The Artist

Bosacki explores how a work of art comes into existence, examining the unconventional relations between image and text through elaborate classical animation.

Reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censor avant-garde artists, who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion and devious sexual behavior.

A documentary about an outstanding stage and costume designer and author of papal altars, who contributed to the success of Polish cinema in the 1960s and 1970s.

Set in a city both past and present, on a deserted street where only the distant sounds of life blow by. The Hunger Artist stands alone, locked in his cage. Once famous and adored by the crowds, he now performs alone.

The film is about Ivan Honchar, an ardent collector of Ukrainian antiquities, who turned his Kyiv apartment into a unique museum.

Zafar and his sister Yuldus live without a mother, and are raised by their grandmother, since their father is a pilot and is constantly on business trips. From one business trip, father brings Zafar as a gift a bear cub. Zafar begins to train a bear cub, dreaming of making him a circus artist, and starts his studies, so his father forces the boy to give the bear cub to a circus...

Ali Bellagha wants to be an artisan painter, but he is a painter of the feminine universe, he was inspired by Tunisian heritage to create an atmosphere of dream and fantasy; he tattooed his wife's back, he gave free rein to his imagination as a painter, but also to his pen to create "Le Séquoia bleu" which will be a one-of-a-kind album, the work of a painter from the Medina but also a creator through whom plastic art and writing make a unit.

Urban archeologist Scott Jordan unearths 300 years of New York City's garbage to create 21st century art work.

A serial killer’s sequence of events of high aesthetic understanding, in a black-humor-filled tale resulting from Mauro Mingardi’s outlandish talent.

Climbing the floors of the tower-workshop, the artist Igor Makarevich builds a path along the figurative tower - one of the most frequent and important motives of his work. The artist is followed by a character created by him, which appears in the film as a subjective view. Makarevich, through his works, speaks on such often taboo topics as death and madness, without leaving a subtle irony and lyrical outlook on things.

Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period reveals as much about America as a nation as it does about its art as a creative power-house. It’s a story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios, gardens and iconic locations throughout the United States, UK and France, this mesmerising film is a feast for the eyes. The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism features the sell-out exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920 that began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut.

In the years before 1995, young artists who pursued free creativity came from all over the country to Yuanmingyuan, in the western suburbs of Beijing. These people settled in the rental houses of the village farmers, and then ambitiously bought paint-stretched canvases to explore and create art. The biggest difficulty they face is to make up for the monthly rent to be paid to the landlord. Selling paintings is not their only means of survival; they would also rely on other crafts to maintain their lives. Their works were very different; they have a spirit of rebellion, and they do not conform to traditional aesthetics. This is what caused Sate officials to intervene. (Shot May–December 1995.)

A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters. But what he doesn't show to anyone, not even his wife, is the mark on his back that keeps getting bigger. This red mark worries him, upsets him, and seems to want to tell him something...

Inspired by Edvard Munch's "Hands"

The male genius disappears into another world of creativity and inspiration, apart from the world for days and anguishes to make consummate Art. But what happens to the artist when her body suddenly works for someone else, someone that is so much greater than Art? - Annie Karlsson

In this newly-restored documentary by French artist Armelle Brusq, we are offered a rare view into Leonard Cohen during the five years that he lived at Mount Baldy Zen Center. As the camera follows him through his daily routine as a Buddhist and disciple of the Zen teacher, Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Roshi, Cohen reminisces on his life and discusses his decision to live at the Zen Center. Cohen also allows us a glimpse of his archives and waxes eloquent over a meal at Canter’s deli in L.A. A glimpse of the artist as you’ve never seen him before, this documentary is a must for Cohen fans and features a soundtrack of some of his best songs.

A painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story.