17th Göteborg Film Festival (1994)
Göteborg Film Festival 4 Feb - 13 Feb 1994, complete list
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- DirectorWim WendersStarsOtto SanderBruno GanzPeter FalkA group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsHanns ZischlerSequence of five shots, each one with a particular color treatment, in which a man carrying a machine gun runs. He moves fast in the beginning but, as the end comes closer, he starts to walk in zigzag. Is he hurt?
- DirectorWim WendersStarsKasimir EsserJimmy VoglerNew times have come for the way demonstrations are handled by the police. No more crude repression... "Policemen come from the people, just as demonstrators". Therefore, if you're a cop, now it's a matter of "convincing" your "comrade" who's demonstrating to forget about it.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsFrancis Ford CoppolaIsabelle WeingartenWim WendersWim Wenders's atmospheric testimony about the problems he encountered while working on Hammett (1982) with Francis Ford Coppola, and the differences between the film-making process in Europe and the States.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsWim WendersMichelangelo AntonioniMaroun BagdadiDuring the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, into the same hotel room to answer in solitude the same question about the future of cinema, while they were filmed with a 16mm camera and recorded with a Nagra sound recorder. In social sciences the goal of standardization is that each person is exposed to the same question experience, and that the recording setting of answers is the same, too, so that any differences in the answers can be correctly interpreted as reflecting differences between persons rather than differences in the process that produced the answer. The wide sampling frame in "Room 666" included European 'auteurs' and Hollywood directors, narrative and experimental filmmakers, male and female professional film directors that presented their films or were simply present at the 35th Cannes Festival in May 1982. The directors came from France, Italy, Brazil, Lebanon, Germany, Turkey, the Philippines and the USA. This unique documentary shows the complete footage (or selected parts) of the 15 answers that resulted from this 'standardized survey interviews'. The historical value of "Room 666" has increased over time: The 5 directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Yilmaz Güney, Maroun Bagdadi, Robert Kramer and Michelangelo Antonioni have died since then in this order. Fassbinder died only a few weeks later on June 10th 1982 and gave his last 'interview' in "Room 666".
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsKlas-Gösta OlssonLennart BjörklundChrister ChristensenAfter witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?
- DirectorAgneta Fagerström-OlssonStarsSuzanne ReuterKrister HenrikssonJessica LiedbergA family is leaving their apartment for a vacation in Poland. While waiting for the taxi cab, they ridicule each other using verbal abuse.
- DirectorGunnel LindblomStarsKeve HjelmBarbro LomakkaGunnel LindblomAn elderly man and his existence in a harsh environment. He fishes, dig up potatoes, take care of his sheep and workhorse. He works in the barn, collects seaweed, eats a simple meal and drinks a snaps. "Skål" is the only word he utters.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsTien-Lu LiGiong LimKuei-Chung ChengPuppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.
- DirectorStellan OlssonStarsLars-Erik BerenettAnette BjärlestamJohannes BrostStaffan comes back to Svalöv where he grew up. His visit becomes an odyssey of his memories with his friends Maria and Janne when they grew up in the 1940s. They spent their childhood reading about Indians, building a time machine with the crazy inventor Jöns, they learned how to kiss and so on.
- DirectorSuzanne OstenStarsFransesca QuarteyEtienne GlaserLena T. HanssonTwenty-five-year-old Flore, a black woman born and raised in Sweden, is made minister of schools and at once becomes a media darling; furthermore, Flore has strong ideas about her agenda to implement change in Sweden's education system.
- DirectorClaude BerriStarsRenaudGérard DepardieuMiou-MiouIn 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.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsClaudio BigagliGalatea RanziMichael VartanWhile traveling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted 200 years. During Napoleon's Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in love with French soldier Jean, but while Jean was distracted, Elisabetta's brother Corrado stole some gold that Jean was guarding, and set the curse in train. The Benedettis become wealthy, corrupt, and hated by their former friends, who rename them the Maledettis--the cursed. The children's grandfather Massimo is the last man to be directly affected by the curse--but will he pass it on to them?
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsAndie MacDowellJulianne MooreTim RobbinsThe day-to-day lives of several suburban Los Angeles residents.
- DirectorWayne WangStarsTamlyn TomitaRosalind ChaoKieu ChinhThe life histories of four East Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsKate MaberlyMaggie SmithHeydon ProwseA 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.
- DirectorTorgny SchunnessonStarsSten AnderssonHans Cavalli-BjörkmanLars EngqvistElection 1991. The right wing take over after 66 years of social democratic rule in Malmö City Council. Some seniors have started a study circle about Per Albin Hansson.
