Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documentaries prompted the dramatic work and stylistic experimentation that led to his monumental series of films The Decalogue (1989). Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, and Juliette Binoche are among the many admirers weighing in on his hard-driving work methods and preoccupation with the ephemeral. In Polish, French, and German with subtitles.

The encounter between comics, music and cinema in a context of independent art production in São Paulo, Brazil, between the 1970's and the 1980's. From the musical performances of Arrigo Barnabé to the pioneer comic book Balão (Baloon), the movie approaches the experimentation in the work of a generation of Brazilian artists and the way in which the humor and the horrors of their reality were presented in their compositions. In a quite similar way as the productions themselves, the short movie has an independent and creative approach too, using the own interviewees to narrate and intervene in the film's narrative.

After spending a few months in quarantine, a young filmmaker struggles to find inspiration.

Anger discusses his Aleister Crowley-inspired theories of art: How he views his camera like a wand and how he casts his films, preferring to consider his actors, not human beings but as elemental spirits. In fact, he reveals that he goes so far as to use astrology when making these choices. This is as direct an explanation of Anger’s cinemagical modus operandi as I have ever heard him articulate anywhere. It’s a must see for anyone interested in his work and showcases the Magus of cinema at the very height of his artistic powers. Fascinating. (Dangerous Minds)

A documentary on the set of the ultra eventful Leos Carax film "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf", which spans three years of filming and knows an accumulation of disasters, increasing an initial budget of 32 million francs to more than 120 million francs.

A tale of a girl who studied animation and spent four years without a day of vacation. An animated short about a film school student who is working on her graduation film.

Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties to the work of the young director.

"In the early 1970s I filmed compact versions of a series of films that came on television and interested me, which should lead to revealing at least essential parts of their structure. In 1974, 30 of those experiments were mounted in sequence - so more or less chronologically - forming a film entitled Elementary Filmhistory. This film was intended to make a broad reading of the direction in which the cinema grew from 1960." (Klaus Wyborny)

Twenty Show was the first "user generated film", edited from fictional and real video-blogs. A unique experience initiated on the Internet, a mockumentary that paints a generational portrait of young French people in their twenties.

A troubled detective tries to solve the case of a murdered woman in broad daylight before his demons get the best of him.

Documentary about the eclectic Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording sessions for his 1984 album "Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia".

Originality in a time of poorly made copies, a filmic inventory of a strange time, a kaleidoscope of images, in a constant game of ruptures and continuities. All this from 365 videos published on an Instagram page in 2018, added to an original soundtrack and a text adapted from Dürrenmatt's play Dialogue of a Vile Man, a text that synthesizes our time well.

Jørgen Leth looks back at more than 50 years as a filmmaker in a cheerful film, whose contagious enthusiasm initiates us in his special poetry.

He was an anarchist and provocateur. Underground filmmaker and a cheeky fuck. Several of today's veterans in the Norwegian film industry started their career with him. Yet there are few today who know Bredo Greve. In Bredo Greve - filmrebell you will get to know the filmmaker's marvelous film history. Greve was always ready for a good fight, and he used film to pinpoint problems in society that are still scarily relevant.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is one of the world’s oldest and most respected. Film Spa was made to celebrate its belated 50th edition in 2015 in its 69th year – belated because from 1959 to 1993 it was forced to alternate with the festival in Moscow.

A cello piece

A punt ride

Thoughts about music and composition The eight lines of Ernstalbrecht Stiebler’s cello piece Sequenz 2 alternating with his thoughts about slowness, space, reduction, repetition, resonance, liveliness and emotion A cinematic continuum

Ingmar Licht collects messages from a bygone era. Shopping lists, letters or ads which people put in books and then forgot about. The senders of these bookmarks are long gone because the literature comes from estates that the relatives wanted to get rid of. Ingmar Licht sells these books. This has become his job after almost anything in life went wrong. Alcohol, bankruptcy, looking in trash cans for returnable bottles. He tried to hide for a long time, but that's different now. "Seen in the light" is a film about seeing and being seen. Ingmar Licht observes the lives of others with an alert eye, just as he explores the stories behind the notes, the postcards or newspaper clippings, he discovers in the old books. - He wants to show himself, despite and because of his story.

Film. A subject that has been produced for ages. This documentary is to show how beauty of film in can be and still not forgotten towards the modernization nowadays. In this documentary, it shows the connection between film developer and those who shoots film is utterly strong and constantly exist.

The birth date of film can be established: December 28, 1895. The place where it happened is also known: Paris, Boulevard des Capucines, Grand Caffe. It is also known who did it first: Louis Lumiere. However, the history of film starts in distant, almost unknown times: from drawings of cave people, through reliefs from Egyptian times, to the discovery of photography. Development of film technique: silent film, sound film, color film. Development of film expression: film as a recording of reality, film as an interpretation of reality, film as fiction or new reality. Development of film as an industry.

We live with films every day, and it seems nothing easier than answering the question: what is a film? Obviously, a film is, first and foremost, a document, a testimony of the world that surrounds us. The rich expressional possibilities of film are based on the imperfection of the human eye, its sluggishness, so thanks to the stroboscopic effect we can animate a still image. Film is therefore a kinetic image, or a moving image. It can make the invisible visible, bring the distant closer, enlarge the small, speed up the slow, slow down the fast, and return the end to the beginning. The technological basis of film: light, film tape, camera, projector, film screen. Expressive possibilities of film: scientific, documentary, communicative, artistic. Basic film genres: differences among films.