1997 Movies

Raffaella's first period comes at the same time as her first crush, on Shaun, a cook's assistant and the brother of her friend Sharon. Raffaella's Ita...

A young boy gets caught stealing a sheep and is shaved of all his hair and branded with a mark on his forehead so that everyone will know that he is a...

Mafia is trying to force an Afghanistan war veteran Arseniy to become a contract killer.

On a warm summer's day in the not too distant future, Ireland's first divorce case is unravelling on national television. The lives of several neuroti...

One of four computer animated short films in the series Open Mike Night. An amateur poetry-reading night at an out-of-the-way hotel features a big-hai...

One of the few documentaries to deal with the reasons why some Caribbean Gays and Lesbians become ex-isles while others stay home.

Casual, intimate look at Brakhage exploring footage left behind by his friend, the filmmaker Charles Boultenhouse, who had previously passed away

A documentary on the photographer Jan Saudek

Over Memorial Day weekend in 1996, filmmaker, activist and camper Anne Chamberlain turned her camera on the holiday happenings at The Pit, a lake-side...

A short film of Emily Dickinson’s poem number 1734, which begins with: “Oh, honey of an hour”. The words of the poem appear hand painted onto the film...

An adaptation of the Thomas Bernhard play of the same name.

Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during pregnanc...

For more than 50 years, the history of the unprecedented resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses was concealed under the Nazi regime. Thanks to the support...

A self-conscious young man keeps passing out while meeting his girlfriend's crass and abrasive family, blurring the line between nightmares and realit...

Recorded live in April 1997 at Theatre St. Gilles on La Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, Luther Allison Live in Paradise captures the legendary gui...

Body in the past, the present and the future.