All Films

Blow Wind

1990 • 3 min

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Tolpatsch

1990 • 24 min • East Germany

Tolpatsch is a good-natured boy who always tells the truth and has immense powers. He fishes a sword out of the lake and sets off on an adventure. After a battle with an evil fairy, Tolpatsch and his companion, a cheerful raven, arrive at the castle where a princess lives. She is not allowed to see the sun, moon or stars until she is sixteen and lives in an artificial world. Tolpatsch answers three questions about the ugliness of this world with the truth. The princess is redeemed and the two become a happy couple.

Peeping Gnooms

1990 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Puppet film about pre-Christmas. Puppet world is united with natural scenes with kids, traditional fairy-tale land with gnooms and Santa Clause is revitalized. The film is meant for children.

Augusta's Guests

1990 • 5 min • Hungary

Augusta's friend and her havoc-causing child visit.

Augusta is Psychic

1990 • 5 min • Hungary

Augusta is visited by a mysterious orb and gains parapsychological abilities.

Gustaf Tenggren: svensk sagotecknare i Amerika

1990 • 38 min • Sweden

Documentary about the Swedish illustrator and animator Gustaf Tenggren.

Sun is rising to the Evening

1990 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Ramune Kudzmanaite's musical short film about the cycles of the day, seasons and human life. Lithuanian folklore sounds.

Dossier

1990 • 20 min

The film directed by E. Zubavičius tells how, inspired by M. Gorbachev's words about Estonia's debt to Russia during his visit to Estonia, Baltic economists began to calculate who owes whom and how much.

Lucky Number

1990 • 60 min

Lucky Number addresses the world of compulsive gamblers. Topics include who these individuals are, what drives them to gamble, the consequences of compulsive gambling, and treatments available to them. Interviews with gamblers, various experts (such as professors), and major individuals (such as Pete Rose and Brian Maloney) are also present.

Hallway

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This animation shows advantages and disadvantages of communal life through the metaphor of a communal apartment, the walls of which depict the history of a huge multi-national country

Jordrike

1990 • 59 min

A documentary outlining the history of modern industrial history in Sweden.

Think Positive

1990 • 5 min • Soviet Union

Animation short

Hello, Lapland!

1990 • 10 min • Finland, Soviet Union

Animation short.

I Love My Motherland

1990 • 5 min

Early short film by Yang Fudong.

Bear - Lime Leg

1990 • 6 min • Soviet Union

After an old man and his wife take possession of a bear's paw, the crippled beast finds the home of its offenders.

Masques et Bergamasques

1990 • 4 min

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.

The Game of Life

1990 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A cat eats a mouse but is eaten by a dog. The dog is beaten to death by the owner of the cat. At the end, the whole village is fighting.

Way of Movement

1990 • 2 min • Bulgaria

The Magic Mirror

1990 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The Things An Educated Man Does

1990 • 9 min

A Mowelfund experimental short film.

Freddie Brice Paints Two Paintings

1990 • 23 min • United States of America

While demonstrating his rhythmic painting style, outsider artist Freddie Brice sings and speaks in a poetic verse about painting, hobbies and life.

Remembering the Snowland

1990 • 55 min • China

The TV documentary made for the one year death anniversary of Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama.

The Engagement in Saint-Michel

1990 • 36 min • Soviet Union

Based on French fairytales.

3 x 1

1990 • 8 min • Soviet Union