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Overview of films

• Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen

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  Donald Brittain, Don Owen | 44' | Canada | -

  Informal portrait of the Montreal poet, novelist and songwriter, Leonard Cohen. He is seen reading his poetry to a rapt audience and also alone, or…

• Lambaya

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  Mahama Johnson Traoré | 80' | Senegal | -

  Social satire about Senegal after independence. The corrupt leaders of a provincial city panic when they think they have sighted an inspector travelli

• Minamata: kanjo-san to sono sekai

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  Tsuchimoto Noriaki | 120' | Japan | -

  First of a series of documentaries that Tsuchimoto made about a notorious poison scandal that hit the islanders of Minamata, who depended on clean wat

• Only the Beginning

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  Newsreel | 20' | USA | -

  Short documentary about protests against the war in Vietnam made by a political film collective. See also: The Earth Belongs to the People, Wilmington

• Postchi

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  Dariush Mehrjui | 103' | Iran | -

  Parable, loosely based on Büchner’s Woyzeck. Vet experiments with impotent postman.

• Reed, Mexico insurgente

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  Paul Leduc | 124' | Mexico | -

  Feature about the Mexican adventures of John Reed, the American reporter made famous by his first-hand description of the Russian Revolution.

• Remparts d’argile

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  Jean-Louis Bertuccelli | 80' | Algeria | -

  Dramatised documentary about life in a rural Tunisian village, that had to be shot in Algeria because of the political situation.

• Sama soruja

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  Teshigahara Hiroshi | 104' | Japan | -

  Portrait of three American marines in Japan who deserted from the Vietnam War.

• Il sasso in bocca

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  Giuseppe Ferrara | 110' | Italy | -

  Realistic reconstruction of events providing an insight into the mythology of the Mafia.

• Sho o suteyo machi ni devo

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  Terayama Shuji | 119' | Japan | -

  Fantastic, anarchic and erotic stream of consciousness of poor student.See also Tomato kechappu kotei/Emperor Tomato Kechup.

• Shura

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  Matsumoto Toshio | 134' | Japan | -

  Samurai takes bloody revenge after his treasure is stolen from him.

• Szindbád

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  Zoltán Huszárik | 98' | Hungary | -

  Strange and poetic adventures with languishing and lonely girls and hidden escapades. A treat for the eyes.