Two friends, divided by continents but united through cinema, exchange a year of video letters inspired by pioneering w…
This official Golden Harvest tribute documentary unveils Bruce Lee's extraordinary journey through rare, never-before-s…
Ex-projectionists from diverse regions of Peru unite to present a film where they take center stage, alongside former p…
A lonely young Californian man obsessed with Steven Spielberg embarks on the adventure of filming his first movie, whic…
This is the second part of Mikael Wiström's trilogy on the Barrientos Family. The film focuses on the relationship betw…
Join host Jayne Seymour and a lineup of Hollywood luminaries on a journey through cinematic history, examining the port…
While capturing Brazil's spirit in 1942, Orson Welles confronts unexpected tragedy with the death of the Jangadeiros' l…
Through the lens of a dedicated shamshal player, Seven Zagros Symphonies dives into the philosophy behind the seven mus…
Two friends cope with addiction in a drug recovery program and drain their struggles with mental illness by making a sh…
A young film director travels back to his home country, Venezuela, to create a film based on his estranged father's lif…
Halfway between a making-of film and an cinematic essay on the process of a film workshop directed by Abbas Kiarostami,…
On the eve of the COVID-19 outbreak, Egyptian filmmaker Amr Bayoumi films a tree that begins to invade his balcony. His…
Experimental filmmaker Khaled Abdulwaheds cinematically deconstructs a photograph of a cactus field in 1998 Syria. Now …
This is a making-of film like you've never seen another. The documentary follows the making of a film about the rise an…
When a film crew arrives in Ghana to shoot a film about supposed child witchcraft, the ethical dilemmas of the filmmake…
An essay on the tale of the famous photographer Francis Reusser. A personal story and a brief history of image, spannin…
This independent film is a biopic of Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray and the making of his multi-award-winning de…
They are obsessive, insatiable and extremely imaginative. Meet the Japanese Star Wars fanatics and their passion for co…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
This iconic video essay owned by the British Film Institute delves into the evolution of the representation of LGBTI ch…
As nostalgic as it may seem, there are thousands of Lego collectors in the world who make stop-motion home movies with …
In this collage-experimental short film, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck pays homage to the postulates that Sergei Eisenstein a…
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
The debut feature of risk-taking filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre takes place in a single location and in a single, compelling…
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 documentary reflects on outdoor film screening in today’s China. Several people of various origins and ages give t…
This is a unique portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, wife of the great filmmaker Joris Ivens and a reference, along wi…
Stefan Theiler has an interesting theory. He believes that any individual or sociological problem of the human being ca…
Through a cinema workshop, a group of students from an Armenian school in Argentina use film resources to reconstruct a…
USA, the land of the possible. This free visual essay deconstructs the imaginary and mythology of the United States as …
We embark alongside Bill Viola, the greatest video artist of this century, on his twelve-year adventure of crafting his…
In this Berlinale award-winning short film, a film crew shoots the tests that scientists are doing on laboratory mice. …
This documentary follows the producer of "Shakespeare Must Die", a film adaptation of Macbeth's, in his fight against t…
This documentary connects the parallel experiences of two films that were shot in Barcelona in 1969: Count Dracula, pla…
This documentary shows all the facets of Alexandro Jodorowsky, cult filmmaker, mime artist, performer, comic writer, cr…
In this intimate documentary, a young film student faces a doubt, whether to continue in her profession or devote herse…
A dreamy animated documentary about the dangers of early cinema.
This biographical documentary portrays the multifaceted Argentine artist José Martinez Suárez, a 90-year-old man with t…
A young filmmaker revisits the footage of his parents, two famous Myanmar actors in the 60s. By watching the tapes, he …
Sahid does not like to wait anymore in a centre for immigrants that is due to close soon. With the help of his friend F…
With a strong militant signature, this film documents the struggle of the defenders of the last independent cinema of I…
Freely inspired by a script that filmmaker Federico Fellini never filmed, this documentary portrays the journey of two …
Welcome to the Wild West. That is, a Spanish town located between Murcia and Almeria where Sergio Leone filmed several …
This film transcends the informative documentary on the digital evolution in the film industry, to rather spin a poetic…
The author of this captivating documentary, a man at risk of losing the ability to see, makes a first-person essay on t…
Seeking a better future in Germany, a young Iranian filmmaker must separate from his girlfriend in his native country. …
When a film roll gets damaged in the middle of a screening, a projectionist and a young apprentice must repair it quick…
In order to release a documentary that unveils the implementation of banned pesticides in banana plantations in Central…
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