Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

A film biography of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie.

Eduard Wiiralt (1898-1954) is considered to be the most prominent master of Estonian graphic art in the first half of 20th century. Wiiralt's restless and intricate life is expressed through his work that is also the object and the main expressive means of the documentary.

Kren filmed, in microscopic detail the reflection and refraction of the light in/on a glass bottle. However, the bottle itself (the whole body) is never seen. What is seen is much more the emanations of light from the glass and its clarity. (Michael Palm)

Romantic biography of Maria Bonita, daughter of a poor farmer who was kidnapped by Lampião and became his lover.

Pinku from 1968.

A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.

In the post-war period, the young farmer Heiko Herkens secretly distils beet schnapps in a hidden alcove with his farmhand Jan Spinn, has fun with Fleet Helga, the gendarme's daughter, and enjoys his life after the war and imprisonment. The maid Taline, who has lived on the farm with Jan for years, knows nothing about the moonshine still. However, this life of lottery is a thorn in her side. How she longs for Heiko to marry a righteous farmer's wife and for peace and order to finally return to the farm!

Mike, the famous group Los Bravos singer, is kidnapped by Chou-Fang, follower of the doctrines of the fearsome Manchu. In fact, Chou Fang is not interested in Mike, but to dominate the world through a chemical formula that should develop a retired scientist. The daughter of the Professor, the beautiful Sao-Ling, believed that Mike is a superhero and involves it the dangerous history.

Vazeer, an evil commander, murders the sultan of Baghdad and imprisons his wife. Ibrahim, a blind agent, manages to rescue the prince who grows up as a robber and seeks revenge on Vazeer.

Surrealist short film of images viewed to a surrealist poem by Max Ernst.

A man in drag sits on a couch holding a fan. The wallpaper behind him is floral patterned. Although the man does little more than looking around and waving his fan, Zwartjes created enormous tension.

'Love's Presentation' may be a time capsule of a rising art-world star, but it also pokes fun at the perspective of a celebrity profile. In its opening sequence, an antsy-looking Hockney squirms as a narrator reads aloud critic Jasia Reichardt’s introduction to his star persona. Scott’s portrait of Hockney is more expansive, spurning the growing popular image of the artist in favor of following him at work; He’s described the film as a “how-to” documentary. Filmed in April '66 in Hockney’s ground-floor apartment and studio, Hockney himself improvised the narration while watching the film. We watch the artist carve delicate lines into the plates, submerge them in an acid bath outside his window, then wipe his hands on the window curtains... A rare, relaxed close-up on Hockney’s creative process.

An incomplete project, Dorothy the Kansas City Pothead stars John Waters' long-time casting agent Pat Moran in the role of Dorothy.

BP documentary film exploring the natural beauty of oil under the microscope, and through a variety of other techniques.

In this documentary we survey the period between 1840 and 1860. Canada considers its options—annexation, continentalism, free trade, and economic nationalism—while the "one continent, one nation, one flag" ideology enjoys strong support on both sides of the border. Part 5 of the series Struggle for a Border: Canada's Relations with the United States.

Wednesday July 31, 1968, almost six months after the start of the "Langlois affair" which saw the government attempt to oust the founder of the Cinémathèque française, triggering massive support from the biggest names in world cinema, Henri Langlois finally resumed possession of the hall of the Palais de Chaillot and celebrates his return with a tribute to Charlie Chaplin.

Albert lives with his Grandma, who he thinks is cramping his style. However an incident reveals to him that he is as much dependent on her as she is of him.

About the boy Baba Yaga wanted to eat.

Shortly before his father dies, Nikos, as the eldest son, promises to help his twin brother Andreas finish his studies. He sacrifices his dreams and the girl he loves, Anna, and throws himself into the harsh struggle for survival. He sets sail and travels to the ends of the earth, but his ship sinks and he is presumed dead. Meanwhile, Andreas completes his studies, becomes a lawyer, and gets married. When Nikos, who was rescued, returns to Greece years later, without papers, crippled, and poor, he finds himself involved in a murder case he did not commit. Andreas is the prosecutor in the trial, and Nikos tries in every way to conceal his identity, but Andreas realizes this and manages to get him acquitted. Nikos, in order not to damage the social standing of Andreas and Anna, prefers to leave again and leave them in peace.

