Beautiful and Disturbing at the same time, the film rescues through cinema "The invisible mother", a photographic pract…
In the quiet interior of his studio, a Ukrainian painter draws portraits of Kiev that delineate the recent tumultuous p…
Through a rich photographic, videographic and epistolary legacy, the director Ana Galizia makes a portrait of an uncle …
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck undertakes an investigation that begins in the realm of art and becomes political when a series…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
After the fall of the Berlin wall, in this documentary the incisive filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck takes a look at the history…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
Artist, professor, visionary. László Moholy-Nagy revolutionized the way art was created at the Bauhaus school in Weimar…
In his native Norway and across other European landscapes, this documentary follows the incomparable Tomas Espedal, one…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
How did the revolutionary German sculptor Arno Breker become the object of adoration and protégé of Adolf Hitler? In th…
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
In the colorful and chaotic Sao Paulo, three Brazilian artists try to establish a collective dialogue with the inhabita…
With exclusive access inside Carnegie Hall, filmmaker Josef Astor documents the struggle to save its historic art studi…
Short and powerful, like his famous portrait "The Scream" this is a brief biography of Edward Munch, the revolutionary …
Cell phones, paintbrushes and chance encounters. In Shanzhai, Hong Kong, this unusual story is spun by a group of copyi…
At 81 years old, Erika and Tine are a couple out of the mold. As artists who defied East German repression, they now hu…
This musical documentary discovers the origin and contemporary presence of music from Argentina and Uruguay. Starring L…
Filmed over four years, this short film follows a group of young men who, amidst doubts, laughter and twists, give thei…
A small village in Russia holds the souls of many persecuted politicians of the Soviet Union. In the autumn of his life…
Amanda and Viengsay, two young Cuban women, strive every day to continue their careers in the demanding world of ballet…
If in the last century the pioneering black ballerinas faced exclusion and discrimination, today there are still young …
Shot in stark black and white, this short film is a look at the creative process of the famous French painter Abdelkade…
Javier Heraud, poet and guerrilla fighter, lost his life at the age of 21 in the jungles of Peru, in 1963. In this docu…
The traces of the first people who occupied the territory of Brazil detonate this documentary essay premiered in Rotter…
This documentary not only reviews the work of the revolutionary and controversial choreographer Dave St. Pierre, it al…
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
This is more than just the biography of the editor of one of the most important films in history. It is a captivating j…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
Through various pieces of contemporary dance, this short film illustrates the historical evolution of the treatment of …
Innu poet and activist Natasha Kanapé feels a call from her indigenous roots every day. She tries to empower herself an…
This documentary reflects on outdoor film screening in today’s China. Several people of various origins and ages give t…
This short film takes us to post-apocalyptic New York built on a famous video game. Together with a group of snipers, w…
The frenzied last decade of the West Berlin underworld, before the fall of the Berlin wall, was always famous but we ha…
The artistic boom in New York during the 70's and 80's through the personal experience of a group of friends and artist…
Three prodigious Caribbean pianists located in Havana, New York and Las Canarias, Spain, make a tribute to Ernesto Lecu…
Mixing animation and documentary techniques, this short film presents only an extract from the daily life of street art…
In 2007, João Paulo Seara staged a puppet theater play. This documentary is a fascinating insight into its creation pro…
This is a unique portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, wife of the great filmmaker Joris Ivens and a reference, along wi…
In 1811, two bodies were found shot in Lake Wannsee, near Berlin. The German poet Kleist and a woman. What is known abo…
This unique documentary, full of humor and irreverence, follow the traces of the members of "Gelitin", an Austrian arti…
This documentary takes us into the fascinating work of Amancio Williams, an icon of modern Argentine architecture.
This independent documentary is an educational effort to make visible the life and work of the great poet Walt Whitman …
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
A group of young Argentine designers want to use a mechanical printing press now in disuse due to digital advances. Wil…
This documentary by filmmaker Rama Rau is a journey as raw as it is impressive to the golden years of the burlesque sce…
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