- DirectorChristina OlofsonStarsNina SundbergWhen Nina was 8 years old, the foster father's sexual abuse began. Nina tried to convince herself that this incomprehensible thing was not true. It had not happened. So the years of humiliation passed until she was she was eleven and a half years old. Then he raped her for the first time.
- DirectorLeyla Assaf-TengrothStarsCarol AbboudJulia Kassar
- DirectorNils BergendalStarsMark GorneyAn urban loner, who is afraid of dogs, allows his paranoia to overwhelm him.
- DirectorIngrid Rudefors
- DirectorPeter ÖstlundStarsMatti Pellonpää
- DirectorLisa Hagstrand
- DirectorGeir Hansteen JorgensenRävelden(foxfire) is a light that appears above a buried troll treasure in the woods. A grandmother tells this tale for some children, and the need to dig very carefully to get the treasure and become rich. A lumberjack stumbles upon a räveld, he marks the spot with his hat and goes home to get tools and helpers. Then he eagerly works the soil, they discover how the trees around them is covered with caps and hoods.
- DirectorLars LambertStarsVera NilssonLena-Pia BernhardssonJohn-Bertil LundénVera Nilsson (1888-1979), an outsider and solitaire in Swedish 20th century art, headstrong and independent, fearless and clear-sighted, stubborn and colorful, who with unbridled will to express and uncompromising empathy.
- DirectorMyriam BraniffStarsAnnmari KastrupTherese SegerstedtFinn ZandénA woman's choice in life, at that very moment when the decision is made, a decision that becomes extremely vital. Not being able to choose is to opt out.
- DirectorSusanna EdwardsStarsLeif AndréeBjörn KjellmanLakke MagnussonThe teacher Beata travel by train on her way home. Beata's husband has left her after that her affair with a young student, Misja, was exposed. He has taken care of their children.
- DirectorElisabeth MártonStarsRikard WolffLütfi ÖzkökA documentary about the photographer Lütfi Özkök.
- DirectorMagnus CarlssonJonas OdellAn animated tale of a strange little girl and the secrets hidden within her doll house - a short film not suitable for young children.
- DirectorPer Carleson
- DirectorPer CarlesonTony HolmBarbro JohanssonStarsPer CarlesonA short film featuring the northern pike (Esox lucius) that inhabit a small lake.
- DirectorRafael Deugenio
- DirectorCésar Galindo
- DirectorLeif FurhammarStarsBörje AhlstedtElof AhrlePernilla AllwinA quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
- DirectorJaromir WeselyStarsTove JanssonOn the way home to Moominmamma, Moomintroll finds The Mymble and agrees to help her go looking for Little My, who has gone missing.
- DirectorStig LassebyStarsBibi AnderssonA big noisy family lives in the music bus. They all play different instruments and different melodies but one day they decide to work together in harmony.
- DirectorTobias FalkStarsIwa BomanRegina LundPer Myrberg
- DirectorHåkan Alexandersson
- DirectorStig BergqvistMartti EkstrandJonas OdellA short film about time.
- DirectorPeter Lindblom
- DirectorLisa OhlinStarsJelena Jangfeldt-JakubovitchBertil NorströmTord PetersonThe widower Erik mourns his wife. He meets Doris, a cleaning lady from Poland with a passion for Doris Day. They start socializing and helping each other to break loneliness and isolation.
- DirectorFanny DanielssonStarsLars CangeKristina MolvénShe measures the width of the root of the nose with a measuring tape and lifts scraps. He measures his low forehead with a measuring tape and sees his father's image in the mirror. Is it so that a person is judged throughout his life by the random design of his face? Is the face a kind of bus ticket that is valid for some while others have to remain at the bus stop forever with an invalid piece of paper?
- DirectorSolveig Nordlund
- DirectorTom AlandhStarsTom AlandhBror CarlssonUlf Olsson"Kronofogden kommer" - about the indebted who are visited by friendly, overworked officials who just follow the rules and the regulations.
- DirectorJoanna HelanderBo PerssonStarsJoanna BieszczaoKarolina BieszczaoPer OscarssonJoanna and Karolina are ten years old and they live in the ancient city of Cracow in southern Poland. We accompany them on their first journey to Sweden, where they are literally overwhelmed by the unspoiled natural beauty of the place.
- DirectorJoanna HelanderBo PerssonStarsReine BrynolfssonStina EkbladBruno GanzThe director travels to Poland and Germany trying to discover what happened to those of her Jewish relatives who disappeared during WW II. On her route she keeps up a continuous imaginary dialogue with her dead father, Gerard K.
- DirectorJoanna HelanderBo PerssonStarsDaria AnfelliAdam BorowskiTadeusz JaniszewskiAn authentic human drama about theatre and freedom, about exile and revolution in the on-going metamorphosis of Europe We accompany a legendary Polish theatre group in the period before, during and after the upheavals in Eastern Europe.
