Movies and TvShows featuring "artistic-freedom" theme.

In 'No Bears (2022)', the film explores two parallel love stories that are hindered by hidden, inevitable obstacles. These obstacles stem from the force of superstition and the mechanics of power. It delves into the complexities of forbidden romance, self-reflexive filmmaking, and the pursuit of artistic freedom.

The hallmarks of popular music - artist independence and diversity of voices - are threatened by a contracting marketplace of record companies, radio ownership and playlists, as well as increased use in advertising. Big-name artists, historians and economists explain how popular music is produced and marketed and critique its current state.

Martin Scorsese presents this very personal and insightful new feature-length documentary about British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Ulysses is a drama film based on the novel of the same name by James Joyce. Set in Dublin, Ireland, it follows a day in the life of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus as they navigate various encounters and events. Through stream-of-consciousness narrative and intricate storytelling, the film explores themes of love, identity, and artistic freedom.

Warning: Parental Advisory is a satirical comedy that explores the moral crusade against music censorship in the 1980s. The movie follows a group of musicians, activists, and politicians as they navigate the pressure from conservative morals and the moral majority, leading to a Senate hearing on music censorship. It highlights the importance of free speech and artistic freedom in the music industry.

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.

The Master and Margarita is a surreal and satirical tale set in Moscow during the Stalin era. It follows the story of the Devil's visit to the city, where he wreaks havoc and exposes the corruption and hypocrisy of the Soviet regime. The narrative also intertwines with the love story between the Master, a writer who has been wrongfully committed to a psychiatric hospital, and Margarita, his devoted lover.

A filmmaker from Los Angeles travels to Paris to learn Argentine Tango from a famous dancer. As they spend more time together, their relationship becomes more complicated due to jealousy and creative differences. The film explores the themes of passion, love, and the artistic process.

In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become.

A woman struggles with the isolation of being confined as a prisoner in a war-torn country.

From innocent to genius. Niccolò is a young violonist destined to become a legend.

The documentary film of the brief window of artistic freedom and democracy movement 1978 - 1982 following China's brutal cultural revolution.

A Documentary about violence, horror, censorship and legislation on the web. In 2009, Remy Couture, a special effects makeup artists from Quebec was arrested by the police right in front of his home and would be later charged with obscenity and corruption of morality. Montreal's police was responding to a complaint regarding pictures coming from his website Inner depravity.com which had been freely circulating on the Web. ART/CRIME discusses violence, fiction and censorship in movies but also in the loosely regulated environment that the Web still represents. The documentary allows many, like movie director Nacho Cerda, Robert Morin and Patrick Senechal to present their thoughts on the matter.

This documentary scratches its way beneath the surface of an infamous Toronto animal cruelty case, deftly exploring the opaque logic surrounding this macabre act.

In Cuba, artists have to be recognized by one of the state-sponsored art institutions that ensure their work complies with the state’s vision and policy. Existing as an independent artist means having no income and no rights, and being subjected to various forms of control and intimidation.

Jennifer, an intelligent but insecure 14-year-old student at a boarding school, seduces her married dormitory counselor, a photographer who has offered to teach her about his art and winds up shooting her in the nude. She is naive, and he manipulates her into an affair that eventually is discovered. Years later, as the photographer is being investigated by the FBI, the adult woman remembers her first love as a case of herself watching the artist who watched her.