As a singer, conductor and performance artist, Barbara Hannigan has left an imprint on the academic musical internation…
This fascinating musical documentary explores the career of Chinese pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, with a particular focus on he…
Among the most iconic musicians of the hardcore punk music scene in the United States are Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma…
Shot on three continents, this unique documentary follows the pioneer of avant-garde composer John Cage through miscell…
Because of his small stature, no one gave a dime for Calvin Murphy's NBA career. This is the narrated story of how this…
This documentary takes us into the reality of Libya after the revolution that overthrew Gaddafi, through the life and w…
In this musical documentary, Allan Miller, the Oscar-winning director, takes us on a journey through the musical evolut…
Through technology and various present-day experiences, this fascinating educational documentary revisits the relevance…
For lovers of painting and biographies. This documentary reviews the lives and work of the prolific and acclaimed paint…
This documentary makes visible the life of Branko Črnac Tusta, a puck-rock icon who became an activist for labor rights…
Being transgender in the Brazilian army in the middle of the last century was an experience that had hard consequences …
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…
How could an ordinary man become the only known Soviet spy to have infiltrated the CIA during the Cold War? This is the…
"Ebram" was an Iranian guitarist and composer who, after dying in suspicious circumstances, became a myth and an inspir…
For decades, Uzzi Ornan has been an activist against religious coercion in Israel. In the autumn of his life, he still …
This beautiful documentary takes us close to Lanny Gordin, a prolific guitarist who worked with great musicians such as…
Multi-media artist Kelvin Kyung Kun Park looks back to the “heroic age” of heavy industry in 1960s South Korea and the …
Vaclav Havel is the father of modern democracy in the post-Soviet Czech Republic. This biographical documentary offers …
This is a fascinating insight into the life of Swiss skier and Olympic medalist Lara Gut-Behrami. From the peak of her …
Pedagogical and inspiring, this documentary follows the life and work of Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, one of the …
This independent film is a biopic of Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray and the making of his multi-award-winning de…
Despite its prosaic appearance, this will be the only documentary that will tell you, in great detail, about the life o…
In addition to boxing, Sergio Palma also liked to sing and write. But as a world boxing champion, that was a facet that…
In the midst of the chaos of the WWI war front, a brave soldier managed to photograph the harsh reality of that conflic…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
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…
Short and powerful, like his famous portrait "The Scream" this is a brief biography of Edward Munch, the revolutionary …
Mixing animations, old home videos and film footage of the present, filmmaker Steffan Strandberg recalls the most impor…
Told with snippets from films of the time, before us is the incredible biography of Leonie Brandt, an actress who serve…
Filmed in black and white, with animated brushstrokes inspired by his work, this is an intimate, yet irreverent portrai…
Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexi…
A globetrotter who went from being a science student all over Europe to a respected Catholic priest in Germany. This do…
Leonard Nimoy died in January 2015 but will be forever remembered for his role as Spock in the acclaimed series Star Tr…
This is more than just the biography of the editor of one of the most important films in history. It is a captivating j…
This is a unique portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, wife of the great filmmaker Joris Ivens and a reference, along wi…
A legendary icon of folk music, a singer who was the source of inspiration for Bob Dylan, this essay-documentary is a p…
Director Andrew Lancaster delves into his family's past and brings to light the case of his uncle Bill Lancaster, an av…
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 …
Luis Quijano, the son of an officer of the Argentine dictatorship of the late 1970s, looks at us on camera and tells us…
In this artistic documentary, the legendary Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián shares his experiences and his creation pro…
This documentary follows the prominent British artist Marc Quinn for more than a year in his life as he creates and exh…
This engaging documentary plunges into the fascinating life of John Healy, the renowned literary author, chess player, …
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