Barbet Schroeder

Faced with the challenge of solving a "perfect murder," homicide detective Cassie Mayweather (Bullock) is forced to face and free herself from the tormented past she buried long ago. (Warner Bros.)

An exploration of morality and mortality in Medellín, Colombia. (Paramount Classics)

Jeremy Irons plays socialite Claus von Bulow, seeking legal exoneration in the most sensational attempted murder scandal of the 1980s. (Warner Bros.)

When a 'Single White Female' places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she's just left)... (imdb)

While burgling a Paris flat, a thief is discovered by the owner. He is somewhat disconcerted by the fact that she is a dominatrix but the two are strongly attracted to each other and he soon moves in. As love grows her profession starts to pose problems which both of them find harder and harder to reconcile.

The making of a heroin addict. Stefan, fresh from college, hitches from Germany to Paris, where he does a little breaking and entering to get some money and soon meets Estelle, a young American (imdb)

Mickey Rourke plays Henry Chinaski, a poet and alcoholic. He spends his life in bars in Los Angeles... (imdb)

A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster. (imdb)

San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son... (imdb)

A documentary on the military dictator of Africa's Uganda. (imdb)

Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route to "La Vallée": The Valley, high in the Guinean mountains, is shown on maps as 'Obscured by Clouds' and is beyond their previous experiences... (imdb)

A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy. (imdb)

In 1977, acclaimed director Barbet Schroeder and cinematographer Nestor Almendros entered the universe of the world's most famous primate to create the captivating documentary Koko: A Talking Gorilla. The film introduces us to Koko soon after she was brought from the San Francisco Zoo to Stanford University by Dr. Penny Patterson for a controversial experiment--she would be taught the basics of human communication through American Sign Language. (criterion.com)

Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend. (imdb)

Alex Fayard is an internationally successful crime novel author. He has been invited to Japan for the release of his latest book. One night, he encounters Tamao, a geisha who confides to him her fears. One of her former lovers, who may well be Shundei Oe, a novelist famous for his extremely violent and disturbing books, is threatening to kill her. Alex Fayard, a prominent Oe specialist, agrees to help her. (altinportakal.tursak.org.tr)

Barbet Schroeder interviews Charles Bukowski.

Jo has come to Ibiza to be a DJ in the club Amnesia. He befriends a solitary woman who's trying to forget her past. As Jo draws her into techno music, Martha puts everything she had previously lived by into question. (imdb)

A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar. (imdb)

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.

From Buenos Aires to Finistère, via Paris and Peru, this film is an invitation to dive into the history of painting, but also to discover the life of this exceptional man who, with simplicity and humility, always fully committed, to the point of transmitting his passion to the children of his village.