Brothers, Sisters, Sons, & Daughters: The Film

Let's Get Lost

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker, he of the beautiful face, in California and in Italy, where he appeared in at least one movie and at least one jail cell (for drug possession). And, we see the aged Baker, detached, indifferent, his face a ruin. Includes interviews with his children and ex-wife, women companions, and musicians.

The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent Italy, the one inhabited by Anna Magnani and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a country that no longer exists.

Four Photographic Sonatas Starring Michael Fassbender

Four-part short starring Irish actor Michael Fassbender.

Broken Noses

Photographer Bruce Weber profiles boxer Andy Minsker, including his pro career and family relations, and the boys' boxing club Minsker runs.

A Letter to True

A collection of Bruce Weber's favorite images of his dogs, friends, and historical world events.

The View from Up Here

Claire and Lila are neighbours. They both live in the same building, they see each other every day but they hardly know each other's names. Until today, when Claire decides to pay a visit to Lila and to ask for something that will definitely put at risk the cohabitation.

Best of Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak begins his third decade as one of the most distinctive recording artists- and the epitome of modern cool-with his first career-spanning retrospective.

Beauty Brothers

Presented in five vignettes, and starring the brothers of Matt Dillon. The Beauty Brothers offers-up the romance, desire, dreamscapes and frustrations of youth. Part I: Junk Food Conversation, 2:44; Part II: Bedroom Bongos, 2:37; Part III: Dream Wheels, 2:39; Part IV: Poolhopping, 1:47; Part V: Runaway, 2:39

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed simply hanging out with friends, telling anecdotes from his life and recording jazz standards.

Chop Suey

A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer and a 16-year-old wrestler.

Backyard Movie

In 1991 Bruce Weber’s parents gave him a reel of family movies made during his childhood. Premiering at the New York Film Festival, Backyard Movie incorporates the private home movies of the Weber Family into the fiber of the film as it connects the director’s past and present inspirations.

The King of Ads

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.

Gentle Giants

An autobiographical piece: Weber is the off-screen narrator telling us about various key points in his life - as a teenager putting together a scrapbook of Hollywood stars and falling in love with Liz Taylor; living on a farm with Newfoundland dogs; his relationship with his father, who gave him his first camera; his first dance with a man at Stonewall bar in New York City. During the narration, images from the scrapbook and from home movies provide illustration and counterpoint. The dogs are the gentle giants, a boy's best friend.

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

An intimate look at pioneering artist George Platt Lynes, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. The documentary reveals Lynes’ gifted eye for the male form, his long-term friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alfred Kinsey, and his lasting influence as one of the first openly gay American artists.

Liberty City Is Like Paris to Me

This short film centers on Martin Luther King and Inauguration Day 2009 in a small section of Miami Beach called Liberty City. Once a place full of race riots and poverty, the people of this small neighborhood in Miami, Florida have rebuilt their community over the last ten years. The unity in the community is a testament to the dedication of one neighborhood’s pledge to build itself again.

The Boy Artist

A young man finds himself in a modern day Garden of Eden. As he spends a day wandering through the garden he realizes that to create something out of nothing, his role as a man is as important as his connection to nature.