1988 Movies

The keys to freedom for citizens of Hong Kong are U.S. passports, as their city quakes with the imminent transition to Chinese Communist rule. A deadl...

Set in Shanghai during the turbulent years leading up to and through World War II, the film follows a group of Japanese jazz musicians and performers...

A portrait of inspirational jazz drummer and teacher Art Blakey with Dizzy Gillespie, many pupils including Wayne Shorter, the Marsalis brothers, and...

A César award winning short drama based around Charles Bukowski's two stories "Copulating Mermaid of Venice" and "Trouble with the Battery"

Workshop production in which the performers tell their own stories.

In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a poli...

In Nørrebro, in a property ripe for redevelopment, only one family remains: the Hansens. With Elvis as the head of the family. A welfare recipient who...

Documentary about the New Year’s Eve train Novi Sad-Sarajevo.

A documentary exploring the varying cultural practices of the Day of the Dead in both Mexico and Chicano/a communities in the United States.

An anthology film featuring the biggest tandem love teams in Philippine cinema.

Tr'Cheot'My P'y is a hiccuping audio news segment to which footage from many sources is loosely choreographed. The film is intended as a portrait of t...

Another prank film by Yehuda Barkan. A gorilla reads a book on a public park bench, a waitress wears only an apron, a model becomes a fashion exhibit...

A man’s naïvely drawn tattoos and grotesque body art – at the intersection of profane and sacred, of folklore and high culture – come to life.

The parody of the famous agent thriller is a production of The Japanese American Toy Theatre of London. The cast was recruited solely from a toy depot...

About a fickle crow who changed the objects of her hobbies without thinking about their feelings.

A girl's birthday

It's February in Eastbourne - a cruel month. Some hotel residents on Grand Parade are being shunted upstairs to new rooms they do not really like. Sea...

Binu, a mischievous boy, is forced to leave his village and gets separated from Chandra, his lady love and the local zamindar's daughter. He finds she...

A Berlin filmmaker observes local reporters and photographers from two Cologne daily newspapers at work. The insight into the mechanisms and constrain...

Years after surviving the Holocaust, Alex Koves sees Michael Barna, the man who killed his family, on the streets of Toronto. Barna is now an upstandi...