All Films

Fournoi, A Female Society

1983 • 48 min • Greece

On the island of Fourni in Ikaria, a researcher observes the lives of the inhabitants. Without a predetermined script, without ready-made questions, as a simple observer. Through this research, the society of Fourni comes to life before our eyes through its people, through memories, through anxieties, through daily toil. On the island, the men are sailors and the women have taken on all the jobs that one would more conventionally expect men to perform, from construction work to farm work. The camera of Alinda Dimitriou and Nikos Kanakis thus vividly records the relations between the two sexes and how the division of labor is a key cog in the functioning of the social machine.

Moomin Valley: Autumn is Coming to Moomin Valley

1983 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Bathclean Night

1983 • 28 min • Japan

Sleeping Beauty

1983 • 58 min • United States of America

A prince chases his destiny to an ancient castle in search of a cursed princess, thanks to the help of an informative lumberjack.

A Short Delay

1983 • 47 min • Albania

A group of kids want to go to their teacher's house during the Teachers Day.

Ozzy Osborne Live in Dortmund

1983 • 29 min

Recorded live at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany - December 18th, 1983. Setlist: "I Don’t Know", "Mr. Crowley", "Bark At The Moon", "Forever", "Iron Man", "Paranoid"

One Was Caught Who Bit

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The Beaver comes to his friend Badger with a message that the famous robber and hooligan Fox is on the trail of their friend Mouse. The friends decide to help the unsuspecting Mouse escape. At this time, he calmly walks through the clearings, singing carefree songs.

You the Better

1983 • 33 min

“YOU THE BETTER is a film based on games of chance, and as games such as roulette, or craps go, this one is closed – meaning that the player cannot really affect the outcome. A team of uniformed players, led by the artist Ashley Bickerton, performs the mechanics of a game servicing an off-camera betting entity, the ‘House’. Although the game keeps changing and players are swapped out, one thing remains the same, the ‘House’ is hidden and controls the bets, the ‘chance’ of winning is nil. The game, in fact, is not between the players, but rather between the ‘House’, and the ‘Bettor’.” — E.B. 1983

Graf Dracula Junior

1983 • 43 min • Germany

In 1981, Jean Van Halsing has been studying the legend of the Prince of Darkness, Count Dracula, for five years. As chance would have it, this legendary figure ends up in his neighborhood of all places and instigates a lot of trouble full of bites and throat bites. Over the next years they will meet again and again without finding a solution for each other or even for themselves. Will the nasty cycle ever come to an end?

A Wonderful Barrel

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

It's spring outside, everything's blooming. Little Bear also plants an acorn to grow a barrel of honey. And he succeeds - but not quite well.

The Karlovci Experience of 1889

1983 • 56 min • Yugoslavia

A romance based on the motifs of the novel by Veljko Petrovic “Maria, Where Are You?”

Genesis | MAMA Tour Rehearsal

1983 • 58 min

Recording of the first half of the Mama tour's setlist from a rehearsal tape. The location and person behind the camera are not confirmed, but the location is likely Dallas, TX, and the person filming is likely Jim Yukich, the man behind several of the Genesis and Phil Collins music videos. (Genesis Central on YouTube)

Road to Eternity

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on Anna Ahmatova's translation of Korean poem about eternal love.

Fragmentos de un diario inacabado

1983 • 60 min • Chile, Finland

The diary of a trip - interrupted - of the director to Chile, made during the social explosion of the eighties: Expelled from the country after her semi-clandestine entry was discovered by the intelligence services, it was completed from a distance. It is one of the first returns from exile and a fundamental antecedent of the first-person documentary in Chile.

I Want to Be an Engineer

1983 • 29 min • Canada

This film provides a lively introduction to the professional and personal lives of three female engineers-just a few of the growing number of women who were opting for "non-traditional" jobs in1983.

Old Masters

1983 • 49 min • Soviet Union

A film about outstanding actors of the Soviet stage: Angelina Stepanova, Mark Prudkin, Igor Ilyinsky, Faina Ranevskaya, Veriko Andzhaparidze and others.

No More Hibakusha!

1983 • 56 min • Canada

Survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki travel to New York for a UN conference on disarming nuclear weapons.

The Michael Schenker Group – Live Rockpop In Concert

1983 • 21 min

Recorded as part of the "Built To Destroy" tour, live at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany - December 18th, 1983. Setlist: Into the Arena, Courvoisier Concerto, Rock Will Never Die, Doctor Doctor

Domingo em Família

1983 • 60 min • Brazil

An elderly couple, Dona Lu and Seu Souza, live in the district of Paty do Alferes, in a simple little house where they raised their children. When the tenant dies, the landlord's heirs evicted the couple, and it is up to the four children to decide their future.

Marija, Where Are You?

1983 • 50 min • Yugoslavia

A TV adaptation of Veljko Petrovic novel.

The Backstage Wall

1983 • 26 min • France

Behind the scenes of the filming of a film on climbing a cliff by Patrick Berhault and Georges Unia on the parishes of the route "La Tête de Chien" in Monaco. Director Laurent Chevallier explains the difficulties of filming at height, the kind of shots that are suitable and the specifications of equipment suitable for filming on a cliff.

I Don't Want To See Sorrowful Faces

1983 • 29 min • Sweden

Still photography combined with moving imagery in this portrait of civic life in Chile. Made for Swedish public television almost a decade after the 1973 coup d'etat.

The Last Leaf

1983 • 24 min

An Easter Parable: As lingering pneumonia takes her will to live, a young girl decides that she will die when the last leaf drops from a dying vine outside her window. Her neighbor, an elderly artist frustrated by his inability to paint what is in his heart, follows the example of the Savior and makes the ultimate sacrifice to save her life. In doing so, he creates the masterpiece he has been struggling to paint.

No Rest for Billy Brakko

1983 • 5 min • France

On a winter evening Billy Brakko buys a paper and reads: "The famous Billy Brakko is dead!" An early short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.