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Menthe: The Benefactor

Menthe: The Benefactor

1979 • 31 min • Denmark
Based on the sadomasochistic novel by Dominique Aury, "Story of O", tells the story of a voluntary female submission.
Quattro Delitti: Winchester M2

Quattro Delitti: Winchester M2

1979 • 60 min
Madness and jealousy push a not very attractive young man to plan to kill a friend who, on the contrary, has a lot of luck with women.
Marta Meszaros: Portrait of the Hungarian Filmmaker

Marta Meszaros: Portrait of the Hungarian Filmmaker

1979 • 59 min
Documentary about film director Marta Meszaros featuring on-set interviews with the director and creative collaborators
The Human Voice

The Human Voice

1979 • 50 min
After “five years of happiness,” a love affair is ending. The woman uses the telephone as the last remaining connection with the man, who is now planning to marry someone else.
Alisa Freyndlikh

Alisa Freyndlikh

1979 • 41 min • Soviet Union
Alisa Freyndlikh in a rush — there isn't a single calm, free minute. Rehearsals, discussions of roles with Igor Vladimirov, her daughter Varya's birthday, daytime and evening performances, meetings with the audience...
Uncle Au's Mistake

Uncle Au's Mistake

1979 • 17 min • Soviet Union
Uncle Au is a usual wood goblin loving to frighten and misbehave. Once he woke up and surprised, how the world changed around. And even children now are not afraid of him.
Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne)

Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne)

1979 • 28 min • France
Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from these letters, as the film shows a boat journey down the Seine, past familiar bridges and landmarks. – BFI
Glenn Gould's Toronto

Glenn Gould's Toronto

1979 • 50 min • Canada
In this witty documentary monologue, Glenn Gould reflects on his complex relationship with Toronto — praising its quietude, poking fun at its reputation, and weighing its cultural mosaic, urban resilience, and rivalry with Montreal. With his trademark mix of clarity, irony, and personal reminiscence, Gould reveals a bond with the city that is neither boosterish nor dismissive, but as nuanced and singular as the man himself.
Heron

Heron

1979 • 15 min • Soviet Union
The cartoon, which shows a concise chronology of the latest achievements of modern humanity, pays tribute to the inventor and dreamer named Heron, who lived in Alexandria in the 1st century A.D., who was undeservedly forgotten. Back then, he created the first prototype of a steam turbine that could significantly make human life easier and become the basis for a technological revolution. Nevertheless, despite all the simplicity and genius, the invention could not find application in his era and began to wait in the wings for almost 2 thousand years.
No Maps on My Taps

No Maps on My Taps

1979 • 58 min • United States of America
The remarkable spirit of tap dancers and their history provides a joyous backdrop for intimate portraits of hoofers Sandman Sims, Chuck Green, and Bunny Briggs.
Elin and Valborg

Elin and Valborg

1979 • 22 min
Two women, two different destinies. Elin Larsson and Valborg Svensson look back on their lives and think about class, gender and the right to realize oneself.
Will More. Material para Arrebato

Will More. Material para Arrebato

1979 • 4 min
Recovered Zulueta short.
Unk

Unk

1979 • 15 min • Japan
UNK, an UFO film, tests the limits of the 8mm medium with light, color and multiple exposures.
Professor Tarantoga und sein seltsamer Gast

Professor Tarantoga und sein seltsamer Gast

1979 • 60 min • East Germany, Germany
With an open mind and the meticulousness of a scientist, Professor Tarantoga meets his strange guest, who has made contact with him from a psychiatric institution. The eccentric introduces himself as Novak on one occasion and Hippekorn on another. Hippekorn comes from the future, more precisely from the second half of the 35th century. Professor Tarantoga patiently tries to find out whether the man is simply crazy or actually an alien from another time and world.
Rusty Empty Can

