Cinematic Era: 1975 Vintage

Krokelby in the 1920s. Sakris Kukkelman is a crippled, Nietzsche reading village idiot who believes himself to be a romantic hero.

Behind the scenes look at the preparations for the last two editions of Dietmar Schönherr's Talkshow.

BBC 1975. Jack Point and his sweetheart Elsie come to the Tower to earn money with which to buy medicine for her sick mother. Elsie is persuaded to become the secret bride of Fairfax 'to be beheaded in an hour,' but then he escapes.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the difficulties posed by the unpredictable weather conditions.

A Christian family must contend with occult influences.

The extraordinary life and death of a man born in the circus Cruzeiro do Sul, carrying a talking heart in his chest. From childhood to old age, he crosses the world and its wars, learning through death never to forget his true quest: Hamlet. Aboard a balloon, his magical journey holds something of an entire nation.

Film about the film in the film, independent in economy and in form.

Hans, a boy with a thirst for reading and knowledge, sets out with his horse Robert to redeem an enchanted castle. His cleverness and fearlessness allow him to triumph over the spirits and break the spell.

Based on the work of the same name by A. P. Chekhov about the fate of an old provincial actor.

One of the five-part documentary series by Belarusian writer and director Viktor Dashuk, which recounts the horrors experienced by the Belarusian people during World War II, through firsthand accounts of survivors and newsreel footage.

Japanese soldiers are removing most of the Taiwan forest for timber which they will send back to Japan. A local rich kid and a kung fu expert start putting a stop to it.

Guss, the young son of a divorced and remarried farmer, feels misunderstood by his family and at the religious boarding school he attends. He finds comfort in weekly visits from his mother, whom he sees again at the age of eleven, but she dies shortly afterwards. As an adult, Guss leaves the farm for the city to pursue a career in music. After many difficulties, he achieves some success. While visiting his father, he rediscovers the rift that separates him from his half-brothers.

The heroes of this film are hands and a violin. We won’t see the hero's face, but we’ll notice a special relationship that exists between the musician and the instrument. It resembles real love. The man is able to make the inanimate instrument a living instrument.

A man named Parasolka, who is forever barging into ridiculous situations, carefully prepared his car for the upcoming trip. Of course! After all, he's going to travel. And a beauty whom he suddenly greeted on his way completely knocks him out of the rut, inadvertently forcing do stupid things. Now, because of Parasolka’s carelessness, his car is completely out of order after drinking alcohol...

Experimental short, a looping 16mm color film portrait of a German Shepherd dog, with sound.

Documentary film.

The Whisperer in Darkness is strongly based on Lovecraft's story of one man's battle with strange creatures in the Vermont woods, and the Folklorist who wouldn't believe, until it was too late.

An experimental film about the eternal life of music, and about how it belongs to all.

A puppet cartoon based on the tale of the same name by Pavel Petrovich Bazhov. About how Danila the Master heard about the stone flower. Whoever sees this flower at least once at the Mistress of the Copper Mountain will forever lose his peace, so good is this work. Danila spent many days in captivity in the magical underground domains of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, learning the craft.

An innovative approach to the subject of National Socialism which uses a composition by Georg Katzer, a GDR pioneer of Neue Musik. The sound level – acoustic distortions and sound bites by leading representatives of the Third Reich – dominates, juxtaposed with minimalist images. A dialogue between viewers and memorial evolves in shots and counter shots.

The story of two famous surgeons who are led, under mysterious circumstances, into the presence of an even more mysterious personality.

A montage of around a thousand shots capturing moments of life.

This film captures 14 minutes of the real life of a young mathematician.

"The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War" is a compilation documentary narrated by Lowell Thomas, illustrating changing attitudes toward the war and its participants, as well as toward the movies themselves. Winner, Gold Medal, 1975 Chicago Film Festival.

Alex Grant, nicknamed Aggro, obtains a job as a seizeman – a repossession agent.

The film depicts five workers who are laying a street in one of the new districts of Yerevan. A complex relationship binds them. Each of them has his character and his destiny. The film touches upon common social problems on a private level.

A heartfelt mosaic of thoughts and dreams, where teenagers express their views on love, relationships, and the future. This poignant exploration of unexpected teenage parenthood avoids judgment, instead posing lingering questions that encourage reflection.

A short documentary profiling several COYOTE members and their founder Margo St. James as they argue for legalizing and decriminalizing prostitution.

