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- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraPatricia BarzykAnne ConsignyDuring the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
- DirectorJacques DevalStarsDanielle DarrieuxJosette DayValentine TessierA hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a USA PCA seal-of-approval for this French-film, but New York City's 55th Playhouse played it anyway. Along the way the audience meets the girl who sneaked her lover into her no-men-allowed room and her patch soon turns blue; a young lady with a passionate intensity who chooses another young lady as the object of her affections; the blindly-misguided director of the hotel, another lady of real easy virtue who is not the one who smuggled her lover into her room; and a girl who is only there as a procurer for a slavery ring.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsErnst BuschErwin GeschonneckManfred KrugThe Spanish Civil War in the year 1936. Five brigadiers are singled out to stay behind in the Spanish Sierras and fend off the fascist enemy while the rest of the troops recede. They are supposed to rendezvous with a radio operator, but when they get to the meeting point there is nobody there. In search for the missing man, Kommissar Wittig is shot. Before his death he hands over a piece of paper with an important message which the remaining men have to transport across enemy lines. The paper is torn into five pieces and each piece is hidden in a cartridge. An odyssey across the mountain desert begins - with constant fear of enemy fire and dehydration.
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsMichael CaineGiovanna RalliEric PortmanCat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices, the Moreaus, attempt to steal diamonds from the château of millionaire Salinas. However, Henry's partners in crime aren't the most emotionally stable people.
- DirectorRobert EnricoStarsRoger JacquetAnne CornalyStéphane FeyThis Civil War anthology adapts three Ambrose Bierce stories "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", "Chickamauga" and "The Mockingbird".
- DirectorVardis MarinakisStarsSofia GeorgovassiliChristos PassalisDespoina BebedeliGreece, 1654. A seriously wounded Janissary arrives at a cloister situated on a cliff, and the sisters take him in and care for him. Sister Anthi, one of those who tends him, falls in love with the soldier and eventually helps him escape. The central focus of the film does not come out of its historical context but is derived from the relationship between the two main characters and, above all, from the quest for freedom and identity for young Anthi. The initially silent sister, hiding a surprising secret, discovers heretofore unknown desires that lead her to a radically altered view of herself.
- DirectorNathaniel DorskyThe experimental filmmaker reflects on the specific moods of the traditional rainy winter in his town of San Francisco, a period of darkness but also of verdant renewal.
- DirectorLewis Klahr
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieStarsMichel RobinLorella Di CiccoArmand BabelGwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.
- DirectorAndrei YermashStarsOleg VavilovVera SotnikovaGeorgi ZhzhyonovBased on the novel by Isaac Asimov.The End of Eternity is a science fiction film with mystery and thriller elements on the subjects of time travel and social engineering.
- DirectorThe Otolith GroupThe O (organic) Horizon is the top layer of soil composed of decaying organic matter. The O is also a roundabout reference to a Tapovan learning circle, a place of study in a forest clearing enclosed by a symbolic circular boundary. The film is a documentary about Santiniketan, a remote university in West Bengal, founded in 1901 by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. It is a place where people learn the science and stewardship of nature, spiritual lessons, and artistic practice. The documentary goes round the school, following lessons, discussions, and dances, and outings into nature. The spirit of the movie is that this is an alternative future that humans could look forward to, one where colonialism, greed and violence become the stuff of stories only.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsMagdalena CieleckaIn a technologically developed but feudal world beautiful Duenna is forced to choose between love and the task for which she was created.
- DirectorDeimantas NarkeviciusThe everyday scenes are of both the city and countryside, close-ups of people when they are relaxing, and hard at work, and of big crowds at an official outdoor gathering. The interior views are of private and public spaces. The images are suggestive of the ordering of the people's lives.
