15th Göteborg Film Festival (1992)
Göteborg Film Festival 31 Jan - 9 Feb 1992, a few films missing
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- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsBademaBayaertuVladimir GostyukhinA curious friendship develops between Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd living with his wife and family in a hut, deep in the wilderness of the steppes, and Sergei, a Russian worker whose truck breaks down not far from Gombo's hut.
- DirectorMorten SkallerudA portrait of a deserted fisherman's village in Northern Norway called Børfjord - a place with an incredible personality in the middle of a magnificent Arctic nature. The 12 minute short film was filmed in 70mm Super Panavision, using a specially developed "nature animation" technique. The result is a magic flight in one single shot, along the remains of an internal village road. At the same time a whole year passes by at 50 000 times normal speed! Most of the year, the village of Børfjord lies empty with virgin snow between cold houses. People show up only during a short and hectic summer season. But the cycles of nature go on as they have always done, totally independent of what people might do.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsSam ShepardJulie DelpyBarbara SukowaApril 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico. He learns that he became a dad in 1938. He takes a ship from NYC to France and meets cute, young Sabeth. Fate?
- DirectorSusanne Horizon-FränzelA UFO flies through a German village and an old lady reacts.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsMichel PiccoliJane BirkinEmmanuelle BéartThe former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsGhita NørbyGunilla RöörPalle GranditskyLove and death mark a family reunion on a Jewish matriarch's 60th birthday one summer in Stockholm.
- DirectorClas LindbergStarsUlf EklundGösta EkmanAnna-Yrsa FaleniusNisse is hospitalized with severe asthma. He meets the seriously ill boy Lelle. Lelle is depressed and abandoned. He has a dream; to build a large airship and provide food for starving children in other countries.
- DirectorAnders GrönrosStarsGloria TapiaRonn ElforsStina EkbladNora is 15 years old. Her parents died when she was young and now she lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. They move into an old apartment in an old house in Enköping. Behind a wall they find some old items from people who lived there a long time ago. They also discover that their apartment is haunted by a ghost. Together with Dag, Nora tries to find out more about the people who lived there.
- DirectorCarlo BarsottiStarsPaolo MigoneGianluca FavillaGiacomo PorettiIt's the 1950s and Giuseppe gets a letter from his friend Franco who is working in Sweden. He writes that Sweden is a wonderful country with high salaries, free health care and most important, the girls are beautiful. In short, it is a paradise and Giuseppe travels to Sweden to work. But, as he soon finds out, Franco was not completely frank with him. The taxes are high, the coffee is like dish-water, no wine at the restaurant and worst of all - no billiards!
- DirectorJuha TapaninenStarsMart SanderSaija HakolaTarmo RuubelThis is a film about young people finding their way, falling in love and experiencing disappointment. It's Finland in the early 60s, leading a quiet, sheltered life. Martti dreams of being "Iskelmäprinssi" (The Prince Of The Hit Parade), and finally makes it in the world of music. Rami dreams of being a race car driver. Two maidens - Sini and Bambi - have dreams of their own, but would need to go to compromise, if they want to support the boys they have fallen in love with. The films sports a brilliant 1960s atmosphere, complete with many unforgettable musical performances from Paul Anka, Umberto Marcato and the rest of the cast. The plot itself is only skin deep, but it was the goal of the director/writer Juha Tapaninen to recreate a movie musical of a more naive, carefree era. In that, he has succeeded very well.
- DirectorNiels GråbølStarsKasper TuxenAllan WintherDitte GråbølA 12-year-old kid who misses his father becomes really affectionate with a young delinquent he just met.
- StarsGünter LamprechtClaus HolmHanna SchygullaIn late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
- DirectorTato KotetishviliDirk RijnekeAlejandro AgrestiA kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world.
- DirectorHermann HallerLeopold LindtbergStarsPaul HubschmidHeinrich GretlerRobert TröschIt is August 1, 1914. There is excitement in Master Wiederkehr's hairdressing salon. The local council, the notary, the butcher and other customers discuss the shocking news that Wiederkehr's daughter Rosa has just brought to the house: there is a war. Germany, Belgium and Russia have declared mobilization. The French troops are at the border. The young hairdresser Wipf then experiences his first crucial life experiences during the horrors of war.
- DirectorMax HauflerStarsJean-Louis BarraultSuzy PrimAndré AlermeMaurice Farinet, a young Swiss peasant, has found a gold deposit in the mountains and starts producing counterfeit money. He is arrested but manages to escape. The village people are on his side and shelter him. Arrested a second time, he runs away once again and is hidden and protected by Joséphine, the waitress of the inn, who is in love with him. But Farinet puts the mayor in an awkward situation. Should he bring him to justice or not?
