A playful, free, and personal film in the form of a letter, a film interwoven with a thousand stories knit together with different textures, a book of images where a filmmaker shows the images and the stories he wants to share.

John Ford and John Wayne — a friendship and professional collaboration that spanned 50 years, changed each others’ lives, changed the movies, and in the process, changed the way America saw itself. It was a relationship that reflected all the elements and all the paradoxes of 20th century America — generosity of spirit, abuse of power, a sense of loyalty, and a restless nationalism that didn’t quite know what to do with itself.

A micro short that depicts the journey of a filmmaker.

Potrait of director Marilou Diaz-Abaya.

Derek, the simple-minded film student, wants to make his avant-garde masterpiece but he soon realises that something more nefarious is at foot.

A documentary about a high school dropout. Uses scenes and narrative from movies which he made to show how his attitude toward learning was changed from apathy to zeal by his movie-making experiences.

In the later part of his oeuvre, the famous Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu looks at the society of post-war Japan through family stories from the lower middle class. Arte has compiled a decalogy of 10 films from this period from the director's creative work. This short documentary film, created in this context, explains the film works using fragments of Ozu's notes, which he wrote between 1933 and 1963, elegant drawings and film clips. A fine insight into the themes and aesthetics of this moving cinema about intimacy and the passage of time and a fascinating journey into the moving final part of the Japanese master's work.

In two parts, an assembly of strange images attempt to build a world and tell a story.

Directed by Izabela Frank (as Izabela Muchlinski), Izabella Muchlinski (2005)

Director Robert Plinkerton is given the chance to create a feature length film, while a documentary crew is given a chance to follow him in his unusual and disastrous production of 'The Vision of Silence.

This documentary delves into the life and work of director Óscar Menéndez and his journey to study film at a time when there were no film schools or resources for this profession in Mexico. Menéndez is a prominent figure in Mexican independent documentary filmmaking, whose critical awareness has captured the most complex moments in our country's history through his camera.

Three filmmakers come together. But what do they have in common, anyway?

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and producer of fiction films in history.

“A filmmaker in La Codorniz” is the story of Enrique Herreros, a Madrid artist ahead of his time, a member of the “other generation of 27”, a pioneer of the Spanish film industry and one of the architects of turning Gran Vía into the show street

When Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira died in 2015 at the age of 106, he left behind him a body of work unique in cinema: Oliveira transforms the everyday into the sublime and deals with themes such as death, love, the rituals of life and the passing of time with elegance and subtlety.

Martin Scorsese and other contemporary filmmakers reveal the impact The Third Man had on their careers and why the film is still so relevant today.

Documentary tracing the filmmaker’s work in Poland, from his days as a student through The Double Life of Véronique.