Portrait of a film: Marius and Jeanette is the seventh feature film by Robert Guédiguian. In the northern quarters of Marseille, Marius, security guard at an abandoned factory, meets Jeanette, an employee in a supermarket who has just been fired…

The highly acclaimed Mommy is set in the fictional - and rather dystopian - year 2015, where it is legal to hospitalize your wayward kids, if you cannot cope with them. Meet Anne Dorval as she discusses her role as the Mommy, director Xavier Dolan…

In a small town deep within today's Turkey, five sisters revolt against their families and a stifling patriarchal order. Turkish-French filmmaker, Deniz Gamze Ergüven shot "Mustang", her first film, during the events in Taksim Square in Istanbul…

Monsieur Hulot is almost a silent film: Jacques Tati prefers gestures and noise to words, which, similar to his contemporary Beckett, are reduced to a succession of incomprehensible vowel sounds.

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Notorious’ is released in 1946. Portrait of a film: after the fall of the Third Reich, the U.S. Secret Service, in order to prevent terrorist attacks, infiltrates the web of Nazi expatriates in South America. Hitchcock encrusts a…

Milos Forman shoots One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975. It is the first film produced by Michael Douglas. Portrait of a film: In order to escape prison, a delinquent (Jack Nicholson) manages to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. There he…

This 52-minute documentary tells the story of the conception, the filming, the Italian première, and the world-wide release of the film that has become a manifesto of Italian Neo-Realism, and which revolutionized cinematographic narration by…

"Once upon a time... Rosetta" tells us about the origins, the making and the release of the Dardenne brothers' film "Rosetta" which received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival in 1999. "Rosetta" relates the daily fight of a young girl against…

Billy Wilder films ‘Some Like It Hot’ in 1958. Portrait of a film: a movie that is at once a satire of the United States and its imitators, a burlesque parody, a thriller, a musical comedy filmed in black and white, an audacious look at the confusion…

This documentary is a testimony to the ambition to make ‘’a European film’’ that could compete against Hollywood. It is also an exceptional portrait of a director who was haunted by the game of chance, and coincidence.