The film looks at the relationship between Polley's parents, Michael and Diane Polley, including the revelation that the filmmaker was the product of an extramarital affair between her mother and Montreal producer Harry Gulkin. It incorporates interviews with Polley's siblings from her mother's two marriages, interviews with other relatives and family friends, Michael Polley's narration of his memoir, and Super-8 footage shot to look like home movies of historical events in her family's life. The cast in the Super-8 re-creations includes Rebecca Jenkins, who plays Diane – who had died of cancer, on January 10, 1990—the week of Polley's 11th birthday.
En utilisant des figurines d'argile et des images d'archive, Rithy Panh témoigne des atrocités commises par les Khmers rouges au Cambodge entre 1975 et 1979.
Pendant près d’une heure et demie, Beyoncé nous invite dans son monde, après la sortie de son album 4, pendant sa grossesse et après la naissance de son premier enfant.
The film features interviews with Perry and her loved ones documenting the trajectory of her life, containing various clips from her childhood and teenage years as well as her career and personal life (ranging from December 1999 to March 2012). The film is spliced with performances from her worldwide California Dreams Tour, which had 127 concerts from February 20, 2011 to January 22, 2012. Most of the performances were recorded on November 23, 2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, but also included performances in Tokyo and São Paulo. Some of her friends such as Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Jessie J make cameos in the film. The documentary includes scenes of Perry dealing with the breakdown of her marriage with English actor/comedian Russell Brand.
As the film opens, a ninety-year-old Louis van Gasteren—a documentary filmmaker and artist famed in the Netherlands—is seated in a video editing suite, watching scenes of himself in the 1960s, a time when “anything was possible.” He reflects on how much he has changed, and that he is that same person and yet is not.
L’actrice et réalisatrice Paule Baillargeon retourne au pays de son enfance : l'Abitibi. Sur la route de Montréal à Val-d'Or, des instants qui ont marqué son existence resurgissent dans sa mémoire. À travers cet autoportrait hybride, Baillargeon raconte le parcours d’une femme, d'une féministe, d'une mère, d'une artiste.
Frôler la mort ne laisse pas indemne… Tom Shadyac - réalisateur de célèbres comédies à l’instar de Bruce tout puissant, Ace Ventura et prochainement du remake U.S. d’Intouchables - a vu sa vie bouleversée par un grave accident. Renonçant aux fastes de Hollywood, il décide de partir, caméra au poing, à la rencontre d’intellectuels et de scientifiques afin de trouver les réponses aux 2 questions qui l’obsèdent : "Qu’est-ce qui ne va pas dans le monde actuel ?" et "Que peut-on faire pour améliorer la situation ?".
Le film traite de la façon dont la société de production de Gertten a été poursuivie en justice par Dole Food Company pour son documentaire de 2009, Bananas!*.
Broke* begins two years in the past, at the beginnings of Gray’s independent journey, recording demos in the basement of his friend's home. The demos come to the attention of producer T Bone Burnett who asks to meet and listen to more of Gray’s music.
The filmmaker finds himself in frequent conflict with his son, who is no longer the delightful child the father loved, but an argumentative young adult who inhabits virtual worlds available through the internet. To the father, the son seems to be addicted to and permanently distracted by those worlds. The filmmaker undertakes a journey to St. Quay-Portrieux in Brittany where he worked for a spring as a wedding photographer’s assistant at age 24 –slightly older than his son is now. He has not been back to St. Quay since that visit, and hopes to gain some perspective on what his own life was like when he was his son’s age. He also hopes to track down his former employer, a fascinating Frenchman named Maurice, and Maud, a woman with whom he was romantically involved during that spring 38 years ago. Photographic Memory is a meditation on the passing of time, the praxis of photography and film, digital versus analog, and the fractured love of a father for his son.