Movies: Portrait of a filmmaker

The life and professional career of the Spanish filmmaker Florián Rey (1894-1962), a brilliant artist who began his career in silent films and had great commercial success during the Second Republic (1931-1936): a journey to the early days of Spanish...

Clara Mingueza, an actress from Barcelona, sets out to move the mortal remains of Elena Jordi (1882-1945), vaudeville star, actress and the first woman director of Spanish cinema, to her hometown, while trying to find a copy of Thaïs, the only film s...

A secret figure in French underground cinema, Maria Koleva has filmed all over Paris, written about Marx and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Serge Daney. This documentary is a portrait of a histrionic Koleva, trying to reveal her militant, poetic ...

Documentary on Belgian director of greek descent Jean Daskalidès....

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Short doc in which Anthony Slide (Andre De Toth on Andre De Toth) discusses the work of Andre De Toth in general and The Indian Fighter in particular....

Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk....

A documentary about the career of director Jack Arnold at Universal-International Studios. (An early version of this film, only 20 minutes in length, was screened in 2012.)...

A documentary on the life, work, and character of Michelangelo Antonioni....

A movie director attemps to film the way he writes a screenplay....

A portrait of the Swedish director Roy Andersson, dealing with obsessions of the film maker considered as the origins of his last incredible project : Songs from the Second Floor. 20 years of reflection and creation, 4 years to shoot a masterpiece wi...

Unsatisfied with college, a filmmaker leaves everything behind to join two friends on their bike trip across the world....

An episode of Cinéastes d'aujourd'hui, a series of director portraits by the Francophone Community. Lafosse had then just completed Les Chevaliers blancs....

In 1993, Jesús Parrado interviewed actor and director Jacinto Molina, world-wide known as Paul Naschy, and director Amando de Ossorio, two key figures of the Spanish fantasy cinema. In 2019, part of this footage is rescued. The rest has lost forever....

Short documentary on animator George Debels....

Documentary about notorious actor/director Erich Von Stroheim....