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André Masson, specialist in modern art, receives a letter according to which a painting by Egon Schiele had been discovered in Mulhouse. He finds that the work has been missing since 1939. This discovery puts his career in danger.

Ke Huan is a talented and dreamy painter, but in this "era of hype by all", he became a joke in Tangzhuang, a painter village, because he was busy painting. Just when he couldn't pay the rent, was bullied by his peers, and his girlfriend was stolen by his rival, an alien changed his fate! With the help of "it"'s superpowers, the protagonist Ke Huan drove a luxury car, lived in a luxury house, held his dream exhibition, became a hot painter, and reached the peak of his life! The arrival of "it" also caused trouble everywhere, shocked the world, and caused panic among the people. The police, opponents, and even aliens came to the door one after another.

When a gallery of paintings becomes emptied of its spectators, the curtains raise within the paintings.

Marcos is a 65 years old artist. He works in a gas station, depressed and annoyed with his life because he has never been able to exhibit his paintings. One day, Luis a young thief who's 13 years old, enters to his house thinking it was empty. Luis is the only one who knows about Marcos art. Suddenly, a kind of friendship starts between Luis and Marcos. And both begin to find new answers about life and art.

This is a tale of forged paintings. Nothing could be more ordinary. Only the action takes place in Iceland, a country with a population of 300.000, where everybody is cousin with everybody else and has been for generations. The minor incident suddenly becomes a major affair.

Documentary film about glassmaker Palo Macho (*1965).

A surreal short film that explores the search for meaning and self-expression in a world that has lost its own. Through an eccentric character and an absurd universe, the story offers a reflection on how creativity can be corrupted by ambition, and how the desire to leave a mark can ultimately destroy what is most essential: our origins, our intimacy, our humanity. Beneath its layer of extravagance, it is a satire that questions the cost of innovation when it becomes disconnected from its ethical and emotional roots.

Two filmmakers document three years in the life of contemporary Greek painter Stefanos Rokos, as he is working on the making of his exhibition “Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ No More Shall We Part: 14 paintings 17 years later.” His daily routines, his artistic process, some spontaneous inspirations, and his creative dialogue with legendary musician Nick Cave.

The Chinese village of Dafen was once a place where thousands of professional painters made reproductions of Western masterpieces. At the government’s instigation, these artists now paint their own original works. Their paintings hang all over China, in a wide variety of settings, from hospitals to museums, and from offices and commercial buildings to outdoor public locations.

Wild boar hunting at night. A teenage son is out with his father. Rituals, darkness and a reckoning which creeps and seeps out from the pitch-black night of the forest in this intense and nerve-wracking gem.

Filmmaker Maarten Koopman‘s animated series of famous paintings, imagined piece by piece from some new perspectives.

Hu County, in suburban Xi’an, is famous for its peasant paintings, produced in 1958 during the Great Leap Forward. It became particularly famous during the Cultural Revolution, when these works were hailed as model paintings. In 2005, the directors visited the county and interviewed both the painters and their teachers. Comparing different political languages and artistic imaginings across the ages, the film draws on diverse sources: old documentary film clips, new propaganda paintings, Beijing Opera in the local “Qin” accent, and traces of the old amongst the new. All these elements are engaged to help us better understand the painters and the phenomenon of propaganda paintings

After losing her grandfather when she was less than a year old, a now very conflicted teen must learn how to navigate her grief even though she absolutely does not want to

A little girl with a vivid imagination is taken to a gallery where she fantasizes stories around famous paintings.

The story of two brothers with a sick mother and a reality that leads the audience through paths of secrets and lies, puts the viewer in the role of participatory observer, each drawing its own conclusions.

Eva is a single freelance painter. She is in love with a married man. She pretends that she never waits for him, and if he suddenly turns up she acts as if she is surprised. In reality the unresolved relationship is making her so depressed that her work is the only thing that is saving her. In an attempt to break her addiction she enters into a relationship with another man. But the balance she is looking for eludes her, as now she has to choose between the two. But Eva can't: she wants to have an entire life, not part of one. In the form of a sort of filmic diary, Eva now attempts to sort out the puzzle, which is her life.

