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Moyen-Orient 1997

Moyen-Orient 1997

1997 • 3 min • France
Deadly Encounter

Deadly Encounter

1997 • 42 min • United States of America
Pamela Sutch and Dakotah star ad two young women who end up at the wrong place at the wrong time and may just pay for it with their lives! On a lark, they decide to search what was supposed to be a deserted house. But they learn that curiosity did, indeed, kill the cat.
Howard - Verinen iltapäivä

Howard - Verinen iltapäivä

1997 • 30 min
Howard (Ilja Peltonen) is a florist without ability to speak or hear. One day a bank is robbed near by Howard's florist shop, and Howard accidentally kills the man who robbed the bank. From then on, the police start chasing Howard through the city and the body count gets higher by the minute...
Mabat Koev 2

Mabat Koev 2

1997 • 59 min
After the events of the first movie, Moshe and Topaz get married, but things start to escalate..
My Friend Arnold

My Friend Arnold

1997 • 30 min • Slovenia
The main character of the story is 12 year-old Denis, a fan of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and a faithful admirer of his films. The summer holidays begin. Most of Denis’s plans for the summer fall through. He regularly goes to the movies, gets together with friends who have remained in town, and unenthusiastically, but nonetheless, takes cake of his dog Arnie when his mother, a television journalist, is too busy. Taking his dog for a walk one evening, Denis witnesses the loading of harmful substances at a local chemical plant. A series of slightly unusual circumstances, holidays with boy scouts, a new friend - private detective Emil, his mother’s environmental contributions in TV shows and a longing for adventure lead Denis to follow the perpetrators, who unload the wastes in a national park. Denis’s adventures end happily for him and for all his family members, while the criminals are punished - as they should be.
Heritage Minutes: Expo '67

Heritage Minutes: Expo '67

1997 • 1 min • Canada
Montréal's Expo rises from the depths of the St. Lawrence River to give Canada a dazzling 100th birthday party.
June 30, 1997 (aka Celebrate What?)

June 30, 1997 (aka Celebrate What?)

1997 • 7 min • Hong Kong, United States of America
"June 30, 1997. Hong Kong. Tourists flocked to expensive gourmet parties with a harbor view, or got drunk on the streets, embracing British or Communist flags. All media coverage described how happy the local Hong Kong people were about being taken over the next day. I was invited to a private gathering at Hong Kong Arts Centre to watch television and the fireworks together. It turned out to be a gathering of local artists singing sad songs and telling angry stories, against a room decorated in words of bright red: 'Reversion 1997: I am very happy.' Later I went to the Central part of town to find thousands of people rallying in Victoria Square. At midnight they released multi-color balloons, tied a huge yellow ribbon around the Legislative Council, where the directly elected Democratic Legislators were being kicked out, as of July 1. The action was illegal in the new Hong Kong law. The police blocked the area around the Council soon afterwards, calling it 'private property.'"
Why the Long Face

Why the Long Face

1997 • 26 min
A former student of Levine and collaborator and friend of Price, McKenna made this short about Nancy Luce, a desperate, creative, Martha’s Vineyard oddball of the mid 1800s. Using old photographs, puppets, toy models, and off-the-cuff footage, McKenna creates a lonely work as daring and personal as that of her teachers and peers.
Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses

Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses

1997 • 10 min
Testigos is a small painting done when Gardner and Scully worked together in Barcelona. The title, which means 'witnesses,' is the name of a small island in the Caribbean. Testigos, and at least one other painting, was made on the days that the larger canvas Passenger was drying.
80 Meters Below the Summit

80 Meters Below the Summit

1997 • 57 min • Slovakia
Rising 28,169 feet above the Earth's surface, Nepal's Kanchenjunga or "five treasures of snows" is the world's third-highest mountain and the object of destiny for the members of the Slovak expedition at the heart of this documentary. Weather, geography and legend all conspire against those who set out to conquer the five-peaked behemoth in this film that reveals many of the mountain's most spectacular vistas.
A Little Inscription of Marko Uvodic from Split

A Little Inscription of Marko Uvodic from Split

1997 • 54 min • Croatia
Split, Christmas morning in 1900. Judge wants to go to the market , but it is disabled by a cunning lawyer and cases that must be urgently addressed. Šjora File is accused of killing her husband, a lawyer calls for acquittal . The following hearing , lining up the " Scenes from a Marriage Dalmatian style " when a judge fails get past šjor File and when he thought he would soon be able to go to the market , it comes Martin , Vlaj where they stole a rooster . In an unusual hearing the judge lost his temper and himself become one of the participants in the case.
Welcome to Life

