Movies: Portrait of a filmmaker

Jacques Demy’s ability to enchant audiences was rooted in his personal struggles and doubts as a showman, establishing him as one of French cinema’s greatest artists....

A movie director attemps to film the way he writes a screenplay....

Through the life and career of Marcel Carné, using film excerpts and archives (including touching interviews with the director), François Aymé weaves a fascinating portrait of a hypersensitive man who had to deal with his homosexuality and who, despi...

Run Wrake is an English filmmaker, animation director, and music video director. He studied graphic design at Chelsea College of Arts before completing a master's degree in animation at the Royal College of Art in London. In this interview for the BB...

An episode of Cinéastes d'aujourd'hui, a series of director portraits by the Francophone Community. Lafosse had then just completed Les Chevaliers blancs....

Documentary about the Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne trying to reveal their 'secret working method'...

A program made for Kultura on the life and career of Larisa Shepitko....

A journey into the mind of French actor and director Jean-Pierre Mocky (1929-2019), author of films both playful and profound, of an impressive richness....

Unsatisfied with college, a filmmaker leaves everything behind to join two friends on their bike trip across the world....

A documentary on the life, work, and character of Michelangelo Antonioni....

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it....

An autobiographical essay film structured as a letter to the director’s young daughter, "Où en êtes-vous, Bertrand Bonello?" weaves clips from Bonello’s films, excerpts from his scripts, pop songs, and snippets of original footage into a lyrical, ref...

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journalist Thoria Smati. They address the chronology of the rich and committed career of this self-taught Algerian actor, director, producer and screenwrit...

Documentary about notorious actor/director Erich Von Stroheim....

Film critic Alejandro G. Calvo traces an audiovisual journey through the work of David Lynch trying to find clues to decipher his enigmatic universe....

Haunted by three unfinished films, a filmmaker seeks to demystify his relationship with failure through encounters with past collaborators....

A life long dream of making a feature film turns into a comedic disaster for a New Jersey filmmaker....

A program on the relationship between the filmmaking couple Larisa Sheptiko and Elim Klimov....

Short documentary on animator George Debels....