Before Cinema Novo revolutionized the Brazilian cinematic scenery, a young craftsman and Bahian filmmaker had already paved the way for the beginning of the journey for some of the biggest and most popular films of Brazilian history. The documentary tells fragments of the story of director Roberto Pires, through snippets of his life and a journey through his body of work, interspersing archival footage, scenes of his films and an interview with his son, also a filmmaker, Petrus Pires, followed by a poetic narration and an original soundtrack inspired by his film Abrigo Nuclear.

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story ...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

Ten years after winning a world title in bodybuilding in Russia and becoming a star of said discipli...

The animated corpse of Moscow goes on after its inhabitants left. Filled with weeps and whispers of ...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

In 1996, Damon Hill claimed the Formula 1 world championship—defying the odds and overcoming familia...

Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of r...

With this two-part feature documentary, Shlomi Elkabetz shares a poignant love letter to his sister,...

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words...

Dirty Dave grimsley is a pint size blend of Randall McMurphy and "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" a...

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...

A video essay that seeks to represent, study and pay homage to the North American filmmaker Cecelia ...

Made possible through a unique UK-wide collaboration of national and regional publicly-funded film a...

A two parts making of documentary, following José Augusto Silva and his film crew during the shootin...

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

The second half of Gustav Deutsch's experimental Film ist. series, constructing new narratives and m...

Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Qu...

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...