Complete films screened by NZIFF 1979-1999
The Wellington Film Festival evolving into the New Zealand International Film Festival
Excluding some short and New Zealand films that do not appear on IMDb.
Excluding some short and New Zealand films that do not appear on IMDb.
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- DirectorCaroline MourisFrank MourisAn aggressive arrow attempts to remove a little white dot from a space they both share. The dot triumphs, however, through passive resistance and the flexibility which allows it to adapt to other forms.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorMichael J. HallerStarsBruce Wapen"Bruce," a materialistic happenin' dude shows us around his swingin' pad, showing off his personal effects.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorGeorge GriffinInspired by Eadweard Muybridge's series of photographs entitled "Running Man", Griffin creates a whimsical animated poem, using a variety of graphic styles.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorSam NeillStarsAlan BruntonJohn DaviesMartin EdmondA documentary about the New Zealand theatre troupe "Red Mole".Red Mole on the Road
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorDavid SimsStarsPatric CareyBernard KearnsMichael McGrathEighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsDirk BogardeEllen BurstynJohn GielgudA dying writer bases his last book on his own perception of his family.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorRené ViénetTaking rare archives, texts and extracts from speeches, René Viénet shows Mao Tse-tung in an unusual light, the fate of his mythology.Mao By Mao
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorAnja BreienStarsLil TerseliusStefan EkmanKatarina GustafssonArvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorWill VintonMountain Music illustrates what happens when technology gets too advanced too soon.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorHarry KümelStarsHugo Van Den BergheWilleke van AmmelrooyBert AndréThe Lost Paradise
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorLarry ClarkStarsNathaniel TaylorClarence MusePamela JonesA jazz musician joins a revolution upon his release from prison.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorLes BlankStarsKid ThomasAllen ToussaintBlue Lu BarkerA look at the spirit of New Orleans. First a funeral: Allen Toussaint explains that you arrive slow and cut up afterwards. Then it's food, with a lesson in eating crayfish at Frankie and Johnny's. Next, a St. Patrick's Day party: New Orleans celebrates holidays on the streets. Then it's preparation for Mardi gras, with roots in slave days, when slaves gathered on Sundays to prepare for the one holiday they could celebrate. The Wild Tchoupitoulas society makes Indian costumes to honor the help Indians gave slaves. At Mardi gras, we're with this society parading, singing, and partying. We end with the annual parade for St. Joseph, the saint of the people. More music, dance and ritual.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorTengiz AbuladzeStarsLika KavzharadzeIosif JachvlianiZaza KolelishviliThis film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams...Tree of Desire
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorDonald BrittainBarrie HowellsDouglas KieferStarsDonald BrittainUp to age forty-five, Fritz Schumacher, economist, technologist and lecturer, was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out of all proportion to human need. Author of 'Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered' and founder of the London-based Intermediate Technology Development Group, he championed the cause of "appropriate" technology. The film brings us into contact with this gentle revolutionary a few months before his death.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsThérèse LiotardValérie MairesseRobert DadièsThe lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorRichard BennerStarsCraig RussellHollis McLarenRichert EasleyA story about a female impersonator who rooms with a pregnant schizophrenic.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsKatharine RossPaula PrentissPeter MastersonJoanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowErnst HannawaldWerner SchwuchowThomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for and seduces inmate Martin. When Martin is released from jail, they try to build a relationship and a life together but no one will let them alone.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorMichael PattinsonStarsDebbie BeckfeldSusan CameronLiddy ClarkAn extravagantly produced exercise in slapstick in a turn-of-the-century setting, as the careers of a lovelorn, bumbling assistant photographer, and a drunken Governor-General cross paths.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorPierre SchoendoerfferStarsJean RochefortClaude RichJacques PerrinA dying mariner, full of regret, is looking for his longtime colleague somewhere on the high seas.The Crab Drum
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorErwin KeuschStarsBernd TauberGünter LamprechtMaria LuccaA young apprentice, Werner Wild, arrives in a small village in Bavaria to work in the bakery of Georg Baum.The Baker's Bread
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinFernando ReyIsabel MestresElisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis of her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill and she decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with his father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa takes a decision about her life.Elisa My Love
