A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

A comedy musical stage version of the Phantom of the Opera, filmed live on-stage during a performanc...

Repurposing and manipulating classic film footage and the filmmaker’s personal footage, the film wea...

An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when...

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristo...

Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.

This highly stylized, critically acclaimed film from the 70's mixes silent film cards, a soundscape,...

A filmmaker recalls his youth in the town of Onomichi. In the present, he shoots a film in Onomichi ...
Sometimes the drama backstage is better than anything on it... Sometimes the drama backstage threate...

A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and de...

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of...

New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building w...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

The war is over. Once a young sculptor, and now a soldier, he returned home. Married, there were chi...

This is a time when we learn afresh that nothing lasts forever and that the variability is an integr...

An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal re...

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath...

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, to give it its full title, by Christopher Marlowe, was first...

Traveling rainmaker Starbuck arrives at the drought-ridden Curry place, promising rain for the farm ...

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by mod...

A divorced journalist Marko Požgaj starts his working day by taking his son to the school. During th...