All Films

Slave Training Men of the Dragon Factory

1991 • 56 min • Japan

"Dragon Factory" is a facility for training male slaves that is the backbone of the financial world. Strict training was carried out every day. One day, a boy was sent there. The boy's name is Natural. Like the wind, he begins to blow holes in the Dragon Factory, and something begins to crumble..

Cruising Love Story

1991 • 60 min • Japan

A junior high school teacher who happens to be a homosexual and falls in love with an extremely handsome young man he meets by chance in Hatten Park. The directorial debut of Ryuji Yamamoto.

Light Years

1991 • 47 min • Australia

A unique record of the life and work of eminent Australian photographer, Olive Cotton.

Carne

1991 • 38 min • France

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

The Amphibian

1991 • 6 min • Australia

In a dark subterranean landscape, the Amphibian has lost its way.

Drifter Kings On the Border

1991 • 43 min • Japan

Desperate to stay above the poverty line, a pair of hustlers are recruited by a documentary crew to stoke the fires of a yakuza war.

The Chameleon

1991 • 24 min • Romania

A meditative film about the processes of consciousness of a local gangster and his attempts to break away from the group of fellow bohemian villains. The stilled narrative suggests themes such as generalized surveillance, the metamorphosis of the political regime only on the surface in post-communism, the impossibility of escaping from a system – favorite themes of the 90s. Through its metaphorical stylistics, the film is part of a tradition with which the films produced by the National Theatre & Film Academy (ATF) would be associated. -Gabriela Filippi

The Onanie Les

1991 • 60 min

Hisashi Eguchi's Kotobuki Goro Show

1991 • 28 min • Japan

In this anthology of animation parodies based on the manga of Hisashi Eguchi, an obscene family ascends to Japanese high society; a boxing prodigy faces his sex-crazed rival in the ring; and scientists get caught in a game of rock-paper-scissors with increasingly dangerous giant monsters.

Thallus

1991 • 5 min

Trance-like short film by Eiki Takahashi, shot in arizona desert, music TSUYOSHI.

The Calligrapher

1991 • 1 min • United Kingdom

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, thinks, then draws a straight line down the page in front of him, out of which sprout six more quill pens, each held by a hand. The calligrapher moves all the hands and pens in unison, drawing an elaborate feathered wing, which comes to live, peeling off the page, and, now a quill pen, slips in to his hand. He tucks it behind his left ear.

Judge

1991 • 50 min • Japan

An executive accused of murder by his own victim is brought before the court of the dead to answer for his crimes.

Groper Train: Wet Commuter

1991 • 59 min • Japan

A man dreams of groping women on the train. He then leaves his girlfriend and moves to Tokyo. After getting bullied by a group of men, a master trains him in the ways of groping.

Mermaid Forest

1991 • 55 min • Japan

There is a legend in Japan that if one eats the flesh of a mermaid, one will become immortal. This anime recounts the story of Yuhta and Mana, an immortal boy and girl, and their experiences with a family struggling to achieve immortality at any cost.

Mara

1991 • 22 min • United States of America

An American writer in Paris meets a young prostitute Mara, leading to an evening together neither expect.

Love Drug: Sunday Afternoon

1991 • 60 min • Japan

A dangerous disease and fear that befalls a happy gay couple...

The Boss

1991 • 2 min • Canada

An office worker loves his job, but for one problem: he has a horrible boss. The worker becomes so desperate that he starts looking for another job, but he really doesn't want to leave. Finally, he comes up with a brilliant and novel solution to his problem, in which everyone wins!

Silent Möbius

1991 • 50 min • Japan

In a futuristic Tokyo, several policewomen fight a monster. One of them, Katsumi Liqueur, remembers where she saw it before... Katsumi Liqueur, an American-born woman of Japanese descent, travels to Tokyo to visit her mother, Fuyuka, who is sick in the hospital. She takes a shortcut through an alley after her taxi gets stuck in traffic, only to encounter a monster and two policewomen fighting it. Later, she meets their chief, Rally Cheyenne, who, it seems, has been expecting her, though Katsumi has never met her before. The policewomen want Katsumi to help them fight the monster, but Katsumi, who does not want to believe in magic, resists.

Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits

1991 • 40 min • Japan

A Doraemon anime film. It premiered in theatres on March 9, 1991 on a bill with Doraemon: Nobita in Dorabian Nights. The movie's original plot was written by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.

Lookwell

1991 • 25 min

The former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. The pilot was broadcast on NBC in July 1991 but was not picked up as a series despite being a "personal favorite" of NBC chairman Brandon Tartikoff.

Acting Sheriff

1991 • 30 min

B-movie star becomes a sheriff in a small town.

Lelaki Tua

1991 • 12 min • Indonesia

a short film by Hanny R. Saputra

Spotless Dominoes

1991 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A child, a cat, a starry night but, in this world of innocence, dream and magic, obscure forces of evil awaken. This animated short revolves around the adventures of a young, horned boy and a group of six devil-like vermin that can combine themselves to make one large creature.

Distress Signals

1991 • 55 min • Canada, United Kingdom

American television programming dominates around the world at the expense of regional cultural voices.