Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

Based on the original novel by Tetsuya Asada, this is the sequel to the legendary mahjong novel, now adapted into a film. Masahira Hino stars as ‘Boya Tetsu,’ a former mahjong player who has given up the game, but returns to the world of mahjong once again.

Pride and Prejudice Dino Time is an animated musical where dinosaurs mysteriously appear, disrupting life. Elizabeth meets Darcy at the Meryton Assembly, but a chaotic stampede of dinosaurs interrupts their conversation. The dinosaurs' arrival is the result of the sorcerer Mr. Wickham’s vengeful plot to gain power through dark magic. He sends Elizabeth a letter blaming Darcy. Meanwhile, Mr. Collins, a dinosaur, proposes to Elizabeth, but she rejects him. Lady Catherine de Bourgh, a T-Rex under magical influence, confronts Elizabeth. Darcy arrives to save her. Wickham plans to send Lydia back in time through a magical portal. As the volcano erupts, Wickham and Lydia are sent to the past, and Mr. Collins follows. With danger averted, Elizabeth and Darcy confess their love. The movie ends at Pemberley Estate, now a sanctuary for redeemed dinosaurs, singing a joyful musical number.

Taiwan movie

A solitary man walks home carrying briefcase and a bag of groceries. It's evening. Close to home, someone in a hurry bumps into him, trips, drops photographs and runs off. The man continues home, opens a bottle of wine, and looks across the quad to an apartment where a woman drinks a glass of wine. He smiles in her direction and then watches in alarm as a man enters her apartment, looks at photographs she has hanging about, grapples with her and knocks her down. Our man rushes toward her flat, seeing her assailant flee. He dashes into her apartment, but there's no body in sight, just photographs hanging to dry. He looks at them. What's going on?

When she lands up in the middle of nowhere, Séréna, a rather thoughtless young woman, is supposed to marry Hubert, a country squire she came into contact with through the classifieds in "Le Chasseur Français", a magazine for hunters. But she gets to know Roland, a bachelor farmer who develops an instant burning passion for her. Prepared to do anything for her, he goes as far as to holdup banks to secure the good life she longs for. Although she confesses (wrongly) that she suffers from AIDS, he is in no way discouraged. Séréna accepts to marry Roland but on her wedding night she balks at taking the "midnight exam". She runs away and meets Antoine, a married writer, who hides her in the attic of his house, without his wife knowing it.

A man's video-taped apology to his ex-boyfriend turns into an epic confession about his attitude towards relationships.

An idealistic scientist is encouraged by his wife to use his good looks to get ahead, but his new job carries with it temptations and traps.

When Marvin shows Milton how to make valentines, they decide to make one for each person in their neighborhood.

Seven Days ‘til Sunday, the first of three Jolley/Reynolds film collaborations, is a sequence of short episodes in which headless figures fall through the architecture of New York, incinerate in their own living room, detonate on wet ground. This strange depiction of anonymous, marginalised individuals meeting their end amid relentless urbanisation provides the imagery, but beyond the particularisation of their fates ‘the narrative stands for the tragi-comedy of life itself in a remote, indifferent universe.’

"Two years ago [c. 1997], Tato Kotetishvili went to Georgia, his birthplace, where he hadn't been for ten years. After he had come to Holland and found a partner in Rotterdam, the civil war started in Georgia so he was unable to return home. The reason to go home now was a video tape of his wedding, where many Georgian relatives, friends and acquaintances were gathered together. Kotetishvili wanted to know what had panned [sic] to them, how his family had come through the war.The result of this journey was Nostalgia, a personal documentary that shows in an associative style the effects of the civil war on the lives and mutual contacts of Kotetishvili's family. Kotetishvili found out that life in Georgia had changed; what he hoped to find was gone, had changed or become grounds for conflict. He felt an outsider in his own country. The Georgia he knew was only a memory.Kotetishvili died suddenly just after returning to Holland. His partner Ineke Smits completed Nostalgia."

