All Films

Tottenham Ayatollah

1997 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Jon Ronson and Saul Dibb's 1997 documentary about UK-based Islamist militant leader Omar Bakri Muhammad.

The Language Master

1997 • 45 min

Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are movie stars and business leaders. This programme takes him to a Sixth Form College in London to work with school pupils, to test his claim that he can teach anyone a language in a week - with no reading, writing or homework. The film also explores his personal history - as a hero of the French Resistance during WW II. Nigel’s documentary with the 85 year old Michel Thomas was the first time that Thomas allowed his techniques to be made public. The subsequent success of the film transformed Thomas into a global celebrity and his method into one of the most highly regarded in the world of education.

Officer Buckle and Gloria

1997 • 12 min • United States of America

This is a story about a Police Officer who tries to get children to stay safe. No-one listens to him, but then he gets a police dog who listens to him.

Jugular

1997 • 5 min • Brazil

Boy meets girl.

Children's Scary Story "Mysterious Refrigerator"

1997 • 30 min • Japan

An original video featuring four short horror stories, aimed at children.

When the Gods Cry

1997 • 30 min • Brazil

At the end of the busy year of 1997, we ended up filming a documentary produced by Jorge Timm. Jorjão's restaurant was very close to the Uruguay River, on Ilha Redonda, and there was a river flood, which rose about eleven meters above the normal level - two meters less than the record high of 1983 - and displaced many people. Claudio Baiestorf, Carli and I went there to record the damage, interview homeless people and invent delusions. We arrived at the place and realized that Jorge had greatly exaggerated, via telephone, the size of the flood damage. There were not even homeless people. Thanks to warnings from the civil defense, all residents had taken precautions. We opened a whiskey and started filming anyway.

Goodbye Mom

1997 • 8 min • Mexico

A man on a supermarket encounters a woman who tells him he reminds her of her late son.

The Old Lady and the Pigeons

1997 • 25 min • Canada, France, Belgium, United Kingdom

A starving gendarme, wasting away from hunger, is reduced to grabbing castoff snacks from fat American tourists. When he sees as old woman feeding pigeons, in desperation he hits on the bizarre idea of dressing up as one...

Seven Brides for Uncle Sam

1997 • 52 min • Canada

This documentary shares the stories of seven women from Newfoundland who married American soldiers. From the beginning of World War II to the end of the Cold War, Newfoundland housed some of the largest military bases outside of the U.S. As a result, as many as 40,000 Newfoundland women married American soldiers. Using a combination of interviews and old war footage, Seven Brides for Uncle Sam shows how some of the most important events in world history can serve as the backdrop to the timeless tales of romance, heartbreak and joy.

River Dragons of Ndumo

1997 • 60 min • South Africa

To ancient Egyptians, crocodiles of the Nile were river gods. In modern times, a young female takes risks to mate with the biggest male in the group.

At Midnight with Glauber Rocha

1997 • 16 min • Brazil

A late-1960s interview with Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, mixed in avant-garde style with scenes from his films and clips from fellow filmmaker José Mojica Marins and visual artist Hélio Oiticica.

Titanic: The Exhibition

1997 • 46 min • United States of America

Titanic the Exhibition Film focuses on the Titanic artifacts that have been pulled from the ocean floor and from the Titanic's wreck and it captures the events from the dreadful night of April 15, 1912.

7 Signs of Christ's Return

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

He promised to return. The scriptures foretell of seven events that will herald the second coming of Jesus Christ. Two are already part of history. Some are in the making now. The rest are in the near future. "The Seven Sign"s explains the prophetic visions of the Prophet David of the Old Testament, and the Apostle John of the New. What they saw was alarming. These biblical visions could be indications of where our civilization is headed in the future. As mankind peers into the troubled future, some see the new millennium as the beginning of the end.

Home Sweet Home

1997 • 3 min • Sweden

Queen Silvia of Sweden tells a little about her life in an animation made of stamps.

Austin Powers' Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club

1997 • 42 min

Austin Powers presents his own kind of shagadellic swinging shindig courtesy of MTV to promote his movie, Austin Powers International Man of Mystery. Edited in the style of 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In', Austin shows clips from his film, including a spotlight on Elizabeth Hurley and explains how he is adjusting to the nineties after being frozen for thirty years.

The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson

1997 • 11 min

Behind the scenes documentary filmed during the making of the 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson.

Cazuza - A Leblon Night's Dream

1997 • 45 min • Brazil

The film brings some of the best stories about the singer, told by his friends - Cássia Eller, Ezequiel Neves, Ney Matogrosso and Frejat - and by his mother, Lucinha Araújo, in atouching testimonial.

Choo-Choo

1997 • 25 min • Russia

A film about a boy who made himself a very necessary nanny from old, unnecessary things - Chucha. On New Year's Day, Chucha came to life.

Blood is Not Fresh Water

1997 • 57 min • Ethiopia

A personal and political history of Ethiopia's Rastafarians covers the years 1930 to 1976.

Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht: The Kaffee Kantate - Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir

1997 • 26 min

Johann Sebastian Bach's "Reefer Madness" to the social menace known as coffee.

Awfully Lucky

1997 • 7 min

A greedy guy named Luther discovers the Paradox Pearl, which brings him good luck, but not without consequences. When Luther tries to turn it in to the city museum for ten million dollars, he finds out just how harsh the consequences are.

Rave

1997 • 12 min

Partying like it's 1997. We follow a rave DJ instigator rigging up decks in abandoned warehouses, a nosebleed 'techno tourist' who chases the hardcore around Europe and a girl addicted to... partying.

Nikuianata

1997 • 23 min • Japan

Recently, a series of murders have been targeting only students at Nakatsu's university. Neither the murderer nor the motive is known, but the students gossip amusingly and don't seem particularly frightened, confident that they are the only ones who will not become victims. Meanwhile, Uno, who shoots only dodgy behind-the-scenes videos, asks to make a seppuku video featuring Nakatsu's girlfriend, Tomoko. Ignoring Nakatsu's objections, Tomoko, an aspiring actress, readily agrees to appear in the film. In the end, the filming takes place at Nakatsu's flat with Sakamoto, an aspiring cameraman, and his girlfriend Kaoru, who loves canned juice. However, halfway through the film, Tomoko claims that she is really going to cut her own stomach, leading to a struggle between an angry Nakatsu and Uno. Then the serial killer arrives, and Tomoko is targeted - but...

Breakfast with Gus

1997 • 8 min • Canada

A cat's eye view of Gus' attempt to get attention, and, most importantly, breakfast, from his busy humans. Eventually Gus does what any self respecting cat would do and takes matters into his own paws.