What Is Cinema?

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman show

Edifício Cinema

Cinema for the Dead

In the village of Barra Grande, among appearances and disappearances, the animals keep the dead company.

Cinema Marginal

A short film about Brazilian underground filmmaking of the late 1960s and 1970s, known as the "Cinema Marginal" movement.

A Season for Cinema: Spiritual tale, spiritual cinema

Part 4 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.

Kazoku Cinema

A savage look at food and sex, helms this black comedy about Japan's sizable and often beleaguered Korean-Japanese community. Motomi Hayashi (Eri Yu), a producer who is thoroughly dedicated to her career, returns to her

Come cinema

A film by Ellis Donda.

Reflections on a Political Cinema

This documentary addresses the challenges facing the Italian film industry in 1978 by focusing on the television productions of Francesco Rosi's CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI (1979) and Elio Petri's LE MANI SPORCHE (1978)

Cinema na Escola

An important conversation about cinema and education.

Kieslowski: The Cinema Lesson

In Warsaw, Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski returns to the editing room of the documentary film production company where he made his first films in the late 1960s.

Cinema España

The Present of Cinema

Commissioned by the Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage

Oh, Cinema, Cinema!

A report from the set of the movie "To Love a Man" directed by S. A. Gerasimov.

The Cinema Snob Movie

When an exploitation filmmaker goes undercover as a pretentious film snob to obtain proper filming permits, he is thrust into a strange mystery surrounding the very secretive film commission.

A Morte do Cinema

The Good Cinema

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at th

The Dark Cinema

Four filmmaker friends rent a once grand but long decommissioned cinema in the outskirts of a rural town for the traveling film festival that they are organizing.

Cinema Purgatorio

In a last-ditch effort to break through in the crowded and convoluted indie film world, a husband-wife producing team make a film especially designed to win a regional film festival and attract the attention of actor Bil

Absolute Cinema

During a shoot in a remote, deserted steppe, actress Aru accidentally kills her scene partner. The crew decides to place all the blame on her. Now, she must find a way to deal with the situation before the vehicle arrive

Prehistory of Cinema

Several countries claim the invention of the cinematograph. Belgium does not have this claim. Some Belgians, however, played a fairly important role in what is called the prehistory of cinema. This 18-minute film does no