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorAlan RudolphStarsGeraldine ChaplinAnthony PerkinsMoses GunnJust released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorFrancis DeronJean-Paul TchangRené ViénetA Shakespearian story full of noise and fury, but that means something. In the role of the "Grand Helmsman", Mao ZeDong himself, in the role of Madame Mao, famous actress Lan Ping, aka Jian Qing, as closest comrade in arms, traitor Lin Piao. Co-star-ring the vanished glories of the "Gang of Four". In the role of the proletariat, the Worker XXX. The costumes, the make-up, the gala dinners were kindly provided by the Maoist bureaucracy. Historical tricks: Third International, American imperialism, Jean Chesneaux, the Maoist bureaucracy, etc. The directors thank the People's Liberation Army for its invaluable assistance in eliminating the traitor Lin Piao. As writer Simon Leyes said: "The film gives us back the hysterical liturgies and medieval thaumaturgies of the cult of Mao".Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsPiotr GarlickiZbigniew ZapasiewiczChristine PaulA group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in his liberal views by Jakub, who likes to manipulate people. There is a confrontation from the beginning when Jaroslaw allows to attend the seminar a student who presents the views not according to the official line. In the end, a jury prize is given to mediocre paper, while the suspected school of thought still draws a recommendation. Finally the deputy rector arrives for the closing ceremonies, and since he disfavors the line of thought awarded by the recommendation the tensions rise. They climax when student in question bites the rector in the ear while receiving recommendation. The confrontation results in a scandal and the police is called in.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorLiviusz GyulaiThe arrival of a family of centaurs upsets the equanimity of the occupants of an apartment block.New Tenants
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorDonald CrombieStarsMichael CraigRobyn NevinSimon BurkeThe Doolan family are trying to make a go in the freight-hauling business in Queensland, Australia. The problem is that it's the 1920s; the Doolans use horses, and motorized vehicles can do it faster. The proud father, Paddy, has difficulty accepting change.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorMarc HébertStarsClaude BérubéMonique Saint-MartinClimbers of the Quebec Mountain FederationClimbers of the Quebec Mountain Federation scale a vertical ice face.Ice Birds
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsOmero AntonuttiSaverio MarconiMarcella MichelangeliThe son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorMarcell JankovicsA short animation about a sculptor and his sculpture.Fight
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorRidha BehiStarsSalah BenmoussaHélène CatzarasLarbi DoghmiThe quick-witted jump on the bandwagon with the development's German financiers, the others tag behind as employees, deserting their boats to sell tinned sardines and hawk postcards to the overweight foreign tourists who crowd the beaches.Sun of the Hyenas
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorLarry LansburghStarsDenis ArndtHaunted by a mysterious super-pilot, a young glider pilot first flees, then confronts his challenger. Nominated for an Academy Award.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorPeter HandkeStarsEdith CleverMarkus MühleisenBruno GanzAfter returning from a business trip in Finland, Bruno (Bruno Ganz) find that his wife Marianne (Edith Clever) wants her husband to leave her alone with their son. A struggle with loneliness and adapting to the new situation ensues.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorJohn C. JosephStarsMark HicksJan StussyA look at artist Mark Hicks of Manhattan Beach, California, a quadriplegic since falling out of a tree at age 14. His work is examined, along with a discussion of his being a student at UCLA, culminating with his first gallery show in San Francisco.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsLili MonoriJan NowickiGyula SzersénA village-girl (Juli Kovács) arrives in the city to work in a factory. The work manager (János Bodnár) sets his eye on her, but at first the girl refuses his advance.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorAnne WheelerStarsNadia OstashewskiChristine LilgeIvan HorskyEighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorMichel DevilleStarsFrançois MarthouretClaude MarcaultPhilippe RouleauAn unnamed French intelligence service spies on and analyzes a French diplomat code name '51' to identify a method to control him.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorCraig LahiffStarsAndrew ClarkDieter GoingEdwin HodgemanA Nazi spy in wartime England realises that he's been discovered. A superb exercise in film noir.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsIrene PapasKostas KazakosKostas KarrasTo appease offended gods before going to war, a commander must sacrifice his favorite daughter to them but does so under the pretext of marrying her off.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorPeter NealAnthony SternStarsLou AbelardoElsie CarlisleNat 'King' ColeAn artful assemblage of jazz and blue movie archive footage, from the first 40 years of the century; a wealth of extravagant behaviour, often in the least extravagant of settings.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorChristian BlackwoodStarsAllan ArkushPaul BartelDavid CarradineDocumentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who have worked with him are featured.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorJeanne MoreauStarsLucia BosèFrancine RacetteCaroline CartierSarah, an actress nearing 40, has invited the woman who has been her best friend for 16 years and two younger women to her vacation retreat in Provence. There are the simple pleasures of lounging in adjacent hammocks, the sun, the food, conversations about men. This is prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah has long taken for granted as a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, also finishing her liaison with the director, and was about to get an award and start work on a new film and begin a romance with a German writer.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorEmil LoteanuStarsGalina BelyaevaOleg YankovskiyKirill LavrovA romantic drama in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man.The Hunting Accident
