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- DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsFrançoise BrionJacques Doniol-ValcrozeGuido CelanoA sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to locate her as all the local Turkish people pretend not to remember any such woman. He suddenly finds her again (she finds him?) and before she can explain her disappearance she is killed in a car crash while he is in the passenger seat. He replays the accident over and over in his mind trying to remember how she died if he caused the accident himself by grabbing the wheel.
- DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsJean-Louis TrintignantSylvie BréalZuzana KocúrikováOn the run from pursuing soldiers, a man hides in a small European town.
- DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsCatherine JourdanPierre ZimmerRichard LeducA group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
- What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.
- DirectorDusan HanákPictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentary films showing images from the outskirts of civilization. The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience. Inspired by the photographs of Martin Martinek, the films power lies in its unusual portraits of people whose raw visual beauty radiates from their very souls. Some, like the village cosmos aficionado or the disabled old man who climbs stairs on his knees, are hard to forget.
- DirectorFranco PiavoliThe passage of time in different dimensions illustrated by biological evolution, the changing seasons and the everyday moments of human life.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsDmitri MilyutenkoLarisa KadochnikovaFeodosiya LitvinenkoThe old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs.
- DirectorRobin AndersonBob ConnollyStarsJoe LeahyJoe Leahy is the half-caste son of one of the first explorers of the Papua New Guinean interior. His relations with the local Ganiga tribe who work his coffee plantation on their land are difficult at times. However he has successfully managed to get them to agree to open a second plantation in partnership with him. Things are looking up until the international coffee market hits rough times and conflict seems imminent between the Ganiga and their neighbouring traditional enemies.
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsVitalina VarelaVenturaManuel Tavares AlmeidaA Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
- DirectorLemohang Jeremiah MoseseStarsMary TwalaJerry MofokengMakhaola NdebeleWhen her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.
- StarsPierre DorisJacqueline DufranneAgathe NatansonRealistic chronicle of everyday life during the Great War. A ranger collects in his family several Parisian children refugees because of the conflict. All share the life of the country village, the school, the news from the front.
- StarsHenry ArnoldSalome KammerFrank RöthHermann Simon, an aspiring composer, comes of age in Munich during the troubled 1960s.
- DirectorMichael PilzAn epic documentary in two parts about life in the Styrian mountain village of St. Anna.
- DirectorDavid BlairStarsFather BessarionDavid BlairWilliam S. BurroughsA man recalls the story of how his bees implanted in him a bee television, causing him to lose all perception of space, time, and self in the deserts of the American West.
- DirectorRenzo MartensDutch artist Renzo Martens spent three years traveling throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo asking the question: "Who owns poverty?"
- DirectorPeter MettlerStarsGavin ConnorBrian LadoonDon LindA documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsMiroslava SafránkováRadovan LukavskýPetr SvojtkaThe little mermaid, one of the daughters of the sea king, seeing the prince on the deck of a luxurious ship, falls in love with him. But during a storm, the ship crashes against a rock. The little mermaid saves her lover from death.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsTimothy LearyEd EmshwillerFranz FuenstlerA chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels
- DirectorDiego RísquezStarsKosinegueRolando PeñaHugo MárquezInitially, it's the recreation of what the American territory would have been like before the arrival of the Spaniards: we see the indigenous people who dedicate themselves to art, fishing, children who play and the community that celebrates its rituals, dances and beliefs. With the arrival of Christopher Columbus everything changes.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsJean ForestVictor VinaPierrette HouyezA man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father's new wife, not wanting her to take the place of his beloved mother, and makes life miserable for his new stepsister..
