All Films

Love

1975 • 14 min • Poland

The heroes of this film are hands and a violin. We won’t see the hero's face, but we’ll notice a special relationship that exists between the musician and the instrument. It resembles real love. The man is able to make the inanimate instrument a living instrument.

Everything Visible Is Empty

1975 • 8 min • Japan

There's more to picture than meets the eye in this journey into oriental metaphysical imagery. Starting (in a very Christian manner) with the Word, the film draws an explosion of visible forms, as if a sign of the shattering of shapes in the mundane world. But time is cyclical, of course, and what was once a multitude of sensible realities must eventually return to the Word and, finally, to sheer Color. (Sound of Eye)

The Rubai of the Old Storyteller

1975 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About two friends, a Dyer and a Barber, who went to distant lands in search of happiness. They achieved success, but their friendship was put to an unexpected test.…

Robot Will Help Us...

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Two schoolchildren decided to take the first place in the collection of waste paper at school, but they did not want to work alone and decided to use a school robot to achieve their goals. It would seem that school glory is guaranteed to them, but the boys did not take into account the fact that the robot's intelligence is not as flexible as a human's and it perceives the task set before it with machine zeal.

The Diary of Florica S.

1975 • 11 min • Romania

Director Eugenia Gutu offers a feminist critique of gender (in)equality under socialism in this documentary portrait of an industrializing town and its model citizen, Florica S.

No Chief Is Good Enough

1975 • 56 min • Denmark

While on a trip to Sweden, a group of Danish children wind up left to their own devices on a small, uninhabited island.

Alma, Silueta en Fuego

1975 • 3 min

Ana Mendieta, 1975

Juhan Liiv's Story

1975 • 25 min • Soviet Union

A unique film adaptation of Juhan Liiv's poetry, where literary symbols in poetry are connected with film images. The film set the task of conveying Juhan Liiv's poetry, his tenderness and love for his country. True pictorial poetry, born from the synergy of Hando Runnel's screenplay, Peeter Tooming's cinematography, Peep Puksi's directing and Lembit Ulfsak's poetry reading.

Night Bird

1975 • 9 min • France

A César nominated short animation about the impact on a small-town clerk by the arrival of a female hitch-hiker.

Tutti Tutti Buona Gente, Propriamente Buona

1975 • 28 min • Brazil

The elements of Tutti Tutti buona gente, the inaugural film of the documentary phase of Orlando Bomfim Netto's cinema, are organized in a chronological and lyrical structure that covers the 100 years of Italian colonization in Brazil and in Espirito Santo, their stories and customs. A portrait of the community of descendants of the inland city of Santa Teresa.

On the Forest Trail

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Beware — the Nerves!

1975 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Every day, almost every adult faces situations in which they inevitably begin to feel negative emotions. It often begins with waking up with an annoying warbling alarm, followed by transport, where is so many people in a hurry, and after all this the working day begins with the inherent responsibility and stress. And it is possible not to be nervous?

This is CEEFAX

1975 • 23 min • United Kingdom

A look-behind-the-scenes at a television development that could be in everyone's home in just a few years' time. Reporter Angela Rippon tells the story of CEEFAX - the BBC's latest form of broadcasting. She visits Kingswood Warren where BBC Research Department 'boffins' developed it; and looks at some of its uses: News, weather, travel, sports results, farm prices and business information.

Illusion

1975 • 12 min • Canada

A group of schoolchildren playing in an idyllic natural landscape are visited by a mysterious magician who entertains them with his transformations. But he soon proves sinister as he begins to transform the landscape into a grim, unsmiling metropolis.

La femme, l’homme

1975 • 54 min

"With a sly nose-thumbing attitude for the tired rigors of documentary sociology, LA FEMME, L’HOMME sees the filmmaker asking women from a variety of personal backgrounds for their opinions on the future of femininity – anticipating the interviews with working-class women that formed the backbone of her second theatrical feature MON CŒUR EST ROUGE." - Spectacle Theater

The ABC's of Sex Education for Trainable Persons

1975 • 20 min • United States of America

This training film is meant for professionals who work with the mentally impaired, and is meant to teach them how to help their patients deal with sexual issues.

Death of the Rat

1975 • 6 min • France

A factory siren sounds, workers punch in, the machinery starts... Aubier makes use of a series of successive pictures to portray the series of events that completes a cycle.

At Any Place 2

1975 • 3 min • Japan

This film was made for a 3 minutes film festival held in Japan. A cup noodle is ready in 3 minutes.

Cerro de leones

1975 • 26 min • Argentina

Short film about the strike of the stonebreakers in Tandil, early 20th century.

Kites and Other Tales

1975 • 13 min

Modern kite maker Tom Joe seeks to preserve the craft of kite making as well as the traditional Asian folklore behind it. Alan Takemoto illustrates Tom Joe’s tales of the Polynesian fish kite made from leaves and branches to fool fish; the Chinese general whose trapped army fashioned a fighting kite; and Shirone, the “kite crazy town” in Japan where 20-foot fighting kites duel in magnificent matches. Children will be inspired to try making these kites.

Salmon Pink

1975 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther meets a friendly salmon at the beach and keeps him as a pet.

Knock Down

1975 • 17 min • Poland

Impressions about fighting the passing of time, living in a constant hurry and the uphill battle of finding the natural tempo to life itself.

Hobo and the Runaway

1975 • 32 min

A young boy runs away from home with his dog Hobo and falls asleep in a train car. He has a dream about a scary run-in with an evil hobo and learns an important lesson about obeying his parents.

Saveiros

1975 • 8 min • Brazil

Gerson Tavares interviews fishermen and observes the traditional fishing activity in danger of extinction.