Portrait Movies

  • 2024
    Slay the Gender

    Slay the Gender

    Slay the Gender

    02024HD

    Through testimonies from people who practice the art of drag, this short film offers an intimate insight into this world of rhinestones and glitter.

    Slay the Gender
  • 2025
    Barbara Morgenstern – Doing It for Love

    Barbara Morgenstern – Doing It for Love

    Barbara Morgenstern – Doing It for Love

    02025HD

    For the first time in six years, Barbara Morgenstern, pioneer of German-style electronic intimate pop, works on a new album. Her laptop sits on a...

    Barbara Morgenstern – Doing It for Love
  • 2021
    Deborah Stratman to Nancy Holt: For the Time Being

    Deborah Stratman to Nancy Holt: For the Time Being

    Deborah Stratman to Nancy Holt: For the Time Being

    02021HD

    A video letter to Nancy Holt, made in homage to a shared interest in terminal lakes, framed views, monuments and time. Filmed on and around the Great...

    Deborah Stratman to Nancy Holt: For the Time Being
  • 2024
    Fragmentária

    Fragmentária

    Fragmentária

    02024HD

    Fragmentária
  • 2024
    How It Breathes

    How It Breathes

    How It Breathes

    02024HD

    Elijah Jamal Balbed grew up in Washington DC in the midst of one of its most difficult eras, as its identity was being tested. As the city changed...

    How It Breathes
  • 2016
    Checks & Balances

    Checks & Balances

    Checks & Balances

    52016HD

    Accommodated since Algeria's Bloody Decade of the 1990’s in the "House of the Press", the journalists of the famous daily newspaper El Watan...

    Checks & Balances
  • 2004
    Countdown

    Countdown

    Countdown

    52004HD

    Portrait of Augustinas Baltrušaitis, film and theatre director, as well as actor, who fell into obscurity and has now been relegated to the...

    Countdown
  • 2019
    Figure 3

    Figure 3

    Figure 3

    02019HD

    How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of being diagnosed with the chronic autoimmune...

    Figure 3
  • 2017
    Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo

    Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo

    Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo

    8.32017HD

    Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the tango. By breaking with the codes of traditional tango, he brought this popular Argentine music from dance floors...

    Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo
  • 2000
    Robert Doisneau, tout simplement

    Robert Doisneau, tout simplement

    Robert Doisneau, tout simplement

    82000HD

    This documentary explores the work of Robert Doisneau, and the subjects his photographs have addressed, from the workers of the Renault factories in...

    Robert Doisneau, tout simplement
  • 2003
    Jean Moulin, lettre à un inconnu

    Jean Moulin, lettre à un inconnu

    Jean Moulin, lettre à un inconnu

    02003HD

    Jean Moulin, lettre à un inconnu
  • 2004
    On dirait Nino Ferrer

    On dirait Nino Ferrer

    On dirait Nino Ferrer

    02004HD

    Nino Ferrer has had several lives: hits that made him famous; a dark but artistically fruitful period; a hidden life -of his own making- breaking...

    On dirait Nino Ferrer
  • 2012
    August Strindberg, en djefla man som kan göra många konster

    August Strindberg, en djefla man som kan göra många konster

    August Strindberg, en djefla man som kan göra många konster

    02012HD

    Swedish documentary from 2012. "A devilish man who can do many arts". A portrait of August Strindberg (1849-1912), which in addition to his...

    August Strindberg, en djefla man som kan göra många konster
  • 1980
    Portrait: Gerald Squires of Newfoundland

    Portrait: Gerald Squires of Newfoundland

    Portrait: Gerald Squires of Newfoundland

    01980HD

    Newfoundland painter Gerald Squires has referred to his portraits as "confrontations," though not intending the hostility that word can convey. This...

    Portrait: Gerald Squires of Newfoundland
  • 2014
    Making Movie History: Evelyn Lambart

    Making Movie History: Evelyn Lambart

    Making Movie History: Evelyn Lambart

    02014HD

    Animation pioneer Evelyn Lambart recalls arriving at the NFB in the 1940s, her celebrated collaborations with Norman McLaren and her approach to her...

    Making Movie History: Evelyn Lambart
  • 2014
    Ulrich Seidl - A Director at Work

    Ulrich Seidl - A Director at Work

    Ulrich Seidl - A Director at Work

    02014HD

    This cinematic portrait shows the Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work. The much-discussed ‘Seidl method’ is conveyed here vividly and...

    Ulrich Seidl - A Director at Work
  • 2001
    Die Markus Family

    Die Markus Family

    Die Markus Family

    02001HD

    This film tells the story of Markus Anatol Weisse, who, astonishingly enough, became an artist, in spite of being only very partially sighted. Markus...

    Die Markus Family
  • 2017
    The 10 Minute Project

    The 10 Minute Project

    The 10 Minute Project

    02017HD

    An experimental project made up of 10 minute silent portraits with 60+ participants.

    The 10 Minute Project
  • 2022
    Johnny par Laeticia

    Johnny par Laeticia

    Johnny par Laeticia

    72022HD

    Johnny par Laeticia
  • 1998
    Barluschke

    Barluschke

    Barluschke

    01998HD

    The documentary relates how in the second half of the 20th century the agent Berthold Barluschke was first a henchman of the State Security Service...

    Barluschke