All Films

Goddess Remembered

1989 • 54 min • Canada

Goddess Remembered is a salute to 35,000 years of "pre-history," to the values of ancestors only recently remembered and to the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. This documentary features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish, Starhawk, Charlene Spretnak and Jean Bolen, who link the loss of goddess-centered societies with today's environmental crisis.

Step Into the Third Dimension

1989 • 15 min • Japan

Nishika 3D cameras were the inexpensive cousins to the Nimslo 3D cameras made in the mid to late 1980's (the Nimslo cameras used glass lenses, while the Nishika ones used plastic lenses). The cameras used regular 35mm film that captured 4 simultaneous images onto 2 frames of film. These images were printed onto photo stock with a lenticular surface bonded to it which allowed 3D to be seen without glasses, like the old kids story books with the 3D covers. The basic 3D camera kit came with this VHS instructional video that was hosted by Vincent Price. It was one of the last things he did.

Tell Me, Jupiter!..

1989 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fables of I.A. Krylov's "Sea of ​​Animals", "Writer and Robber", "Nobleman and Poet", "Worldly Gathering".

Vlady

1989 • 24 min

In this documentary, Sarah Maldoror offers a portrait of the Mexican painter Vlady (1920-2005, born Vladimir Kibaltchich), filming mainly his works with voice-over commentary by the artist himself, answering the filmmaker's questions.

A Secret Evening

1989 • 51 min • Japan

Ito, Yoshida, Kanbara, and Harumi are high school classmates. Ito secretly has feelings for his best friend, Yoshida. Yoshida doesn't seem confused by Ito's feelings, but simply accepts them naturally. However, one night.

The Tailor of Gloucester

1989 • 45 min • United Kingdom

An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by some grateful mice.

Sérénité

1989 • 59 min • Poland

Poland, 1930s. Agata, a twenty-year-old young woman, a niece of the lady of a small manor, is about to get married. This fact causes dramatic changes for three people: Miss Stawro, a music teacher who cares for Agata, and two sixteen-year-old boys, Witek and Stas, who have their own feelings for the girl. However, the closer the wedding date gets, the more the bride-to-be is haunted by morbidly surreal visions related to her troubled past.

Legend of Lemnear

1989 • 45 min • Japan

After her village is destroyed and all its residents slaughtered by the evil wizard Gardein and his master The Dark Lord, a warrior known as Lemnear, The Silver Champion, vows to find and kill them both to avenge the massacre.

Brenda Brave

1989 • 34 min • Sweden

Brenda Brave gladly helps her grandmother to sell candy canes at the market square. But one day grandmother suffers from a sore leg. Brenda has to take care of the candy cane sales all by herself.

The Ministries of Art

1989 • 52 min • France

Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.

Double Rape

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Christmas in America

1989 • 45 min • United States of America

TV movie depicting a father and son's strained relationship with the mother often trying to be the bridge between the men in her life. The father, Frank Morgan (Kenny Rogers), is a photographer who is too often absent, according to his son. When his son, David Morgan (Kenneth Rogers Jr.), finally attends a display of his father's work despite still being bitter about their relationship, he finally realizes how important his family really was to him.

Office Lady Soft Skin Maniac

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Sunday 9 to 5

1989 • 48 min • Yugoslavia

One regular Sunday meeting of a boy and his father who live separately.

Vanilla Essence

1989 • 16 min

A young woman in her home begins to bake a cake, but finds that she doesn’t have any vanilla essence. Never having stepped outside her house before, she decides to go out to find some vanilla essence, and she finds the external world strange but also surprisingly rewarding.

O Regresso

1989 • 53 min • Macao, Portugal

"O Regresso" is a documentary featuring renowned Portuguese actor Ruy de Carvalho as he returns to Macau after a 10-year absence. Directed to mark the 10th anniversary of his visit, the film captures Ruy de Carvalho revisiting key locations across the city, reflecting on the cultural and social transformations that Macau underwent in the lead-up to its handover from Portuguese to Chinese administration in 1999. Blending personal memories with the evolving landscape, the documentary offers a nostalgic look at Macau's unique blend of Portuguese and Chinese heritage, seen through the eyes of one of Portugal’s most beloved actors.

Dog Soldier: Shadows of the Past

1989 • 46 min • Japan

Former Green Beret John Kyosuke is called out of retirement to rescue an American scientist carrying a priceless biological asset. The closer he gets to his target, the more he discovers about the powers pulling the strings — and the further he must reach into his own dangerous past.

Goldi

1989 • 25 min • Sweden

Eva is a little girl who lives with her uncaring aunts and mean cousin Berit. Eva's mother is in the hospital and might not make it, and her aunts aren't making it easy for her. A story about how a little girl fights injustice in her own special way.

The Corsican Brothers

1989 • 49 min • Australia

A vendetta between two Corsican families is the background to Alexandre Dumas' story of the strange bond between twin brothers, who are separated at birth.

Battered

1989 • 58 min

Lee Grant's acclaimed 1989 investigation of domestic violence in American Homes. Battered is the powerful, if harrowing portrait of a life lived in constant fear of the people closest to you. Intimate interviews with the victims and children of the cycle are combined with the eye opening and heart breaking stories of the abusers themselves to take you deeper into every facet of these American lives.

Robichaud

1989 • 58 min • Canada

Portrays Louis Robichaud, Canadian politician and former Premier of New Brunswick.

Mini Yon Soldier Rin!

1989 • 24 min

Rin Shiguma, a young boy, is a champion in the sport of mini four-wheel drive (Mini 4WD) racing with his favorite electric model car, Soldier. He wins the Grand Prix race against his rival, Waka, and breaks his record for consecutive wins. However, afterwards, a group of mysterious racers hired by Waka appear before Rin. One of them, Mr. Mecharic, who is both a skilled mechanic and a magician, comes forward as the first one to battle Rin. Rin accepts the challenge, but little does he know what Mr. Mecharic has in store...

Runaway

1989 • 58 min • United States of America

After witnessing the accidental death of a friend who was attempting to rescue him from bullies, an African-American boy blames himself and, stricken with guilt, hides out among underground street people in New York.

Super Mario's Fire Brigade

1989 • 10 min • Japan

Fire-safety PSA short based off of the Super Mario Bros. series.