Artistic Vision

The Value Of Things

January 2018 •Portuguese

Satire on everyday life. A reflection on the value and personal relationships between individuals. How to act in front of current reality?

OPIAH

June 2022 •English

Archibald, an astronaut painter is on a mission to paint his magnum opus, the solar system. Driven by obsession, he is faced with his final piece, which will guide him to his doom, The Sun.

Canvas

October 2020 •English

After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.

The Spring of Huang Jueping

March 2017 •Chinese

An artist looks back on his younger years at the Chongqing Art Academy in the turbulent 1990s. The selection and demands used to be killing. He was close friends with two boys and a girl. They fought with local youngsters and tried to give each other pep talks. Parallels with the childhood years of his parents, during the Cultural Revolution, also show violence and gun battles. Semi-autobiographical, with motion capture.

Things That Go Bump in the Night

August 2005 •English

A boy fears the monsters that go bump in the night and discovers reality is much more frightening than he could ever imagine.

The Painting

October 2011 •French

Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.

Loving Vincent

June 2017 •English

A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

Modelo siqueiros

April 2009 •Spanish

Short Black and White

Framed

July 2023 •Portuguese

An art student faces an art block while deadlines are getting closer. Through her frustration, she's going to dive into the psychological issues that threaten her work.

Journey with Tarsilinha

March 2022 •Portuguese

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.

Charlotte

September 2021 •French

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

Ivory Tower

January 1973 •French

Triplopia

February 2017 •English

Visual disturbances. Corrective surgery. Unsettling results.

Andrei Rublev

December 1966 •Russian

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

Nightwatching

September 2007 •English

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.

Meet Me in Paris

February 2023 •English

Three single friends travel to Paris for ten days for the journey of a lifetime and in search of true love. From 'meet cutes' at the Luxembourg Gardens, to strolls down the tree-lined Champs-Élysées, will first dates lead to happily ever after or heartbreak?

Girl with a Pearl Earring

December 2003 •English

This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

Manhattan Undying

May 2016 •English

A vampire seeks out an artist to paint her a portrait so that she can see her image for the first time.

Svengali

September 1954 •English

A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.

Conversations with My Gardener

June 2007 •French

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.