All Films

Lily for President?

1982 • 50 min

Comedian Lily Tomlin stars in this comical farce which deals with her experiences running for the office of President of the United States.

Round Trip to Glasgow

1982 • 14 min • United Kingdom

British Transport film.

L'Art d'exposer

1982 • 45 min • France

Afternoon

1982 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A couple of old friends drown their sorrows together while reveling in the naivety of a young newly-wed.

The First Ball

1982 • 32 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary about the first football competition in Macedonia.

The Helm of Destiny

1982 • 59 min • United States of America

This cinematic journey in time and space is aiming to research the history of Ukrainian emigration to the United States, and to highlight the active members of the Ukrainian community. Following a brief historical introduction, we get to see an impressive gallery of Ukrainians of different professions – from a farmer to a spacecraft engineer – speaking out about their life experience, their roots, and their take on self-identification. Among the personalities featured in the film, there are famous artists, such as Jacques Hnizdovsky, and a celebrated American actor of Ukrainian decent Jack Palance, who is also narrating the picture.

Great Tailor

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The plot of the film deals with the eternal theme, the fight between good and evil. The negative character is a man in black who tries to hinder the Tailor's creative work.

Phantasmagoria Theater

1982 • 2 min • Japan

An 8mm animated short that was produced by Hiroshi Harada in his early college years.

Ottawa 82 Logo

1982 • 5 min • Canada

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.

Mona

1982 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A teenage girl takes care of a former soldier suffering from the effects of being gassed in the First World War.

Hanna's Ark Christmas Special

1982 • 23 min • United States of America

The Hanna family sit around the Christmas tree and reflect back on scenes from the show Hanna's Ark. Co-starred Jack Hanna and his daughter Kathaleen – with regular appearances by his wife Suzi and younger daughters Suzanne and Julie.

Souvenirs from Hebron

1982 • 13 min

Three IDF soldiers on a routine patrol in the early 1980s in occupied Hebron.

Where Did the Moon Go?

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

One day, a little fox did not see the moon in the sky, with which he loved to play. No one in the forest could explain to him what happened to the moon until the new moon was born and the fairy tale came to life again.

Chess

1982 • 3 min • United States of America

Sherman underscores the oppositional component of the board game with split screen techniques and evocative black and white graphics.

Clint Eastwood: Director

1982 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Documentary shot during the production of Firefox.

Dis

1982 • 22 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary by Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic about Serbian impressionist poet Vladislav Petkovic Dis.

Let It Rain, Let It Rain!

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Little Thunder dreams of growing up and wants to thunder and cause rain. For now, Grandpa Thunder does not allow him to do this and instructs him only to look for places on Earth where rain is needed.

Uczennica

1982 • 57 min

Based on the diaries he has obtained, a young journalist tries to recreate the struggle of sixteen-year-old Hania with the German occupier.

Miss Switch to the Rescue

1982 • 43 min • United States of America

One dark and stormy night, Rupert is called on by a mysterious stranger who gives him a ship in a bottle...with a tiny living man onboard! He frees the man, who turns out to be the evil warlock, Mordo, who kidnaps Amelia and takes her back in time to 1640. Rupert calls on Miss Switch for help in this new adventure.

Five Go Mad in Dorset

1982 • 30 min • United Kingdom

In the 1950s, four children, Anne, described as a 'proper little housewife', the rather butch George who has an unhealthy relationship with her dog Timmy and their brothers Dick and Julian, whose relationship seems to be more than fraternal, go on a cycling holiday in Dorset where their flair for detection - plus their snobbery and xenophobia - gets a whole string of suspicious characters arrested.

Northern Lights

1982 • 53 min • United Kingdom

A middle-aged doctor has an affair with the student actor she's housing during the Edinburgh Festival.

Secret of the Yellow Bush

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Promises Promises...

1982 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Features the 07.55 from Sheffield to St Pancras. The camera follows to Leicester, where a young man is late for a job interview thanks to a variety of incidents including a freight train blocking the line and an improperly secured door at Derby. The film is a modernised version of an older theme for British Transport 'Right Time Means Right Time', where the accumulation of many minor delays on the part of BR staff soon add up down the line to make a train very late.

At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden

1982 • 44 min • Germany

A portrait cut for television using takes not used for the film “Leuchtturm des Chaos“. According to Bühler, the film was considered unsuitable: “A two-hour film with a drunk who constantly drinks and smokes in front of the camera and smokes hashish and speaks obscene words.”