All Films

The Inland Sea

1991 • 56 min • Japan, United States of America

In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan’s Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie’s by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and meeting people who still carried on the fading customs that Richie had observed. Interspersed with surprising detours—a visit to a Frank Sinatra-loving monk, a leper colony, an ersatz temple of plywood and plaster—and woven together by Richie’s narration as well as a score by celebrated composer Toru Takemitsu, The Inland Sea is an eye-opening voyage and a profound meditation on what it means to be a foreigner.

The Last Halloween

1991 • 30 min • United States of America

Four Martians crash-land on Earth in search of candy for their home planet.

My Pragues Understand Me

1991 • 59 min • Czechoslovakia

A fictional story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's stay in Prague. The film, in no case, claims any historical facts. It only tries to evoke the spirit of that time by connecting Mozart's music with the architecture of Prague and by pointing up the changes in Prague during Mozart's two-hundred absence in the Czech metropolis.

La Pasión De Juana De Hardcore

1991 • 7 min • Cuba

A woman's journey on an imaginary motorcycle and her encounter with a necklace collector.

Coney Island

1991 • 58 min

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. On summer Sundays, three great pleasure domes--Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland--competed for the patronage of a half-million people. By day it was the world's most amazing amusement park, by night, an electric "Eden".

Pretty Good Man

1991 • 14 min

A mediocre superhero discovers his powers and sort of overcomes his inferiority complex.

Inran bishimai: Gikei asari

1991 • 59 min • Japan

Pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu

Santa and the Tooth Fairies

1991 • 27 min • United Kingdom, France

When Santa receives Hans' letter too late to deliver him a toy, Santa and the Tooth Fairies join forces to finish Hans' present before midnight strikes.

Heritage Minutes: Valour Road

1991 • 1 min • Canada

Three men from Pine Street in Winnipeg win the Victoria Cross in World War I, and the street's name is changed to Valour Road in their honour.

Greeks (Greek Love and Sapphic Sophistication)

1991 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A look at “Greek love” and the reality of homosexuality in Greece in 1991. Leaders of the once-called GLBT movement (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender) or simply people who dared to stand in front of the camera and speak about their lives, paint us a clear portrait – a bigger picture that might not have changed much in the last three decades.

Wicked Willie Rides Again!

1991 • 34 min

The talking penis, first seen in the books of Gray Joliffe, returns for his second animated outing.

Scream Queen Hot Tub Party

1991 • 50 min

Five of Hollywood's leading scream queens get together in a creepy mansion and decide to get in the hot tub (as true scream queens would). They talk in the tub and exchange secrets on the do's and don'ts of being a scream queen.

Suburbs in the Sky

1991 • 39 min • United Kingdom

Smile, smile, smile - a witty and informal look at the life and times of the air hostess. Feature-film maker Chris Petit , of Radio On fame, turns his eye to the world of flying, "trolley-dollies", duty-free lives, emergency, sex and shopping. Cabin doors to manual! Welcome aboard!

The Body Beautiful

1991 • 25 min • United Kingdom

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah’s brave excursion into her mother’s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.

Scary True Stories

1991 • 50 min • Japan

True ghost stories described and/or narrated by the survivor involved and commences with the name and location of the one submitting the story. Each of the three collections begins with a series of creepy real-life photographs in which strange appendages or faces appear while a rather ominous narrator suggests you are now entering the highway to HELL. Three stories in the first TV-movie: The Lonely Girl Spiritual Flight Mystery of the Red Earring

Mirta Learns Statistics

1991 • 20 min • Yugoslavia

Mirta is trying to get away from her family and her everyday routine full of statistics. She runs away with her boyfriend to find a better place for living, but he has some “other” ideas of a “better place” and is willing to gamble in his own life to find it.

Mr. Bean: Police Station

1991 • 6 min

Mr. Bean visits the police station on Red Nose Day to report items stolen from his car - it'd be far easier if he wasn't on a sponsored silence.

Mature Woman Mantle Desire Release

1991 • 58 min • Japan

Watch out for the leaflets on the phone box! An erotic drama depicting the reality of the nostalgic mantle! Delicious, plump skin! Shaking breasts drive lust!

Les sauf-conduits

1991 • 56 min

A passionate and unpredictable film about three characters in love, Les Sauf-conduits explores the tenuous balance between friendship and romantic love. When three friends set out to break the world’s egg-tossing record, their relationships become increasingly entangled and complicated. In her arresting first film, director Manon Briand crafts poetic images that are striking, fresh and occasionally quirky, and elicits uncannily natural performances from her actors. Les Sauf-conduits garnered several awards on the festival circuit, including the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 1992 Festival of Festivals (now the Toronto International Film Festival®) and Golden Sheaf Awards for Best Director and Best Film at the Yorkton Film Festival.

Homes Apart: Korea

1991 • 56 min • South Korea, United States of America

They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart. By the early 90s, as the rest of the world celebrated the end of the Cold War, Koreans remain separated between North and South, fearing the threat of mutual destruction. Beginning with one man's journey to reunite with his sister in North Korea, filmmakers Takagi and Choy reveal the personal, social and political dimensions of one of the last divided nations on earth. The film was also the first US project to get permission to film in both South & North Korea.

The Man In The Long Black Coat

1991 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Relations between Patrick and Victor reach a new low via an unending stream of post-it notes; during a visit from a council health inspector, Victor learns that the horse manure he bought for his allotment may be radioactive

The Big Small Prom

1991 • 59 min • Yugoslavia

A girl prepares for her prom night and the funny events leading up to it.

Myth Makers 23: Sophie Aldred

1991 • 58 min

Nicholas Briggs has no idea about anything as Sophie takes him on a trip through South East London where she was born and brought up. No one has any idea what will happen… a situation The Doctor would have loved.

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

1991 • 44 min • United States of America

This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was also one of our great experimental filmmakers and once apparently made Salvador Dali extremely jealous at a screening of his masterpiece, Rose Hobart. In this film we get to hear people like Susan Sontag, Stan Brakhage, and Tony Curtis talk about their friendships with the artist. It turns out that Curtis was quite a collector and he seemed to have a very deep understanding of what Cornell was doing in his work.