Philosophy Movies

The period of time we find hardest to inhabit is the present; for a range of powerful reasons we should take on board.

A person with inverted spectrum colour blindness would see the whole spectrum of colours in exact reverse: all the colour contrasts and relationships...

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

The tormented loves of the young Ottavio, first for the countess Gamiani and then for the writer Georges Sand.

A voyage to the center of the thought of Michel Foucault (1926-1984), a tireless explorer of the margins, a brilliant and atypical thinker, through...

A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term...

Somewhere, a man tinkers, cooks, and smokes in silence, caught between the tranquility of an afternoon nap and the strangeness of time stretching out.

Attempting to piece together the memories of his recent breakup with Sasha —a quietly perceptive, under-confident fellow writer—Nikhil...

A disturbingly organic-looking figure speaks to us of life, politics and death as the symbol of the common man toils away. Written and narrated by...

Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the few Swiss artists of world renown, often touches on social wounds with his provocative works. In 2013, Hirschhorn built...

Filmmaker Peter Sasowsky examines the life and work of artist Joe Davis

The real fate of Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský, a prominent hermeticist, occultist, believer in black magic and an...

We get up, go to work, eat and go to bed. Is our life about daily rituals or is there a deeper, more inscrutable meaning of life? Kjeld lives...

A portrait of a couple of ceramic artists living in the French countryside. Structured around snippets of their daily lives, the documentary evolves...

The author Carl-Göran Ekerwald has written more than 50 books. At the age of 87, a new chapter in his life begins when he meets the journalist...

Antoine - a grieving loner - spends his days in a cafe on Place Clichy watching people. Every day, he sees a woman he calls Albertine get out of the...

Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her fathers' features.