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Citizen B

January 2025 •French

Documentary on Ciby 2000, the French film production company founded by Francis Bouygues in 1990.

Satan's Blood: recuerdos de «Escalofrío»

October 2016 •Spanish

The story of the shooting of Satan's Blood (Escalofrío), a film directed by Carlos Puerto in 1978.

La quemada

October 2022 •Spanish

12 years later, a failed school short film is resignified to share the multiple experiences that exist in the creation of a film.

Comrades in Dreams

October 2006 •German

Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional love for their cinemas, somewhere at the end of the world. Comrades in Dreams brings together six cinema makers from North Korea, America, India and Africa and follows their efforts to make their audiences dream every night.

A Night of Knowing Nothing

April 2022 •Bengali

L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away.

Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer

June 2006 •Italian

Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly focusing on the many edits and cut scenes that were made before the film's release.

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

June 1896 •French

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

Souvenirs d'Othello

January 1995 •French

Actress Suzanne Cloutier is interviewed about "Othello", Orson Welles' masterpiece, in which she played Desdemona.

Il coraggio del leone

June 2021 •Italian

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

May 2001 •English

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

The Lost Body of Alibech

January 2005 •Italian

Documentary about a lost sequence from Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1971 film "The Decameron".

Kieslowski: Dialogue

January 1991 •Polish

Documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieślowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the set of The Double Life of Véronique

The Movie That Wouldn't Die! – The 'Carnival of Souls' Story

January 1998 •English

Documentary about the making of the 1962 cult film "Carnival of Souls".

La vie au temps de Cro-Magnon

October 2019 •French

The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga

April 2019 •Spanish

Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film that tells its story is the first of kaiju eiga, the giant monster movies.

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

November 1991 •English

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer

July 1990 •English

Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges.

The Forbidden Reel

March 2020 •English

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art and creation; but there is another tale to be told, the forgotten account of a diverse and progressive country, seen through the lens of innovative filmmakers, a story that survives thanks to a few brave Afghans, a small but very passionate group that secretly fought to save a huge film archive that was constantly menaced by war and religious fanaticism.

Inventory

January 2008 •French

A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas' film Summer Hours, and its approach to art.

Emmanuelle: Queen of French Erotic Cinema

June 2021 •French

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema attendance: the story of the creation of a sensual epic that marked a turning point in the struggle for sexual emancipation.