontane loved the seclusion and enigmatic appeal of this region’s landscape. As an idyllic recreational and holiday region, it attracts countless tourists every year. But the industry has left its mark: what were previously common sights in the wild can only now be found by vacationers in museums or small zoos. A film about a regional landscape, its history, and how people treat it.

Goddess Remembered is a salute to 35,000 years of "pre-history," to the values of ancestors only recently remembered and to the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. This documentary features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish, Starhawk, Charlene Spretnak and Jean Bolen, who link the loss of goddess-centered societies with today's environmental crisis.

Ruby Oliver's semi-autobiographical drama focusing on the struggles of woman living in the ghetto of Southside Chicago who must cope with an alcoholic husband and 3 troubled children (2 layabout sons and an unmarried, pregnant daughter).

A vigilante is driven to rage after he loses his wife, daughter, and both siblings in the same year. All while recovering from plastic surgery.

Gerda runs a farm in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. She has just been widowed. For the first time in 15 years, her sister Marie comes to visit. Much is unsaid between them, and dark memories emerge as the hours pass.

Super Mario's take on three classic fairy tales - Momotaro from Japanese folklore with Super Mario as Momotaro, Issun-boshi, a tale similar to Tom Thumb, with Super Mario as Issun-boshi and Show White with Princess Peach as Snow.

A documentary about the life and work of german philosopher Martin Heidegger, born and raised a Roman Catholic in Messkirch, Baden-Württemberg.

A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.

When people from different generations meet in Montevideo to remember their years of exile in Mexico and Europe due to the military dictatorship, they realize that Uruguay is not the same country they had to leave.

Short animated film by Mihaya Tanaka

Mexican feature film

The scientist Udo Gierer is on the trail of Theodor Koch-Grünberg, the famous Amazon researcher at the beginning of our century. While traveling on a river steamboat, he meets and becomes friends with 14 year old José Junior. He takes José with him on a flight over the rain forest and tells the boy about the importance of the Amazon as the lung of the world.

Brazil, a warm, cheerful, carefree, and peaceful South American country, is an alluring destination. Even pop diva Anita Mui chose this location to film a music special, and specially invited Elaine Kong, who often imitates her, to make a cameo appearance. The story follows Anita (Anita Mui) as she flies to Brazil to find her boyfriend Ricky. Before her mission even begins, her luggage is almost stolen. Fortunately, her kindred spirit, Xiao Yu (Elaine Kong), who immigrated to Brazil with her uncle when she was ten, comes to her aid. The two thus begin a friendship. However, along the way, Anita almost misunderstands Xiao Yu as a thief. Will the two be able to break the ice and reconcile? Will Anita be able to successfully find her boyfriend Ricky?

In this documentary, Sarah Maldoror offers a portrait of the Mexican painter Vlady (1920-2005, born Vladimir Kibaltchich), filming mainly his works with voice-over commentary by the artist himself, answering the filmmaker's questions.

Film with a soundtrack featuring Jyotsna and Santosh Kumar

Raaja Raajathan is a 1989 Tamil film directed by Ramdass. The film stars Ramarajan and Gouthami in lead roles.

This film consists of loosely assembled footage including a confrontation between abortion-rights advocates, abortion-rights opponents and police at Chicago's Daley Center Plaza (likely during the protest on June 17, 1989 which attracted approximately 5,000 attendees), a brief shot of Soldier Field, a double exposure of a moonlit rural countryside, a close-up of a car passenger's typing hands, a ship’s steering wheel, a street intersection, a camera which lays next to a loosely scattered pack of batteries and a portrait shot of Bill Stamets as he peers through a still camera’s viewfinder.

A short animated film from 1989.

Short film directed by Michael Gutmann

A Danish, silent, stop-motion puppet adaption of the fairy tale “The Beauty and the Beast”

Tadeusz returns from abroad after a few years; he left his fiancée Wanda in the country, now he cannot get to the common apartment. The paralyzed mother is in a nursing home; he has no contact with her. The swimmer, Judyta, pushes her friend, afraid of heights, into the water, but she cannot understand her deed. Wanda makes a program about the Palace of Culture for television, Tadeusz wants to meet her there.