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- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonA.C. AbadieGeorge BarnesA group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczMr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?
- 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.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- DirectorForugh FarrokhzadStarsForugh FarrokhzadEbrahim GolestanHossein MansouriSet in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
- DirectorChadi Abdel SalamStarsAhmad AnanAhmad HegaziAhmed MareiBased on one of the major literary texts survived from the Middle Kingdom, the classical period of Egyptian literature, The Eloquent Peasant is a combination of a morality/folk tale and a poem. The events are set between 2160 and 2025 BC. When the peasant Khun-anup and his donkey stumble upon the lands of the noble Rensi, the peasant's goods are confiscated and he's unjustly accused of theft. The peasant petitions Rensi who is so taken by the peasant's eloquence that he report his astonishing discovery to the king. The king realises the peasant has been wronged but delays judgement so as to he can hear more of his eloquence. The peasant makes a total of nine petitions until finally, his goods are returned.
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsLeslie BaisCaelum VatnsdalShaun BalbarA scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth's core to save humanity.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsErnie AlloBruce ByronFrank CarifiA gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
- DirectorMaya DerenAlexander HammidStarsMaya DerenAlexander HammidA woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
- DirectorBoris KaufmanJean VigoWhat starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsAlex AllinLucien BatailleGenica AthanasiouObsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
- DirectorJoris IvensClose shots of a railway train underway: track racing underneath, steam escaping, cars coupling, gears ratcheting, signals changing.
- DirectorMannus FrankenJoris IvensRegen is an experimental documentary film directed by Joris Ivens in 1929. It can be defined as a cinematic-poem. In 2021 Breve Storia Del Cinema restored the film with a new score composed by Nikolas Labrinakos.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsPeggy ReaveyA woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsDorothy McGinnisRichard WhiteVirginia MaitlandA young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsPeter BernuthIn the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsElem KlimovValentin RasputinStefaniya StanyutaA loving film tribute to Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, who died tragically in a car accident in 1979 at the age of 40. This documentary by her husband, Elem Klimov, includes excerpts from all of Shepitko's films, and her own voice is heard talking about her life and art.
- DirectorSaul BassStarsPeter HansenPaul SaltmanMixing animation with live-action, Saul Bass' "Why Man Creates" is an eight-part meditation on the nature and struggle of creativity.
- DirectorErnest PintoffStarsMel BrooksMel Brooks is an old man watching abstract animations. He doesn't understand them, so he heckles with strange commentary, to the annoyance of those around him.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerLewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerThree surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsLudvík SvábBedrich GlaserJan KrausExamines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerA human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsMiroslav KucharA man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineLuke the DogTwo inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczAll summer, the grasshopper sings and plays music with friends. Meanwhile, the ant works hard collecting food and building a shelter. The grasshopper makes fun of the ant's efforts, but when winter comes, things are much different.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczThe frogs are bored with their lot, and ask God to give them a king - but God, irritated with their inability to govern themselves, quickly makes them change their minds.
- DirectorPatrick BokanowskiStarsMaurice BaquetJean-Marie BonMartine CoutureA surreal, nightmarish collection of imagery.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyStarsBarbara HersheyFootage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.
- DirectorKihachirô KawamotoStarsTetsunojo KanzeA solitary maiden recounts the story of Unai-Otome, a pure maid who lived 500 years ago and had two suitors, a poet and a warrior.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsRavi Kiran KarlaThe short film shows an encounter between a child of a rich family and a street child, through rich kid's window.
- DirectorAndy MuschiettiStarsVictoria HarrisBerta RosIrma MonroigA young girl wakes up and tells her sister that their mother has returned home.
- DirectorBen OckrentJake RussellStarsLola AlbertAlan RickmanJodie WhittakerAn alternative interpretation of a Tooth Fairy legend.
- DirectorPablo LarcuenStarsArmando BuikaMarc MontserratAlexandre NovellManuel is stuck in a monotonous job, has only one friend that he cannot stand, and his family despises him. Everything will change when the doctor diagnoses him with a rare disease - Manuel is going to turn into an elephant.
- DirectorDavid SandbergStarsDavid SandbergJorma TacconeSteven ChewIn 1985, Kung Fury, the toughest martial artist cop in Miami, goes back in time to kill the worst criminal of all time - Kung Führer, a.k.a. Adolf Hitler.
- DirectorAtsuya UkiStarsKana HanazawaRyohei KimuraSatomi MoriyaA high school boy named Tetsu must protect his transforming pet monster Cenco when a mysterious boy comes to town looking to steal Cenco for his own purposes.
- DirectorErik WernquistStarsCarl SaganWhat if we, humans, were to expand beyond the strict bounds of our pale blue dot called planet Earth?
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsMichel PiccoliJuan AlmeidaAlejo CarpentierA photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsMiki IrieTeruko HasegawaYoko MatsushitaFollows Ako, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, as she spends time working in a bakery and going out with her friends.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsYoshi KatôA documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsTomoko NaraokaSofu TeshigaharaThe history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director's father Sofu Teshigahara worked as the grand master of the school.
