Horse Portrait

Painterly impressions of the silhouette of a horse, its springy movements, the shape of the head, the fight of stallions. In addition to his own animation, the director presents studies on Leonardo da Vinci's horse, draw

Krystyna M. Portrait Sketches

Documentary about the life of a young woman from the countryside who works in a city factory, her hopes and difficulties.

Portraits

A group of mourners provide different portraits of a deceased man at a funeral.

Rainbow Children: Portrait of Elika

Little Elika explains that people in Iran like five things above all: rice, the sun, ice cream, fish and tulips. She gives a presentation about her home country in a Belgian school, which includes a Persian poem she tran

Pipes and Porter

In 1965, Lennart Malmer travelled to Ireland in search of music. Throughout his trip, he filmed the people, places and events he encountered, culminating in a journey to Miltown Malbay in Clare. His documentary is a snap

Jobard, Porter for Love

Lucien Cazalis sees a young woman and falls instantly in love. He volunteers to carry her trunk to her apartment, where he kneels, grinning in front of her, until her father locks him in the trunk and throws it out the w

Music Portrait - Pavle Stefanovic

A portrait of Serbian folk singer Pavle Stefanović (1928-2009).

Portuguese Sea

"Oh salty sea, how much of your salt / Are tears of Portugal! / To get across you, how many mothers cried, / How many sons prayed in vain! // How many brides were never to marry / In order to make you ours, oh sea! / Was

The Mysterious Portrait

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

Portrait of an African Woman

In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams of traveling throughout France and getting to know her adopted country, taking iss

The First Portuguese in a German Town

In Groß-Umstadt, a small town in the Oberwald region of central Germany, a community of Portuguese workers arrived in the 1960s. Legend has it that a young Portuguese man was travelling through the area in 1962 when his

Portrait of My Mother in Her Garden

Portrait of the filmmaker’s mother in her garden. Part of the Portrait Series by Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, the film was initially presented as an interlude during the multi-projection performance of Unheimlich

Portrait in a Drop of Water

Over a series of still photographs the director asks ordinary people about their lives, hopes and fears.

The Portrait of Irma Geisslová, Who Died Sad

Irma Geisslová was a Czech poet and prose writer who lived in the late 19th and early 20th century. The director of the film and its direct participants enter into an imaginary dialogue with this talented author of intim

No Porto de Leixões - Panorama

Raghu Rai: An Unframed Portrait

This documentary depicts the 50-year career of Indian photographer Raghu Rai, a staple at the illustrious Magnum Photos Agency, but also his relationship with his daughter and the film’s director, Avani Rai. The camera b

Self-portrait on a daughter

A mother tries to give what she sees as the best to her daughter.

Portrait of a Soldier

Set during the last days of the Vietnam War, Miles, an American soldier, tries to escape. With the company of Josiah (another soldier) and Isaac (a photographer), the three abandoned men try to leave once and for all whi

Little Portugal

Jonatan, aka MC Xerelete, dreams of becoming a famous funk singer and so providing the comfortable life that he sees in the media for himself and his father. Till then, both of them work as fishermen at the Guanabara Bay

A Portuguese Sadness

Their farewell was inevitable, a love that from the beginning was doomed to impossibility, since the two belong to different and opposite worlds. The suffering caused by separation is the Portuguese way of living, resign