Essay Film Filmes

A look into the career and impact of "classical liberal" talk show host Dave Rubin

"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he...

Freely adapted from the eponymous novel, Une vie pour deux is inspired by real events, the discovery by the novelist's husband (director Jean-Pierre...

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...

"A refined film essay about the loneliness, wisdom and humility of old women. The film, most valued by Jan Špáta, was awarded the Grand...

The cooking show is as old as television itself. But why do we like watching the making of a meal that most of us will never cook, let alone eat?...

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire...

While Trevor and Sam are smoking pot, Trevor’s mom comes home. When she finds out, Trevor reveals his father’s adulterous ways and...

A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.

A documentary based on the mutual experiences of a trio of directors, which portrays life in the border village of Bystré during the last year...

In this new video essay, filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe delves into the dread-inducing mood and tone of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s modern horror...

A visual essay on contemporary Kiwi architecture.

For just forty days, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins embarks on a peculiar journey in order to explore topics as the passion for cinema and certain...

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

Two decades on from Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while privileging some of...

A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for...

An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.

Jim, a slacker college student, decides to procrastinate on an essay worth 25% of his grade. Will he finish in time, or suffer the consequences?

An experimental film presenting new solutions to the park's paradoxes and the possibilities for using proven principles to optimize its potential to...

"Situation of the Street" - An experimental study about Czech life, focusing on Prague's National Street, its businesses and the varied people who...