1957 Movies

A look at the work of the Forestry Commission in Scotland.

Outlines the problems and progress of the first generation (ISSEI) and second generation (NISEI) Japanese in the United States.

Short experimental film from Spanish-Parisian art collective Equipo 57. Bright abstract paintings fill the screen, the illusion of motion or character subverted by an unusual lurching rhythm uncharacteristic of animated film.

The film tells the history of the Bulgarian town of Nesebar from the moment of its foundation (2500 years ago) to the present day and acquaints with the numerous ancient monuments preserved on the territory of the town.

Bollywood film starring Nisar Ahmad Ansari, Master Bhagwan and Cuckoo

Shanghai in the 1950s. Young employee Zhao Hui loves sports, especially basketball, but the only court in the Medical Equipment Bureau is strewn with waste. He asks the office director Zhang Renjie to set up a sports association, but he keeps dragging his feet...

Film starring Jamuna, Akkineni Nageshwara Rao and Nageswara Rao R.

Rao cheats Girija. So her sister Saroja decides to teach him a lesson. In this process, she falls in love with Anand.

Echoes, filters and rhythmic montage turn sound fragments into an audio piece about a seemingly wilful music box. Philippe Arthuys – a film composer for luminaries like Rivette and Godard and a filmmaker himself – varies the tempo from stuttering to quietly br...

Kim Seung-ho, who works at a beer company, is misunderstood by his wife, because whenever Lee Min-ja, a barkeeper, comes to pay for his drink on credit, he is witnessed by his wife. Meanwhile, Noh Neung-geol, a single co-worker, is misunderstood by his girlfri...

Der 10. Mai (The Tenth of May) was the date in 1940 that Hitler invaded the Low Countries: Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Neutral Switzerland, which hadn’t experienced a war since the 14th century, hurriedly fortified its borders with battalions of inexperie...

1957 Jim Davis short

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

With Madhu Apte, Ramesh Deo.

This engaging documentary focuses on a group of ‘studying mothers’ who decide to involve themselves in the civic politics of a provincial town, Kunitachi.

A film about the painter Ludwig Richter