This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
This documentary brings to the canvas a unique point of view, based on the turnaround in the life of visual artist Vera…
This documentary shows all the facets of Alexandro Jodorowsky, cult filmmaker, mime artist, performer, comic writer, cr…
This documentary rescues the work and life of Adolphe Appia, a visionary scenographer who laid the foundations for mode…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
No one knew that a great 75-year-old poet lived in a small town in eastern Serbia until his son begins posting videos o…
This documentary follows the renowned clown Robert Gorodetsky around the city of St. Petersburg, a portrait of the less…
This documentary explores how art and creativity can be vital values to end injustice and achieve peace in conflict zon…
Inspired by a short story of the writer Fernando Pessoa, this short film plays with words and dream-like images to tell…
With a stunning camera work, this short film portrays the craftsmanship of prisoners in four prisons in Serbia, where i…
When a select group of artists gather in an exclusive residence on the seashore, many things can emerge from creation. …
This beautiful film ventures to take a closer look at the naked body and the fragile spirit that lies within it. The fi…
This candid documentary shows us the process of creation a father and his son while they work in their respective paint…
Without dialogues or didactic pretensions, this documentary makes an observation of forgotten spaces in Brasilia. In th…
As his country heads towards high-risk elections, Emmanuel Botalatala, the Minister of Garbage of Kinshasa (DR Congo), …
This documentary presents us the inspiring career of the Polish filmmaker Kazimierz Karabasz, the ideologist of the "pa…
The pioneer of documentary photography Saul Leiter invites us to his department in New York City to reflect on his care…
Through a rich photographic, videographic and epistolary legacy, the director Ana Galizia makes a portrait of an uncle …
A music documentary based on the work of Slovenian artist Frane Milčinski Ježek, whose satirical poems and songs from t…
TAN (Body in Farsi) is an experimental documentary confronting the relation between physical and social body within two…
This documentary follows the captivating life of the famous Georgian actor Kachki Kavsadze, who survived Nazi and Sovie…
An experimental portrait of the French pianist Erik Satie through audio recordings, musical compositions and the traces…
50 years after the death of poet Roald Mandelshtam, director Maxim Yakubson unearths the life of the artists a document…
Confronted with the evidence that the Earth is not eternal, Ernesto is inspired by the Metatron's shape to design his o…
The release in 1986 of Karl-Marx-Stadt meant a musical revolution for their generation. This film documents the short l…
Known as one of the best dancers in Tehran and having been Iran's first female film director, Shahrzad's artistic caree…
This beautiful film is about the meeting of craftsmanship and art at the St Gallen Art Foundry, in Shanghai.
Denis is in his final year at the Ukraine’s National Music Academy. He faces his graduation exam, in which he has the c…
This film shows social and visual changes affecting Pirimze, a six-floor building from the Soviet era, built especially…
A group of young dancers whose members are immigrants from the former Soviet Union try to win the International Breakda…
Discover the life and work of Walter Pfeiffer, a Swiss photographer who at his 70 years of age is still at the forefron…
An immigrant from Romania tries to give life to his picturesque puppet on the streets of a Swiss city, a job that repre…
This is a filmed portrait of João Carlos Castanha, a 52 years old actor who is also gay, son, cross dresser and capable…
After the lost of an experimental film made by the prominent Indian painter Akbar Padamsee, the filmmaker Ashim Ahluwal…
Mixing animation and documentary techniques, this short film presents only an extract from the daily life of street art…
Beautiful and Disturbing at the same time, the film rescues through cinema "The invisible mother", a photographic pract…
Through the director's comments on observational images filmed in Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and Tunisia, this documentary te…
Confronted with an alleged true photograph of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, a man begins an incessant investigation t…
In New Zealand, three people seek answers about life on earth through extraordinary experiments, such as the constructi…
An intimate portrait of Sargy Mann, one of the most extraordinary painters of our time.
This film transcends the informative documentary on the digital evolution in the film industry, to rather spin a poetic…
A young Chinese entrepreneur decides to spend a weekend in a new apartment in the city of Kadakaisi, a replica of the C…
A rich man decides to build a house with the help of a native family in the middle of a lost, almost impossible to brea…
A small town in Austria is duplicated in a new residential project in China. The author of the documentary undertakes a…
A portrait of Paulo, a flight attendant who in the after-hours world is internationally known for personifying Gazelle,…
The acclaimed animator and filmmaker Jimmy Murakami returns to the concentration camp where he was held as a child alon…
The visits to his homes in Italy and France become rich occasions for director Patricia Pereyra to interview the renown…
The film follows the European tour of Mummenschanz, one of the most creative and unique theater companies in the world.
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