- DirectorJoshua BonnettaJ.P. SniadeckiAn immersive experience of the Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsSoheila AhmadiRasool ChamaniZohreh GhahremaniOne of Naderi's most beautiful films, a kind of magical realist parable that follows a boy's daily chore: bringing an elegant glass bowl to get filled with ice, and then returning home. The simplicity of this ritual stands in contrast to a world in which every glance and every gesture seems loaded with hidden meaning.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsEdmond Van DaëleSuzy PiersonNino ConstantiniA renowned doctor and his brother live and work together until the brother falls in love with Marie, a singer, and gives up medicine to be with her. After a time however, she misses her old life and goes back on the stage - an act which leads her lover to commit suicide. Later the doctor and Marie also meet, and she becomes his mistress. He finds out about his brother's suicide and goes through his artifacts looking for a clue as to what might have been the cause. He finds a photograph of Marie and realizes the truth, which decimates their relationship.
- DirectorGavin LambertStarsCatherine LaceyAhmed Ben MohammedLee MontagueAfter a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
- DirectorFred KelemenStarsAdolfo AssorHarry BaerIsolde BarthTime of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father.
- DirectorNathaniel DorskyStarsNathaniel DorskyJerome HilerIt is a "silent tone poem" recording the daily events of Dorsky and his partner, artist Jerome Hiler around Lake Owassa in New Jersey and in Manhattan.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsAmiran AmiranashviliDavit GogibedashviliGiorgi TsintsadzeKing Vano rides bravely off into battle, but only after ensuring his passionate Queen is safely locked in her chastity belt.
- DirectorAnthony PelissierStarsJohn MillsSally Ann HowesBetty Ann DaviesWith an inheritance after his father's death, Alfred Polly finds love in the arms of a schoolgirl but marries an unattractive cousin and opens a shop, leading him to unhappiness, arson, suicide attempts and escape.
- DirectorPatrick ConradStarsCharlotte RamplingMichael SarrazinDerek de LintTranssexual murders being investigated by the man who committed thema police detective.
- DirectorAdolfo ArrietaStarsAnne WiazemskyAdolfo ArrietaXavier GrandèsIn the Monkey Island, populated by men and frog women, spies covet sacred frogs.
- DirectorTom PalazzoloA "tour de force" of late 1960s civic and political countercultures, Love It/Leave It juxtaposes the annual Naked City contest in Roselawn, Indiana, neighborhood characters, and American consumerism with the foment of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago (replete with cameos by William S. Burroughs, Mayor Richard J. Daley, and Allen Ginsberg). The film reaches a crescendo with the insistent refrain of the Vietnam-era expression "love it or leave it."
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsRamaz ChkhikvadzeAlla OsipenkoIrina SokolovaFamily and friends gather in a decadent house to party. Despite their delusive distinction a raw passion for sex and violence comes to light.
- DirectorBill ViolaWith a title referring to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant, the film - an ardent dream entirely shot in Japan - stands as a spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death.
- DirectorLewis KlahrLewis Klahr's first film in 16mm, THE PHARAOH'S BELT was given a special citation for experimental film by the National Society of Film Critics in 1994.
- DirectorDezsö MagyarStarsLászló BertalanGábor BódyGyörgy CserhalmiIn the Soviet-republic of Hungary, 1919 the agitators of the communist party have to face the problems of the dictatorship of the proletariat. As the situation worsens they choose different solutions to cope with their issues.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaStarsOtýlie BenískováJana WerichováTrnka's sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother's loving arms again. Trnka's artistic ideas in this film can be described as both poetically fragile and dramatically cautionary.
- DirectorKaren ArthurStarsLee GrantCarol KaneWill GeerEllen, a successful astronomer, cares for her mentally-ill sister, Cissy, who keeps a variety of primates in the home they inherited from their anthropologist father. When Ellen begins a romance, Cissy's jealousy proves deadly.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsOdette JoyeuxFrançois PérierJulien CaretteFrance, 1855. Zélie Fontaine, a twenty-odd-year-old widow and the post mistress of the small provincial town of Argenson, has accepted to receive love letters to Hortense de la Jacquerie, the prefect's wife, under her name. But Hortense decides to break up with her lover, François du Portal. François will not hear of it and, with a view to regaining her love, manages to be appointed deputy prosecutor in Argenson. Trouble can't help following.
