Portrait Movies

This feature film is a portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939....

Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and teacher who is known for his widely-used fonts.

Alanis Obomsawin, a North American Indian who earns her living by singing and making films, is the mother of an adopted child. She talks about her...

A girl who's living abroad, alone for the first time, misses her cat.

Fidgeting fish, dancing on the train, big stages – we scroll through a phone gallery. How do you find your own identity between ever-changing...

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...

Johnny, 16, is a young driver of trot race who start doubting his vocation when he realizes Coquelicot, a young horse, is in danger because he didn't...

“You bet on someone in the beginning of the process and then you wait and see what life does with them.” This is how Czech director...

Yesterday, today, tomorrow. The days pass, and so does life. Watching the waves to come and go, Laurence compiles sharp fragments of her life. This...

An audiovisual self-portrait

In this portrait film, we meet Inger Christensen in her apartment in Østerbro, Copenhagen, where she tells of her life and work, and reads...

Three friends decide to isolate themselves in the mountain house of one of them to enjoy the last days of summer they have left. During these days in...

A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term...

A surprisingly intimate portrait of how the dream of running one’s own business can take on monstrous contours. Managed by the father of one of...

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

This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and...