Cinematic Era: 1981 Vintage

Visual artist Oscar de Wit interviews Flemish writer Daniël Robberechts in the backroom of his house in Everbeek, Belgium.

Architecture critic Patrick Nuttgens narrates a documentary on the 20th century architect Edwin Lutyns, exploring the plans and buildings of the man who designed Liverpool Metropolitan Cathederal and the city of New Delhi.

A petty criminal plans to take revenge on the neighbour who he believes to have reported him to the police.

Seven lyrical stories about the first love, about the emergence of the first naive and pure feeling.

A documentary etude presenting statements made by high school graduates in 1981 about their perception of socialism in the People's Republic of Poland. Young women and men express their dissatisfaction and fears about their own future in socialist Poland, whose fate, they claim, is subject to the vision of Moscow and party comrades at home.

The best workers from various factories in the communist system are rewarded a cruise on the Danube. The people in charge fight for bureaucratic reasons while the young ones are looking for adventure.

A pessimistic drama about a family struggling to survive after the death of their father. Left behind are the simple-minded mother, the strong-willed daughter Josefine, another sister and a mentally retarded brother. Josefine takes over the reins and looks after the family. She turns her sister into a maid and forces her brother to live in the cellar.

Engineer Lembit with his construction team arrives at a small island to build a sheep farm. They are accommodated in the house of a middle-aged woman Marta and her daughter Kaja. The everyday routine will change when after some time everyone's controlled behaviour starts to change, expressing suppressed problems and yearning for warmth and love.

Pepita a Flemish nun of Mexican descent decides to go to Mexico just as her godmother Clara did years before.

An unsentimental, realistic portrayal of the thwarted aspirations of rebellious youths.

An animated film for children about the revolutionary struggle of the working people of Uzbekistan. The old arba, symbolizing the past, is gradually turning into a wheelbarrow, rushing through the years and decades to the happy life of the Uzbek people.

Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor pads, scholarly studies and artist studios: different social configurations are permitted but restrained to the same uniform box. A dystopian revision of the REAR WINDOW scenario, THE DESIGN's darkly comic social critique still has teeth.

Three brothers each work in a different profession: the first is a police inspector, the second a translator, and the third a merchant. The police inspector succeeds in capturing (Valenery), the dangerous criminal wanted all over the world. The gang tries to rescue their top man, so they send two women to infiltrate the inspector’s family and break it apart in order to make their plan succeed.

Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Transposition of Arrigo Barnabé's song "Clara Crocodilo" to film, with cartoon visuals. Clara Crocodilo is considered to be the public enemy #1, and he's waiting his execution at a state penitentiary. Meanwhile, the Radio Interferência eloquently narrates his story. Some strange characters come forth and even some voodoo rituals are performed to help the anti-hero. He manages to escape and disappears in the dark alleys of the city.

Representative Diethard has given up. There is nothing left for the 40-year-old on the German marriage market. So he chooses an exotic woman from the catalog, has her flown in and marries her. But everyday life with Beanboat is disappointing...

A gong will never abolish chance? If chance is travesty of desire, and desire movement without measure, cinema is vibration of this desire in fugue.

A boy from the country arrives in Seoul to look for his former girlfriend and accepts a job working in the same bar as she does in order to keep an eye on her.

Filmmaker Rick Sloane cultivated his taste for pulp satire by producing fake trailers for non-existent Grindhouse style films such as Chainsaw Chicks, Amputee Hookers, Nightmare of the Lost Whores and Clown Whores of Hollywood.

The short film shows the process of oil extraction up to the delivery to the customer

Jojon and his girlfriend, Diah, work as assistant professors at the School of Future Movie Stars. The rector is Mrs. Marni and the students are Cahyono, Uuk, Djoni, Eddy Gombloh, Alicia Djohar and Deasy Surachman. The students always make fun of Jojon but he never gets angry. Once he sends for Gombloh’s father, Mr. Karto, who is a porridge seller. As a result, he has to pay compensation to Mr. Karto, who was not able to sell anything for the whole day. The story ends with the wedding of Jojon and Diah. Apparently, the film was made to tap the popularity of the comedy quartet, Jojon and friends, and the film is not very different from what they usually perform on stage.

A ghost falls in love with the daughter of the owner of an old mansion, but her fiancé will fight to make sure the ghost leaves them alone.

