Crouch, Catherine

1999

Dramatic comedy about a rambunctious 8-year-old tomboy living in South Carolina in 1969 who is taught by her parents that she can do anything she wants.

Wenczel, Sabine

1999

A short video about cooking and seductive pleasure.

Wilkins, Diane

1999

This video satirizes views on lesbianism held by many health experts in the 1950s.

Camarda, George

1999

Eddie, a young photographer, adjusts to life following his lover's death from AIDS. He is despondent and scared to uncover his own status, but forced to face reality when he learns that his lesbian best friend has chosen someone else to be the father of her child.

Reding, Dominik

1999

Janosch leaves his home at the lake of Constnce and travels to Dormund, meeting his old friend and skinhead, Koma

No doubt about it, the life of a German skinhead can be dangerous and self-destructive. But for an aimless young man like Janosch, it is also undeniably seductive – especially as embodied by the charis-matic Koma.  Janosch admires Koma – an old school chum who brags that he is neither right wing nor left wing, just 100% skinhead – for many reasons. He’s tall, strong and knows kick-boxing. Most of all, he had the balls to leave the quiet country town they grew up in far behind. Koma likes Janosch, too, if only because Janosch’s admiration makes him feel important. So, when Janosch gets kicked out of school, it’s only a matter of time before he and Koma are living together, working in the same brewery and sharing the skinhead lifestyle. Soon they both have pregnant girlfriends, too. But a chance encounter at a tattoo parlor leads to unexpected conflict. Zottel is no skinhead – just a drunk, stoned, filthy, fire-breathing gay anarchist – and Janosch has never seen anything like him. Unfortunately, Koma is convinced that Zottel is the one who burned down his hideout in an abandoned quarry, and he wants revenge. By the time Janosch realizes just what Zottel means to him, it is too late to divert Koma’s murderous rage – or to have a happy ending.

Murnberger, Wolfgang

1999

Lee, Paul

1999

Relationship between a Japanese monk and a young novice.

Reichardt, Kelly

1999

Ode is the story of Bobbie Lee, an all-American girl living in an all-American town. Like a lot of girls her age, 16-year-old Bobbie Lee has a boy on her mind. His name is Billie Joe McAllister, and Bobbie Lee just learned that he has jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. She flashes back to the first time she saw him, and to their slow courtship, kept secret from her strict parents. But Billy Joe had a secret, too, one which he told only to Bobbie Lee. The languid pace of this film perfectly captures an awkward Southern adolescence as it presents one possible back-story of the famous Bobbie Gentry song.

Yang, Yue-Qing

1999

NU SHU: A HIDDEN LANGUAGE OF WOMEN IN CHINA is a revelatory and insightful look at Nu Shu, a now nearly extinct language used exclusively by women in the Hunan province to communicate amongst themselves. Focusing on 86-year-old Huan-yoi Yang, the only living resident in the Nu Shu area able to read and write the language, the film reveals a women's subculture created in resistance to male dominance.

Hick, Jochen

1999

Was the AIDS virus created during an experiment that got out of hand at Fort Detrick, the Pentagon's top security genetic laboratory? Stefan is an east German medical student. His late father was a high-ranking AIDS scientist in the former GDR. Determined to pick up where his father left off, Stefan makes use of a medical conference in San Francisco to search for surviving witnesses to alleged biogenetic tests on humans. As he searches for the survivors, the city is filled with excitement over the eagerly awaited opening of Puccini's TURNABOUT. At the same time, gay men are being murdered, and police detective Louise Tolliver is trying to solve the case. Time and again, Stefan comes across clues left by the unknown murderer who is rumored to have hummed the aria "Nessun dorma" as he killed his victims. Then, as if drawn by some strange power, Stefan falls in love with the reserved and seemingly hard-hearted Jeffrey who has long been diagnosed HIV positive. As the murderer strikes again, Stefan finds himself not only a suspect in the case but possibly the next victim.