All Films

Seaside Woman

1980 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Animated video to accompany the record of the same name, released under the pseudonym of Suzy and the Red Stripes, but in reality Wings' with Linda on lead vocals.

Act of God

1980 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Documentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their experiences against a typically Greenaway backdrop of lists, black humour and 'collated statistics'.

Todomundo

1980 • 35 min • Brazil

The crowd is the focus of this documentary, which presents historical scenes of the Brazilian Championship. Irreverent and poetic, the movie pays homage to the spectacle provided by football.

Intendenti

1980 • 47 min • Albania

In the middle of a harsh winter, a partisan soldier goes to deliver supplies to a hospital.

Luck

1980 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Baadur accidentally gets a lottery ticket which he can win a prestigious car - a white Volga GAZ-24.

Generations of Resistance

1980 • 52 min

Uses archival photographs, newsreel footage, and interviews to chronicle the quest by Black South Africans for economic viability and individual freedom.

Gus is Still in the Army

1980 • 21 min • Canada

"I joined the army so I could travel and see the country. I saw Northern Ontario during training exercises. In the first few days, I fell secretly in love with another soldier. That's when I asked to be released from the army. I had a super 8 camera with me, so I could film stuff to show my mother on leave. This film tells a story, but not exactly the one I'd intended..."

Spaced Out Bunny

1980 • 6 min • United States of America

Bugs Bunny is abducted by Marvin the Martian and brought to Mars to be the companion to his pet abominable snowman Hugo, who will "hug him and squeeze him and call him George."

Return of Silver Head

1980 • 21 min • United Kingdom

The Keen family go on holiday in the jungles of the English countryside while the mysterious Silver Head - Jeff Keen wearing an inside-out, silver-lined photographic paper bag - haunts Brighton and the snowy fields of winter. Part diary, part fantasy.

Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over

1980 • 30 min • United States of America

Three all-new cartoons from animation legend Chuck Jones showcase Bugs Bunny and some of Jones' most famous characters. Springtime has arrived and stirred the birds, the bees and Bugs Bunny -- the time when an infant Elmer Fudd chased a youthful Bugs with his popgun, waiting for the start of "wabbit season"; when Bugs was held captive by Marvin Martian (in "Spaced Out Bunny"); and when, after 30 years of chases, Wile E. Coyote finally caught the Road Runner (in "Soup or Sonic").

Sky Dance

1980 • 10 min

Evocative images of ancient and modern art reflect the universal search for life on other planets. At the end of "Sky Dance," contact is made.

Black Pete – No, You're It

1980 • 48 min • Denmark

A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."

Lancalot Freely

1980 • 20 min • Canada

A documentary portrait of Peter Mettler’s best childhood friend, who had left home to lead a lavish lifestyle.

Ein Leben

1980 • 31 min • East Germany, Germany

Using photos and letters that the director found in a landfill, she reconstructs in her documentary film the life of Maria Bartel, a Berlin baker born in 1902 who, as the director comments in voice-over, "was in the prime of her life during fascism." In 1920, she moved from the East Prussian province to Berlin with her first husband. After his suicide, she opened a bakery, which she ran until the end of the war in 1945, raised her son, and now has various relationships and love affairs.

Ikusmena

1980 • 12 min • Spain

During the awards ceremony of school paintings, a girl remembers how she ended up painting the picture she presented to the contest. Several people from her environment influenced, with their opinions and advice, the final result.

About a Tortoise

1980 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Cartoon about a small tortoise.

Little Tom Thumb

1980 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

A story based on the fairy tale about Little Thumb.

A Marine Barber

1980 • 25 min • Japan

Commando Ultrà Curva Sud

1980 • 52 min

This documentary testifies the birth of CUCS – Commando Ultrà Curva Sud -, union of the main firms of As Roma hooligans in the 70-80s. It also deals with the complicated and violent past of the ultras groups, with the historic rivalries with other teams and with the lives of its members.

Sea Voyage of Solnyshkin

1980 • 17 min • Soviet Union

The red-haired boy dreams of becoming a cabin boy, but for now he performs feats in his sleep.

The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special

1980 • 24 min • United States of America

F.B.I. and C.I.A. agent Elmer Fudd is after a tall, dark, stranger who robbed a bank. He gets him confused with Bugs Bunny...the chase is on.

Vacation in Val Trebbia

1980 • 50 min • Italy

Director Marco Bellocchio returns with his family to his homeland, in the province of Piacenza. The journey is an opportunity to confront oneself with one's past, as well as with the nostalgia of an era.

Vie et mort d'Untel

1980 • 55 min • France

In an antiquarian, a man buys a leather-bound blank book to use as diary. Once home, he finds the book has started writing itself - with Chapter I detailing everything that happened to him, including the book starting to write itself.

Man on Pink Corner

1980 • 55 min

The story is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator, who recounts the events of a particular night at a Villa Santa Rita bar and brothel. The clientele, including the narrator, spend the evening drinking and dancing the tango. Their festivities are interrupted by the arrival of a formidable stranger in black.