18th Göteborg Film Festival (1995)
Göteborg Film Festival 3 Feb - 12 Feb 1995, complete list
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- DirectorGöran du RéesStarsHans MosessonBjörn GranathBenny GranbergA man tries to analyze the life of a deceased friend.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsEnrico Lo VersoMichele PlacidoPiro MilkaniImmediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsChen Chao-jungKang-sheng LeeKuei-Mei YangThree lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment used for sexual trysts.
- DirectorAlessandro D'AlatriStarsAnna GalienaMassimo GhiniKim Rossi StuartThe life of a happily married couple is turned upside down when the wife unknowingly becomes the focus of the attentions of a depressed and mentally unstable young man.
- DirectorAntonia BirdStarsLinus RoacheTom WilkinsonRobert CarlyleA homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.
- DirectorBarbara HellerStarsMagdalena GrossCara JedellDanielle ShumanA girl argues with her older and younger sisters during a family car trip.
- DirectorRory KellyStarsCraig ShefferEric StoltzMeg TillySarah, Joseph and Frank are BFFs. Joseph and Sarah get married but the evening before she tells Frank with a kiss that it could've been him. Frank continues to have a thing for Sarah.
- DirectorLisa OhlinStarsJessica LiedbergElisabet SvenssonMats FlinkKia dies in a traffic accident. She comes to heaven and is given the option of rebirth or going back to her old 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.
- 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?
- DirectorGunnel LindblomStarsKeve HjelmBarbro LomakkaGunnel LindblomAn elderly man and his existence in a harsh environment. He fishes, dig up potatoes, take care of his sheep and workhorse. He works in the barn, collects seaweed, eats a simple meal and drinks a snaps. "Skål" is the only word he utters.
- DirectorJonas DahlbeckPernilla HindsefeltTwo wood-winds battle for the attentions of a shy but eager string instrument.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsInna ChurikovaViktor MikhaylovAleksandr SurinA comedy about a successful entrepreneur and his jealous neighbors.
- DirectorDebra SolomonStarsDebra Solomon
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsCorinna HarfouchMeret BeckerAugust ZirnerEast-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.
- DirectorJan BucquoyStarsJean-Henri CompèreNoe FrancqIsabelle LegrosA semi-autobiography of the first 28 years of the director, the Flemish anarchist Jan Bucquoy.
- DirectorNenad DizdarevicStarsDrasko TrninicSedin KahrimanIgor BjelanAdaptation of the highly popular children's novel by Branko Copic, who in this book resembles his school and college days in Bihac, Bosnia, in the years before WWII.
- DirectorRadoslav SpassovStarsAleksandr MorfovStoyan AleksievNikolai UrumovThere is a time of terror in Bulgaria after the Second World War. Angel is romantic and naive boy. He provokes a rebellion by the people of Gipsy population. The communist authority manipulate him. Half-illegally Angel crosses the border and joins a group of hill-men. He misleads them and they fall into an ambush. From this moment on his life passes in fear from revenge.
- DirectorOle BornedalStarsNikolaj Coster-WaldauSofie GråbølKim BodniaA law student starts working as a night watchman at The Department of Forensic Medicine in Copenhagen. His mad friend gets him on a game of dare that escalates. As a serial-killer's victims start piling up at work, he becomes a suspect.
- DirectorPeeter UrblaStarsAndres NoormetsCarmen MikiverMadis KalmetThree episodes from three Baltic nations, all about lost love. In Estonia a political prisoner is set free. Meanwhile his best friend had stolen his girl and now defends his political cowardice: "Some of us must be left outside the prisons to pursue the political fight." - In Latvia a Russian soldier has a Latvian girlfriend. Her Latvian friends accept her boyfriend. But his two closest soldier friends beat him up, tear the clothes of his girl and threaten to rape her. The loving couple understands that they cannot continue their relationship. - In Lithuania a priest student and an Estonian stripper fall in deep love. The student's uncle is an enlightened priest who says: "I bless you whatever road you choose to go." The couple sleep together and agree to meet at the railway station the next morning and go to Estonia. But when the student comes home his uncle has died. With great pain he decides to abandon the girl and take care of his uncle's body. On the train the girl weeps because of her lost love.
- DirectorJari HalonenStarsJorma TommilaTarja-Tuulikki TarsalaHannu HuuskaThe 21st-century tale centers on taciturn detective Lipton Cockton as he looks into a series of murders involving exploding victims.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsYekaterina GolubevaRichard CourcetVincent DupontA serial killer terrorizes Paris at night, but that doesn't stop Daïga and Théo from meeting up, and falling in love.
