The Writer's Burrow
Carlos writes crime novels but since the death of his wife he has been suffering from writer's block. When his publishing company sends an assistant at his house to help him overcome this difficulty, Carlos believes he m
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Carlos writes crime novels but since the death of his wife he has been suffering from writer's block. When his publishing company sends an assistant at his house to help him overcome this difficulty, Carlos believes he m
Wang Shiwei was known to most as the first victim of Chinese Communist Party's literary persecution, who was killed in 1947 while CCP troops were retreating from Yenan.
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.
Animated documentary film about the fate of the writer - Yuri Olesha. About how he was strangled by the grip of the era that fell to him, and in such an embrace he was forced to live not his life. Created on the basis of
The poet Donald Campbell gives workshops in an Edinburgh high school.
Documentary behind the making of Paul Driessen's animated short film The Writer.
Advertising surrounds us. It is part of our lives, our memory and our culture: it is a pure reflection of our society. However, those who think and create ads are unknown people. Playing with the mechanisms of publicity
A writer struggling to write her next bestseller decides to move into the house of a famous writer after her house goes up for sale in the hope of writing her next big novel.
In a small office cluttered with books and other detritus of the writer's life, filmmaker Alexandre Westphal and the writer Percival Everett explore his work. Archival images are projected onto the walls, invading the sp
In this short film, internationally acclaimed author Margaret Laurence passionately addresses several issues related to peace: the social responsibility of the writer; language usage and reality; jargon and "newspeak"; i
A documentary about Antti Jalava, a Swedish-Finnish writer who was among the first to write about the immigrant experience in Sweden.
María del Puy Alvarado, through her production company Malvalanda, faced the proposal to produce a documentary about the writer Antonio Muñoz Molina, in one of the programmes offered by Televisión Española to give an acc
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is one of the most prolific Iranian novelists. In this beautiful, poetic portrait, gracefully crafted by his filmmaker daughter Sara Dolatabadi, he reflects on his life throughout the turbulent 20th c
A story about the most mysterious and, possibly, the most significant of the living Russian-speaking writers - "Russian Salinger". Sasha Sokolov is a classic of Russian literature and Russian modernism, who influenced wr
The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of his inspired sidekicks--Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, an
Short documentary of the subculture grafitti. It depicts the life, risks and adrenaline of the subculture especially the life of some of the members of the Crew of Easy Riderz.
The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is the most translated Equatoguinean writer, but he had to flee the country in 2011, after starting a
A Writer - the last man on Earth, records his thought process to the only person who will listen. Himself…
During his lifetime, he commanded the burning of his complete stock of works, letters and writings after his passing away. Fortunately, his publisher and friend didn't carry out his wish and has in this way saved a cruc
In 1993, Jean-Claude Romand murdered his entire family, shattering a lifetime of lies. Fascinated by the case from the beginning, French writer Emmanuel Carrère reviews the painful gestation of the book he dedicated to i