All Films

A Bottle of Wishes

1994 • 31 min • France

4 young people are long time friends. They have a dinner together, which will turn into a mess when they play a game which consists in writing a vow on a little piece of paper to be put into a bottle: they love each other, but they are not able to transcend their loneliness and their selfishness.

The Jimmy Johnson Story

1994 • 45 min • United States of America

It was confidence, not arrogance, that put he Dallas Cowboys on the media firing line during their successful quest for a second consecutive Super Bowl victory. It was also typical Jimmy Johnson the unconventional coach who wrote his own rules, and took the Dallas Cowboys from worse to first in just four years.

O' Christmas Tree

1994 • 30 min • United States of America

Santa has neighbors at the North Pole - two feuding polar bears named Iggy Lou Bear and Edgar Allan Snow. Both want to recapture the warm feelings of Christmas from childhood, so each intends to get a Christmas Tree of his own. The only trouble is, there is only one tree in the whole frozen north! A hilarious battle of will and wit ensues, as the two bears feud to "win" the only tree in the land.

Goldie

1994 • 20 min • Germany

Mom Doe gives birth to a fawn named Goldie and all the creatures of the forest want to visit him. Wuschel, the squirrel, soon became his best friend. Every animal and plant in the forest knows man is a great danger. So, when Wuschel and Goldie meet the creepy trees, they advise them to stay away from men and their technology. The little fawn doesn't believe these stories and he decided to play with giant bees.

Yakov Smirnoff: I Bet You Never Looked At It That Way!

1994 • 58 min

Comedian Yakov Smirnoff performing at the Yakov Theater in Branson, Missouri. Once again, using his skills with irony and word play to show the contrast of life here in the United States, and the former Soviet Union, the place of his birth. A lovely walk through context, meaning, and a slight dig at the English language.

Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin

1994 • 14 min • United States of America

A man named John Martin offers a couple with a broken-down car a ride to the nearest gas station, little do they know he’s actually taking them back to his place for dinner.

Elle voulait faire quelque chose

1994 • 13 min

Brigitte decides to shoot her first film during the weekend. She begins by covering her flat with 20 kilos of flour, buying a miniature helicopter, a dinosaur and a model Eiffel Tower...

Sex Crime Revenge: Turbulent Rape

1994 • 60 min

Ten years ago, Tatsuya and Kazuo raped Nozomi (Sayuri Otaka), the woman they admired. Tatsuya is tormented by guilt and is still plagued by nightmares. Tatsuya and Kazuo have been on a break since the incident, but after much deliberation, they decide to meet. Soon after Tatsuya and Kazuo meet again, an incident occurs in which Midori (Nanami Nishino), Kazuo's younger sister, is raped by a man in a sailor suit. The two suspect a connection to the incident of ten years ago, but...

Strange Days: Beasts

1994 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Last of three programmes featuring ordinary people with first-hand accounts of extraordinary incidents.

TATTOO: A Celebration Of Body Art

1994 • 50 min

Documentary based on interviews during the Birmingham Tattoo Convention in the early '90s.

Friday Night

1994 • 5 min

A short about filmmaker Kelley Baker's near death from complications with an allergy shot.

Train de nuit

1994 • 14 min • France

The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this big house with a view on the waves, despite Lise not being there, despite her death, he sees her, he is with her.

São Paulo: Symphony and Cacophony

1994 • 39 min • Brazil

An ode of love and hatred to the city of São Paulo. Composed of fragments of films, it follows characters in their natural habitat: the streets.

Ranma 1/2 OVA 4: A Storm Over School: Growing Up With Miss Hinako

1994 • 28 min

Principal Kuno hires a new teacher, Hinako Ninomiya, to discipline the delinquent students of Furinkan High, particularly Ranma Saotome.

Tonight the Earth Goes Down

1994 • 30 min • Sweden

The boys Johan and Ove are best friends. When Ove's father dies, Ove gets a little "weird" and they lose contact.

Dream Girls

1994 • 50 min • United Kingdom

This film is about Japanese women, escape, glamour and dreams. The Takarazuka Revue is an enormously successful spectacular where the all-women cast create fantasies of erotic love and sensitive men. It is also a world for young girls desperate to do something different with their lives. In return for living a highly disciplined and reclusive existence, they will be adored and envied by many thousands of Japanese women. They will look, act and behave like young men while having no real men in their lives. Dream Girls explores the nature of sexual identity and the contradictory tensions that face young women in Japan today.

Nosehair

1994 • 7 min • United States of America

A man plucks a hair from his nostril. The hair wants back in.

Women of Substance

1994 • 60 min

Narrated by Joanne Woodward, this video is a comprehensive portrait of the legal, moral and health care battles being waged to improve treatment opportunities for pregnant addicts and women with children. Revealing the human and social problems encountered and social problem encountered by pregnant and parenting addicts who seek treatment, their personal stories reveal the true face of this country's health care crisis.

The Year 1994 of the Great Career

1994 • 40 min • North Korea

"The Year 1994 of the Great Career" is a North Korean documentary film that concludes the last year of Kim Il Sung's life as president and includes his final instructions before his death. It focuses on the events and leadership during that specific year in North Korea.

Seven Cities Story: Arctic Front

1994 • 58 min • Japan

In 2086, Earth's axis tilted 90 degrees and after three years span, approximately ten billion people died. One million colonists who had moved to the moon prior to the disaster escaped what later became known as "The Great Fall". At the moon, they established the Panhuman World Government and organized the recolonization of the world. Seven locations were chosen for cities as starting points for this massive project.

Paranoid Garden

1994 • 60 min • Japan

In Japan, during the waning days of WWII, recent widow Noriko clings to her husband’s family after he is killed in battle. But that familial love is quickly replaced by more forbidden urges, and the bonds between them turn physical. Yet there is another secret hidden in this home, one that in a time of war could bring great shame and place all of their lives in peril. A taboo tale that questions notions of love, loyalty and death.

The Malady of Death

1994 • 43 min

The Malady of Death is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras's story of the same name: her text comprises the voiceover, which is a particular reading of the story in which word and image, in a complex interplay, explore male sexuality.

Strange Days: Visions

1994 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Second of three programmes featuring ordinary people with first-hand accounts of extraordinary incidents.

Always Working Together for the People

1994 • 60 min • North Korea

A documentary highlighting how both Kim il-Sung and Kim Jong-il work for the prosperity of the juche system and North Korean people.