Belle de nuit: Grisélidis Real, Self Portraits / 2017

This is the fabulous tale of Grisélidis Réal, prostitute and poet, woven together from images and archive material that conjure up her extraordinary life and world. Her writings chart her days spent in a Swiss brothel and her time as an activist in Paris, tracing her political ideals as this impassioned woman took the world by storm. It’s a pure joy to (re)discover her texts here, as if in an exquisitely revised edition.

Bike Portraits / 2016

A bicycle is a good tool to explore a city and exploring the bike culture is a good approach to understanding local society. What a bike portrait can tell us?

Portraits (Passing by) / 1966

A short experimental 35mm film showing beggars, hobos and other misfits.

Five Portraits / 2020

Portraits of the Future / 2022

When the pandemic first struck, Argentinian filmmaker Virna Molina was working on a documentary about the struggle for equal rights for female workers at the Buenos Aires subway. The project came to a standstill, but then Molina decided to go ahead with her film after all—however, it turned out very differently from the original plan.

Portraits / 1974

Short film by Narcisa Hirsch

Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey / 1969

A black-and-white travel journal, in which the themes of memories and their relationship to the past suddenly catch up and rush away from us. The film is based on a series of portraits of American artists, all of whom belong to a young and politicized generation, presented in static tableaus from their studios, films and home environments.

Portraits of Your Face / 2016

Your eyes. Big, round and black. Later on they were still stuck on me. Like buttons.

Her Portrait / 1974

Portret v sumerkakh / 20116.52 voti

Marina, an upper-crust social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself when she is raped by three policemen.

Portrait of Mondongo / 2024

The director has decided not to write a synopsis of this film.

Maia – Portrait with Hands / 2024

The Aromanians (Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group found mainly in today’s Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. For filmmaker Alexandra Gulea, this question of heritage is connected to the name she shares with her grandmother, who was born into a traditional Aromanian life, and is fluent only in an Aromanian language. The older Alexandra's father suffered a violent death in an uprising for his people's rights, which forced the family out of Greece and into a politically treacherous Balkan landscape deep in the throes of nationalist upheavals, until finally, they found a home in Romania.

A Portrait of Jianghu: Spirit Master / 2015

Human beings can be divided into two kinds: ordinary people who work for the living, and the undead who work for the dead. For the undead, their lives are dedicated to fulfilling the final wishes of ghosts who died with regrets. As for Baili Dengfeng, he has one and only one destiny in this world: to find his long-missing wife Ruyan. During his quest,...

Family Portrait / 2020

Two parents and their three teenagers, stuck in too perfect settings, chain the misunderstandings. It’s the story of a Korean family that ultimately has nothing, but then nothing, trivial.

Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait / 2007

A Korean writer travels to Vietnam to do research for her story about a cursed portrait of a Vietnamese girl named Muoi.

Zidane, un ritratto del XXI secolo / 20067.73 voti

Halfway between a sports documentary and an conceptual art installation, "Zidane" consists in a full-length soccer game (Real Madrid vs. Villareal, April 23, 2005) entirely filmed from the perspective of soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane.

Fascination: Portrait of a Lady / 1977

A well bred lady married to an older professor has wild daydreams of repressed desires involving bondage and humiliation. A submissive SM artist who was a student of the professor and his dominating girlfriend have just the answer for her problem.

Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet / 2016

Based on a true story, renowned Korean poet, Yun Dong-ju, is detained and abused by the Japanese for participating in the Korean Independence Movement.

A Portrait of Jianghu: Reincarnated Disciple / 2023

The story took place in two parallel universes named Yuan and Yi, where people shared the same life and death. Nian Yangxiao, came from the Yuan World to save his true love Kong Linghui, crossed the border to the Yi World in search of the killer who assassinated his love. In the Yi World, however, he and Kong Linghui were enemies. Kong Linghui tried...

Portraits of Freedom /

Ed Gerlock, Romeo Mariano, and DJ De Guzman shares their experience in documenting a range of events in the decades of media censorship.