Portrait Movies

Mariem, 53, a former estate agent, has been living at a shelter for several months. Surrounded by women in far more precarious circumstances than...

Ulderica was a peculiar child, brave but at the same time afraid. Today she is an artist and retains the soul of the child she was. A...

"This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa (1973) through another stage of transformation – my own...

The film recounts the incredible research conducted by François Cartault, a pediatrician and geneticist on the island of Réunion....

Animation pioneer Evelyn Lambart recalls arriving at the NFB in the 1940s, her celebrated collaborations with Norman McLaren and her approach to her...

Sylvia Kristel – Paris is a portrait of Sylvia Kristel , best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic Emmanuelle, as well as...

It is the story of an encounter, that of two men, that of a coffin meeting its hearse, of death inviting itself into life or perhaps of life inviting...

Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touching portrait of virtuoso pianist Oscar...

Taisiya and Fadei are two teenagers who share a dream of becoming ballet dancers. Due to the war, they left their hometown of Kharkiv to pursue...

A girl who's living abroad, alone for the first time, misses her cat.

Documentary film maker Anders Wahlgren interviews the artist Peter Tillberg.

Footage from summer of 2018 that explores the passing of time regarding the little things in life.

Sigrid Koetse, award-winning actor and grande dame of Dutch theater, lived most of her life in the public eye and was always surrounded by a crowd of...

Ninja is famous around the world for her fierce ballroom performances, but she is not as well-known in her native country of French Guyana. But a...