1957 Movies

Film promoting advertising in Redbook as the best way to reach young suburban consumers, a growing demographic of the late 1950s. It makes the point t...

Animated short film about colored pencils.

The Nativity story, retold via puppetry and narration.

A film about the painter Ludwig Richter

Film-ballet written by composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The authors of the movie tell the story of the ballet's creation, as well as about various s...

Fincho is a 1957 Nigerian film by Sam Zebba and the first Nigerian film to be shot in colour. It deals with the titular character coming to terms with...

In this documentary short, Canadian mime Guy Hoffman, acting as Pierrot, introduces us to the art of pantomime. The streets of Montreal and the Belmon...

A love torn apart by divine fate.

A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. One day the father abandons his family and leaves for Brazil, considered an Eldorado by a...

A Latinoamericano experimental film. The first version of this 1957 film, a single copy drawn and painted directly onto blank 35mm film, was sent to a...

An oddball pair try to find their identity and place in an abstract world.

Intended as a publicity film for Chrysler, Rhythm uses rapid editing to speed up the assembly of a car, synchronizing it to African drum music. The sp...

A Berlinale FIPRESCI Special Mentioned short musical documentary.