This film, which is in the genre of psychological drama, tells the story of an artist who is shaken by the changes in life.

"Me in my room in Frankfurt, ca. 1997. I used to throw knives at the painting in the background." –T.F.

Kenji Onishi's 35mm feature film.

This is a documentary about a well-known figure in Polish politics - Wladyslaw Bartoszewski. The hero of the film is a man with a very rich resume. He was born and raised in Warsaw. He was a prisoner of Auschwitz, a soldier of the Home Army, an activist of the Polish Underground State, a participant in the Warsaw Uprising, twice served as foreign minister, and finally a publicist, writer and scientist. In a forty-two-minute documentary it would be impossible to present the full biography of this man - that's why this film selects only the more important episodes from Bartoszewski's life. His life is narrated by the hero himself. Stories about him are also spun in front of the camera: Jerzy Sienkiewicz, Jerzy Turowicz, Krzysztof Kozłowski, Israel Gutman, Jan Nowak Jeziorański, Stanisław Lem and Stefan Kisielewski.

A mockumentary about big-hearted strippers, drag queens, and a group of rabid feminists.

A family drama based on the short story "The Edge of the Abyss" by Raimonds Trasuns.

Richard D'Oyly Carte, the theatrical impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together, is tormented in a dream by his memories of this most tempestuous partnering.

A portrait of the writer and translator, lover of the small form, E. C. Gonatas, filmed over the course of a year at his home in Kato Kifissia. The camera silently follows Gonatas everywhere: on his tours of the garden, in old warehouses, immersed in dictionaries, on the floor as he pets a cat. Without ever referring to his writing capacity, the documentary captures many of the elements of his work: his love of nature, the paradox, the futility but also the hilarity of things.

The circus is in town, and high-spirited Spunky and his loving master, Mark, get the chance of a lifetime to work under the big top.

To smuggle their stolen gold bullion, a trio of thieves designs a golden car.

Documentary about the history of Jerusalem.

One day, while a nun named Maria was riding her bicycle, a man jumped out onto the road and, failing to swerve, fell into the river. The man rescued her and...

Two young men travel the city of Santiago during a working day in order to carry out a bureaucratic process. In their journey, they run into different urban characters as they talk about time and other "important" issues.

The Son of Sam, David Berkowitz testimony of his involvement into the occult, his descent into cold-blooded murder, his arrest, and his surprising conversion to Christianity in his years in prison.

The film revolves around a social drama about a conflict between two (Hisham Abdel Hamid) and the arrogant young man (Hani Nazer) on the girl (Nermin al-Faqi), the latter seeks to possess the money and wealth of the reason, but refuses to approach him, ) Can get caught up in a serious case.

From the 40s through the 90s, from New Orleans to New York to Florida, Some Ground to Stand On tells the life story of working class lesbian-feminist activist Blue Lunden, through interviews, photos, and archival footage.

In a murky, subterranean butchery, obscure tensions grow between two burly butchers as they hack apart slabs of flesh and bone.

A drama about four malcontent and oddly matched characters on a three-day journey. Each an outcast: Gadi, a petty criminal on parole seeking to make his way back into mainstream society; Yitzhak, his pensive, naive, and serious younger brother; Shoshana, a serious criminal who insists on tormenting the group; and a young, pregnant, Russian immigrant who has left her husband an meets up with the other three in a coffee shop. The characters together define their obvious marginalization from society and their search for individual dignity.

Today is Hana-no's birthday, and we're having a birthday party with Papa, who loves people. There's lots of delicious cake and food, but for some reason Papa seems down... Perhaps she's tired from work ? She's such a good girl, so I'll cheer Papa up. To make it easier to digest, I'll chew it up really, really well, make it all mushy, and feed it to her. This is the second official production for Aroma Planning's Baroque boutique.

