World War II is around the corner, but the only thing Sally Bauer can think of is the ocean. Her dream is to swim across the English Channel.

Ginette, a Parisian seamstress, lives poorly but happily with her musician lover. When Count la Ferronnière offers to teach her the manners and behaviours that will open her the doors to a richer world, she quickly chooses wealth over love.

When the water supply cuts out in a small town, turning the dystopian society into a war zone, three hustlers struggle to find the real enemy before it's too late.

Three alien criminals from the planet Tryzzia are exiled to a distant planet for their heinous crimes. The planet is Earth. Who will stand against these evil extra-terrestrials and thwart their killing spree, or are we all doomed?

A student, a railway worker and a peasant go on a trip to the Julian Alps and meet people on their way.

Neda and Boyan are travelling in a car to the city. Their memory takes them back to their youth - their unsettled life, their noisy arguments, their vague hopes, picking up individual scenes, episodes, conversations. Their youth had foolishly gone without love. Now they try to resurrect its ghost. It seems to them that not everything is lost yet, everything can be brought back. So there is a deviation from the usual, measured life to themselves, to true feelings.

A film story about a young talented director of children's theatre, who, despite terminal illness, came to work in the regional city.

“All Clear” or the crazy adventures of a redheaded heartbreaker in perestroika.

A modest employee of a savings bank inherits a valuable art collection. The unexpected wealth changes the course of the heroine's life so much that she does not know whether to be happy or sad. Only after losing everything does the young woman realise what she really needs for happiness.

Pierce Brosnan narrates this beautifully crafted documentary, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of enigmatic Irish painter Jack B. Yeats.

Located in Ardmore, Waterford, Saint Declan’s Well dates back to the 14th century. In this film, the viewer is shown parts of the oratory and Saint Declan’s tower, but perhaps the most interesting is footage of a man and a woman walking underneath Saint Declan’s stone. Legend has it, on the feast day of the saint (24th of July) pilgrims would crawl under the stone as a cure for arthritis. However, the mythical tale also warned that the stone should not be approached by the unworthy, as they risked getting stuck and trapped for their sins.

As future cinema owners, the Horgan Brothers had the foresight to know any event that attracted enormous crowds was worthy of filming. From 1917, their amateur newsreel The Youghal Gazette was shown in The Horgan Picture Theatre, and people from the locality would come to catch a glimpse of themselves on the big screen. This footage of church goers leaving Sunday mass and walking down the church steps in Youghal, is one of the finest examples from their collection and vividly illustrates the broad strata of society that came to worship.

The Youghal Clock Tower is a light-hearted and playful exploration of the possibilities of animation in its infancy. In this short, the well-known landmark is depicted dancing into frame as the clock gate comes to life, spinning and dancing through the main street of the Cork town. It is likely that James Horgan was one of the earliest animators in Irish film history, as he experimented with film production techniques, including stop-motion animation and the use of models, as well as retouching still photographs.

This is the story of the Horgan Brothers of Youghal, photographic, cinematic, and animation pioneers.

Tamara, who has left for America, has a sister Natasha in Ivanovsk. Tamara invites her to come and stay with her. She is ready to help Natasha, to do everything necessary to get her back on her feet in an overseas country. But, strange as it may seem, Natasha does not want to accept such a generous gift from her sister and has no intention of leaving her hometown. She lives well here, she has her own business. And Natasha hopes that she will be able to arrange her personal life.

Trenque Lauquen, a small town in Argentina, invites an Italian fashion house to show its latest collection. After an elaborate welcome ceremony and an initial photo shoot, the fashion house's model vanishes, and a team of local police and consultants, including a clairvoyant, investigates.

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

Jean-Pierre, a frazzled sport agent, has better things to do than to look after his friend's labrador Didier. An amazing discovery will lead him off on an amazing adventure.

When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey, he meets a female first-fighter who runs an orphanage, a commander who got back from Foreign legion and runs a defense line from a disco club, and goes through many other adventures only to end up in the endless backwaters of the Neretva river where war threats to arrive.

The Making Of... is a unique reflection of the transformation of the time spirit from November 17, 1989, to November 17, 2009. The film reconstruction of the revolutionary moments culminates in a clash between demonstrators and public security on the day of the celebration of the fall of the Iron Curtain. The commented home video transforms over the course of 20 years from a euphoric trip into a picture of social emptiness.

