Portrait Movies

A portrait of Bruno S., who became famous as an actor in Werner Herzog's films The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Stroszek and was forgotten all too...

A few months before his death, Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) revisited his work in an assembly room of the Andrzej Wajda Master School...

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the...

Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and teacher who is known for his widely-used fonts.

Documentary showing Laurent Terzieff's theatre company preparing a production of Murder in the Cathedral, featuring interviews with Terzieff, his...

An experimental project made up of 10 minute silent portraits with 60+ participants.

Portrait of Augustinas Baltrušaitis, film and theatre director, as well as actor, who fell into obscurity and has now been relegated to the...

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the...

96-year-old clarinet master Grigoris Kapsalis, the last living musician of a generation that shaped the music of Epirus, has long been an integral...

Animation pioneer Evelyn Lambart recalls arriving at the NFB in the 1940s, her celebrated collaborations with Norman McLaren and her approach to her...

Achour is thirty. Night and day, he walks. Rebellious soul, he crisscrosses Alger and its neighborhoods, stays at friends' houses and often leaves...

Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touching portrait of virtuoso pianist Oscar...

This documentary explores the work of Robert Doisneau, and the subjects his photographs have addressed, from the workers of the Renault factories in...

"Well, I believe in anarchy! And I believe it will come true one day." That's what "May the Rebel," a union activist, anti-militarist, and anarchist,...

Portrait of a French mercenary working in Libya, hired by the Phalange to train the militias. War leaves its traces; and for some, who see death as...