1979 Movies

In 1979, Iranian Women invite the American feminist Kate Millett to celebrate March 8, the International Women's Day, in Tehran. On March 7, the relig...

Sometimes a little kid thing causes a lot of grief. Twelve-year-old Tomáš (F. Renč) is going through a bad time at school and his classmates get him i...

Cheriyachan, a landlord, feels threatened by industrialisation and leftist activities. But when he witnesses police atrocities on poor peasants, a fee...

The events that take place on a city bus taken daily by workers, students, intellectuals, housewives and schoolchildren are depicted, and the lives of...

This captures a performance of Los Angeles punk icons, Germs, performing live at The Whiskey A Go-Go . The remaining portion of the film are taken fro...

An experimental film using a mixture of techniques to portray the different views of the human body. It consists of seven parts, each one presenting a...

A fifth-grader Zamanbek lives in a mountainous Kazakh village. He is passionate about Mark Twain's book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and wants to fi...

This documentary short is a portrait of Miyuki Tanobe, a Japanese painter who has chosen to make Québec her home. She works in the Nihonga style, appl...

Mr. Selkie is a seal who comes ashore in the shape of a man during full moon. He helps some children in an anti-pollution campaign.

XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and co...

Documentary film.

Farocki frequently chooses a single news photo as his pretext. In his film he explains convincingly that 'learning from images' is not so much a quest...

Joe Jackson Live at Hatfield Polytechnic, UK. 29 November 1979. Introduction 1) SUNDAY PAPERS (00:26) 2) ONE MORE TIME (05:22) 3) FRIDAY (08:12) 4) IT...

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Shintoho.

Video and language artwork by Keith Haring

An actor from the provinces, a soap-opera star, reaches the big city with dreams of success. Partly through sincerity and partly prompted by an uneasy...

A woman is forcibly placed in Priory, as the filmmakers follow her struggles to adapt.

The valiant Soviet police are fighting counter-revolutionary banditry, helping the Caucasian poor to follow the difficult road to a bright socialist f...

A group of industry figures discuss the advantages of investing in Scotland.