All Films

Signals: Read 'Em or Weep

1981 • 6 min • United States of America

A safety-focused documentary short highlighting the critical importance of reading signal warnings, maintaining machinery, and following proper operating procedures on construction sites. The film emphasizes how attention to both signals and instructions can prevent accidents and ensure workplace safety.

Une vallée contre un empire

1981 • 52 min

When the Soviet troops entered Afghanistan in December 1979, Christophe de Ponfilly and Jérôme Bony made their first clandestine reportage in the Panjshir valley. "A valley against an empire" testifies to the beginning of the struggle of a young commander, Amah Shah Massoud.

Chutes de Souvenirs/Florence

1981 • 1 min

Outtakes from the movie

Une tannerie artisanale

1981 • 26 min • Canada

Misshitsu dokyumento: Yubi to shita

1981 • 60 min • Japan

"...és Mészöly Kálmán, a kapitány"

1981 • 49 min

The documentary follows a day ( 31st October 1981) of the Hungarian national football team and their charismatic coach Kálmán Mészöly preparing for their WC qualifier against Norway.

Nail 2

1981 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The second story is about human misfortunes and mistakes, played out... with nails.

Queue

1981 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Breasts

1981 • 30 min

A girl walks into a bra shop and finds herself in a wondrous world of discoveries about a changing body and patriarchal beauty standards.

Belgrade at Night

1981 • 60 min • Yugoslavia

A pop musical featuring singer Oliver Mandic who, after being dumped by girlfriend, makes a drastic move which takes him to Wonderland. While experiencing unusual situations and meeting interesting characters, he establishes a new relationship with a girl who takes him back to reality.

Wer wohnt im Wohnzimmer?

1981 • 22 min

In this short feature film, the cohabitation of an average family is turned upside down: Not the parents, but the children have the power of disposal over the shared apartment.

Manne the Mowie

1981 • 4 min • Germany

Manne's last summer: goes to watch a football game, drinks, pukes. Man keeps drinking. Man drops dead.

Mea Culpa

1981 • 5 min • United States of America

In his first collaboration with David Byrne and Brian Eno, Conner used footage from educational films to create a rhythmically austere image-track for music from their pioneering “sampling” album “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” (1981).

Marseille toujours

1981 • 20 min

Ilkla Moor Baht Hat

1981 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Animated paper cut-outs. An amusing interpretation of the traditional Yorkshire circular song. A man goes courting on Ilkla Moor without his hat, catches his death of cold, dies, is buried, gets eaten by worms, the worms are eaten by ducks, and the ducks are, finally, eaten by the man's friends.

Lesbians: The Invisible Minority

1981 • 27 min • United States of America

That special takes back to a time in San Francisco when Lesbians were creating their own separate restaurants, bookstores, bars and unique places they could define for themselves.

Cinématon n°106 : Jean-Luc Godard

1981 • 3 min • France

Kate and Anna McGarrigle

1981 • 28 min • Canada

A short documentary about singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle made by animator Caroline Leaf.

Hüsker Dü: Live in Minneapolis

1981 • 56 min • United States of America

Husker Du captured live at 7th Street Entry in 1981.

Sara

1981 • 14 min • France

Portrait of the filmmaker's mother during her visit to Paris.

Wahadełko

1981 • 55 min

Michal Szmańda suffers from epilepsy, depression and other conditions. He is cared for by his sister Aniela. The only bright ray in her life is the "garden" arranged in the kitchen. They do not live with their mother. When they were children, and this was in Stalinist times, the mother was a labor leader. Possessed by the new ideology, she neglected the house and children. When little Michael was sent to a sanatorium, his mother did not visit him at Christmas. This caused trauma for the rest of his life.

Nothing Scary

1981 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Two little boys face a paranormal entity in the form of gnomik.

Till We Meet Again

1981 • 46 min • Hong Kong

Faces & Places - Till We Meet Again is a Hong Kong made-for-TV-movie starring Andy Lau

Inhale-Exhale

1981 • 30 min • Poland

A ‘paradocumental’ by Dziworski & Rybczynski.