Self Portrait
In Mexico City, an addiction clinic becomes the stage for a unique cinematic experiment. Director Jaime Venegas Gavilanes offers a free film workshop, using cinema as a rehabilitation tool. Through self-portraiture, part
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In Mexico City, an addiction clinic becomes the stage for a unique cinematic experiment. Director Jaime Venegas Gavilanes offers a free film workshop, using cinema as a rehabilitation tool. Through self-portraiture, part
When their son, Billy, becomes a zombie, the family chooses to take care of him in the home, much to the chagrin of the neighbors and the local crime boss.
Abel Salazar, a scientist and an artist persecuted by the Fascist regime in the 40ies, is trying to finish a portrait, obsessed by the face of a woman. Ana, a young researcher in the present days, is dreaming about him.
A misty afternoon returns a Mapuche couple to their wedding video. In their civil ceremony, they are noted as one of only two couples married in the indigenous language of Mapudungun.
School Portrait is a short film about a depressed photographer who meets his match in a relentlessly happy little girl.
The artist reexamines the culture of parades as one of the most powerful ideological instruments. The ceremonial raising of a flag performed by the artist in an enclosed territory without public becomes a metaphor for a
The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japanese patron, the cruel and egotistical daimyo Horikawa (Nakamura). It is based on the 1918 short story Hell Sc
A magician produces a living portrait of himself.
The story of three Las Vegas showgirls, each at a different stage in her career.
A painter paints portraits of dying patients for their funeral.
Portrait of God is a documentary road movie about the manhunt for the most wanted person in the world. The film is constructed as a classic detective story. A middle-aged detective shadows the suspect through the highs a
Portrait de groupe is a film series of filmed portraits that shows all kinds of groups gathered under family pretexts, friendly or professional, in a single fixed, wide shot (style: family photo) and silent of 3 minutes
The film is about Film Institute of India in its early days. It depicts different stages of training of a students from their entrance viva voce to the convocation when they receive their diplomas. Salient features of tr
Family Portrait is a short film about a mother taking her son to a photography studio and the tension that ensues when the son realises there is more to the relationship between his mother and the photographer. At its c
Commissioned self-portrait of the artist as metaphysical remix of Abbas Kiarostami's "Close-Up" recorded on a cellphone.
Details the life of actress Pam Dawber through interviews with those close to her and footage of her work.
Filmed over the course of a week in October 2010, the film captures the everyday life of its Joubert syndrome-suffering protagonist, taking in her daily routines of work, play, and therapy, whilst also capturing her admi
Georgie is a strange boy, during one long walk leading to Mother's house we discover why.
Receiving important news about her father, whom she has not met for years, Nisan returns to her father's house with her husband and daughter. There are strange things happening in this mansion where she escaped away year