- DirectorDayong ZhaoA remote village in southwest China is haunted by traces of its cultural past while its residents piece together their existence. Zhiziluo is a town barely clinging to life. Tucked away in a rugged corner of Yunnan Province, Lisu and Nu minority villagers squat in the abandoned halls of this remote former Community county seat. Divided into three parts, this epic documentary takes an intimate look at its varied cast of characters, bringing audiences face to face with people left behind by China's new economy. A father-son duo of elderly preachers argue over the future of their village church. Two young lovers face a break-up over harsh financial realities. A twelve year-old boy, abandoned by his family, scavenges the hillside to feed himself. "Directed with scrupulous attention to detail by Zhao Dayong" (Manohla Dargis, The New York Times), Ghost Town is "one of the most important films to have emerged from the booming (but still underexplored) field of Chinese independent documentaries" (Dennis Lim, Moving Image Source). Ghost Town "has a strong sense of historical consciousness, an eye for unique material, and a real sympathy for the people in the film and their tough lives" (Chris Berry, Goldsmiths University). "I do not expect to soon find scenes to match Ghost Town's mountaintop funeral, the running along after a rowdy exorcism, or the scanning of faces at the town Christmas chorale. His back to prosperity, Dayong finds hallowed ground" (Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice).
- DirectorParviz KimiaviStarsFahimeh RastkarParviz KimiaviAgha Seyed ali Mirza SajadiA director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province, near the Afghanistan border. He has already hired Turkoman tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diagetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.
- DirectorJames BenningAmerican trains, known to the director from trips across the country, are seen in motion in 43 shots from a fixed perspective.
- DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsZadour BonyadiMohammed KaniHedayatollah NavidThe daily life of Mohammad Sardari(Zadour Bonyadi) , a railway switchman on the verge of retirement, who lives with his wife and soldier son near the railway track.
- DirectorAleksandre KoberidzeStarsAni KarseladzeGiorgi BochorishviliOliko BarbakadzeA chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsGérard DepardieuLaurence MasliahBernard VerleyRomance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.
- DirectorLaura WandelStarsMaya VanderbequeGünter DuretElsa LaforgeWhen Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children's and adults' worlds.
- DirectorSiew Hua YeoStarsPeter YuXiaoyi LiuYue GuoA lonely construction worker from China goes missing at a Singapore land reclamation site, and a sleepless police investigator must put himself in the mind of the migrant to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsElliott Crosset HoveIngvar SigurdssonVic Carmen SonneAt the end of the 19th century, a young Danish priest is sent to a remote part of Iceland. The deeper he travels into the Icelandic landscape, the more he loses a sense of his own reality, his mission and his sense of duty.
- StarsJames BurkeKenneth KendallBruce BoaFollow James Burke through the history of science and technology in this collection of 10 1-hour episodes, starting with "The Trigger Effect."
- DirectorCarla SimónStarsLaia ArtigasPaula RoblesBruna CusíAfter her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.
- DirectorFranco PiavoliStarsPrimo GaburriMariella FabbrisIda CarnevaliUsing few words and gorgeous imagery, this is a poetic painting of a family, each in their own space on an August afternoon.
- DirectorThierry FrémauxStarsThierry FrémauxMartin ScorsesePierre BellingardA collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsIoana IacobAlex BogdanAlexandru DabijaAn artist commissioned to stage a re-enactment of a Romanian war battle receives pushback from producers for including a realistic portrayal of her country's treatment of Jews during WWII.
- DirectorBas DevosStarsSaadia BentaïebLaurent KumbaJovial MbengaAfter a long day at work, Khadija falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot.
- StarsAdam CurtisLove, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.
- DirectorIsrael CárdenasLaura Amelia GuzmánStarsJean Remy GentyYanmarco King EncarnaciónPaul Henri PresuméA Haitian man who recently lost his job as a French teacher begins a desperate search for work in Santo Domingo.
- StarsRuben de FreitasTeresa MadrugaFernando HeitorManuel's fantasy travel through Time goes from Long Ago (Episode 1 - O jardim proibido / Le Jardin interdit) through Now (Episode 2 - O pique-nique dos sonhos / Le Pique-nique des rêves), arriving in the Future (Episode 3 - A pequena champeã de xadrez / La Petite Championne d'échecs).
- DirectorJulio BrachoStarsArturo de CórdovaGloria MarínJulio VillarrealA brilliant surgeon is dazed and feels he can no longer operate. Told in flashback, we find his troubles began with a woman.
