19th Festival 1972

The Festival opened with Andrei Mihalkov Konchalovsky’s Nest of Gentlefolk, and closed with Vittorio de Sica’s Garden of the Finzi Continis. In all, 35 features were presented: Ken Loach’s Family Life (UK); Dusan Makavejev’s W.R. – Mysteries of the Organism (Yugoslavia); Walerian Borowczyk’s Bianche (France); Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Spider’s Strategem (Italy); Jan Kadar’s Adrift (Czechoslovakia); Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer, François Truffaut’s Two English Girls and the Continent and Pascal Aubier’s Valparaiso Valparaiso (all France); Karoly Makk’s Love (Hungary); Vilgot Sjoman’s Blushing Charlie (Sweden); John Cassavetes’ Minnie and Moskowitz, Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun, Henry Jaglom’s A Safe Place, Emile de Antonio’s Millhouse: A White Comedy, Robert Kramer’s Ice and Paul Render’s Part of the Family (all USA); Tomu Uchida’s Swords of Death (Japan); Maurice Capovilla’s Prophet of Hunger (Brazil); Boro Draskovic’s Knockout (the director attended the screening) and Bato Cengic’s The Role of My Family in World Revolution (both Yugoslavia); Franz Ernst’s Re: Lone and Christian Braad Thomsen’s Dear Irene (both Denmark); Volker Schlöndorff’s Sudden Fortune of the Poor People of Kombach and Reinhard Hauff’s Mathias Kneissl (both West Germany); Krzysztof Zanussi’s Family Life (Poland); Yuri llyenko’s White Bird with a Black Mark (USSR); Nelson Pereira dos Santos’ How Tasty was my Little Frenchman (Brazil); Ermanno Olmi’s During the Summer (Italy); Claude Chabrol’s Just Before Nightfall (France); Claude Jutra’s My Uncle Antoine (Canada); and Keith Salvat’s Private Collection, Jim Sharman’s Shirley Thompson Vs the Aliens and Brian Kavanagh’s A City’s Child (all Australia). There was also a special programme of the experimental films of Bruce Baillie.

Shorts included : Robert Amram’s Sentinels of Silence, Jean-Luc Godard’s British Sounds, Michael Rubbo’s Wet Earth Warm People, Istvan Szabo’s Dream of a House, Bob Godfrey’s Kama Sutra Rides Again, Marcell Jankovic’s SOS, Zlatko Grgic’s The Musical Pig and Hot Stuff, Walerian Borowczyk’s Phonograph, Norman McLaren’s Synchromy and Raoul Servais’ To Speak or Not to Speak.