- DirectorRichard HobertStarsBoman OscarssonSven-Bertil TaubeCamilla LundénA newcomer comes to live in the village, it is soon found out that he has a special gift. He can find oil with his hands. But who is he and what does he want from the villagers?
- DirectorPeter Hagerrot
- DirectorLeo HurwitzPeggy LawsonHow art in the Detroit Institute of Arts connects to life's experiences and the neighborhood.
- DirectorLeo HurwitzPeggy LawsonStarsJosephine KirkFrom the perspective of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, documentary material, amongst this the freeing of the camp and the Nuremberg Trials with clips from films which were produced shortly after the war, and pictures of museum visitors are assembled into an essay about memory.
- DirectorGeorg af KlerckerStarsCarl BarcklindSelma Wiklund af KlerckerGeorg af KlerckerA young lieutenant falls in love with a circus rider. He leave the military and take a job at the circus. He quickly becomes the crowds favorite. His interest in another woman drives the rejected circus rider to revenge.
- DirectorGeorg af KlerckerStarsGabriel AlwSture BaudeJohnny BjörkmanThe rich Baron Von Meislingen dreams of being a poet. Unfortunately he has no talent what so ever. In one of his apartments lives the talented but poor poet Peter Långhår. Von Meislingen steals his latest work from him and publishes it under his own name. 'His' poems becomes a success and Von Meislingen becomes regarded as one of the greatest living poets.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
- DirectorNatalya PyankovaStarsMariya GangusIlya NarodovoyVadim PiankovThe action of this film is confined within the walls of a Moscow communal apartment, where on the eve of the new year of 1993 a group of old friends gathers, and where a brother and a sister meet.
- DirectorAleksandr BorodyanskiyKaren ShakhnazarovStarsOleg BasilashviliAmaliya MordvinovaArmen DzhigarkhanyanRussian countess in 1893 has strange dreams about herself living a life as a dishwasher in 1993' Moscow after dissolution of the USSR.
- DirectorChristina AndreefStarsKarin MainwaringAndrea MoorA Bulgarian folksinger writes to a stranger in Sydney, Australia, seeking sponsorship to bring her raw and ancient singing to the West.
- DirectorEvgeniy IvanovStarsIgor ChernevichNatalya FissonSergueï RousskineMirror film, intellectual game, tribute to Jean-Luc Godard and "Breathless". The narrative plot resumes the transposed history in post-Soviet St. Petersburg.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsAnatoli RomantsovSergey MigitskoAnzhelika NevolinaThe main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idiot. Vova isn't interested anymore, when she gets pregnant and doesn't keep the baby. The idiot goes now to the intellectual for his sexual needs. The wife can't take this anymore and forces her man to take a choice: Vova out, or she will go.
- DirectorSergey DebizhevStarsBoris GrebenshchikovSergei KuryokhinMikhail FaynshteynEarly 20th century. The recklessness of fanatics is pushing humanity towards the abyss. A revolution begins in Russia. Crazy Dr. Farkus causes an orgasm of inanimate matter. .
- DirectorDito TsintsadzeStarsGiorgi NakashidzeLika GuntsadzeMarika GiorgobianiCivil War in the 1990s. Society is divided into two opposing parts. The protagonist has relatives and friends on both sides, he is torn by this predicament.
- DirectorAktan Arym KubatStarsMirlan AbdykalykovBakyt ToktokozhayevA preteen boy falls in love with an older girl and spends many happy hours in her company. However, when a young sailor shows up in their village, heartbreak follows.
- DirectorDamir ManabaiStarsBakhitzhan AlpeisovZhanas IskakovShamshagui MendiyarovaThe history of the Kazakhs under the Stalinist regime
- DirectorMikhail VartanovSergei ParajanovStarsSergei ParajanovMikhail VartanovSofiko ChiaureliFilmed in wartime and edited under candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterwork tells of his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was arrested by KGB, at the height of his fame, for the outspoken criticism of the Soviet regime. Vartanov resurrects the riveting scenes from his banned 1969 film, The Color of Armenian Land, where Paradjanov concocts the chef-d'oeuvre Sayat Nova (The Color of Pomegranates) - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - then reveals a shocking secret request Parajanov sent him in an unpublished 1974 letter from the Ukrainian prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's staggering last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - the original camera negative of which survives in Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical film. The foremost achievement of The Last Spring, emphasized by the American and European critics, is Vartanov's exquisite wordless montage that "evoked the very soul" of Parajanov and earned the praise of many of cinema's greatest masters, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
- DirectorYuan ZhangStarsJian CuiWen LiBian TianshuoA rock musician looks for his girl-friend who left while pregnant, trying to decide whether to keep the baby.
