Hans Hartung, la fureur de peindre (2019)

Viena, Austria, 1910. El joven pintor Egon Schiele es un artista en alza, provocador y libre, cuya obra, caracterizada por el erotismo, escandaliza tanto como fascina a los amantes del arte.

Kay Arnold es una cazafortunas que va de fiesta en fiesta con la intención de atrapar a un pretendiente rico. Jerry Strong es un joven procedente de una próspera familia que se esfuerza por tener éxito como artista. Lo que comienza como una relación de mutua conveniencia se convierte pronto en otra cosa.

In this unique, compelling film, those who knew him speak freely, some for the first time, to reveal the many mysteries of Francis Bacon.

París, 1964. El escultor y pintor suizo Alberto Giacometti, uno de los artistas más consumados y respetados de su generación, pide a su amigo, el escritor estadounidense James Lord, que pose para él con objeto de hacerle un retrato, asegurándole que no tardará más de dos o tres horas, una tarde como máximo.

Contratado para robar una pintura poco común de uno de los pintores más enigmáticos de todos los tiempos, un ambicioso marchante de arte se ve consumido por su propia codicia e inseguridad mientras la operación se sale de control.

Un extraño le hace una confesión a Francesca. Será entonces cuando vuelva al hogar familiar, en Italia: debe convencer a su madre para que se mude con ella a Nueva York. Y mientras la hija se enfrenta a la madre, los fantasmas de su juventud regresan, mezclándose el dolor, el recuerdo y la plenitud.

En 1891 Gauguin se exilia a Tahití. Quiere encontrar su pintura, libre, salvaje, lejos de los códigos morales, políticos y estéticos de la Europa civilizada. Se adentra en la selva, haciendo frente a la soledad, la pobreza, la enfermedad. Allí conoce a Tehura, que se convirtió en su esposa y protagonista de sus grandes pinturas.

La abusiva relación profesional entre Luis, un intransigente pintor, y Ágata, su traumatizada modelo, da un inesperado vuelco cuando ella encuentra un misterioso autorretrato de él…

When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?

Documentary telling the story of the women who fed the life and art of Pablo Picasso, many of whom would find themselves damaged forever by the experience of being his partner.

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century. Virtually overnight, he becomes famous in Paris thanks to the posters that he designs to announce actress Sarah Bernhardt’s plays. But at the height of his fame, Mucha decides to leave Paris to realize his lifetime project.

Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picasso’s granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, are the star witnesses in a documentary that reassesses the artist’s output in the years before his death in 1973. The story is of a creative spirit finding new impetus in response to both death’s approach and the censure of contemporaries and critics. Those who were members of Picasso’s private inner circle – gossip about his lifestyle also helped to fire him back up – put the later work forward as some of his frankest, wittiest and most profound.

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.

En Barcelona, Queralt, una pintora, intenta hablar por teléfono con su hija Gemma, también pintora, que vive y trabaja en un pequeño estudio en Atenas.

An account of the short life and the astonishing and provocative work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918), seen through the peculiar point of view and the critic voices of the women who defined the paramount milestones of his existence: Gerti, his sister; Wally, his main model and lover; and Edith, his wife. A brief story of love, hate, betrayal and misfortune.

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky claimed, or has been credited with, the 'creation' of abstract art. At the core of this film is a dramatic recreation of Kandinsky's account of returning to his studio one dark evening, and being astonished by an unknown masterpiece of abstract art leaning against the easel - a picture which turned out to be one of his own landscapes fallen on its side. 'Now I knew for certain that the object spoiled my pictures.' While this film's narration does indeed emphasize the notion of an inspired breakthrough to Abstraction, the picture it conveys in more purely filmic ways is a rich and complex one.

