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- DirectorSamuel BeckettAlan SchneiderStarsBuster KeatonNell HarrisonJames KarenA twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi' (to be is to be perceived), Keaton's very existence conspires against his efforts
- DirectorKimi TakesueStarsJoyce PerroneKeiichi KondohSarah ZhangA young girl who's bored with the normal happenings at a public pool becomes fascinated with a pair of improbable patrons who arrive.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudMarie-France PisierPatrick AuffayAntoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.
- DirectorBram SchouwStarsLudwig BindervoetKay GreidanusStefanie van LeersumThree youngsters go on a road trip to Seville that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorBill MelendezStarsChad WebberRobin KohnStephen SheaCharlie Brown's last chance to salvage his grades seems doomed when he confuses a supermarket for an art gallery he has to do a paper on.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJack AdamsA scheming fight manager attempts to collect insurance on his puny fighter by causing an accident. Things don't go according to plan, and the situation escalates into a pie-throwing battle of epic proportions.
- DirectorJoyce ChopraRichard LeacockIn 1963, the first US quintuplets to survive were born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. We meet the Fischers - the babies' parents - two weeks after the babies' birth; we see the physician and each infant. Then, we meet their several older siblings, see some of the donated items, watch dad take his older children around the farm in his Model T Ford, and follow mom on a shopping trip. The family discusses keeping the quints' lives away from the spotlight, and the city fathers talk about commercial possibilities. The film ends with a town dinner, speeches, and a parade to mark the quints' first month of life. The school band, the parents in a convertible, and then a sudden rain.
- DirectorKirsten JohnsonIn Kirsten Johnson's The Above, a U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
- DirectorFred WallerStarsDuke EllingtonIvie AndersonFlorence HillDuke Ellington and his orchestra play two jazz compositions plus 'Stormy Weather' (sung by Ivy Anderson).
- DirectorSam Taylor-JohnsonStarsHarry TreadawayAndrea RiseboroughSamuel RoukinTwo teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' during the summer of 1978.
- DirectorSasha LitvintsevaBeny Wagner"A Demonstration" is a monster film with no monsters. Inspired by the existence of taxonomies of monsters at the heart of Early Modern European science, the film explores and reinterprets a way of seeing the natural world that is almost impossible to imagine from today's vantage point. Early Modern naturalists were guided by a logic in which scientific truths were discovered through visual analogy. The word 'monster' comes from the latin 'monstrare', meaning to show, to reveal, to demonstrate. "A Demonstration" picks up on these themes in a poetic exploration of the boundaries of sight and the metamorphosis of form.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsRoger CoggioAnne OlivierJacopo NiziA humorous travelogue of the French Riviera.
- DirectorSophy RomvariA young woman spends the night contemplating cloning her 16 year old shih tzu, Norman.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineJack DuffyA young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsJean BörlinInge FrïssFrancis PicabiaAn absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
- DirectorLynne RamsayStarsLynne Ramsay Jr.Martin AndersonJames RamsayIt's the Christmas season. With her mom's help, Lynne, a girl of perhaps eight, dresses up; her younger brother Steven plays with a toy car. The children leave with their dad, who's affectionate with them. They walk down a railroad track where an unkempt woman waits with two children, about the same age as Lynne and Steven. The children go with them. They're all headed to a holiday party at a pub. Lynne notices that the girl acts all too familiar with her dad. What's going on?
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsJean VardaTom LuddyAgnès VardaWhile in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda gets to know a relative she had never heard of before. This unknown uncle lives on a boat, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsValérie MairesseAli RafieThérèse LiotardA couple find their erotic love mirrored perfectly in the architecture and mosaics of Iran.
- DirectorSam AshbyStarsSean HartJosh O'ConnorJohn AlcockAn examination of the Lesbian and Gay News Media Archive in London interspersed with recollections of the Homosexual Law Reform Society and a meditation on life under discriminatory law.
- DirectorSophy RomvariStarsMargot BernerStella NewtonChance CalvertAn unexpected encounter during an afternoon at the cinema catapults a young woman into a confrontation with her own grief, her parents' pain, and the still raw wound of her missing older brother. Over a single afternoon and evening, Shelby must sift the ground of memory, heartbreak, and hope, ever in search of a way forward.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngmar BergmanKarin BergmanA film based on the pictures from Ingmar Bergman's personal photo album, especially the pictures of his mother Karin.
- DirectorPhillips SmalleyLois WeberStarsLois WeberVal PaulDouglas GerrardAbandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAntoine BourseillerDanièle DelormeClotilde JoanoWalk around the Loire Valley castles 'shown in chronological order of construction' with commentaries, 16th-century poems, and gardeners' reflections.
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsLeslie BaisCaelum VatnsdalShaun BalbarA scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth's core to save humanity.