Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

A story about three brothers, Petar, Angel and Vasil, each one joins the fight against fascism in his own way.

Located on Kanagawa Prefecture’s Miura Peninsula, Kikuna bustles with beachgoers in the summer. In October, the Miura Shirayama Shrine holds an annual festival, the Ameya dance, which has a history extending to the late Edo Period. Young men dressed in female garb perform dances including the shiramatsu konaya, komori, and godanme. The film emphasizes the wild aspect of these performing arts birthed by struggling farmers and fishermen.

A fast-talking producer named Oski, nicknamed after the slang for “money,” is thrust into the spotlight when director Çetin İnanç promises to deliver a flashy adventure movie overnight, despite having no actual film. Scrambling, they splice together footage from an American sci-fi serial and cast Oski himself as the hero, rushing to finish shooting and editing the entire “fantastical” film in just two days.

The path of righteousness is a stony one. And Lo! for Daniel it is stonier than most.

Short film by Marran Gosov

A funny story about a smart little pig who played checkers very well. He beat the donkey and the horse, and then went to look for the strongest in the forest, which, of course, was the wolf. This is how their confrontation began, because the wolf did not want to gain fame among the forest dwellers, who turned out to be weaker than the pigs in checkers...

Zivko Nikolic portrays a Montenegrin village in the post-epic period, while at the same time presenting the sad reality in the form of poor, unfortunate and mentally handicapped people, whom the epics circumvents.

Another short documentary of "Real Food, Roots Music, and People Full of Passion for what they do!", Spend It All is Les Blank's spirited look at the French-speaking Cajun community of southwest Louisiana. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

After World War II police forces increase the number of their permanent staff because of the corrupted general conditions. After a short instruction, recruits Sipos and Czöntör are also put into action against riotous groups, black-marketeers and burglars.

A psychological portrait of kolkhos chairman Edgar Kaulin, who saved many Latvian farmers from deportations by the Soviets in the period 1945-53, and with them built up a kolkhos.

The seven deadly sins are illustrated through short stories.

Angela Davis visiting the German Democratic Republic. A film about the people she met and her impressions.

Naked women dancing and performing to the music of Paganini.

Tolia and Olia quickly create a family and destroy it just as quickly. The man thinks about a moped and then spends his life chasing his dream. A noisy electrician keeps the city awake. The film consists of three witty miniatures: "Elevator", "Envy", and "Call".

In September 1972, a Palestinian commando called the Black September took the Israeli delegation hostage at the Munich Olympics. This film, which denounces the hypocrisy of this illusory "Olympic peace", is a montage of images from official television and images filmed in the Palestinian refugee camps of Jordan in September 1971 (Black September), in full repression of the Palestinian people by the armies of King Hussein.

On the island of Pentecost in the New Hebrides archipelago, a few hundred Melanesians maintain a traditional life thanks to their geographic isolation and to the leaders who have resisted Christianity, schools and cooperatives.

Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the country and the desire to make a "100 percent Brazilian film". Testimonials from figures who lived with the intensity of the core of modernist artists: Tarcila do Amaral, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade and Di Cavalcanti. Scenes from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, São Martinho Farm and the 1924 Revolution. Scenes from the movie LES HEURES CHAUDES DE MONTPARNASSE. Reference to Aleijadinho and Febrônio Indio do Brasil.

A film-concert. Featuring songs by Dunaevsky, Solovyov-Sedoy and other Soviet classics, performed by the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers (artistic director Vladimir Badulin). Against a backdrop of a continuous succession of Pioneer songs and dances, the film also features documentary footage from the life of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers in the early 1970s.

A beautiful story about a magnolia tree that, instead of shedding its leaves and flowers on the ground as nature intended, decided to go straight to heaven.

Here is a short film produced by the UK 9.5mm film club 'Group 9.5' to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 9.5mm 'home movie' film size in 1972. Entitled "Lights Out ... And The Stars Appear", (the title is based on a Pathescope advertisement fron the 1930s), it describes the start and history of this unique film gauge originally developed by the French Pathe-Freres company.

A short film by Fernando Lopes.

A family comedy about thirteen years old Bernd and the problems he faces after his family moving to Rostock.

In 1837, in Quebec, against a historical backdrop of rebellion against the English, we follow the sentimental drama of Simon de Bellefeuille and Julie, the chosen one of his heart, destined for another.