- DirectorPatrice ChéreauStarsCharlotte RamplingBruno CremerEdwige FeuillèreA disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsJulian SandsCharlotte GainsbourgMassimo BonettiYoung nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is constantly interrupted by visitors hearing rumours that Sergio possesses miraculous powers, and by women who bet each other that they can successfully seduce him...
- DirectorTeo HernandezStarsMonica CarpiauxMichel NedjarCarlos PalacioA personal interpretation of Oscar Wilde Salome from three basic elements: the light, the color and the projection speed.
- DirectorHeiner CarowStarsGert Krause-MelzerViktor PerevalovDorothea MeißnerFrühjahr 1945 in einem kleinen Ort an der Ostsee. Am Strand finden der 15-jährige Günter (Gert Krause-Melzer) und ein gleichaltriger russischer Fremdarbeiter (Viktor Perewalow) einen toten Soldaten. Wenig später hetzen Günter, der immer noch an den Endsieg glaubt, und eine Schar Jugendlicher den entflohenen jungen Russen durch den Wald. Während Günter ihn stellt und ihm zuredet sich zu ergeben, erschießt der Dorfpolizist (Hans Hardt-Hardtloff) den Russen. Stolz nimmt Günter das Eiserne Kreuz entgegen und meldet sich freiwillig zum Fronteinsatz, obwohl sein Vater (Rolf Ludwig) schon im Krieg gefallen ist. Weder seine Freundin Christine (Dorothea Meissner) noch seine Mutter (Lissy Tempelhof) können ihn davon abbringen. Gleich beim ersten Einsatz wird er von einer sowjetischen Militärstreife aufgegriffen. Doch als ihr Jeep auf eine Mine fährt, überlebt Günter als einziger und flieht nach Hause. Er versteckt sich im Haus von Christines Eltern, kehrt aber zu seiner Mutter zurück, als sich Christines Vater (Norbert Christian) aus Angst vor den herannahenden russischen Truppen das Leben nimmt. Kurz nachdem die Sowjetarmee den Ort besetzt hat, wird Günter wegen Mordes an dem Fremdarbeiter verhaftet. Heiner Carows Film erzählt die letzten Tage des Zweiten Weltkriegs aus der Perspektive eines Hitlerjungen. Der Film erhielt 1968 keine staatliche Zulassung, stellt er doch keinen antifaschistischen Helden, sondern einen Mitläufer als Opfer in den Mittelpunkt und verwischt damit provokativ die Grenzen zwischen Schuld und Unschuld. Erst zwanzig Jahre später konnten die Filmemacher "Die Russen kommen" in einem aufwändigen Rekonstruktionsprozess aus den wenigen noch erhaltenen Teilen des Originalnegativs und Positivfragmenten wieder zusammenfügen. In einer erneuten Restaurierung ab 2014 fanden Experten der DEFA-Stiftung in der Arbeitskopie zahlreiche bisher nicht entdeckte Fragmente, mit denen sie den Film noch einmal völlig neu zusammensetzten.
- DirectorAleksandr GintsburgStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevVsevolod SafonovMikhail AstangovA talented inventor who created the machine of unprecedented destructive power is obsessed with world domination. In his manic quest he commits one crime after another, without assuming the dreadful consequences would be for him.
- DirectorAsiel NortonStarsMark AaronLucy AddenSean ThomasAs a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriRomy SchneiderPeter FinchA group of tourists, which relations are already complicated enough, faces with local crime incident.
- DirectorPatrick DevalStarsLaurent CondomidasJackie RaynalEva RidouxWith its title taken from Georges Bataille's journal Acéphale (literally, a headless man, but figuratively expressing the need to go beyond rational ways of thinking), Deval's film is the most literary of the Zanzibar works. The film opens with an illustrative image: a head in the process of being shaved, in close up. This image is accompanied not by the sound of an electric razor but an electric saw, suggesting the need to achieve a tabula rasa by radical means. The story follows the adventures of a young man and his friends as they wander through a barely recognizable post-May 1968 Paris. In documenting the by-gone expressions and gestures of the '68 generation in France, Acéphale becomes something of an anthropological film that reveals the rites and beliefs of the ideological novitiates.