Welcome to Life

1997 • 55 min • Poland
The film reveals a number of the Amway corporation’s secrets (including obvious violations of Polish law). To prevent these seeing the light of day, Amway obtained a court ban on the film, preventing its release. Director Henryk Dederko and producer Jacek Gwizdała were sued by Amway several times on various counts. This was the first case of preventive censorship in the history of Polish cinema after 1989. The defendants were cleared of disseminating untrue information. This acquittal did not enable the ban on the film to be revoked; the court ban on its release remained in force for 12 years.
Let the Punishment Fit the Child

Let the Punishment Fit the Child

1997 • 22 min • United States of America
Two women are bonded by strange rituals; a blurred sense of blood relation portrayed through a game of domination, submission, voyeurism and cruel tenderness.
Paranormal

Paranormal

1997 • 50 min • Austria
The filmmakers seek out experts and amateurs in the field of the supernatural and ask them to explain the methods by which they make contact with the "cosmic information web". In their search for "units of sense" in the chaos, the researchers use, interestingly enough, those techniques which are presently central to popular culture - de-construction, sampling and scratching.
Everest: Mountain of Dreams, Mountain of Doom

Everest: Mountain of Dreams, Mountain of Doom

1997 • 45 min
Reaching 5 1/2 miles into the sky, Mt. Everest is a massive pyramid of intimidating rock, freezing cold and hurricane force winds. This extraordinary mountain is the highest point on Earth and has become the ultimate test of man's strength, endurance and will power. It is also deadly...for every five people who reach the summit, one dies trying. All who attempt its slopes risk their lives. Some survive in triumph, but many others never return from its icy heights.
Sudacas

Sudacas

1997 • 55 min • Argentina
A group of friends talk, play and improvise in a rooftop
Sweat of Floor

Sweat of Floor

1997 • 26 min • Japan
An improvised film sketch with professional actors.
Identical Time

Identical Time

1997 • 15 min
Identical Time is an exploration of isolation within an urban environment. With skilled visual manipulations, Cho transforms images of a graffiti-marred subway window and the reflection of a subway car as it traverses a station into moments of sheer enigmatic beauty. This image mantra is further heightened by Stephen Vitiello's poignant soundtrack, in which auditory unpredictability mirrors human experience.
Kung Pao Chicken

Kung Pao Chicken

1997 • 5 min
A Chinese chef (Chef Chu) made the most delicious Kung Pao Chicken in the world. But one day something went terribly wrong. Chef Chu came up with a solution that would change the West forever!
The Hero's Forbidden Love

The Hero's Forbidden Love

1997 • 36 min
Doron Maizel is not an ordinary soldier, but a respected and esteemed colonel and doctor, who has been having a love affair over the past seven years with a handsome young man, Adir Steiner. In this way, he challenges the rules and conventions and risks compromising his own chances at a career. The army understands and tolerates a strange and contradictory relationship like this, where the being of one part of the couple the soldier walks the line between duty and passion every day. The relationship goes on until disease enters the scene.
Turtle World

Turtle World

1997 • 9 min
In this highly acclaimed animated film, a lone sea turtle travels through space, her breath creating a whole new atmosphere. This becomes filled with forests, rivers, mountains and enterprising monkeys…so enterprising that they are forced to learn about sustainability the hard way.
Ninetto the Messenger

Ninetto the Messenger

1997 • 29 min • France
Actor Ninetto Davoli discusses his collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Holiday on Mars

Holiday on Mars

1997 • 7 min
Then a rising star on London’s stand-up circuit, in the mid-90s Harry Hill made a series of 16mm short films with experimental filmmaker and projectionist David Leister, full of madcap comedic flair and DIY spirit.
A Ray of Sun

A Ray of Sun

1997 • 57 min
Renzo and Roberto Rossellini - Two Brothers on their Journey towards the Unknown, sharing a life together. The older one finds a new way to represent reality in film. The younger one expresses this film reality in music. At a mature age both brothers became aware of the shortcomings that limited their arts. From this they drew a conclusion - each one in his own way.