Les plus grands peintres du monde : Henri Matisse

Caravage - Dans la splendeur des ombres(fr)

Marc Chagall – Between Two Worlds(fr)

Frans Hals - Maler des Lachens(de)

Vera Klement: Blunt Edge(en)

As her 80th birthday is approaching, Vera Klement, an oil painter in Chicago, adamantly starts yet another new figure painting: a portrait of an artist under oppression, an homage to Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovitch.

Livet är kort, konsten lång – filmen om Åke Göransson(sv)

James Ensor: Demons Teasing Me(en)

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from.

Patrícia Secco Mostra Suas Caras(pt)

Le Messager(fr)

Raphael: The Lord of the Arts(it)

Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio.

Chuck Close(en)

Chuck Close, an astounding portrait of one of the world's leading contemporary painters, was one of two parting gifts (her second is a film on Louise Bourgeois) from Marion Cajori, a filmmaker who died recently, and before her time. With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland, Chuck Close lives the life and work of a man who has reinvented portraiture. Close photographs his subjects, blows up the image to gigantic proportions, divides it into a detailed grid and then uses a complex set of colors and patterning to reconstruct each face.

Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique(fr)

China's Van Goghs(zh)

An intimate portrait of a peasant-turned oil painter transitioning from making copies of iconic Western paintings to creating his own authentic works of art.

Autography(pt)

A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality.

The Mystic Lamb(fr)

Detailed analysis of the famous polyptych by the Van Eyck brothers, housed in Ghent Cathedral.

Hans Memling, Painter of the Madonna(fr)

1939 short documentary by Belgian filmmaker on pianter Hans Memling.

Sketches (1990-2003)(es)

Apuntes is a sort of prologue to ‘The Quince Tree Sun’. With images shot by Erice in the Summer of 1990, as he was preparing such film, observing how the painter Antonio López worked. Erice wrote and selected the texts which illustrate them. Apuntes is split in 6 parts to show López’s 6 projects.

The Greatest Painters of the World: Camille Pissarro(fr)

Thanks to his experiments with brushstrokes and impasto, Camille Pissaro came to be known as one of the fathers of Impressionism.

Pissarro: Father of Impressionism(en)

Ich. Immendorff(de)

Documentary film about the painter and sculptor Jörg Immendorff who ranks among the most important German artists. The filmmakers accompanied Immendorff over a period of two years – until his death in May 2007. The artist had been living for nine years knowing that he was terminally ill with ALS. The film shows how Immendorff continued to work with unabated energy and how he tried not to let himself be restrained by his deteriorating health.

Dora Maar in Spite of Picasso(es)

Dora Maar, a world-class photographer who began her artistic career in the French Surrealist scene of the 30s, lived in the shadow of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, her lover between 1935 and 1943, with whom she maintained a chaotic, even violent, relationship. Fortunately, she survived Picasso's abusive behavior and its sequels to find a new path, the best one, the one that is worth to be told, in spite of Picasso.