All Films

The Human Face of the Pacific: Fiji. Legacies of Empire

1983 • 26 min • Australia

People whose family originated in India comprise just over half of Fiji’s population. Indians came to Fiji in colonial times under an indentured labour system to work in the sugar cane fields. Some indigenous Fijians wish to repossess the land now worked by the Indians and this results in Indians feeling insecure about their livelihood. The film looks at the life of Bechu Prasad, an old Indian man, who has lived in Fiji all his life in a large extended family of which he is now head. We watch him at work on his self-owned sugar cane farm and in his position as well-respected community leader who gets on well with both Indian and indigenous Fijians.

Inside Story

1983 • 8 min

The first boroscoped art video, incorporating footage of the videomaker's cervix.

Mika Waltari elokuvakirjailijana

1983 • 57 min • Finland

Mika Waltari's novels, short stories, plays or screenplays are the basis for 33 Finnish films. Director Matti Kassila introduces Waltari's role in films.

God's Banker

1983 • 60 min • United States of America

On this Frontline episode, Jeremy Paxman explores the career of banker Roberto Calvi, his relations with the Holy See and secret Italian society, and the mystery of his June 1982 death.

El ojo de la tormenta

1983 • 16 min

Matías is a young man with financial problems who frequently goes to Charo to ask for money. They have relationships that are not easy; reproaches and irony appear in each encounter. Matías accidentally discovers a somewhat special way of solving his monetary situation. Meanwhile, a Basque industrialist has been kidnapped

Winter Cowboy

1983 • 6 min

An elderly couple, reminiscing about their long-lost youth, comes across an advertisement for a new technological invention that promises to reverse the aging process. Intrigued, they pay a visit to the scientist who invented it, but things don’t go as expected.

Kate Asabuki Blue Experience PART-1 LET’S Marine LOVE

1983 • 45 min • Japan

Kate lies on the beach under the clear blue sky of the tropics, exposing her dynamite body to the sun. She meets a young man selling popsicles. The young man has been hired as a guide. He witnesses a girl being gang-raped in a hut. The girl is called Maria and is embraced by all the men in the village. At the request of the young man, he indulges in intense sex on the beach. And instead of the girl, he is gang-raped by the men...

Den sista båten

1983 • 59 min • Sweden

The wharf in Landskrona launches its final boat as the workers get ready for unemployment.

Once Upon a Time There Were Thoughts...

1983 • 11 min • Soviet Union

About thoughts different in character and mood that create a unique atmosphere around. The wonderful idea brings a light disorder, the funny one caused people to enjoy, the evil thought gave suffering, the kind one was healing them from any kind of adversity, but the foolish one often left scratches and bad consequences behind. They all lived fairly close to each other, but at the same time, their interests did not coincide, so sometimes they had to fight...

Renaud - Morgane de toi

1983 • 6 min • France

The Day Of Luck

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About the acquaintance of Topa and Tutti, a cute and shy hippo and a good, but also very proud kitten. Until they met, they dreamed of finding friends, because they were very lonely. And then they met one day! Now they are will have funny stories and adventures, and most importantly – sincere friendship.

Vernadsky's Law

1983 • 46 min • Soviet Union

We rush to search for the truth in distant lands, but it often turns out that its solution lives next to us. We drive along Vernadsky Avenue without thinking about what secrets these scientists have discovered, because we get used to words without thinking about their meaning.

American Dance Machine Presents a Celebration of Broadway Dance

1983 • 60 min

Dance routines from some of Broadway's greatest musicals (including The Boyfriend, Carousel, Finian's Rainbow, George M and Shenandoah) are recreated.

The Very Old Fairy Tale

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale about a narcissistic Kolobok who didn't appreciate anyone. Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a grandmother. They lived well, but they had no children and were sad about it. One day grandmother found some flour and baked a Kolobok from it, and it jumped off the stove and came to life. Grandfather and grandmother were happy that they had an heir, and he looked like his grandfather. They began to love him, feed and pamper him. And they decided that it was time for the kolobok to go out and help them, the old people. The colobok heard this, was indignant, saying that he was not born to work, he was born so beautiful, and left them. Who will he meet on his way?

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

1983 • 46 min • Sweden

A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.

The Trip to Deauville

1983 • 31 min

One afternoon in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 18-year-old Philippe meets 16-year-old Frédéric. Their eyes meet, they talk and decide to spend a sensemble weekend in Deauville. But it's not that easy to get to know each other. From surprises to concessions, this weekend teaches them how difficult it is to understand each other and not waste the pleasures that come our way; and that sometimes, at the end of the day, we'd like to do the trip all over again, in reverse.

Death to Slaves

1983 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

A documentary video presenting a concert by the Laibach group at the 1982 Novi Rock festival. A video as a document on the beginnings of the controversial band with its original members.

The Daydreamer

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A boy fantasizes about his female classmate, inspired by a letter she's received from her father who works in the far-away Arctic.

A Man Called Air

1983 • 50 min • Yugoslavia

Josip Kopinič, a Slovenian communist and close associate of Josip Broz Tito, tells about his experiences as a Soviet intelligence officer.

Portrait of an Assassin

1983 • 10 min

Shot on Super 8 film in 1983 (as a college project), this political-thriller was made on the campus of Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. The movie takes place in Canada, and is the story of a hit man (played by Peter Coston) hired to take out a controversial Canadian politician.

Greetings from New York

1983 • 28 min

Obscure documentary from 1983 with segments on downtown fashion designers, graffiti artists, and the hardcore scene.

Où sont-elles donc ?

1983 • 12 min • France

Beats of the Heart: The Two Faces of Thailand A Musical Portrait

1983 • 60 min

Even today, at the king of Thailands birthday celebrations, massed bands play His Majesty’s own compositions, whilst the King plays his clarinet in the royal recording studio. But the musical underbelly of the country had never been exposed before this film, which - by contrast - captures the cabarets and boxing rings of Thailand, and the true street-level music.

Baby in a Rage

1983 • 9 min • United States of America

A documentary of an Amish pig auction in Kalona, Iowa.