- DirectorJin XieStarsWen JiangLinian LiuXiaoqing LiuLove, humiliation, and politics play out in a distant village of China during the Cultural Revolution.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsMalgorzata BraunekLeszek TeleszynskiJan NowickiSet during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The husband decides to join the resistance but at the first meeting the Gestapo kills his go-between and chases him. During his escape he gets into the apartment of a pregnant woman in labor and helps her with the childbirth. He works in the typhus center where he is a guinea pig for lice after being immunized to make more vaccine. He goes to the hospital to end the misery of a man mistaken as him and tortured. He seems to see his own body and is finally reconciled with himself.
- DirectorPatrick KeillerStarsPaul ScofieldJohn MajorNorma MajorAn inspiring tale through London by pictures narrated by Paul Scofield.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsKlaus KinskiPeter CarstenMarcella MichelangeliA man takes his revenge on the family responsible for his wrongful sentence to ten years of hard labor.
- DirectorPeter FleischmannStarsMartin SperrAngela WinklerElse QueckeAbram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsKinuyo TanakaNobuko OtowaYûji HoriShinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsAurore ClémentTchéky KaryoAngelo AbazoglouFollowing over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.
- DirectorDiego Quemada-DiezStarsBrandon LópezRodolfo DomínguezKaren MartínezA road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.
- DirectorFrantisek VlácilStarsVítezslav VejrazkaMiroslav MachácekCestmír RandaA priest travels to investigate a miller suspected to be working with the devil.
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsHideko TakamineTakahiro TamuraKôshirô MatsumotoA young man decides to become a warrior, causing trouble for his clan.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsJoão César MonteiroManuela de FreitasRuy FurtadoLisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsDiego PuenteTino PascaliCacho EspíndolaCHRONICLE OF A BOY ALONE, is an indictment of a fascist regime running roughshod over its most vulnerable citizens, its children. Focusing on the bleak life of eleven-year-old bad boy Polin, who's been abandoned by his family and sent to live in a state-run orphanage, it's also a moving portrait of the human spirit imprisoned by the chains of well-intentioned fools. Inside the harsh confines of the supposedly beneficial institution, Polin and his fellow inmates must deal with constant physical and psychological abuse by the staff, as well as the natural emotional tensions brought on by their own burgeoning adolescence. But through it all, they manage to keep their hopes alive with optimistic talk of freedom and bold plans of escape. One day, when the opportunity finally arises, and Polin learns that freedom, too, has its price.
- DirectorPat O'NeillStarsJoel LorimenBeth BlockGeorge LockwoodA moving meditation on industrialization, focusing on the eerily desolate Owens Valley in California, made arid by the diversion of water from there to the city of Los Angeles.
- DirectorAdam CurtisStarsH. Rap BrownNikita KhrushchevRichard NixonThe story of America's rise to power starting with 1959; it uses archive footage and American pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.
- DirectorZoltán HuszárikStarsZoltán LatinovitsÉva RuttkaiÉva LeelössyAn old man is recollecting all the women he met in his youth. An old woman wants them to commit suicide together but changes her mind. The little town has a doctor whose wife can not forget the old man, and the waiter who serves him his dinner doesn't know that Sinbad will soon court her.
- DirectorTeo Hernandez
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsIvan MozzhukhinMarcelle PradotLois MoranMathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romilde, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare, as well as his job as assistant librarian in his home town. His only moments of lights are his mother and his baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked he leaves his hometown and gets to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the Casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he now is free from all ties to his old live, decides to start a new one, and goes to Rome, where he rents a room in a pension full of fake spiritualists who are controlling the owner. The chief of the gang, Terence, wants to marry the owner's daughter Adrienne, and has convinced her father to give her to him, with no regards of Adrienne's feelings, who is in love with and loved by Mathias. When Terence steals Mathias 50,000 Lira, and Mathias, being officially dead can neither marry Adrienne nor denounce Terence to the police, he decides to do something about his state and travels home, just to notice that Romalinda has remarried.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsPaul HoldengräberElvis CostelloPatti SmithA look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
- DirectorHeiner CarowStarsAngelica DomröseWinfried GlatzederHeidemarie WenzelPaul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they're together - but their short flights from the burdens of reality are once and again interrupted by Paul's ties to family and career.
