2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder o

The Birth of Soviet Cinema

The film tells the story of the development of Russian and Soviet cinema from the late 19th century to the late 1920s. It focuses in particular on the landmark silent films of Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Al

A Love Letter to Cinema

An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.

Elle voulait faire du cinéma

Biopic of French film pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché, considered the world's first female director, who directed, produced and/or supervised over 700 films between 1896 an the 1920s, in France and, for a period, in the US.

Ela Morava na Frente do Cinema

The Afterlife of Cinema

2030. After the latest technological revolution driven by artificial intelligence, cinema has been declared extinct and films are considered obsolete. When Margot, an unemployed film critic, discovers a poster for a clan

Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema

A documentary making the case for British films of the 40s, 50s and early 60s.

Athina Rachel Tsangari: Cinema on the Edges

Athina Rachel Tsangari has become one of the foremost figures of the so-called “Greek Weird Wave”—a movement characterized by its fascination with human behavior, bitingly absurdist humor, and arresting visual style—both

Black Beauty: For a Shamanic Cinema

African fashion model Alexandra Cartier meets Jorge Luis Borges in a visionary hallucination. What does the famous Argentine modernist writer have to say about our contemporary ecological and pandemic problems?

Din Don: La magia del cinema

In Pellizzano the town is in turmoil. There will be a casting for a horror film by director Rocco Siffredi and many are aspiring for 15 minutes of fame.

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies

In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes.

21st Century Cinema Index

The 21st-Century Cinema Index, an extensive research project on 21st-century film by Hasan Cem Çal, a writer whose work focuses on the evolution of the moving image, has been adapted into a video essay by Hazal Bayar, an

Cinema Perdu - The First Thirty Years of Film

Part of the series made for VPRO TV comprising films from the silent era. This part is a compilation of short films restored by the Netherlands Film Museum from the period 1897 to 1899. They were made by the Biograph & M

Quando Eu Conheci o Cinema

Cinema de Rua #1

Benjamin Kling's Interior Cinema

Benjamin Kling is an audio describer. He translates movies for blind and visually impaired viewers. After more than a hundred audio described films and series and while working on Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion, he feels t

Un cinéma sous influence

We had to wait until the Spanish “Movida” of the 1980s to see films that did not emanate from Francoist propaganda. But Spain had already experienced a period of cinematic splendor, during the civil war, when the film st

Charlotte Rampling, le cinéma comme un essentiel

PLAVE 'Dash' in Cinema

Creative Producer: The Unsung Hero of Greek Cinema

The documentary Creative Producer: The Unsung Hero of Greek Cinema explores the role of the producer in the creative process of Greek cinema, highlighting the complexity and unseen creative role that distinguishes this s