Cinematic Era: 1993 Vintage

Humans have disappeared, only a few remain who try to hide so as not to disappear like the rest. What do these strange beings hide? Why do they love us? What's its purpose?

A rehabilitation center for physically handicapped children and youth is the focus of this docudrama. Long corridors, offbeat characters and passions.

Sarajevo in the twentieth month of its besiegement. The situation is critical, but the city chooses to organise an international film festival. Dutch filmmakers Johan van der Keuken and Frank Vellenga present Van der Keuken's documentaries Face Value and Brass Unbound there, and one of the festival organisers asks a festival visitor: "What is the significance of film in war?" In Sarajevo Film Festival Film, a reflection on film, war and daily life, fictional images are juxtaposed in a disconcerting way with the gruesome reality of the life of a festival visitor.

Cwm Hyfryd is a Welsh-language film released in 1993. Throughout its plot, the film develops the drama of Nahuel, a young man who ends up falling in love with Sian, the wife of Kevin, a man who had just come out of severe depression.

A powerful and intimate portrait, Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter captures Mitchell's independent spirit and testifies eloquently to Mitchell's art. Joan Mitchell was born in Chicago in 1926 and died in Paris in 1992. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan settled in New York City in 1950. She was an active participant of New York's dynamic Abstract Expressionist scene and hung out with fellow painters Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston and, soon, poets Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and John Ashbery. In the mid-fifties, she moved to Paris, France. There she was part of a circle of friends that included Pierre Matisse, Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti. Mitchell is one of the great abstract painters of the 20th century. This elegantly edited documentary weaves interviews with the acerbic Mitchell and other leading painters and critics while letting her stunning pictures dominate the film.

In an age when genius is a mere commodity, it is useful to look at a person who led a rich life without the traditional trappings of success. A man with no home and no job, Paul Erdös was the most prolific mathematician who ever lived. Born in Hungary in 1913, Erdös wrote and co-authored over 1,500 papers and pioneered several fields in theoretical mathematics. At the age of 83 he still spent most of his time on the road, going from math meeting to math meeting, continually working on problems. He died on September 20, 1996 while attending such a meeting in Warsaw, Poland.

Two extraordinary love stories unfold 500 years apart. As modern lovers struggle against those who seek to separate them, a Christian soldier pursues a perilous romance with a young Jewish girl in the shadows of the Spanish Inquisition.

An ardent devotee of Lord Shabarimale Swamy Ayyappa narrates tales of various miracles performed by the Hindu deity where the Almighty tests the devotion of his followers.

Documentary about skinheads.

When a young girl named Selina befriends a mystical elderly woman, magical things happen - not the least of which is the surprise of three talking eggs. When her selfish brother Wade gets involved, he's in for some surprises too, but of a different kind.

Adaptation of a short story by the American author O'Henry about two kidnappers who are very happy to return a boy and pay for him.

Gaither Gospel Series: Recorded at Pinebrook Studios, Alexandria, Indiana

Alexander Joseph Lisowski was born around 1575, and served as a common soldier under Jan Potocki in the campaign against the Wallachian hospodar. Later, as the leader of a confederation of rebellious soldiers, he became famous for plunder and arbitrariness. He was sentenced to banishment for this. He then enlisted in the service of Dmitri Samozwaniec. He was already a commander shrouded in legend when the stigma of infamy was lifted from him. He returned to Poland and created his famous cavalry, later known in Europe as the Polish cavalry or Lisowczycy, after its creator.

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.

What happens when two trans women get sick of non-transsexuals' uninformed representation of their sexualities and their lives? They grab their 8 millimeter home video camera, their last 200 bucks, and come up with an uncompromising in-your-face flick about their shitty relationships with gay men and their unabashed attraction to other transsexual women.

The members of Mexican pop group “Los Temerarios” face challenges in order to achieve fame.

The story of George Murphy, a laid-off newspaperman who has 24 hours to come up with the back rent he owes or be put out in the street. Desperately, he sets out to find an old friend who might help, yet when he discovers that his old friend has seemingly disappeared, George's search begins to take on a whole different meaning.

This film takes place in the year 2033, where society consists of obese women who visit an agency that provides interactive fantasies. The film focuses on one particular woman, Alice, and her fantasy.

When the troubled Commander Sisko takes command of a surrendered space station, he learns that it borders a unique wormhole.

Oyamazumi Shrine still remains in Omi Island, surrounded by the Seto Sea. During the Warring States Era, a beautiful princess was born to the Ohori family, guardians of the shrine. Ohori was the chief priest of the shrine, and the princess was destined to be the leader of the Seto Sea pirates. Her name was Tsuru, and she was as brave as the ‘Dragon God’. While her birth was a gift from heaven, her life was filled with tragedy. This is an historical drama on a dynamic scale telling the story of Princess Tsuru, who rose to the post of admiral of the Mishima navy, as well as being a young woman watching her loved ones perish in the terrible wars of that time. Exciting battles and treacherous assassinations highlight this heartfelt tale of a young princess who must be as strong as a man in wartime, while still feeling the emotions of a woman.

A lonely old lady collects used dolls from the garbage can, wanting to create a fairy-tale paradise in her home. A paradise that is a great dream for herself. Surrounded by dolls, the world of fantasy triumphs over reality. In the world of fairy tales created by an aged woman, everyone is young and beautiful.

Wolf, a dangerously wealthy but gravely ill businessman, invites his brother Paul, now a Vatican priest, to his remote castle seeking absolution, which alone can restore his virility and power.

