Portrait Movies

While everyone wants to die "at home" without suffering and surrounded by loved ones, in reality almost everyone dies in hospital. What healthcare...

When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon...

A moving portrait of one of the most loved and read Danish poets, Halfdan Rasmussen. The film covers both the early years with poverty and wartime on...

A look back at the life and career of Jean-Louis Foulquier (1943-2013), with testimonials from those who crossed his path and were accustomed to his...

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

Follows the artist over two years as he explores his „life after Beethoven“, as he searches for his next challenge, his identity as an...

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journalist Thoria Smati. They address the chronology...

What compels a man to push the limits of what is attainable ever higher? After thirty years of relentless struggle with the highest peaks on earth,...

Get Back To Me follows North Queensland artist and raconteur Nathan Roche attempting to perform a standup comedy routine for the first and last time...

A few months before his death, Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) revisited his work in an assembly room of the Andrzej Wajda Master School...

Interview with Jarl Kulle cut together with a summary of his career.

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for centuries. He liberates Russia from foreign...

Miloš Šejn: lying down, awake. And above all, creating. This documentary essay follows an artist whose work is “born of...