Rusty Empty Can

1979 • 59 min • Japan
Matsui's debut film, "Rusty Empty Can" (1979), was photographed by Sogo Ishii; nonetheless the film turned out to be a serious and emotionally painful one unlike Ishii's speedy roller-coaster movies. The film which depicts a homosexual relationship was successful at the many film festival held in Japan, including selection at the 1979 Pia Film Festival. "Rusty Empty Can" is still shown at theatres today as it has become the pioneer of cult movies with devoted fans and approval from Nagisa Oshima and Shuji Terayama.
A Family Circus Christmas

A Family Circus Christmas

1979 • 24 min • United States of America
The family is decorating their tree when Daddy notices the star his father made is missing. When Billy asks Mommy why this made Daddy sad, she tells him it's because the star was made by his father, their Granddad, who is in Heaven. Jeffy then has a vivid dream about Santa, and asks him in the dream to bring Granddad home from Heaven for Christmas to make Daddy happy again. When Billy learns that Jeffy thinks this really will happen, he is afraid that Jeffy's Christmas will be ruined, since Santa can't do that. Mommy tries to explain why it's not possible to Jeffy after Dolly tells her what Jeffy thinks, but he gets upset and doesn't want to hear it. That night, he gets a visit from Santa, and Granddad.
The Footloose Fox

The Footloose Fox

1979 • 30 min • United States of America
A wildlife adventure about a fox cub who teams with a badger to survive wilderness dangers.
Uncle Au in the City

Uncle Au in the City

1979 • 18 min • Soviet Union
Uncle Au is an usual wood goblin loving to frighten and misbehave. Once he woke up and surprised, how the world changed around. And even children now are not afraid of him.
Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Don Messer 1910-1973

Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Don Messer 1910-1973

1979 • 1 min • Canada
One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring one of the principal performers, Don Messer, who has since passed away.
Slow Morning Rain

Slow Morning Rain

1979 • 30 min
A ceremonial healing film, with footage shot by William Moritz, Harry Frazier, Robert Curtis, Amy Halpern, Phil Stuart and FuDing Cheng, with additional camerawork by Pat O'Neill and Elfriede Fischinger. Music by Robert Curtis, Brian Eno and Tony Selvage. "I am fascinated by the theories of Italian Renaissance philosophers who maintained that a created image = a created event, and therefore all image-makers (and image exhibitors) are responsible for the karma of the subject matter in the pictures that create (or show); and furthermore, that various images have essentially detrimental or essentially salutary effects. The imagery is structured with an introductory sequence of hypnagogic, hypnogenic flashes, an invocation by the Three Graces of the Spirits of the Four Elements (Fire, Water, Earth and Air), and a holy ritual of Aether and ecstasy for the transmutation. Dedicated to the principle that everything exists all the time and always has and always will."
The Fate of Salmon

The Fate of Salmon

1979 • 10 min
A documentary about the short lives of Pacific salmon. In the autumn, salmon born in the pond have a single path and destiny. In the spring, those that have wintered in the river move downstream to adapt to brackish water before heading to the depths of the Pacific Ocean. When it’s time to reproduce, an instinct drives them back to their birthplace, where they must spawn in their native waters. There, in a final act of creation, they release the next generation, Both male and female find their end after spawning, leaving the cycle to begin anew.
The Flying Ship

The Flying Ship

1979 • 18 min • Soviet Union
Poor chimney sweep Ivan and Princess Zabava fall in love with each other. They dream of their future happy life, but the difference in their social status and the treacherous Polkan, who dreams of marrying a royal daughter and becoming a ruler, stand in their way. To avoid marriage with the royal adviser, Zabava informs that she will marry only the one who can build a flying ship. Now Ivan has to solve this problem by all means.
Mariana Alcoforado

Mariana Alcoforado

1979 • 37 min • Portugal
An adaptation of the renowned Portuguese Letters, originally written in French and attributed to Soror Mariana Alcoforado. As letters may have been written by Soror, in the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Beja, to her lover Noel Bouton, Count of Chamilly.
Canada Vignettes: Alouette

Canada Vignettes: Alouette

1979 • 1 min • Canada
A story about two symbolic characters who sway to the song Alouette.