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsXiaodong LiuYe LouHong YuThe Days is Wang Xiaoshuai's 1993 debut. Filmed in black-and-white, The Days follows the life of two married artists who have graduated from the Beijing Art Institute.
- DirectorJianjun HeStarsJiang LiuKe Shi
- DirectorZhuangzhuang TianStarsTian YiWenyao ZhangXiaoman ChenThe 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.
- DirectorYing NingStarsZongluo HuangWenjie HuangShanxu HanA charming story of a group of senior citizens who set up a Peking Opera club in hopes of finding revitalization through singing and dancing.
- DirectorJ. FalconerStarsDoug ParkerShirley MillinerPhilip Maurice HayesThe police arrive at a crime scene. A man has been found asphyxiated, apparently while watching a copy of "Goofy Hockey Bloopers". The body is taken to the morgue where doctors perform a thorough autopsy to investigate. Was he strangled by an acquaintance? Or did he die through some sort of poisoning due to environmental pollution?
- DirectorJeffrey LauStarsLawrence Ah-MonFai-Hung ChanKwok Leung CheungThe film is about a movie hero of the 60s called Black Rose, but she was actually real, and a woman in the 90s is mistaken for her because she's in the wrong place at the wrong time and somebody is doing crimes as Black Rose, who isn't the real Black Rose
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsWang Yu-wenChen Chao-jungKang-sheng LeeWithin the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
- DirectorKuo-Fu ChenStarsGiong LimTarcy SuJack KaoA group of young Taipei residents is drawn into the city's underworld through the growing obsession of one, the boyish Ah-feng, for the sexy Cantonese mistress of a gang boss.
- DirectorPing HoStarsHsiao-Fen LuHsing-Kuo WuChung-Hua Tou
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsKenny BeeAnthony ChanPing-Yu ChangThe daughter of a wealthy man takes French lessons so she can go to France with her fiancée, but ends up falling for a poor man who studies civil engineering.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsFei Fei FengKenny BeeAnthony ChanA romance develops between a blind man and a photographer.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsKenny BeeLing ChiangJing-Kuo YenDa-Nian is a young man from Taipei. He goes to a remote village and works as a substitute teacher. He and Su-Yun, another teacher at the school, fall in love. There are several students in his class who are like the naughty "three musketeers", and a sad, silent boy Xiang-Wang, who's parents are divorced. Besides, in order to support the family, Xian-Wang's father kills the fish in the river with electricity, which is against the law and causes a lot of damage to the natural resources. Because of this, Xian-Wang has been teased by other school children. At last, he becomes so upset and runs away from home...
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouChuang-Hsiang TsengJen WanStarsBor-Jeng ChenLi-Yin YangKuo-Feng TsengThree vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan's Cold War period.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsDoze NiuShih ChangChung-Hua TouAh-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsChi-Kuang WangShu-Chen LiHsiu-Ling LinA coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister who spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsChia-bao ChangNeng ChangChih-Chen ChenThe semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsGrace ChenShu-Fang ChenShu-Fen HsinA young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsLin YangFan YangShu-Fen HsinThe eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiShu-Fen HsinSung-Young ChenThe story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
- DirectorTrong Ninh LuuStarsBa Son DaoTruc Quynh TranAnh VanMai, a student from an art school, is invited to perform a leading role in a film about the War against the Americans. While shooting, Mai falls in love with the director who was a soldier during the war and who is trying to make a film glorifying the war by using Vietnamese actors and actresses born after the Communist victory in 1975. Mai is really just in love with his "romantic past" without really understanding it. Mai leaves in order to face the reality of her present life among friends of her own generation. The movies explores the conflict between the older generation of Vietnamese, who romanticize their role in "liberating" the country from foreign aggressors, and younger people, who are more fun-loving, consumer-oriented, and cosmopolitan. The older characters in the movie repeatedly criticize the country's youth for not appreciating the contribution of their parents generation.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLeonor SilveiraCécile Sanz de AlbaLuís Miguel CintraEma 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.
- DirectorLéonce NgaboStarsJoseph KumbelaMarie BunelAoua SangareGito is a young African intellectual returning home from France with numerous academic degrees and ministerial ambitions. Gradually his ambitions are crushed by the daily realities of his country. Gito is tested further by the alliance between his French girlfriend and his old sweetheart who join forces to teach Gito an unforgettable lesson.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsShirô SanoMayo KawasakiKitarô
- DirectorJun IchikawaStarsIttoku KishibeMasayuki ShionoyaAkira YamanouchiFilmed in a documentary style six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.