- DirectorHideaki AnnoStarsSie KohinataSuzuki MatsuoKiyoshi KobayashiRyusei-Kacho is renowned for his unmatchable skills in securing a seat on the infamous Japanese commuter trains. Never once has he failed until he meets the beautiful and talented Automatic Maria.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAbel JacquinAlexandre O'NeillA surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsGéza BerczyLajos Cs. NémethTamás ErössA trio of young men leave a piano by the beach while chasing love interests. Several beach-goers have a go at playing creating an impromptu concert.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsWilliam RiceDavid WojnarowiczNick ZeddFour shorts from Richard Kern: Stray Dogs; Woman at Wheel; Thrust in me; and I Hate you now.
- DirectorDimitri KirsanoffStarsNadia SibirskaïaYolande BeaulieuGuy BelmontA couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsWladyslaw StarewiczA stuffed animal goes on a journey through frightening streets to get its kid an orange.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsKenneth AngerBobby BeausoleilDonald CammellEgyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsKenneth AngerBobby BeausoleilBill BeutelExperimental short, featuring strobe-like erotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsSamson De BrierMarjorie CameronJoan WhitneyHistorical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsKenneth AngerGordon GrayBill SeltzerA dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.
- DirectorJean PainlevéUnderwater photography presents the octopus: breathing, swimming, eating, dying.
- DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsPascal LamorisseSabine LamorisseGeorges SellierA red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
- DirectorCarlos MayoloLuis OspinaStarsLuis Alfonso LondoñoCarlos MayoloRamiro ArbeláezFictional film that simulates being a documentary about filmmakers who exploit the misery with mercantilist purposes. It is a scathing criticism "porno-misery" and the opportunism of the dishonest documentary making "socio-political documentaries" in the third world to sell them in Europe and win prizes.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsSusanne BrownLee ByfordChristopher JuppA masked mob cruelly punish a lone masked man in this nightmarish short film.
- DirectorAndrey KhrzhanovskiyA musician playing a glass harmonica comes to a town governed by bureaucracy and corruption. Can the melodies he plays defeat the powers governing this seemingly indifferent group of people?
- DirectorFrantisek SádekHermína TýrlováStarsJindrich LáznickaEduard LinkersThe Gestapo invades a toy workshop and wants to arrest the owner. The toys rebel against the unwelcome guest.
- DirectorNiki Lindroth von BahrStarsSven BjörklundMattias FranssonCarl EnglénA dark musical enacted in a market place, situated next to a freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsFeliks StawinskiInside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsJoy ConstaninidesWitold SchejbalA porcelain doll and a sleeping woman. How will they interact through her dreams?
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiAndrzej TitkowBlind war veterans tell stories about loss, war, will to live and their dreams.
- DirectorGakuryû IshiiStarsYosuke NakajimaTatsuya MoriShigeru MuroiA cop chases a punk who had a fight with his girlfriend through every kind of urban setting, going on so long the punk starts hallucinating.
- DirectorBill PlymptonWhy do dogs bark at such innocent creatures as pigeons and squirrels... what are they afraid of? This film answers that eternal question.
- DirectorTakashi ItôStarsBin ShimadaHaunting light and haunted spaces, otherworldly movement and abstracted time. A ghost visits an apartment complex.
- DirectorTakashi ItôStarsHiroko EmoriA sensuous ghost haunts a flat in this unusual ode to plain, generic areas.
- DirectorLes BlankSkip GersonStarsLightnin HopkinsBilly BizorMance LipscombA portrait of the great Texas bluesman, 'Lightnin' Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins.
- DirectorTakashi ItôStarsSeiko NakanoA woman's face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways.
- DirectorDavid FirthStarsDavid FirthCarla SimpsonChristian WebbCream tells the story of Dr. Bellifer, a scientific genius who, after years of smashing particles together, reveals his revolutionary new product: a cream with the power to fix all of the world's problems. - Regent Street Cinema.
- DirectorDavid FirthStarsDavid FirthTwo young children are controlled by a severed head.
- DirectorYuri NorsteinStarsVyacheslav NevinnyyMariya VinogradovaAleksey BatalovA little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanStarsW.C. FieldsRosemary ThebyGeorge ChandlerThe prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
- DirectorAvishai SivanStarsDvir MaziaMichael WeigelMordi GershonThe brilliant illui "a young Torah prodigy" Noah leaves the religious community at the age of 18, and is shunned entirely by his Hasidic family. After 7 years of total disconnect, the family patriarch passes away. According to the father's request, all siblings must be present at the reading of the will, including the secular Noah. For the first time in years Noah and his siblings meet in a small apartment in the heart of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood "for the Hasidic population, life in Mea Shearim - close to the site of the Holy Temple - is in itself holy". Together they wait for the lawyer to arrive with the father's will. The atmosphere in the room is tense, the wait seems to drag out especially long. It seems as if everyone wishes to forget the rift between them in years and differences. This gathering slowly becomes an acceptance of his death - of the deceased and of him who is alive.
- DirectorDorian JespersStarsDéni Oumar PitsaevAlexandr PronkinFedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the darkness of the Russian arctic. He wanders from client to client through the concrete alleyways driven by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its inhabitants. His dreams erode his sense of reality, opening the door to a phantasmagorical universe: a second sun rises over the horizon.
- DirectorZbigniew RybczynskiSubsequent characters appear in a poorly-decorated room, intertwining but never colliding, all possessed by never-ending rituals.
- DirectorYahav WinnerStarsNimrod PelegYoram ToledanoAvinoam and Barak, father and son from a Kibbutz bordering the Gaza strip, are forced to deal with another round of rockets and combat, each in their own way. One night, Barak reaches a boiling point and Avinoam is forced to absorb the heat.