All Films

A series of still images follows master Líl̓wat basket maker Mathilda Jim, from the harvesting of materials to the creation of a functional work of art. Told in the Lil̓wat7úl language, this short documentary evokes the powerful connection between language, knowledge and culture.

Surrealist animation about two cubes who come alive against a constantly changing background. The cubes go through the process of growing up and getting older. They fall in love, make love, and conceive new cubes. The idyll ends cruelly in an all-destroying war.

The game silent movie based on the story of the same name by Alexander Stepanovich Grin is made by the children's amateur studio “FIGA” of the detachment “Caravelle”, created and directed by Vladislav Krapivin and repeatedly described in his works. The movie tells about the adventures of little Tom (Gennady Khabinrakhmanov), who left home to search for his father, Captain Harold Bering (Vladislav Krapivin), who went on a voyage. It will be interesting first of all to fans of V.P. Krapivin's works. The role of the father is played by Vladislav Krapivin himself.

Document of an amateur country-western talent search in Iowa City.

The story of two little gnomes. One of them fell down a hole, lucky for him his friend was a geologist who could try to get him out. But once down the hole he found treasure and precious jewells. They then had an idea to fill the sky with the jewells to make it brighter. English dubbed video that compiles two Russian animations: "In the Gnomes Home" 1975 and "The 38 parrots" 1979.

A student at Woodroffe High School in Ottawa unexpectedly turns into a bat and drinks another student's blood, killing him. The next time she transforms, her classmates catch on right before she takes out another student. They call the police as she hides in the school offices. They chase her down into the auditorium and stake her in bat form, causing her to revert to human form with vampire fangs and be stopped for good.

The film revolves around Mary Katherine, who runs a printing shop and grapples with the challenges of publishing a letter that suggests accepting British peace proposals during a time of revolution. The conversation highlights the tension between loyalty to the cause of independence and the desire for peace. Mary Katherine refuses to reveal the identity of the letter's author, which angers local patriots. The scene also touches on themes of gender roles, as Mary Katherine expresses her reluctance to conform to traditional expectations of women, emphasizing her independence and determination.

In this educational film about personal hygiene, Harv and Marv are animated characters in the real world. When Marv says he wants to become human, Harv shows him that real people have to bathe, wash their hands and teeth, and mind their appearance.

The Mad Mad Mad World....

A documentary that describes the life and problems of one of Portugal's most celebrated agricultural cooperatives in the second year of the Carnation Revolution.

In the lead-up to Christmas 1974, an army of about seventy Santa Clauses, male and female, paraded through the city of Copenhagen, singing carols, handing out sweets and hot chocolate, and asking everyone what they wanted for Christmas. After spending a few days cementing the good image of Santa Claus, their generosity became increasingly radical. Among other things, the Santas climbed a barbed wire fence surrounding the recently shutte red General Motors assembly plant with the purpose of giving jobs back to “their rightful owners.” The week-long performance reached its crescendo inside one of Copenhagen’s biggest department stores when the Santas started handing out presents to customers directly off the shelves. The performance exposed the radical implications of the myth of Santa Claus’ boundless generosity, demonstrating that true generosity is impossible within the narrow terms of capitalist society.

Description from Portable Channel catalog: "This Program is a unique broadcast presentation of the Vasulka's recent experiments with the electronic image. It is not "video on TV" but a "videobroadcast" direct from the Vasulkas' loft in Buffalo, New York." The broadcast does in fact feature 3 Vasulka projects in their entirety: The Matter, Soundgated Images, and C-Trend.

This documentary shows the German Peasants’ War between 1524 and 1525 and looks at the role of Thomas Müntzer in it. Müntzer, who was a follower and admirer of Martin Luther, directed his resistance not only against the clerical authorities ruled by the papacy, but also against the secular worldly order. In Mühlhausen, Müntzer worked as a pastor in the Marienkirche and later became an agitator and promoter of the violent liberation of the peasants. Luther distanced himself from Müntzer at the beginning of the Peasant Wars. In the battle of Frankenhausen the rebels were completely defeated, Müntzer captured, tortured and publicly executed on May 27, 1525.

A fascinating hybrid of performance and video verité, The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd introduces Carel and Ferd, a couple who allowed Ginsberg to produce an ongoing documentary record of the intimate moments of their relationship. Carel, a porn actress, and Ferd, a drug addict, invite the camera to participate in their wedding, their sex life, and their break-up. Produced before the landmark PBS documentary An American Family introduced television audiences to the live-in camera — and many decades before the ubiquity of reality television — this document raises questions about the relationship between subject and camera, privacy and manipulation. Originally presented as an installation, this one-hour version, which includes interviews with Carel, Ferd and Ginsberg, was distilled from thirty hours of footage recorded from 1970 to 1975. - Electronic Arts Intermix

Based on Kazakh fairy tales about the wise scoffer, defender of the poor.

This film shows lofty sentiments with music by Aki Takahashi. Idemitsu’s mental images are beautifully and sensuously filmed; a mass of snails intertwined as if copulating in a group; scarlet petals; curtains swing in the wind.

Presents three case histories which illustrate how children were accidentally killed or injured by the schoolbus from which they had disembarked.

From a monastery in Makarska preserving an extremely valuable shell collection, we embark underwater. We study the life of the shell named after St. Jacob. It is a shell which can even jump, but sometimes it’s still not enough to escape its sworn enemy, the red comb star.

A short comedy film, among the first films directed by Pedro Almodovar

An imaginative history of editorial cartooning in Canada. The documentary provides a witty take on Canada's history through the eyes of political cartoonists like Duncan Macpherson, Robert LaPalme, and Aislin (Terry Mosher). Over 50 artists' notable cartoons and their impact are explored, capturing reactions from their subjects. One cartoonist sums it up: "A picture is worth a thousand words, but a well-crafted cartoon is worth a thousand pictures." An absolute must for cartoon buffs.

A story about a cat who is looking for a babysitter to her kittens.

Anders Wahlgren has visited some new residential areas with different apartment buildings. Årsta center, Sätra center, Kista, Viksjö and Fältöversten in Stockholm.

Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard’s Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande—based on fieldwork conducted in Sudan in the 1920s and 1930s—is one of the classic texts of social anthropology. Fifty years later anthropologist John Ryle and film-maker André Singer—among the last of Evans-Pritchard’s students—revisited Zandeland, in Western Equatoria province of Southern Sudan, for Granada Television’s Disappearing World series. They recorded the continuities in Zande culture and the changes since Evans-Pritchard’s time.

Inspired by the testimony of an American technician who, examining the São Paulo dump, stated: "Sao Paulo rubbish is the richest in the world." The film shows the misery of those who live on this garbage and the police repression on the scavengers.