1990s

Three separate stories of children’s adventures from three countries in the North Atlantic area. From Greenland, a story based on the traditional legend of the Mother of the Sea, a powerful spirit who controls the ocean creatures. A brother and sister from Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, head to one of the smaller islands to spend their summer holiday with their grandmother. Growing up on a typical horse farm in Iceland the young boy Siggi develops an extraordinary friendship with a wild foal. When the horse is to be sold, Siggi opens the fence and the foal runs away. In the middle of nowhere the foal manages to save Siggi’s life – and alters both of their futures.Read More »

This coming-of-age story revolves around two young long distance runners, Kenji Hirose and Ryuji Nakazawa. Kenji, haunted by memories of his dead friend Aihara with whom he had a brief homosexual affair, is now dating Aihara’s former girlfriend Kyoko, but Kyoko is more interested in Kenji than he is in her. Ryuji, Kenji’s friend and track rival, is pursuing hurdler Shoko but she in turn is after Kenji. Ryuji does have his own admirer, Nao, Kenji’s younger sister, but when they do get together, Nao resembles her brother too much for Ryuji to go through with the lovemaking.Read More »

The story of two brothers and an essay writer who’s become a theater comedian, switching between dream and reality — knowing that dream is always closer to reality…Read More »

This film follows some extremely right-wing teenagers in Leipzig, Germany, over a period of one year (1992/1993). It portrays what they think about belief, love and hope as well as about violence and their country.

Während in (Ost-)Deutschland Asylbewerberheime brennen, zeichnet Voigt im Porträt dreier Leipziger Skinheads das bedrückende Bild einer „Lost Generation“ in einem zerstörten Land. Ein Auftritt des legendären „Baulöwen“ Jürgen Schneider sorgte für einen kleinen Skandal und die zeitweilige Sperrung des Films.Read More »

Three youths, an androgynous girl and two boys, circle around each other in love: during rugby training, at a pool party and on the beach. Three-way kisses, mean words and half-serious scuffles. Surreal snapshots almost without words, accompanied by the Kinks and Doris Day.Read More »

The film portrays the experience of a single human soul, portrayed by Williams, through various incarnations. Williams is the only common actor throughout the stories that span man’s history on Earth.[2]

An attempt on director-screenwriter Bill Forsyth’s part to depict by visual means the ordinariness of life throughout the ages, Being Human is deliberately slow in its pace in order to emphasize how slow life often is. The structure is one of vignette-like character studies of one man (actually at least four distinct men, all with the same soul) who keeps making the same relationships and mistakes throughout his lifetimes.Read More »

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Julia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday Julia does the danzon with Carmelo (Rergis) in the old “Salon Colonia”. They’ve danced for years but barely know each other. One night Carmelo disappears without a trace. Feeling lonely and sad, Julia takes a train to Veracruz, where she knows Carmelo has a brother. That sudden trip will change Julia’s life forever.Read More »

A Western couple (played by Melissa Leo and James Wilby) working in Pakistan visit an unconventional holy shrine to harness its spiritual powers to help them conceive a child. They are lavished with the attentions of the shrine’s leader (an exceptional performance from Zia Mohyeddin – Lawrence of Arabia, Khartoum) and her followers, but their methods and motives are not all that they seem, and the couple’s lives are plunged into darkness.

This ravishing, unsettling film from director Jamil Dehlavi (The Blood of Hussain, Born of Fire) is a deeply personal work which raises questions of cultural and sexual identity, religious fanaticism and the abuses of power. The brand-new 2K restoration from the original negative was supervised and approved by Dehlavi and cinematographer Nic Knowland.Read More »

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Lesbian-themed tale of a schoolgirl who entices her gullible (not to mention slightly warped) female teacher by positing that they are predestined to dance together on the day the world ends. The screenplay was titled “The Gods Have a Nervous Breakdown,” which should give some idea of the symbiotic descent into psychosexual dementia that ensues. Rei Takaki co-stars with Shoichiro Sakata and Asako Shirakawa.Read More »