Fantasy Romance(1991)

To Spy with Love!!(cn)

The Playgirls, a band represented by the diminutive rock enthusiast Teddy, are just performing in a bar when trouble starts. He finds a dying girl in his van; she is a spy who had just taped a film negative onto the oblivious Teddy’s poster. Two Japanese hitmen hired to get her and the negative believe that Teddy is a spy also and start to follow him. A beautiful woman from the same organization, who later claims to be a double agent, is also after him, and he is easily victimized by her games - despite protection offered to him by a rival organization.

Rheme Maining Sources(pt)

A place-specific film-excavation of Bixiga neiborhood – São Paulo. Choreography of forces that cross present time. Filmancy, clairvoyance is the vision of what is taking shape.

Love in 3-D(de)

Presumably inspired by Pete Walker's 4 Dimensions of Greta this is another 1970s sex comedy filmed in 3D. Walter Boos however went all the way - we do not have just the odd 3D boob scene, the whole film is made in 3D. The viewer is constantly reminded of that, because the cinematography is truly bizarre with plenty of scenes of rather peculiar camera angles that strongly emphasize the 3D effects, e.g. a girl on a swing moving towards (and above) the camera, twigs hitting a car window, and many many more. The exaggeration of 3D makes these scenes quite funny, as the effects are completely over the top.

Far Out(en)

Two friends attempt to reconnect.

Gwiazda Piołun(pl)

Fuera de la ley(en)

Four raw stories about justice and law.

The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth: Spooky Tooth(en)

Set in Flossmore Valley and Egypt, Timmy, Brushbrush and Bubbles visit the pyramids on their official pyramid investigation business as they explore the pyramid of King Tooth Uncommon.

Hollywood Buddha(en)

"Kissing Metal" is the story of Philippe, a down and out European film producer, who lives in a tent in the shadow of his unfinished house in Brentwood. Philippe is struggling to sell a film he made five years ago to foreign distributors. Nearly broke, and on the verge of eviction, he seeks spiritual help from Master Atchoum, a Buddhist Guru. Master Atchoum pushes him into practicing Buddhism and convinces him to buy an expensive metal sculpture of Buddha. Empowered by the support of his new-found "religion," Philippe starts turning things around. Through a series of serendipitous events...and some very unorthodox maneuvering, he becomes a success. But, he soon discovers that all is not what it appears to be.

Hide(en)

HIDE is a contained psychological thriller about one resilient wife’s (Nadine Malouf) fight to escape her husband’s (Ben Samuels) escalating gaslighting and abuse during lockdown. The female-centric genre film is lensed in the wife’s evolving perspective as she slowly comes to see what is happening to her and finds the support to fight back. Visually mesmerizing and emotionally arresting, the film’s pace and pathos pull us into a story that will feel uncomfortably familiar to too many of us.

A Confessional Documentary(en)

A Confessional Documentary is a 1-minute long short film directed by noted film critic Gene Siskel, originally shown alongside his partner Roger Ebert's short film (Citizen Yuppie) on the 1987 broadcast of their annual Holiday Gift Guide program. It was shot entirely on a (then-new) Fisher Price PixelVision PXL2000 low-fidelity camcorder in monochrome on compact audio cassette, inspiring Richard Linklater to utilize the same technique in his 1991 feature SLACKER. The film recontextualizes the image of Roger Ebert's face to provide some humorous jabs at the nature of film criticism.

The Spike Jones Story(en)

This program presents a combination of entertainer Spike Jones' personal and professional history, featuring Milton Berle and Danny Thomas, plus numerous family members and collaborators.

Intersection: The Story of Josh Grant(en)

Intersection is a philosophical journey detailing the extreme highs and the extreme lows of such a mentally driven sport; we explore professional Supercross and motocross racer, Josh Grant's, humble beginnings and introduction to motocross, all the way to his professional career and personal battles on and off the track in detail not yet known to the public. From dropping out of school at only 14-years-old, to being blind-sided with financial ruin shortly after the birth of his son, Wyatt... Intersection focuses on struggles of searching for the right path along his journey to not only find self-preservation but also to find the path back to his winning ways.

Carriage Trade(en)

Carriage Trade was an evolving work-in-progress, and this 61-minute version is the definitive form in which Sonbert realized it, preserved intact from the camera original. With Carriage Trade, Sonbert began to challenge the theories espoused by the great Soviet filmmakers of the 1920’s; he particularly disliked the “knee-jerk’ reaction produced by Eisenstein’s montage. In both lectures and writings about his own style of editing, Sonbert described Carriage Trade as “a jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce varied displaced effects.” This approach, according to Sonbert, ultimately affords the viewer multi-faceted readings of the connections between individual shots. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998.

The Violin Maker of Cremona(fr)

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches his superior violin with that of another apprentice, Sandro, whom Giannina loves.

Tomb(en)

An Astronaut responding to a distress beacon in deep space slips into a wormhole and finds himself in the afterlife.

I Escaped from Devil's Island(en)

In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

Richard Nixon: Getaway Driver(en)

Drunk on power and tripping on LSD, President Richard Nixon recounts his role as the getaway driver for JFK's second shooter. Is he confessing to save his soul, or is it all just a bad trip?

La piazza della mia città - Bologna e Lo Stato Sociale(it)

Tumbleweed!(en)

FROM ACCLAIMED INDIE SHORT FILMMAKERS, THE VARAVA BROTHERS, COMES THE WHIMSICAL AND HISTORICALLY ACCURATE TALE OF ONE TUMBLEWEED THAT DID NOT TUMBLE.