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- DirectorArthur LipsettThrough an unconventional use of concise narrative, a conceptual collage of sounds and images, and a rapid-fire montage, Arthur Lipsett's first film vividly portrays the urban estrangement in the times of social erosion and materialism.
- DirectorEvelyn LambartNorman McLarenAbstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
- DirectorArthur LipsettStarsKonrad AdenauerVannevar BushReginald CudlippFrom Arthur Lipsett, another incisive short film that looks at human might, majesty and mayhem. Compiled from some peculiar newsreel items of the last 50 years, the filmmaker calls this a time capsule, yet his arrangement of pictures makes it almost explosive. There are hundreds of items, once front-page stuff, but all wryly grotesque when seen in this reshuffle of the past.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsCharles ManleyCountry rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.
- DirectorJake MahaffyStarsCarl WestThis film documents a motion study of a man running as hard and as long as he can in a full suit of High Middle Age armor.
- DirectorMan RayStarsKiki of MontparnasseExperimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsGrigoriy AleksandrovAleksandr AntonovSergei EisensteinFilmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little film.
- DirectorD.A. PennebakerSet to a classic Duke Ellington recording of "Daybreak Expresa" this is a five-minute short on the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated train line in Manhattan, New York City.
- DirectorNick ParkStarsJulie SedgewickA humourous and thought provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.
- DirectorGeorge S. FlemingEdwin S. PorterStarsEdwin S. PorterVivian VaughanArthur WhiteA fireman rushes into a carriage to rescue a woman from a house fire. He breaks the windowpanes and carries the woman to safety; after dangerous and uncertain moments he also saves the woman's son.
- DirectorJonás CuarónStarsNaomi KleinDrawing surprising connections between market methods and CIA torture techniques developed in the 1950s, the film explores how well-known events of the recent past have been theaters for the shock doctrine, from Pinochet's coup in Chile, to the Tiananmen Square Massacre, to the war in Iraq today.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsDavid MilesMarion LeonardMary PickfordA gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.
- DirectorWyatt GarfieldEd YonaitisStarsWill BellaisDave HagerWes BaileyWhen protocol and routine fail to resolve a malfunction during an electric chair execution, responsibility falls into the hands of the Warden.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsGrant MunroJean Paul LadouceurA surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
- DirectorKatherine LeggettStarsJim KyleEllen LeggettKatherine LeggettKatherine Leggett's home movies and webcam conversations with her gay parents, who live in a small Midwestern town.
- DirectorPaul LeeStarsJason ChowLaurance TanAn offering is passed repeatedly between a Japanese monk and a young novice as their relationship evolves from their initial encounter through their final parting.
- DirectorWerner NekesDore O.StarsDore O.
- DirectorDziga VertovThe first animated movie in the Soviet Union. A bloated caricature of a Capitalist devouring a massive heap of food and drink.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsMichelangelo AntonioniMichelangelo Eye to Eye is a meditation on mortality which observes the director Michelangelo Antonioni contemplating Michelangelo's statues in St Peter's.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorDore O.
- DirectorMan RayStarsKiki of MontparnasseJacques RigautA long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car drives along country roads. Farm animals. She descends from the car, again and again. Images: dancing legs, seashore, swimming fish, geometric shapes, cut glass. A man removes his starched collar. It rotates. A girl has garishly painted eyes. No, she's only fooling. Those were her eyelids.
- DirectorBrett WagnerStarsDiane AkoAnaluKalani ApuakehauSemu Fatutoa drives a taxi in Honolulu, Hawaii, slowly forgetting his old life as a tribal Chief in Samoa. Little does he know, his old life is looking for him.
- DirectorGrímur HákonarsonStarsHalldór GylfasonBjörn Ingi HilmarssonMaría GuðmundsdóttirA love story about two gay wrestlers living in rural Iceland who must keep their relationship a secret from the inner world of Iceland's national and very macho sport.