- DirectorGilles GrangierStarsJean GabinDanielle DarrieuxNadja TillerA vice inspector for the Paris police takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky whom he considers to be more victim than criminal.
- DirectorManuel HuergaStarsEulàlia BesJorge de JuanBárbara de Lema
- DirectorTakashi Makino
- DirectorJacques DerayStarsMichel SerraultCharlotte RamplingXavier DelucThe inspector Staniland as always try to put himself in the place of the victim, this time an unsuccessful pianist. That's when the victim's mistress Barbara entered the appartment, look like a real bitch that one think the inspector. Surprised by his presence, she accuse herself of the crime. But the inspector is not convinced because everything don't fit all well in her confession and specially the tone she use to do so. In his investigation, Staniland has fisted trouble with a man who's protecting Barbara. Supposed to be her brother, isn't he? And can you refused a girl like her even if you're a policeman.
- DirectorMatthew ChapmanStarsJennifer Jason LeighBrenda VaccaroJack HallettCarol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special relationship with her uncle as she battles her memories and her surroundings in her new home.
- DirectorClemens KlopfensteinA black and white documentary which captures nighttime scenes in various European cities.
- DirectorAna VazStarsClaudia PereiraAna VazGuilherme VazThrough acts of memory and imagination Sacris Pulso narrates a displaced journey of its author. She returns to her genesis' through the re-construction marking the encounter of her parents' in 1985 in Brasilia, Brazil, in juxtaposition with other 8mm found footage sourced in Australia.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuaySteve Martland's Street Songs realized in eerily beautiful animation.
- DirectorPierre ClémentiStarsNadine ClémentiPierre ClémentiOlivier CorneilleNecrocity, a city of nightly terrors and a place where even the authorities seem to reinforce this state of mayhem, as a way to impose cruel laws and the use of police brutality with efficiency. While most of the underground citizens are only concerned about pleasures, drinking, using drugs, partying hard and all, a huge load of heroin has gone missing, and that's another indicative that a terrible crime wave is on the rise.
- DirectorDenys de La PatellièreStarsMichèle MorganDaniel GélinMichèle MercierAn unemployed Frenchman who saves the life of a rich man is hired as a chauffeur by the grateful man but gets caught in a murder-for-life-insurance-money scheme.
- DirectorHermine Freed
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsHerbert KnaupKatja FlintHansa CzypionkaThe members of a special police task force uncover a conspiracy involving leading politicians, organized crime masterminds and an ex-colleague who was believed dead. When they are to be silenced, they investigate on their own initiative.
- DirectorPatrick BokanowskiReworked and colored images of people playing at the seashore.
- DirectorBen RiversA family's place in the wilderness, outside of time; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape. The work aims at an idea of freedom, which is reflected in the hand-processed Scope format, but is undercut with a sense of foreboding. There's no particular story; beginning, middle or end, just fragments of lives lived, rituals performed.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsMax AdrianMaureen PryorChristopher GableTraces last 5 years of the life of Frederick Delius through the eyes of the young composer Eric Fenby
- DirectorSheng QiuStarsYihao ChenZhihao ChenJing DengSome ground subsidence has occurred in a suburban area and a team of engineers, including Hao, is dispatched to investigate the cause. After days of wandering around in the empty suburb looking for answers and carrying his heavy gear, Hao walks into a primary school where he finds a diary chronicling the story of a boy and the separation of what seems to be an intimate group. As the investigation keeps going, Hao discovers that this diary might contain prophecies about his own life.
- DirectorHenry JaglomStarsMichael EmilKaren BlackMichael MargottaZee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli. A very unlikely, funny and touching relationship develops between two lost souls in the big city, which is the third major character in this film.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsLena KostyukRoma BurlakaZhan DanielTwo young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family.
- DirectorCharles DekeukeleireStarsYvonne Selma
- DirectorSolveig NordlundStarsMargarida MarinhoMiguel GuilhermeRui MorissonBased on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.
