Tag: 1993

Director: Peter Weir
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A man’s personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.

Director: Patrice Leconte
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Richard Bohringer, Thierry Lhermitte
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L’Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge’s nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul’s wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women.

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium | Italy

In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town’s workers are exploited by the mine’s owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico

A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.

Director: Chris Gore
Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Scott Spiegel
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: USA

Based on the true story of Louis “Red” Deutsch. A New Jersey bar-owner is plagued with prank phone calls that prompt him to flip into psychotic, profanity-laden rages.

Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian
Stars: Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen
Genre: Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

Director: Andrew Davis
Stars: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Ludvík Sváb, Bedrich Glaser, Jan Kraus
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: UK | Czech Republic

BREAKFAST: After eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser – and the same fate befalls the man who obtains breakfast from him. LUNCH: After failing to catch the waiter’s eye, two would-be diners end up eating everything within reach. DINNER: Portraits of various meals made up of human organs.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: Angela Bettis, Johnathon Schaech, Eva Alexander
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Japan

Catania, Sicily, 1854. An epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. 16-year old novice Maria leaves her convent and returns home to avoid the plague. Her stepmother and her half-sisters prevent her to live the normal life of a young girl. In their minds, Maria is the promised “bride of God” and a regular life is inappropriate for her. Nevertheless, she falls in love with a neighbor, Nino. Her freedom ends abruptly when she is forced to return to the convent.

Director: Shinji Sômai
Stars: Kiichi Nakai, Junko Sakurada, Tomoko Tabata
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Renko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents’ decision to separate. With the companionship of her boyfriend, Minoru, and Sally, a classmate in the same boat, Renko gradually realises the practical implications of divorce, and tries repeatedly to get her parents to reconcile. An old man teaches her about the need to forget the past.

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Branko Samarovski, Judit Pogány, Thierry van Werveke
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Austria

The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a controversy with a welldressed gentleman, disturbs the public order, and hits a policeman. Andreas Pum goes to jail, loses his license and becomes toilet guard in the Cafe Halali after his release. Only at the moment of death he recognizes that he was always too decent and too obedient.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Sophie Aubry, Judith Godrèche, Bernard Giraudeau
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

Tina is a young warehousewoman in a supermarket. She is in love with Fred but still lives at her mother Nadine’s. When Nadine dies, Tina looks for meeting her father Ludovic, who she never knew. But she first meets her half-sister Lise, and Constantin, the unusual Ludovic’s lawyer.

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Stars: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany

The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.

Director: Ron Maxwell
Stars: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA

In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

Director: Memduh Ün
Stars: Emre Akyildiz, Asuman Arsan, Meriç Basaran
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Turkey

Adana, a big city in Southern Turkey, 1949. Muzo, a young man, is experiencing a terrible heartache. He is in love but his love is baffled. He will finish his studies in five or six years and wanted to marry the girl he loves only then, when he was a “big man”, worthy of her. But the young lady’s father did not agree. He preferred any son-in-law rather than a well-read one like Muzo much later. And now that the wedding procession of the girl who will never be his passes him, Muzo remembers his childhood.

Director: Robert Enrico
Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Pierre Vaneck, Jean-François Balmer
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Michel Bouquet, Brian Cox, Maquisard Alfonso
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: France

This movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation). Those newsreels were controlled by the government of Vichy, which collaborated with the Nazis, so most of them are propaganda. Their purpose is to show what the disinformation was then, and perhaps more generally to evoke the problem of the power of the mass media.

Director: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Orson Welles, Richard Wilson, Norman Foster
Stars: Manuel ‘Jacare’ Olimpio Meira, Jeronimo André De Souza, Raimundo ‘Tata’ Correia Lima
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA

A documentary about Orson Welles’s unfinished three-part film about South America.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Gemma Phoenix
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK

This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.

Director: Rolf de Heer
Stars: Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia | Italy

Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape, and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into the modern and nihilistic life begins.

Director: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda
Stars: Tatsuo Matsumura, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

Stan Brakhage’s artistic view of the cosmos.

Director: Mark Baker
Stars: Annie Griffin, Dave Western, James Baker
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: UK

A village is ruled by the church, but it filled with hypocritical sinners who constantly spy on each other.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul is an actor leading a drab directionless existence. He has an affair with Ulrika, a woman half his age. His wife, with whom he constantly argues, is pregnant with their second child. He does not interact much with his teenage son. Much of the film centers around the emptiness of his life.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | Switzerland

Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | Canada

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

Director: Wayne Wang
Stars: Tamlyn Tomita, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | China

The life histories of four Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Tien-Lu Li, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Taiwan

Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.