- DirectorMan RayStarsKiki of MontparnasseAndré de la RivièreRobert DesnosTwo people stand on a road, out of focus. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. He says, "Adieu." Images: the beautiful girl, a starfish in a jar, city scenes, newspapers, tugboats. More images: starfish, the girl. "How beautiful she is." Repeatedly. He advances up the stair, knife in hand, starfish on the step. Three people stand on a road, out of focus. "How beautiful she was." "How beautiful she is." "Beautiful."
- DirectorBassam TariqStarsJennifer JulianKc OkoroA group of suburban Muslims attempt to reconcile the disappearance of a close friend and must learn to live with the consequences of his actions.
- DirectorPierre ClémentiStarsTina AumontYves BeneytonBalthazar ClémentiHalf family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May '68 and in Rome where the actor was featuring in the film Partner by Bertolucci.
- DirectorJames SpioneStarsEthan McCordU.S. Army veteran Ethan McCord recounts his life-changing experiences at the scene of one of the most notorious events of the Iraq War: the slaying of two Reuters journalists, along with a group of mostly unarmed men, on the streets of Baghdad by American attack helicopters in July 2007.
- DirectorNick ParkStarsPeter SallisPeter HawkinsTo replenish their depleted supply of cheese, inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit travel to the moon in a homemade rocket-ship.
- DirectorMarzieh VafamehrStarsMehdi MoghaddamShaaf NooriMarzieh VafamehrA day in the life of a 10-year-old Iranian girl highlights the Iran-Iraq war and the national/educational propaganda that informs the tumult, fear, infatuation, and mindset of a generation.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinHenry BergmanEdna PurvianceCharlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.
- DirectorPeter GlanzStarsPete ChekvalaLiesl Gaffney-DawsonPatrick McKenzieComing from a wealthy family, Paul recently turned 30 and has never had, or needed a real job. Lost in his own imagination, he often preaches his grand ideas, but in reality never does much... until he meets Sabine.
- DirectorGail DolginRobin FrydayStarsJames ArmstrongThe film features 85-year-old Mr. Armstrong, an African American barber in Birmingham, Alabama, as he experiences the manifestation of an unimaginable dream: the election of the first African American president. This colorful and courageous activist of the Civil Rights era casts his vote, celebrates Obama's victory and proudly unfurls the American flag as he is inducted into the Foot Soldiers Hall of Fame. Mr. Armstrong links the magnitude of the present paradigm shift with challenges he faced in the past: from his sons' integration into an all white school to the Bloody Sunday march for voting rights. The documentary raises questions about democracy and patriotism in the face of adversity, and the vigilance and action required to ensure continued forward movement to end racial injustice.
- DirectorChuck JonesBen WashamStarsBoris KarloffJune ForayDal McKennonA grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
- DirectorRayka ZehtabchiStarsAjeyaAnitaGouri ChoudariIndian women fight the stigma surrounding menstruation and begin manufacturing sanitary pads.
- DirectorLes ClarkJoshua MeadorWolfgang ReithermanStarsJane FowlerPaul FreesClarence NashDonald's goes on an adventure in which it is explained how mathematics can be useful in real life. Through this journey it is shown how numbers are more than graphs and charts, they are geometry, music and magical living things.
- DirectorArtavazd PeleshianMonumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- DirectorJoshua BennettJuliana SchatzIn El Salvador, gang violence has overrun the country, disproportionately targeting children and teenagers, and turning it into 'The Murder Capital of the World'. The emergency medical unit, Los Commandos de Salvamento is one of the few institutions standing up to the gangs' reign of terror, and is a place of refuge and community for young people. 16 year old Mimi is a dedicated Commando caught in the violence. When her friend and fellow Commando, 12 year old Erick Beltran, is gunned down while serving, she faces pressure to leave El Salvador and Los Commandos, and head north for a better life.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAbel JacquinAlexandre O'NeillA surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- DirectorNick ParkStarsPeter SallisAnne ReidJustin FletcherWallace's whirlwind romance with the owner of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin; Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.
