2nd Göteborg Film Festival (1980)

Ellen and Rolf met 17 years ago, resulting in the son Terje and later the daughter Line. Still together life is up and down between quarrels and passionate love. A passion which is difficult to control.

During Prohibition, Kansas City was wide open, and jazz was its music. Late in the 1970s, musicians of the Pendergast era gather at the union hall to play, sing, and talk. Some were part of Walter Page's Blue Devils, joined Bennie Moten's band, and stayed with Count Basie's Orchestra. Basie is on hand, as are Big Joe Turner, Jay McShann, and some of his big band. Highlights include Turner's vocals, McShann's sly piano playing, a drum clinic from Jo Jones and Baby Lovett, Jimmy Forrest solos, and remembrances of Lester Young and of how Charlie Parker got his nickname. Throughout is the Kansas City sound: cool and relaxed, blues meeting swing, an afterbeat that calls for dancing.

A group of volunteer American soldiers go to Germany to participate in a practice in combat maneuver tactics.

Documentary without words but with an impressive orchestral soundtrack that captures the magnificence of the Storstrøm bridge, an engineering work that connects the Danish islands of Falster and Masnedo with three different lanes: for bicycles, for cars and for trains.

Hans Smidt and his wife Cardy lives alternately in Monte Carlo and Beverly Hills. The film portrays how a person with unlimited means stages his dream life.

In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.

Olli Ruusunen is the data-expert that proposes the serious measures that will save the company from an economic collapse. His drastic savings programs forces the board to resign. Olli must go underground.

The BRD is haunted by a mysterious, deadly plague. In Hamburg, a group of people head for an odyssey through the country to search for survivors and a rescue.

Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the U. S. Grace Jones is seen writhing her way through "I Need A Man" at a rally and is sharply criticized for doing so by a Lesbian feminist.

Experimental film mixing real life ballet dancing acts with animations and special effects. Original score by Niels Viggo Bentzon.

A documentary about "Death" magazine, founded by "Screw" Magazine founder and publisher Al Goldstein, and its eventual failure.

A man and a woman on a motorcycle arrive with a ferry to Assens. They want to catch the next ferry in Nyborg, on the other side of the island, but this ferry will leave in three quarters of an hour and the ferry berth is 70 km away. The road has lot of curves, but they ride the bike in a high speed. An old-fashioned car has left the ferry in Assens at the same time as the motorcycle. They try to overtake the car on the road, but the driver won't let them pass. When they take a chance on his right side, the motorcycle smashes into a tree. The Ferryman takes the bodies of the man and the woman on his boat to the land of the dead.

When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with 'Black Jack,' adventure and mishap are never far away. Based on Leon Garfield's popular novel, Ken Loach's 'Black Jack' is a dark, complex adventure film set in the 18th century.

The youngest princess's is the king's darling daughter. One day she wants to have the three singing leaves. The king intend to make it happen. The leaves are owned by Prince Hatt under jorden.

From being born until his death, a man spends most of his time "imprisoned" in boxes.

A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.

Maria visits her paralyzed widower father Guido at a hotel. She tries seducing him. Her friend Therese arrives, and Guido starts an affair with her, leading to tragic consequences. Objective plot points without opinions or introduction.

While a small film crew are shooting a low budget horror movie in a house in the woods, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur, and the movie slowly starts to turn into a "snuff" film.

Horsemouth sets himself up in business selling records but when gangsters steal his bike things start to turn nasty. As tensions build, Horsemouth and friends plot to end the gangsters reign of terror and restore justice to the people of Kingston.

A director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.