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsSusannah FowleDorothy BradleyPatricia KennedyOscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to the screen, Laura Tweedle Rambotham (Susannah Fowle).Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorNick BroomfieldJoan ChurchillStarsLillian BrooksBill ChynowethGeorge RayBanned for 15 years and referred to as 'The Film the Police Arrested', Broomfield's scathing account of the Lancashire Police Force Liaison Division's handling of young, sometimes pre-teen, petty offenders is both devastating and deeply moving.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorMark StilesPersonal testimony and statistics condemn the prison practices in New South Wales in the mid 1970s.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsFrançois TruffautNathalie BayeJean DastéA French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys the room, he renovates a little chapel and devotes it to Julie and his other dead persons.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorBørge RingThe pure and unconditional love that parents have for a child is admirable, but, in this case, there is also value in letting go.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorRobin LehmanAn alternately humorous and disturbing documentary about city dwellers who keep exotic pets that are clearly at odds with such an environment, and how the animals' adverse reactions often go unnoticed by their obtuse owners.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorEdgar ReitzStarsKai TaschnerHerbert WeissbachGünter SchiemannLeipzig area in 1945. The American occupying forces withdraw to the Elbe river, leaving the territory to the Russians.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorGunnel LindblomStarsMarianne AminoffMaria BlomkvistAnna BorgA merchant's house in the Stockholm archipelago. Katha, an old woman comes here every year. So does her father, who once built the house. She wants the family, her children and their children to join her at Paradistorg. This leads to conflicts.Paradise Place
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorDina HechtEighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorBenoît JacquotStarsBrigitte FosseyLou CastelJean SorelNicolas has an appointment with his sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy secret of childhood: their mother committed suicide while their father had charged Nicolas to keep her. Since then, the father has chased him out and has forbidden Juliette to see Nicolas again.The Closet Children
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniCandice BergenMichael TuckerA communist journalist and an American liberal photographer try to cohabit with their different perspectives of love and life.Night Full of Rain
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorIshu PatelA psychedelic new-age short about what a spiritual human being might find after death.Apres la vie
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorAndrew VialEighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorClaude MillerStarsGérard DepardieuMiou-MiouClaude PiépluA man is desperately attaining beloved woman, despite her husband and child.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorWim WendersStarsDennis HopperBruno GanzLisa KreuzerTom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsShima IwashitaYoshio HaradaTomoko NaraokaA blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.Melody in Grey
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorBrad CaslorChristopher HintonStarsWayne FinucanMaara HaasA businessman discovers a town with a large reserve of dragons but no energy, no power, and subsequently no heat.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorJaime ChávarriStarsHéctor AlterioXabier ElorriagaMaría Rosa SalgadoJosé, a homosexual magician of 50 years, lived his childhood in Granada (Spain). His father was a gardener in the Buendía house. There he once saw Federico García Lorca. One night of July 1936, a group of fascists assassinated the father of José at the doors of the garden. Today José need to return to the place of his childhood. Maybe to recover the memory or perhaps to bury it permanently. And he also feels the need to unveil Miguel, his current lover, the most hidden of his feelings.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorIstván SzabóThis region for an airman is just a map', however, whosoever looks closer will discover a thousand secrets of a thousand lives on each Budapest corner or balcony. Memories of peacetime afternoons, family photos, love letters, then bombed houses, tanks driving down deserted streets and decrepit buildings awaiting demolition all flash up for a moment in this lyrical etude by István Szabó, not the first work in his series of filmmaking confessions for Budapest. The story of a city that preserves its past in its buildings and its inhabitants won the grand prix at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1977.City Map
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsVolker SpenglerIngrid CavenGottfried JohnA transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping to find ultimate acceptance among former acquaintances and herself.In a Year of 13 Moons
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsNelson VillagraSilvano ReyLuis Alberto GarcíaA pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsAnna GodeniusGösta BredefeldtToni RegnerA woman is raped. She starts to follow and study her rapist.Men Can't Be Raped
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorAllan MoyleStarsJoe MattiaArmand MonroeAllan MoyleA communal drug family begins to dissolve from within while a University student watches and records it all.Rubber Gun
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsGiancarlo GianniniLaura AntonelliRina MorelliTullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful, he becomes enamored of her again.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorEunice MacaulayJohn WeldonStarsSandy SandersonJean MarchandA hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his attempts to hide the body.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorAlain TannerStarsMyriam BoyerJean-Luc BideauMiou-MiouA look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsColin CantlieJean WilliamsAn anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorSonia HofmannStarsJohn HargreavesBill HunterKris McQuadeJack hates her job as a cop, but loves Morris, whom she supports.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorCaroline MourisFrank MourisStarsAnna Thea BogdanovichNancy LeeHarvey Lewis9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorSuzan PittAn animated, surreal, visually stunning as well as rather uniquely imaginative candy-colored nightmare from indie artist Suzan Pitt.