Portrait Movies

The film recounts the incredible research conducted by François Cartault, a pediatrician and geneticist on the island of Réunion....

"This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa (1973) through another stage of transformation – my own...

This documentary explores the work of Robert Doisneau, and the subjects his photographs have addressed, from the workers of the Renault factories in...

Newfoundland painter Gerald Squires has referred to his portraits as "confrontations," though not intending the hostility that word can convey. This...

Interview with artist Jan Håfström about his art.

Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the tango. By breaking with the codes of traditional tango, he brought this popular Argentine music from dance floors...

Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touching portrait of virtuoso pianist Oscar...

Documentary film maker Anders Wahlgren interviews the artist Peter Tillberg.

Through testimonies from people who practice the art of drag, this short film offers an intimate insight into this world of rhinestones and glitter.

An artist receives the visit of Grogg, an animated captain, to draw his portrait

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Animation pioneer Evelyn Lambart recalls arriving at the NFB in the 1940s, her celebrated collaborations with Norman McLaren and her approach to her...

Together, the three Bertrand brothers work their farm in a small Savoyard village. In 1972, they took the enormous risk to invest in the construction...

Anouchka is a 30 year old screenwriter who works in a wine bar for a living. She traces her last 15 years of alcoholism thanks to a screenplay she...

In this short documentary, five black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s and 1950s. What emerges is a unique...