All Films

The Flirt

1990 • 29 min • Soviet Union

A heartfelt story about the borderlands of childhood, about a boy who is still a child, but who is touched by an inexplicable, barely discernible feeling of love. Ten-year-old boy Jaanus is in love with Eva, a girl a few years older than him, from whom he wants to buy a puppy. The puppy is like an unattainable dream, like a first love. Aare Tilga's debut film is based on Mart Kivastik's short story of the same name and was Tilga's diploma thesis at the Moscow Cinema Institute, supervised by Eldar Ryazanov.

S.S.T. Band Live

1990 • 46 min • Japan

A game music festival held at the Nippon Seinenkan on 25th August, 1990 and released on home video. Featuring Sega Sound Team performing numerous Sega classics live on stage.

Remembrance

1990 • 5 min • United States of America

A short remembrance of growing up gay, searching for an identifiable image on the movie screen. This character chose Bette Davis in All About Eve. The film includes clips from Davis' performance and the narrator's childhood home movies.

«5/4»

1990 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A small being transported water to the sound of the very famous song 'Take Five' by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Women Like Us

1990 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Sixteen lesbians, aged from 50 to 80, living in various parts of Britain and from different races, classes and backgrounds, talk about their lives and experiences of being lesbians.

Bali: Masterpiece of the Gods

1990 • 54 min • United States of America

National Geographic Documentary about Bali, the tiny island in the Indonesian archipelago. Exploring the extraordinary culture of this island paradise that is made up of two thousand square miles of spectacular mountains, enticing beaches, and flourishing rice terraces.

The Beatles and Their Children

1990 • 38 min • Soviet Union

About the Beatles, their followers and copycats.

Billy the Fish

1990 • 31 min • United Kingdom

Billy the Fish is a footballing half-man, half-fish who dreams of playing for Fulchester United Football Club.

Hey Girls

1990 • 4 min

Based on a comic Heather McAdams created for the Chicago Reader, the short comedic film was made by Tom Palazzolo's 1990 film production class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Set in downtown Chicago on S Columbus Dr & E Congress Pkwy, McAdams demonstrates tips on how to ward off unwanted attention from men on the road.

Ten Minutes Before the Flight of Icarus

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A manifesto for the post-Soviet generation of Lithuanian filmmakers who rejected straightforward declarativity and immersed themselves into the silent observation of reality. Arunas Matelis traces the beginnings of post-Soviet transformation not in the main squares of Vilnius but observes it in the daily life of the inhabitants of Užupis–a historical quarter of the old town of Vilnius. The film, awarded in the Oberhausen, Bornholm and Pärnu film festivals, was also screened as a feature in the Cannes Film Festival.

Astor Piazzolla in Portrait

1990 • 46 min • United Kingdom

Concert and Interview with Astor Piazzolla and his sextet by the BBC-Bristol.

Raven's Feather Dance - A Creation Legend

1990 • 9 min • Canada

When humankind is wiped out by a cosmic disaster, Raven sets out to right this wrong by finding out from the other animals how to re-create the human race. After a lot of song and dance, Raven and Coyote manage to bring to life a nice batch of people. Unfortunately, in the crowded moment of re-creation, there is an outbreak of hostilities. But Raven and Coyote haven't gone to all this trouble only to see things go wrong, and they succeed in repopulating the four corners of the Earth. An animated film based on native legends.

L'adoration de la terre

1990 • 15 min

It is a work on dematerialization, it is not easy to work to destroy, to reduce vigorous bodies to flows of energy and light. A dance where all life becomes alive and the veil of common perception goes towards a happy drift while the secret energies of bodies, their most intimate molecular nature, materialize on the screens.

The Galactical North Pole lies in the Hair of Berenice

1990 • 13 min • Austria

The range of symbols is manifold and multi-layered, it is a film that utilises many fades, dissolves and double exposures. The "Galactic Northpole"- a fiction of astronomy, an assertion; Berenice had sacrificed her hair on the alter of a goddess in order to gain her approval. One becomes the victim of others - yet one also becomes a victim of oneself.

Seasons in the Sea

1990 • 55 min

Seasons in the Sea, Best Picture of the prestigious WILDSCREEN 1990 film festival in Bristol, England, takes you on a spectacular tour through the giant-kelp forests of Monterey Bay, just off the California coast. Bathed in sunlight and by cold, nutrient-rich waters welling up from the ocean’s depths, this huge submarine forest sustains a complex undersea community. As you move through the seasons, you'll discover how winds, tides, and currents shape Monterey Bay life. You'll see combat between an octopus and a ferocious moray eel, and watch opalescent squid, borne on cold currents rising from the depths, breed, and die. You’ll behold the miraculous birth of a swell shark and observe male Garibaldi fish constructing elaborate gardens to attract females.

Funny Pot

1990 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Once a potter made a pot that could laugh. Whoever takes it in their hands immediately starts laughing.

You

1990 • 15 min • Canada

I had been looking for someone's unnerving encounter, that conversation that one just couldn't get out of their head, the kind of event that leaves one still debating out loud while walking in the streets or doing one's tidies in the bathroom. After interviewing a few people, I found Lisa Black who obliged with one of her own and became the film's main character. A situation with many angles; the telling, the filming, the final projection event... YOU is an imaginary fictionalized you in a whimsical space.

Dear America

1990 • 54 min • Canada

Two women from Montreal, from very different backgrounds, become great friends. Celeste, of Portuguese origin, sacrifices the love of her family to make her fortune in America. Catherine, single, dedicates herself completely to her double career as a journalist and harpsichordist, and dreams of starting her own family, without giving up her professional aspirations.

More Winners: The Journey

1990 • 46 min

An orphan girl seeks her true inheritance in this Australian TV movie. On an isolated Tasmanian mountain, 12-year-old Ada lives with her wealthy father Justus. Housekeeper Martha is plotting to secure the family fortune for herself. Ada is orphaned when her father is killed in a fall. Before he dies, he tells Ada to journey south to find her true inheritance. Together with Agnes, the housekeeper's stepdaughter, Ada sets out on a journey full of adventure.

Gosses de Rio

1990 • 48 min

Stay Just a Moment

1990 • 18 min • Germany

Focuses on the dancer, choreographer, and composer Ernest Berk (1909-1993), who at the time the film was made was 81 years old. Using choreography and dance, but also forms of linguistic expression, the aging body and its sexuality is explored, especially the apparent discrepancy between a youthful spirit and bodily decay.

Evidences: The Record and the Flood

1990 • 46 min • United States of America

This video reveals the scientific evidence supporting the story of Noah. Almost two years in the making, Evidences takes you to the Grand Canyon, the Alps, New Zealand, even to the bottom of the ocean, to see geological features that are best explained by a global flood. Beautiful location photography shows you the marks of an ancient catastrophe, while high-tech animation shows you how it happened. Evidences give an eye-opening experience that builds trust in the Bible.

La hija de Fu Manchú '72

1990 • 19 min • Spain

The peace of the world is once again threatened, the culprit: the evil doctor Fu Manchu.

Poesia é uma ou duas linhas, por trás uma imensa paisagem

1990 • 9 min • Brazil

Tribute to the Carioca poet Ana Cristina Cesar, with quotes from Charles Baudelaire, Sylvia Plath, Czeslaw Milosz, T. S. Eliot, Armando Freitas Filho, Cacaso, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Manuel Bandeira, accompanied by music from Billie Holiday.