Tarsilinha sets off on a journey to save her mother’s memory. The only way to do this is to find her mom's stolen keepsakes and overcome her own fears.
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
A mostly abstract music video for the Band Journals of Nyom.
Ivory Tower
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.
A boy fears the monsters that go bump in the night and discovers reality is much more frightening than he could ever imagine.
Archibald, an astronaut painter is on a mission to paint his magnum opus, the solar system. Driven by obsession, he is faced with his final piece, which will guide him to his doom, The Sun.
A tormented painter, consumed by grief, begins a surreal journey after a visit from his partner. Through symbols and inner trials, he finds the strength to embrace transformation.
Giverny, 1916. Claude Monet has lost his inspiration. While working on the monumental Water Lilies, the painter is struggling to believe in his art as the First World War rages beyond his garden.
In the midst of war, a color pencil found on the battlefield awakens a sniper’s forgotten childhood passion for painting, forcing him to confront the violence that erased it.
Short Black and White
Visual disturbances. Corrective surgery. Unsettling results.
Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.
After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.
The film, inspired by Goya’s paintings – mostly his darker works – and made in the same way as 2017’s Loving Vincent.
Les Muses du Minotaure
Paris in the early 20th century. Fujiko dreams of becoming a painter despite expectations of marriage, while Chizuru, born into a samurai family, longs to study ballet. Reunited in Paris after meeting as children, they support each other and move toward their dreams.
An art student faces an art block while deadlines are getting closer. Through her frustration, she's going to dive into the psychological issues that threaten her work.
An artist looks back on his younger years at the Chongqing Art Academy in the turbulent 1990s. The selection and demands used to be killing. He was close friends with two boys and a girl. They fought with local youngsters and tried to give each other pep talks. Parallels with the childhood years of his parents, during the Cultural Revolution, also show violence and gun battles. Semi-autobiographical, with motion capture.
Satire on everyday life. A reflection on the value and personal relationships between individuals. How to act in front of current reality?