- DirectorMorgan J. Freeman
- DirectorSotiris GoritsasStarsGerasimos SkiadaressisVasias EleftheriadisAndonis ManolasThis film follows a few men from Albania as they travel to Greece looking for a better life in Athens.
- DirectorMaurice O'CallaghanStarsColin LaneMarian QuinnNiall O'BrienAfter his mother's death, an Irish-born New Yorker remembers stories from the past in Ireland. These are the stories of the rivalry between two men who not only vied for the love of the same woman, but also stood on opposing side during the struggle for Irish independence around 1920. Their differences are never quite forgotten, and the feud between them flares up again in the 1950s.
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsÖrvar Jens ArnarssonRúrik HaraldssonSigrún HjálmtýsdóttirThe story of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s. Tomas loves the movies and is highly influenced by them.
- DirectorMario BrentaStarsMarco PaulettiDuilio FontanaCarlo CaserottiA man and a woman meet an elf, whose name is Barnabo, and who knows the secret.
- DirectorLordan ZafranovicStarsAndrija ArtukovicLordan ZafranovicAn epic documentary of rise and fall of Ustasha regime in Croatia.
- DirectorLaila PakalninaIt can turn out that seemingly eternal things are not like that at all.
- DirectorLaila PakalninaA silent dissertation on the daily life of a truck driver who delivers clean linens to a children's hospital. He unloads the sheets and divides them up among the wards, where small, gripping dramas of life and death are unfolding. And every day it's the same story.
- DirectorGeneviève MerschAn enormous arch of a bridge has spanned the tiny village of Plaffenthal since 1966. Ever since the inhabitants have waited for things to come from above: bags of chips, empty prams and almost one hundred suicides to date.
- DirectorArtour Aristakisian"My little son, it's me, your father..." The narrator tries to communicate with his unborn son and takes off on a journey were you see faces of apparitions of those outcasts, who find their solace of living only in the shadows; outside, but beside, the political and economical system; system that kills the individual and creates masses instead. These outcasts are bums, cripples, madmen, lunatics. They, in the eyes of the narrator, are the only ones, that know what it means to be human. They are not corrupt by the masses or the system; they are so overwhelmed by their madness or dreams, that they have lost the relationship with the world. They live in a world of their own, thus enabling freedom from the system. What they do, is wait. They quietly wait for the day the kingdom of God will descend upon earth.
- DirectorMona J. HoelStarsAnne Karin HusebyBjørn SundquistFrøydis ArmandInheriting a piece of land with a really old oak of which they are very attached, a family believes the grandmothers soul lives in the old tree. When losing his job, the family father has to decide if he is to keep land and oak.
- DirectorDorota KedzierzawskaStarsKarolina OstroznaKatarzyna SzczepanikMalgorzata HajewskaA thin child of about 10, nicknamed "Crow" because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher's hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining a lover or is asleep. One morning, Crow sees a chubby, cherubic child hugged by both parents as the father leaves for work. When the toddler is left alone, Crow lifts her through the fence and kidnaps her. That day, Crow tries to mother the child, alternately playing with and scolding her, taking her to the beach, leaving shore in a boat, pushing her into the sea in a pique, and eventually carrying the sleeping child back home. Crow returns to her own mother and asks for affection.
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsInês de MedeirosIsaach De BankoléEdith ScobThe film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsJohan LeysenAlexandru RepanMireille PerrierAfter hard years in prison, a poet accepts a pact with the Securitate so that his volumes will be edited. But the duplicitous relationship established with the agent who obtains his freedom will spoil both his family life and his creation.
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsSergey MakovetskiyElena MayorovaIrina MetlitskayaA peaceful poet going mad possessing a gun.
- DirectorDenis RabagliaStarsTom NovembreSabine HaudepinIsabelle TownsendMartin hates dogs. He is nevertheless an advertising executive at Floppy, a dog food company. The pitch he makes for a new advertising campaign scandalizes the management because the central figure is missing: there is no dog. But that is nothing compared to what he learns next: Sally, a young English au pair girl with whom he had a fling, is pregnant to him. Furthermore, she has decided to raise the child on her own. Martin is torn between his guilt and his feelings towards her and so decides to try and win her over once again. Pitfalls await him, notably with his own mother, a pro third world activist who recommends an immediate abortion in the name of limiting the misery in the world, and his ex-wife, who will never forgive him for not having wanted a child when they were in love. By the end of a hectic pregnancy, Martin will finally get to the age of reason, at 35 years of age.
