Movies: Portrait of a filmmaker

How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person beh...

A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father Ivo Špalj talk about his life, career, and working methods. Over the course of his long life, sound designer Ivo Špalj (*1...

Jacques Demy’s ability to enchant audiences was rooted in his personal struggles and doubts as a showman, establishing him as one of French cinema’s greatest artists....

Franco-American film pioneer Maurice Tourneur is a forgotten name in cinema history. This film traces the incredible journey of this crucial innovator from Paris to Hollywood. He inspired many of his peers and was also a mentor to some great filmmake...

A found footage look at a filmmaker's journey to discover what it takes to 'make it'....

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

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

In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills, California, and turned on his camera for a series of filmed interviews. (A recut of the 1992 TV miniseries Billy, H...

Helen, a schizophrenic visual artist, takes refuge in a house preparing for a new production. When her wife, Angela, returns from a trip, Helen's hallucinations are mixed with growing paranoia – indicating that she doesn't believe that the woman in h...

Short doc in which Anthony Slide (Andre De Toth on Andre De Toth) discusses the work of Andre De Toth in general and The Indian Fighter in particular....

An autobiographical essay film structured as a letter to the director’s young daughter, "Où en êtes-vous, Bertrand Bonello?" weaves clips from Bonello’s films, excerpts from his scripts, pop songs, and snippets of original footage into a lyrical, ref...

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....

A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011)....

A secret figure in French underground cinema, Maria Koleva has filmed all over Paris, written about Marx and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Serge Daney. This documentary is a portrait of a histrionic Koleva, trying to reveal her militant, poetic ...

The pianist Miguel Ángel Lozano embarks on a personal and artistic journey with the purpose of reconstructing the life of his grandmother, Maria Forteza (1910-60), singer and pioneer of Spanish sound films....

Meeting with the director Quentin Dupieux, who agreed to open the doors of one of his sets on the set of his film “DAAAAAALI!”....

Documentary about the Swedish humorist, film maker and artist Yngve Gamlin...

The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, by leaving Germany and making the whole world his place of work, acquired the objective perspective necessary to portray his country's society better t...

Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk....

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