- DirectorNathaniel Dorsky
- DirectorRebecca HornStarsDonald SutherlandGeraldine ChaplinValentina CorteseA young woman obsessed with Buster Keaton visits the private sanatorium where the actor was supposedly once a patient, but everyone there seem a little nuts, especially the chief physician, and the gardener is trying to bury something.
- DirectorMarcel HanounStarsGraziella BuciPierre-Henri DeleauMarianneAfter the May 1968 uprisings in France, a young woman named Graziella moves to a remote house in the Norman countryside to contemplate the events.
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsRomy SchneiderHorst BuchholzMara LaneA poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who's recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. They fall in love, but tragedy ensues when the truth behind the girl is revealed.
- DirectorGregory J. MarkopoulosStarsGeorge EmmonsAnn WellsPsyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos' developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the Hollywood hills, the film was inspired by an unfinished novella by Pierre Louÿs.
- DirectorGeorges SchwizgebelA series of repeated and transforming visual cycles, an animation painted on celluloid that examines transformation in the world around us.
- DirectorJ.X. Williams"PSYCH-BURN was what musicians call a contract-breaker. ABC had given us some coin to make a few short films for a TV pilot. LOVE-IN TONITE was to be a psychedelic rock variety show with live performances, skits and whatnot to cash in on the emerging hippie demographic. Even pre-Disney, the network was riddled with a bunch of out-of-touch, pencil-pushing buffoons, so I quickly realized the show would be a disaster. Imagine if MIDNIGHT SPECIAL was produced by Aaron Spelling. Then cast Charles Nelson Reilly as emcee. That would have been a far more lively show than LOVE-IN TONITE. So I decided to deliver the suits a farewell kick-in-the-butt called PSYCH-BURN. The best part was that they presented my film sight unseen at a board meeting about the new Fall Season. I heard some heads rolled over that one." - J.X. Williams [from the forthcoming documentary THE BIG FOOTNOTE]
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsLouise FloryFrank GlackenJeremy X HalpernAn 11-year old deaf-mute boy sets out to find an audio cassette his mother recorded shortly before her death, which may be locked in a storage room.
- DirectorEduard GalicSlow death of Istrian towns, far from the sea and abandoned by its residents. The houses can't be sold even for the peanuts.
- DirectorGregory RatoffStarsVera ZorinaRichard GreeneErich von StroheimA pair of crooks (von Stroheim and Lorre) use a phony countess (Zorina) who winds up falling in love with one of their victims (Greene).
- DirectorBoris BarnetStarsNatalya OvodovaIrina ZarubinaVasiliy ShukshinSet in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alenka Muratova (Ovodova) is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alenka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsLello ArenaPaola CortellesiCarolina Crescentini10 young friends hide out from a deadly disease in the countryside during the 1300s.
- DirectorThomas HeiseStory created from fragments in motion of observations from theatre and everyday life.
- DirectorJ. Walter RubenStarsAnna May WongElizabeth AllanJohn LoderThe port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage, he returns with a very exotic, noble Chinese wife, which scandalizes the conservative town.
- DirectorMichael RobinsonStarsMichael JacksonElizabeth TaylorTired of underworld and overworld alike, Isis escourts her favorite son on their final curtain call down the Nile, leaving a neon wake of shattered tombs and sparkling sarcophagi.
- DirectorYves AllégretStarsBernard BlierSimone SignoretMarcello PaglieroDedee is a prostitute who works in Monsieur Rene's nightclub on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy until she meets Francesco, an Italian sailor. They fall in love and Dedee starts to dream about escaping her daily dull grind.
- DirectorAlan RudolphStarsMatthew ModineLara Flynn BoyleFred WardTwins, separated at birth and living opposite lives, are about to learn of each other- and the substantial inheritance they are entitled to.
- DirectorDenys IrvingNaomi ZackStarsDenys IrvingA man decides to document his life on film, an act that eventually leads to a woman's death.
- DirectorClaude FaraldoJean-David LefebvreStarsMarie DuboisJulian NegulescoPaul CrauchetExperiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, moves in with the boy and his wife, and sets them all on the path to a communal lifestyle.