Dennis Miller has the brains to make great stand-up (even though most think he is a talk show host) and this proves this. In fact, this was filmed right before Miller got Miller Live. Funny stuff as he talks about the new president, his kid, and other random rants. Not his definite best, but he isn't terrible. Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong, and the balcony is now closed.

A dramatization based on the murders of Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez and the arrest of Antonio Sanchez, mayor of Calauan, Laguna, the story follows a victim's brother (with the help of a journalist) who wants to uncover the gruesome crime committed by a corrupt mayor.

A teacher trying to reach a remote village is attacked by wolves.

The revolution is as good as over, but the captain wants to send his crew into one last battle. Before this can happen, however, he is murdered. The crew is finally free. Meanwhile, the revolutionary Snow White has hidden on the ship, but she is discovered.

A well brought up young man commits an irreparable yet liberating act after a failed suicide attempt.

‘Woman is Fickle’ is based on the famous aria from the opera Rigoletto by Verdi. No woman is safe from the dissolute Duke of Mantua, who dreams of naked, languid beauties. But he also complains about their capriciousness. The women in the film refer to famous paintings: by Matisse, Botticelli, Degas. The film is a trip through male fantasies, seen through the eyes of a woman.

TV special to celebrate the renowned German comedian’s 70th birthday. This special is a celebration of Loriot's career and a reflection on his contributions to German comedy and television.

A coming of age story about a young girl's transition from four-legged love objects (horses) to two-legged ones (boys).

An Animated Short film By Eric Darnell

DIARY IN EXILE is a documentary film that uses a combination of sound, image, colour and peoples testimonies to historically account for the period following the fundamentalist military coup in the Sudan in 1989. This period witnessed the migration of a staggering number of Sudanese from their country to all parts of the World. The Sudan became an expellant of its people. The greater majority of Sudanese migrants headed to Egypt, where the film was shot, there is an estimated number of 3 million Sudanese migrants to Egypt since the military coup. Moving between different strata of Sudanese communities in Egypt the film, through various personal testimonies, throws light on the living conditions of ordinary people. All provide pieces of the saga, all have taken refuge in Egypt. All dream of returning back to Sudan, one day. The film was premiered at the United Nations Human Rights Conference, Vienna, in 1993.

Musical tale of a happy man, whose happiness the Fur King tried to buy.

A short fantastical, meditative film chronicling a young man's descent into an addiction to cottaging (gay sex in public toilets), set in 1990s London, presented in the style of a classic zombie horror film.

A young Canadian woman who sings in Kreuzberg in a rock band, and her boyfriend, who lives in a politically active flat-sharing community. Due to the new capital situation, demolished buildings suddenly become sought-after buildings. The living and working situation of the musicians and other scene-people deteriorates massively.

A mysterious knock in an instant destroys the usual life that four lonely, calm people lead.

An experimental contemporary twist on Romeo and Juliet in which time runs out for two star-crossed lovers from different worlds that are caught amidst a world war in which one lover always lives and the other always dies

Eldar Ryazanov in conversation with Boris Yeltsin.

Short tale about the violent impulses of the young, gaybashing, and losing control.

Aline is Michel's daughter, whom he has taken away for the holidays. Aline agrees: she knows how much her father needs love. She knows it so well that she encourages his romance with Julie, a social worker. And Michel succumbs because she feels just as great a need for love as he does. But Léo, Julie's ex-lover, a junkie and car thief, is hanging around. Three adults in need of love. A need that Michel wanted to fill first with Aline, then with Julie. But the void is too great. Aline knows this, and that's why she agrees to love him, her father. For real, this time.

Portrait of The Church of the SubGenius in scratch, which means high speed cutting, media manipulation. Contains clips from the Arise, the Church's own film about itself (recrutment video), the SubGenius MTV productions, and TV interviews with sacred scribe Rev. Ivan Stang, intercut with a barrage of weird clips from movies and television.

This is a theatrical adaptation of the manga of the same name serialized in Morning magazine by Nagamatsu Kiyoshi. This home comedy depicts the protagonist Igawa Tsuyoshi's high school and college years. Igawa Tsuyoshi is a third-year junior high school boy who is bullied by his two older sisters and his mother and is forced to do all the housework. For some reason, his eldest sister Keiko is harsh to Tsuyoshi every New Year's Eve. In order to escape disaster in 1993, Tsuyoshi goes out to play with his best friend Watanabe Tsukasa. However, he accidentally gets into a time machine travels back in time from December 31, 1993 to December 31, 1981. There, he meets Tsuyoshi, a kindergartener, and Keiko, who is bullying him.

For nearly 50 years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover amassed secret files on America's most prominent figures, files he used to smear and control presidents and politicians. Frontline reveals how Hoover's own secret life left him open to blackmail by the Mafia and offers a startling new explanation why the FBI allowed the mob to operate unchallenged for over two decades. The American Mafia, it is asserted, had damaging evidence about Hoover's sex life and they knew about his homosexuality.

A mad scientist finds a seashell in a garbage bag and places it in a machine called "Gramophone No.13" in an attempt to create his ideal lover...

Recorded during a 1992/3 world tour.

The body of one of the Villa owners is found lifeless in the tub. The accusations are immediately turned against the plumber.

A singer falls in love with a girl at a party, not knowing that she is the one who is writing him anonymous love letters. However, their lives turn upside down when he is diagnosed with blood cancer.

An eminent and respected merchant has a problem with gambling, alternately winning and losing until the fateful night when he loses everything. He decides to kill himself, but his wife stops him. Kind words make him go with his son to the church to pray and start new life from the beginning. Based on a novel by famous Serbian writer Laza Lazarevic.

This poetic story of growing up and maturing sudden two boys and concerns of adults who fail to understand the changes that occur in their lives, is set in the sixties.