8th Göteborg Film Festival (1986)
Göteborg Film Festival 24 Jan - 2 Feb 1986, Short films not included
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- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsMarie LaforêtPhilippe LéotardMiguel Ángel SoláSome Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
- DirectorJack Haley Jr.StarsMikhail BaryshnikovRay BolgerSammy Davis Jr.The history of dance depicted on film.
- DirectorTerje KristiansenStarsTerje KristiansenVibeke LøkkebergTonje Kleivdal KristiansenA love story about an actor, Arne Strømberg, which struggles with the changes between love and anger, and his roles as a macho man, family father and husband.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
- DirectorHaskell WexlerStarsRobert BeltranAnnette CharlesAmérico GonzálezSet in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) is a Vietnam War veteran sent to help U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels. Eddie falls for a local girl, Marlena (Annette Cardona). However, when her father is killed by the Contras, things change.
- DirectorWieslaw SaniewskiStarsEwa BlaszczykTeresa SawickaGrazyna SzapolowskaA story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.
- DirectorGyula GazdagStarsZoltán PaulinyiJános AtkáriLajos KelleryA high school summer camp doesn't go as expected: there's no work for the kids and they, out of boredom, sneak out to find some themselves.
- DirectorLee GrantStarsMonica Lynn B.Lee GrantChristine JorgensenFollows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, "What Sex Am I?"
- DirectorGreta SchillerRobert RosenbergStarsRita Mae BrownBruce NugentHenry OtisThe history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
- DirectorAdam BrooksStarsBrooke AdamsGriffin DunneKaren YoungAlex and Erica Boyer's marriage is in a crisis: Alex is bored by his job and his wife. When Erica has an accident that lands her in a wheelchair for some time, Alex meets Erica's young therapy assistant Lisa and wonders if she would be the end of his boredom and he could start over with her. But Lisa's boyfriend senses what's going on and goes after Alex.
- DirectorNouchka van BrakelStarsRenée SoutendijkErik van 't WoutAdriaan OlreeTragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working on the streets of Paris during the 1880s.
- DirectorCarl SchenkelStarsGötz GeorgeWolfgang KielingRenée SoutendijkTwo former lovers, an embezzler, and a messenger boy become trapped on a Friday in a stalled office elevator.
- DirectorDimitri Frenkel FrankStarsGerard ThoolenBruno GanzRenée SoutendijkThe story of a Jewish man, escaped from Berlin in the beginning of World War II, now an owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. The city is a battlefield between local Germans and the resistance. The film shows how war destroys basic human relationships forever.
- DirectorRob EpsteinStarsHarvey FiersteinHarvey MilkAnne KronenbergA documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.
- DirectorFrancisco RegueiroStarsFernando ReyFrancisco RabalVictoria AbrilOn the day he learns he has a year to live, a Spanish Cardinal who has lived in the Vatican for 30 years learns he has a granddaughter, born without a father to his own illegitimate daughter. Against the Pope's advice, he returns home to sort out his worldly affairs, including a vineyard that supplies the Vatican. He must find a way to influence his brother, an atheistic physician and a bachelor, his imperious mother, his former lover (now married and raising his granddaughter), her husband, and his daughter, a stylish prostitute. He plans to marry his daughter to his brother, legitimize his grandchild, and leave the land within the family. But life gets in the way.
- DirectorAlexander KlugeStarsJutta HoffmannArmin Mueller-StahlHans-Michael RehbergIn this film, Kluge continues his fascination with history, culture and cinema as he examines the close of the 20th century.
- DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsRobert DuvallKlaus Maria BrandauerMichal SkolimowskiA trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
- DirectorBob EllisStarsJohn ClaytonMichele FawdonNorman KayeMaureen's biological clock is ticking, and she wants a baby. Her husband George is unable to oblige. When Maureen bumps into Geoff, a former lover from years ago she decides he might be able to supply the wanted seed. But the scientific controls on their weekend encounter soon give way to natural urges and the consummation is concluded with tenderness.
- DirectorImre GyöngyössyBarna KabayStarsHédi TemessyFerenc ZentheGábor FehérAn elderly Jewish couple, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.
- DirectorFrantisek VlácilStarsMarek ProboszZbigniew SuszynskiMiroslav MachácekAfter a murder of a gamekeeper who catches them red-handed having just downed a deer, two teenage boys, conceited Ruda (Marek Probosz) and shy Václav (Zbigniew Suszynski) go on the run through the woods.