- DirectorValerien SchmidelyHans TrommerStarsMargrit WinterErwin KohlundEmil GyrA few leagues from Seldwyla, in the Zurich countryside, two children, Sali Mantz and Vreneli Marti, form an inseparable pair of playmates. Unfortunately, their farming parents, who have always been friends, are at odds with each other over the purchase of an adjoining field.Sali and Vreneli don't see each other again until much later and fall in love, but their parents still hate each other fiercely. Despite everything, the young couple will try to live their forbidden love.
- DirectorKurt FrühStarsEmil HegetschweilerEttore CellaUrsula Kopp
- DirectorAlain TannerStarsFrançois SimonMarie-Claire DufourMarcel RobertThe portrait of an old man who decides to abandon his comfortable bourgeois way of life and live with a Bohemian couple. There he rediscovers his freedom to think and his joie de vivre.
- DirectorRichard DindoNiklaus MeienbergDuring World War II 17 men were put to death by Swiss bureaucracy. The reconstruction of the case of Ernst S. fueled a controversy about collective guilt, double standards and the role of Switzerland in the war.
- DirectorRichard Dindo
- DirectorRichard DindoStarsChristiane CohendyMadeleine MarieBernard BlochThe tragic life of 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, as told by characters that knew him.
- DirectorClaude HalterTed Sieger
- DirectorDaniel SchmidStarsIngrid CavenRainer Werner FassbinderAnnemarie DüringerBeautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.
- DirectorDaniel SchmidStarsIngrid CavenPeter KernPeter ChatelA love story between a "demi-mondaine" kept by various lovers, suffering from tuberculosis, and a young provincial bourgeois. Adaptation from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, "The Lady of the Camellias".
- DirectorDaniel SchmidStarsBulle OgierKyra NijinskyBob Rafelson
- DirectorDaniel SchmidStarsMichel VoïtaChristine BoissonVittorio MezzogiornoA journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.
- DirectorJean-François AmiguetErnest AnsorgeRenato BertaThirteen Swiss filmmakers, each from their own point of view, chronicle and reconstruct the narrative of Swiss cinema, from its beginning to the present day, and in doing so, retrace the history of the country.
- DirectorGertrud PinkusStarsCornelia KempersLuca KurtRüdiger VoglerThis is a movie about the last "witch" that got burned in switzerland. It's based on a true story and is a movie adaptation of the well known book by Eveline Hasler.
- DirectorJacqueline VeuveStarsConrad BapstLouise BapstRomain BapstConrad and Louise Bapst are little farmers from the Swiss alpine living in autonomy and sharing the same estate with their three sons. They make Gruyère by hand, as it has been produced for three hundred years.
- DirectorZelimir Gvardiol
- DirectorAnka SchmidStarsWalter PfeilSusanne LüpertzHans Madin
- DirectorNaoto TakenakaStarsNaoto TakenakaJun FubukiKotaro SantoSukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
- DirectorVera WagmanA psychodrama plays out between two rival ballerinas.
- DirectorHitoshi YazakiStarsBang-ho ChoYoshiko YuraKôen OkumuraSet in Tokyo, Ice brings her amnesiac older brother Haruo home from the hospital to care for him. He is reluctant to go, until Ice tells him that she is his lover. Since he has no memory of his sister Ice, he obliges her. How long until his memory returns?
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiKaizô HayashiClaire DenisStarsSara DriverVincent GalloMasakoAn anthology film centering around the adventures of the Nissan Figaro in Paris, Tokyo and New York.
- DirectorEgon GüntherStarsRolf LudwigFranziska HeroldEvelin DahmA German stage actor's cult following and popularity after protesting the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
- DirectorMartin Enlen
- DirectorMichael KlierStarsLaura TonkeMiroslaw BakaSuzanne von BorsodyElfie is 15, she lives in a little room in Berlin with her mother, who's trying to find any job. She hates mother's lover, room she lives in and her own life. Trying to collect money for a new good apartment, she meets a wheeler-dealer named Darius.
- DirectorZsolt Kézdi-KovácsStarsAndrás KozákLászló MensárosLili MonoriLeaving his family behind after a conflict with his colleagues, a leading editor at Hungary's state television network travels alone to his country house in the Badacsony region, and reflects on his past, his guilt and the old compromises.
- DirectorJirí BartaLaid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all.
