Movies: Portrait
- 2008
Bindaas (2008)
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- 2013
Corno (2013)
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A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20 years. Ignored by the art intelligentsia in Québec, she settled abroad to escape that creative constraint, and built...
- 1953
Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman (1953)
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In this film, Paul Tomkowicz, Polish-born Canadian, talks about his job and his life in Canada. He compares his new life in the city of Winnipeg to the life he knew in Poland, marvelling at the freedom Canadians enjoy. In winter the rail-switches on ...
- 2010
Katka (2010)
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“You bet on someone in the beginning of the process and then you wait and see what life does with them.” This is how Czech director Helena Trestikova explains her long-term documentaries. Following on from the European Film Academy Award winning RENE...
- 2021
Framed! (2021)
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A twisted tale of crime, trust and desire, Framed! shows three perspectives of an unconventional robbery: The Curator’s, The Ambassador’s and The Professional Thief. However, there is more to this peculiar crime than it seems......
- 2011
Carrière, 250 Meters (2011)
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A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term collaborator - Jean Claude Carrière. Carrière predicts that between the house he was born in and the cemet...
- 2019
Danielle Mitterrand, une certaine idée de la France (2019)
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- 2022
Igor Levit: No Fear (2022)
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Follows the artist over two years as he explores his „life after Beethoven“, as he searches for his next challenge, his identity as an artist....
- 1990
Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990)
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Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites....
- 2023
The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023)
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Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations...
- 2016
The Unheard Woman (2016)
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What if nobody wants to believe you? Hanni, a farmer's wife and mother of three, is worried about her daughter Magdalena. The girl is smaller than the others, more sensitive, vomits more often and has increasingly poor eyesight. The doctors, the tea...
- 2024
Fight (2024)
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In a conservative Armenian family a 16 years old Karine dreams to become a veterinarian, but her family, especially her father, who is a well-known dog-fighter, is against it. They say it’s not a proper job for women. Karine needs to choose: to follo...
- 1982
Kubota (1982)
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A film featuring architect, sculptor, and musician Nobuo Kubota in a sound-sculpture performance. From within a cage-like structure filled with traditional musical instruments and sound-making devices fashioned from ordinary objects and toys, Kubota ...
- 2012
Laurent Ruquier, on ne demande qu'à le connaître (2012)
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- 2013
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013)
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In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and experimental films to a budding community of cinephiles. Eventually incorporating as a nonprofit, the newly bra...
- 2024
The Last Days With Eliane (2024)
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A portrait of the Director’s maternal grandmother, Eliane, a French woman who lived her entire life in Tunisia. The film shows her last moments at home with her family before her passing due to Alzheimer's disease....
- 1969
Kanade (1969)
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Widely considered an important milestone in Indian Architectural history, the Kanade brothers are a testimony of how life and work can coexist with honesty as the fundamental driving factor. The film ‘Kanade’ gives an insight into the journey and exp...
- 2018
Portrait of a Knight (2018)
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Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary urban life. Rachel is a young archivist living and working in Wellington, New Zealand. Feeling alone and disconnected from life, she projects her rom...
- 2024
Topo estrellado (2024)
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- 2018
Scars (2018)
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We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what underlies our notions of beauty as we join a talented photographer taking stunning portraits of several peop...