- DirectorGyula GazdagStarsEvald SchormIstván IglódiLili MonoriTwo librettists, Mr. Rezso and Mr. Dezso arrive and pluck people living in a bare valley, in order to turn them into operetta characters. The two librettists come up with a plot in which selected young men and women are designated into two opposing groups, both claiming ownership and intending to take possession and restore a house in ruin. Their fierce battle is anticipated to turn into blissful love by the end. While the librettists attempt to shepherd judiciously the youngsters' relationships in the desired direction, the enactment is constantly derailed. Whenever the characters' instincts follow natural impulses, the creators relentlessly correct digressions, reverse undesired developments, sometimes by rewinding time and reenacting events, shaped into their liking. The Ageless Goddess of operetta appears and irons out the scheme by performing a Socialist Realist lullaby from 1947. Finally, all resemblance to the characters' original individuality is converted into clichés of operetta characters. The couples and their adversaries have been fixed into their happy matrimonial lives ever after.
- DirectorJaime de ArmiñánStarsFernando Fernán GómezAgustín GonzálezCarme EliasLeopoldo Contreras, an emeritus professor of Roman law, has serious economic problems. His translations of the classic authors do not give him enough money to live and he has had to sell even his flat. To remedy their situation is offered as a slave to an old student in exchange for house and food.
- DirectorTikoy AguiluzStarsSarsi EmmanuelleSuzanne LoveJosephine ManuelA boatman wants more than just paddle his canoe for tourists in his town famed for its waterfalls. He moves to Manila, and lands a job as a live-sex performer, and his partner sees in him a way out of the slums and the red light district.
- DirectorEldar ShengelaiaStarsRamaz GiorgobianiVasil KakhniashviliTeimuraz ChirgadzeAn author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsChishû RyûWerner HerzogYûharu AtsutaMoved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu's films.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûChieko HigashiyamaSô YamamuraAn old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
- DirectorStan LathanStarsPaul WinfieldJames Bond IIIOlivia ColeThis film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.
- DirectorGakuryû IshiiStarsKatsuya KobayashiMitsuko BaishôYoshiki ArizonoAfter moving into a new house, a family starts acting crazier and crazier.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsSaeed JaffreyRoshan SethDaniel Day-LewisAn ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeStarsOrnette ColemanJohn GiordanoFort Worth Symphony OrchestraIt captures Ornette's evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983, it chronicles his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cultural pioneer and world-class icon.
- DirectorFrederick Wiseman
- DirectorBarbara RennieStarsAnna MasseyKatrin CartlidgeOona KirschLife in a repressive convent school during the Second World War.
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsAntony SherBillie WhitelawPatrick MacneeA young man discovers that not only has he the ability to read minds, but also that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film. He strikes a deal with a wealthy businessman to use his powers, with two conditions: that he will make enough money for a sex-change operation; and that under no circumstances shall his powers be used for military purposes. Things don't work out quite the way he planned.
- DirectorFrancesc BetriuStarsAntonio FerrandisAntonio BanderasFernando Fernán GómezPaco is a young peasant who joins the Republican Party just before the start of the Spanish Civil War, only to become involved in that awful conflict.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsThemis BazakaDimitris KatalifosMaria MartikaA young couple fight for their love and freedom.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsEdward FlemingKirsten OlesenA German officer visits his Danish mistress the days after the occupation of Denmark has ended.
- DirectorGuillermo DiazStarsMaria Joana Alves PereiraOdile HerrenschmidtWilhelm ReichAbout dreams of sexual liberation and the experiences of reality. The images reflect the different aspects of sexuality; upbringing, aggression, striptease, dance, intercourse, masturbation, and pornography.
- DirectorEric De KuyperPaul VerstratenStarsHoward HenselLieke LeoBen van OsAn American in Holland teaching a film class falls for a young Dutch student/athlete.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsKei SatôSadao ArakiHenri BernardDocumentary covering the 1946-48 Tokyo Trials.
- DirectorBilly WoodberryStarsNate HardmanKaycee MooreAngela BurnettA dramatic look into the life of a family in Watts.
- DirectorAndrew J. KuehnStarsDonald PleasenceNancy AllenFred Asparagus"Terror in the Aisles" is a compilation of scenes from many science fiction, crime drama and horror movies of the 1930s through 1980s.
