Venice 1989 - Official Competition
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- 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.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsSigalon SagnaSaly BadjiBinta CisséThe film depicts daily life in an Senegalian village. The people sleep, eat, make love, pray for rain, et cetera, while civilization, by way of timber trucks and tree fellers, is slowly encroaching.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsJoão César MonteiroManuela de FreitasRuy FurtadoLisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
- DirectorKei KumaiStarsEiji OkudaToshirô MifuneKinnosuke NakamuraYears after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsLaura BensonAdolph GreenLinda LavinA grumpy American is suffering during his visit to Europe.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AndrienStarsFanny ArdantJeremy IronsTchéky KaryoEdouard Pierson, a Belgian-born wool dealer who emigrated to Australia before World War II and was a pilot for the Allies, returns to Belgium in 1955 when his family's wool business faces bankruptcy. He is the single father of a 12-year old girl whom he leaves behind during the trip and whom his family doesn't know about. In Belgium, he meets a beautiful woman, Jeanne, the wife of his family's attorney, and an intense relationship develops. Edouard's relationship with his family has its ups and downs and many secrets are revealed before the movie's conclusion ties everything together.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsLeo GullottaFrancesco AlloccaGaetano AmatoOut-of-work actor Fortunato Assante agrees to take a job teaching drama at a reform school.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniMassimo TroisiAnne ParillaudThe visit of a lawer to his military son is an opportunity to recall the past, discuss the future and find a meeting point between two diametrically opposite personalities.
- DirectorPeter HallStarsPeggy AshcroftGeraldine JamesJames FoxLocked away in an asylum as a young girl because she was an embarrassment to her family, then forgotten, an old woman returns to what's left of her kin and to her memories.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsLisa KreuzerRivka NeumanMarkus StockhausenTwo interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a Russian Jew and revolutionary, goes from Minsk to Palestine to live on a collective. She promotes feminism and laments a shift in the men from self-defense to aggression. Her friend, Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945), expressionist poet and German Jew, is in Berlin, writing, caring for her son, watching Hitler's movement take power. She goes to Jerusalem and imagines a park for Arab and Jew. Her poems, voiced from within, capture her experience. The film meditates on the violence at the root of Israel's birth: of the Nazis and of the Zionists.
- DirectorReinhard HauffStarsGötz GeorgeMiguel Ángel SoláJulio De GraziaJohann Neudorf has made his way into the Argentinian society as consultant for the regime. His son has just finished the military academy. Only his daughter Paula is otherwise. She is working as a teacher and sympathizes with the left wing underground. When Laura suddenly is caught by the police and disappears, Johann begins to investigate. Soon he is confronted with an other than his established view of society: denunciation, torture and murder. Then memories of his childhood in Czechoslovakia come up. Czechoslovakia 1939, the country is occupied by the Germans...
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsNikolaj Bjarn ChristensenNathalie BrussePreben Lerdorff RyePortrait of a petty criminal eighteen-year-old musician who escapes from an institution to travel down through Europe.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsRutger HauerNastassja KinskiLorraine BraccoAn American journalist pretends to be infected with A.I.D.S. to investigate the syndrome and provoke a public reaction.
- DirectorPaul CoxStarsIrene PapasEva SitteováAnoja WeerasingheA formerly rich Czech-Australian emigrant comes to a tiny, poor and sleepy Greek Island to rethink her life. Surprisingly she develops a sincere relationship with two other women who each in their own way suffer from their pasts. As time goes past sins and frustrations do get revealed. Some of them are solved, while the others still remain swallowing the women.
- DirectorTaieb LouhichiStarsSid Ahmed AgoumiTarik AkanFatma Ben SaïdaneSince childhood, Qays and Layla have been in love. Qays, being a poet, publicly sings of his love, crying it out joyously far and wide - just the sort of public proclamation which was strictly condemned at the time. Distraught yet fearless, Qays stubbornly proclaims with all the more vigor his love for Layla, who remains entrapped by her own clan.
- DirectorGiorgos PanousopoulosStarsAndreas BarkoulisBetty LivanouGiorgos KonstasAn admirer of women falls from the balcony and dies while trying to see a woman sunbathing in the nude. In the moments before his death, all his erotic memories pass before his eyes.
- DirectorHenry JaglomStarsMaggie WheelerGwen WellesMelanie WinterA man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they have the apartment until the end of New Year's Day.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsBörje AhlstedtHalvar BjörkEwa FrölingA reclusive and divorced professor of religious psychology is researching a sixteen century monk's poem "the path of suffering". He is drawn into entanglements with one of his female students.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsBolek PolívkaFrantisek DessetBorek DlouhýPepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsShabana AzmiShreeram LagooAparna SenA retired professor suddenly goes missing. Time passes by, life goes on, but his children and wife keep on looking back, trying to find their way through emotional torrents of the past and the present.
- DirectorOlga NarutskayaStarsValentina MalyavinaAleksandr GalibinAnna BazhenovaThe complex relationship, against a darkly depicted Moscow landscape, of a father and daughter after he has divorced his wife.The story culminates in a disturbing act of street violence.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsJeff GoldblumMiranda RichardsonAnémoneAmerican writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and manipulative pretty sister, his life starts to unravel and he realizes that he's been used.
- DirectorAlain TannerStarsMarie GayduJean-Philippe ÉcoffeyDenise PéronJulie is a young woman from Rose Hill (Mauritius) who arrives in rural Switzerland to marry her older pen-friend Marcel. She feels unhappy until she meets Jean, a younger man. However, his father disagrees.