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Solo, the Law of the Favela

Solo, the Law of the Favela

1994 • 54 min • Netherlands
Leonardo and Anselmo are both eleven years old and live in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. It is the summer of 1994, the World Championship Soccer is held in the USA, and Brazil is the favorite for the world title. Leonardo and Anselmo dream of becoming professional soccer players, to escape the poverty and violence of their slum. They fantasize of being able to organize a barbecue, once they have made it. Some of their friends want to become fishermen, but when they go boating on the lake, they find a corpse in the water (victim of yet another drug-related crime). Leonardo and Anselmo play for the team of Nova Saffra, a home for poor kids. But when a scout of a famous team arrives, everything might change: he invites both Leonardo and Anselmo to play a test match. During this once in a lifetime opportunity, Anselmo forgets his shoes and his father is nowhere to be found. Leonardo realizes he will have to make a tough decision
Women with Eyes Open

Women with Eyes Open

1994 • 52 min • Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Togo
Portraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin.
Virtual Brother: Koji Hayama & Brothers Live 6 ~Renpatsu Special~

Virtual Brother: Koji Hayama & Brothers Live 6 ~Renpatsu Special~

1994 • 60 min • Japan
Hayama's first video, includes his best performances at Instick Suzue, Nippon Seinenkan, On Air Shibuya, W'OHOL and Yellow.
Airport

Airport

1994 • 33 min • Germany
An adventurous group of stewardesses discover the joy of group sex in the bathroom while in between flights.
Xicu'l toperu

Xicu'l toperu

1994 • 12 min
Mars

Mars

1994 • 60 min • Japan
Mars is the 1st remake of the franchise and restored the original manga's storyline of a young boy in suspended animation inside a South Sea volcano who awakens a century before his alien masters planned to use his powers to reduce human civilization to a manageable low-tech level.
Feel It In My Bones

Feel It In My Bones

1994 • 30 min
Report on how the sacred burial grounds of enslaved and freed blacks in New York and Texas have been destroyed and almost forgotten. Today a new generation attempts to honor these dead and heal the wounds of history.
Mandel Zoom

Mandel Zoom

1994 • 1 min • United States of America
Experimental animation that zooms deep into a macro world of colour, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Drop

Drop

1994 • 4 min • Italy
Man appears to be eternally bound to fix things that sooner or later will somehow get broken again. What if one day, by this same law, the universe too began falling apart?
The Mermaids

The Mermaids

1994 • 8 min • Brazil
A video essay by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on the standardization of beauty through mass media.
The Legend of the Hawaiian Slammers

The Legend of the Hawaiian Slammers

1994 • 22 min
The forces of good and evil collide when an evil scientist and a normal kid search for powerful "pogs" that could change the world.
HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Eddie Griffin

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Eddie Griffin

1994 • 27 min • United States of America
Frenetic comedian Eddie Griffin performs an uncensored set in this hilarious thirty-minute stand-up special.
Mermaids of Sand, Sea, and Surf

Mermaids of Sand, Sea, and Surf

1994 • 60 min • Belize, Jamaica, Mexico, Palau, United States of America
Mermaids photographed in Palau, Mexico, Belize, and Jamaica!
12 March: Raid

12 March: Raid

1994 • 46 min • Turkey
Revolutionaries passed before the streets of the 1960s on the road to democracy. Then the use of victory songs and rebellion flags, right-wingers, leftists and putschists again. The February 22nd Operation could not revolutionize, but it succeeded in overthrowing its government. Unexpectedly, because of an amnesty... İnönü kept Talat Aydemir's forgiveness by making a promise to him when he received him and drafting a law. But when this structure came to the Parliament, the AP members revolted. They also asked for the ex-Democrats to be pardoned. They said "all or nothing". It's a mess. When the AP insisted, İnönü resigned. Thus, without doing much work, Turkey's first settlement was dissolved in six months. İnönü was brought to the head of the new crime again. However, this time, EP was excluded and a second provision government was formed with CHP, YTP and CKMP. And the winds blowing from Kayseri would continue to sweep Ankara more...
Trouble at the Top: Nightmare at Canary Wharf

Trouble at the Top: Nightmare at Canary Wharf

1994 • 46 min
The year Janet Street-Porter spent at Live TV, where her task was to make 24-hour live television at a fraction of normal costs. As the station nears its launch, new technology fails to work and the pressures on staff mount as tensions rise - BBC2, 1995
The Blue Train

The Blue Train

1994 • 25 min
Nijinska's ballet (1924), revived on the stage of the Paris Opera (Paris opera ballet).
12 Mart: Gripes

12 Mart: Gripes

1994 • 43 min • Turkey
Revolutionaries passed before the streets of the 1960s on the road to democracy. Then the youth with the victory songs, the workers with the rebel flags, the rightists, the leftists and the putschists again. The country spent 12 years in the grip of the revolution and in the end all roads came to the same crossroads. Ankara was restless in the minutes when the ousted prime minister of the Democratic Party, Adnan Menderes, was hanged. The news of Menderes' execution had not yet come. There was an anxious wait in the houses. Ears were on the radio. Everyone was wondering what happened in Imrali. In the Assembly, the National Unity Committee was in a meeting. They were also trying to learn the fate of Menderes. Suddenly, news came that EP Chairperson Ragıp Gümüşpala and Secretary General Şinasi Osman wanted to meet with the committee urgently. The committee members did not break the request of their former commander Gümüşpala and made an appointment for 14:30...
The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

1994 • 54 min
In this well-known biblical story, Moses is raised to be a Pharaoh despite his Hebrew heritage. As his younger brother desires the crown, Moses creates a relationship with the enslaved Hebrews and leads them to freedom. Although a long journey, Moses is blessed with the voice of God and is given the Ten Commandments, for which all followers are to live by. This is a great educational movie for the whole family.
Ishi, the Last Yahi

Ishi, the Last Yahi

1994 • 57 min • United States of America
Linda Hunt narrates this documentary look at Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi Native American tribe following massacres in California in the late 1800s. This PBS film celebrates the human spirit while indicting the settlers' treatment of Native Americans.
The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe

The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe

1994 • 45 min • United States of America
Descend into the dark world and tragic life of the melancholy author who is the uncontested master of the macabre, and hear excerpts from his famous works.
Förlorarna

Förlorarna

1994 • 3 min • Sweden
Some eggs in a car accident. Made of sour milk.
Light and Shadows, the Last of the Pioneers: Nazih Shahbandar

Light and Shadows, the Last of the Pioneers: Nazih Shahbandar

1994 • 42 min • Syrian Arab Republic
Trained as an electrician, Nazih Shahbandar became fascinated with the technology behind film production and was one of the pioneers of cinema production in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1947, he set up a studio fitted with film equipment that was almost entirely of his own fabrication. He wrote scripts, built sets, and innovated new methods of sound recording and transmission. As an enthusiastic inventor, he produced and directed the first Syrian film with sound. His dream was to film and screen a 3D film. An ode to cinema, this documentary is a portrait of Shahbandar.
A different Anna

A different Anna

1994 • 34 min • Norway
Anna has been acting different and distant ever since she came back from her summer vacation in France.
The Beauty Conspiracy

The Beauty Conspiracy

1994 • 14 min • Germany
With ironic emphasis, the film examines an Afro beauty shop on Kantstrasse in Berlin. Customers describe their experiences in post-reunification Berlin and at the same time convey a small product knowledge of hair straighteners and bleaching creams.