Portrait Movies

“You bet on someone in the beginning of the process and then you wait and see what life does with them.” This is how Czech director...

A Sense of Justice, immerses us In a law firm in this same city. There, we can find Christine Mengus and Nohra Boukara, specialized in the rights of...

Trapped in their frames and monitored by a menacing curator, two paintings long to escape from the art gallery's white walls. As the paintings lock...

A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20...

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

A bloodstain on a sheet triggers a great transformation in Tina, an eleven-year-old girl. As she spreads out the laundry with her mother, she will...

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute,...

A grandson shows his grandmother how to navigate an iPad 2 full of clues for solving a puzzle. Over a phone call, she recites an email she wrote...

This short documentary tells the intensely personal story of Namrata Gill – one of the many real-life inspirations for Deepa Mehta’s...

Portrait documentary of the Swedish comedic actor Thor Modéen full of clips from his greatest roles.

When the world was on fire, they called Hans Blix. This is how the Swedish diplomat is introduced in ‘Blix Not Bombs’. And if there is...

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

A surprisingly intimate portrait of how the dream of running one’s own business can take on monstrous contours. Managed by the father of one of...

A portrait of the personal journey of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano during his third presidential campaign. It is a moment in...

Annedore takes care of orphan birds. They give her that which humans througout her turbulent life could never give her: love.

Three friends decide to isolate themselves in the mountain house of one of them to enjoy the last days of summer they have left. During these days in...