Ernst is a student in Hamburg around 1900 and leads a life like many other young people. In his free time, he roams the colorful metropolis with his buddy Karl. After school, he helps his father, whose business he is to inherit one day. Ernst has many questions about the world and life, but it is difficult to find satisfactory answers... At this time, nobody suspects that he will go down in the history books as the workers' leader Ernst Thälmann.

A short experimental animation by Jules Engel

Amrish Puri (Daku Panna) murders Bindu's (Champa) family and kidnaps her. He puts her into a brothel. Kabir Bedi (Daku Raju)'s father is killed by Daku Panna and Daku Raja vows to take his revenge. One day Daku Raja goes to the same brothel where Champa had been dumped. There the two of them recognize each other as they had been childhood friends. Mangala and Daku Govind help them in getting married and Champa becomes Ratna. She soon gives birth to baby girl named Bela. But Daku Panna soon attacks Raju with his gang. Bela is sent to Dulari in the village because her parents fear her safety. After many years Daaku Raju and Ratna have grown old. They think of their daughter and come to the village. Sunil (Vijay Arora) a good Samaritan always thinks of Bela and doesn't want her to get marry to the wrong person. When Bela meets her parents, she is elated. Her father soon kills Daku Panna and settles Bela's wedding with the able groom.

Two kids, Zana and Miri, play every afternoon in the garden by their house. They are often careless and damage the flowers of the garden.

Martha Graham narrates as two dancers demonstrate her technique.

A film adaptation of Chekhov's short story of the same name. A forty-year-old man and a young woman meet in a roadside inn. They get to know each other and wait out the blizzard raging outside the window.

The Kreuzberg district of West Berlin is home to foreign workers - Greeks and Turks who are struggling for a better future, while trying to maintain their national identity. The lives, problems and collective political action of the Gastarbeiters are explored in this great documentary by Giorgos Karypidis, who for a while had also lived and worked as a director in Berlin for the public television SFB.

Time: the 1970’s. Place: New York City. This dramatized essay explores how women feel about verbal harassment by men on the street. What do they think? What do they want to do?

Pinku from 1975.

A total film on sex education

A medical student convicted of debauchery is reintegrated into society. The film was produced in 1969 but released marginally in 1975 on the same day as 3 other more transcendent Argentine films, so it was forgotten almost instantly.

A right-wing family decides to exile themselves to Europe after Salvador Allende's victory during the presidential elections of 1970; only to find themselves losing their comfortable socio-economic status and be subjected to a dramatic proletarianization that will lead them to all kinds of struggles.

In X-Ray, Ana Mendieta uses a Cinefluorography unit, a medical tool usually employed for diagnostic and research procedures. In Mendieta’s hands, she takes us inside her own head, filming her own X-Rayed skull while talking.

An experimental short film about a day in the life of a barefoot boy who sells newspapers in San Salvador.

Film based on the famous Iranian novella by Sadegh Hedayat, considered one of the great works of modern Persian prose. A man who is perhaps losing his mind spits his murderous fantasies and confessions at a shadow on the wall of his room that has the shape of an owl.

This feature-length documentary offers a glimpse at the unknown world that lies beneath the Arctic ice. Arctic IV follows Dr. Joseph MacInnis, a specialist in underwater medicine, as he probes and explores the polar depth. Filmed at Resolute Bay, Dr. MacInnis and his team must chip through 2 metres of ice and dive into the frigid, watery depth at the North Pole - all in the name of science.

Filipino horror movie from 1975.

In A Nod and a Wink, John Pilger demonstrates how the charge of conspiracy is being used as a means of political suppression in Britain, comparing this with statutes in police states such as Brazil and the Soviet Union, which use “a vague law” to silence and imprison people for their political or religious views.

A powerful story of a small boy who puts up a struggle against all odds of life. He wins through to become top surgeon. Even this has it's problems.

Illuminatin' Sweeney features interviews with the artist, as well as excerpts from his early image-processing experiments. Sweeney's credo — "to make tapes as satisfying to me as listening to music" — is explored in short pieces that use the Moog Vidium process, which improvises and abstracts images using musical feedback. The concluding footage of his father's funeral heralds the more personal documentary approach that characterized his work in the 1980s.

Love allows two characters to talk, despite the noise of the modern world.

Sopping wet.

The events took place in June/July 1973 and the film was made with the help of the Mowanjum Community

Inspired by the testimony of an American technician who, examining the São Paulo dump, stated: "Sao Paulo rubbish is the richest in the world." The film shows the misery of those who live on this garbage and the police repression on the scavengers.

A cemetery in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada is seen through the eyes of its former superintendent.