A Face To Die

Theo, fourteen years old, dreams of being a manadier. He begins his apprenticeship guided by Mickaël, who works for him. During the summer, Theo will have to put his dream to the test and face the beast.

Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for generations of cinephiles. However, at the time, whilst such success meant recognition, it also weighed on the Hungarian actor as a constrictive burden. Using photographs and film extracts, Das doppelte Gesicht reconstructs the ups and downs of Lorre's career, taking into consideration the economic imperatives and workings of the film industry at the time. (Arnold Hohmann, 1984)

Abandoned as children, three friends with disabilities find fame on TV — leading them on an adventure to find the mother who left one of them behind.

Based on a short story by Seichi Matsumoto from 1956 and remake from the 1957 movie of the same name, the story is about an actor who has the opportunity to become a success but 9 years earlier, he had killed a woman with whom he was involved and there was an eyewitness to the murder.

Eva, a woman without a mouth, is stalked at night by the shadow of a monster who was responsible for stealing it. Annoyed by its presence, she decides to chase it and ventures into a new universe where the remnants of stolen faces are hidden. Eva will fight against the creature and try to regain her voice.

The idea of the primitive Gauls, living in the forest until they were civilized and assimilated into the Roman Empire, is now being seen as totally obsolete. Archaeologists and historians uncover Gaulish settlements to reveal the true face of the Gauls. A civilisation with high level of craftsmanship, developed cities, culture and religion.

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of the living conditions in the slums of Ordsall, Salford, which were then in the process of being demolished. Under the title 'The Changing face of Salford', the film was in two parts: 'Life in the slums' and 'Bloody slums'.

Eisenstein is celebrated either as the last Leonardo da Vinci of modernity or attacked as Faustus, Faustus who made a pact with the devil. Whichever is the case, neither friends nor foes are able to resist the powerful draw of Eisenstein's work. He was a person of complexity who was understood in very different ways, as a generous cosmopolitan and a stingy hermit, a cynic and yet a highly sensitive, vulnerable being. The film deals with a number of phases in Eisenstein's life, and tries to get away from the orthodox image of him by using new material to shed a different light on his biography.

An exploration of how we use the masks as our new faces in these trying times. It shows a perspective of what life is like during the pandemic through poetry, metaphor, movements, and the use of painted masks.

Ofelia is painter who struggles with her work as she lives in a stagnant relationship with her husband. The fact that he goes out everyday and she stays inside without being able to paint, only makes her feel more alienated. But one day she recieves a strange phone call, which will make her face the inner conflicts she’s trying to hide.

Hour-long documentary about distinctive-looking Spanish character actor Víctor Israel.

A movie by Zhang Ximing, based on the novella by Xiao Jianghong

A mysterious killer dons a succession of masks to do his dirty work.

An essayistic film exploring the legacies of cinema in New Order Indonesia and what it means to be inheritors of its filmic language.

The return of a young filmmaker to her home country, Cameroon, and her reunion with her mother.

With the intention to represent all points of view, this documentary tackles the eight years of the "Algerian war" or "War of Liberation" head-on through the accounts of those who experienced it. 25 witnesses, civilians and soldiers of both camps, deliver their perceptions of the conflict and help to explain the multiple facets of this war.

Documentary film about maverick movie director Jovan Jovanović and his views on cinema, before, during and after the "second" premiere of his movie "Young and healthy as a rose", on FEST 2006, after decades of being banned.

Artistic glimpses of people on the move in Stockholm.

Six big north faces of the Alps. The film consists of six films: "Die Wand der Wände" (Eger by Robert Jasper, Roger Schäli), "Das letzte Wort hat der Berg" (Matterhorn by Michael Lerjen, Jorge Ackermann), "Selig, wer in Träumen stirbt" (Grandes Jorasses by Felix Berg, Robert Steiner), "Licht und Schatten" (Piz badile by Hansjörg Auer), "Grenzen der Felskletterei" (Drei Zinnen by Alexander Huber) and "Der zerfallene Berg" (Petit Dru by Steve House, Andy Parkin).

Open Form - Game on an Actress's Face. A segment from a 1971 performance film by the Polish art collective KwieKulik, which uses the face of a famous actress as a canvas on which to experiment.