All Films

Into Infinity

1975 • 52 min • United Kingdom

The spaceship Altares, with a photon drive capable of accelerating it to the speed of light, leaves an Earth-orbiting space station. The Altares crew, two families of scientific specialists, journey at light speed with time-dilation to Alpha Centauri, where they launch several satellites to transmit information on the Centauri star system back to Earth and guide future manned vessels in exploring. The Day after Tomorrow (also known as Into Infinity in the United Kingdom) is a 1975 British science-fiction television special produced by Gerry Anderson between the two seasons of Space: 1999. It stars Brian Blessed, Nick Tate, Joanna Dunham, Katherine Levy and Martin Lev. It aired in the United States on NBC as part of the network's Special Treat childrens series in December 1975, and in the UK on BBC1 in December 1976.

Foreign Bird

1975 • 22 min • Soviet Union

A story about the first love set in a Georgian village.

Handful of Sand

1975 • 10 min • Soviet Union

One of the five-part documentary series by Belarusian writer and director Viktor Dashuk, which recounts the horrors experienced by the Belarusian people during World War II, through firsthand accounts of survivors and newsreel footage.

La caída de Sódoma

1975 • 10 min

Thirty men in cross-dress and makeup re-enact the moment in the Book of Genesis from the Bible, when Sodomites surround the house of Lot.

Boo Hoo

1975 • 18 min • Canada

A cemetery in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada is seen through the eyes of its former superintendent.

Pembe Panter ve Temel Reis Gangsterlere Karşı

1975 • 57 min • Turkey

The Pink Panther and Popeye get into silly misadventures while battling gangsters.

Downhill Motion

1975 • 35 min • United States of America

Downhill Motion documents the spirit and soul of skateboarding like no other film in history. This underground classic takes you back to Huntington Beach, California in 1975 with the founders of the world of skateboarding. Watch Bob Neishi and many others bring life to the sidewalks of Southern California with 55 mph barefoot speed runs, solid 360s, and a soulful downhill motion.

Music in Grožnjan

1975 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

A look at the music folklore legacy and instruments used in the small Istrian town of Groznjan.

Just Waiting

1975 • 10 min

Stephen Dwoskin's personal impression of West Berlin before the Berlin Wall went down.

Vamos ao Nimas

1975 • 18 min • Portugal

Short documentary film by Lauro António.

Little Hippo

1975 • 6 min • Soviet Union

Lone Little Hippo in search of a friend meets ants, bees, rabbits, chickens, until it finds another Hippo.

Seven Green Bottles

1975 • 34 min • United Kingdom

Seven wayward juveniles (the "Green Bottles" of the title) spend their days truanting and thieving. One by one they are caught and made to face the consequences of the choices they have made.

H.P. Lovecraft: The Shadow Out of Time

1975 • 50 min • Germany

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuperates he is so different his family deserts him. He gathers knowledge of things outside his specialty for five years, then has another seizure. When he reawakens he is himself again, but now he has no memory of the five years between the attacks. He begins having bizarre dreams, and tries to find out what he was doing during the five years he can't remember. What he discovers, combined with the growing reality of his dreams, convinces him that something much darker than a mere personality shift was going on.

Hello...?

1975 • 7 min

"a colorful poem of the first copy-motion film... the system registers images directly from a color (xerox) duplicator model 6500... an original, versatil, unique system developed by Darino" –Back Stage

Our Dear Sisters

1975 • 14 min • Canada

Alanis Obomsawin, a North American Indian who earns her living by singing and making films, is the mother of an adopted child. She talks about her life, her people, and her responsibilities as a single parent. Her observations shake some of our cultural assumptions.

Ramkinkar Baij

1975 • 31 min • India

Ramkinkar Baij is an incomplete personality study or documentary on sculptor Ramkinkar Baij created by legendary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. He started creating the film in 1975. The film was almost complete but it still remained unfinished for the death of Ritwik Ghatak.

Caesar and Claretta

1975 • 50 min • United Kingdom

'Caesar and Claretta' dramatises the last few hours in the lives of Benito Mussolini (El Duce, played by Robert Hardy) and his mistress Claretta (played by Helen Mirren).

The Seasons

1975 • 29 min • Soviet Union

The last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Metamorphosis

1975 • 55 min • Germany, Austria

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic story about Gregor Samsa, a man who awakes and sees himself suddenly turned into a repulsive insect.

A Sense of Poetry

1975 • 18 min

Part of a Canadian educational series, this visual illustration of the poem ‘The Beggars of Dublin’ by renowned Canadian poet Alden Nowlan follows a visitor to Dublin, as he disembarks from a plane and wanders the streets of Dublin encountering beggars and homeless people along the way.

Those Faces in May

1975 • 37 min • Vietnam

Documentary about Vietnam after the liberation of Saigon.

Trurl's Machine

1975 • 8 min • Poland

A short animation inspired by the Stanisław Lem short story about Trurl from "The Cyberiad".

Blood on the Stars

1975 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Shadrach Smith and his school choir do their best to ensure that the local celebrities hired to appear at a concert in a village hall don't make it to the stage and slaughter anyone they believe is getting in their way. Released in 1974/1975.

Two Years in Finland

1975 • 28 min • Finland

Portrait of the Chilean community in Finland from the perspective of the director, a political exile after the 1973 coup d'état.