Portrait Movies

Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the tango. By breaking with the codes of traditional tango, he brought this popular Argentine music from dance floors...

Over many years, the director’s father filmed his family life almost obsessively. His daughter’s birth, his son’s first steps, and...

Joni Mitchell has been called the queen of folk music and one of the biggest pop stars of the 60s and 70s. Even today, her lyrics and unique guitar...

The controversial Swedish author Anderz Harning (1938-1992) share component of his writing, his sources of inspiration and his never ending anger....

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...

Interview with Jarl Kulle cut together with a summary of his career.

Documentary showing Laurent Terzieff's theatre company preparing a production of Murder in the Cathedral, featuring interviews with Terzieff, his...

A portrait of the Director’s maternal grandmother, Eliane, a French woman who lived her entire life in Tunisia. The film shows her last moments...

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

Newfoundland painter Gerald Squires has referred to his portraits as "confrontations," though not intending the hostility that word can convey. This...

Documentary about three Berlin cleaning ladies, their lives and their shattered dreams. The directors succeed in gaining deep insights into German...

Portrait of Augustinas Baltrušaitis, film and theatre director, as well as actor, who fell into obscurity and has now been relegated to the...

A portrait of Bruno S., who became famous as an actor in Werner Herzog's films The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Stroszek and was forgotten all too...

A young painter named Billie lives secluded in an apartment on her own. She tries to find inspiration despite external disturbances.