- DirectorDimitar PetkovStarsHristo GarbovJoreta NikolovaPetar PopyordanovA young sculpturist has been preparing his first exhibition for years. In the autumn of 1962 it becomes a fact. The show provokes a scandal in the society.
- DirectorNikolay DostalStarsAndrey ZhigalovSergey BatalovIrina RozanovaIn a dreary Russian village, over-enthusiastic and underappreciated Kolya spontaneously announces that he has plans to leave for the far-east today, garnering far more attention and support than he anticipated.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioImage and music are intertwined in this third collaboration between director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass. The film was produced to celebrate the World Wildlife Fund's Biological Diversity Campaign. The film combines images of nature with pulsing rhythms in a Microcosmos (1997) meets Koyaanisqatsi (1983) spectacle.
- DirectorEvgeniy TsymbalStarsSergey ArtsibashevNatalya DanilovaSergey GarmashThe legendary commander of the Civil War, the winner of Wrangel, arrives in the capital on Stalin's call. In the capital, he is perplexed to learn that the Politburo at a special meeting decided to force him to operate on an old ulcer. The attending physician is convinced that the operation is not necessary, but, obeying party discipline, the old Bolshevik lies down on the operating table.
- DirectorLidiya BobrovaStarsVyacheslav SobolevYuri BobrovVasili FrolovThe backbone of the story is the daily life of Mitka, whose health is so poor he is not allowed to work. Instead, his wife Raya supports him, despite her heart condition. Nearby lives brother Petka, another impecunious man, who is amusingly tiny when compared to his strong, solid wife: she earns their living as a nurse in a retirement home. Brother Sanya has been in a prison camp for committing murder, and he is only now returning home to join his other brothers.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsMalcolm McDowellOleg YankovskiyArmen DzhigarkhanyanOver seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event.
- DirectorMati Kütt
- DirectorVyacheslav KrishtofovichStarsInna ChurikovaYelena BogdanovaSvetlana RyabovaIn a small urban flat, grandma, mom, and two daughters live in partial harmony. Grandma is bed-ridden and mute, but rings a bell above her head. Her daughter Nina, a museum docent, misses male friendship and both her ex-husbands. Each fathered a daughter: Lida, beautiful, in her 20's, having an affair with her boss, and contemplating a month's vacation with him, and Nastiya, acerbic, 15, in trade school. It's grandma's birthday, so the women prepare a celebration; Nina's new male friend and both girls' fathers come. Lida learns more about her boss, and Nastiya announces she's pregnant just as her ex-boyfriend bangs on the door, drunk. Even grandma has a surprise for the family.
- DirectorAmir Karakulov
- DirectorDani LevyStarsMaria SchraderDani LevyMario GiacaloneSilva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not long until the charming swindler Avi steals all her money - but she doesn't give up: She hunts him down, follows him around, demanding her money back.
- DirectorJane SpencerStarsTatum O'NealCrispin GloverNina SiemaszkoA struggling writer (Glover) steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
- DirectorWilliam GreavesStarsPatricia Ree GilbertDon FellowsJonathan GordonFilmmaker William Greaves auditioned acting students for a fictional drama, while simultaneously shooting the behind-the-scenes drama taking place.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsIngrid ThulinDado RuspoliEnzo CannavaleA septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.
- DirectorBruno BozzettoMen killing each other through the ages for various reasons.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsSergio CastellittoFrancesca DelleraPhilippe LéotardA peculiar love story between two weirdos.
- DirectorSimona MulazzaniGianluigi ToccafondoA few vibrations of a tango dance announce the performance of an uneasy love story.
- DirectorCarlos CarreraStarsEduardo López RojasMalena DoriaArcelia RamírezOld bachelor Benjamin (Lopez Rojas) still lives with his sister Micaela (Doria) in the boredom of a small town. His only entertainment is getting together with a bunch of old men and spare time playing like children. Benjamin falls inlove with beautiful and young Natividad (Ramirez). First, he writes love letters for her. Then, when this strategy fails, Benjamin and the old men plan to abduct her and wait for her falling inlove.
- DirectorMarv NewlandStarsKaren KommerColin Nawrot
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsPhilippe MaronEdouard JoubeaudLaurent MonnierA boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.
- DirectorJacques DemyStarsAnouk AiméeMarc MichelJacques HardenA bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsMaría RojoJosé AlonsoA middle agend woman asks an old boyfriend to her home. He thinks its only for casual sex, she is planning something else and she is taping in on video.
- DirectorPetra SeegerStarsEdgar Reitz
- DirectorMichel SuchStarsMustapha El AnkaFawzi B. SaichiMichel SuchA man returns to Algeria after the war and recollects what happened there.