After an initial passage to the South, Sirens and Sirens go again to the North, some chasing each other and others going through new metamorphoses. Ale Sirena restlessly wanders among humans questioning the present and the past: like Giuli who lost the last remnant of her tail, she is caught but immediately freed by the guardians of the Castle, where the destinies of many of them converge. In the meantime, Vero continues to leave from the various places it has reached. Lou Vent also reappears and, while he is absorbed on a cobblestone that he holds in his hand, he has time to make love with whoever he meets.

Abigail and Andrew awake on Easter morning to discover that the Great Bunny hasn't delivered any chocolate treats! The story is centered around a magical underground world, a world made completely of chocolate. Determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, they set off to find the Great Bunny himself. Their adventure takes them deep into the Land of Chocolate where they meet friends of the Great Bunny who teach them a lesson about the true meaning behind wishing on a chocolate egg!

Japanese horror anthology

In the late 1990s, Gibson, NC, transformed its town firehouse into the Firehouse Restaurant, a place where women greeted, cooked, served, and sang acappella gospel harmonies to their guests. This story highlights the South, where faith, food, and fellowship come together, and where the past and future intersect.

Accompanying from a place to another the poet who spent years in exile far from his native land of al-Birwa, in Haifa, Cyprus, Tunis, Amman, Paris, Cairo and Ramallah.

An army major is transferred to a training camp after being blamed by the police for doing their job. However, when the law and order worsens, the police ask him to take over the nation's security.

[...] "History has made Vietnam one of my favourite places... The links that you establish with people and places very often seem totally unexpected. But it is not a question of chance. It is, among other things, a question of history, of a sequence of events, "that's how it is". Once that is admitted, you can spend a lot of time trying to understand why that is how it is." (Robert Kramer)

A man appears to a female reporter and claims he is the famous kidnapper that has the world astir and promises to turn himself in if she listens to his story. Though she is suspicious of him, she starts to fall more and more into his story.

Monty, a gay Chinese guy living in London, makes it a habit to date only white boys. When his handsome East Asian neighbor invites him over for dinner, Monty has to decide if he's an Anglophile or simply prejudiced.

The legendary Fyodor Chaliapin, whose beautiful bass voice and boldly naturalistic acting style made him the most famous Russian opera singer of the 20th century, is remembered in this fascinating documentary. Archival footage of Chaliapin's greatest roles -- Don Quichotte and Ivan the Terrible -- combines with vintage newsreels and interviews with his family and performers he influenced, including Sergei Leiferkus and Alexei Mochalov.

A 20-minute documentary film about the Kyrgyz people living by the Narym River.

A film by Eva Stefani

This special program, a tribute to actor Christopher Reeve, features inspirational stories and songs in a fundraising gala for the Christopher Reeve Foundation.

At same time as it dives into excess and violence of Brazilian reality, Curra Urbana tri to insert itself in anti ilusionist modern aesthetic reinstarting a dialogue from Jean Luc Godard and some of later Brazilian apropriators especially those of Cinema Marginal.

“Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It” (1998) is a found porn flick: a threesome. Hammer excises the male part, retaining the two ladies and an amusing digest of voyeuristic platitudes.

Third short film on Tibet, 'Murals and Stone Carvings of Lama Temple,' from Wen Pulin's Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art.

This is a film about the life of a family of marginal thiefs, and how destiny punishes each and every one of its members. A constant contrast between a violent and a domestic world, in which violence, humor and irony, give a new layer to the social and moral conflicts of the characters. A lost house in a forest, an underground bar, a prison, a bus, fields and highways, are the spaces on which thieves, truckers, cooks and hookers collide.

A short film about justice and the problems with the legal system talked about by major businessmen who work in law, ending almost like an advertisement PSA announcement about identity theft.

A holidaygoer in Italy cuts himself on a strange dagger and gets possessed by a demon

A Vision on Landmines Still Present in Egypt – Through a Satirical Attack on the Government and Its Perception of Human Life

Kitty and Mimmy try to bake a Christmas cake for the first time as a gift to their grandparents. But it's much harder than it looks.

A sketch comedy show which aired in Los Angeles in the late 90's, re-cut and reformatted to a feature length film. It focuses on the absurd aspects of sex in America.