Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

Documentary portrait of former CIA official John Stockwell, who resigned after becoming disillusioned with the organization's activities.

The film narrates the world of fishermen, where they face greed and exploitation by a figure called "Sabti," who exploits the fishermen and takes everything from them, reaping the profits while they receive nothing. Mahmoud (the leader of the Nu'mani tribe) confronts him, refusing to be exploited, but he soon disappears under mysterious circumstances, leading to the cessation of the struggle.

1950s, Bulgaria. A man has been killed in a quiet little village.

One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.

An expedition report (a winter sailing trip down the Elbe), and a document about filmmakers who leave a city because it's more hospitable elsewhere, reflections, reflexes.

An animated experimental short film using charcoal and pastels to create Cubist and Art Deco-inspired designs evoking the curiosity, grace and beauty of two cats in constant motion.

Unhappy with her marriage, woman looks for sexual satisfaction by any means.

On a beautiful summer's day, a river is crowded with boats. In a moment of carelessness, a man falls overboard. While struggling to reach the surface he strikes his head and sinks to the bottom. In a twilight world, he views past scenes from his life.

An adaptation of two short stories by Passos Coelho, essentially shot in a valley that is a territory threatened by floods, the film is a cinematographic chronicle of the rural worker in the area of Montemor-o-Velho.

A 1978 short fiction film that presents the conflicted relationship of a mother who must work to support her family and her teenage son. It stars Lucía Irurita, Carlos Tolentino, Félix Oliva (son) and Gabriela Faura.

In Part 1 of this 3-part documentary series, director Donald Brittain chronicles the early years of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. From their university days in the 1950s to 1967 when Lévesque left the Liberal Party and Trudeau became the federal Minister of Justice, Brittain attempts to get at the heart of what makes these men so fascinating.

Theodore and Mason have to cope with bullies, prejudice, and learning responsibility. In the process they learn about the reality of friendship and God's special caring.

Happiness and sadness, joy and sorrow at the campsite. Secret letters, hysteria, bullying, hippie romanticism, betrayal and fading love.

3-colour separation film.

Karen Zaitchik jumps on and off moving boxcars, throws switches, pulls brakes and uncouples freights with ease and confidence. She's a railroader for CN and that's what this 21-year-old highly individualistic woman wants out of life for the moment. This colourful short film shows how Karen manages in the traditionally male world of the railroad.

Documentary where the protagonist takes a melancholic walk in the city before coming back home to his family.

Tracklisting: 1. Pound for a Brown 2. Baby Snakes 3. Deathless Horsie 4. Dancin' Fool 5. Easy Meat 6. Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me 7. Keep It Greasey 8. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? 9. Sofa #2 10. Vinnie's Seal Call Fusion Music 11. Bobby Brown 12. Conehead 13. Dead Air/I'm On Duty 14. St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast 15. Father Oblivion 16. Rollo 17. Bamboozled Outro

A marauding band of black terrorists hold the inhabitants of a tiny desert settlement hostage. They murder most of the settlers, but spare a beautiful white woman and her young son. She escapes in a hale of gunfire, then enlists the aid of a machine gun toting soldier of fortune to free her child.

Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

The story of how it turned out when a young lawyer tried to intellectually elevate a cute dancer from Prague's bohemian milieu. Journalist Šmíd introduces his long-time lover, a cheerful but simple girl Fanynka, to his friend, a young lawyer. He decides to take good care of the girl, buying her gifts and even furnishing her with a nice apartment. When he is called up to the army, he asks his friend Šmíd to look after Fanynka for him. After all, he himself intends to employ her and educate her intellectually. He gives her the task of reading serious literature once a week, about which the girl is to give him extensive testimony in a letter. But Fanynka soon starts to get fed up with the intellectual diet...

An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and Indians.

A young earl is reminded by his ancestors to be worthy of them and care for the women of the area. The Count takes on the task and develops into a lustful sex prodigy who gradually ends up having a relationship with four women at the same time. His simple but equally lustful servant tries to emulate him and pursues the count's ladies in the castle and the beauties in the village, but fails more than miserably as Casanova.

