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Filmed during the shooting of « THE WIND WILL CARRY US » (Special Jury prize, Venice 1999), this documentary shows us for the first time Abbas Kiarostami at work and his subtle approach to filmmaking.

An engaging overview of its subject’s career, lovingly made by Irish documentarian Pat Collins in concert with film critic Fergus Daly

Uganda, March 2000. At the request of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant Seilollah Samadian arrive in Kampala. For ten days, their DV cameras capture and caress the faces of thousand children, all orphans, whose parents have died of AIDS. It records tears and …

« Chaplin has an extraordinary way of telling stories. The problem today is that people have forgotten how to tell a story. » Abbas Kiarostami

An insight into Chabrol’s personality through his films. His personality lends his film a unique easily identifiable flavour.

Based on a series of interviews with Damian Pettigrew on the theme of the artist and creation a year before Fellini’s death – « the longest and most detailed conversation ever recorded on my personal vision » according to Fellini – this entertaining, unique portrait explores the mythical director’s world. From Federico’s …

The film explores the way the mafia took control of Haollywood in the 30′s, and how the studios found themselves the hostages of gangsters.

What first distinguishes Isabelle Huppert is her unwavering energy.What surprises, puzzles or fascinates is her courage, her daring ideas and her almost childish stubborness to be an actress. But the secret stems from pleasure, enjoyment felt by an actress who likes the moment when light which arises from her acting, …

A journey into John Woo’s world, from the Los Angeles Chinese Supermarket he used to go, to his method and directing that influenced many other filmmakers.

Abbas Kiarostami comments a few scenes of THE WIND WILL CARRY US.

As he watches a few extracts, Kieslowski explains, frame by frame, the way BLUE, RED and WHITE has been made, shot and edited

On the tracks of the earlier works of Krzysztof Kieslowski, from The Scar to The Double Life of Veronique

Focused on the connection between life and cinema, Louis Malle’s films can be seen as an autobiography in the making.

These two documentaries are travel books, based on the visual splendour and strenth of the images. With these films, Cartier-Bresson tried to capture the late 60′s USA, during the Vietnam War.

An investigation about the actors of Robert Bresson’s film PICKPOCKET (1959), whose lives changed by the making of the film.

It was a world in which two peoples were mortal enemies: the Pyross and the Hydross.

It was a world in which there were only two seasons: one of fire and one of water.

For the Pyross, who worshipped and depended on the sun, water spelled death and desolation.

When …

A composition produced uniquely on the basis of HCB’s most famous pictures, accompagnied by Diego Masson’s original music score.