01 Jan 1990
À la recherche de Tadzio
Whatever became of the actor director Luchino Visconti famously cast as young Tadzio in "Death in Venice"? Documentary filmmaker Etienne Faure goes looking in this short film first presented at Cannes.
The title of this film, which combines flicker effects and comic strip elements, refers to an old belief that each solar eclipse produces a war.
01 Jan 1990
Whatever became of the actor director Luchino Visconti famously cast as young Tadzio in "Death in Venice"? Documentary filmmaker Etienne Faure goes looking in this short film first presented at Cannes.

19 May 1939

A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows aircraft using morse code.

01 Jan 1961

Ethno-fiction: a sociological portrait of a small Belgian village, Moulbaix, through the passion for amateur theater.

16 Nov 2017

Before Aleppo's fall, Syrian/Norwegian director Nizam Najar explores the inside of the war. To him one of the reasons the rebellion has failed, stems from the Syrian society itself.
04 Apr 2018
Documentary about Transylvanian Saxons.

01 Jan 1980

A document that summarizes images of the energetic Mexican muralist's most significant works, using rhythmic montages that reflect the prevailing mood of each of his pictorial periods and a complex soundtrack composed of effects and various orchestral and choral interventions. Devoid of narration and didactic rigidity, this short film focuses its resources on the pure enjoyment of Orozco's work.

01 Jan 1998

No overview found

28 May 2010

La Cinémathèque offered the filmmaker Marcel Hanoun to make a retrospective of his work, a new film, the one of his choice: a "free" film, which means free to the filmmaker of to see and hear what he wants, who he wants, and, ideally, to make it known and heard by everyone.

29 Sep 2014

A short documentary about the rapidly disappearing era of heritage movie palaces and the film going experience once offered within those hallowed walls.

21 Jun 2020

A 15 minute documentary utilizing archival Super 8 film footage and original animation about a father fulfilling his dream of reconnecting his 5 small children to the steps of his own father when he fought for the Canadian military in WW2 through a trip to Europe in 1973.

20 Dec 1974

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.
01 Jan 1974
Portrait of comic book artist Marcel Gotlib.
01 Jan 1938
Government ordered Industrial short documentary on the production of linen.

23 Jan 2018

Sr. Raposo is a staged documentary about the daily life of Acácio, who found out he was HIV+ in 1995.

20 Jan 2018

A wily 87-year-old New Yorker, Judith Godwin is one of very few women of the Abstract Expressionist Movement. A creative awakening in college led her to produce the brilliant, gestural paintings for which she is renowned.

18 Feb 1963

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

27 Jun 2024

In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its journey, the ghost discovers that the town still celebrates its most important festivities, but also learns that the construction of a new commercial complex called Mítikah will threaten the existence of both the traditions and the town itself.

01 Jan 1967

Crashing waves, the cry of a gull, silence.
05 May 2005
Habiba and Shah who, because of the wars fought in Afghanistan over the past 25 years, have experienced immense suffering, but who have survived to show how it is possible to be brave and moral in this world of sanctioned violence and lies. Shah, a former Mujaheddin soldier and land mine victim, works as a cobbler on the pavements of the ruined city of Kabul. One day, he noticed a pretty Tajik girl who had only one leg, and he began to court her. Amidst the chaos and violence, and despite all the obstacles of tradition and religion, Shah and Habiba were able to marry.

08 Jun 2006

Omondi lives in the biggest slum in East Africa. Everyday he sees airplanes fly over him. He dreams of becoming an airline pilot and flying far away.