- DirectorHung-Wei YehStarsJing AiShih ChangYing ChangFive girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.
- DirectorNuanxing ZhangStarsXiaoqing MaHongsheng JiaQuan'an WangA female bus conductor falls into confusion of career and love when getting along with three young men.
- DirectorChoymbolyn Jumdaan
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsJacques DutroncAlexandra LondonBernard Le CoqThe final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.
- DirectorJean-Louis BertuccelliStarsGiulietta MasinaVéronique SilverÉva DarlanItalian widow Bertille decides to sell her real estate in Loiret in the French countryside and organizes a family lunch party. She wishes to split the money among her sons and daughters to avoid any future inheritance squabbles. She will move with her dog to the home of her daughter Christiane and she asks her family to pick their favorite childhood souvenirs from the house. Throughout the day there arguments and criticism and there is gossip. Christiane doesn't understand why her mother spent a large amount to advertise the selling of the property in more than 30 newspapers for a long period. At the end of the day, Bertille overhears a whistle and goes to a small cave on top of the real estate. There she meets her beloved youngest son Raphaël, who participated in a heist where a person was killed.
- DirectorPhilomène EspositoStarsVirginie LedoyenNino ManfrediMargarita LozanoMima and her Italian family live in France. When her grandfather is killed, she discovers that they have a long-running family feud with the mafia.
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsGísli HalldórssonSigríður HagalínBaldvin HalldórssonOld Thorgeir must leave his home far off in the Icelandic 'countryside' and move into a home for senior citizens in Reykjavik. There he meets an old friend from his childhood, Stella. Thorgeir soon becomes unhappy living there and together with Stella he steals a jeep. Together they leave the city for Stella's old home in northwestern Iceland. A drama who asks us: how important is it to have a long life if you have to leave everything that has a meaning for you?
- 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.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsSilu SeppäläMarjo LeinonenMatti PellonpääAntti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?
- DirectorBerit NesheimStarsMaria KvalheimEllen HornHelge JordalFrida, aged 13, has discovered a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm called "The art of loving". Using it as a reference she sets out to better the love lives of her family and friends. But love works in mysterious ways...
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVincent PerezEmmanuelle BéartMassimo TroisiEn route to Paris, a group gets lost during a storm and seeks refuge in a castle owned by a ruined nobleman, who wants to join the group's trek to Paris.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoClaudio BigagliGiuseppe CedernaIn WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
- DirectorEmidio GrecoStarsGian Maria VolontèEnnio FantastichiniRicky TognazziReturning from abroad to Sicily, a former diplomat informs the police about a strange discovery he has just made. The next day, police inspector Lepri comes to the man's place and finds him dead. Has he committed suicide? While conducting his investigation, Lepri happens to suspect his own commissioner - Meanwhile, a train comes to a stop somewhere in the countryside because of a malfunctioning signal. A motorist decides to alert the station master but he too is found dead, as well as another railway agent. For the police, the driver cannot but be linked to those mysterious deaths.
- DirectorKaren Kelly
- DirectorRolf de HeerStarsColin FrielsMiles DavisHelen BudayTraces the pilgrimage of John Anderson, an average guy with a passion for jazz, from his home in outback Western Australia to the jazz clubs of Paris, to meet his idol, jazz trumpeter Billy Cross.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsDon McKellarValerie BuhagiarEarl PastkoA small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.
- DirectorBogdan DreyerStarsOana PelleaGheorghe VisuGeorge NegoescuA story of the relationship between a young girl and a lighthouse keeper living beside the Black Sea. After the young girl finds herself stranded in the area the two gradually get to know one another but their isolation is eventually broken when the woman's companion comes looking for her.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsAleka PaiziThemis BazakaThanasis VengosDifferent human stories, about joyless and depressed people, in the heat of the nights and days of Athens.
