For lovers of painting and biographies. This documentary reviews the lives and work of the prolific and acclaimed paint…
The bars on a famous street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, host a competition for blues musicians, the renowned The In…
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
Only documentary filmmaking can give us a frank and warm portrait like this one, the one that the director Marcelo Diaz…
"Die Thomaner" is one of the most prestigious youth choirs in the world. This documentary follows these promising talen…
After living in the shadows of his old discovery, an art collector tries to find the next great artist, a Taiwanese pai…
This beautiful documentary takes us close to Lanny Gordin, a prolific guitarist who worked with great musicians such as…
This is a making-of film like you've never seen another. The documentary follows the making of a film about the rise an…
A theater group composed of peasant women from rural Turkey embarks on a journey to a remote town in the mountains of t…
This experimental film mixes contemplative observations of the interior of Silicon Valley homes with actorly reflection…
What is it like to be a female tattoo artist in a male-dominated art? In this documentary, world-famous tattoo artist D…
What is so poetic about the rite of swimming from a beach to a buoy? Filmmaker Fernando Spiner takes us to his hometown…
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
A theater group in Zagreb rehearses a play inspired in a murder case of a 12-year-old girl that occurred 25 years earli…
A stolen camera is the tool that a director of a theater group in Dakar needs to shoot an LGBTI film with his actors. B…
After a tragic fire in Melbourne's northeast in 2009, a group of Australian Blacksmiths begin to build their greatest j…
On the eve of the presentation of their next work, a piece about black homosexuality, this poetic documentary follows a…
After a past as a drug dealer and drug user, "Plusmacher", a young German rapper, navigates life with what keeps him go…
Four young Chinese artists united through an artistic project compose a unique panorama that give us a glimpse of the e…
In an old underage prison in Mexico, a video and photography workshop brings out the infinite creativity of a group of …
This independent film is a biopic of Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray and the making of his multi-award-winning de…
In addition to boxing, Sergio Palma also liked to sing and write. But as a world boxing champion, that was a facet that…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
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 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…
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