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsGérard DepardieuCarole LaurePatrick DewaereA worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorPaul Dopff9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorJohn HansonRob NilssonStarsRobert BehlingSusan LynchJoe SpanoNORTHERN LIGHTS has the feel of an old black and white photograph discovered in an attic. The bitter-sweet story of young lovers caught up in an political struggle waged by farmers against the grain trade, the banks and the railroads, NORTHERN LIGHTS brings back a forgotten era of American history and evokes the austere beauty of the Northern Plains.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorJacques DoillonStarsDominique LaffinHaydée PolitoffJacques DoillonJacques has a child with Dominique: Lola. His mistress is Haydée and they are having a child.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorDonald WinklerStarsMarguerite McDonaldDonald WinklerDiary entries and photographs trace a couple's separation.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorJim SharmanStarsRuth CracknellJohn FrawleyKerry WalkerFrom the Director of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' Jim Sharman and Nobel Prize winning author Patrick White A haunting tale of obsession and possession.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorJohn T. Brister"Mandarin Oranges" uses dozens of them, suitably garbed, to dance an amusing homage to Busby Berkeley.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorKevin AttewBob GodfreyAnnabel JankelIn order to understand the works and ideas of Karl Marx, this animation takes an ordinary man through several different periods of history, from the cavemen to the philosophers of the world to better comprehend Marx ideals for the proletarian and why the world is an unfair contradiction of all sorts.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsBill HunterGerard KennedyWendy HughesIn post-war Australia the men and women of Cinetone struggle to produce the weekly news reels for the movie-going public.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorJimmy PickerPresident Jimmy Carter "sings" Ray Charles' "Georgia on my Mind", while thinking about his home state.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorLinda BlaggStarsLorna LesleySam NeillMartin VaughanThis short feature film begins with a suicide attempt by Cathy, and then follows by telling her story in flashbacks. Cathy is a neurotic young woman who retreats from cold British parents into an equally uncommunicative relationship with a former teacher who aspires to be a poet. Cathy's self-destructive behavior is presented as a legacy of her (British) family and past.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorStephen WallaceStarsBryan BrownSally EdwardsClive Marshall9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsJacques PerrinVittorio GassmanGiuliano GemmaLieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.Desert of Tartars
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980 - DirectorPhilippe de BrocaStarsAnnie GirardotPhilippe NoiretCatherine AlricParisian detective Lise meets her childhood sweetheart Antoine by chance. Extremely happy about the reunion, the two arrange to meet. But Lise's duties as an inspector thwart their plans.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorFaith HubleyAnimator Faith Hubley contributed her depiction of brutality to children in the past, and children's rights today to International Year of the Child.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsNikita MikhalkovVitali SolominSergey ShakurovIn the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsKrystyna JandaJerzy RadziwilowiczTadeusz LomnickiA young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorNikos PanayotopoulosStarsOlga KarlatosGeorge DialegmenosDimitris PoulikakosA father moves with his three sons and their beautiful, hard working servant in a big, old house in the countryside, where a weird drowsiness seems to occupy the four men. Will it be possible for one of them to break free?Idlers of the Fertile Valley
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980 - DirectorReinhard HauffStarsBruno GanzAngela WinklerHans Christian BlechDuring a police raid on a youth center, the biogeneticist Hoffmann is shot in the head. When he awakes from a coma, he can't remember anyting. The police accuse him of being a terrorist.Knife in the Head
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980 - DirectorLino BrockaStarsHilda KoronelMona LisaRez CortezThe life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsJeannie Dimter BartonSusan CronkiteSuzanne CroughThis film explores the life of a 17-year-old senior boy who is a soon to be father with his girlfriend, a 15 year old sophomore. They evaluate the decisions about how they got here, and the decisions on what they will do next.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsAnthony QuinnDominique SandaFabio TestiRome, 1880. Gregorio has decided to close the family business. Then he tells his children that they will have to fend for themselves, but his beautiful, calculating, ambitious young daughter-in-law, will do anything for the inheritance.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorEugene FedorenkoStarsBernard CarezSophie CowlingRaymond PollenderAn abandoned baby is repeatedly left on a series of doorsteps in a well-to-do community, only to be rejected by each in turn until the infant arrives at the one social group that shows any concern and compassion.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorJohn DuiganStarsKim KrejusSonia PeatIan GilmourMouth to Mouth follows the lives of four young people, trying to improve their lives in a harsh and unforgiving city.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsGyörgy CserhalmiLajos BalázsovitsGábor KonczThe first chapter of a two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century, to World War II.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorPatrick MontgomeryStarsEdward BinnsPaul KohnerMarcel DalioErich von Stroheim was an director of silent movies, as well as an actor in both silents and talkies. Uncompromising and rigid, he battled the studio system for control over his pictures' content, and his career had many ups and downs as a result. Through interviews, photos, and archival footage, The Man You Loved to Hate explores von Stroheim's career. The title refers to von Stroheim's frequent casting as a German villain in films of the early 1940s. Von Stroheim's last famous acting role was in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaKlaus LöwitschIvan DesnyMaria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.9th Wellington Film Festival 1980