Year 1971 - 251

Homayoun, who has divorced his wife by triple talaq, asks Nosrat, a shoemaker who owns a small workshop, to act as a mohallel so that he can remarry his divorced wife. However, Sara, Nosrat’s wife, prevents her husband from cooperating. With the mediation of a driver, Homayoun arranges a situation in which Nosrat and his wife Sara travel to the north of the country. Along the way, Homayoun’s ex-wife and her mother get into their car, and in this manner an acquaintance is formed between them. Nosrat marries Homayoun’s ex-wife, and according to the plan they head north, but Sara and one of Nosrat’s friends keep a constant watch on them, never allowing the two to be alone and repeatedly creating disturbances.

Monty Rachmaninoff is an astoundingly beautiful Hereford bull, owned by a group of Welsh farmers. The selling of Monty from preparation to auction.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

“The Promised Land” is a video essay that intentionally captures the conditions of poverty in Panama City and questions the reasons for a progress that, despite its abundance, failed to reach the people. In the filmmaker's words: “Dedicated to that pain made flesh, called the People; to that martyr, made of scars and rags, with hands bound by the iniquity of all laws made in their name, and mouth sealed by the blasphemous stone of Force, placed upon it like the claw of a basalt sphinx…”

Short film made by psysisist Septimio Tesone. An experiment made in his laboratory for his students to see multiple chemical reactions.

An experimental documentary on the atmosphere of the Tehran Coppersmiths’ Bazaar

The 'Rounama' dance comes from a wedding custom that was common in Iran, both in the distant past and more recently. Grooms wouldn't know their brides until the very last moment before getting married, and this unfamiliarity sometimes led to unexpected situations. The creators of the Rounama dance, which has humorous elements, aim to introduce viewers to this old tradition.

A short documentary directed by Chang Chao-Tang (張照堂) while working as a cameraman at China Television Company (中國電視公司), produced for the television program News Highlights (新聞集錦). The film documents the group exhibition “Womangraphy” (「女展」), organized by V-10 (Group Visual-10).

Animals – the ox, the lion, the dog – carry their names with them. A tiny ant bears an enormous Latin name on its back. When the rain begins, it builds a little house where everyone can take their shelter. The film was banned by Soviet censorship authorities and is now considered lost.

About small and large events in a city at war.

A film by Fritz André Kracht

A film by Lutz Mommartz

Early experimental film from Claude Champion.

Documentary about the EEC debate in Norway.

A man is pursued by aggressive advertising images. he finds himself in a labyrinth of advertisements from where he escapes and subsequently ends up in advertising heaven. There an ironic fate awaits him...

The film focuses on Black writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, who lived in a favela.

In this film, heavily inspired by Man Ray's collage work L'enigme d'Isidore Ducasse (1920) and the poetic energy of Lautreamont's Les Chants De Maldoror, Franco films a number of incunabulae (a swing machine, an umbrella), ancestors of fecund inspirational symbols for modern and contemporary art, which hold a privileged position among the objects described by Lautreamont.

A haunting Christmas short film from Québec about a lonely man and a mysterious wolf-like visitor. Created by Claude Roussel and Gilbert Gratton for the Ministère de l’Éducation, Philidor became a cult memory for many who saw it on television in the early 1970s.