Movies: Portrait

Accommodated since Algeria's Bloody Decade of the 1990’s in the "House of the Press", the journalists of the famous daily newspaper El Watan await the completion of their new offices, a symbol of their independence. My camera is embedded in their ne...

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Through testimonies from people who practice the art of drag, this short film offers an intimate insight into this world of rhinestones and glitter....

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A girl who's living abroad, alone for the first time, misses her cat....

What is essential in a time of upheaval? Director Brittany Farhat documented the months of panic and epiphany in the leadup to July Talk’s lauded Drive-In Shows of 2020, and with the help of unreleased archival footage spanning a decade, follows the ...

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Interview with artist Jan Håfström about his art....

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Yesterday, today, tomorrow. The days pass, and so does life. Watching the waves to come and go, Laurence compiles sharp fragments of her life. This is an intimate and delicate portrait of a woman, who after all the struggles knows when the most impor...

Animation pioneer Evelyn Lambart recalls arriving at the NFB in the 1940s, her celebrated collaborations with Norman McLaren and her approach to her solo work....

Samantha Flores, an 87 year old trans woman dreams with creating a nursing home for elder LGBTTI+ community....

Footage from summer of 2018 that explores the passing of time regarding the little things in life....

The controversial Swedish author Anderz Harning (1938-1992) share component of his writing, his sources of inspiration and his never ending anger. "Didn't I say so/Vad var det jag sa" are the challenging words on his memorial stone. Anderz Harning wa...

Filmmaker Froukje van Wengerden’s 86-year-old grandmother shares a powerful memory from 1944, when she was just 14. As her story unfolds, we see a group of contemporary 14-year-old girls. Their procession of portraits permits the spectator to see sim...

A visual journey through Ecuador...

In Bern, Madame Mercedes has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and subtle portrait about ageing as a prostitute, a documentary about a vanishing chapter of habits in Switzerland....

This documentary explores the work of Robert Doisneau, and the subjects his photographs have addressed, from the workers of the Renault factories in Billancourt to Parisian lovers, from the crowds of the Liberation to the children of Gentilly, from t...

After unknowingly drawing a murderer, an aspiring artist becomes the only source of evidence in an ongoing case....

“Let them eat cake!” laughs a Marie-Antoinette from the dunes... Gaëlle loves to dress up. Under her wigs, Gaëlle plays with codes and the surprise her appearances provoke. Each of her wigs explores a part of her femininity, her self-confidence and h...