Director: Jon Jost
Stars: Howard Swain, Nancy Carlin, Kate Sannella
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Ricky, a dim-witted ex-con, meets Beth, a dim-witted waitress, in an Idaho diner. They take off in his car to Washington and begin an affair. Beth, a lonely romance-novel addict, is hopelessly enamored; Ricky is just in it for the (constant) sex. Beth’s longing to visit California and Ricky’s longing for quick cash leads them into a desperate situation. Director Jost uses a variety of avant-garde visual and narrative techniques, such as montage, collages, split screens and lengthy, tongue-in-cheek monologues to tell the tragicomic story of two complete losers in love.

Director: Frédéric Back
Stars: Paul Hébert, Donald Sutherland
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Short
Country: Canada

The environmental history of the St. Lawrence River and the impact of human exploitation of it.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Short
Country: France

Godard looks into the Bosnia conflict in the early 1990’s.

Director: Agnès Merlet
Stars: Ludovic Vandendaele, Eric da Silva, Sandrine Blancke
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Luxembourg

Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may date to their mother’s leaving the family.) Martin is philosophical, romantic, and poetic: he dreams of being the son of a shark; he holds tight to a book about goldfish his mother gave him. In both halting and wild ways, he tries to court Marie, a neighbor girl. Simon, with a pocketknife and an intractable will, seems more dangerous to others. What, on earth, is there for these children-becoming-men?

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Natalia Chakhovskaia
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belgium | France | Portugal

A look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Director: Tomomi Mochizuki
Stars: Nobuo Tobita, Toshihiko Seki, Yoko Sakamoto
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

As a young man returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year of high school and the iron-willed, big city girl that turned his world upside down.

Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA | France

A young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Kidnapped boy Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther) strikes up a friendship with his captor Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner): an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search is headed up by honorable Texas Ranger “Red” Garrett (Clint Eastwood).

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Léonor Graser, Nikolai Izvolov, Kira Paramonova
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: France | Finland

This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film students express their excitement at seeing his film HAPPINESS for the first time, and his contemporaries shed light on his life and work.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down motel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.

Director: Lita Stantic
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Ofelia Medina, Lautaro Murúa
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Mexico | UK

A film director decides to make a movie about Silvia, a woman who lost her husband during a particularly violent war. But will making a movie about it force Silvia to remember her traumatic past?

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: László Szabó, Jean-Luc Godard, Bernard Eisenschitz
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot,” offering up a series of typically Godardian musings on art, politics, the nature of images and the future of cinema.

Director: Jon Jost
Stars: Tom Blair, Marshall Gaddis, Ellen McLaughlin
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Times are hard for Northwestern lumber-mill operators like Ray and his wife Jean. Ray and Jean’s lives are thrown into chaos when their daughter writes home from college, saying she has uncovered her repressed memories of sexual abuse, and naming Ray as her abuser.

Director: Victor Nunez
Stars: Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman struggles for independence and identity in a small Florida tourist town.

Director: Philip Haas
Stars: James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A thrill seeker agrees to help a shady professional gambler win a high stakes poker game. However, they lose and become captives of two eccentric rich men who decide to forcibly keep them on their remote gated ranch as indentured servants.

Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Winston Chao, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan | USA

To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Heydon Prowse
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK | USA

A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings, and its secrets.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Anna Hitch, Vissarion
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | USA

What is faith and religion to Russians after the fall of communism? We get the insight into the Russian Orthodox church as well as different folk and shamanic beliefs.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Manoel de Oliveira, Maria Isabel de Oliveira, Diogo Dória
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Portugal

A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira’s life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal.

Director: Nick Donkin, Melodie McDaniel
Stars: William S. Burroughs, Susan Ashline, Dayton Bard
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: USA

Burroughs takes down a book and reads us the story of Danny the Carwiper, who spends Christmas Day trying to score a fix, but finds the Christmas spirit instead.

Director: Stan Lai
Stars: Brigitte Lin, Shih-Chieh King, Pao-Ming Ku
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Taiwan

Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One of them played ‘Peach Blossom’, a comedy in medieval costume. Another played ‘Secret Love’, a sad story with contemporary setting. Though unreconciled in all aspects, they find themselves telling the same story: the story of Chinese people forced to leave home.

Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Anita Yuen, Carina Lau
Genre: Romance
Country: Hong Kong

A jazz musician (Lau Ching-Wan) who has problems in both his life and career breaks up with his girlfriend, and moves into a poor neighborhood. There, he meets a girl (Anita Yuen), who started being interested in him as of his saxophone skills. Their friendship turns into a romance, and he gets inspired to write songs again. However, Min discovers that she has an issue with her health-condition.

Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie’s one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will come up, and will be depicted both Berthe’s destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.

Director: Anh Hung Tran
Stars: Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France | Vietnam

A Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany

A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Agnès Varda, Michel Legrand
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: France

A recital becomes part of the French culture; 25 years later the performers return to the village where it was first launched.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Portugal | Switzerland

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father’s friend. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room, to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage so, with all the freedom she has, she takes a lover.

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: UK

Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a rifle appears and a shot fires. The bullet is visible whirling through space; it caroms and then goes through a pine cone. A long spoon emerges from a drawer in the chair and stretches toward the hand. The bullet is on the spoon. Later, the hand holds the bullet between two fingers; another shot is fired.

Director: Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Melvil Poupaud, Marc Citti
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France

After hitting her head, a woman has to face living in a mental institution for a period of time.

Director: Gérard Mordillat
Stars: Sami Frey, Marc Barbé, Julie Jézéquel
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his “theatre of cruelty” to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.

Director: Peter Friedman, Tom Joslin
Stars: Liane Bonin, Tom Joslin, Mark Massi
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about two gay men as they live through their last months of life with AIDS.

Director: Bay Okan
Stars: Ilyas Salman, Valérie Lemoine, Micky Sébastian
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey | France | Germany | Switzerland

The film is based on ‘Fikrimin Ince Gulu’, a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey’s west border – and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara – capital of Turkey. He begins his journey purchasing a second hand yellow Mercedes – possibly his first car – using his meager savings working as a laborer. Offering deep insight into the mind of a manual laborer Bayram (Ilyas Salman) making his first trip back home, resorting to flashbacks in highlighting Bayram’s motivation and experiences from his childhood right up to the events leading to his first departure from Turkey to Germany.

Director: Peter Capaldi
Stars: Richard E. Grant, Crispin Letts, Ken Stott
Genre: Short, Biography, Comedy
Country: UK

While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa wakes up as, Kafka’s constantly being interrupted by knife-selling strangers, party noise, girls, fancy dress costumes, and other strange, dreamlike visions.

Director: Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
Stars: James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Heather Beckel
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A documentary of the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign and the organization who ran it.

Director: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Peter Hudson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Italy | Switzerland

An examination of the possible consequences of a certain event.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage in which light, black and white, and color images are contrasted.

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: UK

A short black and white animated film with a contemporary musical accompaniment.

Director: Fei Xie
Stars: Gaowa Siqin, Yujuan Wu, Kesheng Lei
Genre: Drama
Country: China

If money can’t buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. When Japanese investors provide capital to expand Xiang’s business, she has the wealth to raise her social standing and buy a wife for her son, Dunzi. When money and a forceful personality fail to bend others to her will, including daughter-in-law Huanhuan, Xiang must find another way to tranquillity.

Director: George Paul Csicsery
Stars: Paul Erdös, Ronald Graham, Joel Spencer
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician Paul Erdos, directed by George Paul Csicsery.

Director: Susan Raymond
Stars: Susan Raymond, Deanna Burney, Clary Jansson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Filmmakers Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond document Philadelphia teachers facing challenges at an inner-city school.

Director: Yolande Zauberman
Stars: Roma Alexandrovitch, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Vladimir Mashkov
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belarus

In 1930s Poland, it was traditional for some Christian boys to live for a time with Jewish families in order to learn a trade from Jewish craftsmen. For this reason, Ivan has gone to live on a large estate with Abraham and his family, has learned Yiddish, and has become Abraham’s best friend. But the anti-Semitism born of poverty, ignorance, and superstition is fierce in this community of and the two boys run away into the countryside to flee an imminent conflict. Journeying together in a menacing environment, they reveal their innocence and inseparability.

Director: François Girard
Stars: Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada | Netherlands | Portugal | Finland

A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío
Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Cuba | Mexico | Spain | USA

Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinal ideas. First come rejection and suspicion, but also fascination. Fresa y chocolate is a coming-of-age story, told through the development of a great friendship which overcomes incomprehension and intolerance.

Director: Bille August
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Maria Conchita Alonso
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal | Germany | Denmark | USA | France

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende’s best-seller.

Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Stars: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, June Kyoto Lu
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Pascal Greggory, Arielle Dombasle, Fabrice Luchini
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In 1992, the socialist mayor of a little French town with the help of his contacts in Paris get the money to build a multimedia house. But the socialist party lose his majority in the election. But… But… Well everything would have been all right without those seven coincidences.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Stars: Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.