The Amazon rainforest of Guyana, not far from the mythical Tumuc Humac mountains, remains mysterious. The ancients evoke paintings left on the rock, but the way to get there seems forgotten. In 1995, François Susky, who piloted his Cessna 185, flew over the Mamilihpan. Fascinated by this inselbergh, he decided to set up with three Amerindians from Antecume Pata the first expedition in this “forbidden” zone by prefectural decree.

Lech Majewski opens up the world of Jacek Malczewski, a symbolist painter from the turn of the twentieth century. In a wordless visual dialogue, the director recreates Poland’s history from the World War I to the present day.

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A poetic documentary study representing the life, paintings, and music of M. K. Čiurlionis.

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.

"The Man We Want to Hang" is a 12-minute short, consisting of Anger filming borrowed paintings done by legendary and controversial occultist Aleister Crowley.

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.

A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make sure that you are home before the curfew.

A miniseries about Caravaggio's life.

Tarsilinha sets off on a journey to save her mother’s memory. The only way to do this is to find her mom's stolen keepsakes and overcome her own fears.

Short interview with Clive Barker about Midnight Meat Train, his artistic process, and his paintings. Includes a tour of his painting studio.

To get his father out of prison, a master forger assembles a diverse team of specialists to steal a priceless painting.

‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by Hector Berlioz.

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The film, inspired by Goya’s paintings – mostly his darker works – and made in the same way as 2017’s Loving Vincent.

In the year before he retires, Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. Together with Weber, a number of enthusiasts and experts go in search of what truly makes a Vermeer a Vermeer.

An inspiring 75min DIY documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. It was all filmed on the heat of live action of the first NOVA Contemporary Culture Festival, July and August 2010 in São Paulo, Brazil.

Trapped in their frames and monitored by a menacing curator, two paintings long to escape from the art gallery's white walls. As the paintings lock eyes across the room, an unspoken connection between them sets the stage for revolution. With a distinctive blend of live-action and animation, this short film by Evan Bode employs surreal metaphor to explore ideas about power, resistance, queer identity, visibility, and liberation from constructed borders.

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the economic, social and psychological conditions of past and current artists.

A short documentary on how people view art and its value in today's society.

Paintings, performances, experiments, electronic music sounding in the spaces of two old houses in a small Italian town, heated conversations about contemporary art, touching meetings with the closest people and places in Bulgaria after 50 years of separation. "Flying with Fins" is a film about the constant search for meaning in art and life. Alzek Misheff, artist - rebel and experimenter, leads us in this philosophical and aesthetic journey through time, space and ideas.

Schwartz reordered and combined angular contours, broken planes, and distorted proportions in her own pictorial structures in an homage to Picasso's style.

Shortly after World War II, over 1,000 paintings were found in a cellar in southern France. The paintings were created by a young Jewish woman named Charlotte Salomon. She painted her turbulent life story in a unique creation called: ‘Life? Or Theater? – A Tri-Colored Operetta.’ Death and the Maiden unravels the story behind her creation.

A vampire film with "altitude". Winner of 9 awards in 2013 from the Beverly Hills Outlook! The year is 1805, the city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz lives in fear of an invasion from the indigenous population, and - within its walls - a rebellion is brewing against the Spanish crown. If this were not enough, a beautiful vampire is terrorizing the population, leaving a bloodbath in her wake. A young Irish spy, on a mission for the rebels, is found near the body of a victim. She is captured, accused of the murders, publicly flogged and sentenced to die by garrote.

Based on the classic fairytale "La Barbe Bleue" (Bluebeard, 1697) by Charles Perrault, author of Cinderella, which tells the story of a wealthy and feared aristocrat with a blue beard who has the bad habit of killing his wives.

The story of an obsessive relationship between a young French woman and an older Bolivian man. Their unusual romance, like the country in which they live, is transforming, sometimes violent and difficult to understand.

A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.

Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.

