Biography Movies

A person’s face and eyes preserve experience better than any document or recorded memoir. Particularly if a person has experienced as much as the well...

Filmmaker Peter Sasowsky examines the life and work of artist Joe Davis

Maggie Lay is the last surviving star of the theater of magazines in Chile, a theatrical genre that during the dictatorship, went from glory to oblivi...

Very few people have seen life from as many angles as Ray Jones. After a regular upbringing in a working-class area of Swansea, Ray veered off the rai...

A chronicle of how Goran has overcome the stereotypes and obstacles associated with his condition while inspiring the same society that often consider...

Greek documentary that includes texts written by Odysseas Elytis.

In 1972, Bahman Maghsoudlou made a short film about Iranian artist Ardeshir Mohasses. For 36 years, this remained the only film about this internation...

Uncommon Sense: The Life and Architecture of Laurie Baker" explores both the personal and the professional storyline of the architect. Baker's philoso...

In Taiwan, there was once a voice, connecting the north and south, hiding amongst the common people, bitterly hated by the ruling power that wished hi...

A butch lesbian tells the story of her queer body with the help of her mother and the Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui.

Viola Léger. The 86-year-old actress is famous for her performance of La Sagouine, a character of Antonine Maillet, whom she has lived for more than...

"The King's Dementia" tells the story of how a director called King deals with his rejected script 'Teluki' and his self conflict and metaphorical int...

In 1968 Roger Smith ate a peach during a break from work. When he was finished he took out a pocketknife and began carving the peach pit into a tiny p...

A look at the life of Ange Li, a former Chinese national volleyball coach and other seniors enjoying life in their golden years, demonstrating that on...

In this brief film, Alfred Guzzetti dissects a single image taken by his amateur-photographer father seventy-three years ago. The photograph, taken at...