Portrait Movies

About the creative career of People's Artist of the USSR N.K. Cherkasov. The film uses footage from movies of the 1920s and 1930s.

In this portrait film, we meet Inger Christensen in her apartment in Østerbro, Copenhagen, where she tells of her life and work, and reads...

For the first time in six years, Barbara Morgenstern, pioneer of German-style electronic intimate pop, works on a new album. Her laptop sits on a...

'if you only had one year left of your life, what would you do?' This question asks Swiss author Franz Hohler. His answer: 'Make death your adviser...

Portrait of a French mercenary working in Libya, hired by the Phalange to train the militias. War leaves its traces; and for some, who see death as...

"Well, I believe in anarchy! And I believe it will come true one day." That's what "May the Rebel," a union activist, anti-militarist, and anarchist,...

Swedish documentary from 2012. "A devilish man who can do many arts". A portrait of August Strindberg (1849-1912), which in addition to his...

The film accompanies musicians who have devoted themselves to new, uncharted sounds with a great deal of passion. They build new instruments and work...

A village in Brittany. During the ten days leading up to All Souls Day, we can see it in its entirety "inhabiting" the cemetery, going from...

Christine’s father died when she was still a small child, and she remained in the care of her sadistic mother, who beat her and abused her...

Through eyewitness accounts and archival footage, viewers are taken on a journey through the great battles that defined President Gamal Abdel...

Alongside André Kertész and Man Ray, Germaine Krull invented the New Vision in photography, an innovative way of seeing and revealing...

Achour is thirty. Night and day, he walks. Rebellious soul, he crisscrosses Alger and its neighborhoods, stays at friends' houses and often leaves...