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Cyclone Tracy 40 years on, exploring the myths and revealing new perspectives on one of the worst natural disasters in Australia's history.

Short documentary about cyclones.

Using film footage shot by the Genevese film director, Fernand Reymond, in Bangladesh in 1972, this documentary film describes the cyclone prevention programme drawn up by the governmental authorities and the League of Red Cross Societies. It particularly depicts the cyclone warning system set up to protect the population. (League Film Library Catalogue Supplement No. 2, p. 39)

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The film recounts the incredible research conducted by François Cartault, a pediatrician and geneticist on the island of Réunion. Conducted like a police investigation over more than 20 years, his research, both medical and historical, takes us on a journey through the disease of moon children, deprived of sunlight, and on the trail of slavery in Africa. The film shows how genetics is also an astonishing trace of history.

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Octavio, a hermit, has visions of an environmental disaster that will destroy the city where his brother lives. Octavio, with the excuse of a false pneumonia, invites him to his isolated house to keep him away from the catastrophe.

Archipelago of Mayotte, French overseas department, Indian Ocean. After being left alone in the world, Moïse, a boy feared by the supercilious locals because of his light eyes, joins a slum gang to survive.

As locals are gearing up for Christmas festivities, a devastating cyclone is brewing in the Arafura Sea. Feeling dragged down by sleepy domestic day-to-day life, Morris dreams of a life elsewhere filled with adventure. Meanwhile, Gregory, a meteorologist of the Darwin Weather Bureau, is content with his steady-paced lifestyle. Both, along with their loved ones, have their worlds turned upside down when Tracy rears her head and devastates the city on Christmas Day. The film culminates with individuals collectively triumphing over tragedy in the face of one of nature's most formidable forces.

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

A deadly patchwork of destructive cyclones is on an apocalyptic path of convergence at a populated Midwest city center. There, the twisters will merge into one mega tornado that threatens to obliterate the cities for hundreds of miles around.

A comedy from Mayotte.

RERUM depicts a tense state in which creeping subterranean forces deform and consume images and memory. Shots of fiery processes beneath the Earth’s crust alternate with 8mm footage which captures several generations of families in moments of carefree leisure. The anthropocentric world, where the underground is recalled only by fissures, loses its relevance. This fragile equilibrium is inevitably heading toward destruction.

When a super cyclone threatens the entire American eastern seaboard, a lone meteorologist and a petroleum engineer must battle the elements to stop the threat.

A mother and her daughter are questioning the practice of the white sheet: the ‘Matsamiyo’. This family custom, practised in Mayotte, involves verifying a woman’s chastity before her marriage.

A child climbs the highest mountain in hopes to ascend into divination, but instead, finds a curse that'd follow him. He reunites the wisest of them all, who already expected the worst due to an old prophecy.

The association of Whitby with Bram Stoker’s Dracula is fairly well-known; the writer Leo Walmsley less so. Michael Clegg takes us on a journey around the places that inspired both authors, Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay, just five miles apart on the Yorkshire coast. With the help of excerpts from two films based on their novels, ‘Turn of the Tide’ (1935), and ‘Scars of Dracula’ (1970), Clegg provides a guide to their work and the very different tales they have to tell.

An educational film intended for children from 6 to 8 years of age. ‘We Grew A Frog, 1970’ tells the story of two schoolchildren, Lynne and Martin, who collect frog spawn from the village pond, take it to school, and there, in a tank, watch the spawn grow into frogs. The film shows in close-up the developmental stages of the spawn-to-frog process. This educational film features the pupils of Whatfield School in Suffolk. Headteacher, Gwen Dunn wrote and told the story.