All Films

Le Passe-muraille

1977 • 56 min

A man learns one night that he can walk through walls, and uses this skill to get back at a nasty new boss, to rob banks, and to romance an overly protected lady.

Limite

1977 • 12 min • Mexico

Monochromatic music, lineal narrative in first person and editing based on disolvences, all try to give a global vision of Escher's graphic work.

The Four Sources

1977 • 35 min • Morocco

Ahmed Bouanani’s Al-Manabe' al-Arba'a (1974), a very low-budget fantastical adaption of a poetic fable, features his wife Naïma Saoudi, who also worked as an art director and set designer. It is his only film in colour, which convinced him that his vocation was to work in black and white.

Nach Bluff

1977 • 10 min • Germany

Bastian Clevé - 10 mins - 1977

The Phone Call

1977 • 24 min • United States of America

Scott starts work at a drive-in burger and ice cream restaurant when his paper route proves inadequate to raise the money he needs for a mail order karate course. He has determined that this course will help him gain the self-confidence he needs to get up the courage to call and ask Pam out to see a movie. Although at first just commenting on his mistakes, Becky, a co-worker, offers to help him make the crucial phone call. In the process Scott offers insights about how Joe is abusive in his relationship with Becky.

Lucy Calls the President

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Homemaker Lucy Whittaker calls up President Carter to complain about a local political issue—and to her astonishment, he agrees to come dine at her house. Now Lucy has her hands full as family, friends and Secret Service agents invade her home in preparation for the big dinner summit.

Hey Mum, Let's Shoot a Movie

1977 • 24 min • Germany

A satire about an ambitious amateur filmmaker decides to make a movie, enlists his family, uses the entire town as a backdrop, and still fails.

The Iron Fortress

1977 • 60 min • East Germany

Weeks after the victory in Vietnam, first pictures of a new humanity are captured: old and sick people preparing for their future, children on their way to school.

Bugs Bunny in Space

1977 • 30 min • United States of America

Bugs Bunny in Space is a parody of "Star Wars" that features a compilation of science-fiction themed clips from Warner Brothers cartoons starring Bugs Bunny and other characters.

Dogada

1977 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on a Russian fairy-tale joke about stupid men.

Copyright Film Polski MCMLXXVI

1977 • 3 min • Poland

An apple is squished to the soundtrack of its amplified demise.

Either We Are or Aren't

1977 • 41 min • Yugoslavia

Luka Šušmek, a servant, daily laborer and a bit of a vagabond, makes his way through life with his favorite phrase – “either we are, or we are not”, but it causes nothing but troubles to him.

Family Drama

1977 • 48 min • Soviet Union

The man, after a lot of jokes on his side, accuses his wife of giving birth to only girls, but she tells him that the heirs deserve fathers like real men, and leaves, taking daughters with her. Her husband's friends are trying to reconcile them, but the proud mountain woman does not intend to return home.

The Machine-Men

1977 • 7 min • France

Predecessor of the movie Gandahar released 10 years later, only time will tell us what unfolds in this mysterious utopic universe.

The Sex of the Angels

1977 • 45 min • France

A fantasia on the inner lives of gay teenagers in '70s France.

And Then the First Rice

1977 • 58 min • East Germany

Stories from the first summer after the end of the war in Vietnam

Reflections – Ireland

1977 • 21 min • United Kingdom

Reflections – Ireland is a stunning, non-narrated tourist film with accompanying music by Paddy Moloney and The Chieftains. Many of Paddy Carey films depict a scarcity of civilisation, an untouched landscape, but here he treats the viewer to the beauties of landscape interwoven with a vivid tapestry of human activity: anglers in a lively river; bird-watchers at work; sheep farmers; horse riders; seaweed gatherers. A nighttime sequence shows people gathering in an unidentified village for music in a cosy pub.

Poets on Film No. 2

1977 • 8 min • Canada

This short film brings together animated interpretations of 4 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “From the Hazel Bough” by Earle Birney, “Travellers Palm” by P.K. Page, “Death by Streetcar” by Raymond Souster, and “A Said Poem” by John Robert Colombo.

A War time story

1977 • 30 min • Iceland

Nonni, an 11 year old boy has to deal with the loss of his father who died in the second world war.

Боевой кузнечик

1977 • 11 min • Soviet Union

They Were Four

1977 • 46 min • Albania

Four partisans are tasked with delivering a song to the Congress of Përmet.

Acidente de Trabalho

1977 • 19 min • Brazil

Cinema

1977 • 7 min • Czechoslovakia

There is a cinema in town. Masses of film-eager moviegoers are queuing in front of it. The cinema screens slapstick comedies, westerns, horror films and even some arthouse erotica. But when the local audience has had enough of traditional films, the door is open to an alternative lineup.

Si Boyet, Si Hilda atbp…

1977 • 23 min • Philippines

The making of Mike de Leon's 1977 film Kung Mangarap Ka't Magising (Moments in a Stolen Dream), starring Christopher de Leon and Hilda Koronel.