One-time visit turned into a party, the party turned into a flatshare. Filmmaker and musician Jan Foukal and Albert Romanutti, frontman of Bert and Friends and a striking figure of the Czech music scene, become the main characters of the first Czech bromance. Jan has just rented a flat to sort out his family situation. The COVID-19 pandemic robbed Albert of his musical gigs, and he has just broken up with his girlfriend. While some people were writing their lockdown diaries, these two boys used their unique openness, creativity, and an omnipresent Handcam and shot a feature romance about a male friendship.

Journalist Alexei Krivtsov tries to understand in detail how important historical events are assessed at the Institute of Humanitarian Problems in the times of perestroika.

Charles Rouvier, a lawyer, is in jail for trying to save one of his clients, Hedwige. He decides to be revenged on women and his inmates teach him how to seduce and exploit them.As soon as he is released from prison he places a personal ad in a newspaper. This is how the newly self-appointed "cynical Don Juan" will meet three creatures: Florence, Gisèle and Henriette. Who will eat who?

Apprentice director Emmanuel Mouret submits a group of apprentice actors to a series of experiences : to what extent are they ready to expose themselves, either physically or psychologically, in the eyes of their director first, and then of the viewers?

In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to live with them seeking refuge from the conflict between his indigenous tribe and the logging companies. Kéria, Selaï and the little orangutang, now named Oshi, will have to fight against their forest’s destruction.

Soviet troops are no longer in Afghanistan and some Afghan leaders believe that the war is still going on. They have a special order - to destroy a regiment of border guards in Tadzhikistan.

The merciless decline of a great poet, Dino Campana, author of the Canti Orfici, remembered more for his passionate relationship with Sibilla Aleramo than for the depth of his art. Locked up in an asylum in his early thirties, psychopathic yet brilliant, subjected to the cruel care of a doctor who would really like to rehabilitate him, Campana slides towards death with hallucinating determination, alternating delirium with flashes of lucidity, the memory of Sibilla with a poetic creativity stronger than his alienation.

A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America.

Inga, a medical school graduate, is diagnosed with a blood disease. She needs a bone marrow transplant, but Inga is afraid of the operation and considers herself doomed. Vadim, who loves her, having learnt about it, comes to her in the Carpathians, where she works on assignment after graduating from the institute, and offers Inga to become his wife. Vadim's love and faith in the cure help Inga to defeat the disease.

A collective farm agronomist was dismissed and expelled from the Party by the district CPSU committee. Disagreeing with this decision, the agronomist appeals to a higher Party instance. The secretary of the regional committee comes to the collective farm to sort out this complicated case.

Vladimir is already over fifty, and he is bored with the routine of family life. He has found a young and beautiful mistress Olga, with whom he goes on a romantic trip to Yalta. At home Volodya informs that he is going fishing with friends to Solovki. Arriving in the south, Vladimir and Olga suddenly discover that Volodya's wife is also here, and not alone, but in company with a witty and handsome Georgian Givi. At the suggestion of the bruised and deceived in the best feelings of the spouse, the first couple begins to follow the second, and the serene holiday of the heroes acquires an adventurous character.

The universe of Ukrainian village has always been one of the key topics for Oleksandr Koval. This film is his cinematic testament and, at the same time, a lyrical cinematic confession, which was filmed in his native village of Zherdova near Kyiv, where he was born and where he started his "career in cinema" as a cinema mechanic. This work is particularly illustrative with regard to Koval's tragic view of himself as a person who had to conceal his true self throughout his life.

A film professor becomes obsessed with a phrase said by an old film director and investigates its origin, not realizing that perhaps he is making a film himself.

This film tells the story of the patients of the Lviv Regional Psychiatric Clinic who are treated with art, rehearsing Shakespeare's play Hamlet, and its main idea is to reflect on us ‘normal’ people, our lives and actions in the ‘normal’ world.

Katerina has long since divorced her husband and is raising her fifteen-year-old daughter on her own. Her parents have been separated for a long time and now need her help. Her daughter does not help, and at work there is only trouble. But what Katerina needs is not compassion and help, but love.

In French, "scénario" is cinema's name for how it tells stories. This is the title Jean-Luc Godard chose for his final film, which was literally completed the day before his self-death. The two segments of this film open with a series of identical sequences. The second segment then diverges and ends on a self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard -his last images- sitting on his bed, bare-chested, he hides none of the wear on his body in the manner of Pigalle's sculpted portrait of Voltaire. "Scénarios" ends as it began, with a repetition, the figure of eternal return, the moment where time, which has been the great -if not unique- question of cinema, will have ceased to flow.

The Time Team head for Manchester England to uncover the oldest cotton mill in the city, the Arkwright Mill. The building is important because Richard Arkwright used a number of cutting edge technologies to drive the mill. To understand the building the team needs to find the position of various steam engines and water wheels. A seemingly easy process is complicated in the knowledge the building was destroyed and rebuilt many times

Roman temples are found, but why in this valley?

