All Films

The Save the Children Fund Film

1971 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Director Ken Loach explores the politics of race, class and charity in a capitalist society in this documentary funded by the Save the Children foundation.

To Lay a Ghost

1971 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Eric and Diana Carver move into a new home in the country, but a series of strange events soon cause Diana to suspect the house is haunted by the ghost of a man. A ghost who seems to be interested in her particularly.

You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London

1971 • 31 min • France

Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and forced to confess in the Slansky Trial, one of the last Stalinist "show trials" in Eastern Europe. The documentary explores some of the reasons for the controversy aroused by Costa-Gavras' The Confession, which had been accused of being anti-communist, and it highlights the political importance of filmmaking which, by its nature, is a fiction intended for the general public.

Roundtrip

1971 • 18 min

An eclectic film, in which suspense and cynicism sometimes meet the grotesque, "Back and forth" reminds, in many ways, the future masterpiece, "Cruise" (1981), directed by Mircea Daneliuc. Placed on the water's edge, where several characters sit with their bellies in the sun and when they talk about what they want and what they don't want, when they keep quiet, "Back and forth" is the graduation film of one of the legendary filmmakers of national cinema.

Ups/Downs

1971 • 24 min

A short film explaining the difference between amphetamines and barbiturates in sometimes hilarious and often heartbreaking ways, through animation, stock footage shots of pills flying through the air, and meaningful interviews with doctors and addicts about their conditions.

Vivre et filmer en Hongrie

1971 • 53 min

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic Jean-Louis Comolli, originally aired 5 March 1971.

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

1971 • 27 min • France, United Kingdom

In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin set in Paris, insisting on setting aside his political activism. Baldwin bristled at their questions, and the result is a fascinating, confrontational, often uncomfortable butting of heads between the filmmakers and their subject, in which the author visits the Bastille and other Parisian landmarks and reflects on revolution, colonialism, and what it means to be a Black expatriate in Europe.

Seasons in the Mind

1971 • 22 min • Canada

A portrait film of Eastern Ontario directed by Peter Pearson who’s films include the award winner’s like “The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar" (1968) and the classic Canadian feature film, "Paperback Hero" (1973). "Seasons in the Mind" includes a talent show section set in Arnprior, Ontario.

There Was a Miller on a River

1971 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

A picture based on an old folk song tells us a horrifying story about a soldier returning home after twenty years. His parents do not recognize him, they rob and kill him.

Small Smoke at Blaze Creek

1971 • 9 min • Canada

Forest fire in mountainous British Columbia, as experienced by the men who must try to quench it from the air and at close quarters on the ground. Over half of fire outbreaks occur through carelessness, and this film affords a close, vivid view of the result: a whole mountainside turned into a searing, crackling holocaust until nothing remains but gray, desolate waste—mute reproach to all who travel or work in the forests.

How the Donkey Sought Happiness

1971 • 10 min • Soviet Union

After an apple falls on a donkey's head, he loses his memory and goes off to search for his fortune

Marabou Girls

1971 • 34 min

A documentary about the girls at Marabou and their work situation.

A Nova Estrela

1971 • 9 min

Sugestives images about the music A Nova Estrela by Wagner Tiso.

The Train Rolls On

1971 • 32 min • France

This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobile film studio equipped with cameras, editing rooms, animation stations, and a laboratory. Traveling across the Soviet countryside, the train’s crew documented agricultural and industrial life—from Ukrainian harvests to southern steelworks—while living and working in cramped shared quarters.

How We Were Searching for Tishka

1971 • 57 min • Soviet Union

A young boy Misha, his grandmother and a few police officers - all are looking for a missing bear called Tishka.

Devastation (The Debacle)

1971 • 2 min

A mother comes home to a trashed apartment and tries to figure out what happened...

Der Löwe Balthasar

1971 • 12 min • East Germany

Empty boxes and packaging, a little paint, brushes and a lot of imagination - the result is a whole zoo with Balthazar the Lion. He only has one fault - his mouth is a little too big and now he eats everything that gets in his way. When he doesn't even stop at the moon, the other animals are forced to intervene and the painter gives Balthazar a smaller mouth.

Fear Woman

1971 • 28 min • Ghana, United States of America

The women of Ghana have a reputation for independence. They, rather than the men, sit enthroned at the market stalls and run a large proportion of the nation's retail trade. But Ghanaian women are now thrusting even more vigorously into the arena of power and influence

Adventures of Mowgli: Return to Mankind

1971 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Episode 5. Mowgli stood the leader of the wolf pack. It's time to settle with the main enemy of Mowgli tiger Shere Khan. In addition, the jungle comes the time of renewal, blossom and love. Mowgli feels vaguely disturbing. It's time to leave the jungle and return back to the people.

Statues Hardly Ever Smile

1971 • 21 min • United States of America

Edited by famed filmmaker Kathleen Collins, Statues Hardly Ever Smile follows a group of middle school children during a six-week project at the Brooklyn Museum, where they collectively discover and respond to the Egyptian collection. With narration by a member of the museum’s education department, we witness the group’s daily exercises and reflections as they create a theatre piece centered on the relationships developed with the objects and each other.

Well, Just You Wait! 3

1971 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Along a country road Volk is chasing Zayats who is riding on a bicycle.

Shop Around

1971 • 20 min

A comic drama about wise shopping. Following an argument with her boyfriend, Lynne goes put to buy a camera on her own and is soon pressured into signing a hire purchase agreement for an expensive camera. Her boyfriend Walter is aghast, but they are introduced to the magazine Which? and with sage advice put right their mistakes.

Schick After-Shave

1971 • 1 min • France

A couple argue loudly during a news broadcast about Palestine as the man shaves. Godard & Gorin, according to the profitable contract signed with the publicity agency Dupuy Compton, from which they had a salary, were forced to propose one project per month and deliver at least one advertisement film per year. For Schick, they got the budget to pay the whole crew for a week, even though the shooting only took half a working day.

Well, Just You Wait! 4

1971 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Volk and Zayats try themselves out at sports to varying results.