- DirectorFrank HoffmannPaul KiefferStarsClaude WagnerAndré JungMichele CleesThe title of the film, set in Luxembourg in 1942, during the Nazi occupation, amalgamates the words Schacko (helmet) and chapeau claque (opera hat). The village, in which it is set, has not yet been feeling the effects of the war at this point. The protagonist Chr"«scht Knapp is an 11 year old boy. Most of the people in the village are engaged in the Resistance, but some collaborate with the Nazis. Chr"«scht is taking care of his grandfatherâ€TMs cows with his friend Jhuliett and spends a lot of time in ‘hisâ€TM tree in the middle of the forest. Everything suddenly changes when one of the villagers is shot dead for taking part in the general strike of Oktober 9th 1942. The young Luxembourgers are forced to enroll in the Wehrmacht. Some villagers are arrested and others deported to Silesia. The Gestapo searches several houses, hoping to find draft evaders. The Knapp familyâ€TMs home is no exception. Chr"«scht decides to take action and warns the neighboursâ€TM son, who is hiding in the attic, of the Germansâ€TM arrival. His family realises that Chr"«scht is not a boy any longer and that he is ready to take on responsibilities. The last time he climbs into his tree, he watches the Alliesâ€TM planes heading towards Germany.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsPhilippe NahonBlandine LenoirFrankie PainAfter a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
- DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsThibault de MontalembertRoch LeiboviciMarianne DenicourtA large family, traumatized by tragic deaths, reunites to wait for news about one of their cousins who is in hospital after a suicide attempt
- DirectorAmos PoeStarsEric MitchellDaisy HallAlba ClementeThe Levys, a glamorous couple, used to make their living robbing golfers, until they met their fatal handicap. Years later, scriptwriter Remy Gravelle decides to observe the Levy progeny as they sail endlessly round Manhattan in their luxury yacht.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsMoshe IvgyMohammad BakriSalim DawAn Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in lebanon. The soldier planned to go on vacation and to fly to the world final soccer cup (mondial), he and his capturers share the love to soccer and toward the (not so happy) end a relationship is made.
- DirectorPhil Mulloy
- DirectorSai ParanjpyeStarsShabana AzmiNana PatekarRaghubir YadavThe Sarpat family, who live in Bhukari, consist of Parsaram, who has been involved in digging a well for the past over 12 years and is now called 'Pagal Parsa'; his brother, Soma, who gets some casual work in the fields; his wife, Hansa, who goes to work at a Bidi factory; and four children ironically named Sharmila, Jeetendra, Amitabh, and Kadhu. Soma's neighbor, Vasant Mandre, is a young man who has recently got married to Phoolwanti, lives with his ailing father, Dashrath, who had taken a loan of Rs.10,000/- in order to have a lavish wedding celebration. Soma is the first one to re-locate to Bombay, and when he immediately sends some money, Vasant too leaves for Bombay. Shortly thereafter, Phoolwanti goes to visit him and is horrified when she finds that Soma and Vasant are sharing a small room with 39 other males from their village; work in a mill; are poorly paid, and in debt. She returns home immediately thereafter. Then Vasant gets a letter from his dad asking him to come home immediately. Watch what happens when Vasant returns and finds out why he has been called back so suddenly.
- DirectorMarco BechisStarsArturo MalyMartin KalwillJacqueline LustigHarvey Logan (Arturo Maly) lives with his two children, Juan and Eva, in a beautiful but cold and desolate land in the extreme south of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego. One day an English businessman arrives with the idea of turning that land into a tourist area. But Harvey is not so keen on turning his home into a tourist attraction. He surrounds his ranch with a wire fence and locks himself in with his children to stand up to the corporation. It's an especially tough situation for teenage daughter Eva Logan (Jacqueline Lustig) as he thwarts any chance of finding a boy to fall in love with.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsRobert CarlyleEmer McCourtJim R. ColemanThe story of construction-worker Stevie and his unemployed pop-singer girlfriend shows the living conditions of the British poor class.
- DirectorBill PlymptonIt's the little things that really hurt.
- DirectorAmber Production TeamStarsAnna-Marie GascoigneMaureen HaroldAmber StylesWhen she arrives from Donegal on her ramshackle motor bike and sidecar, Peggy O'Rourke certainly puts the cat among the pigeons in North Shields. Her son, Bert, the loan shark who runs the pub, and has his finger in several pies, is not thrilled to see her. The mysterious Kevin watches her constantly. But the women in the pub darts team warm to her immediately, especially Julie, Rita and Kathy, beset with problems in their own lives, and looking for answers. The story is set in North Shields, a small coastal town in the North East of England, and is structured around three weekly darts matches. In between the matches we observe the lives of the characters. Using a blend of magic, fantasy and dreams, the film treads a knife-edge between humour and tragedy. The audience is drawn into the personal dramas; battering, alcohol, drugs and abuse are juxtaposed with the camaraderie of the darts nights where the women come together with a common aim: to win and leave their troubles at home. Peggy, irreverent, funny, bossy and sexy brings an image of an older woman rarely seen on the big screen. She interferes unashamedly, and with mixed consequences she helps Julie, Rita and Kathy understand that they have the power to change their lives if they really want to.