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Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that’s not the whole truth. One author makes it his crusade to make it known that Bill Finger, a struggling writer, actually helped invent the iconic superhero, from concept to costume to the very character we all know and love. Bruce Wayne may be Batman’s secret identity, but his creator was always a true mystery.

Bala(1976)

A documentary about the aging prima ballerina Balasaraswati (popularly known as "Bala"), the most famous exponent of the Bharatanatyam dance.

Boundary Breakers: The Making of Livescreamers(2024)

Follow the cast and crew of Livescreamers across their five day shoot, and go deep behind the scenes of how the innovative horror film was brought to life.

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend(2022)

The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Gran Torino all the way to Cry Macho in 2021. It is no small task to cover more than 60 years of cinema history, especially when it is trying to surveyed with such breadth and diversity: TV star, international star, controversial icon, contested director, filmmaker with a capital F, Eastwood has been through it all, experienced it all, and it is first of all this romantic trajectory, this true American pastoral that the documentary wants to tell with all the passion it possibly can.

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Rolland, a 70 year-old man, exiled by his family due to his sexual orientation, makes peace with the past by finding himself in a small ghost town in the western part of Jalisco, San Sebastián del Oeste. Almost 40 years later, he wants to go back to his hometown, try to regain his daughter's love and be a part o his granddaughter's life.

London, KY(2025)

A filmmaker journeys back to the significant places of his Kentucky upbringing to preserve the memories they still hold.

Lynx(2021)

In the heart of the Jura mountains, a call resounds through the forest. The silhouette of a Eurasian lynx creeps through the trees. A male is looking for its mate. Suddenly a call answers back. It is the beginning of the story of a lynx’s family we will follow over the seasons. While it is rare to come across this private feline, it is exceptional to discover its daily life in the wild.

Major Grom: Plague Doctor. Behind the Scenes(2022)

Additional materials for "Major Grom: Plague Doctor" (2021).

A Movie About Movies of White City(2024)

Short documentary about movies locations from Yugoslavian movies and how they look nowadays.

Titanic: Stories from the Heart(2023)

James Cameron, Jon Landau, and Kate Winslet reflect on the making of Titanic, sharing unseen footage, behind-the-scenes insights, and memories that shaped cinema’s most unforgettable love story.

In My Genes(2009)

Agnes may not seem like someone with much to laugh about. For one thing, she has albinism - a lack of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes - and her appearance has provoked prejudice from family, friends and strangers since she was born. But despite all odds, Agnes refuses to lead a life of sorrow. This fascinating and inspiring documentary also shares the stories of seven other people's individual experiences of living their lives with albinism in Kenya, a predominantly black society. While each person's story is unique, they all have one thing in common: they know what it is like to stand out uncomfortably from the crowd.

I Tarantiniani(2013)

Tarantino reveres them, and for good reason. Welcome to the world of the kings of the Italian B-Movie.

A Shepherd(2024)

Félix, a young, melancholic and secretive shepherd, leads a surprisingly timeless life. He lives alone and works along his father to raise the family herd. From autumn to spring, he looks after his animals, feeds them and keeps them in the dense forests of holm oaks of French Pre-Alps. In the summer, he travels on foot for more than two hundred kilometres, leaving his father to lead the herd to the mountains pastures, in the High Alps Ubaye valley. There, he lives far from everything for many long months, in a mineral and inaccessible world where an invisible being prowls: the wolf. Against the tide of his time, Félix has chosen a profession that isolates him and keeps him out of the world.

CONSTRUÇÃO(2025)

The Inspiration for 'Cars'(2006)

Short featurette about the inspiration behind Pixar's "Cars".

Sand Men

Neculai, Aurel and Raj all left their homes in Romania for the same reason - to seek a better life for their family. Now, in Britain, with their loved ones depending on them, they survive by creating sand sculptures on London’s streets.

Riv Kjæft(2025)

Fremmed Rase is the rap group that burst out of Trøndelag in the early 2000s, and took the country by storm with playful rhymes, tough beats and explicit vocabulary. “Riv Kjæft” is an adventure about ups and downs from 1997 to 2025, a group with a completely unique legacy, and not least: real, "trøndersk", HipHop.

Enter Room 6: The Making of The Man in Room 6(2022)

A look behind the scenes at the several-year journey of making Trevor and Carrie Juenger's horror fantasy epic The Man in Room 6.