All Films

The Case of the Cosmic Comic

1976 • 21 min • United States of America

Young Homer and his best friend Freddie are fans of "The Super-Duper", a superhero in comics and movies. They learn that sometimes The Super-Duper needs help too. Based on a short story from the book, "Homer Price".

Bekleyis

1976 • 48 min

Fikret Hakan is imprisoned, he is visited by his wife and son, he is once taken outside to receive medical treatment from a young woman doctor.

The Lion and the Mouse

1976 • 4 min • Canada

This animated short by Evelyn Lambart is a visual adaptation of the famous Aesop fable "The Lion and the Mouse," in which a mouse proves to a lion that the weak and small may be of help to those much mightier than themselves.

Observer / Observed / Observer

1976 • 6 min • Japan

Cameras once again observing each other.

Distant and Close Skies

1976 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Flannery and Quilt

1976 • 28 min

An abrasive, two-fisted longshoreman and a quiet calligrapher attempt to share an apartment.

Grandfather, the Soap and the Ocean

1976 • 5 min • Sweden

When grandfather hedgehog sees the sun with its beams on the sea horizon, he thinks it's a hedgehog and tries to sail to it on a soap.

El gato

1976 • 3 min • Chile

Two young university students break a thief out of a lecture hall, who has locked himself in after stealing from a university business.

The Lifeswappers

1976 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since things are already so bad for Trevor – rotten job, bitchy wife – he decides to answer a "life-swapping" ad in the local paper. But once the swapping starts, who knows where it could end?

The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me

1976 • 45 min • Germany

An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's questions about his artistic and personal development in a manner that is at times shockingly laconic. Excerpts from his film "Beware of a Holy Whore" document how much the life circumstances of his group of actors influenced the work of the director.

Social Worker: Ah Sze

1976 • 48 min • Hong Kong

Ah Sze (Cecilia Wong Hang-sau) abandons the country for city life, but fails to find refuge from her relatives in Macau and Hong Kong. Writer Joyce Chan realistically portrays a teenaged girl whose choices are finite if she wants to survive. We see Ah Sze in one scene, an innocent girl still in pigtails, in stark contrast with the next scene after she has lost her virginity. It creates an emotional impact that is more than heart-wrecking.

Return

1976 • 28 min • Soviet Union

The First World War is over. A young soldier, having endured all its horrors, returns home to his mother, who has been anxiously awaiting his arrival. But the homecoming is far from joyful. The atmosphere of war has left fatal scars on the minds and souls of those who lived through it...

Little Brother

1976 • 6 min • Soviet Union

Young boy Vova spends more time with his kitten than with his little brother, who in the meantime develops a talent for photography

Krabi

1976 • 12 min • Czechoslovakia

A military scientist successfully creates robot soldiers in the shape of crabs, which turn out to be deadly warriors, but soon he discovers that his ambitious invention evolves in unexpected ways.

Tam Tam

1976 • 58 min • France

At a very camp party in Paris, guests are told about a strange tom-tom played by an Andalusian gipsy, himself a character in a book by a young novelist present at the party. A frantic quest begins for a mysterious love-filter. Tam Tam shows desire and repression through the subversion of archetypes both social (ambassadors, stars, artists) and sexual (homophiles, transvestites, transsexuals), and converting these into a most accurate account of a certain kind of unease: an identity crisis.

Mindscape

1976 • 8 min • Canada

In this short, an artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world inside.

Kitch's Last Meal

1976 • 55 min

Schneemann’s cat, Kitch, who was featured in works such as Fuses, was a major figure in Schneemann’s work for almost twenty years. The moving conclusion to her Autobiographical Trilogy documents the routines of daily life whilst time passes, a relationship winds down and death closes in: filming and recording stopped when the elderly cat died.

La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden

1976 • 11 min • East Germany

During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the Unidad Popular during Salvador Allende's reign. Festival guests comment on this work. Music by Chilean music group Jaspampa, formed in Leipzig in 1972.

The World of Budgerigars

1976 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Sid James learns of the joys of owning a budgerigar.

Chiriki and Chikotela

1976 • 55 min • Soviet Union

Chiriki and Chikotela are neighbors who have an endless dispute over a small piece of land. Neighbors will eventually reconcile when their children fall in love with each other.

Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Red Death Match

1976 • 24 min • Japan

The Gorenger try to retrieve rocket plans stolen by the Black Cross as Daita meets a mysterious girl he saves from them. This is a theatrical version of episode 36 of the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series.

Sisters

1976 • 29 min

A widow, Millie, moves in with her sister, Ada, who is also a widow. Millie finds the house is not too her liking and starts to make changes, to Ada's annoyance.

For Nothing

1976 • 7 min • Soviet Union

The boy gave the donkey flowers and inspired him to give gifts to others. Cartoon about the cycle of good in nature.

Number Our Days

1976 • 28 min • United States of America

Based on the book by anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff, this Academy Award-winning short documentary offers a tender portrait of a community of elderly yet resilient Jews living, loving, and at times struggling, in Venice, California. From everyday trials to traditional celebrations, this compassionate portrayal of Eastern European survivors cuts straight to the heart of every viewer and reminds us of the joys and realities of long life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.