Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

A collector of blue marbles is fascinated by the same blue eyes of a young woman he meets one evening in an empty swimming pool.

Events address the story of a young author called ( Maha ) She writes novels but does not meet a high sales rate, and her mother ( Rashida ) tries to urge her to marry and stay away from authorship, but ( her ) does not agree، It was decided to disguise and practice every profession And write about it so that its business is realistic and receives a high rate of sales and success.

In sixty seconds, animated images representing historical, sports, dramatic, documentary and animation films are woven together to illustrate the National Film Board's journey through fifty years of innovative filmmaking.

An animated short about a very woman problem.

Cha Bin Pai Hai Klai Sut Khop Fa is the name of the episode of the Bird Bird Show concert held for the third time on February 9 - 19, 1989, staged at the Thailand Cultural Center for 14 shows. 28,000 viewers, which is considered to be double the number of viewers than the previous time. Showing the success and increased response in concerts like Bird Bird Guest Jarunee Suksawat

An attempt to bring texts from Dante's "Divine Comedy" to life. Nine episodes from the Inferno with a concluding episode from the Purgatorio.

A short documentary produced and directed by famed volcanologist Maurice Krafft in order to educate audiences about how volcanoes are formed, erupt, and are studied.

An impressionistic portrait of a Philippine metropolis.

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).

About the relationship between a man and a woman.

Short film directed by Frank Schlegel

The creation myths of the Yekuana Indians of the Orinoco region of Venezuela provide a transparent look at the poetic process by which human beings construct meaning from their experience. Narrated by Stan Brakhage. Music and sound by Bruce Odland.

Set on a steam-shrouded railway station and shot in high-contrast black and white, Richard Kwietniowski's film lovingly twists David Lean's stiff-upper-lipped romance Brief Encounter into a rich and witty contemporary melodrama, with two devilishly handsome young men standing in for Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.

The story about the life of Shaliapin’s family, and an emotional generalization of the life of people in modern Leningrad.

This film is a rich and haunting reinvention of medieval life that never loses its contemporary perspective. When the plague afflicts a village, this world seems to go up in an apocalypse of hatred and disease that presages our own century.

Short film by Teo Hernández.

Part one of the two part abstract video art-piece, with music composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Kronos String Quartet.

Mexican feature film

It is love at first sight for Rahmat and Fatimah. They get married and are blessed with a daughter, Jita. Their marriage is saddled with problems and it ends with a divorce. Rahmat looses his job as he is unable to concentrate. To spite Rahmat, Fatimah has an affair with Azman, a wealthy man. Rahmat retaliates by befriending Diana Rosli, a singer. Fatimah is jealous and tries everything to win her ex-husband back.

An extremely direct indictment of the ills of contemporary life, sparing little in its brutal satire. Simply, the film uses a human bottom as its synecdoche and central metaphor, beginning by suggesting that 'we have lost the instruction booklet for its use'.

Who says that cats and dogs are enemies? The dog Spass and the cat Nelly live happily under one roof. The harmony lasts until once, enraptured with games, they ruin the apartment.

Folks are busy at the production offices of Mort Downey Jr.'s talk show. A warehouse worker is preparing manifests for shipping. He needs the sign off of the producer, a voluble woman who's talking non-stop on the phone to someone named Harry. She signs the manifest without looking up as she talks about sexual surrogates, a woman crushed to death by her fat lover, and a fist fight on Geraldo Rivera's show. "Thank goodness he's been taking boxing lessons," she says. She's interrupted by the arrival of a uniformed woman with a nose ring. The woman opens a paper bag she's carrying and hands the producer what's inside. The horror is only beginning...

An observational documentary which looks at Sydney’s first community Aboriginal radio station, 88.9 Radio Redfern. Set against a backdrop of contemporary Aboriginal music, 88.9 Radio Redfern offers a special and rare exploration of the people, attitudes and philosophies behind the lead up to a different type of celebration of Australia’s Bicentennial Year. Throughout 1988, 88.9 Radio Redfern became an important focal point for communication and solidarity within the Aboriginal community. The film reveals how urban blacks are adapting social structures such as the mass media to serve their needs.

Fast money, fast guns and even faster women are the stock and trade of the international drug biz. But when they descent one small western town, the resulting culture clash soon escalates into a full scale fight to the death with the 'wiseguy's' on one side and the ranchers on the other.

The work of Jean Piaget has become the foundation of current developmental psychology and the basis for changes in educational practice. David Elkind, author of The Hurried Child and Miseducation, and a student of Jean Piaget, explores the roots of Piaget’s work and outlines important vocabulary and concepts that structure much of the study of child development. Using both archival film of Dr. Piaget and newly shot sequences of Dr. Elkind conducting interviews with children of varying ages, this film presents an overview of Piaget’s developmental theory, its scope and content.

This tickling thriller about an afternoon tea features Holly Brown, who spontaneously transforms into several female personas that startle and entertain her surprised guest. Brown’s character’s are obsessed with formalities of etiquette, pedigree and hospitality while spoofing sex roles and stereotypes.