- DirectorAleksandr ZeldovichStarsMaksim SukhanovJustine WaddellVitaliy KishchenkoIn 2020, a group of wealthy Muscovites traveling to a complex of abandoned astrophysics, where rumors say they have enough power to stop the aging process.
- DirectorSteven ShainbergStarsElias KoteasLaure MarsacJay LeggettSonny lives with his intellectually disabled older brother, and works as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique a beautiful, suicidal nut-case checks in. Sonny is offered a part in a heist that goes wrong.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsGaby MorlayCharles BoyerPaulette DubostInjured by anarchist Philippe Lucher, film actress Clara Stuart falls in love with her attacker and decides to plead in his favor at his trial.
- DirectorJames Davis
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsNadja TillerJean-Claude BrialyPerrette PradierA group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.
- DirectorJean-Claude RousseauRousseau's first full-length feature, and one of the best documentaries/experimental films of the past few decades, sprung equally from Robert Bresson, Michael Snow, and Jean-Marie Straub (who has called Rousseau one of the three best working artists in modern Europe). Again hard places played against drifting sounds from unseen sites beyond the image; the images and sounds, repeated, become inflections of each other. But this time there are historical inflections; Rousseau's film, like Straub's, takes place in a sort of meta-history as characters and ancient sites each become products of outside light and shadow.
- DirectorWerner NekesStarsWerner NekesWhat really happened between the pictures?
- DirectorJean-Pierre MockyStarsJean-Pierre MockySylvie BréalAnne DeleuzeDuring an orgy with minor girls, some old and wealthy notables are being murdered by a small group of leftist young revolutionaries. Very soon the police are tracking down Virgile Cabral, the leader of the group. Meanwhile, Virgile's brother and only relative, Vincent, a violonist (and a thief), comes back to Paris. They have not seen each other for three years. Vincent does not believe in the revolution. He only tries to live as he wishes to live. But by looking for his hunted down brother, he has no other choice than to be involved in a fight which is not his.
- DirectorJean-Marie StraubStarsBarbara UlrichJoseph RottnerJean-Marie StraubTwo men on a walk. We see their back, we hear their voices, from time to time the sand creaks.
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerStarsHelmut KöppingSabine TimoteoUlrich TukurThe story and fate of three families: a Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to America and keeps grotesque family cohesion; and the family of Ratz, a social democratic family, dissolving itself miserably in today's Vienna. The condemnation of the last century bundled in these three families showing clearly that nobody can ever escape from his or her own past.
- DirectorCarsten AschmannDriving through the mountains. The sounds of chords, beauty, art and death echo through the places and elements. The trip ends in the city of Venice which appears exhausted and deserted.
- DirectorVáclav KadrnkaStarsKarel RodenAles BílíkMatous JohnKnight Borek is searching for his missing son. Enthralled by the stories of children's crusades, little Jan has run away from home. Borek's crusade is a journey into his own subconscious, where he is forced to confront his greatest fear.
- DirectorNathaniel Dorsky
- DirectorJean-Paul CiveyracStarsDina FerreiraEmilie LelouchGuillaume VerdierAt the start of the new millennium, mysterious things are going on in Paris. People are disappearing, just like that, without explanation.
- DirectorDante HarperStarsGabrielle GreigoShannon GelobterJoy GewaltA surrealistic comedy-drama about a school shooting as seen through the eyes of a socially awkward college student named Jay.
- DirectorLarry JordanMostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like opera in surreal form to Erik Satie's piano music.
- DirectorWerner NekesAn experimental short film that depicts habitable and uninhabited locations in a dizzying fashion.
- DirectorPat O'Neill
- DirectorBarry SaltStarsMargarita DoyleHans EysenckBrian HarrisonAn aleatory film: each reel begins and ends with a fade from or to a different color and contains two scenes. The film reels are supplied to the projectionist with a die with each of the colors on a side. The projectionist rolls the die to determine the running order of the reels. The story is designed so that each ordering creates different implications to the film as a whole.
- DirectorMargaret TaitStarsCelia ImrieJack ShepherdGerda StevensonBarbara Thorburn wiles away the hours with memories of Greta, her mother, the poet.