- DirectorFrédéric BackStarsPhilippe NoiretChristopher PlummerThe story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
- DirectorNick ParkStarsPeter SallisPeter HawkinsGromit butts heads with a mysterious penguin lodger, who hatches a sinister scheme involving the ex-NASA Techno Trousers that have been modified by Wallace for walkies.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceEric CampbellCharlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsBill BrentHuey P. NewtonStokely CarmichaelA short film of interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsMichel BouquetReinhard HeydrichHeinrich HimmlerThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsK.A. AbbasRajinder Singh BediPier Paolo PasoliniA half hour documentary Pasolini made about his search for places, faces and ideas to be in a film about India that was never completed.
- DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsPascal LamorisseSabine LamorisseGeorges SellierA red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
- DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsAlexander WyrubowF. WerchowzewaViktor ArensSergei's beloved wife Yelena has passed away, and the bereaved husband is inconsolable. He remains obsessed with pictures of Yelena and with a braid of her hair that he has saved. One day, while walking in the street, he passes by a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Yelena. He follows her to a theater where the woman, an actress named Tina, is part of an opera. After the performance, Sergei goes back stage, and he soon strikes up a friendship with Tina. But it is not long before his obsessions create severe tensions in their relationship.
- DirectorRebecca CammisaStarsDolores HartDon RobinsonElvis PresleyDolores Hart left a successful Hollywood acting career to become a nun. A true story.
- DirectorGeorge CaseyStarsJames Earl JonesThe Serengeti is a huge area of grassland in Tanzania, Africa. Once a year, in the time of drought, about two million herd animals like antelopes travel north to feed and mate before moving south again, when plants there begin to blossom.
- DirectorRebecca Baron
- DirectorLucy WalkerSurvivors in the areas hardest hit by Japan's recent tsunami find the courage to revive and rebuild as cherry blossom season begins.
- DirectorGeorge CaseyStarsRobert FoxworthNorman BanksLawrence BlairThis spectacular presentation explores the volcano belt known as the Ring of Fire. Breathtaking cinematography displays close up shots of past and present Pacific Rim volcanoes from Chile, the USA, Japan, and the Philippines.
- DirectorDaniel JungeSharmeen Obaid-ChinoyStarsSarkar AbbasMohammad JawadPlastic surgeon Dr. Mohammad Jawad returns to his native Pakistan to help those left horribly scarred by acid attacks.
- DirectorPaul AlmondStarsDouglas KeayBruce BaldenJacqueline BassettIn this the first installment, we get a chance to meet some of the individuals who took on the responsibility of the 7 Up project, 21-years-ago - Tony, Bruce, Suzi, Nick and Peter.
- DirectorJohn DouglasNorman FruchterRobert KramerShot in Vietnam in the summer of 1969, this documentary creates a vivid portrait of the countryside and ways of life during the war.
- DirectorEric SimonsonStarsBill ClintonHillary ClintonDavid IsayDocumentary about the life and career of the author and pioneer of radio & television, Studs Terkel.
- DirectorArthur LipsettSnippets from discarded footage, and with footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, combined to a collage with the underlying argument as to whether man is a complex machine or a creature with a soul.
- DirectorWolf KoenigColin LowStarsPierre BertonAuthor Pierre Berton tells the history of his hometown of Dawson City at its heyday during the Klondike Gold Rush.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAnna KarinaJean-Luc GodardEmilienne CailleA subtitle warns, "Beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.
- DirectorArthur LipsettAn experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, FREE FALL is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today's world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsChantal AkermanIn a 360° circular panoramic shot the camera slowly pans an entire apartment (or house). When it first passes the bedroom there is nobody there but each time it shows the room again Chantal Akerman is sitting on the bed, motionless first, then busy doing something (peeling an orange, eating an orange, etc.). When she is last seen she yawns and lies down on her bed. The camera continues panning but after 10 minutes and 21 seconds the film comes to an end and she can't be seen asleep.
- DirectorTorill KoveStarsMag RuffmanA personal interpretation of Norwegian history - starring a grandmother who during the Second World War loses her job ironing the King's shirts. Instead she gains access to the enemy's uniforms, and inspires her own brand of resistance fighters, the "Shirt Guerillas".
