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Admiral Dagobert von Kattnig develops a rescue system for the German Navy. The mountain troops are to test the device in Upper Bavaria and Dagobert sends his son and his staff boatman there. Instead of testing the device, however, the two marvel at the cozy country life. When an inspection is due, the mountain troops are fortunately mistaken and escape the initial chaos. But when they all meet up, chaos is inevitable.

It’s a black-and-white record of European cities in the dark (2-5am), from Basle to Belfast. Quiet, and meditative, what emerges most strongly is an eerie sense of city landscapes as deserted film sets, in which the desolate architecture overwhelms any sense of reality. The only reassurance that we are not in some endless machine-Metropolis is the shadow of daytime activity: a juggernaut plunging through a darkened village, a plague of small birds in the predawn light. The whole thing is underscored by a beautiful ‘composed’ soundtrack, from quietly humming streetlights to reggae and the rumble of armoured cars in Belfast. A strange and remarkable combination of dream, documentary and science-fiction.

During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of theft, setting off a tragic chain of events.

After the death of his eldest son, who fell victim to a disease transmitted by white people, the Indian Uirá, chief of the Urubú tribe, decides to set off in search of the god Maíra, creator of the world of men, with whom only brave warriors of the forest are reunited after death. Uirá will also encounter the 'civilisation' of the new Brazil.

A young nobleman battles against the ferocious woman who’s reigning upon those lands. The truth, as told by a poor but valiant mute, is that the real sovereign is the young boy and helps him defeat the evil ones.

Man has evolved from the invention of the comb to the first step on the moon, but he still made a large box in the event of a cataclysm.

This film takes place on the island of Sein and reflects an experience that happened to the director, Jeanne Labrune. Before her, film crews on the trail of the sailors who, in 1940, joined De Gaulle in England, had bored the islanders. The filmmaker found herself in a position of incrustee, in a state of non-communication bordering on exclusion. Unable to obtain anything from the inhabitants, but nevertheless involved in the environment of granite and mutism of the people, she filmed herself as a "wanderer not integrated" in an island, whose tendency to fossilization she thus reveals.

Fake documentary about Sevilla.

Jimmy Logan, a detective, tries to retrieve a diamond from the British crown stolen by the traitorous chief of the English Secret Service. After carrying out dangerous investigations at Montecarlo, Beirut and Hamburg, he discovers that the headquarters of the thieves is located in a mental hospital and sets about infiltrating their ranks.

"In the early 1970s I filmed compact versions of a series of films that came on television and interested me, which should lead to revealing at least essential parts of their structure. In 1974, 30 of those experiments were mounted in sequence - so more or less chronologically - forming a film entitled Elementary Filmhistory. This film was intended to make a broad reading of the direction in which the cinema grew from 1960." (Klaus Wyborny)

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology, and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.

A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and the lead actors in the film.

Summoned by his bosses to broadcast only neutral information, Jean, a reporter, leaves town with his friend to go and collect testimonies from simple people, in the heart of the Laurentians, and reach out to them and outside society at genuine freedom, happiness. The departure is joyous, but the isolation in which they confine themselves does not bring either of them the results they expected. The adventure ends in failure. Would it be an illusion to believe that one can escape the community to which one belongs?

A film by Gianfranco Baruchello

On November 26, 1976, Massimo Bacigalupo was in Catania with his 16mm camera, filming the streets of the city at the foot of Mount Etna and the people lingering and strolling about. The movement and the pauses in everyday life —seemingly boring and not particularly appealing— captured the filmmaker’s attention. Bacigalupo recalls those diary-style film shots, edited years later into a film:

Disguising himself as a geisha and introducing himself as Madame Mufiko, a certain Max Fox opens a school in Paris where he proposes to teach the Japanese art of love. He recruits a few students, boys and girls, to whom he teaches to imitate the positions represented on old prints. The young people set themselves to it with such ardor that soon the girls are pregnant. In addition, the school is put under police surveillance and the false Mufiko sees her true identity revealed.

Karl Richter conducts Bach's Johannes-Passion with the Muenchner Bach Chor & Orchestra.

The characters are two ruffians in various disguises: as false priests, they sell a rotten arm pretending it to be a relic of St. Luke; they cheat a stingy friar who abuses of the confessional to get rich and, once he finds out he's been cheated, gives himself sacramental absolution. They help the noble Filippo, disguised as a woman, in the alcove of the innkeeper's wife; they save from despair Fra Martino who had forgotten his underwear in his lover's house (one of them disguised as a cardinal retrieve the garment and expose it as a relic to the devotion of the faithful). To live with their lovers, Brother Jeronimo strives exorcisms and frà Partenope pretends to fight with the devil

A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.

