All Films

Legend of Lemnear

1989 • 45 min • Japan

After her village is destroyed and all its residents slaughtered by the evil wizard Gardein and his master The Dark Lord, a warrior known as Lemnear, The Silver Champion, vows to find and kill them both to avenge the massacre.

Brenda Brave

1989 • 34 min • Sweden

Brenda Brave gladly helps her grandmother to sell candy canes at the market square. But one day grandmother suffers from a sore leg. Brenda has to take care of the candy cane sales all by herself.

The Ministries of Art

1989 • 52 min • France

Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.

Double Rape

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Christmas in America

1989 • 45 min • United States of America

TV movie depicting a father and son's strained relationship with the mother often trying to be the bridge between the men in her life. The father, Frank Morgan (Kenny Rogers), is a photographer who is too often absent, according to his son. When his son, David Morgan (Kenneth Rogers Jr.), finally attends a display of his father's work despite still being bitter about their relationship, he finally realizes how important his family really was to him.

Office Lady Soft Skin Maniac

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Sunday 9 to 5

1989 • 48 min • Yugoslavia

One regular Sunday meeting of a boy and his father who live separately.

Vanilla Essence

1989 • 16 min

A young woman in her home begins to bake a cake, but finds that she doesn’t have any vanilla essence. Never having stepped outside her house before, she decides to go out to find some vanilla essence, and she finds the external world strange but also surprisingly rewarding.

O Regresso

1989 • 53 min • Macao, Portugal

"O Regresso" is a documentary featuring renowned Portuguese actor Ruy de Carvalho as he returns to Macau after a 10-year absence. Directed to mark the 10th anniversary of his visit, the film captures Ruy de Carvalho revisiting key locations across the city, reflecting on the cultural and social transformations that Macau underwent in the lead-up to its handover from Portuguese to Chinese administration in 1999. Blending personal memories with the evolving landscape, the documentary offers a nostalgic look at Macau's unique blend of Portuguese and Chinese heritage, seen through the eyes of one of Portugal’s most beloved actors.

Dog Soldier: Shadows of the Past

1989 • 46 min • Japan

Former Green Beret John Kyosuke is called out of retirement to rescue an American scientist carrying a priceless biological asset. The closer he gets to his target, the more he discovers about the powers pulling the strings — and the further he must reach into his own dangerous past.

Goldi

1989 • 25 min • Sweden

Eva is a little girl who lives with her uncaring aunts and mean cousin Berit. Eva's mother is in the hospital and might not make it, and her aunts aren't making it easy for her. A story about how a little girl fights injustice in her own special way.

The Corsican Brothers

1989 • 49 min • Australia

A vendetta between two Corsican families is the background to Alexandre Dumas' story of the strange bond between twin brothers, who are separated at birth.

Battered

1989 • 58 min

Lee Grant's acclaimed 1989 investigation of domestic violence in American Homes. Battered is the powerful, if harrowing portrait of a life lived in constant fear of the people closest to you. Intimate interviews with the victims and children of the cycle are combined with the eye opening and heart breaking stories of the abusers themselves to take you deeper into every facet of these American lives.

Robichaud

1989 • 58 min • Canada

Portrays Louis Robichaud, Canadian politician and former Premier of New Brunswick.

Mini Yon Soldier Rin!

1989 • 24 min

Rin Shiguma, a young boy, is a champion in the sport of mini four-wheel drive (Mini 4WD) racing with his favorite electric model car, Soldier. He wins the Grand Prix race against his rival, Waka, and breaks his record for consecutive wins. However, afterwards, a group of mysterious racers hired by Waka appear before Rin. One of them, Mr. Mecharic, who is both a skilled mechanic and a magician, comes forward as the first one to battle Rin. Rin accepts the challenge, but little does he know what Mr. Mecharic has in store...

Runaway

1989 • 58 min • United States of America

After witnessing the accidental death of a friend who was attempting to rescue him from bullies, an African-American boy blames himself and, stricken with guilt, hides out among underground street people in New York.

Super Mario's Fire Brigade

1989 • 10 min • Japan

Fire-safety PSA short based off of the Super Mario Bros. series.

Angel in White: Devouring Thighs

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Holy Virgin Convulsion

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xcess / Nikkatsu.

Perverted Three Sisters

1989 • 58 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Black Hair, Sliding Door Underlay

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu

A Christmas Carol

1989 • 26 min • Israel, Japan, United States of America

Here's one Christmas Carol that's not a lot of humbug. It's the classic story of Ebinezer Scrooge, that miserable miser of old. Laugh along as Scrooge's penny pinching ways are miraculously and hilariously transformed by some pretty nifty Christmas spirits. Join Bob Cratchet, Tiny Tim and, of course, Scrooge in this heartwarming and humorous retelling of an all time Christmas classic. It's past, present and future fun for all!

The Other

1989 • 10 min • Argentina

Documentary about the joys and sorrows of being trans.

Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II

1989 • 24 min • Japan

Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk. II delivers with more tongue-in-cheek humor than the first series. In "The Rolling Colony Affair," a colony is hosting a cabaret show featuring the girls of Gundam. But the show turns disastrous when men and mobile suits go crazy over the girls, sending the colony rolling out of control. A parody of the videogame RPG genre, "Gundam Legend" has Amuro, Kamille and Judau sent on a perilous quest to rescue the princess of the Zeta Kingdom from Char Aznable and his vicious Zeon MS forces.