All Films

The Return of Paul Jarrett

1998 • 48 min • United States of America

A very personal account of one of the last gentlemen of a dying era. In fact, Paul Jarrett will forever be remembered in the annals of American history as the last WWI veteran to ever return to the battlefields of France.

La leçon de choses

1998 • 4 min • France

Fairouz

1998 • 60 min • France

This document-portrait traces the career of Fairuz, one of the biggest stars of the Arabic music, born in Lebanon, and summarizes her success and her musical collaborations. This film is also a a moving portrait of a tortured dreamlike Lebanon.

Nein! Zeugen des Widerstandes in München 1933-1945

1998 • 54 min • Germany

Documentary film.

Apartheid Did Not Die

1998 • 52 min

An analysis of South Africa's new, democratic regime.

The Devilish Game

1998 • 8 min • Albania

Made during the violent civil unrest that rocked Albania in the 1990s, directors Nova and Faja have handcrafted a searing vision in which a demonic appearance brings chaos to a quiet hamlet.

Gabriel García Márquez: A Witch Writing

1998 • 52 min

In this spellbinding biography of Nobel Prize Winning author Gabriel García Márquez, the brilliant storyteller is interviewed in depth, and takes us between the worlds of magic and reality—a sorcerer’s tale, in his own words.

Sexy Commando Side Story: A Story that can be Told in Two Days - Masaru-san: The Road to Becoming a Master

1998 • 23 min • Japan

Even though this is a recap, there are a few sequences where there is some new text overlaid the pictures, telling something that wasn't explicitly told earlier.

Rossellini Under the Volcano

1998 • 45 min • Italy

A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."

The Butterfly Dance

1998 • 21 min

Diane is a young dancer whose quiet life is disrupted by the presence of a mysterious and unsettling gardener. As strange and sinister events unfold, Diane faces growing fear and uncertainty in a world that feels increasingly threatening. “The Butterfly Dance” is a psychological short film centered on tension, fear, and the unknown.

A Season for Cinema: Visual insight in Iran; Cinema, Light, Truth

1998 • 60 min • Iran

Part 10 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.

The Jew in the Lotus

1998 • 58 min

Tells how Rodger Kamenetz, author of the best-selling 1994 book by the same title, found his way back to Judaism - the tradition of his birth.

Glass

1998 • 7 min • United States of America

A not-so-still life in the backyard with children, water, fire and a few other basic elements. While the ultimate effect is poetic and transformative, it is simultaneously a study in the laws of optics - an exploration of refraction, diffraction, diffusion, reflection and absorption.

Hanging with Frank

1998 • 15 min • United Kingdom

In the autumn of 1995 Frank McKue returned to his old haunt, the execution chamber of Barlinnie Prison, before its demolition. This award winning documentary takes us on a dark journey into the world of capital punishment without making judgments. Shot entirely on 16mm black & white film stock using an Arri16BL and Bolex cameras. Edited entirely on a Steenbeck flatbed film editing suite at Glasgow Film and Video Workshop 1996-7. Sound dubbing at BBC Scotland studio in Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow. Best Doc Award Reel to Real Festival 1998. Selected for Edinburgh Film Festival 1998. Tx. Channel 5 2001/ BBC Schools 2005. Most Watched film on Shooting People filmmakers network. Selected for 4Docs website. Neg stored at Scottish Screen archive.

The Myth Of The Liberal Media

1998 • 60 min

Destroying the myth of the 'liberal media,' the documentary shows how corporate interests influence the news coverage of key events.

J.W. Marriott: Host to the World

1998 • 60 min • United States of America

J.W. Marriott features informative interviews with his sons J.W. Marriott, Jr. and Richard Marriott, granddaughter Debbie Harrison, friends the Reverend Billy Graham and Sterling Colton, a former employee and others.

Little Blue Hat

1998 • 10 min • Ukraine

The Ukrainian animation is based on the classic Scottish fairy tale about the misadventures of a regular fisherman, whose day was a complete disaster since early morning when he went into the woods to look for a tree for his new boat.

One Pussy Show

1998 • 7 min • Germany

In this performance film, the filmmaker presents herself as a naked and clothed being who dances to music from the sixties, puts on different outfits and has lots of fun.

The Green Line

1998 • 33 min

Bahij Hojeij’s documentary studies the infamous Green Line between east and west Beirut during the civil war.

Seventeen Years to Earth

1998 • 23 min • United States of America

For 17 years, from the age of about six or seven, Kathy Chu keeps a diary. It's a complete fiction, denying disappointments (when her older sister doesn't want to spend time with her, Kathy invents and records a happy encounter) and rejections (she's teased for being Asian, but she writes about what fun she had with friends). Her hopes to be a writer compound the irony of her journal's disconnection. In college and after graduation, one of her closest friends is Kirby, who is also Asian. She denies any romantic attraction, and when they do become lovers, it's her diary that brings a crisis to their relationship and to her identify. Kathy falls back to earth.

End of The Century

1998 • 15 min • Germany

A young Argentine woman comes to Cuba to make a documentary about prostitution. But instead she gets herself a black Cuban lover and the boundaries of prostitution start to fade.

Dujone

1998 • 30 min

Homeless Man: The Restless Heart of Rich Mullins

1998 • 51 min • United States of America

The people who knew Rich Mullins best relate their sense of loss tempered by the glory of their hope as they discuss his life and ministry. Includes previously unseen footage of Mullins.

The Great Migration

1998 • 8 min • France

The adventures of a bird who, when winter approaches, has to fly to warmer climbs.