All Films

La fille du soleil

1987 • 4 min

Liberated Don Quixote

1987 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Russian stop motion animation depicting the court of the Duke and Duchess as they mock and abuse the titular hero.

The Fellow Countryman

1987 • 28 min • Soviet Union

Two countrymen meet by chance in a big city. One of them left the village long ago and settled in the city. The other just arrived in town...The clash of characters and life circumstances can dramatically change a person's destiny. How to find your place in this world? How to hear the voice of your heart?

Black Fragments of Samba - Paulo Moura, Infinite Music

1987 • 56 min

Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and maestro, Paulo Moura, talks about his influences and show his passion for the samba.

Cidadão Jatobá

1987 • 14 min • Brazil

Two Lawalapiti young men from Alto Xingu learn to build a canoe from the bark of the jatobá tree, a quick and simple technique that leaves the tree still rooted and alive, and that has ceased to be used and is only known by the oldest Lawalapiti men.

From the Archives of Modern Art

1987 • 18 min

In this work of documentary fiction, an archivist attempts to put together the "lost years" of Eleanor Antinova, the once-celebrated black ballerina of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, when she returned to her native America to eke out a meager living in vaudeville and early cinema. Eleanor Antin uses fictional characters, autobiography, and narrative to invent histories and explore what she calls "the slippery nature of the self".

Once I Was a Child

1987 • 17 min • East Germany, Germany

The interviews conducted by Tamara Trampe in a Pankow kindergarten testify to a rare attempt to enter the world of the young interviewees completely, to give their stories a space where reality and fantasy, worries and wishes can mix freely. A space that’s not always provided in the daily life of the kindergarten, as the film casually suggests even after it was toned down by the DEFA censors: toilets without doors, ghastly birthday parties and friendly but unmistakable reprimands when the children let too much dialect slip into the grammar exercise or when their pictures of soldiers are not realistic enough.

Vloof l'aigrette

1987 • 5 min

Outtakes from the film "Vloof l’aigrette - Pain de singe".

The Touge

1987 • 23 min • Japan

Early drift VHS featuring "Dorikin" Keiichi Tsuchiya.

Atsuku naru made matenai Sawaki Yūko

1987 • 30 min • Japan

To a detective, a woman recounts how she escaped from a killer in a hockey mask. The killer had followed her and her boyfriend to a cabin for the summer...

A Woman's Guide to Firearms

1987 • 59 min

Host Gerald McRaney, star of television's "Simon and Simon", leads you through an entertaining, step-by-step, easily understood program, providing a full understanding in the fundamentals of firearms for the beginner as well as the more experienced shooter.

Brytpunkt-87

1987 • 59 min • Sweden

An examination of the music life in Stockholm and Gothenburg, what is the same and what is different?

Ivan and Matryona

1987 • 35 min • Soviet Union

Based on Russian fairytales.

Girls' Gang

1987 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Scene follows a group of five friends - Teresa, Lisa, Marlene, Caroline and Susan through a week of their lives. How does each of them fit into the group, and what do they get out of it?

The Cook Report: Child Pornography

1987 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Roger Cook investigations and confronts people who buy and sell child pornography.

Mit 15 schwanger?

1987 • 21 min • East Germany

Contraception as a joint task of the couple and the avoidance of pregnancy during adolescence are the subject of the film based on interviews with young people and medical expert statements. Two doctors and a qualified medical practitioner provide information in a club for 15-year-old teenagers.

Older Women and Love

1987 • 26 min • United States of America

Using interviews and dramatizations, this film achieves a touching and often humorous look at social attitudes towards relationships between older women and younger men. The filmmakers are involved on both sides of the camera as they direct their multi-racial cast in an insightful profile of older-younger relationships. Their subjects are candid and comfortable discussing the joys and problems of loving someone of a different generation.

Lit Flat

1987 • 49 min

Filmed in a small, upper story flat in Sydney. An exploration of light, space and surface tension.

Nina Simone: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1987

1987 • 14 min

On July 10, 1987, Nina Simone performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, one of the most prestigious annual music events in the world.

Los Angeles Lakers: '87 The Drive For Five

1987 • 60 min

The video takes you threw the Lakers run to the 1987 NBA Finals! This video includes Lakers summary threw the regular season. All-Star weekend. Playoffs. And NBA Finals Lakers vs Celtics with the lakers climbing on top 4-2.

The Imprint

1987 • 5 min • Romania

An animation with Gopo's Little Man.

Hot and Glossy Shower Starting from Morning

1987 • 30 min • Japan

Hiromi was in the bath when she was pulled into the devil's hand from the bubbles. She struggled and escaped onto the water, and found herself on a grassland, where she was attacked. When she came to, she was in a strange room with candles lit. Wine was poured all over her body...

My Puberty

1987 • 11 min • United States of America

Segalove re-enacts the trials and travails of her desperate, hormonal, pubescent years with actors dancing their way through what looks like a techni-color version of the Cleaver’s backyard. She plays herself, getting questionable advice from girlfriends, begging her mother for a bra and falling in love for the first time, with Moondoggie in Gidget Goes Hawaiian.

Chutes de Tranches

1987 • 7 min • France