Movies: Portrait of a filmmaker

A documentary about the legendary Japanese filmmaker....

Documentary about the Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne trying to reveal their 'secret working method'...

The octogenarian Angono Mba recalls the expedition in which he worked as porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán who, between 1944 and 1946, traveled through Spanish Guinea documenting life in the colony as he obsessively searched f...

Senegalese documentary about the country's most famous film-maker - Ousmane Sembène. The groundbreaking director explains his philosophy, politics and hopes for the future of African cinema....

The house he lived In: A conversation with Fred Baker (1932-2011) filmmaker , director , screenwriter , film producer, actor and jazz musician. A shining example of America's bohemian underground that has been around since the days of Walt Whitman. A...

Documentary on the life and work of F.W. Murnau....

Haunted by three unfinished films, a filmmaker seeks to demystify his relationship with failure through encounters with past collaborators....

Embarrassed about his identity and culture, a meek Indian high-schooler decides to attend an American university to pursue his passion for film. But in doing so, he causes a rift in his fundamentalist family....

A peculiar, meticulous, vocationally archeological account of the professional life of the actor, Spanish by birth, Argentinean by adoption, Narciso Ibañez Menta (1912-2004), spiritual disciple of Lon Chaney, the new man of a thousand faces, master o...

A documentary about the making of Joe Cash's last directorial feature film Carnal Redemption, showcasing the behind the scenes, the preproduction hell of the film and the mayhem which goes into a Joe Cash film....

Documentary about notorious actor/director Erich Von Stroheim....

Unsatisfied with college, a filmmaker leaves everything behind to join two friends on their bike trip across the world....

Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918-2010), recall how they made their great masterpieces about...

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker Mario Camus (1935-2021)....

Through the life and career of Marcel Carné, using film excerpts and archives (including touching interviews with the director), François Aymé weaves a fascinating portrait of a hypersensitive man who had to deal with his homosexuality and who, despi...

In the aftermath of a breakup, a struggling filmmaker becomes seduced by his therapist while his ex-girlfriend grapples with her identity and where to go next....

An episode of Cinéastes d'aujourd'hui, a series of director portraits by the Francophone Community. Lafosse had then just completed Les Chevaliers blancs....

Tati Express dives into Jacques Tati's films and how they look at a changing world throughout the 20th century. It shows how modernity impacts human-beings and goes through that amazing body of work at 100 mph....

Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being ...

When overwhelming expectations tower over him, Cecil must silence the doubt controlling him, while an aspiring film career slowly becomes the least of his worries. Written and directed by newcomer Aaron Fisher, Mr. Misunderstood takes a close look at...