1988 Festival

June 30th to July 9th, 1988

Opening Event: A Tribute to the Israeli Cinema 

Guests: Jane Birkin, Fanny Ardant, Atom Egoyan, Arsinee Khanjian, Andraas Gervai, Jose Luis Gutierrez, Erica Szanto, An Official Soviet Cultural delegation 

Israeli Cinema:
Aviv 88 – Walls by Uri Goldstein
Aviv 88 – Dissolves by Avraham Heffner
On my Own by Tamir Paul
Crows by Ayelet Menachemi
The Owl by Amnon Rubinstein
Due to that War… by Orna Ben-Dor Niv
Aviha's Summer by Eli Cohen

Important Titles: 
Haiti: Dreams of Democracy by Jonathan Demme
The Glass Menagerie by Paul Newman
Jane B Par Agnes V. by Agnes Varda
Caravaggio by Derek Jarman
Babette’s Feast by Gabriel Axel
Hairspray by John Waters
Stormy Monday by Mike Figgis
Intervista by Federico Fellini
Family Viewing by Atom Egoyan

Important Discoveries:
Guests from the USSR and Eastern Bloc countries
Films about the Intifada
Frank Capra Retrospective