Ferrario, Davide

1998

Domenico (Silvio Orlando) is a chronically unemployed southerner struggling to survive in Italy’s unfriendly North. Desperate to change his destiny once and for all, he plans to rob a bank and head across the border to Switzerland. Things go wrong, however, and Domenico is forced to take a hostage: Tommaso (Diego Abatantuono), a bankrupt businessman trapped in a loveless marriage. Tommaso is soon in command, and convinces his captor to change direction and drive south. The plan is to meet Tommaso’s friend Orfeo in Puglia and sail from there to Egypt. But once again things don’t go quite as planned. Domenico is shocked to discover that Orfeo is not only a policeman – he’s Tommaso’s secret lover!

Magic, Sprinkle

1998

Gee, Daven

1998

Part diary, part science experiment -- cells, desire, nature, love and loss careen and collide.

Pons, Ventura

1998

[From IMDB]: "Eleven episodes portray different encounters in Barcelona during the course of a single night towards the end of the millennium."

Boumans, Toni

1998

Story of Lesbian who was first woman composer in Holland and Orange County, and also worked with WWII resistance in Holland.

Following an obscure escape route through the snowy French countryside, destroying thousands of public records at federal offices in Holland, living as a man as the Nazi's search for the only female conductor in Holland…These are not plot points from the newest Hollywood action movie meant to chill and thrill you, but are events from the true life-story of Frieda Bellinfante. A handsome and courageous Jewish lesbian, Frieda was instrumental in the Holland Resistance during WWII and made history as one of the first female conductors.Chronicling her life and loves through interviews, photographs, and historical footage, we see the amazing path that Frieda took: from her birth in Amsterdam to her flight from the Nazi's into Switzerland, from her move to the United States to the revival of her musical and conducting career once she settled in Hollywood. Charming, honest, and exciting, …BUT I WAS A GIRL tells of a remarkable life filled with trials, successes, loves, and loss — the whole of the fascinating human drama.

Dimas, Christos

1998

Breath says goodbye through four elegant dance pieces -- about the lover, the mother, the city and the Breath.

Devine, Siobhan

1998

Leigh, Carol

1998

Narrated by Angela Davis, Blind Eye To Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated In California portrays the injustices of the California prison system as seen through the eyes of incarcerated HIV positive women. This stirring documentary made by the Women’s Positive Legal Action Network gives voice to those who are silenced and encourages all of us to take action.

Kionig, Carl Jorgen

1998

Based on a best-selling novel by Anne Holt, Norway’s former Minister of Justice, Blessed Are Those Who Thirst is a taut, suspenseful and violent thriller about a dyke police detective and a blood-thirsty rapist. Not for the squeamish, this often gruesome made-for-TV film stars Kjestil Elvik as Hanne Wilhelmsen, a lesbian detective, who is also featured in her own TV series in Norway. While most of the city is enjoying a warm summer night, Oslo's police are busier than ever. For several weeks a number of places have been found covered in blood, but with no body in sight. While trying to solve this mystery, Hanne and her partner Hakan are handed a new first priority case – a young medical student who has been brutally raped in her apartment. Then suddenly, all the missing corpses start turning up, and a picture of a beastly, racist and sexually motivated madman and killer begins to emerge. The two detectives soon realize that the two cases are connected, but meanwhile someone else has started a hunt of their own.

Pons, Ventura

1998

A mature and ill man, a medieval literature professer, has gone over his personal life and has decided, amongst his doubts, what he wants to leave others once he passes away.

This rich and complicated story plays out over the course of a single day in contemporary Barcelona. Faced with the fact that he is dying of a terminal illness, Jaume, a middle-aged professor of medieval literature, has entrusted to two men the diskettes containing his last essay – his legacy. One is former college friend and current professorial colleague, Pere, whom Jaume now confesses was the love of his life. The other is David, a talented, hot-headed student, of whom he is currently enamored. The handsome David, it turns out, makes his living as a male prostitute. Pere is furious when he learns that his daughter Alba is pregnant with David’s child. His wife Fanny spends the afternoon with Alba, ostensibly to help her figure out whether to keep the child, and in the process, they learn about each other’s lives. Adapted from Josep M. Benet I Jornet’s play "Testament," this is a darkly dense drama, one in which intelligent ensemble acting powerfully propels the plot. As the five strong characters become increasingly intertwined, they argue, bargain,struggle and hurt one another; they also discover the roots of their affection, their passions and reconsider their futures.