All Films

The Children Play Russian

1993 • 58 min • France, Switzerland

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot," offering up a series of typically Godardian musings on art, politics, the nature of images and the future of cinema.

Hotheads

1993 • 6 min • United States of America

Uplifting interviews with comedians Reno and Diana Massa, the creators of HotHead Paisan, about their defiant encounters with homophobia.

Legacy

1993 • 53 min • United States of America

A portrayal of the early Latter-day Saints' joys, sacrifices, hopes, and trials; their epic journey to the Salt Lake Valley; and their legacy of faith in Jesus Christ.

The Tempest

1993 • 26 min • United Kingdom, Russia

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Season 1, Episode 2. Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.

Fruit 15

1993 • 16 min • Ireland

Twenty-three-year-old Una is pregnant – perhaps by immaculate conception? After visiting family in the country, she returns to Dublin determined to find a father for her unborn child. An experimental film that playfully alludes to women's experience in 1990s Ireland and to the changing status of the Catholic Church.

Singles

1993 • 30 min • Japan

Graduating senior Sakisaka Saki is secretly in love with her older sister Noriko's boyfriend, Kazame Kaname, unaware that Noriko and Kaname have broken up. Saki hopes to escape her dilemma when she goes to college, but she ends up attending the same college as Kaname. During orientation, she is recruited to Kaname's video club. He wants to film her, but so does another boy, Tachibana Daichi, who is secretly in love with her. Can the knots be untangled and true love find its true course?

Growth Period

1993 • 42 min • Taiwan

It portrays the tumultuous life of a middle-class couple and the reshuffling of relationship dynamics when the woman's young assistant and their landlord become involved, presenting urban life as observed by Yang through a multitude of rapid dialogue.

The Fashion Boy is Cool

1993 • 30 min • Japan

When the bubbly 14-year-old Kotobuki falls in love with 26-year-old Hodaka, the owner and clothing designer of a popular boutique, she lies about her age in attempt to get closer to him. He is slow to warm up to her until a strange young man named Kazuomi asks Hodaka for part-time employment and stirs things up between them.

Korosiya Ami

1993 • 38 min • Japan

Ami, a girl who works as a flower arranger, also works as a professional assassin

Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine: Inaugural Issue

1993 • 60 min

Streetwalker fashions! Gossip! Mayhem! Miscegenation! Pretty bull dagger gangbangers! Dorky white boys with big dicks! & other sextacular events!

Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy

1993 • 55 min • United Kingdom

A delightful DVD of Prokofiev's universally beloved and popular "musical tale," brought to life by human actors in a fairytale world inhabited by Muppet-like characters. Pop star Sting (The Police) lends his voice to a Sting puppet for the witty, enlightening commentary that guides the viewer through this charming suite.

L’exposé

1993 • 24 min • France

A young teenager, for school, is required to make a presentation on his native country, Morocco.

Berliner Trance

1993 • 25 min

This lost classic, shot on 16mm in a wintry Berlin in 1993, explores the origins of the German trance scene. Featuring interviews with fresh-faced selectors including Laurent Garnier and MFS Records founder Mark Reeder, the documentary also feature footage from the city's iconic Love Parades in 1991 and 1993.

Sunday

1993 • 58 min • India

When Junior forgets to write an essay for School, He narrates the story of a fun and bizarre Sunday to his Teacher to escape the punishment. He and his parents go through a series of adventures culminating in a colourful chaos.

Mob Stories

1993 • 60 min

They're the real 'goodfellas': 'Joe Dogs' Iannuzzi, Tommy DelGiorno, 'Big Dom' Lofaro. For the first time on television, Mafia turncoats give personal accounts of life inside the Mob. In this shocking documentary, five high-ranking informants tell tales of murder, brutality, greed and vanity--and why they broke the Sicilian code of honor. The first generation of the American Mafia stood on the foundation of loyalty and a code of silence. The second and third generations traded their Sicilian traditions for government protection and instant personal gain. MOB STORIES presents five chilling narratives from five members of the underworld, most of whom are overwhelmed with fear and paranoia with the exception of “Fat Jackie”, a loyal lifelong mobster. Father and son team, Alan and Marc Levin, direct and produce an honest and personal portrayal of the demise of the Mafia.

Goodbye Gibraltar

1993 • 57 min • Finland

Goodbye Gibraltar, directed by Ulrika Bengst, is a film about reconciliation, encountering different lifestyles and dreams.

Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha! From Penguin Village with Love

1993 • 31 min • Japan

Unable to entertain their princess Puruah, the kingdom of Yapaya requests professor Senbei to create a comedic robot capable of making her laugh for the first time in her life.

Tokusou Robo Janperson the Movie: Mother is Eternal! The Electric Brain’s Love and Passion on the Operating Table

1993 • 25 min • Japan

Focusing on the search for Sayaka, a young girl whose mother has recently died. Sayaka’s father, an undercover F.B.I. agent, has had a rough relationship with his daughter since the death of her mother and feels that her kidnapping by the evil Neo-Guild is his fault. Sayaka has been angry at her father because he was away in America while her mother died, leaving her feeling abandoned. Aiding Sayaka's father in the search is Tokusou Robo Janperson! The two don’t get along at first, but things between them go smoother as they continue the search.

Ursa Minor Blue

1993 • 23 min • Japan

This adventurous story of a boy named Uri and an old man takes place in the cosmic Milky Way where the starfish live. This is the tale of their fantasy journey in search of the mysterious monster fish.

Silent Mobius Gaiden: The End of the Edo Period

1993 • 58 min • Japan

Set in the final years of Japan's shogunate, all characters from the main series, Silent Mobius, appear with the same name. According to the setting, they are said to be the previous lives of the characters in the main story...

Richard Scarry's Best Learning Songs Video Ever!

1993 • 30 min • United States of America

Another great day at Richard Scarry's Busytown where the kids will learn favorite songs about letters, numbers, shapes and sizes while all your other favorite characters join in.

The Girl from the Darkness

1993 • 45 min • Japan

A popular author becomes concerned when she learns of the unusual behavior of a man's eight-year-old daughter before her marriage to a used bookstore owner.

Chibusa

1993 • 57 min • Japan

Based on the novel of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Played as a double feature with Crepe (1993).

Minky Momo in the Bridge Over Dreams

1993 • 38 min • Japan

A bridge's legend tells that when two people meet on it, they will surely meet again. Momo meets a boy who doesn't believe the legend, and promises that she will meet him again to prove it. As the year passes, she comes every day to wait for him, and becomes a small part of many people's lives.