May 31

Rare Early Shorts

THE FLYING DOCTORS OF EAST AFRICA (1969) Western physicians bring humanitarian aid and medical relief by airplane to poor villages in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. HANDICAPPED FUTURE (1971) Herzog explores how treatment of disabled children in Germany and the US differ. NO ONE WILL PLAY WITH ME (1976) A preschooler is odd kid out until a classmate meets his talking (!) pet raven. THE UNPRECEDENTED DEFENCE OF FORTRESS DEUTSCHKREUZ (1966) Four men slowly go crazy as they guard an abandoned castle in Austria from an imaginary attacking army.