Movies and TvShows featuring "film-about-film" theme.
Bagus, a screenwriter, reunites with his high school friend and crush, Hana, who is still grieving from the loss of her husband. He wants to convince her to fall in love once again, just like in the movies.
A 1960s Filmmaker struggles to make the film of his life while dealing with the loss of his best friend.
A writer embarks on a road trip across the country, encountering love and laughter along the way.
As artificial intelligence becomes ever more sophisticated, the film industry is split between enthusiasm at what the technology can achieve and concern over the future for human workers in the industry. Will actors and actresses be replaced by machines? An overview on the coming wave of AI in cinema.
Remembers an artist in the form of a somnambulistic fantasy: A filmmaker faces increasing challenges as she tries, decades later, to complete Dominican filmmaker Jean-Louis Jorge’s unfinished work.
This feature documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque recounts the bold and astounding enterprise of French filmmaker Julien Duvivier, who shot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s classic novel Maria Chapdelaine in Péribonka, a village in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, in 1934. What was the impact of the original film’s production on the life of the community? What memories remain? What town secrets lie hidden in those memories?
A story of a film-making crew traveling in Italy.
An embittered actor decides it's time to slash a few models after losing a life-changing role to some guy who looks good with his shirt off.
The Legend of the Ugly King is a gripping biography documentary that delves into the life of a renowned Turkish film director. The story revolves around his struggles and challenges as an artist living under a military dictatorship. It explores themes of censorship, exile, and the filmmaker's revolutionary spirit. The documentary also sheds light on the director's experiences in prison and his fight against propaganda. With a focus on the Cannes Film Festival, it unravels the filmmaker's journey as an enemy of the state and his contributions to the portrayal of Kurdish culture. The Legend of the Ugly King ultimately highlights the director's commitment to filmmaking and his enduring legacy.
A lonely man who operates a film projector finds his only solace in a woman he sees on a film reel. After the reel is lost in an accident, he sets out to find the woman through the remotest, poorest places of the Dominican Republic.
Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allied forces. Today, around 40 films, called "Vorbehaltsfilme", are locked away from the public with an uncertain future. Should they be re-released, destroyed, or continue to be neglected? Verbotene Filme takes a closer look at some of these forbidden films.
Layar, a popular film star who feels bored with his career and wants to make a musical theater set in a family history that is always linked to Indonesian film history.
In a dystopian future, a man struggles with his fading memories while making a documentary about the last days of mankind.
Despite the abundance of its directors and cinematographers, it was not much anticipated that one day Israel could become an incredible land of creation for LGBT cinema.
Marcos, an unsuccessful film director, is immersed in the shooting of his new film, a queer giallo, when a series of terrible murders starts to happen in Barcelona.
A revelation about Oscar Torres, her unknown and once world-famous queer filmmaker cousin, sends Victoria down a path of self-discovery through reconstructions of his intimate memories living in the 1950's authoritarian Caribbean, as Victoria leads re-enactments of his unproduced screenplays with the family who erased him.
For more than 40 years Kathryn Bigelow has been making films that explore male violence. With movies like Blue Steel, Point Break, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, the Oscar winning American filmmaker has impressed with hard-hitting moviemaking that holds a mirror up to contemporary America and the world.
This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.
When a couple of filmmakers decide to shoot a documentary about couples in love, problems and tensions between the two force them to question their own relationship and the meaning of cinema.