Portrait Movies

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

The 1960s opened with La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini and its unforgettable lead: Marcello Mastroianni. The actor seemed to glide effortlessly...

Surviving against all odds. In 1940, Benjamin Orenstein, just a teenager, was sent to his first concentration camp in Poland. It was the beginning of...

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Miloš Šejn: lying down, awake. And above all, creating. This documentary essay follows an artist whose work is “born of...

How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of being diagnosed with the chronic autoimmune...

Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January...

Gaëtan Chataigner has been filming his friend Philippe Katerine for nearly thirty years. The director revisits all these accumulated images in...

An anthology of strange people in strange places.

Sean Penn is almost a living legend. His filmography paints a picture of an 'other America': the lower class, the oppressed and the outsiders....

Follows the artist over two years as he explores his „life after Beethoven“, as he searches for his next challenge, his identity as an...

"What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his...

A bloodstain on a sheet triggers a great transformation in Tina, an eleven-year-old girl. As she spreads out the laundry with her mother, she will...

A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939. Interweaving archival...