Portrait Movies

The story of a Grandmother who swims every day in the sea whatever the weather.

Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touching portrait of virtuoso pianist Oscar...

In this short documentary, five black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s and 1950s. What emerges is a unique...

Sylvia Kristel – Paris is a portrait of Sylvia Kristel , best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic Emmanuelle, as well as...

"This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa (1973) through another stage of transformation – my own...

The obligation to perfom in society takes a complete different form for Marie and Gabriel, two young adults with Down syndrome. Aware of how people...

Together, the three Bertrand brothers work their farm in a small Savoyard village. In 1972, they took the enormous risk to invest in the construction...

A documentary portrait that captures Dušan Hanák in the process of working on a musical-poetic piece consisting of his guitar...

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...