- DirectorTheodor KotullaStarsGötz GeorgeElisabeth SchwarzKai TaschnerThe disturbing biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsJean GabinFrançoise ArnoulPierre MondyMid-aged married truck driver falls in love with a young waitress he meets while making a break on a long trip. They try to make it work, but she can't get a decent job or place to stay in his town. Things get worse when the man gets fired and his family find out. And there's more complications to follow for both of them...
- DirectorRené JayetStarsSuzanne TalbaGilbert PérigneauxCamille BardouThe film tells the story of Frau Concha, a femme fatale, or as the story points out, a "fille perdue", a lost girl who has no feelings or scruples, toying with men as she pleases.
- DirectorVictor A. TurinResisting the character-driven narrative adhered to by the rest of the world's filmmakers, Victor Turin formulated a grand, elemental drama centered around the struggle for survival in Asia, from the arid plains of Turkestan to the icy Siberian mountains. This unique film tells the story of the creation of a monumental Soviet construction project - a railway that connected Central Asia and Siberia.
- DirectorLiang ZhaoUnder the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Meanwhile, coal miners are busy filling trucks with coals. Wearing a coal-dust mask, they become ghostlike creatures. An endless line of trucks will transport all the coals and iron ores to the iron works. There traps another crowd of souls, being baked in hell. In the hospital, time hangs heavy on miners' hands. After decades of breathing coal dust, death is just around the corner. They are living the reality of purgatory, but there will be no paradise.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsFabrice LuchiniAndré DussollierSolange BoulangerThe exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of knightly chivalry and one of the champions of King Arthur's Round Table.
- DirectorMaurice MariaudStarsMaurice MariaudA. Castro NevesCastro NevesIn a community of fishermen, a love triangle stands out, whose conflict culminates in a lighthouse isolated from the coast.
- DirectorHanns Walter KornblumStarsPaul BildtWilly Kaiser-HeylTheodor LoosDocumentary on physics and astronomy.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaShigeru TsuyuguchiTamotsu HayakawaA married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEva HenningUlf PalmeBirgit TengrothAfter a young woman commits suicide, her neighbors try to piece together why she did it by tracking down her acquaintances.
- DirectorAleksandr AskoldovStarsNonna MordyukovaRolan BykovRaisa NedashkovskayaKlavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
- DirectorKing HuStarsChun ShihFeng HsuSylvia ChangA scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains.
- DirectorDorota KedzierzawskaStarsKarolina OstroznaKatarzyna SzczepanikMalgorzata HajewskaA thin child of about 10, nicknamed "Crow" because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher's hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining a lover or is asleep. One morning, Crow sees a chubby, cherubic child hugged by both parents as the father leaves for work. When the toddler is left alone, Crow lifts her through the fence and kidnaps her. That day, Crow tries to mother the child, alternately playing with and scolding her, taking her to the beach, leaving shore in a boat, pushing her into the sea in a pique, and eventually carrying the sleeping child back home. Crow returns to her own mother and asks for affection.
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerA documentary on the extremes to which workers will go to earn a living.
- DirectorKostas ManoussakisStarsElli FotiouAnestis VlahosSpyros FokasA disturbing family drama about the pathogeny of Greek countryside.
- DirectorGuy GillesStarsMacha MérilPatrick JouanéBernard VerleyA young girl remembers her impossible love for a melancholic boy.
- DirectorFranco PiavoliStarsLuigi MezzanotteBranca de CamargoAlex CarozzoAt the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles and he takes an internal journey of fleeting memories of his childhood, his parents, love for a beautiful girl, nostalgia for the past, regret for what he did, and the deep silence that envelops everything. He confronts the most terrible loneliness following a shipwreck in which all the comrades perish.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsAlex DescasYekaterina GolubevaPiotr KishteevSilent Lithuanian film about a woman visiting a Fayre.
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsZdena StudenkováVlastimil HarapesVáclav VoskaIn this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsZhongyuan LiuLei HuangQing XuA blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years he broke the 1000th string...
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiSilvio OrlandoMariella ValentiniBecause of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. As the match is about to finish, he misses the penalty which would have let his team draw the match and keep the leadership.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMasud ZandbeglehHassan DarabiMostafa TariA grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.
