Essay Film Movies

Inspired by a tumultuous period in the director's relationship with her mother, the film draws a poignant analogy between the phases of their...

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

In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A...

This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and...

In the idyllic world of Israeli kibbutzim everything has its own pace. There’s a time for work and for rest. There’s a time for fun too,...

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

Stream of consciousness awakened by the shots of an inauspicious summer.

Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political...

Recalling his childhood and relationship with his mother, a film student tries to understand the origin of his love for cinema and tragedies.

The Weight of Sight is a playful and very personal essay where director Truls Krane Meby, through a massive archive of his own material - anything...

Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.

The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and...

A story of diaspora. The film criticises the myth of Swiss neutrality, which violently masks structural, systemic, and social passivity.

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city inspires him to ponder about the language of cinema,...

A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.

This Pixar documentary short follows Sarah Vowell, who plays herself as the title character, on why she is a superhero in her own way. (This short...

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

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.

An essay-film about images and politicians.

A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.