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 in black and white, with animated brushstrokes inspired by his work, this is an intimate, yet irreverent portrai…
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…
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…
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…
This short film follows French street artist Eric ZeKing, known as EZK, whose work has been a reference for social and …
Poetic, provocative, surprising. This unique documentary makes us discover the colorful world of Los Chopen, a group of…
In this artistic documentary, the legendary Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián shares his experiences and his creation pro…
The film scraps of unfinished movies that remained forgotten in the film museum in Buenos Aires come to life in this pr…
This documentary follows the prominent British artist Marc Quinn for more than a year in his life as he creates and exh…
We embark alongside Bill Viola, the greatest video artist of this century, on his twelve-year adventure of crafting his…
A series of bold collage and remix creators from various areas spark a discussion about the existence of these art made…
Palm D'Or winner Ken Loach directed this provocative and sensitive document on the poetic and artistic side of the Mine…
Using material from a mythical silent film that served as a manifesto of the Art Deco movement, this experimental essay…
This curious cinematic investigation-conversation oscillates between Paris and Portugal to inquire into the "Danses Mac…
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