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Konstantin Simonov, a writer, and Pavel Troshkin, a photo correspondent for the Izvestia newspaper, were friends and were together during the heavy fighting at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War - the Buynichskoe F
In the year of Leo Tolstoy's death, Dziga Vertov, an unknown boy from Bialystok, was 14 years old. The elder of Yasnaya Polyana could not know either the name or the work of the documentary filmmaker, the founder of non-
The film takes the viewer back to the turn of the last century and the last, to the works and biographies of Leo Tolstoy and the famous sculptor Ilya Ginzburg. The heroes are contemporaries. familiar with each other and
In 2013 an oil painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci appears in Lugano, the portrait of Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua. The owner of the painting, Emidia Cecchini, is about to sell it for 140 million euros whe
Raphael strives to capture the open and sympathetic face of his friend and deliberately simplifies his composition. Yet the image is filled with clues and can be interpreted today using both traditional laboratory analys
Political artist, painter, writer, performer and photographer David Wojnarowicz was one of the leading personalities of the 1980s New York art scene. In an interview conducted in 1989 by cultural theorist Sylvère Lotring
An animated short documentary about Alicja and Bożena Wahl, identical twin sisters and visual artists, based on excerpts selected from over 450 diaries kept by Alicja for nearly 50 years and the artistic work of both sis
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his
A grandfather kindles a relationship with his dying granddaughter through art.
Four hundred animal portraits. This film was made for the renovated Grande Galerie in the National Natural History Museum in Paris.
Interview with a scientist from the Concordia research base, in the middle of an ice desert.
Hitchhiking in Quebec, although it's against the law
Robert Morin's camera roams through Rome, a phantom crossing borders, observing six individuals who migrated to the city from Africa. At night, television screens play Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves; by day, news bro
A short animated telling of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania, a place of pilgrimage consisting of a formidable accumulation of crosses that was often razed during the Soviet period. Coming to replant a cross was then an
Meeting with a survivor of the earthquake in Haiti. Telling us about disaster and life after the trauma.
Exploring Moscow and paying tribute to Laika, the first dog in space.
Traditional Ivorian cloths tell many stories