A former special ops trainer becomes a high school history teacher. At his new school he fights off a drug operation that goes further than he expected.

The sequel to the cult classic August Underground is a character study in the sick, an amoral putrid fantasy. The found footage contained in August Underground’s MORDUM documents extreme deviant sexuality, torture and murder, while unfolding a classic tale of a man and woman in love. However, the woman cannot give up her other lover, who also happens to be her younger brother. August Underground’s MORDUM will vomit all over you and leave you for dead!

In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.

In the heat of the summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end-of-term version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

An enigmatic stranger, a couple who no longer exist, danger in the shadows and the key to it all - The new Ford Edge. Mads Mikkelsen and screen legend Barbara Steele star alongside the new Ford Edge in LE FANTÔME.

Two soldiers are thrown together and make their way through German-occupied Dunkirk. After several agonising close calls they make it within sight of safety. A split second decision gives only one of them a chance at survival.

After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

After the passing away of their parents, Ravi Anand, the eldest of seven brothers, takes it upon himself to raise them - albeit a little wild and kinda animal-like. The brothers all sport long beards, hate taking showers/baths, and above all hate Ravi bossing them around. rest of the story is about how a look a like Ravi comes in to there life

A head injury causes a woman to regress to childhood. Lost and confused, she is eventually befriended by a school teacher. A Hindi remake of the 1982 film "Moondram Pirai" by the same team.

Desperate for a cook, the disgruntled Sharmas are relieved when a multi-talented man, Raghu, takes up the job. However, when all seems well, the family jewels disappear and so does Raghu.

Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have the freedom to express their love away from her repressive influence. However, on what should be the happiest of days, Keiji is drowned and Sayo must, by custom, return to live with her cruel and selfish mother-in-law.

A young girl finds comfort in play and slowly reconnects with her distant father after her mother walks out on the family.

Dueling cat-and-mouse team Tom and Jerry hit the high seas on a hunt for buried treasure in this pirate adventure. The tale begins when crew member Tom sets sail with an infamous pirate and finds a treasure map along with stowaway Jerry. The furry swashbucklers race to a deserted island where X marks the spot, but along with battling each other, they must outwit ruthless buccaneers, angry monkeys and a giant octopus to strike it rich.

A sting operation by the FBI on illegal gun trafficking leads to the arrest of arms dealing kingpin Charles Rainer. On December 31, 1984 he is about to be sentenced for his crimes in Haywood, Arizona. Rainer's female assassins have other plans for local law enforcement and due process when they siege the courthouse in an attempt to break him out on the night of his sentencing. During a courtroom shoot-out Rainer is taken hostage by a group of surviving security guards. A vicious cat and mouse game of survival erupts between the security guards and assassins as they try to rescue their leader. A night of justice turns into a night of death as the action rings like thunder.

An intelligent, devout young woman announces to her family that she's going to abandon academics and become a nun, but in so doing, she finds herself in opposition to her family's wishes and questioning her own spiritual convictions.

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process of making shit because it looks cool, she's met with comradery, debauchery, and people's brains interrupting art whatever way they want to-ery.

Homeless veterans find family as they rent rooms from an eighteen-year-old girl struggling to support her thirteen-year-old brother while discovering her voice in Americana music.

A feckless loner receives cryptic TV broadcasts from a mysterious deity whose teachings inspire a strange and radical holy awakening.

A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

When an ancient evil descends on Rookery Farm, a newlywed couple find out what "til death do us part" really means when they are visited by the Old Man of the Rooks.

Millicent "Millie" McCrory, also known as “The Paint Wizzard” around Austin, TX, is an accomplished housepainter who works in a miniskirt, crop top and signature cat ear headband. Born and raised as "Michael" in a conservative Morman household, she never felt that she could be her true self. A few years ago, at the age of 58, she gained the courage to change her name to Millie and adopt female pronouns. While she identifies as transgender, Millie still struggles with her own ideas of gender and social norms. The film follows Millie in her daily life, as she wrestles with questions of identity and acceptance, painting a hopeful, poignant and honest portrait.