All Films

Borders

1989 • 53 min • United States of America

A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas. Mixing commentary, computer graphics, dramatizations, and investigative journalism, Borders probes the unsettling paradoxes behind immigration, drugs, Star Wars, and other topics.

Savannah Bay

1989 • 14 min • Austria

The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.

Ogami Matsugorou

1989 • 50 min

Schoolboy gang-leader Matsugorou swears revenge when his lieutenant Koume's house is burned down by a land speculator in an insurance scam.

Interrogation

1989 • 5 min • France

A man is horribly tortured by another who wants him to reveal where his girlfriend is hiding.

My Brother David

1989 • 30 min • United Kingdom

David Scarboro, who played Mark Fowler in EastEnders (1985), fell to his death at Beachy Head in 1988. Simon, his younger brother, presents this tribute, featuring David's achievements as a young actor as well as his problems.

Ano Ko ni 1000%

1989 • 10 min • Japan

Azusa Kawahara is the soccer team manager who is going out with Ikumi, one of the team members. Lately Ikumi has been busy after school and this is making Azusa uncomfortable.

Happy Christmas, I Love You

1989 • 39 min

It is Christmas Eve. Bruce and Renee speak to us from the appropriate corners of their home and we discover that, after 23 years of marriage, they know absolutely nothing about each other.

Richard Scarry's Best Counting Video Ever!

1989 • 30 min • United States of America

Lily Bunny counts from 1 to 20 in this exciting counting adventure. Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Bananas Gorilla, and others help Lily find funny things to count everywhere. Learning to count has never been more fun.

Love and Other Sorrows

1989 • 56 min • United States of America

A drama, set in St. Louis in 1950, concerning an American family and the first courtship and sexual awakening of the teenage son. Ben Griffin lives with his widowed mother and beautiful 22-year-old sister, Dodie. The restoration of the family's affluence seems to hinge on Dodie's romances and hoped-for-marriage to a wealthy husband. But Dodie's ambivalence toward the rich and eligible Sonny confuses and upsets Ben. He wants to trust and believe in love, but worries that he may never find a girl to understand his romantic ideals.

Jacob Have I Loved

1989 • 59 min • United States of America

In the early 1940s, a depressed young woman, who's been eclipsed all of her life by her beautiful twin sister, tries to overcome her low self-esteem with help from a crusty old sea captain.

Real Backroom Sex Express

1989 • 56 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

The Making of Me

1989 • 16 min • United States of America

Martin Short narrates the story of "his own" birth to explain the subjects of sex, conception, pregnancy and childbirth in an entertaining and educational way.

Akixo

1989 • 38 min • Spain

Akixo is a young man with artistic talent who tries to flee his controlling widowed mother. He spends his time with his friends, drinking and smoking pot in the bars of Vitoria. His cousin will arrive one weekend, ignorant about drugs, but will receive his trial by fire, leaving Akixo more lost and confused than ever.

Petersburg Elegy

1989 • 40 min • Soviet Union

The story about the life of Shaliapin’s family, and an emotional generalization of the life of people in modern Leningrad.

How to Get Revenge

1989 • 48 min

A dark and humorous take on how to get revenge on those that have wronged you, hosted by Linda Blair (The Exorcist).

Cloister

1989 • 31 min • Canada

As the wheel turns, the religion of the body moves to and through the physical into the psychological. We see the feared, all is moved. There is a hint of seclusion, an idea from the past re-worked and still dangerous. The participants unsure choose a convent and are still revealed. Through a window there appears a tree, and then a forest. Too many options. The monastic life, safe and sure. We cluster for the cloister.

Richard Scarry's Best ABC Video Ever!

1989 • 30 min • United States of America

A delightful tool to help kids learn their letters, Richard Scarry's Best ABC Video Ever finds Busytown pals Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm discovering that it's Alphabet Day at school. Their teacher, Miss Honey, invites her students to join in a spirited rendition of "The Alphabet Song." Next comes a series of 26 vignettes developed around each letter and cleverly intertwined with Sergeant Murphy's investigation into the mystery of some stolen bananas. Simple, sweet, and as entertaining as it is instructive, this production exemplifies the great care put into the Richard Scarry video series.

That Grip

1989 • 5 min

On the set of “The Elephant Mandingo,” the call goes out to… That Grip!

Nem Tudo Que É Sonho Desmancha no Ar

1989 • 15 min • Brazil

Mylène Farmer: Sans logique

1989 • 5 min

Farmer and her lover sat in the middle of a desolate, barren landscape on a grim cloudy day. As a snake slithers nearby, the pair cut their palms and rub their hands together to mix their blood. A little girl picks up a statue of Christ found in the mud and sticks it on a cross. Then several Gypsies, dressed in black clothes and veils, come to sit on a bench to watch a human bullfight.

Volcano Saga

1989 • 28 min • United States of America

This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman whose dreams foretell the future.

Mahan Karz

1989 • 17 min • India

A treasurer's son wants to work at a Maharaja's castle. After being hired on the terms that he never dishonor his employer, he finds himself in peril after taking on great debt while gambling.

Les Jeux de société

1989 • 57 min • France

Cut into six parts, this film Rohmer gives us the opportunity to discover a foultitude of pledges to be made between friends (the famous kiss to the Capucine or that of hare that, not dog , I give you pictures), hairy anecdotes on the Colin Maillard with small children, verbal exercises of high fly such as I love my lover by A. where you have to fiddle the brain to find words ... In "a", the game of the Fly where poor Alexandra Stewart finds herself surrounded by actors whom Rohmer had to find in a retirement home, the game of Kings and Queens adapted from the unavoidable Game of Robin and Marion d ' Adam de la Halle, who should bring back good memories to friend Gols (I, who in my time was a demi-god in old French, I had to poke a word out of twelve ... everything is lost, by God ) Or the mega bamboche charades game with a Pascal Greggory under acid

Trancado por Dentro

1989 • 14 min • Brazil

The paraplegic Bóris stays at home with the beautiful young woman Cacau, while his wife Ivette goes to the movie theater. When Cadú, the boyfriend of Cacau, unexpectedly arrives in the apartment, a night of sex, sadism and violence happens. When Ivette returns, the fantasies of a sick mind are disclosed in a surprising end.