An actor is late for his film shoot. Since he woke up oneiric visions have been plaguing his day. African drums set the rhythm to his frenzied race against the clock.

Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell's classic theory about the behavior of gas molecules is represented on-screen by a man performing a series of Canadian air force exercises.

The film is based on K. Kuliev's novel "Magtymguly". A story about a Turkmen spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufi and traveller who wrote under the pen name Pyragy (Feraghi) and is considered to be the most famous figure in Turkmen literary history. After graduating from the Khiva Madrasa, the poet Pyragy (Feraghi) Magtymguly returns to his native Turkmen aul. He teaches children, composes poems, loves a beautiful girl and is loved by her. But local bey Cherkez-khan does not like the poet's calls to unite Turkmens, and his soldiers burn the village. Khan appoints the captured Magtymguly his court poet but, having received a refusal, the tyrant orders to kill the poet. But the guard helps the poet to escape. Having returned to the burnt aul, Magtymguly begins to call on Turkmens to unite with Russia, because they could not deal with their troubles alone.

An animation advertisement for the airline Air India which went on to screen as a movie at film festivals.

Documentary production of the Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllurit’y, audiovisual records that were recorded in different years of pilgrimage to the Sanctuary.

The plot revolves around the rivalry between three cattle ranches, with an enemy ranch owner scheming to turn the other two against each other.

Shekhar (Feroz Khan) helps C.B.I agent Rekha (Shahida) uncover a plot to smuggle military secrets out of the country.

A doctor is involved in substance trafficking while investigating the death of his wife.

Two brothers return to their devastated home village after the end of the Second World War with nothing to their name but their army-issue machine guns. There they find a traumatised German, abandoned in retreat. Together, the three men act out a tragicomic tale.

A biographical documentary about Krzysztof Penderecki

A documentary about the construction and aesthetics of Nancy Stanislas, King of Poland.

Pinku from 1968.

A Possible Possum short.

A film by Cooperativa di Monte Olimpino.

The success of this first full-scale nuclear power station on the shores of Lake Huron has shown the way for the economic large-scale production of electricity from uranium. This film describes the plant at Douglas Point, Ontario, and the process by which the uranium atom is split, employing heavy water with a special property, deuterium, giving the name CANDU (Canada Deuterium Uranium) to the Canadian system of atomic energy production. Produced for the NFB by Crawley Films Ltd. for Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.

Six and Twelve is one of a series of short films and documentaries produced under the auspices of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain in the years after Moroccan independence. While most of these were utilitarian in nature, Bouanani, Tazi, and Rechiche took a different route with this film, creating a modernist “city symphony” film that documented six hours in the life of the city of Casablanca. Combining a hard bebop soundtrack with stunning black and white cinematography and a radical editing style, the film stands as a document to the energetic experimentation of this period of Moroccan art and cinema.

Based on the novel by Olha Kobylyanska.

This program is presented as a report on the way the weekly Paris Match deals with information through images. Two of the newspaper's main managers explain what their job is. As a counterpoint to these interviews with image professionals, the philosopher and essayist Jean-François Revel recalls his attachment to marking the limits of information through images (source: Média Scérén)

When a widowed fisherman moves in with his brother and sister-in-law to escape the collapsing Nazi forces, he finds himself caught up, like Lithuania itself, in perilous questions of collaboration and occupation, resistance and escape.

Based on the stories of V. Kataev "The Diary of a Bitter Drunkard", "Fur Coat" and "Pearl".

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's tale The Ugly Duckling.

About high school graduates who choose a profession.

Evocation of André Breton's role in the surrealist movement, on images of landscapes, Paris, surrealist paintings, faces of young girls and ruins of castles. The main themes addressed: poetry, love, freedom. (source: Media-Scéren)

Mavie cannot declare her love, because the object of her affections is a very busy man.

Wrestler vs. organized crime.

Tardigrades—tiny creatures just one millimeter in size—exhibit extraordinary adaptability.

US soldiers in Vietnam have flashbacks to civilian life

A group of children build a loft in an abandoned yard, but instead of pigeons, a man and his two sons move into it. At first, boys try to get rid of the unwanted intruders, but eventually they befriend with them. However, the municipality sends their men to tear down the illegal housing, but the children decide to stop them at all costs.

A short film based on David Avidan’s piece, "Et tu, Brute!", taken from his book, Impossible Poems.