Cinematic Era: 1982 Vintage

A drama film directed by Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker Peter Yung

Hong Kong film

The close ties and cooperation between the border troops of the GDR and the people of Thuringia are shown

Said, an eight-year-old boy, is tasked with returning his mother's caftan to the tailor. On his way back, he steals the caftan. Fearing his mother's punishment, Said travels from Salé, where he lives, to the neighboring city of Rabat with his aunt to ask for help. During this journey, Saeed discovers another side of the city and society...

An opera film based on a novel by Hermann Hesse.

A man trying to get through the Paris traffic meets a woman, somewhere between dream and reality.

Animated short showing us a day in the life of a mosquito.

Filmed performance of Lindsay Kemp's free adaptation of Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers.

A onetime documentary directed by Moti Kirschenbaum who follows the history and the problems of living in the holy land. Following writer Amos Kenan and songwriter Naomi Shemer, the two discuss the meaning to live in the land of Israel.

Rosella Hightower teaches the role Aurora in Tchaikovsky's' Sleeping Beauty' to Elisabeth Platel.

Television film

Film essay on Holger Meins, Gerd Conradt's former colleague who died on hunger strike in 1975.

Mauro betrays his wife Luisa by lying about traveling. Luisa suffers an accident and meets João Paulo, for whom she falls in love.

With excerpts from Goethe's diary, sketches and engravings, this film follows Goethe's Italian Journey through Rome, Naples and Pompeii.

8mm, independent film produced by Zeze at the age of 22.

The viewer sees self-portraits of Tone Fink joined to each other, beginning with skin relics which are seen again in later scenes. A visual and oral show results through the use of self-made paper skins, image collages, dolls, garments and apparatuses.

A film that takes laundry seriously as a form of folk art, a fraught social signifier and lens for women to reflect on the joys, pains and ambivalences of household chores.

The action takes place in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna in years 1932 and 1933, a time when the great Bulgarian revolutionary and internationalist Georgi Dimitrov was actively involved in establishing a broad alliance of democratic forces against the emerging threat of war and fascism.

A look at how the director perceives people sometimes see him, and he them.

This portrait, drawn by Wolf Gremm, shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor— taking the leading role in the film "Kamikaze 1989", also directed by Wolf Gremm— and as a director working on "Querelle", his adaptation of the work by Jean Genet.

The first all women climbing film. Lynn Hill and Beth Bennet make the first female free ascent of the Naked Edge, Eldorado Canyon, Colorado. A film by Robert Carmichael and Greg Lowe produced by Sports Imagery

Cartoon for children based on the tale of the same name by K. I. Chukovskiy.

A film about the shamanic traditions of the peoples of Siberia.

The Captain Berlin character was created by Buttgereit in the early 1980s and first appeared in his Super 8 short film CAPTAIN BERLIN - RETTER DER WELT (CAPTAIN BERLIN SAVES THE WORLD). In this film, Buttgereit himself plays Captain Berlin in a yellow jumpsuit with red briefs worn on the outside, capped off by a Spiderman mask and a repurposed flag worn as a cape. Clearly the product of a punk sensibility slamming head-on into a love of the 1960s "Batman" teevee show. The film is funny to watch but low on stuff like "production values," "plot," and "sense."

A comedy about a man who struggles with a refrigerator that is trying to run his life. Originally 16mm.

A satirical comedy about the monotonous, boring and largely meaningless life of small officials in a certain provincial town.

Short film by Burghard Schlicht with the magnificent Eddie Constantine.

Documentary poetic essay about the noted music composer Jaroslav Krček and his work with the folklore ensembles Chorea Bohemica and Musica Bohemica in processing old Czech and Moravian folk ballads.

A series of six opening logos and one closing logo produced as part of the NFB's contribution to the Ottawa '82 International Animation Film Festival.

A 73-minute edit of the original three hours long Prince Charming Revue live spectacle.

A collective farm president is deserted by his bride 2 days after the wedding. A comedic radiography of village life.

A man visits a deserted archaeological museum when all of a sudden he starts aging rapidly.

Returning home after serving in the army, Nur Rajabov learns that his wife left him for the director of the state farm Nakhimov. Rajabov's relationship with Nizamov and his relatives became even more complicated after Nur met and fell in love with Mamina, the fiancee of Naimov's brother...

Pixilation. Sleeping, cooking, resolving to quit smoking. (Liz Coffey)

A story about the loneliness, alienation, fear and nervousness of modern man.

A yeshiva student sets out to help his disco singer brother find a wife, and ends up entangled in complicated love triangle in Israel's first Yiddish-language film/musical.