All Films

Kunglig toilette

1986 • 60 min • Sweden

The King is about to visit a small town, and everyone is excited to prepare for the event. Everyone but Egon Karlsson, vice municipal commissioner and and member of the Republican Association.

Sista föreställningen

1986 • 59 min • Sweden

An ageing showman and his young sidekick accordionist are on a low budget summer tour of Sweden when the accordionist suddenly gets an offer for a much better gig and then the conflict is born.

Groper Train: Danger Signal

1986 • 60 min • Japan

The pub Muhomatsu is located next to a prison. Love and hate unfolds at the pub...

The Mistake

1986 • 49 min • Albania

Martin is a curious boy, but because of his personality, he often has misunderstandings with his parents, siblings, and teachers.

Sonia

1986 • 54 min • Canada

A woman deals with her mother, an arts professor, plunging into chaos due to Alzheimer's.

Urban Square: In Pursuit of Amber

1986 • 55 min • Japan

Ryou Matsumoto is a screenplay writer that runs into a man and witnesses his murder. Unknown to him, he gets caught up in an illegal antique ring along with a girl he meets named Yuki. In order to survive, he ends up acting out the "action hero" role that he writes in his screenplays.

Phoenix: Karma Chapter

1986 • 60 min • Japan

The story of two men - sculptor genius Akanemaru, and former bandit Gao. Discover how the lives of the two men cross repeatedly throughout their lives, how they struggle with their own fate, and how they are forced to compete with each other for a great honour, when karma is the only prize.

Pecos Bill

1986 • 49 min • United States of America

Steve Guttenberg portrays Pecos Bill, the "King of the Cowboys," in this rootin' tootin' epic. Raised by coyotes, Bill puts the "wild" in the Wild West settlement of Petunia City. When his rowdy behavior gets him run out of town, he heads for Mexico. There, Bill lassos a cyclone to save the state of Texas from drought. His heroics become campfire legend, proving that selflessness and bravery are never forgotten.

Achilo kulnas

1986 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A film by F. Kauzon and V. Staroš about Zalgiris' 1986 debut in the European Champions Cup, where they lost in the final to Zagreb Cibona.

The SuperGal

1986 • 50 min • Japan

Maris is a freelance bounty hunter/soldier of fortune who just wants to be so rich that she doesn't have to work anymore. Just one slight problem... Maris is from a world of super strong beings, and constantly has to pay for damages she and her parents inflict wherever they go,

The Nativity

1986 • 30 min • United States of America

The Nativity is seen through the eyes of three young visitors from the 20th century who are transported back through time to the Holy City

Daikanyama Wonderland Horror

1986 • 45 min • Japan

Three girls, who are would-be ‘idols’, try to train somewhere in Daikanyama, by order of a manager of secret ‘idol’ school.

Shift Change

1986 • 56 min • Canada

This documentary looks at the microchip, an American invention exploited by the Japanese that caused a second industrial revolution. The devastating effect on millions of human lives is related through interviews with some of the newly jobless in Hamilton, Ontario. Using the example of Japan for contrast, host James Laxer demonstrates that the cost of technological advances need not be so high if their effects are foreseen and planned for. Part 2 of the series Reckoning: The Political Economy of Canada.

Guinea Pig Part 3: He Never Dies

1986 • 41 min • Japan

Hideshi, a bored salaryman with no friends, would love nothing more than to die. But when his suicide attempt doesn’t take, he settles for terrorizing a judgmental coworker with his newfound immortality.

Transformers: Scramble City

1986 • 22 min • Japan

Taking place after the Second Season of Transformers, Scramble City is a story in which the Cybertrons have built a secret lab hidden inside a mountain to build a new super robot, Metroplex to be a mobile base for them. As Ultra Magnus prepares it the Destrons find out its location and attack it. The Cybertron and Destron teams duke it out over the mountain then Metroplex comes out and beats all the Destrons but then out of the water comes Typticon! Can Metroplex defeat Trypticon???

Fuzzbucket

1986 • 46 min • United States of America

In the vein of "Harvey", an invisible creature befriends a 12 year old boy. Of course, no one else can see him nor believes in him.

Dissipative Fantasies

1986 • 4 min • United States of America

An individual finds that the world that intrudes upon his personal life cannot be escaped, and he turns to the next generation.

Om

1986 • 4 min • India

Indian remake of “The Omen”.

You

1986 • 47 min • Sweden

In Du a woman visits a friend of her recently deceased father. They speak about the father’s scientific achievements, gravitational waves and spatial geometry. The film is an attempt, in the context of a play, to reformulate the film expression. To show in musical and abstract picture sequences different forms of order and disorder, the limit of thought and our place in the universe.

Two Soldiers

1986 • 30 min

Charming tale of a small farm boy who runs away from his rural environment in search of his older brother who has joined the Army to fight the Japanese in World War II.

Vanishing America

1986 • 50 min • United States of America

While thumbing through old comic books in his parents' attic, 30-year old Rich Hall remembers that the Junior Seed Sales Club of America still owes him a basketball from when he was eight. Rich then sets out on a journey across America to claim his prize, only to find that there's not much America left out there anymore.

September September

1986 • 6 min • East Germany, Germany

"[This film] embodies (...) one of his [Hahnemann's] most mature films. Rainy rides along Schönhauser Allee, which seems to be depopulated. Past the 'Viennese Café', the meeting place par excellence. From a moving train the view of idyllic landscapes, on the horizon a castle. The camera tilts, turns, until the world is upside down. Scenes of an action with the artist friend Heike Stephan: in the sanctuary Hahnemann, black painted with a white turban, and Stephan, stack cages with rabbits on top of each other. Then TV recordings of a discussion forum with Jean-Luc Godard and Rosa von Praunheim - scenes as from another planet. From the off again and again a poem Hahnemann, recited by Peter Mario Graus. The diction is initially calm, almost factual, increases, eventually overturns, but then falls back, resigned. " (Claus Löser in "Gegenbilder")

Xmas 1986

1986 • 36 min

"In Xmas 1986, George Kuchar’s mother Stella has come to stay with him for the holidays. After a series of dinners with friends, Stella’s repeated discussions about her shingles and Kuchar’s ominous film-noirish narration, Kuchar rescues the morale of a dinner party gone bad thanks to an undercooked ham by presenting his hosts with a very memorable holiday gift." – Kyle Riley

The Gourmet

1986 • 47 min • United Kingdom

A rich, bored gourmand who has tasted all there is of exotic meals, even human flesh, gets a tip-off from a rich midget. The midget had tasted everything out of this world, and even something not of this world. In other words, a ghost. The gourmand becomes very interested…