All Films

Lesbians: The Invisible Minority

1981 • 27 min • United States of America

That special takes back to a time in San Francisco when Lesbians were creating their own separate restaurants, bookstores, bars and unique places they could define for themselves.

Cinématon n°106 : Jean-Luc Godard

1981 • 3 min • France

Kate and Anna McGarrigle

1981 • 28 min • Canada

A short documentary about singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle made by animator Caroline Leaf.

Hüsker Dü: Live in Minneapolis

1981 • 56 min • United States of America

Husker Du captured live at 7th Street Entry in 1981.

Sara

1981 • 14 min • France

Portrait of the filmmaker's mother during her visit to Paris.

Wahadełko

1981 • 55 min

Michal Szmańda suffers from epilepsy, depression and other conditions. He is cared for by his sister Aniela. The only bright ray in her life is the "garden" arranged in the kitchen. They do not live with their mother. When they were children, and this was in Stalinist times, the mother was a labor leader. Possessed by the new ideology, she neglected the house and children. When little Michael was sent to a sanatorium, his mother did not visit him at Christmas. This caused trauma for the rest of his life.

Nothing Scary

1981 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Two little boys face a paranormal entity in the form of gnomik.

Till We Meet Again

1981 • 46 min • Hong Kong

Faces & Places - Till We Meet Again is a Hong Kong made-for-TV-movie starring Andy Lau

Inhale-Exhale

1981 • 30 min • Poland

A ‘paradocumental’ by Dziworski & Rybczynski.

Mr. Vene's World

1981 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Filmmaker Mark Soosaar talks to a remarkable gentleman Leonhard Vene (1902 - 1994), a self-educated antiquity collector thirsty for knowledge. For his whole life Leonhard has lived in a manor where he has all his life collected. Beautiful old pieces of furniture fill the hall of the manor - the old man himself puts up with puritan conditions and lives in a small kitchen. He is always smiling and looks like he comes from the previous century.

Telly Savalas Looks at Aberdeen

1981 • 25 min • United Kingdom

The star of TV's Kojak takes a look at the history and attractions of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.

America Is Waiting

1981 • 4 min • United States of America

Stock footage edited with music to comment on American culture.

Perry Como's French-Canadian Christmas

1981 • 60 min

This televised Christmas special, filmed in Quebec, features the music of Perry Como and a number of guests.

Postcards II; Venus after Giorgione

1981 • 21 min • East Germany

Venus after Giorgione is the the second part of the "Over Paintings" (Uebermalungen) trilogy by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher). Using various methods of "painting over" or projecting on top of Giorgione's "Sleeping Venus," Boettcher alienates the work artistically. Venus' beauty is seen within a new context and is thereby newly interpreted through the eyes of STRAWALDE. The assorted landscapes behind Venus range from idyllic pastorales to morbid backgrounds. STRAWALDE's art knows no boundaries and makes a strong impression on the viewer with bizarre sound collages.

Syn človeka

1981 • 57 min • Czechoslovakia

If I Were Older

1981 • 7 min • Bulgaria

The Devil's Workshop

1981 • 26 min • France

In a small fishing village in the West Indies, the children believe they see, in a strange cabin located on the way to the school, a devil.

The Old Man and the Enemy

1981 • 28 min • Albania

World War II. Italian fascists have interned in the South a lot of people who fought them on the 7th of April 1939 when they came to Albania. Among them, there's an old man whom they call "Daja" (uncle), who fought along with the youth.

Them

1981 • 4 min

A surreal look at humanity, from the first life on Earth, through to the extinction of dinosaurs and the inventions of mankind.

A Gift of Harvest

1981 • 22 min

Ylê Xoroquê

1981 • 34 min

The process of formation of the person and its identity from an African conception of the world. The orixás (gods), linked to the forces of nature, are equal to people, and are not transcendent. of the person with their orixá, within the family and the culture. Filmed in a Candomblé terreiro of Bantu origin.

Life and Death in A Pond

1981 • 15 min • Canada

An educational film about the life cycles of various types of pond life.

W trawie nie tylko piszczy...

1981 • 9 min • Poland

A horror movie takes place in the microcosm of grass. When magnified, the world of plants, insects and wild animals appears to be full of cruelty and unimaginable shapes. A change of scale would be enough to make a man tremble with fear for his life.

Fothergill

1981 • 60 min

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.