- DirectorStefan SemjanStarsJuraj JohanidesMaros KramárVladimír HajduA crazy comedy about three bohemian friends whose fascination with adventures verging on breaking the law, sexual freedom, loose entertainment and no fears of the consequences bring them even to partaking in the theft of an Andy Warhol painting.
- DirectorFranci SlakStarsPetra ReharPetra GovcDusan SandakA young girl finds scattered envelops in a field, then a postman's satchel, then a hanged man. Jump 20 years: the girl, now grown, lives with her aunt and has a job with the post office only because her dead uncle was a respected party leader. She's subbing at a small station when a robber strikes. He takes the loose cash; after he leaves, she finds lots more money in a metal box. She takes it. Suspicious police assign Ivan, who's from the council, to follow her. He does, trying to seduce her nightly during his surveillance. She sees the thief again by accident and makes contact.
- DirectorPablo LlorcaStarsFéodor AtkineIcíar BollaínLuis Flete
- DirectorNick WardStarsCaroline CatzJoseph LongPaloma BaezaA newlywed woman becomes embroiled in an erotic world of sexual fantasy.
- DirectorZdenek TycStarsFilip TopolMarkéta HrubesováIva JanzurováA Czech-French existential tragicomedy. Its (anti)hero is a young man named Andrej (played by Filip Topol, leader of the Czech underground band Psí vojáci). The story turns on his fateful love for the powerfully attractive though superficial Kristyna (Markéta Hrubesová).
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsDerya AlaboraAytaç ArmanMustafa ArslanPolice Kemal, who is nearing retirement, faces a suicide case. Was the incident a murder or a suicide?
- DirectorFred KelemenStarsValerij FedorenkoMarc OttikerSanja SpenglerThe paths of people from various countries cross during the course of one night.
- DirectorJános SzászStarsLajos KovácsDiana VacaruÉva IgóEverything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, Woyzeck is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, and full of energy.
- DirectorAndreas GruberStarsElfriede IrrallRainer EggerOliver BroumisIt is the beginning of 1945 during World War II in former Austria. 500 Soviet prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to break out. One winter night the Soviet prisoners make an escape. During the following shooting a great number of them are killed. Some, however, succeed in hiding in nearby villages. However the Germans convince the inhabitants of the villages to hunt the prisoners "like rabbits".
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsGabriel Cosmin UrdesLukas MikoOtto Grünmandl71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsBirgit DollDieter BernerLeni TanzerA European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsArno FrischAngela WinklerUlrich MüheA 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
- DirectorMaria SødahlStarsStian BrennaAnne KrigsvollAnneke von der LippeThe story is set in Dublin's criminal underworld. The first season introduced John Boy, criminal kingpin, and the four friends Darren, Nidge, Robbie and Tommy as members of his gang. The show has also featured Ruth Negga, Ruth Bradley, Killian Scott, and Chris Newman. The story focused on rivalries within the criminal milieu and the psychological effects of violence on the Darren character. It is directed by David Caffrey and produced by Simon Massey, Suzanne McAuley, and James Flynn.
- StarsErnst-Hugo JäregårdKirsten RolffesGhita NørbyDoctors at an ultramodern hospital in Denmark become convinced, by way of weird, inexplicable happenings, that the place is haunted.
- DirectorBéla TarrStarsMihály VigPutyi HorváthLászló feLugossyOn the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarhad KheradmandZarifeh ShivaA depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBabek Ahmed PoorAhmed Ahmed PoorKhodabakhsh DefaeiEight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsFarhad KheradmandPouya PayvarBehrouz AbediniA director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
- DirectorSusan SeidelmanStarsMira SorvinoAida TurturroSharon AngelaTeresa is not like her female colleagues. She cannot enjoy that kind of simple minded pleasure like watching males stripping. There is that Dutch painting in the museum she is fascinated of. Over and over she sits in front of it just staring at the young Dutch guy on it. One day the scenery on the painting becomes alive...
- DirectorMelvin Van PeeblesStarsRichard BarbozaDewar ZazeeLaura LaneA young boy receives a mystical motorcycle that transforms into a woman when he rides it at night.
- DirectorMani KaulStarsAnu AgarwalMurad AliVasadeva BhaitA very clever parrot lives in a Hindu palace, surrounded by many beautiful girls, but the parrot escapes, and is trapped far from the palace. One day, when its new owner is sleeping, the bird convinces a young boy to open the cage door. In return, it shows the boy a secret passage to get into the palace.