- DirectorPhillip BorsosA film about the manufacturing of nails.
- DirectorWolf KoenigRoman KroitorStarsPaul AnkaJules PodellA documentary chronicling the career of teen singing star Paul Anka (the title is taken from one of his hit songs).
- DirectorAlexander JohnstonNOW! AGAIN! is a remake of Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez's civil rights found footage masterpiece NOW! (1965). A ferocious split-screen interrogation of race, violence and power in America, the film juxtaposes Alvarez's 1965 work with contemporary images of the ongoing struggle on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, sparked by the killing of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. As past and present collide, viewers are forced to reckon with both troubling historical echoes, and new militarized forms of state violence unleashed upon American citizens.
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezStarsLena HorneA documentary short about racism in the United States.
- DirectorWilliam Nicholas SeligStarsGertie BrownSaint SuttleA burlesque on the John Rice/May Irwin kiss in "The Kiss" (1896).
- DirectorMenelik ShabazzProtestors react to the indifference by the British establishment after a January 1981 fire results in the deaths of 13 black youths celebrating a birthday.
- DirectorMadeline AndersonStarsRobert Graham BrownMartin Luther KingBayard RustinDocuments the year of the nation's first sit-ins.
- DirectorMadeline AndersonStarsRalph AbernathyLeon DavisCoretta Scott KingIn 1969, 400 poorly paid black women working in a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, went on strike to demand union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves confronting the National Guard and the state government.
- DirectorAdam MazoBen Pender-CudlipStarsGeorgina Sappier-RichardsonA Passamaquoddy elder tries to sharpen the blurry outlines of her identity.
- DirectorElizabeth MirzaeiGulistan MirzaeiEven as Shaista's love for Benazir is palpable, the choices he must make to build a life with her have profound consequences.
- DirectorSeth Freed WesslerStarsSeth Freed WesslerA group of immigrants detained inside an infamous American detention center as the pandemic spreads, organize in protest to demand protections and their release. Separated from their families and fearing for their lives they take bold action. But officials who run the detention center are intent on keeping these men and women silent and locked up. Filmed using the cameras attached to tablets installed inside the detention center cell-blocks, The Facility is a real-time chronicle of a life in an immigration detention facility, and of a struggle for freedom and accountability.
- New Jersey is known as the Garden State. It's known for its blueberries and for its corn, but it's not known for the enslaved people who tilled the soil. This documentary tells the story of how New Jersey was the last northern state to end the institution of slavery and the impact slavery still has on the people of New Jersey.
- DirectorGraeme FergusonA fast-paced portrait depicting the iconic rugged Canadian landscape and wildlife of north-western Ontario, as well as highlighting the diverse lifestyles of the area's inhabitants, North of Superior was the first motion picture shot entirely full-frame in the giant screen IMAX format.
- DirectorDavid DawkinsChris HegedusD.A. PennebakerStarsOtis ReddingBooker T. & the M.G.sSteve CropperDocumentary on Otis Redding's performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
- DirectorSophia Nahli AllisonStarsTybie O'BardShinese HarlinsZoe FlintThe injustice surrounding the shooting death of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins at a South Central Los Angeles store became a flashpoint for the city’s 1992 civil uprising.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsRalph FiennesBenedict CumberbatchDev PatelChronicles a variety of stories, but the main one follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a book he stole.
- DirectorMisan HarrimanStarsDavid OyelowoJessica PlummerAmelie DokuboIn this intense short film, a grieving rideshare driver picks up a passenger who helps him confront the past.
- DirectorLasse Lyskjær NoerStarsLeif AndréeJens Jørn SpottagJesper LohmannThe loss of a loved one, the grief, the risk of yellow skin, and a coffin, that is too much for Karl to face.
- DirectorNazrin ChoudhuryStarsBrittany SnowJuliet DonenfeldRedding MunsellA poor single mother must go out of state for a necessary abortion.
- DirectorVincent René-LortieStarsLéokim Beaumier-LépineÉlia St-PierreIsabelle BlaisInspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom.