All Films

Return to Sandakan

1995 • 55 min • Australia

During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British North Borneo. Along with the ravages of war and the struggle to survive abject conditions, only six of these POW's were found alive when the war finally ended. In the years that followed, the horror stories of human depravity and the atrocities committed by the Japanese at Sandakan POW camp would come to light, considered by many as one of the most devastating chapters of the Pacific War.

Heritage Minutes: Flags

1995 • 1 min • Canada

Lawyer, judge, and politician John Matheson looks at candidates for Canada's new flag.

Naked Female President Manyuki

1995 • 35 min • Japan

The sequel to "Naked Academy". The story is that the hero who went to rescue the lover who was kidnapped in the first part is appointed as the president of the company and rebuilds the management. A mysterious work in which parody of special effects works can be seen everywhere, such as the main character becoming huge and becoming a naked female president giant.

Just A Little Crush

1995 • 10 min

An intense young woman, Valerie (Carmel Morrissey), hears and sees things that others can't, like the snails screaming as she gardens. She glimpses a glamorous woman on a train and is smitten, entering a swashbuckling fantasy world.

People In A Flood Of Media

1995 • 36 min • South Korea

This film shows that ‘how mass media dominates our daily life’ in a mixed format of drama and documentary. Part 1 is a drama represents the process of a human life from the childhood when the person first encounters with TV to how TV dominates him while growing up. Part 2 is a documentary of a group of people who banned from TV for a month. This experiment makes us think about what TV means to our life.

Ta-ram, ta-ram

1995 • 16 min • Estonia

Nighttime at the tram depot. A closed tram car, from which a young businessman who fell asleep on the tram finds himself waking up. However, he is not alone...

Gotta Get Out

1995 • 11 min • United Kingdom

About a personal experience of claustrophobia and how to deal with it. When you can't have another cup of coffee or another brandy because you just gotta get on the plane. And there you are. And suddenly there's a flight attendant saying "good morning".

Losers

1995 • 9 min

The owner of a remote gas station and a small time crook cross paths on one hot summer's day.

The Spirit of Christmas: Jesus vs. Santa

1995 • 5 min • United States of America

Four carolling children meet Jesus and Santa Claus and learn the true meaning of Christmas.

Slime Adventures

1995 • 15 min • Japan

Based on the manga of the same name, this Production I.G.-produced short follows Slikichi & his friends as they venture into the hideout of a casino owner who cheated his way into winning a rare hat pertaining to Slikichi. Will Slikichi be able to win back his rightfully-owned hat?

Santa's Christmas Snooze

1995 • 24 min • United States of America

A grouchy bear doses Santa Claus with a sleeping potion in order to ruin Christmas in this animated feature.

Blood Testament of Nanjing

1995 • 35 min • China

Short documentary for Oriental Time and Space. The story of an album contained 16 photographs documenting the atrocities committed by the Japanese army during its occupation in Nanjing. This album later became a significant piece of evidence during the trial of Hisao Tani, one of the primary perpetrators of the Nanjing Massacre.

Digging Your Own Grave

1995 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the making of Danny Boyle's 1994 film, "Shallow Grave".

Strap on Olympia

1995 • 12 min • Australia

Olympia's journey continues. Men expect youth, beautiful bodies and sex partners from women. Thinking this, Olympia takes advantage of her young and beautiful body to sign a mistress contract with a rich but vulgar old man. However, something arises inside her that she cannot resist, so she breaks the contract and sets off on a journey. On her journey, she also encounters men who look at her as if they value her. She sets up her own extreme show to strike back at these men. But how much of it was reality and how much of it was her fantasy... From the fantastic intro, a world of beauty supported by a strong sense of style unfolds. The strength of the visuals gives the simple story a fullness.

The Easter Promise

1995 • 45 min • United States of America

Two children follow the events that lead Jesus from his joyous entry into Jerusalem to his betrayal, death, and ressurection. Jerem's dream has always been to be a great soldier for a king. His family tells him a man named Jesus is the real King. But when he sees Jesus enter Jerusalem on a donkey, he thinks he has been tricked. Disheartened, he runs off and meets with two Pharisees who promise to enlist him as a soldier to tell people that Jesus is a hoax. In a hard lesson about appearances and judging, Jerem learns that Jesus is a true King. But, is he too late? Has he helped the Pharisees condemn Jesus to death? Originally created by the Christian Broadcasting Network as a fully animated video, this exciting new Easter book features artwork from the video and re-telling of the same story.

It's Christmas Day

1995 • 28 min • Germany

The arrival of a new toy on Christmas Eve causes trouble and chaos in the children's room.

Power Moves

1995 • 38 min

Combines original music and cinematic studies of human "poetry in motion".

Forsmåelse

1995 • 16 min

Fauli plays himself as the overlooked film director who never gets recognition. He is frustrated to a maniacal degree that everyone seems to win prizes which in his opinion rightfully belongs to him. Thus, he looks up Thomas Vinterberg and trashes him for winning this year's Natsværmerpris (awarded by the Natfilm Festival).

Playboy's Sisters

1995 • 54 min

Are there any more at home like you? For these sexy siblings, absolutely! Just one look at these knockouts and their equally gorgeous sisters, shows that looking good and feeling great are family traits. Playboy's sizzling video exposé brings you an arousing look at sisterhood in all its erotic allure. In twosomes and threesomes these sister acts are ready to take you on an intimate journey into their private sensual world. From a double delight with twins in a mirror image fantasy, to a luscious lingerie shopping spree a deux - and more, they're baring their best in a wonderful celebration of sisterly love. Features Playmates Corinna Harney, Christina Leardini, Stacy Sanches and their family ties of the most beautiful kind.

Welcome to the Peak of Intelligence

1995 • 7 min • Croatia

A series of 14 static sequences of long durability followed by dazing rhythmic music composed especially for this video. Through video images travel across the landscape, which is on some places made artificially, with a scale models prepared for video, partially with 3D images, always entirely static, with lightening which is in some kind of conflict with scenes that enlightens.

My Baby Left Me

1995 • 9 min • Hungary

A short animated story that depicts the sexual yearnings of a man through a series of hallucinatory dream-like and surreal sequences.

I Was in a Film Starring Laura Dern

1995 • 12 min

Video diary shot during the making of Alexander Payne's Citizen Ruth

Red Boots for Christmas

1995 • 28 min • United States of America

A lonely shoemaker in a German village, learns the true meaning of Christmas, when he is asked to make a special pair of boots.

The Hard Case

1995 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A short film about a player and a gambler. British short film directed and written by Guy Ritchie and featured Darren Spencer as The player and Benedick Bates as a player and Wale Ojo as the gambler. A twenty-minute film, it precedes Ritchie's better known Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.