A quest film about a young man on a wondrous and strange trip around the world has more in common with medieval mystery plays than with most modern films, as it is rich in symbols and low in explanatory materials.

Neighbours in a new house sometimes don't even suspect who might be living behind the wall. They're kind friends out in the street, but each of them fiercely hates the one living behind the thin wall. When will all be revealed and who will win - hatred or friendship?

The Cooperative Movement in Barquisimeto (CECOSESOLA) emerged as an alternative to the outrages against the people and their inability to afford a decent burial for their relatives.

an animated character of the superhero named Aardman going to the hole

A hot shot producer uses his power to score with beautiful women.

Rakhal Das, a postal worker, is accused of murder and theft and imprisoned. However, his son takes it upon himself to prove his innocence and find the real culprit behind the controversy.

RAINDANCE plays directly on the mind through programmatic stimulation of the central nervous system. Individual frames of the film are imprinted on the retina of the eye in a rhythm, sequence, and intensity that corresponds to Alpha-Wave frequencies of the brain. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

A study of the Inca civilization through its artistic architectural structures.

H.R. Giger became known all over the world as the designer of the aliens in Ridley Scott's feature film ALIEN. In this documentary about H.R. Giger's work, which was made many years before, the artist's creative process and the interplay between conscious and unconscious influences are the focus. Statements by experts and contemporaries address the question of the artist's position and social responsibility [filmingo].

Supposedly unnatural sexual practices are shown.

A filmic portrait of the Australian visual artist Vali Myers, whom Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elksen got to know in post-war Paris. With Myers, Van der Elsken shot his photo story LOVE ON THE LEFT BANK.

A drifting gambler named Tamegorō befriends a weary salesman and helps connect him with a nightclub hostess whose father has just been released from prison. In a rapidly industrializing coastal town dominated by yakuza influence, Tamegorō becomes entangled in gang conflicts and the exploitation of local workers. As he grows attached to the struggling people around him, the carefree drifter finds himself driven toward an act of rebellion against the corrupt underworld controlling the city.

Untitled (Tea Party) is a short silent film. The camera slowly zooms into a sunlit clearing in a forest where Ader, formally dressed, is crawling towards a large box, propped up by a stick, under which he takes his afternoon tea—in the English style.

Daddy kicks Candy out of the house because she’s been promiscuous and threw a big party.

A documentary about the Swiss motorcyclist culture in the early 1970s.

This documentary film follows the exploits of Ron Kovic and the Vietnam Veterans against the War on an epic journey to the Republican Convention in Miami Florida, in 1972 to protest the USA involvement in the war and Richard Nixon's Presidency.

The film brings to life the stars of cinema of yesteryear, heart-wrenchingly poignant or even comic scenes, and in the shades that emerge, worlds are built and collapsed. The cinema auditorium, the auditorium, the ground floor, the hotel room, are the setting for special atmospheres.

This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own.

April 1945. The Russian sniper Kolya joins the Bulgarian military contingent stationed in a Hungarian village. Kolya meets a Hungarian boy Yanush, with whom he shares his love of poetry. A German sniper is hiding in the woods and every day the death toll of the war grows higher. One day Yanush is killed by the German. Kolya seeks revenge.

A cheerful and very colourful pastiche of live action with combined graphics set to the music of Muir Mathieson. This film typifies the image British Rail was keen to transmit during the early part of the 1970s. It marked the start of the age of the train, when 100mph running became standard and travelling inter-city took you from 'city to city - heart to heart'.

Charlotte Salomon died in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943. The pictures she painted while on the run in unoccupied France have survived - a cycle in which Charlotte Salomon tells the story of her life like a diary.

Portrays the Chicano experience, from its roots in pre-Columbian history to the present, by dramatically recreating key events in Mexican history and by presenting interviews with Chicano leaders, Dolores Huerta, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Rodolfo Gonzalez, and Jose Angel Gutierrez, who discuss solutions to the oppression of Chicanos.

A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.

Pink film directed by Kinya Ogawa.

1972 Japanese movie

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

A home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe. It was filmed concurrently with the more highly regarded “Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania” by Jonas Mekas, brother to Adolfas.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating how petrol burns in the engine under differing conditions.