All Films

Pie With a Laughingstock

1980 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Follows the amazing city of Smekhograd. The day of Laughter and Fun came to Smekhograd and a carnival was announced. All the inhabitants of this magical city began to diligently prepare for the holiday and make funny masks. Only the three-headed Dragon was unhappy with the upcoming holiday and decided to ruin it.…

Our Friend Read'n'Write 3

1980 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Kolya puts the words together incorrectly and calls Queen Typo. The third issue of the animated series about the basics of grammar.

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

1980 • 5 min • Canada

In this animated short, Evelyn Lambart uses her well-known style of animation – paper figures and brightly colored backgrounds – to revisit Aesop’s tale of 2 mice with vastly different lifestyles. Ultimately, the film suggests it is far better to live simply and in peace than to live in luxury amidst danger.

Klyaksa

1980 • 2 min • Soviet Union

How a dog learned to play the piano.

Legends of the Fall

1980 • 23 min • United States of America

A documentary from NFL Films celebrating the legendary quarterbacks and running backs who defined pro football in the mid-20th century. Featuring archival footage and dramatic narration, “Legends of the Fall” pays tribute to the athletes whose skill and toughness helped build the NFL’s legacy. Players like Johnny Unitas, Jim Brown, Gale Sayers, and Bart Starr are profiled in this classic retrospective.

Nine Days and a Lifetime

1980 • 31 min • Soviet Union

Follows the life feat of doctor L.S.Soboleva, who saved people during three outbreaks of the plague.

Gidget Meets Hondo

1980 • 8 min • United States of America

Filmed in response to the LAPD’s shooting of Eulia Love in 1979, Gidget Meets Hondo opens with stills taken by Bernard Nicolas of a demonstration against Love’s killing. Nicolas’ Gidget is a self-absorbed young white woman who remains clueless to the violence erupting around her, ultimately to her own peril. The film asks whether such police brutality would be tolerated if the victim were a middle-class white woman.

Gui Daò - Sur la voie - Une gare sur le Yangzi

1980 • 59 min • Canada

This documentary reveals something of the Chinese temperament through a visit to a seemingly ordinary railway station. Then we start to wonder. What does the “moving red flag” mean? Who are these Orientals, so patient in waiting, so concerned with order and the public good? Astonishment is followed by sympathy for the spontaneity and humor of these Chinese who, like us, share the same hopes and concerns.

Tryam! Hello!

1980 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Today is the Hare’s birthday, and the Hedgehog is picking daisies as a gift for him. Meanwhile, the Bear Cub is telling the Hedgehog about a magical land called Tilimilitryamdiya, which he spent the whole night imagining.

Emergence Of Eunice

1980 • 5 min

A wryly ironic, deadpan voice-over belies the anxieties, fears and obsessions in the everyday life of a misunderstood adolescent; whose most intimate relationship is with her diary. A spare graphic style, an animation variant on New Wave / Punk, is powerfully effective in conveying unarticulated emotions. Felt tip on paper, backlit.

Hesther for Example

1980 • 60 min

Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.

Little Stork

1980 • 40 min • Soviet Union

A story about the adventures of a rural boy, the unassuming inventor and the dreamer. A young, inventive designer is interested in “new solutions”, which he will often get from adults.

Fish Heads

1980 • 5 min • United States of America

"Roly Poly" and delicious to eat. The verses describe various things they (mostly) cannot do such as play baseball, wear sweaters, play the drums, and drink cappuccino in Italian restaurants with oriental women.

A Girl's Dreams

1980 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Filmed in a village where girls outnumber boys times three. A young woman in a traditional outfit, dedicated to spinning and combing wool, swaddling a newborn, drying clothes on the grass: her monologue and popular music accompany her gestures precise, immemorial. A simple and moving ethnographic film.

Rear Window

1980 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Detective Jeffries is forced to constantly stay in his apartment due to a broken leg. Having a lot of free time, he begins to study the life of the inhabitants of the house opposite. The behavior of one of his neighbors gradually arouses his suspicions. Jeffries starts checking them...

Birthday Night

1980 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The Night had her birthday, and gave a party to which she invited Dima, a little boy so afraid of the dark that he could never sleep when the light was out.

Endgame

1980 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Two men at a country dacha are having an intimate conversation about life and love. And then She appears.

Nitemare

1980 • 5 min • United States of America

A child, who is afraid, of the dark forms a unique relationship with the objects that once frightened him.

Nocturne

1980 • 8 min • Denmark

It's night. Perhaps after a dream of an intruder crashing through a window, a woman who's sensitive to light has a telephone conversation with a friend. The woman has a plane ticket from Copenhagen to Buenos Aires at 6 that morning. She doesn't want to go. Her friend encourages her to make the trip. Later, she stands in a car park with her suitcase. Flying geese fill the screen.

Biceps of Steel

1980 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A modern retelling of the Samson and Delilah story. A super roadie fights evil bouncers stopping a rock and roll crowd from having a good time. He then falls foul of an evil wench who seduces and cuts his hair in order to take away his strength.

Star Wars: Music by John Williams

1980 • 60 min • United Kingdom

BBC documentary. Witness John Williams composing the legendary score for The Empire Strikes Back and conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.

Chatterbox

1980 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Muhammad and Larry

1980 • 26 min

Through the poetic lens of visionary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, Muhammad and Larry explores the unique and poignant relationship between two great boxers and two remarkable men who were more than just competitors. They were once teacher and student, and remain close friends.

Our Corner

1980 • 56 min • China

5th Generation student film.