All Films

A Mexican Buñuel

1997 • 56 min • France, Mexico

A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films.

The War is Over

1997 • 7 min • Italy

Their son had disappeared on the front two years ago. When he finally calls them at home, they want to forget the suffering of the past. It is an allegory about the human need for past, present, and future.

No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg

1997 • 52 min

Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative documentary featuring Allan Ginsburg's final television interview as well as remarkable deathbed footage shot by underground cinema icon Jonas Mekas.

Troops

1997 • 10 min • United States of America

Stormtroopers on Tattooine show us what life is like patrolling and law-upholding on the sandy planet. While being filmed for the hit Imperial TV show TROOPS, Stormtroopers from the infamous Black Sheep Squadron on patrol run into some very familiar characters.

America il Paradiso

1997 • 12 min • Canada

This video addresses the complex and rich cultural history inherited by the children of immigrants. While official History is often presented as a single truth, "truth" is multi-layered and multi-valent. Through a layering of stories from Italian immigrants, images from Super 8 family films, and remembrances of my grandmother, "America il Paradiso" seeks to express the complexity of history.

Cachaça

1997 • 13 min • Brazil

The Zoonatiks in Home Sweet Home

1997 • 7 min • United States of America

After not having much luck in a circus, three animal friends try to find jobs and residence at a very exclusive zoo.

Hana yori Dango

1997 • 30 min • Japan

Set in an alternative timeline to the manga and animated TV series, the movie features a classic Cinderella story told through the medium of '80s dance. Tsukushi Makino is a trainee dancer in a New York Performance group, struggling to become the star of the show with the help of Rui Hanazawa and Tsukasa Dōmyōji.

Madame Jacques on the Croisette

1997 • 40 min • France

A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.

The Spirit of Genius - Fedor Khitruk and His Films

1997 • 59 min

Alder uncovers not only the life and works of the elusive Cold War soviet master, but also sheds light on the Soviet animation regime.

The Girl in the Mist

1997 • 28 min • Sweden

Sima, a ten-year-old immigrant girl, is on her way home from school. In the thick fog she comes across an injured postman, who desperately wants her to help him. The girl goes for help in a village she has never before been to...

Gotta Have Heart

1997 • 35 min • Israel

Young love blossoms amid the inhabitants of a small town in Israel in this gay fantasy. Guri want to relocate to Tel Aviv before he's "outed". Nohav want to win a local song contest and who can tell what stud Merito wants?

Progress

1997 • 3 min

Parallels the killing of a Black man in the 1960s by the Ku Klux Klan with the killing of a Black man in the 1990s by a Black gang.

Balto

1997 • 30 min • Germany

Winter 1925 in Alaska. Nome, a small place situated almost at the north pole, is cut off from the external world. But the children and their friends, the clumsy polar bear, the clever seal and of course the huskies keep on playing anyhow. But then one child after another gets sick. "Diphtheria ", says the doctor, " we don't have enough medicine." There is only one chance to save the children. Balto and Kemo, the two fastest sled dogs of the village are chosen to get the medicine from the city. But this City is more than 400 miles away from Nome.

The Goddamn George Liquor Program

1997 • 12 min • United States of America

The Goddamn George Liquor Program was the first cartoon series to be produced exclusively for the internet.

Tropic Island Hum

1997 • 13 min • United Kingdom

After he's nearly shot at by hunters, Wirral the Squirrel is rescued by balloon-riding Froggo and both fly to a tropical island, where other rescued animals take refuge.

Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

Host Howie Long takes viewers on a tour of the "Star Wars" universe, as Fox TV celebrates the re-release of the original three legendary films in this one hour special.

Tamagotchi Honto no Hanashi

1997 • 20 min • Japan

The film contains nine skits made for the Toei Anime Fair. The Tamagotchi in this film don't speak but rather communicate via sounds similar to that of Pokémon Speak. This is unique because all the other anime adaptations of the franchise have the Tamagotchi speak Japanese.

Oasis of the Pharaohs

1997 • 16 min

Kuchar writes: "A hidden resort in Northern California opens its ancient secrets to a bride and groom who consummate their marriage on the peacock strewn terrain that muddies the tootsies of the infidels who munch through the mysteries with jaws of death — and rebirth."

Ernest Borgnine on the Bus

1997 • 50 min • United States of America

Ernest Borgnine tours the country in his Luxury coach bus, The Sunbum.

The Sonoran Desert: A Violent Eden

1997 • 57 min • United States of America

An intriguing look at the agonies of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, northern Mexico and Southern California forthrightly reveals the animals' and vegetation's dreadful task of accommodating themselves to their homeland. Stunningly photographed by Keith Brust, producer-writer Sean Morris and their companions --- with Barry Nye lending his customary editing assurance --- provide a handsome study of deprivation and survival and an illuminating look at how the other half lives and dies.

A Midsummer´s Journey - A view of Iceland

1997 • 18 min • Iceland

Nan Goldin: In My Life

1997 • 28 min

This documentary features Nan Goldin’s celebrated 1996 mid-career photography retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Goldin’s exhibition filled an entire floor at the Whitney Museum with pictures that chronicle her involvement and fascination with the alternative, “downtown” culture of New York City, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo, etc. Culled from a period that spans more than 25 years of taking pictures, Goldin’s desire to make a visual diary of her friends and lovers, as well as her own life, makes for a moving, highly charged, visual experience.

Des goûts et des couleurs

1997 • 21 min

A short film co-created by Eric Rohmer.