1979 Movies

An old man reluctantly attends his retirement party, which consists of a six minute taped conversation in an empty room.

Singer Anna Maria Larasati is a widow with one child but after returning from a visit abroad, she regains her popularity back home. One of her fans, J...

Short film about fishing

A ship full of scientists and psychics travels to the Bermuda Triangle to try to document the strange goings-on that are reported there.

Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he...

Animation short based on orthodox themes.

Return of a prodigal daughter. An angry film in which the filmmaker tries to come to grips with the distance between her and her parents. Cinema-verit...

“In a wry exploration of women’s sexuality, the character Pussy demonstrates the play between the masculine and the feminine, the strong and the passi...

Tukiki is a small Eskimo boy who sets out to discover the meaning of Christmas along with a magical character known as North Wind. He visits different...

The first rape trial aired on the italian television.

Documentary by the basque filmmaker Iñaki Nuñez

Something of a formal and thematic template for his subsequent work, Frank Cole’s first short film brings a terrifying mixture of intimacy and distanc...

Random scenes recorded during a trip through different places in Pernambuco (Brazil),the artist's home state.

On January 25, 1979, an oil well in Zsana, Hungary, caught fire after gas rushed into its shaft at a depth of 1,800 meters and ignited. Miners, soldie...

Lines of Force opens with footage of a dramatic explosion. The screen is divided, into a triptych at first, and slowly into horizontal and vertical ba...

Our story is set in the small village of Frankenstein, in the German region of Pfalz. A hapless young man runs out of gas, which unfortunate accident...

An award winning 45-minute film portrait of Al Neil’s life, music and art. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

At the documentary film seminar given by Gisela Tuchtenhagen at the dffb in 1979, three documentary portraits of women were made that were combined un...