- 1993–199458m7.8 (728)TV EpisodeDirectorClaire DenisStarsAlice HouriJessica TharaudGrégoire ColinIn the sixties, in a suburb near Paris, Martine wants to lose her virginity.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsYuriy TsuriloNina RuslanovaJüri Järvet Jr.Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.
- StarsKenneth ClarkIan RichardsonRonald LaceySir Kenneth Clarke walks through the ages exploring the glorious rise of civilization in Western man.
- DirectorJóhann JóhannssonStarsTilda SwintonTwo billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.
- DirectorKonrad WolfStarsJaecki SchwarzVasiliy LivanovAleksey EybozhenkoGregor Hecker, who fled Germany with his parents, returns to Germany as a lieutenant in the Red Army.
- DirectorGuy GillesStarsDaniel MoosmannGeneviève ThénierJosette KrieffA sailor has a brief affair with a young secretary.
- DirectorRobert E. FultonInterpretive documentary by Robert Fulton in Peru featuring Machu Pichu.
- DirectorKei KumaiStarsEiji OkudaKen WatanabeTakahiro TamuraDowned American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel medical experiments.
- DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsJohanna von KoczianHansjörg FelmyWera FrydtbergThe movie explains Germany from 1913 until 1955 by example of two contrary characters: The idealistic journalist Hans (H.-J. Felmy) loses his work during the Third Reich, whereas opportunist Bruno (R. Graf) makes career to himself in the NSDAP party. After World War II ended, Bruno manages to be indispensable to the US administration and becomes a successful and well respected businessman, despite his Nazi-past. At the same time, Hans tries to earn a living on the countryside. But one day a time will come when both men will meet again.
- DirectorGaston KaboréStarsSerge YanogoRosine YanogoJoseph NikiemaIn pre-colonial times a peddler crossing the savanna discovers a child lying unconscious in the bush. When the boy comes to, he is mute and cannot explain who he is. The peddler leaves him with a family in the nearest village. After a search for his parents, the family adopts him, giving him the name Wend Kuuni (God's Gift) and a loving sister with whom he bonds. Wend Kuuni regains his speech only after witnessing a tragic event that prompts him to reveal his own painful history.
- DirectorKazuo KurokiStarsYoshio HaradaRenji IshibashiRie NakagawaThe last three days in the life of Ryoma Sakamoto, an imperial loyalist who tried to unite the warring Choshu and Satsuma clans in order to overthrow the Shogunate.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeBobitaSandhya RoyAs food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsNoriko AritaChishû RyûHaruko SugimuraAn old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. He recalls his time with, and away from, the girl cousin he grew up with and would have married, except the family and other pressures got in the way.
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsChi-Kuang WangShu-Chen LiHsiu-Ling LinA coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister who spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsBert SotlarLila AndresZlatko LukmanA partisan comes secretly to town to find about what happened to his little son who barely remembers him. He is horrified when he finds out that his son is raised in a colaborators' orphanage, brought up to hate communists and partisans. He decides to take his son to the freed territory with him, but will he manage to escape the police checkings?
- DirectorGuy GillesStarsEdwige FeuillèreAnnie GirardotPatrick JouanéPierre Brumeu, a twenty-year-old young man, leads a drab life in Paris with his father, a man he does not understand very well, and his friends Michel and Sophie. Father and son live in the memory of Pierre's mother, who died too early. One day, Pierre decides to go to Tunisia, the sunny country where he was born...
- DirectorTadeusz KonwickiStarsZbigniew CybulskiJerzy BlockMarta LipinskaA man hops off a train by the small town where he claims he was before. His presence allows to bring out the inner feelings and beliefs of the inhabitants. A man who has hidden through all of the war because he looked Jewish, even if he is not, took on a fame of a dead Jewish actor he resembles. The visitor's wife shows up to claim his and indicate that he is always running off. He escapes in the end for another town.
- DirectorYves AllégretStarsMadeleine RobinsonGérard PhilipeJean ServaisDuring the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.
- DirectorPeter B. Hutton
- DirectorPeter B. HuttonThis is a soundless story of the building of 'Toledo Spirit', the container ship, its sailing and eventual beaching. Insignificant men crawl on cranes and gantries to build it and other men, sans the equipment, scrape it after beaching.