The Lantern and the Music of Light

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 richne...

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97),the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and pr...

Having devoted much of his career to programming and film history research, Law Kar, a.k.a. Uncle Kar, places himself before the camera for the first...

An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010),a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad...

Since the beginning of August 2010, Bioskop Permata has been closed down. This film tries to explain about the end of a long Yogyakarta cinema history...

The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled by his contemporaries including other photographer...

For just forty days, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins embarks on a peculiar journey in order to explore topics as the passion for cinema and certain...

Actor Ned Beatty hosts a look at the genre known as "exploitation" films. Interviews with some of the producers and directors of these films are shown...

How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to...

A memory of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962),woman, actress, goddess, myth, in the words of the Spanish director and scriptwriter José Luis Garci, who retu...

Meryl Streep is one of the most versatile and successful actresses of all time and is still considered a superstar after 50 years of career. She fasci...

A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son André as his own fat...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision to move to France and to marry director Yves Ciam...