For the First Time

In 1967, Cuban documentary filmmaker Octavio Cortazar followed a projectionist whose mission was to show moving pictures to rural communities for the first time. Cortazar’s short film documents one audience’s response to its first film: Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times.

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Two, Three Times Branco

Two, Three Times Branco

2018

Cortázar y Antín: cartas iluminadas

Cortázar y Antín: cartas iluminadas

2018

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace

2019

Covidwood

Covidwood

2021

Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life

Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life

1998

Speaking of Buñuel

Speaking of Buñuel

2000

Lost Images: The Other Eye of Juan Pinzás

Lost Images: The Other Eye of Juan Pinzás

2009

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

2005

101

101

2012

Love Is All: 100 Years of Love & Courtship

2014

Olhar o Cinema Português: 1896-2006

2007

El mundo de Fructuoso Gelabert

El mundo de Fructuoso Gelabert

1968

Back in Time

Back in Time

2015

Sad Hill Unearthed

Sad Hill Unearthed

2018

A Remembering of Disremembering

A Remembering of Disremembering

2020

Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive

Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive

2015

Arab Camera

Arab Camera

1987

Cine Mambembe: Cinema Discovers Brazil

Cine Mambembe: Cinema Discovers Brazil

1999

Reel Injun

Reel Injun

2010

Lo que vale un peine

Lo que vale un peine

2015