1979 Movies

Incredible comedy about the adventures of Oleg Popov, the Sun Clown

A profile of the costumbrista painter Pancho Fierro (1808-1879),and his vision of 19th-century Lima.

In the mid to late '70s, over several visits to New York, Schönherr produced an astounding 107 hour super8 film, a "visual diary" that consists of imp...

A study of England's history, with particular emphasis on the role religion has played in shaping the nation and its people. Includes scenes of Stoneh...

Details, fragments, transformations and shadows of a confined space.

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...

Short university film.

A suicidal teen and an openly gay youth strike up an unlikely rapport in a foster home.

A firefighter band wanders through the wasteland. Everyone marches cheerfully until they encounter various adventures.

This is the story of John Andrews, world-famous Australian architect. In the mid-1960s, when only 29, Andrews was commissioned to design Scarborough C...

Not to be confused with "Made in Chinatown".

With an audio track of children describing their dreams, Beams’s animation depicts them soaring above fields and through the clouds in scenes of youth...

The story of Pina and Nuansanow after they get married. They live together at suburban. Pina’s obsessed with his works and her feel neglected. She dec...

Alanis Obomsawin shows children film clips about the struggle of a Cree boy who is caught between Indigenous and settler worlds. Following these clips...

A veteran suffering from PTSD imagines that he is a combatant in the European theater during World War II. Although he is subdued and admitted to a me...