- DirectorBob RafelsonStarsArliss HowardCynda WilliamsKathleen WilhoiteDavida enters a shop shortly before off-time and wants to buy a bathtub. Just the manager is still there. As business is not well, he is willing to stay longer. Davida wants to try the bathtubs. Although this is not allowed in the shop the manager agrees. As if that is not enough, Davida says she wants the bathtub for two and needs to be sure it fits her needs. She wants the manager to take place in the bathtub too.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsHetty BaynesSimon ShepherdKen RussellA writer taking a rest in a country hotel is obsessed with a strange woman in the same hotel. The woman seems to observe him in provocative ways, but he does not dare to approach her. One day he follows her to her room and listens to strange "erotic" sounds from inside, and begins to have erotic thoughts.
- DirectorPaul CoxStarsGosia DobrowolskaClaudia KarvanChris HaywoodTwo women escape the city and their frustrating relationships to spend a weekend alone in the country. The hills around Melbourne provide the setting for a sensual awakening.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsJutta LampeBarbara SukowaRüdiger VoglerTwo sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsJohn GielgudKrystyna JandaAndrzej SewerynA violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the U.S., ties up with the world-renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out, he was once in love with the violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive an old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for personal and professional reasons.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsThommy BerggrenKeve HjelmEmy StormAn aspiring young writer lives in a bleak working class block in the late 1930s.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard BasehartA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki MoriThe rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenGloria SwansonErich von StroheimA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsJean GabinMichel SimonMichèle MorganA military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsMaria FalconettiEugene SilvainAndré BerleyIn 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMerna KennedyAl Ernest GarciaThe Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmHilda BorgströmTore SvennbergOn New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.
- DirectorNils ClaessonStarsLily BigestansMaria JohanssonTimo SundbergSophie is a little girl who wants a pet. If she does not get one, she intends to continue terrorizing her mother.
- DirectorEva LindströmStarsLars Göran PerssonAnn Petrén
- DirectorMidhat AjanovicStarsJasna BeriJasmin GeljoWhat happens when movie characters start to meddle into director's job? How to stop the characters in making their own film rather than what was planned by the script?
- DirectorSusanna EdwardsStarsLena KlingvallKristian Lima de FariaAnna BjelkerudSummer by the sea. Young Nadja is about to learn how to swim. In the swim-school she is by far the best at swimming on dry land.
- DirectorPeter Arnbert
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsErnst GüntherIzabella ScorupcoMargreth WeiversWhen darkness and bad weather seals around the house, it's nice to just sit and huddle in front of the television.
- DirectorUna CelmaA film about five Latvian women who were all born the year 1960 and brought up under the Soviet Union regime. When the film starts the Soviet Union has fallen and Latvia is now an independent state. They describe their lives as divorced and single mothers in a time of social, political and economic crisis. It is a film about broken relationships and a society in shambles.
- DirectorRafael Deugenio
- DirectorGunila AmbjörnssonStarsLars-Erik Lundberg
- DirectorStefan JarlAbout changes in the Sami living conditions. Traditional remarking and untouched nature mixed with images of brutal industrialist attacks in the landscape.
- DirectorElisabeth WennbergStarsNidor O. RhodinA visual poem - that takes us far out on the magnificent Siberian tundra. A young shaman-apprentice sets out on his first dream-walk, and on his path towards wisdom his inner voice reflects advice from his ancestors as well as from an elder guiding shaman. Filmed on the Taimyr peninsula, dedicated to and based on the Nganasan shamanistic poetry that has traveled through centuries into the rituals as performed today.
- DirectorJonas GrimåsStarsRobert CarlyleStevan RimkusLiza Walker
- DirectorGörel ElfStarsChristian BalkeniusClarence CrafoordPeter GärdenforsA film about the memory. Poetic and scientific musings about our world of concepts. What would life be without memory? What actually happens to us who put a large part of the memory in the computer? An art historian, a neurologist, a psychoanalyst, a philosopher, a myth researcher, etc. give their opinion on what memory means in our daily life and for our human conditions.
- DirectorSolveig NordlundStarsAdam Schaub
- DirectorMyriam BraniffStarsMoa LagercrantzLil TerseliusThomas HanzonThe teenage Birgitta discovers the game between men and women and she turns from a shy 12-year old to a provocative 15-year-old, seducing the men she meets on the daily train ride.
- DirectorAnders GustafssonStarsLeif AndréeNick BörjlindHenrik LinnrosThe boys Johan and Ove are best friends. When Ove's father dies, Ove gets a little "weird" and they lose contact.
- DirectorReza BagherStarsPhilomène GrandinMårten Klingberg