Splatterfest Exhumed

Discovering Christmas Films

December 2018 •English

Gathering for a Christmas lunch, the film critics and writers of Discovering Film discuss the merits of 20 films from Bill Murray's star turn in Scrooged, the James Stewart classic It's a Wonderful Life, Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander, to Bruce Willis' memorable Die Hard.

50 minutos e 23 segundos com Júlio Bressane

January 2000 •Portuguese

The Belgian Road to Cannes

May 2017 •French

A cheerful road movie all about Belgian films at Cannes over the past 70 years. Filmmakers from the past converse with those from the present to paint the portrait of a cinema that is both diverse and free. An account of Belgium’s participation in the greatest film festival in the world.

Takashi Miike : The V-Emperor

January 2024 •French

Takashi Miike is a cinema monster. Let's return to his filmography, his main themes, the framework of his monumental universe.

Ergui as Mãos aos Céus e Não Havia Mais Luz

July 2024 •Portuguese

Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim

October 2024 •Persian

The love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, including the kidnapping of a director.

Seventh Art is Unique

February 2025 •Portuguese

Seventh art is unique addresses people's relationship with a movie theater or film. What feelings do they feel? What changes in you when you go to the movies? It also addresses Jair Bolsonaro's harsh criticism of culture and cinema in Brazil.

Le Modernissimo de Bologne

December 2022 •Italian

In a Silent Way

March 2020 •French

A film crew crisscrosses England trying to unravel the mystery surrounding a record released 30 years earlier, 'Spirit of Eden', that defined the passage from light to shadow of its makers, the band Talk Talk and its lead singer Mark Hollis. From overwhelming obstacles to unpredictable encounters, their journey soon turns into an organic quest. With silence as a horizon line. And punk as a philosophy, thinking that music is accessible to all and that the human spirit is above the technique.

Eye Contact

August 2024 •English

Pete, a janitor at Super Fun Cinemas, clocks into work and begins his usual routine, but is rudely interrupted by the invasion of an otherworldly threat taking control of the theater. For the first time in a long time, today is quite different from yesterday.

Schauburg Mon Amour

May 2024 •German

Cannes Uncut

June 2023 •English

Looks at the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities that have been part of the Cannes Film Festival over eight decades, as well as looking to the future.

Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist

March 2024 •English

A intimate reflection at the making of and cultural phenomenon of one of the most popular and profitable horror films ever made, The Exorcist (1973).

Road to Portmagee

May 2025 •English

Six friends document their trip from Cork to Portmagee, County Kerry for the May the 4th Sci-fi film festival where one of their short films is screening.

Rojo Sangre: 10 años a puro género

November 2009 •Spanish

Argentinean filmmakers talk about the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival and the history of genre cinema in Argentina.

Jacques Rozier: From One Wave to Another

May 2024 •French

Jacques Rozier or the fierce, independent itinerary of a filmmaker in perpetual disarray, admired by his peers and pampered by the critics.

New York at the Movies

July 2002 •English

Meryl Streep conducts us to a trip to New York City as presented in many films during the 20th Century, and how its cultural importance and impact are important to viewers. With a comprehensive gathering of clips from films between 1910's and 1990's, the documentary presents the mandatory classic films that presented the city and its multiple cultural variations, situations and the great stories filmed there. Actors and directors also discuss how they view the city in reality and also through the pictures.

Critic

January 2008 •Portuguese

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Room 999

October 2023 •French

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”

Caro Nanni

Invalid date •Spanish

What if the only way to face life was to escape into cinema? Thirty years after Caro Diario, filmmaker Pablo Maqueda leaves Madrid on a Vespa, chasing the sun of Moretti’s Italy. With eight friends by his side, he embarks on a journey where laughter, memory, and film intertwine. As reels roll and roads unfold, reality gently fades – and what begins as a tribute becomes a meditation on how cinema doesn’t just reftect life, but transforms it.