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Sceningång
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.

Teach Me How to Cry
Unable to tap into his emotions on stage, a middle-aged struggling actor is given one last chance to prove himself, and in turn, takes a class with an acting coach who promises to transform his performance.

By Heart
Par cœurs
It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. In a near theatre, Fabrice Luchini recites Nietzsche. Both actors are premiering at Avignon’s Festival. When they leave backstage to stand out on stage, they are completely transformed. As everything seems utterly natural, audience does not imagine what happened before. By following their daily lives during the weeks preceding the premieres, Benoît Jacquot brings a singular perspective of the two actors and shows them like we’ve never seen before.

Behind Bars
Kidd was living the dream, starring in action movies, but after years of struggling with addiction his world came crashing down. That was 10 years ago, today he is clean and sober. His agent calls him with an audition that could put him back on top. Staying clean will not be easy and the people with whom he shared that dark world are close by. Wanting success at any cost, can cost you.

Gérard Jugnot, une vie de comédies

El Culebro: My Father's Story
El Culebro: La historia de mi papá
The story of legendary Colombian actor Hernando "El Culebro" Casanova, told by his youngest son Nicolás Casanova, featuring unseen archival footage and unheard tracks.

De Chantal Goya à Bernard Minet : Que sont devenues les stars de notre enfance ?
Falcatus
The feature-length reboot of the 2023 cult hit, 'Falcatus'.

Jack Taylor, testigo del fantástico
During the course of an extensive interview, actor Jack Taylor looks back on the biographical anecdotes and films that made him an essential face in genre movies.

Fernando
Fernando is an actor and theater teacher who, at the age of 74, is impelled to be the protagonist of himself in an experience that blurs the boundaries between the documentary and the fictional. Faced with a delicate problem in his heart, he follows a life full of love for art, where education emerges as a powerful transforming element of reality.

Me, brother and the name Hrušínský
Já, brácha a jméno Hrušínský
According to family legend, the name Hrušínský was born after Rudolf and Jan Hrušínský's grandfather Rudolf Böhm was caught stealing pears on a theater stage. The German name Böhm suddenly became Hruškovský and shortly after that Hrušínský. Grandfather Rudolf, later known as Rudolf Hrušínský the eldest, adopted the surname as his own and began using it in 1935. However, the history of the Hrušínský acting family goes back much further. It is therefore not surprising that the brothers Rudolf and Jan also took the same path. The documentary charts their acting beginnings alongside their father Rudolf Hrušínský Sr., from their first roles, through theater engagements at the Drama Studio in Ústí nad Labem and the Drama Club in Prague, to unforgettable film and television roles, when three generations of Hrušínskýs often met in front of the camera.

An Act of Affection
While making a portrait of a single gay man in Lisbon, a Vietnamese filmmaker offers his character a little gift from the bottom of his heart. This is a film about the act of filming.