Made in collaboration with Keith Sanborn, The Deadman is based on a story by Bataille, charting "the adventures of a near-naked heroine who sets in motion a scabrous free-form orgy before returning to the house to die — a combination of elegance, raunchy defilement and barbaric splendor." — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader.

Filmmakers observe a large swing boat swinging rhythmically into the frame in front of the Reichstag building – a kind of dream ship whose passengers are moving but not moving.

This film is the second in a series about new individual sports and promotes pop gymnastics as a healthy and attractive leisure activity for girls and women.

Various tableaux of Melbourne in 1989, as experienced by the film-maker.

Part of a collaborative film produced for the 1990 World Cup. Twelve directors create a portrait of twelve Italian cities. Lattuada also shot a series of Polaroids as a visual ‘scrapbook’ in preparation for the film.

After a six -or seven- year study of Hammurabi's Code, original Babylonian Text and translation, I've tried to feel my way into the moving visual thought process of this ancient culture (whose numerical system is composed primarily of building materials, nails, joints and the like): this, then, is a visual music which balances the two thought processes of Structure and Nature.

Documentary film about the therapy facility ‘Violetta Clean’, founded in Berlin in 1983, the first inpatient therapy facility in Germany for drug-addicted girls and women.

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.

An absurdist allegory of the absorption of Georgia into the Soviet Union, a man's apartment is overrun by 'lodgers' who takeover the apartment, restrict his movements, and put him in a birdcage.

Engaging musical history of Sephardic Jews from their Spanish expulsion and search for new homes across Europe and the Ottoman Empire until their return to the Israeli homeland. Narrated and sung in Ladino by Yehoram Gaon and beautifully filmed throughout international locations.

A 36-minute overview of one of mankind's greatest achievements. In the early 1930s, America was in the depths of a tragic economic depression. Yet the people of that troubled era constructed Hoover Dam, still one of the great wonders of the world.

The painting focuses on the Belarusian writer Ales Adamovich and the events in Minsk in 1989.

Azerbaijani tv comedy.

Are southern California girls really the most beautiful in the land? You make the determination as you watch these suntanned beauties fight for the light-weight title of the Women's Oil Wrestling Association (W.O.W.A.), Don't miss them grappling in oil, body slamming in the mud, and leg locking in chocolate syrup, as they attempt to tap out their opponent. Forget about G.L.O.W., buy this movie!

Taiwanese movie

A fascinating splatter video where the superfluous has been peeled away, leaving an orgy of pure violence. Shown here with an innocent and humorous attitude towards violence as a form of art.

Two men sit on the top of a roof, playing the tuba. They continually call out absurd messages making fun of official solutions and of their own slogans. The residents feel disturbed by the tuba's sound and start to attack the musicians, while they themselves keep on playing and shouting louder and louder. Finally the house is blasted and the tubas are destroyed.

Katharina Pfister, a witty cleaning lady, disrupts a complicated murder investigation led by her former school crush and current police captain, Heiri Koller, as she hilariously uncovers the truth behind the mysteriously disappearing–and reappearing–corpse of her boss Lukas Manz.

Short version of Wildenhahn's own 1971 three-part film "Der Hamburger Aufstand Oktober 1923".

"Four Hours in My Lai" is a documentary film made by Yorkshire Television in England concerning an infamous massacres of Vietnamese civilians in Tu Cung sub-hamlet, better known to the US Army as My Lai (4) and commonly referred to as "Pinksville", on 16th March 1968. This massacre was carried out by "Charlie Company" - members of C Company, 1st battalion, 20th Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade of the US Army. The film-makers interview participants in and survivors of the tragedy, trying to understand how such an atrocity could have happened.

Lithuanian countryside in the 1950s. People live with mixed memories of an independent Lithuania, no one believes in the myths of a future Soviet Lithuania, but everyone clings tenaciously, out of inner inertia, to the opportunities offered by even the smallest personal farm. This is a film that subtly tells the story of love and the beginnings of a peaceful life in the countryside: the surveyor is tormented by Pranė, who has fallen in love with him unrequitedly, Amilia, who has fallen in love with Zigmas, but is married to the surveyor, Anicetas, the village philosopher, Bernasius, knows it all: if there is an eternal darkness, there is also an eternal light...

Animator Pavel Koutský's portrait of the man in the street; just an animal.

Betty Van Sevenant, a young resistance fighter from Bruges, arrested in March 1942, was declared "Nacht und Nebel". She recounts her deportation to the Ravensbrück and Mauthausen camps until liberation. Tobias Schiff, a Polish Jew from Antwerp, was deported with his parents to Upper Silesia on August 28, 1942, on convoy No. 25. His story begins upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau and concludes with the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen camp. (2 x 26 min.)

A documentary which visually captures the day-to-day routines of a husband and wife on a small farm.