1996 İSTANBUL FİLM FESTİVALİ

A portrait of Yilmaz Güney including interviews of Onat Kutlar, Halil Ergün, Aziz Nesin, Özdemir Ince, Costa Gavras, Jacques Lang and selected works of Güney's filmography, from the district of Yenice, Adana, in the south of Turkey.

The story of a group of former activist friends who came together after September 12 and questioned the past.

Sarah, 30, single, well educated, likes art, places a voice ad for phone sex, inviting replies from men under 35, sturdy and sensual.

A South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.

Three men of varying social standing - a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a soldier - vie for the affections of an actress in 18th-century Peru.

Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna questions.

In this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him profoundly.

Six years before, Aleksander Larin, a well-known artist, left the Soviet Union for the USA. Today he is back to his country, which after the collapse of communism, has resumed the name of Russia. His first visit is for Masha, a beautiful young woman he knew as a child. At the time when Masha was a teenager Aleksander was to marry her mother, Anna, but fell in love with the daughter. Frightened of a situation he himself thought immoral, Aleksander ran away from the two women. Now Anna is married to a wealthy businessman and Masha is engaged. Aleksander soon finds his return to the "motherland" is pointless. The country has changed and dead love cannot be rekindled.

Part one: A brown-haired man finds out that his wife cheats on him with a blonde-haired man. He kills his rival and is condemned to the capital punishment. Gazale takes her own life. Part two: Same story. Same denouement, the only variant being that it is the blond-haired man who is the husband and the brown-haired one who is the lover. Part three: The story starts over again and is the same until the two men come into conflict. But from then on it changes dramatically : the brown-haired man decides not to kill his rival. The latter marries Gazale and nobody dies.

Based on the life story of a politically galvanizing singer who was disfigured and murdered by her macho ex-husband, comes this tragic rags-to-riches story which centers on Belgin, a blonde bombshell who becomes a singing idol in Turkey.

The story of Love and Tolerance is based on 5 independent short stories.

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.

A stranger attempts to convince a happily married couple that their daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated.

A disillusioned 30-something teacher falls out with his father and moves to a derelict house in their family garden. He is then visited by a stunningly beautiful neighbour, famous philosophers, his ex-lover and.

A semi-autobiography of the first 28 years of the director, the Flemish anarchist Jan Bucquoy.

Denis has committed yet another crime. But instead of sending him to prison, the judge offers him an alternative : to work in a home for young psychotics. Denis accepts. At first, he feels bad in such an environment but, little by little, he finds that he can be useful to others. He also discovers who he really is.

A failed writer given to plagiarism gets a buzz at the door from a bright young working girl with a highly original approach to life and sex and his life and work is totally thrown off balance.

A drunken self-destructive woman called Betty wanders through bars and meets a man that drives her to a restaurant outside Paris called Le Trou (The Hole). She meets the middle-aged alcoholic Laure from Lyon, who is the lover of the Le Trou's owner Mario. Laure decides to take care of Betty and brings her to the room next-door in her hotel. Along the days, Betty tells the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy marriage to Laure and also recalls moments of her promiscuous life.

A French woman is a French woman. She is unable to refuse the wonderful gift of love. And I'm willing to pay a high price for it.

A woman and four men in her life. The pursuit of happiness, marriages, quarrels, separations and losses.

This documentary closely follows the French 1974 Presidential campaign of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (who then became President).

João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and purity to attain heaven. The surrounding world, however, does not comply with his decaying vision of lust and decay as a way of achieving his purpose.

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.