Ksana meets Ivan Mazayev, a miner, and follows him to Magadan. But the difficult life of a miner quickly bores her. She leaves for Moscow, but cannot forget Ivan...

Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.

Set in the imaginary town of Coastville, in tropical Queensland, this study of cyclones and their behaviour provides invaluable information on how to protect yourself and your property when a cyclone strikes. Besides examining some of Australia's most disastrous cyclones and showing how meteorologists and emergency services predict them and prepare for them, the film includes fascinating footage showing how a cyclone develops off the coast of Africa, filmed from satellite, tracking aircraft and ships as it crosses the Atlantic and finally devastates the Mexican town of Tampico.

In a certain kingdom, the boyars decided to marry the old tsar. He chose a bride from foreign lands and sent three fools after her - in the hope that they would not be able to fulfil his punishment...

Above the tip of Cape York, beyond the northernmost point of the Australian continent, are the Torres Strait Islands. The economy here is based on home gardens and pearlshell fishing. The culture, with its basis in music, dancing, and ceremony, provides a striking contrast to that of mainland Australia. This film, shot in the late 1960s, shows how strongly old traditions still affect Torres Strait Islander people, even though they also have most of the trappings of modern life.

This film looks at small coastal shipping in New Zealand. It focuses on life on the coaster; loading and unloading the ship, situations in ports, a storm at sea, and some dramatic incidents. Complete commentary in rhythmical verse supplied by Selwyn Toogood.

Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a cross-country race.

To be, or not to be a mother, that is the question. A road movie where music, sexuality and contradictions accompany the main characters on a trip through southern Spain in a '67 Corvair. Milagros stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility while Jonathan seeks solace in Grindr in order to overcome abandonment issues.

Kasperle Larifari travels to a distant island in search of a magic flower.

Kei, a house servant, is kicked out after an altercation and is then adopted by a nearby family.