The turbulent year of 1918 was the first year of civil war in the Caucasus. Upon learning that her husband had been arrested and sent to prison, teacher Maryamik decided to rescue Arsen. Together with her aunt Anahit, she sets out to search for her husband. This difficult journey becomes a path to enlightenment for Maryam. Finally finding her husband and learning that his arrest was not politically motivated, she is given the opportunity to rescue one person from prison, but instead of Arsen, she saves Savely, who has been sentenced to death.

In Search of Ladino follows Ladino speakers, their culture, their memories and hopes for their mother tongue. This unique film is one of the earliest works presenting Ladino-speaking Holocaust survivors in Israel, and it provides rare documentation of their testimonies and songs. Filmmaker David Perlov’s camera glances on the faces of the people, as he listens carefully to their stories and songs. The film was meant to be part of a trilogy about languages: Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino, but Perlov only managed to make the first film.

Two Brothers living in a small town gets themselves involved with a city girl escaping a crime syndicate.

A drama about gender roles and demands in everyday life.

Gunawan moves his troubled family (including an adulterous wife) into a new Dutch home that comes complete with a hidden treasure and ghosts.

Three philosophers huddled on a taxi backseat ride on a rainy day to a small town in the Galilee. The town prepares to confront them. The confrontation at the local community center leads to the question: is a civil war in Israel unavoidable?

Mehdi is madly in love with Goli; he follows her everywhere and, because of jealousy, murders Goli’s fiancée, Amir. Goli in search of Amir is confronted with Mehdi and raped. Mehdi is arrested and convicted, but because of lack of evidence he is released and again begins to hurt Goli.

A young man drives a truck loaded with dates from southern Morocco into Tangiers.

A giant statue of the letter "E" arrives in the park. One man sees it as "B"; they are preparing to cart him off to the looney bin when a doctor arrives and determines the man needs glasses. Then the king arrives...

Compilation of some of the best moments in the career of Brazilian comedy group "Os Trapalhões", with scenes from their previous films, also telling the story of each individual artist.

Propaganda movie produced by GDR television on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

An Iranian Movie.

Compilation film by Jim Terry based on Daikyu Maru Gaiking "The most spectacular tale of space adventure ever told. Travel the cosmos and witness the startling powers of GAIKING, the mighty flying warrior as he comes to the aid of a defenseless planet Earth overcome by the evil king Davius and the dark horacore. Together with the mystical space dragon, GAIKING soars to the rescue battling all barriers of evil. Watch all the in-terstellar excitement of futurism at its best." - Back of the VHS cover description. Not to be confused with any of the 3 compilation films from William Winckler.

On a mountain climbing trip, a man falls into a mysterious forest. In a trance, he beholds a woman in white approaching. Tempted to stay but yearns to escape, he repeats this cycle day and night. Failing to locate the exit, he gradually wanes and ages, finding himself lost both in the forest and in time.

Sample of diverse folk songs interpreted by well-known figures of the genre.

Registration of the second Kinderen voor Kinderen-concertshow. In this annual event, the Dutch children's choir 'Kinderen Voor Kinderen' performs 12 songs based on ideas sent in by children. The songs make up an album from which the proceeds go to a good cause, namely collecting toys for children in Third World Countries.

Titoism abused the school system, as well as all institutions of culture and media in order to create obedient subjects who do not have their own opinion about reality and who live in a fictitious world of ideological constructions. Children from eight-year schools are forced to quote by heart the values ​​of the so-called self-governing socialism as their own. This is the best way to create generations of conformists who the so-called elites can rule.

A detective tries to find out how a couple wins a lot of money every night at the casino.

Presents a glimpse of Waldorf principles through scenes filmed at the San Francisco Waldorf Kindergarten.

This documentary is a portrait made in Mexico by a group of Argentine exiles, directed by the painter Nicolás Amoroso.

Two short stories tell about a little bear named Pyatnashka, who learns about the world around him.

A tribute to F1 pilot Patrick Depailler.

In a mill, far from people, lives a miller with her daughter Vojtěška. There is no man's hand here, but behind the dam of the pond lives a waterman, who does not leave the miller without help in difficult times. When the mill is most busy, unexpected help appears - a young traveler. Yesterday Vojtěška claimed that such a person had not yet been born, so that she could only look at him with her eyes. But today, under the full moon, a reed sings to her, so it is no wonder that she cannot sleep...