1997 Movies

Meet the world in a wash-house in Rinkeby. Almost a hundred dryers, washing machines and centrifuges spin here when 22 families wash at once. Juan fro...

Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial Algeria. Angele, an Algerian colonist with impecc...

A steam train’s journey during the dying days of steam travel in India

A young man's ambivalence about his first sexual experience with another man.

This romantic fairy tale, loosely based on an anonymous Arabic story, takes place at the sultan's court, where the evil sisters of the kind sultana pr...

This is the story of four women in the glamorous world of fashion, their friendships, their loves, and their careers. They and the people in their liv...

The twentieth century is sweeping through Central Europe. States, systems, governments, ideologies, and slogans are changing. No one born under the Au...

A breathtakingly beautiful valley between three glaciers, one of them Eyjafjallajökull. It may well have been the inspiration to Tolkien as he visited...

A short film about a boy experiencing immersion and fascination for war as he looks through the old photo album of his grandfather who was a Nazi sold...

Musings on dividing zero by zero.

Folk theater is a representation of local culture in China — a reflection of its characteristics. Hu Jie filmed a mobile theater troupe's performance...

A secret unit to combat aliens has been operating since the Second World War, as we learn from newsreels. The action is transferred to New Year's Eve,...

The tale of Mauricio, a 150-year-old ghost with a crush on the mortal Dafne. He solicits the afterlife committee to allow him a last fling on earth, w...

It's night in Germany and Benjamin has a pack of neo-Nazis on his tail. He hangs them up and makes it to his partner's house. But she is asleep. What...

1997 documentary, part of the Taiwan-produced series "Personal Memoir of Hong Kong", is both a self-portrait and a depiction of Hong Kong during the 4...

A film for the BBC 'Natural World' strand about the wildlife and fishery crisis in Newfoundland, Canada, narrated by Shane Mahoney.

Short experimental film by Naoyuki Tsuji.

The second TV adaptation of Jovan Sterija Popović's comic novel about a woman who doesn't want to be known as a craftsman's wife but to become noble,...

A soum elephant with many daughters dreamed of having a son, and became close to a neighbor's family with only sons.