Mitya Gromov, a sixth-grader, wants to stay for a second year because he likes Nina, who apparently will not go to the next grade with him. He also tries to save an old horse, which is being led to slaughter, but he acts illegally. And then, helping his classmate Vanya in his studies, he kidnaps him from home.... How long these oddities will continue Mitya does not know, and parents tolerate and wait for the end of this terrible time for their son - the transition age.

The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses.

About the granddaughter's return from the city to her grandmother in the village.

A young man in England is wrongly accused of a crime, so he emigrates to New Zealand and works on a farm. He falls in love with Hazel, the joint owner of a nearby sheep station. She is also fancied by the station manager but rejects his advances. It transpires that the manager has committed the original crime in England; he is arrested, and the young couple are happily united.

Through dramatic reconstruction and documentary asides, the spirit of Italian poet, playwright, journalist, aristocrat and army officer Gabriele D’Annunzio is captured, presenting the nascent fascism in his attempts to forge a new state in the aftermath of the First World War.

To be happy, a lover must catch a magic butterfly in his hat. Puppet cartoon about faith in yourself.

Viktor Kingissepp has been the underground head of the Communist Party of Estonia for three years. He corresponds with Moscow, writes speeches for the members of the Communist Workers' Party and makes leaflets for the events of trade union. His purpose is to overthrow the Republic of Estonia since he does not believe in Estonian independence nor in any national ideals. Yet the clock keeps ticking, tuberculosis spreads rapidly, the world revolution is being postponed. What to do in order to make one's efforts work?

Young Venka investigates the cause of death of a fellow villager during the Great Patriotic War - in the process uncovering a traitor who has been murdering witnesses to his own inglorious past.

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.

Zhora is a well-known master of stuffed birds and animals in the neighbourhood. His wife's overbearing nature and her endless insults about his strange work once awakened in him the desire to leave home.

David Sims' impressionistic National Film Unit short film explores the responses of four NZ painters to a landscape illuminated by a distinctive light, but yet to feel the full impact of human settlement. The award-winning film examines Brent Wong’s floating architectural shapes, Colin McCahon’s religious symbolism, Toss Wollaston’s earth-hued palette, and Michael Smither’s hard-edged realism. Their works are taken from safe gallery confines and moved closer to their subject matter, while the words of writers (Katherine Mansfield, Charles Brasch, Bill Pearson) provide another angle.

Having fled the Liberian Civil War and living undocumented, renowned self-taught artist Johnson Weree creates otherworldly portraits while seeking asylum in the Netherlands.

“Metamorphism” is a creative reflection on resource extraction and its effects on the environment. It focuses on mining slag waste from the Blinman Copper Mine in the Northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia, as a way of imaging the incredible forces human society and technology exert upon the earth. This project continues a long-standing collaboration between media artist Grayson Cooke and sound artist Dugal McKinnon, investigating the relationship between geological “deep time” and the technologically amplified time of the human.

“Deforest” is an art/science project that combines environmental critique with material enquiry. In this project, sulphuric acid – a highly corrosive acid that burns to the touch – is used to dissolve photographs of old-growth forest from subtropical Queensland.

The “after | image” project is about personal and material memory, and about archival preservation and dissolution; it features time-lapse macro-photography of photographic negatives being chemically and physically destroyed.

'Frack' explores "virtual fracking" - it uses chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing to dissolve photographs of sedimentary rock.

The life story of the poet Alexander Pushkin.

In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.

Bureaucrats from the chemical plant of a small industrial town allow the lake to be polluted with waste. Zaborov, an enthusiast of the fight for environmental cleanliness, starts an open struggle and is defeated. This does not embarrass him and for a while he disappears. Some time later, a prehistoric lizard appears in the lake, which immediately attracts the attention of the world community.

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.

When all the parents in a town leave their misbehaving children to fend for themselves, chaos follows.

A docudrama that traces the story of Cecil Holmes, a young radical filmmaker at New Zealand's National Film Unit, who was fired because he was a member of the Communist Party.

The story of the carpenters’ dispute of 1949, in which the Communist-led Carpenters Union was de-registered by Peter Fraser’s Government in cahoots with the Federation of Labour.

Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.

A romantic drama about Erik who meets the Estonian violinist Viivi at his father's funeral and falls in love.

Documentary short about Hans Bellmer.

Barbie, once an attractive, devoted mother and partner, faces newfound challenges as she turns 55, descending into darkness, violence, and absurdity while grappling with her identity, relationships, and life's complexities.

