All Films

What Sex Am I?

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

A group of transgender individuals are struggling to make their way in every stratum of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, "What Sex Am I?"

How the Hedgehog and the Bear-Cub Changed the Sky

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Hedgehog and Bear shivered from cold at the leaves strewn yard where shrill and angry wind was blowing. Friends decided to go to an abandoned house, where they found a lot of interesting things. They saw a sheet of paper on which a sunny and hot day was painted. Spreading it, they found summer and after taking the sunbath, Hedgehog and Bear continued their fascinating experiments with the weather.

Wow, Butter Week!

1985 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A clever boy punishes a greedy landlord. Based on the Armenian folk tale by Hovhannes Tumanyan.

Como la sombra tenue de una hoja

1985 • 16 min • Argentina

A rigorous mother, two brothers bonded by their passion for music and the intrusion of a girl violinist who interferes in their relationship.

Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

1985 • 60 min

Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow tribe's turbulent past with modern-day accounts from Robert Yellow-tail, a 97-year-old Crow leader and a major reason for the tribe's survival. Poverty and isolation combine with outside pressures to undermine the tribe, but they resist defeat as "Contrary Warriors," defying the odds.

Cockerel

1985 • 11 min • Soviet Union

A chicken dreams of becoming a rooster.

La Negrita: the Miracle of Our Lady of Los Angeles

1985 • 39 min • Costa Rica

Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini explores the religious myth of Latin America: the apparition of the Virgin.

The Imp With A Bushy Tail

1985 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The Smiths: Studio 54 In Barcelona

1985 • 54 min

This concert was filmed and seven songs ("Hand In Glove", "Handsome Devil", "Barbarism Begins At Home", "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now", "Rusholme Ruffians", "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Miserable Lie") were shown in a Spanish one-hour special on the Smiths titled Arsenal. The special also included interviews with Morrissey and Johnny Marr as well as studio songs.

He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special

1985 • 44 min • United States of America

In this special Christmas episode of the He-Man and She-Ra cartoons, their sidekick Orko accidentally gets beamed to Earth during a test of a new spy satellite. Orko manages to get back Planet Eternia, but brings along two Earth children, Alisha and Manuel, with him. Since it's Christmastime on Earth, the kids are naturally filled with the holiday spirit, but this overflowing goodwill attracts the unwelcome attention of the Horde Prime and Skeletor. Will the combined power of He-Man, She-Ra and the spirit of Christmas be enough to stop them?

Giordano

1985 • 1 min • Canada

An animated film promoting the value of freedom of expression as stipulated in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Beaver Gets a Boner

1985 • 20 min

Michael Lehmann's 1985 USC student film.

That Fertile Feeling

1985 • 10 min • United States of America

Two female friends watch porn until one of them has a baby.

Be Prepared to Speak

1985 • 26 min • United States of America

Instructional Video on how to prepare and present a speech publicly.

Swabbies

1985 • 25 min

An unreleased Disney animated featurette that never got completed. The basic premise of "Swabbies" was a retread of "Stripes," the classic Bill Murray/Harold Ramis comedy. The story found our heroes, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy out of work, out of luck and in need of a job. They end up enlisting in the Navy and going to boot camp with Pete as their exasperated drill instructor and then meet their feminine counterparts, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, and Clarabelle Cow. Once they put to sea, they encounter a submarine full of the Beagle Boys.

Dawning

1985 • 5 min • Sweden

A little boy wakes up before dawn. As he walks out in the suburb on his own, he finds out that nothing is like it used to be.

The Big Snit

1985 • 10 min • Canada

A couple has a fight over a game of Scrabble unaware that a full-scale nuclear war has started.

Sweet F.A.

1985 • 40 min

Documentary following Fascinating Aïda, the British comedy singing group and satirical cabaret act

Free Cinema, 1956 - ? An Essay on Film by Lindsay Anderson

1985 • 54 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about the history of the Free Cinema movement, made by one of it's greatest proponents, Lindsay Anderson, to commemorate British Film Year in 1985. Produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Unlike Richard Attenborough's celebratory episode of the same series, or Alan Parker's more aggressive show, which was balanced between celebrating the greats and attacking Parker's bugbears, Greenaway and Jarman and the BFI, Anderson's show accentuates the negative, painting an image of a British cinema in terminal artistic decline and trashing the ambitions and approach of British Film Year itself. It's mordantly funny and very savage.

Je Veux Le Soleil Debout

1985 • 43 min • Switzerland

There was a child, Stéphane Hiroz, who dreamed of birds, a child among many others, a child however very different from the others because he has Down syndrome. Integrated into his small mountain village, he lives like an ordinary boy. Thanks to his mother who refuses to exclude her disabled child and his brother the director Pierre-Antoine Hiroz who do everything to make him a fulfilled person, Stéphane discovers passions which become reality thanks to the love which surrounds him: the Opera, ski touring...

Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape

1985 • 13 min

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write

1985 • 52 min • United Kingdom

She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de lettres. In this interview, the late novelist and filmmaker talks openly about the hardship and the romance of her childhood in French Indochina, sharing how this period haunted her life and shaped her work. Excerpts from her films and readings from her books by actress Elizabeth Rider and Duras herself—including The Lover, winner of the Prix Goncourt and translated into more than forty languages—bring to life those formative years in Vietnam.

Un Image

1985 • 12 min • Japan

Canada Vignettes: The Move

1985 • 5 min

In this short documentary from the Canada Vignettes series, a Saskatchewan grain elevator is moved across the snow-covered prairie to a new home after nearly a half-century of use. The film follows the lifting and transporting of the 9-storey, 200-ton structure, and examines the feelings of the people as they witness the final passing of their town's one and only grain elevator.