1978 Movies

Kamal, a businessman, travels to Beirut and meets an Egyptian girl. He proposes to her, asks for her hand, and marries her, but when he returns to Cai...

Shots of the protagonist’s mouth and face as he speaks during a train journey, interspersed with close-ups of TV texture and images of a dark environm...

It takes all sorts of people to make up a Railway, both passengers and staff and we meet a variety of them in this film. We see a number of common eve...

A three-minute fantasy of butterflies and dragonflies cavorting amongst the pussywillows, Japanese-inspired animation accompanied by two variations on...

The story of a young college student who loses his parents and well-off family background in a car accident. He gradually finds inner balance with the...

Part 1 of a trio of pieces titled Lives. "Diaries" documents daily activity.

This detective story about three women who humiliate men. An accidental mishap reveals the spying activities of Pál Kovács, a foreign trader. The inve...

Adaptation of Zofia Nałkowska’s 1924 novel. Set in Warsaw in the early 1920s, it explores the disillusionment of Poland’s early independence years thr...

"...Series of narrative events, stories if you like, but so clustered visually as to have a center so to speak, slightly off center."

Animation Anno made during his high school years.

"Snake Dance was shown in United States Embassies in Africa in the late 1970s and early 1980s to show the American culture was not all Jim Crow and ra...

Pari and her friend Mahin, under Jalal's orders, position themselves in the path of Mehdi and his friends to disrupt his marital life. Jalal, who had...

The Australian Bucks Party. The last bastion of primeval male society. A brutal, savage, yet humourous study of a dying male ritual.

Filmmaker Jean Chabot looks at the use of nuclear energy in Quebec. Do we need this expensive and dangerous energy?

Jung Kyung-hwa started teaching at the age of 18 and she begins a new career as a journalist in Youngnam Daily. When her first article appeared on the...

1978 Spanish experimental short

Anno directed and also appeared in this short, live-action film when he was in the third year at high school. Starring Akimasa Nakamura, the student c...