On images of the Tuileries Gardens, Marguerite Duras recalls Césarée, an ancient destroyed city.

taiwan films

Recovered Zulueta short.

A three-minute fantasy of butterflies and dragonflies cavorting amongst the pussywillows, Japanese-inspired animation accompanied by two variations on keyboard works by the Baroque composer.

Thimanna is an innocent tribal youth who is excited about his wedding. A salesman in village who help villagers by getting their needy items from distant city, His wedding is arranged with Marakani (Reeta Anchan), a city girl.

It is a wooden silver-retrieving sluice, thus light-catch awash with something like "cheek and jowl clippings of Argentine bulls" (as Hollis Frampton reminds us) and many chemical residues of earth. My mind has grown TREE out of the forest of all of it.

A documentary about how Republican forces lost to Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

Theodoro Bezerra is a member of the Brazilian elite, a farmer and politician since the 1940s who has been elected as a state congressman by the state of Rio Grande do Norte. He concentrates on his own characteristics as a popular leader, despite being sexist and elitist, as well as using public funds for personal causes.

Pink film directed by Genji Nakamura.

Bing Crosby profiled through music and witnesses, including Fred Astaire, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Shore, Dean Martin and James Van Heusen.

An eleven-year old girl goes on a sailing trip with her parents who don't know much about sailing.

Two couples talk about their experiences with postpartum depression.

City council of Prilep, Macedonia, decide to ruin the old part of the town and built new housings there. Unable to stop the demolition, the shoemaker Dimko and other local craftsmen throw an all-night party for the memory of the last day of bazaar.

A documentary based on scientific investigations of the Shroud of Turin. Noted medical examiners, theologians, physicists and historians use modern science to trace the probable history of the cloth.

A poetic story about how a little airplane that was afraid to fly saved a large airplane that was caught in a hurricane.

Live concert of the french musical with original cast.

In the last days of the Korean War, Mil-ryeo and Chang-su, two secret agents from North Korea, are ordered to defect to the south to carry out 'Special Mission 8'.

The story of woman betrayed by a king reappears in his next life as a ghost intent on possessing him. On the advice of a priest,the king marries a pious woman who matches her devotional prowess against the ghost’s seductions and wins

At Westfallenhalle Dortmund on December 10, 1978 for the Rockpalast recording, Muddy Waters mighty vocals and his splendid charisma on stage fascinated the audience. Muddy's guitar play on Fender Telecaster comes into full effect with his slow bues solos - and seldom had Muddy hadsuch a hot sound.

A film about the well-known Latvian artists, choir conductors - Imants and Gido Kokars.

Outtakes from the movie Corps aboli.

Hong Kong movie

Xiao Ming gazes around in the zoo when the teacher explains characteristics of animals to the class. The teacher assigns homework of drawing an elephant, but Xiao Ming draws an elephant with a monkey face.

Documentary about Cambodia featuring a long interview with Pol Pot

Film montage, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Romanian comedy, using fragments from Romanian films from 1927-1977. The connecting sequences - the conversations of cinephile travelers on their way to the film studios in Buftea - account for about 40% of the total length of the film. We are grateful to the filmmakers for the reunions with great actors who have passed away or great living actors. We are very grateful to them for their kind and benevolent effort to entertain us in every way and in every way; the comedy way, the musical way, the music-hall way, all ways, because, if you look closely, an excellent comic moment comes from a detective movie.

"Not going to the woods and sitting by a stream, but coming into the dark of Cinema for meditating on nature. Not meditating on Mother Nature and her parts, but on Mother Cinema and her forms."–D.G. "a concerto for the kind of water which is so ordinary that normally one forgets to look at it and which is here filmed with astonishing attention." – Pierre Job, Liberation Magazine (Paris)

Young people with disabilities are provided with health care and vocational training. Is it enough to prepare them for their independent life? We get to know some charges of the Rehabilitation Center in Konstancin.

An animated parody about the Gang of Four. The 1978 post Cultural Revolution film is Lin Wenxiao's directorial debut.