1988 Movies

The life of Bollywood playback singer, Kishore Kumar, is examined.

Early TV documentary short film by director Duan Jinchuan about traditional Tibetan opera performances.

Portrait of an Artist

This is one of those "little films" which is pure "cine poem" in the sense that it is picture, but also given over to what we call "abstract" - which...

Psychedelic CG animation by Yoichiro Kawaguchi.

The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its win...

In this adventure of imagination, young Tess, a shy girl of 13, discovers a new meaning for love on Valentine’s Day. Through a very special book, she...

June Anderson stars in this production of the Verdi opera, performed with the Lyon National Opera Orchestra and Chrosu, and conducted by Maurizio Aren...

An animated film for children based on the fairy tale by Svetlana Volkova.

Live concert recorded in 1988.

The film, which is based on a one-hour train ride, explores the tension between truly irreversible processes, moments that can never be recaptured, an...

A man intent on tinkering with two kinds of lasso.

In 1988 a party of six Australian mountaineers set sail for Antarctica. Their challenge - to reach and climb Mount Minto, the tallest mountain in the...

We see the celebration of New Year's Eve with fireworks in 1988, repeated exactly in 1923, in 1908, and in munitions explosions in 1812, as well as an...

Experimental stop-motion film by Dave Borthwick.

Munich Film Festival 1988.