1972 Movies

Long thought to be the first film ever made by an Indigenous filmmaker, Black Fire examines the situation of First Nations people in the early 1970s t...

The Belgian poet Christian Dotremont, organiser of the COBRA movement, invents a graphic writing system

Gholam is released from prison and gets involved with Heydar, whose father, Morshed Zaman, was Paralyzed by Gholam . Gholam rapes Heydar's sister Azam...

This colorful introduction to India’s greatest theatre tradition - the dance-drama of Kathakali features the Kerala Kalamadalam Company performing dan...

"In Chakra, I was able to transfer the traditional order of the chakras into a film, starting with the first (lower) chakra and working up to the seve...

Holidays spent by a couple in love are disrupted by the appearance of a stranger.

The film is a brief evocation of a town, Aix-en-Provence, by the friendly vision of one of its old inhabitants. He brings back some anecdotes which de...

Compilation film specifically designed to commemorate the Foundation 21st birthday. Compiled from: SCRAMBLE; THE MAGICIAN; COUNT DOWN TO DANGER; ALL A...

1972, color, sound, 6 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

A recording of the eponymous ballet choreographed by Olga Roriz, produced for Canadian public television.

Released by the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency in 1972, Your Chance to Live is a series of films which cover threatening events, from forest fires,...

The story of a rural landowner and his struggle with "friends" who try to deprive him of his advantageous position and beautiful wife.

Short Pinku

First Nations documentary

A short film featuring images of his grandfather’s just-demolished shoe-repair shop in 1972