Painter Movies

Tjipto Setiyono, 85, is a rickshaw painter. Despite being past his prime, he lives alone in a 3-by-3 meter square boarding room, in which...

The life of a great man, his deeds and their impact on his family.

An intimate portrait of the Franco-Iranian painter Davoud Ghanbariha, filmed in the outskirts of Paris. Through a dialogue between his voice and his...

A lost chapter in black British film: extraordinary rushes from a documentary showcasing talented members of the black community.

In the midst of war, a color pencil found on the battlefield awakens a sniper’s forgotten childhood passion for painting, forcing him to...

Henri Matisse's great-granddaughter Sophie traces the story of how the artist fought personal tragedies and critical ridicule to become one of the...

A student who had a hobby - drawing, but one day he became disillusioned with it. Routine is all he has now, but then he meets his old acquaintance...

Through vibrant colors and cluttered canvases, a 75-year-old artist reclaims freedom from a past of war and loss.

Oswaldo Guayasamín, one of the most renowned Latin American artists, with more than 600 portraits in his pictorial career, (among which are F....

A short documentary film about Czech-Bulgarian painter Ivan Mrkvička

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from.

Retracing the trip to Tunisia that painter Paul Klee took in 1914, Tunisian filmmaker and painter Nacer Khemir leads viewers on a journey of...

Chuck Close, an astounding portrait of one of the world's leading contemporary painters, was one of two parting gifts (her second is a film on Louise...

TV-documentary about the German painter Carl Spitzweg