Cinematic Era: 1982 Vintage

Mockumentary about an incident involving huge amounts of light and energy.

About how the boy's fantasies made him strong and brave.

A choreography for a white line.

based on the book by Tomie dePaola

An assessment of the situation of Italian private television, which has developed from a regional communication medium into a commercial enterprise.

Sringara Masa is a Kannada romantic film directed by Pattabhirama Reddy and produced by Nandana Ishtiliya. The film stars Amol Palekar and Deepa Dhanraj in the lead roles.

Cuban workers remember Che Guevara. They testify to his relationship with the workers, his good example, and his great capacity for work.

The story of the unexplained circumstances surrounding the death of 13-year-old Romek Strzałkowski, who died in Poznań in June 1956.

Nameless monologues against the backdrop of a bustling city and relatives seeing off to a medical-labor prophylactic center.

Two competitive advertising executives put business aside during a 400-mile bike race from San Francisco to Malibu.

A showcase of what Ireland has to offer as a tourist destination.

Joan Tewkesbury reflects on her collaboration with Robert Altman and her first feature, Old Boyfriends (1979). This excerpt, from an unfinished working print by Katja Raganelli for the 2024 Robert Altman retrospective at the Munich Film Museum, serves as a starting point to explore her production process, how she found collaborators like Tewkesbury, her development of project ideas from these encounters, and why some projects never reached completion.

An expedition to a peculiar small town where even the swans swim backwards and water in puddles is antimatter.

BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

A 1982 documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Norman is on his way to a doctor's appointment, where he is diagnosed with hyperactivity disorder. This film examines how diet and exercise can impact the behavior and physiology of an individual, and describes how blood sugar fluctuations can lead to agitation, moodiness and attention deficiencies.

During Carnival in Rio de Janeiro a group of men follows the tradition of dressing up as a woman. Only some of them started timidly, a few members of a circle, but the custom has been expanding year by year to become legion. Their wives help them to get the costume, but husbands usually prefer to go to the parade without them.

Nostalgic old postcards in a not so nostalgic bawdy collage birthday present for the star of MOTHERLOVE.

A story about a poor man who finds a way out of his situation by escaping into dreams and desires. The screenplay is based on the short story "A Little Sun" by the contemporary Syrian writer Zekerija Tamir.

The history of the Hungarian National Football Team which was among the very best of the world in the early 50s.

Karola Bloch talks about her marriage with Ernst Bloch and shares her views on the current state of communism.

David Hepworth introduces part of a live concert by Squeeze from 1982 at the Regal Theatre in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

One day, trouble came to the palace — the beautiful princess fell seriously ill. The doctor said that only the juice of a magic pomegranate can cure her. And only a person with a kind heart and pure, sincere thoughts can get it.

1982 short experimental film by Linda Christanell

The unpredictable Gallagher is back in action for this comedy special, taped live at the Mayfair Music Hall in Santa Monica, California.

An avant garde narrative about two couples breaking up.

A generation gap and the trauma of a broken home against the reckless passion of young love.

In Leven met de belt (Life With A Rubbish Heap), filmmaker Rosemarie Blank portrays with great empathy the residents of the Volgermeerpolder near Broek in Waterland in The Netherlands. They live with the physical and psychological consequences of a toxic waste dump on their doorstep.

About the problems and questions that arise when a young person becomes an adult, what occupies his thoughts, what is important in meetings with other people, how he searches for his own place in life, how he handles the meeting with love and the person who becomes the most important there. When the film is shot, the rock singer Hasse is 24 years old; he lives in Stockholm. The camera follows him through his days, to the rock club, to the stage, to meetings with friends, parents and girls. He meets Johanna, who is 16, and what is called infatuation, eventually love, arises. How does Hasse now create a place for himself in life, how do they build up their community? Both are big-city children, raised in welfare Sweden, which perhaps no longer provides welfare but has created an emptiness, a meaninglessness.

Blind love is a passion that eludes temperance and plunges lovers into a darkness that is luminous. In the film, we MAY see the light of their ecstasy. This is no pretty picture: sensuality, desire, pain and loss, all flash and spend their rhythms before the orgasm subsides. The film has been made as a work of silence and of music.

Surrealist tale about ambitions and self-demand, in a world of triumphalism, humiliation, longing and frustration

A man and a woman fall in love, and get involved in a crime story.

Experimental filmmaker Robert Nelson brings his characteristic wit to this restaging of the famous “play rehearsal” scene from Hamlet, breaking down the barriers between film, theatre, performance, and creation. “Hamlet Act demonstrates what can be done when a film text is made to oppose a theatrical text, creating a new synthesis. . . Hamlet, caught in the web of psychological forces, is seen through his position between film/video/theatre, as a metaphor for contemporary technology.

The dramatic story of a group of young people’s response to a desperate teen’s cry for help.

A goofy student is taught a lost martial art style by five ghosts.

An enthusiastic grandfather sits with children in a Parisian park talking about pigeons. First. their physical appearance—eye, wings and tail, and color—and their varieties. Then, he encourages the children to imitate their walk. He points out courtship and mating rituals, then provides an illustrated discussion of how they eat. This section is punctuated by a flock of pigeons fighting over a small, hard ball each wants to eat; the narrator's describes it as if it were a soccer match. He concludes with a discussion of pigeons taking off, landing, and flying; he uses slow motion and stop-time photography to show his audience.

A German Film Award winning documentary.

A sequel to A FAMILY ALL TOGETHER.

Traces the 2,000-mile, 15-day voyage of the Freya, a small three-hulled sailing ship, from the Bahamas to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, following the path of the Gulf Stream. Uses animation, infrared satellite transmissions, and time-lapse photography to explain the origin, nature, and importance of the current, as well as its oceanographic, meteorologic, and ecological aspects.

Sixth-grader Tolegen comes from the village to visit his relatives in the city to study at a mathematics school. Having mixed up the address, he ends up in the Rakhmetov family, who mistook him for their distant relative.

Channel 4 documentary on the rastafarian poet which marked his TV debut.

BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

A look at British involvement in the construction of the new double-track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbour, to the Chinese border.

Under the water of the dam Miguel Alemán rest the remains of the ancestors of the Mazatec people of San José Independencia and its surroundings.

A vast power plant is being built on the Drina River. This river has been famous for hundreds of years old tradition of rafting. In this way timber is transported downstream to Belgrade. This is a very dangerous profession where only qualified and experienced workers survive. Work on constructing the dam connects two heroes in this story – Bogdan, one of the last rafting masters on the Drina and Dragoljub, one of the oldest explosive experts who has been building dams all over the world. This is a film story about their long lives, happy days and disappointments, about the friendship that is born in the shadow of an enormous dam.

Documentary about celebrated racing tipster Phil Bull, with dramatised parts illustrating his career.