14 Paintings

In carefully framed and precisely timed shots, fourteen paintings hang still, surrounded by random human moments. The surprising relationships that develop between each painting and the people around it reveal a slice of everyday life in today’s China.

A Photographic Memory

When she plays the audio reels she uncovered in the archive, she hears the voice of her mother, journalist and photographer Sheila Turner Seed, for the first time. Her next step is to piece together a portrait of the woman who has been absent from her life.

Alreadymade

Duchamp's iconic "Fountain" changed the face of art, but could it be that the story behind the artwork that brought "the real thing" to the museum is itself a fabrication?

Anselm

Wim Wenders’ film—a study of Anselm Kiefer’s monumental artworks and a dialogue between two phenomenal artists—achieves what only great art can: It extends the limits of the viewers' consciousness.

Anselm (3D)

Wim Wenders’ film—a 3D study of Anselm Kiefer’s monumental artworks and a dialogue between two phenomenal artists—achieves what only great art can: It extends the limits of the viewers' consciousness.

Baldiga

At the age of 19, Jürgen Baldiga chose art and fucking as his way of life. He fell in love with the camera and became the chronicler of late-1980s Berlin’s queer scene, in all its messy glory, as his body slowly crumbled from within.

Bubblegum Memory

Dalia Friedland in her final performance struggles with the remnants of her fading memory, oscillating between the stage and the starkness of reality, where she takes on the leading role.

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

They called her a witch, a murderer, the curse of the Rolling Stones—but they never knew who Anita Pallenberg truly was. This is a redeeming portrait of a charismatic, rebellious, addicted, and addicting Sixties persona—a woman who sank into the depths of darkness and rose back up again and again.

Diary of an Illness

The film traces Jacqueline Kahanoff's "Diary of an Illness," portraying her confrontation with cancer: her fears, isolation, and the peculiar beauty that emerges amidst the agony.

E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

When architect Eileen Gray decided to design a seaside refuge for herself, she did not set out to build a masterpiece. This brilliant and visually striking reenactment of the building’s turbulent history tells a story about art, passion, and power struggles.

Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn

A cinematic bio-symphony dedicated to Fanny Mendelssohn, a musical prodigy sidelined by social constraints and her famous composer brother—a woman with completely modern standards who just happened to live 200 years ago.

Francesca

Dancer Francesca Mann killed an SS officer at the entrance to the gas chambers in Auschwitz. This act of heroism was not appreciated. Rumors spread that Francesca collaborated with the Gestapo. The film revives her character and joins the myth that is gradually being built about her.

Frida

This biographical doc tells the story of Frida Kahlo—artist, lover, icon—in her own words and with stunning animations that breathe new life into the spirit of freedom that permeated her paintings and her life.

High & Low: John Galliano

Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald's (Whitney) chronicles the rise and fall of superstar fashion designer John Galliano, from his days as the wunderkind of the fashion scene, to his dizzying success, and the anti-Semitic tirade that killed his career.

If This World Were A Sea: Natan Yonatan

The remarkable life of one of Israel's prominent poets, Natan Yonatan, who was born a century ago and died twenty years ago. A portrait of a man whose own tragedy became the soundtrack of the Land of Israel.

Look, Soon You Won't See Anything

At 95 years old, Baruch keeps showing up at his architect's office every morning, even as his clarity and memories are slipping away. When will his wife, Gila, have to put an end to his independence?

Nesher

When Nesher was 24 years old, he directed one of the most successful and influential films in Israeli film history called The Troupe. 50 years later and 20 movies under his belt, this time Nesher is the one in front of the camera.

Obsessed With Light

A colorful kaleidoscope of Loïe Fuller—an original and spectacular stage artist, a pioneer of performance art, a woman who defined the spirit of modernity and acted on instinct against convention, and whose influence is still felt today, from Kentridge to Taylor Swift.

Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird

The frenetic video diaries of the man who became The Mars Volta’s guitarist produce an intimate, chaotic, and thrilling doc about two outsiders who put their souls into their hardcore music and their friendship.

Orkestra

In 1973, musicians who had immigrated to Israel from chilly Eastern European countries found themselves playing in an orchestra in the desert city of Be’er Sheva. The film reveals their inevitable friction with the local culture to the tune of the orchestra’s enchanting performances.

Ricardo and Painting

Painter Ricardo Cavallo opens the door to his atelier and a window into his creative process, inviting the viewers on an immersive journey through the history of painting and his countless sources of artistic inspiration.

The Stones & Brian Jones

Bio-doc master Nick Broomfield delves into the story of Brian Jones, founder of the Rolling Stones, a musical genius, sex symbol, and lost soul who left this world at the age of 27, forever young.

Viva Varda!

The missing pieces in the biography of Agnès Varda, one of the most prominent filmmakers in history, are inevitably woven into the acclaimed and rebellious cinematic work of a woman who preached and practiced humor as intellect, playfulness as strategy, and feminism as a way of life.

Wake Up, Grandson - Letters to my Rebellious Rabbi

Director Renen Schorr follows his grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Heller, war hero of 1948 War in Safed. A duel: faith vs. film. Safed vs. Tel- Aviv. The grandson is asked to leave film-making for religion, and carry on Rabbi’s legacy.

Wandering Letter

A multilingual, intellectually stimulating yet deeply personal exploration of the consonant “R,” its varied pronunciations, and how they reflect where we come from—or where we wish to belong.