All Films

Der Mann am Fenster

1989 • 18 min • Germany

Kiss

1989 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Animated film about love born under the full moon from a first kiss.

Riddle: Superstitions from the Garbage Can

1989 • 6 min • Philippines

A humorous but serious film about the "GARBAGE" in our country.

Paradise Lost: Live Death

1989 • 40 min • United Kingdom

1. Deadly Inner Sense 2. Frozen Illusion 3. Breeding Fear 4. Paradise Lost 5. Our Saviour 6. Rotting Misery 7. Internal Torment Live at the Bradford Queens Hall, England, 04. Nov 1989

Bullies

1989 • 40 min • United Kingdom

An investigation into the serious problem of bullying in Britain's schools, including accounts from victims and complaints that the issue is ignored by schools.

Aurore

1989 • 20 min • France

To describe the events spreading out in Aurore, in Royaume and in Bleu, suitable tools still have to be found ; up until now, nothing much has been said or done about a cinema that quite specifically deals with picture as a sensation. Then one can always attempt, as plainly as possible, to draw a few lines, trying to single out a few dimensions, a few questions, a few perspectives that run through these films and relate them to the history of pictures and cinema.

Luxo Jr. 3D

1989 • 1 min • United States of America

Local Time

1989 • 18 min • Soviet Union

An experimental short film in which the authors, without resorting to synchrons, managed to convey the atmosphere of one of the provincial Russian cities.

Pour un oui ou pour un non

1989 • 57 min

Two childhood friends who have not seen each other for a long time decide to meet again. They talk and look for what could have caused their estrangement: words pronounced in a certain way, an intonation etc. Very quickly, an argument begins and turns into a settlement of accounts.

Why Are You So Sad?

1989 • 51 min • Yugoslavia

A TV drama originally written by Vaclav Havel.

Present Continuous

1989 • 24 min

The time has come to life and went backwards, and gained all its losses. All the dead have given their time, all the time of their love and their hatred. The cycle of present has opened. And in the ashes of the burnt lives a new fire flashed, and lit the way for those who went to the beginning of all beginnings. And I have witnessed it.

Empathie und panische Angst

1989 • 38 min

"The therapist's voice steps behind the pictures. All this takes place in a narrowly defined pictorial space, in a face, in a few square centimeters of a room wall, in the leaves of a plant, in holding the teacup. What miraculously blends together in this film: an empathic woman (the therapist), directed by an empathic woman (the director), tells an empathic cameraman about experiences with people in panic. The film is empathic and speaks at the same time of the disturbed relationship of the people to each other, to themselves and to the objects that surround them. What makes him even more exciting is the not clearly decipherable network of relationships between the three people involved in the film and the space that encloses them "(Dagmar Boarding)

Ghost Train

1989 • 40 min

A journey by Intercity into the world of the supernatural.

Baryshnikov by Tharp with American Ballet Theatre

1989 • 60 min

The twinkle of Frank Sinatra's "Ol' Blue Eyes" melds with the beauty of ballet in this innovative program starring world-renowned dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and members of the American Ballet Theatre. Choreographed by the legendary Twyla Tharp, three performances -- "The Little Ballet," "Sinatra Suite" and "Push Comes to Shove" -- bring Baryshnikov's terpsichorean talents center stage and rekindle Sinatra's magic.

Older, Stronger, Wiser

1989 • 29 min • Canada

In this short documentary, five black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s and 1950s. What emerges is a unique history of Canada’s black people and the legacy of their community elders. Produced by the NFB’s iconic Studio D.

Afgan: The Soviet Experience

1989 • 40 min

During the 1980s, Russia fought a disastrous war in Afghanistan. Shot by a Western crew, the 40 minute film includes footage of combat missions with the Spetsnaz elite units, helicopter gunship pilots from a Kabul-based Air Assault Unit flying missions, the patrolling of the Salang mountain pass and the military hospital in Kabul. Soviet General Lev Serebrov referred to the making of the film as "An experiment in glasnost".

Life and Death

1989 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A three-part film directed against environmental pollution, demagoguery and irresponsibility.

33rd. Witnesses’ Testimonies.

1989 • 59 min • Soviet Union

Filming of this documentary began in 1987 and ended in 1989. As archival materials and newsreels were inaccessible, the authors of the film appealed to the Holodomor witnesses through the press. Their stories became the basis of the documentary. Stalin’s supporters tried to prevent the authors from making the film, and it was forgotten for a long time. Only in 2005 the film 33rd. Witnesses’ Testimonies was re-filmed from the newsreels of 1989 version and the memoirs of Mykola Loktionov-Stezenko himself. At his anniversary party at the Cinema House on February 16, 2009, the author called this documentary a testimony to his personal tragedy: his parents died of the Holodomor of 1932–33. For the film 33rd. Witnesses’ Testimonies Mykola Loktionov-Stezenko was awarded the Order of Merit of the III degree.

Topic I et II

1989 • 12 min

Long exposure work, frame by frame, in the streets of Prague. "East" atmosphere of confinement and self-censorship, foreboding and deleterious.

Adeus Rodelas

1989 • 20 min • Brazil

Pilipinas: What Do You Think of the Philippines Mr. Janetzko?

1989 • 5 min • Philippines

An optically printed abstract film taken from the outtakes of an action flick mixed with noise, news broadcasts and hardcore music resulting into a raw collage powerfully evoking Filipino politics and culture.

A Film That Uses a Cheap Wine Glass to Consider Light

1989 • 3 min • Japan

Water and Power

1989 • 57 min • United States of America

A reflection between nature and man in Los Angeles about the city's surroundings' desertification due to enormous water consumption.

Milarepa laulud

1989 • 49 min • Soviet Union

The film is based on the works of Milarepa, the most renowned Tibetan poet and Buddhist teacher of the 11th century. A young scholar and a student journey through the sacred sites of Buryatia and Mongolia, guided by a mentor on an exploratory expedition, seeking a path to self-discovery through Milarepa's philosophy and Buddhist culture.