Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.

A translator at the conference of communist parties witnessed the biggest break between the two communist parties. The dramatic events in the military conflict take place on a naval base in Albania, which the Soviets did not dare to adopt. Based on a novel by Ismail Kadare.

A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people.

After the 1978 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, children try to sing the national anthem as citizens search for hope in the war-torn South.

Based on the epic "Phra Aphai Mani" written by Sunthon Phu, สุดสาคร –Thailand's first cell animation– tells the heroic adventure of Sudsakorn, the son of a minstrel prince and a beautiful mermaid. During his many encounters he fights animals, ghosts and demons, and tames sharks and a dragon-horse.

Martijn receives little attention from his parents, who run a village bazaar, and is often left to his own devices. He has plenty of imagination, but cannot live up to the expectations placed on him. If he fails his school exams, he will be doomed. Only his grandfather in the retirement home understands him and listens to his stories. When a film crew arrives in his hometown to shoot a fairy tale movie, Martijn is chosen for the lead role and his grandfather is given the role of wizard.

Everything is easy and simple for the main character Alzhan Tulegenov, a student of the Faculty of Journalism, a master of sports in judo wrestling. It was only during his internship that he had to face serious difficulties for the first time. Having not thoroughly understood the essence of the problem, Aljan wrote an article in which he unfairly accused an honest man. The decisive battle of the hero takes place not on the fight mat, but inside himself...

The Jade Lantern Festival comes from a very old legend that commemorates the exploits of bandits.

The inhabitants of a mountainous Armenian village live a normal life, which abounds in tragic and comic, sad and happy moments. Arayik, a native of that village, takes a long time to realize his origins.

When researching the UK labour movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Graham discovers the pioneering socialist and gay rights campaigner Edward Carpenter.

A beer seller is kidnapped by martians, who give him special powers to become a super football player.

BBC documentary about the rise of early electronic music, use of synthesisers and the work of the radiophonic workshop. Michael Rodd surveys the use of synthesisers,computer & multi-track recording techniques to create the new sounds of electronic music.

In Naples, gangsters have seized the American ambassador. The authorities respond by assembling a special squad; to command it is Borri, a former commissioner who has a personal vendetta against the racket.

Pink film from Toei Central.

A German Film Award winning short drama.

A look at the city of Edinburgh, Scotland with a particular focus on its famous castle.

Through the activities of Tuuvarchin herders, it is told about how human character and social property are treated and protected with love.

First performed in 1732, Marivaux's play on the theme of cross-dressing, depicts the stratagems of the young princess Léonide in love with Agis, the legitimate heir to the throne of Sparta. To meet the prince, watched over by the philosopher Hermocrates and his sister, Léonide disguises herself as a man and seduces the whole household.

Tunga, a young woman who has speech and hearing impairment, faces humiliation, neglect and other challenges in her life because of her limitations.

The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.

An owner of a mansion decides to rent his house to the summer camp. What a mistake...

After the 1848/49 War of Independence in the Transdanubian region. János Hegyesi, a late veteran of the War of Independence, is given the task by the chief bailiff Mérei to round up the gangs of outlaws who are rioting in Somogy County.

Crystal Pillar, White Lady, The Whale—these are the names given by ice-climbing enthusiasts to the spectacular ice formations surrounding Quebec's Montmorency Falls. Ice Birds shows two experienced climbers scaling the breathtaking wall of the Crystal Pillar with precision and considerable daring, appearing from below as black spots on the vast landscape of one of nature's masterpieces.

Chenzira's 1979 tribute to dancer-choreographer Syvilla Fort.

A poor family returns to their village from Dhaka after The Great Bengal Femine 1943. This movie centers on their struggling life during the World War II period.

Károly Makk strings together two novellas by Tibor Déry. A téglafal mögött is set in the early 1950s. Comrade Bódi, an embittered party worker, reports his fellow workers who are stealing ‘the assets of the people’ from the factory. During the subsequent public investigation, one of them commits suicide. The camera of Makk tells the story of the period through the crumpled face of Jozef Króner, the blank, hopeless stare of Mari Törőcsik and images of a decaying factory site. In Philemon és Baucis, like in Szerelem, the subject of ageing is tied to the traumas of the 1950s. History turns the idyllic private life of an elderly couple (Elma Bulla and Antal Páger) upside down. The 1956 uprising sweeps an injured fighter their way. The old man helps as best he can while his wife desperately tries to save her husband…

In 1979, under the presidency of the city mayor, the people of Pessac elect a virtuous and gracious maiden from amongst the residents, following a tradition that comes from times immemorial.

A young couple has established an unusual family role: she works and he does the housework. Until one day, the couple's best friend intrudes on the tranquility of the home.

A short illustrating Wade Hemsworth's folk song about a woman's admiration for the agility of her boyfriend, the log driver.

The dramatic story captures the hard and dangerous life of the partisan group "Čapajev" led by Ľudovít Kukorelli during World War II. It retrospectively presents the course of the Slovak National Uprising in eastern Slovakia.

A love story about a guy with and a broken family a girl who slept with her professor.

In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another. "Pentimento" is an art-historical term for a hidden image underneath the actual image giving an indication of how the latter evolved to its current state.

A collection of testimonies from Brazilian indigenous people about the interests of FUNAI (National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples), multinational corporations, and large landowners behind the disastrous policy of indigenous emancipation in Brazil. Narrated by Fernanda Montenegro.

Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller.

Navaneetham and Dhanushkodi get married despite their family's disapproval. Later, when he becomes the mayor, his family accepts bribes and puts the blame on Navaneetham.

The most famous work of the remarkable classic of Finnish literature Hella Wuolijoki is the saga of the Niskavuori family, consisting of five plays. The first of them, *"The Young Mistress of Niskavuori"*, which reflects the Finnish national character, tells the story of love, changes in life, disappointments, and views on morality through the eyes of straightforward, stubborn people from the countryside who must adapt to new circumstances. The action takes place in 1880.

The short film takes place on the set of a costume drama. The main character is an extra—one of the soldiers climbing a pile of earth in full uniform. The emaciated man steals a hare, for which he is fired from his job. The director believes that he could only play dead people. The former extra lives with a wanted criminal and a stray dog. When the men are ready to throw out the dog, which they have to feed, the director decides to hire him for the film.

A classroom biological science documentary from the future which shows what the Spirit and Opportunity landers are filming on the planet Mars RIGHT NOW with their electron microscope-cameras, but not sharing with us. Some monster nudity, simulated stop-motion sex. Animated in claymation (in 1976) by Douglass Smith, aka Rev. Ivan Stang, devotee of Slack master and Sex God J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, who discovered the Conspiracy and an invasion by UFOs, and founded The Church of the SubGenius, an adults-only religion for mutants, misfits, weirdos.

The film tells the story of a singer who is devoted to his friends and attached to the stage, valuing this more than his talent, vocal skills, and training in opera from professionals.

Ekke and Karsten are newcomers to the shipyard. Paddy claims to have heard it on Rügen radio. But the two did not fall on their heads, even if they still fear that their accommodation, the "Fritz Heckert" accommodation ship, could be - as it is called - a "working-class monastery". Not only do they find out from Paddy that such worries are unfounded, they experience it for themselves.

This film covers the transitional political period between the election of the Parti Québécois on November 15, 1976, and the Canadian federal election that brought Joe Clark to power. Featuring some of our most colourful politicians, historians, journalists, artists and citizens, this film highlights in parallel the convictions of each on the national political question, on the eve of the first Quebec referendum. Montage of newsreels shot between the election of the Parti Québécois on November 15, 1976, and the federal election of 1979.

“SEDUCTION OF PATRICK is a satire about unrequited love. A flirting Patrick becomes the object of Gary’s desire. Later rejected and rebuffed by Patrick, Gary talks with friends who help him attempt to figure out where Patrick’s sexuality lies.” –“Michel Auder: Selected Video Works 1970-1991” (Anthology Film Archives)

Fashions and pageantry put fabrics to the fore in this COI cinemagazine story filmed at Leeds Castle in Kent.

An unforgettable hour of Christmas music and message your entire family will enjoy!

Lucy van Pelt instructs Charlie Brown and Snoopy in the finer points of proper flossing technique for healthy teeth and gums.

"The Hedgehogs" are a group of youngsters who are trying to gain control of the empty space between the blocks of flats, which they want to convert into a basketball court. The resistance of the neighbors is soon overcome and the court is laid down. Training courses in basketball for kids are set up. The ambitious coach is selecting only those of the boys who are able to carry out his most absurd orders. Two of them happen to be late, so he immediately fires them from the team. Thus the 'hedgehogs' war' against the indifference of the adult breaks out.

Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of a right-wing extremist organization, which plans numerous attacks on democratic institutions and journalists. The film attempts to portray a realistic and detail-oriented study of the mind of the "Kleinbürger", trapped between the fringes of the lower and middle-classes.

Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.

Drawing from Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel, "Two Thousand Seasons," Caldwell meditates on reciprocity and on the concept of “I and I” which postulates no division between people, whereas the splitting of “you” from “I” is an invention of the devil designed to brew trouble in the world.

Trio of gunslinger/thieves set their sights on a rich family with lots of money flowing through their hacienda.

By taking opportunity of being a model for a painter named Song Wu-Yeol at a park, the barmaid named Jang-Mi (Rose) loves him. To install equipment in her bar, she sends Yeong-Ah (Jang-Mi gives her tuition fee like elder sister) to the place where Song works. When she is informed that Song and Young-Ah become close, she returns Young-Ah to her house. She is also informed through Young-Ah that Song has his fiancee, so that she blames him and spends disappointed time. She brings up Song's daughter named Hyeon-Suk. She suffers from the disease caused by mixed feeling of love and disappointment, and intends to register Hyeon-Suk at Song's family register before she dies. At last she completes the registration and then dies. Song regrets her death and weeps with tears.