Blanca Luz Brum recorrió un camino insólito a través de Latinoamérica durante el siglo XX. Participó en los movimientos de vanguardia intelectuales, políticos y artísticos de Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Perú y México. Discípula del filósofo peruano José Carlos Mariátegui, amante y musa de David Alfaro Siqueiros, admirada por Perón y Pinochet. Blanca Luz se ha convertido en un símbolo de la emancipación femenina en el continente. Las versiones sobre su vida son variadas y disímiles, los testimonios de quienes la conocieron, llenos de contradicciones. No viajaré escondida transita este espacio de verdades, opiniones encontradas y misterios.

Dora Maar, a world-class photographer who began her artistic career in the French Surrealist scene of the 30s, lived in the shadow of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, her lover between 1935 and 1943, with whom she maintained a chaotic, even violent, relationship. Fortunately, she survived Picasso's abusive behavior and its sequels to find a new path, the best one, the one that is worth to be told, in spite of Picasso.

A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his sublime landscapes - he also painted machines, science, technology and industry. Turner's life spans the Industrial Revolution, he witnessed it as it unfolded and he painted it. In the process he created a whole new kind of art. The programme examines nine key Turner paintings and shows how we should re-think them in the light of the scientific and Industrial Revolution. Includes interviews with historian Simon Schama and artist Tracey Emin.

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the “primitive” in art is problematic?

Gaza, hoy. Issa, un pescador de sesenta años, está secretamente enamorado de Siham, una mujer que trabaja en el mercado con su hija Leila. Cuando descubre una antigua estatua fálica de Apolo en sus redes de pesca, Issa la esconde, sin saber qué hacer con este misterioso y poderoso tesoro. Sin embargo, en el fondo, siente que este descubrimiento cambiará su vida para siempre. Curiosamente, su confianza comienza a crecer y finalmente decide acercarse a Siham.

La película es un recorrido por la vida del pintor vanguardista polaco Wladyslaw Strzeminski y sobre su proceso creativo, que le llevó a convertirse en una de las figuras artísticas más importantes de Polonia durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Strzeminski se niega a comprometer su arte a las doctrinas del realismo social cuando en 1948, Stalin invade Polonia. Así, es perseguido, expulsado de la universidad y borrado de los muros de los museos. Con ayuda de sus alumnos, comienza a luchar contra los invasores convirtiéndose en un símbolo contra la tiranía intelectual.

An intimate journey into the inner life of an aspiring athlete and the female weightlifting community of Alexandria. For 4 years, Zebiba goes through victories and defeats, including major losses that shape her, as she finds her way from dust to gold.

Accompanying activist Nardjes with his camera, Karim Aïnouz documents the youth culture, which is confidently taking to the streets for a democratic future in Algeria, whose independence their parents and grandparents have already fought.

La familia Gabarre-Mendoza celebra el cumpleaños de su nieto cuando una inspección policial interrumpe el festejo. En la Cañada Real, un barrio de chabolas a las afueras de Madrid, surgen tensiones entre las autoridades y los vecinos, ya que los terrenos han sido vendidos y las familias son obligadas a abandonar las casas que ellos mismos han construido. Mientras, la madre, Agustina, pasa de ser una mujer muy alegre a vivir atormentada por el miedo; el padre, David, un chatarrero muy trabajador, intenta encontrar una solución, pero la burocracia del sistema les falla. Entretanto, los miembros más jóvenes de la familia -David hijo, la nuera y madre adolescente María y el joven Alejandro- luchan a su manera con sus vidas en la cuerda floja.

Janusz no es un hombre fácil de sorprender. Como juez de instrucción debe realizar precisas investigaciones, analizando la escena del crimen minuciosamente. A pesar de las situaciones extremas ante las que se encuentra, trabaja duro. Demasiado duro quizá. Sin embargo, cuando se enfrenta a su hija anoréxica Olga, todavía de luto por su madre, se siente impotente. Temiendo que pueda suicidarse, la interna en una clínica donde Ana, una psicóloga, lleva a cabo sus funciones. Años más tarde, Anna perderá a su bebé y se aislará junto a su perro en un edificio de pisos fuertemente aislados donde conjurará a los espíritus que se comunican con los vivos desde el más allá.

Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses of employees, hidden accidents ... Nour, little by little, no longer accepts the compromises of his father to preserve the image of the company. She decides to launch the alert.

On a very ordinary day, four ordinary people decide to set fire to a cinema packed with people.

The children of a mountain village near Mosul re-enact a century of Iraqi history, from the secret Sykes-Picot agreement in 1916 to the realm of terror imposed by the Islamic State in 2016. The children revisit their past to understand their present.

When Yoel hears about an imminent Iranian military attack on Tel Aviv, he knows what to do - escape with his family to a safe haven in Jerusalem. His son Assaf, who is a filmmaker and about to become a father himself, wants to give Yoel one last lead role in his movie by melting the fictional world into bittersweet reality.

At 35 years old, photographer JR is a street art worldwide star. Discovered after the Paris’ suburb riots of 2005 for his portraits of young people, his collages have adorned the galleries of the Louvre, the Pompidou Center, the Pantheon, the National Assembly ever since … From New York to Shanghai, and the Israeli-Palestinian wall to the US-Mexico border, he has stuck or exhibited giant photos on the walls of dozens of countries and associated hundreds of thousands of unknown artists with his projects. With the active collaboration of the artist himself, the documentary “# JR” tells the extraordinary adventure of this art activist whose spectacular interventions are all clear expressions of humanism, pacifism or remembrance relayed by his very strong involvement in social networks. For JR, art can help change the world.

In the 1980s Keith Haring blazed a trail through the galleries and nightclubs of downtown New York's art scene. Rebellious and ingenious, Haring chose to operate both inside and outside the art world. Inspired by the city's graffiti scene, he made New York's subways, tarpaulins and walls his canvas. This new feature documentary blends stunning archive and an edgy soundtrack, with tender and candid first-hand accounts of Haring. It tells the extraordinary story of an artist who lived and created with a boundless energy, throughout the social, cultural and political counter-revolution of the 1980s.

This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits. Help arrives for Rose in the form of Tadeusz, a former officer in the Polish Home Army who deserted after he saw his wife raped and murdered by Russian troops and is attempting to hide his identity.

Una mujer entra en una galería de Nueva York con un alijo de obras maestras desconocidas. Así comienza una historia de codicia, obstinación y una estafa de alto riesgo en el mundo del arte.

Python y Janet reciben como regalo de boda unas tierras en las que construir su hogar. Al preparar el suelo para la futura casa, el novio encuentra unos huesos humanos. Será el primero de una serie de hechos extraños que culminan con la irrupción de un turbulento espíritu en las nupcias.

A young couple employed by a pet crematorium finds fulfilment in respectfully removing cadavers. Their love blossoms in an environment where the boundaries between human and animal are fading. When they hit a stray dog, their relationship starts to derail.

Ghosts recorre las calles de Estambul en las horas previas a un apagón de la mano de tres mujeres: una joven aficionada al baile, una activista feminista y una mujer cuyo hijo está en la cárcel. En una ciudad en vías de gentrificación que apenas les deja sitio, el pulso y la urgencia del día termina por hacer confluir esas vidas cruzadas en una dudosa operación de tráfico de drogas. Las idas y venidas temporales, un ritmo incesante y el carisma de sus personajes completan el mosaico que compone este filme.

Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist. She crossed 11 countries involved in wars, hitchhiking with another Milanese artist, Silvia Moro, both wearing a wedding dress. This was a performance for peace, trust and hoping to prove that if you rely on others, you’ll receive good things only. After travelling many roads, the two artists decided to split for a while in Istanbul, planning to meet again in Byblos. Pippa left then, alone, and nobody heard from her again.

Tres historias de amor ambientadas en Croacia a lo largo de tres décadas. Las historias están conectadas por el hecho de que el amor entre un hombre croata y una mujer serbia está de algún modo prohibido ya se esté en 1991, en 2001 o en 2011.

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.