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The Creators
The Creators (2012)
, 1h23
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films

The story begins in the mind of Cashril Plus, a twelve-year-old animator and son of graffiti artist Faith47. Through Cashril's eyes, we see his mother paint the streets and forgotten townships haloing Cape Town. Weaving through the lives of Faith47, Warongx (afro-blues), Emile Jansen (hip hop), Sweat.X (glam rap), Blaq Pearl (spoken word) and Mthetho (opera), the film culminates in an intertwined story. Born into separate areas of a formerly-segregated South Africa, the artists recraft history—and the impacts of apartheid—in their own artistic languages. The lens reveals the impulse behind the artists’ social consciousness, the individuals’ eccentricities, and each creator’s unique form of expression. Diving into the current of subversive art which fuels South Africa’s many clashing and merging cultures, The Creators brings into focus the invisible connections among strangers' disparate lives—and the creative expression used to traverse the divide. The result is an intimate, refreshing, and deeply revealing portrait of those remolding the legacy of apartheid.
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Gu Changwei

Le film dépeint la vie de l'artiste et militant chinois Ai Weiwei.
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012)
, 1h17
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Russell Banks

An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulously composed, large-scale images are stunning narratives of small-town American life—moviescapes crystallized into a single frame.
Side by Side
Side by Side (2012)
, 1h38
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors James Cameron, David Fincher, John Malkovich, Danny Boyle, David Lynch, Robert Rodríguez

The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. It shows what artists and filmmakers have been able to accomplish with both film and digital and how their needs and innovations have helped push filmmaking in new directions. Interviews with directors, cinematographers, colorists, scientists, engineers and artists reveal their experiences and feelings about working with film and digital.
Nema Aviona Za Zagreb
Nema Aviona Za Zagreb (2012)
, 1h22
Directed by Louis van Gasteren
Origin France
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Autobiographical documentary films
Actors Louis van Gasteren, Michèle Girardon, Nicholas Parsons

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.
Persistence of Vision
Persistence of Vision (2012)
, 1h23
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Richard Williams, Charles Fleischer, Art Babbitt, Robin Williams, Howard Blake, Robert Zemeckis

Animator Richard Williams attempts to finish his masterpiece, a long-term vanity project called The Thief and the Cobbler. Though he did not participate in the making of the film, archival footage of Williams is combined with interviews with his co-workers.
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2012)
, 1h38
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité

Far Out Isn’t Far Enough tracks the expansive life and prolific career of the subversive Alsatian artist Tomi Ungerer. Coming of age under the German occupation of France in World War II, Ungerer went on to produce some of the most iconic imagery in a multitude of artistic genres in mid-20th century America. Yet the same factors that vaulted him to meteoric success - fearless creativity, absolute outspokenness, fierce independence - also made him a lightning rod for controversy and the object of intense malice.
Bill Cunningham New York
Bill Cunningham New York (2011)
, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes La mode, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Carmen Dell'Orefice, Catherine Deneuve

"We all get dressed for Bill", says Vogue editor Anna Wintour. The Bill in question is New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high-society charity soirées for the Times‍ '​s Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours".
Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory (2011)
, 1h
Directed by Raphaël Millet
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Political films
Actors Pierre Schoendoerffer, Costa-Gavras, Raoul Coutard, Jacques Perrin

Pierre Schoendoerffer revisits his life and career, with a strong focus on the impact that his experience as a war cinematographer for the French army during the Indochina War had on him, as well as a war reporter during the Vietnam War when he filmed his 1967 Academy Award winning documentary The Anderson Platoon named after the leader of the platoon - Lieutenant Joseph B. Anderson - with which Schoendoerffer and his crew were embedded.