The Empty Screen (2017)

Un hombre, Alekséi, habla con su esposa sobre su situación actual y los motivos por los que se han distanciado. La película es una evocación continua de recuerdos y sentimientos que viajan en diferentes tiempos sin orden aparente: la relación con su madre, su infancia,...que se mezclan con material fílmico de noticiario sobre la Guerra civil española, la Segunda guerra mundial y el enfrentamiento entre la URSS y China por la isla Damanski. En la película suenan poemas escritos y recitados por Arseni Tarkovski, padre del director. Retrata un pasado que es el suyo, pero también el de un país y el del acontecer mundial.

A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs.

Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.

A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…

El enigma del culto a la personalidad se revela en el gran espectáculo del funeral de Stalin. La película se basa en imágenes de archivo únicas, filmadas en la URSS del 5 al 9 de marzo de 1953, cuando el país lamentó y enterró a Joseph Stalin.

El dinero es el combustible de la guerra. Como no lo tienen, los nazis lo inventan. Será el ministro de Economía y presidente del Reichsbank, Hjalmar Schacht, quien inventara los bonos MEFO.

Nikita, atormentado por la guerra civil, conoce a Luba, que es tan profundamente moral y solitaria como él. Con esta película Sokurov debuta como director basada en el libro "The River Potudan". Fue filmada en 1978 y prohibida por la censura soviética hasta que finalmente pudo estrenarse en 1987. Elogiada y defendida con entusiasmo por Andrei Tarkovsky, quien lo señala como su verdadero discípulo.

From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story is about a feminist struggle, albeit atypical, fought on and off the screen. This film sets out to retrace her remarkable journey within the Hollywood industry.

Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themselves dream about a better life while others were predicting the coming of soviet tanks upon the Champs-Élysées. If we gladly remember the turning point of austerity in 83, there were also the wage rises, the fifth week of paid leave, the abolition of death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality, or the advent of independent radio stations. Rare archives and accounts by those who were at the heart of this story give an overview of it and shed light on lesser-known aspects.

In France’s last presidential election, Marine Le Pen, a right-wing candidate, won over 30 per cent of the vote after an attempt to rebrand a party long associated with her controversial father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. See how three of her supporters faced similar obstacles in changing the narrative.

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses and background accounts by historians.

Fifty years ago, on Sunday, 2 March 1969, Concorde flew for the first time. Starting from this inaugural flight, the film goes back in time to the origin of the conception of Concorde.

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.

A video essay from Mark Rappaport about movies in movies, and how the screen watches us just as we watch it.

May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” supposedly coming upon the Champs-Élysées dressed in red, feared by some, did not march. Serge Moati takes a personal look at this episode, focusing on the relationship the president had with television, that he witnessed and played a role in.