A simple model photo shoot ends up in horror and violence.

Loosely following the Greek myth of the Flight of Icarus, Georges Schwizgebel opens his directional career with Le vol d'lcare, a short animation of LED lights.

Peter is a widower who writes crime novels, signing as Peter P. Peter, and is about to marry Beatriz (Analia Gade), a widow who proves to be a ruthless woman who makes his life miserable. As an expert in inventing crimes committed by his characters, he imagines a plan to get rid of his new wife. The trouble is that she also plans to kill him.

The Flying Doctors of East Africa (German: Die Fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika) is a 1969 documentary film by Werner Herzog about the "flying doctors" service of the African Medical and Research Foundation in Tanzania, Kenya, and Nairobi.

Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual voyage that leads to Adler, a 'sensitive', and finally to the devil himself.

A classical pianist falls in love with a friend's young daughter.

Sets out to capture the mood of Scotland "getting ready to take on the world" at the 1978 World Cup, in its usual outrageous manner.

Teenagers Sandy and Alan are keen motorcyclists, but while Sandy insists on getting proper training, Alan refuses, even though this makes him twenty times more likely to have an accident.

During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC2 Play of the Week.

This investigative documentary examines life in Nazi-occupied France, and features interviews with civilians who lived through World War II as well as stock footage of French entertainers performing for German soldiers. The filmmakers investigate the distinctions between collaboration, resistance and self-preservation by speaking with citizens who interacted closely with Nazis, who discuss their personal views about the ethical dilemmas they faced under occupation.

With sometimes painful directness, Valie Export conducts a psychological investigation of the body in this film performance, externalizes an internal state. In front of a police photo showing two children who were sexually abused by their parents, she tortuously cuts into her cuticles until blood drips into a bowl of milk on her lap. On top of the symbolic plane of blood and milk, the physical effect on the viewer of her destructive act of self-mutilation is extreme.

Philippe and Sylvie bring home a small container they found on the way from school and strange things start happen...

Six members of a multi-cultural household in Hampstead, north London, explore their innermost fantasies

A pregnant girl stays with her aunt and is forced to share a room with a mysterious male lodger.

The Knüppels are in trouble with their underage daughter, who has discovered love too early. She has a child with Frank Dreier. But the young people have long since come to an agreement.

The young architect Hannes Cremer wants to forget all professional stress on his grandfather's Black Forest farm. He falls in love with the student Renate, but her romance is thwarted by Hannes' beloved admirer Janine. When Renate disappears, Hannes and his friend Uwe find so many surprises. Music comedy with Roy Black.

"Catch" is a little different than other sports. Each Sunday afternoon or Saturday night, catch brings several hundred people to Elysée Montmartre in Paris. In this film, you can see different kinds of ‘catch': catch with four fighters, catch with women, catch with masks.... A film shot with a certain sense of humor, both fun and pathetic.

A pacifist apolitical documentary about North-Vietnam.

A film portrait of the New Wave singer-songwriter Poly Styrene, which originally aired as part of the Arena series on BBC.

Opera written by inmates of a Nazi concentration camp in 1943 before their murder in Auschwitz.

Cesar Martin, better known as El Duque, is an elegant, charming and intelligent man, who has been obliged to be known by heart the Penal Code, as their profession is the scam. Cesar has another weakness: his beautiful daughter Silvia is always a decent person.

Two crooks think up a scheme to get rich at the expense of the vain and excessive Grand Duke.

Charles Moreau, general practitioner, and Hélène, his wife, have four girls aged 11 to 20 years. The eldest, Claire, plays the piano when she does not let her mind indulge in solitary reverie. Bernadette has a real passion for horses, while Cecile, the youngest, plays from a young age to realize all her whims. As for Pauline, at the age of 17, she decided that she would become a novelist. So she writes a book telling the story of family life. One day, when she comes out of high school, she meets Pierre, a penniless painter, from whom she immediately falls.

In Düsseldorf-based filmmaker Lutz Mommartz’s Das Atem des Schafes (The Breath of the Sheep, 1970) we see Scotland as an outsider. Recorded on a trip to the Highlands ahead of his participation in Strategy: Get Arts – a landmark exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art – Mommartz’s 8mm film testifies to the Scottish imaginary that preceded self-representation. Mist-wrapped mountains and a maggot-infested sheep carcass are soundtracked by stretched-out psychedelia, encoding this as a place of wildness." - Marcus Jack 8mm - b/w