All Films

Your Brother

1989 • 14 min • Poland

A visit to a laboratory conducting medical experiments on rats. Laboratory workers' reflections on the relationship between rats and humans and the impact of stress on the quality of research.

Monuments Far and Strange

1989 • 4 min

"Lost forever in the vortex of Eastern European anxiety, our puppet hero Hector languishes in scene after scene of contrived torment. Antiquity is thus his total realm, his self... This is the flipside of Perestroika; the solid weight of monuments and walls crashing down on waiting faceless figures." - David Cox, Cantrills Filmnotes, Issue 63/64, December 1990.

Les Aventures de Guédé

1989 • 16 min • Cote D'Ivoire

Guédé is an 8-year-old boy. He lives with his family in a hamlet in the Ivorian countryside and is bored. He flees and arrives in town, in Abidjan, where he survives with other “street children”. Then he grows up, becomes an adult and… always dreams of going somewhere else.

Return To Tarawa: Memories of Battle

1989 • 60 min

A documentary about a group of 2nd Marine Division survivors of the fierce World War II battle with the Japanese at the Tarawa Atoll who return to that location after 45 years.

Nur Blitze

1989 • 60 min

Experimental film by Miriam Cahn.

Mao Meets Muddy

1989 • 35 min

Director Anthony Ramos joins his good friend, painter Frederick J. Brown, on a trip to Beijing for a retrospective of Brown’s work at the National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square in 1988, the first retrospective of an American artist in China.

Casio Play Today!

1989 • 30 min • United States of America

Introduction to your Casio Tone Bank Keyboard

Volcano!

1989 • 56 min

For more than 20 years, Maurice & Katia Krafft have traveled the world. From Iceland to Hawaii, from Africa to Indonesia, they are usually the first to reach the scene of an eruption. Join them as they risk their lives to document the birth of a volcano.

Electronic Mandala

1989 • 27 min

Fifteen Mandalas, built through a natural connection between the operator and the computer using simple standard presets, are in fact tested around the hierarchies of perception, a sort of a backward journey towards the origin of thought, following the rhythm of thought within its place. natural: man.

...dann antworten Sie mit JA!

1989 • 25 min • East Germany

The film sheds light on the topic of the high divorce rate among young people in the form of journalistic statements and scenes as well as analytically reflected statements and statements of experience by sociologist Dr. Ursula Hempel, divorced and single mother of two adolescent children, and her cousin, a puppeteer who is also divorced.

For Axel

1989 • 17 min

Short film by Max Müller.

Banho de Aventura

1989 • 35 min

short story before "Cocórico"

Malhoune

1989 • 25 min

In Meknes, at the music conservatory, master Hadj Hoceine Toulali evokes some rules governing malhoune , a sung dialect word, imbued by the intimate links it maintains with the social and artisanal life of the city.

Latina

1989 • 13 min • Chile

Filmed in super 8mm, it is Germán Bobe's first film. It is a sarcastic look at the world of a teenager and her daily life.

La mer on s’en fout!

1989 • 12 min • Canada

Monique and Lussier, two good friends from the street, let themselves go to the rhythm of their little, somewhat gray world. Like a dream that grows in the “slush”, they manage to sail above our heads.

R.O.C. Government, Return Our Land!

1989 • 23 min

Since the seventeenth century, Taiwan’s indigenous peoples have endured waves of colonisation until they were finally left with almost no land of their own. The 1984 formation of the Association for Taiwanese Indigenous Rights launched the struggle to regain their rights and initiated the ‘Return Our Land’ movement. This film documents the march on 27 September 1989.

1000 Lakes Rally 1989

1989 • 56 min

Round 9 of the 1989 World Rally Championship took place in Finland accompanied by a torrential downpour of rain which added the possibility of aquaplaning to its already notorious reputation for not being one of the more popular rally courses. Recognised as a cut and thrust affair where results are often decided by seconds rather than minutes, the 1000 Lakes lived up to its reputation as a tough and demanding drive and on top of the treacherous weather conditions caused by the heavy rain, cars were decimated by mechanical failure and driver error over the 1,447 km course.

STD Street Smarts

1989 • 30 min • Canada

With frank language and explicit imagery, this video addresses difficult issues such as sex and injection drug use in the age of AIDS. It is non-judgemental in its portrayal of young people acquiring, using, and sharing knowledge about safer sex and needle use. The video was produced by, for, and with "street youth" by the STD Prevention Project of Youthlink—Inner City in Toronto, Canada.

O Reino Azul

1989 • 14 min • Brazil

A tyrant, to escape boredom, decides to paint his entire kingdom blue. But things don't go exactly as he had planned.

A Parable About an Artist

1989 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Based on drawings by Ildar Urmanche, the cartoon tells the story about actor who gives people experience of grief and happiness.

Self-Control

1989 • 2 min • Soviet Union

About how strict self-control can hinder the development of personality and a full-blooded life.

Jason Still Lives!

1989 • 40 min

"Jason Still Lives!" tells the tale of Jason Myers who is a hockey masked killer on a cruise ship who comes ashore and starts killing people in Ohio.

Lepatriinutalv

1989 • 36 min • Soviet Union

At the end of the 1980s, there were two boarding homes for children and young people with mental and physical disabilities in Estonia, Imastu and Karula, with 300 children in one, and 160 in the other. There are children of all ages here, very small and teenagers. There are those who speak and those who cannot. Who walk on their own, who crawl, who is forever chained to a bed. Most of them can only be alive. All these children long for love and care, they all deserve it. They exist, although for decades society did not want to see or hear them.

Regional Domino Competition

1989 • 22 min • Soviet Union

Rock opera based on the story of the same name by Kir Bulychev.