José Saramago : le temps d’une mémoire

A hundred letters written by Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship were found by chance in a second-hand bookshop. By confronting today the women who wrote these letters with the ghosts of the past, and revealing important archive material, Letters to a Dictatorship takes us on an in-depth journey through the obscurantism th...

Runtime

1h

Director

Inês de Medeiros, Anne Victorino d' Almeida

A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas. An in-depth story of this fascinating woman's life. Maraini's memories come alive through personal photographs taken on the road as well as her own Super 8 films shot almost thi...

Runtime

1h 14m

Director

Irish Braschi

Cast

Maria Pia Di Meo, Dacia Maraini, Alberto Moravia

A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.

Runtime

1h 36m

Cast

Dick Cavett, Kate Harrington, Lewis Lapham

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) is a Swedish documentary film from 1998 directed by Jesper Wachtmeister. It consists of an interview by the journalist Björn Cederberg with the German writer, philosopher and war veteran Ernst Jünger (1895-1998). Jünger talks about his li...

Runtime

56m

A major figure in contemporary feminism and the first Frenchwoman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Annie Ernaux is seen by many as a source of individual and collective emancipation, blending the intimate with the universal. Filmmaker Claire Simon has devoted an original portrait to her, giving students and teachers a voice.

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Claire Simon