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Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Orson Welles

A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elorri Sarasola Barandiaran

Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Amy Nicholson

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marina Vlady

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Rees

An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christopher Lee

Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Giuliana Pachner

With ghostly eyes looking through the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars once...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacques Demy

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William McDonald

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Cousins

CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Matthew Barney

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian Sexon

The Weight of Sight is a playful and very personal essay where director Truls Krane Meby, through a massive archive of his own material - anything...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Truls Krane Meby

Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Agnès Varda

A short 6-minute essay-documentary by Maurice Pialat on the region in which much of the action of Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble unfolds.

Genre: Documentary

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Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Rea

The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kikol Grau

A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mariano Llinás

Blue Sunshine is a meditation on grief. Through dreamlike images and fictional scenarios, the director dialogues with her past and present,...

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Cast: Zoe Blanchard

Louis-Ferdinand Céline described the period he spent in Sigmaringen in his delirious and infernal novel, Castle to Castle, published in 1957....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Klaus Armbruster

Filmmaker Warwick Thornton's international success has come at a personal cost. He has reached a crossroad in his life and something has to change....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Warwick Thornton