Oh, Canada

Oh, Canada 2024

6.70

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

2024

Close-Up

Close-Up 1990

7.90

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

1990

Rotting in the Sun

Rotting in the Sun 2023

6.71

A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.

2023

Falling in Love Like in Movies

Falling in Love Like in Movies 2023

8.30

A film adaptation writer wants to secretly write his first original screenplay about his true story of falling in love with someone who has recently become a widow.

2023

Tape

Tape 2001

6.85

John, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support John on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.

2001

Being Maria

Being Maria 2024

6.40

A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell.

2024

In the Soup

In the Soup 1992

6.57

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

1992

Benjamin

Benjamin 2019

6.30

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film ’No Self' at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces him to a mesmeric French musician called Noah.

2019

Frogman

Frogman 2024

4.20

An amateur filmmaker, struggling to turn his passion into a career, returns with friends to Loveland, Ohio, the location of his first, notorious sighting of the Frogman, determined to obtain irrefutable proof that the cryptid legend exists.

2024

Once Upon a Star

Once Upon a Star 2023

6.80

Join the crew of a traveling pharma-cinema troupe as they go on the road to spread the joy of live-dubbed movies, all while overcoming difficulties, deceits, and reaching for their dreams.

2023

My First Film

My First Film 2024

7.31

A young filmmaker, Vita, revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking 15 years prior. Shooting a semi-autobiographical film starring her friend Dina, Vita’s eager but inexperienced approach causes the production to spiral into chaos, leading to significant disruptions and a near-fatal accident.

2024

How to Kill a Judge

How to Kill a Judge 1975

7.00

A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.

1975

The Beer Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking

The Beer Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking 1987

7.00

"My father says if people don't come and see this movie, we'll starve," says Tate Sullivan, introducing his father's "The Beer Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking." (Send canned goods to Auteur-Aid, care of Fred G. Sullivan, Saranac Lake, N.Y. 12983.) "The Guide" is the Sullivan family album, a grandiose home movie focused on the days and nights, life and times of "Adirondack" Fred. And you thought Molly Dodd was a schlemiel. Fred, the most self-obsessed creature since Garfield the Cat, produces, directs, writes, edits and stars in this offbeat, low-budget work. Fred's four children, Fred's tiresome wife Polly, Fred's business partners, psychiatrist, internist, teachers, neighbors, creditors, sommelier and so forth comment on the 42-year-old ne'er-do-well.

1987

Bad Director

Bad Director 2024

7.00

Director Gregor Samsa, washed-up and in his late fifties, is reviewing his life. Having wasted it as a cultural worker doesn't exactly add to his joy.

2024

The Wild Party

The Wild Party 1975

5.10

An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.

1975

When the Screaming Starts

When the Screaming Starts 2021

5.10

When Norman Graysmith is invited into the home of an aspiring serial killer, Aidan Mendle, he believes he has the subject for the documentary that will make his career.

2021

The Cemetery of Cinema

The Cemetery of Cinema 2023

6.60

Thierno Souleymane Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea. Charming and determined, he traces his country’s film heritage and history and reveals the importance of film archives.

2023

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus 2023

9.00

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!

2023

Es Para Un Videodiario

Es Para Un Videodiario 2024

8.00

Mike is a young student of cinema, who receive the task to make a videodiary for his fiction production class in the fifth semester of his career; with only a cellphone in hand begins to document his life day after day, without imagining that he will capture important and emotional moments that will remember forever.

2024

Use Me

Use Me 2019

5.90

An ambitious filmmaker discovers the darkest parts of himself while making a documentary about a beautiful woman who humiliates men for money.

2019

Hollywood

Hollywood 2020

7.33

In post-World War II Hollywood, an ambitious group of aspiring actors and filmmakers will do almost anything to make their showbiz dreams come true.

2020

Absolute Beginners

Absolute Beginners 2023

6.50

Two childhood best friends enjoying their final seaside summer as they prepare for film school meet an aspiring athlete who ignites unfamiliar desires.

2023

Dreaming Whilst Black

Dreaming Whilst Black 2023

3.50

Kwabena is an aspiring filmmaker trapped in his recruitment job. When he is given the opportunity he's always dreamed of, is he brave enough to chase it?

2023

Dead Talk Live

Dead Talk Live 2020

9.00

Film/TV Entertainment TV Talk Show Featuring Celebrity Guest Interviews.

2020

Curta Vídeo

Curta Vídeo 1970

1

Audiovisual productions from Espírito Santo, Brazil, followed by interview with the filmmaker.

1970