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The Real Beauty and the Beast

June 2013 •English

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform one man into a national sensation and iconic fairy-tale character. His name: Petrus Gonsalvus, more commonly known today as the hairy hero of Beauty and the Beast.

The Rise of the Synths

November 2019 •English

A documentary about the Synthwave scene, nostalgia and the universe of creating sounds. A love letter to human fascination and the collective memories of a universe, that never existed.

A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians

January 2024 •English

Alongside a passionate cast and crew, follow Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri as they step into worlds fit for gods, battle unforgettable creatures, and perform legendary stunts.

The Moroccan Labyrinth

November 2007 •Spanish

Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau

November 2002 •Spanish

Gonzalo Suárez: Sam Peckinpah, director salvaje (TV)

May 2011 •Spanish

Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

March 1999 •French

Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'

December 2001 •English

The making of Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's classic work.

Sexo en el plató

April 2007 •Spanish

How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk about the most intimate side of acting, about the tricks and work methods when narrating exposed sex. In Spain the general rule is that there are no rules. Each film, each interpreter, faces it in very different ways.

Històries de Bruguera

April 2012 •Spanish

The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s. How the characters created by great writers and pencilers became Spanish archetypes and how their strips persist nowadays as a portrait of Spain and its people. The daily life of the creators and the founding family, the Brugueras. The world in which hundreds of vivid colorful paper beings lived and still live, in the memory of millions, in the smile of everyone.

Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

June 2017 •French

A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for puritanical America and the moguls of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ava Gardner never stopped loving those she loved. She turned women green and made men sweat. And rejected with all her force the bulwark of normality.

Society of the Snow: Who Were We on the Mountain?

January 2024 •Spanish

An in-depth look at the creative process behind "Society of the Snow," featuring cast, crew, director J.A. Bayona and even real-life survivors.

Falling for Scratte | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

October 2009 •English

A behind the scenes video about Scrat and Scratte detailing how Scrat and Scratte was made, and about other possible endings to Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

Two Headed Cow

April 2006 •English

Documentary - Eighteen years in the making, two-headed cow started off as a black and white film that followed Dexter Romweber and his drummer Crow on a rock and roll tour along the same route as General Sherman. The film was not finished due to many circumstances, but the filmmakers were able to resume the film seventeen years later. After major TV appearances, a stint on a major label, bouts of depression and drug addiction, the film took on a different tone and poignancy. - Neko Case, Exene Cervenka, LaResh Crash

Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim

October 2012 •French

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo

October 2012 •French

Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit

December 1965 •French

Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern

May 1988 •English

The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes behind the scenes "home movies" from Bergman's personal archive, interviews with Bergman recorded over his 40 years in the film industry and passages from his autobiography read by Max von Sydow and Bergman himself.

Life in Four Elements

March 2017 •Finnish

A journey into four classical elements through the four main characters of the film. The main characters in the movie represent each of their own elements.

En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel

June 2013 •French

Denis Lavant reads long passages from Luis Buñuel's semi-autobiographical "My Last Sigh". From this text, without film excerpts, Laurence Garret travels in the footsteps of Buñuel, from Calanda to Zaragoza, Madrid to Toledo, Spain to Mexico.