- DirectorPaulo VeríssimoStarsJair AssumpçãoJoel BarcellosCacá CarvalhoThe hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently living: one is running away from the deforestation in the Amazon while the other got tired of living in heaven and wants to return to his land.
- DirectorRay LawrenceStarsBarry OttoLynette CurranHelen JonesAfter a near-death experience, a man wonders if he actually did die and is now in Hell.
- DirectorPetter VennerødSvend WamStarsSvein Sturla HungnesKnut HusebøJorunn KjellsbyA harrowing and ironic story about the first big and well educated generation born after WW2, living without any major concerns between 1965 and 1975. We follow shrink and doctor Atle and his good theater working friend Eigil.
- DirectorMalcolm MowbrayStarsMichael PalinMaggie SmithDenholm ElliottIn post-World War II Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market.
- DirectorStefan HenszelmanStarsHans Henrik VoetmannSøren HelstedPeter SvarreTry to Remember is no nostalgic song from the sixties, but a short film about an athlete's irresistible fascination for his own past: his youth and his childhood. It is a journey into the sphere of memory exploring the emotional and sexual drives that thrived between him and his friends, drives which also motivated him toward sport. In his early thirties he discovers that his attraction and craving for sport was not only a way to sublimate his hidden desires, but it also confirmed his masculinity. By not acting out his true desires and by retaining a facade, he fosters the masculine myths: strength and endurance. It is a film experience which fills you with desperation for the irretrievable past - for all those things one meant to do, but never dared to do, and therefore never lived through. The film is a silent and sensitive visual suite, accompanied by the music of the Finnish jazz-rock musician Pekka Pohjola, whose melancholic rock-symphony "Try to Remember" forms the basis of the film.
- DirectorStefan HenszelmanStarsClaus Bender MortensenThomas ElholmThomas SigsgaardSixteen year old Kristian is very shy, and is struggling to adjust to his new Copenhagen school. He makes friends with two very different boys, nonconformist Henrik, and bullying clique leader Patrick, who he soon discovers is gay.
- DirectorAndré DelvauxStarsJosé van DamPierre ThauAshley PutnamThe preparations and rehearsals for a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Four fictional characters mirror the seductions, coquetries and infidelities of the libretto.
- DirectorEva DahrEva IsaksenStarsTorstein HølmebakkLise FjeldstadKaroline WaalThe film is about the teenager Hermann (Hølmebakk) who develops a relationship with the middle-aged Rosa (Fjeldstad).
- DirectorMuammer ÖzerStarsTarik AkanHale SoygaziBaris AdaliA family migrates to big city with hopes to pursue a better life. Unable to afford a place to stay, they find shelter in an abandoned bus. As they turn their new home into "a handful of paradise", firm reels of city life keep rolling.
- DirectorShyam BenegalStarsVictor BanerjeeSmita PatilOm PuriOver the course of two years Shyam Benegal interviewed Satyajit Ray about his career, the result is this documentary.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeVictor BanerjeeSwatilekha SenguptaWhen the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.
- DirectorShyam BenegalStarsGirish KarnadSmita PatilNaseeruddin ShahA young veterinary surgeon, Dr. Rao, who makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsKatja RupéAlix de MontaiguFrançois MichelA porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in an unusual Paris.
- DirectorPauli PenttiStarsPekka ValkeejärviRiitta HavukainenArno VirtanenA triangle drama involving a young unlucky drifter, a nightclub singer and a corrupt police officer.
- DirectorXaver SchwarzenbergerOtto WaalkesStarsOtto WaalkesElisabeth WiedemannSky du MontOtto, a young man from East-Frisia, comes to the big city of Hamburg to make his fortune. Most of all he is engaged with two problems: How can he impress Silvia, a wealthy young girl; and where does he get 9,876.50 DM to pay off a loan shark?
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsLaurent TerzieffAurelle DoazanJean-Pierre LéaudAt a Paris hotel, a hotel detective fired after a murder took place there continues to investigate, helped by his inspector nephew and girlfriend. A boxing manager, owing money to a couple and the mafia, rides on a match next day.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsSandrine BonnaireMacha MérilStéphane FreissA young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari VäänänenMartti SyrjäLeena HarjupatanaGiancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland, Maria. He arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and invades her apartment, but it's deserted. He runs into her brother Martti and, although they don't speak each other's languages, they go to search for her together.