All Films

Just Above My Head

1996 • 10 min

The artist walks with a stride, his camera pointed up from around his stomach. The sky, some trees and occasionally his head pops up in the lower third. The title is taken from an essay by James Baldwin.

The Continuum

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

Shot on location in Idaho, Wyoming, Alaska and New Zealand, TGR’s flagship film won two awards at the international Film Festival and was voted Best movie of the Year by France’s acclaimed SKIEUR Magazine. The all time soul favorite.

Billy and Mandy in: Trepanation of the Skull and You

1996 • 2 min • United States of America

Maxwell Atoms' debut short has his characters Billy and Mandy having fun with trepanation.

The Rocker: A Portrait of Phil Lynott

1996 • 52 min • Ireland

When Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott died on 4 January 1986, he was 36 years old. His early death from a drug-related illness placed him in the same rock 'n' roll league as his idols Elvis and Jimi Hendrix. This documentary looks behind the image to reveal the strains of life in the fast lane. It also focuses on Lynott as family man, writer, and black Irishman with a Brazilian father. Includes contributions from Bono, Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Scott Gorham, and Lynott's wife Caroline Crowther, who speaks publicly for the first time. (Radio Times)

Får jag lov

1996 • 47 min

A documentary about the people who gather at the restaurant Sandgrund in Karlstad. They are looking for love, friendship or just a dance or two to Swedish "dansband"-music.

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

1996 • 50 min • United States of America

Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her 50-year career, she made over 80 films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.

From Your Head

1996 • 2 min • United States of America

The power of imagination.

From Bridgend to Basilica

1996 • 25 min • Italy, United Kingdom

A documentary film which tells the story of a Bridgend-born Roman Catholic priest, who rose to the high role of Monsignor at the Basilica in Rome.

Nobody's Business

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

Director Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this affecting and graceful study of family history and memory. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds -- where the past meets the present, where generations collide and where the boundaries of family life are stretched, torn and surprisingly, at times, also healed. Berliner has transformed a story of a troubled man who has sealed himself off from life's pain into a work of universal resonance.

Vem Var Dracula

1996 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A look at "Dracula" in the arts and his supposed real-life inspiration Vlad Tepes.

Sheyal Debota Rahasya

1996 • 52 min • India

Sheyal Debota Rahasya is a Mystery, Thriller TV Film of Feluda Series. This film is about The Anubis Mystery. Feluda must solve the Mystery case.

The Toy Shop

1996 • 45 min • Canada

Locked in a deserted old English toy shop, Katherine and her stuffy cousin Matthew meet some very special friends. Their fantasy world becomes a nightmare when Master Jack, the evil jack-in-the-box casts a spell and shrinks Katherine to the size of a doll.

Dexter's Laboratory: The Big Sister

1996 • 7 min • United States of America

When boy genius, Dexter makes experimental cookies, his sister, Dee Dee eats one and turns into a giant.

Human Behavioural Case Studies. Series One.

1996 • 2 min • Australia

Adam Elliot's earliest film, Human Behavioral Case Studies, is a drawn animation rather than claymation like his other films. It's about unusual human behaviors or obsessions. At only a minute long, it's just long enough to be memorably, darkly amusing.

¡Palante, Siempre Palante! The Young Lords

1996 • 48 min • Puerto Rico

In the midst of the African American civil rights struggle, protests to end the Vietnam War and the women's movement for equality, Puerto Rican and Latino communities fought for economic and social justice. From Chicago streets to the barrios of New York City and other urban centers, the Young Lords emerged to demand decent living conditions and raised a militant voice for the empowerment of the Puerto Rican people in the United States. Palante, Siempre Palante documents the history with on-camera interviews, archival footage, photographs and music. The documentary surveys Puerto Rican history, the Young Lords' activities and philosophy, the torturous end of the organization and its inspiring legacy.

Return to 'Giant'

1996 • 55 min • United States of America

In the summer of 1955, an army of cameramen, lighting techs and movie stars descended on the small, west Texas town of Marfa to film what has become, "the national movie of Texas."

Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh

1996 • 21 min

On Halloween night, Pooh and the gang are ready for Halloween, but Piglet is too scared to join in.

Dot & Spot's Magical Christmas Adventure

1996 • 23 min

Christmas is a time of magic, of wonder and of wishes. That's what cuddly Dalmatian puppies Dot and Spot try to teach Ryan and Robin. When the family moves from the city to the woods right before Christmas, Ryan worries that Santa won't be able to find them. But when Santa's sleigh breaks down in the woods nearby, Dot and Spot must help Ryan and Robin fix it in time to save Christmas. Luckily, all animals can talk on Christmas Eve - and if you listen with an open heart, you'll discover that the magic of Santa follows you wherever you go.

Fugees: Live at New Pop Festival 1996

1996 • 27 min

The trio performs in Germany with special guest Nas joining them

Boid 'n' Woim

1996 • 7 min • United States of America

A worm named Mr. Woim hitchhikes in the middle of the California desert alongside a bird named Mr. Boid. While driving there, Woim crashes Boid's car and they begin to hallucinate.

Mulheres no Front

1996 • 35 min • Brazil

Three stories of female action in social movements, close in their struggle but distant in the geographical space: the Jardim Uchôa Residents Association, in Recife; the Rancho Fundo Residents Association, in Rio de Janeiro; and the Popular Legal Prosecutors group in Bom Jesus, Porto Alegre.

Por encima del abismo de la desesperación

1996 • 28 min • Mexico

This short film narrates the life of Rebeca, a woman who works as a receptionist in a hotel, who, despite having explored her most intimate feelings, has not been able to find her capacity to love.

We Are Not Your Monkeys

1996 • 5 min • India

"We Are Not Your Monkeys is a music video that reworks the epic Ramayana story to critique the caste and gender oppression implicit in it. Sung by Sambhaji Bhagat and composed by Sambhaji, the late Daya Pawar and Anand Patwardhan, the music video opposes the systematic oppression and negation of basic human rights of the underclass, in the name of religion and culture."

Go West Young Man

1996 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A black father and son discuss the ways in which popular myths have shaped their everyday experiences. Go West Young Man, created on an Amiga home computer, parallels their dialogue with a montage of historical moments that have influenced Western perceptions of black masculinity.