160 cameramen simultaneously filmed the 356th day of the war along the entire front line, as well as in the rear. The film that was released on the country's screens became a cast, a snapshot of the country's face at the moment of its deadly battle with the enemy.

A homage to Dusky Maiden images as well as a playful take on the low art of velvet painting, Sima Urale’s Velvet Dreams provides a tongue-in-cheek exploration of Pacific Island stereotypes. Part detective story, part documentary, an unseen narrator goes in search of a painting of a Polynesian princess that he has fallen in love with. Along the way, he meets artists, fans, and critics of the kitsch art genre, as well as the mysterious Gauguin-like figure of Charlie McPhee.

Kevin McManus, a man at war with his wife and his life, seeks refuge in the peace of the Christchurch Public Art gallery, but instead is driven to psychic meltdown by the haunting bird-people in Bill Hammond's extraordinary painting The Fall of Icarus. Shaken by his experience, McManus decides to go in search of Hammond's pictures and explanations of them. The artist's unavailability restricts him to questioning and observing those whose lives have also been affected by Hammond's paintings.

One of the few tinted silent films in the Archives New Zealand holdings, this film was part of a series completed by the NZ Government Tourist and Publicity Department. This episode depicts weaving with harakeke and the creation of a piupiu.

Rudall Hayward was just 21 when he began making his first full-length silent movie, My Lady of the Cave. A wistful young clerk (Robert Ramsay, who later tried his luck in Hollywood) falls overboard on a boat trip and washes up on an island. He meets a mysterious woman (Hazel de Montalk) who appears to be a prisoner. The clerk enlists a friend to free his 'cave lady' from her jailer, and they uncover a tragic story.

The story is about three friends who spend a long weekend in a remote cabin, intending to hunt deep in the Swedish woods. However, one day all animals vanish without a trace and the forest turns eerily quiet.

Rich Marta flees to live with a peasant. The couple's peace ends when the girl's brothers find them. The penalty for her husband and little Julio, their son, is death. However, the boy survives and, 30 years later, it is time for revenge.

Michelle, a model grandmother, is enjoying peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her best friend Marie-Claude. On All Saints' Day, her daughter Valérie arrives to drop off her grandson Lucas for the school holiday week. But nothing will go to plan.

A manhunt is launched after a woman's suffers a brutal attack. Investigators have their eyes in one man, recently released from prison, who was present in her home.

Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.

Lonely pensioner Evgenia Vasilievna sincerely does not like the whole world around her. And one day the world reciprocates: the robber took away all the pension, his crazy mother is forced into a friend, the riot police cover the brothel that worked in her entrance, and the prostitutes ask to hide them until the raid subsides. The only thing missing is the criminal authorities who "protect" the institution ... And they come - with a demand to compensate them for losses of several million rubles. But where can a simple pensioner get that kind of money? The bandits themselves suggest a way out: you need to open a new brothel, right in Evgenia Vasilievna's apartment.

City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.

This is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. He is a travelling salesman, and travels through Switzerland selling cosmetics to beauty parlors.

After his father's death in prison, a man hopes to start a new life with his pregnant wife.

At the age of 75, Gabriel Pitteloud is one of the few chimney masons who create handcrafted fireplaces in cut stones. For the man who, for 40 years, has been making the stones sing, the profession has distilled into a philosophy of life.

"I did the takes for this film in the fall of 1966 and in the summer of 1967. I came to know and love the 'old woman' who gave her 'face' in one of the city-run dining halls in Zurich to the first part of the film. I was looking for poets for the film 'Robert Walser' and was hoping to find one in one of the places Robert Walser used to go to decades before, but it proved to be a complete failure. The woman who gave her 'face' attracted my attention because she bad something radiant about her and, despite her advanced age, still had a roguish way of looking at the world. She must have seen me several times before during test takes, because she told me later that she had seen me getting thrown out ('Filming not permitted') and that this had happened at another city-run dining hall. Because the woman appealed to me so much, I asked her on the spur of the moment if she would be willing to let herself be filmed, even though I did not actually know what I wanted to film." (HHK)

Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.

A young woman is walking through the city. She meets a friend at a coffee shop. This friend tells her every detail about how she bought a bike the day before. The young woman listens.

A nighttime odyssey just before New Year's Eve: a woman and a man walking along a back road, caught up in a fight. Their conflict spreads out around them: it covers the dirty coat the woman is wearing, a child she meets and a waiter who doesn't want to leave her alone. Between external stimuli and internal conditions an idiosyncratic and seemingly inescapable space of repressed aggression and confrontation emerges.