Experience great beauty on the big screen with ArtBeats documentaries.

Get ready for a new ArtBeats season on the big screen. Learn more about each film below:

Hitler's Big Fear: The Trial Against Degenerate Art | Screening from 13 August

In 1937, the Nazi regime launched its war on modernity, branding artists like Picasso, Chagall, Van Gogh, and Matisse as “degenerate”. Their works were banned, destroyed, or mocked in grotesque exhibitions, while Aryan ideals were glorified in state-sponsored shows. Framed by a major new exhibition at the Musée Picasso in Paris, the documentary revisits this ideological assault through rare footage, suppressed artworks, and the voices of curators and survivors. It broadens its scope to music, literature, and architecture, exposing how the Reich targeted all forms of dissenting expression. A timely meditation on repression, resistance, and the enduring fight for creative freedom.

Taboo: Egon Schiele | Screening from 27 August | Screening from 3 September

Set in Ceský Krumlov, the hometown of Egon Schiele’s mother, Taboo. Egon Schiele offers a bold psychoanalytic reading of the artist’s deep connection to this Bohemian town—both as a physical place and a symbol of maternal longing, desire, and confinement. Through Schiele’s paintings, writings, and poetry, the film explores his troubled relationship with women, his obsession with time and death, and his raw, modern vision that is still unsettling today. Drawing parallels with Kafka and the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Taboo: Egon Schiele is a poetic journey into the mind and legacy of one of the most radical artists of the 20th century.

Flesh & Bronze | Screening from 29 October

Flesh and Bronze is a documentary that goes through half a century of history, narrating the two best preserved bronze statues in the world, the two mysterious warriors who emerged from the sea in front of Riace in 1972, after two thousand years spent underwater. Interviews and exclusive documents, first-hand testimony and the portrait of a restless present are the heart of this story. Riace Bronzes represent our past but, as everything lost and found, they embody our desires for the future, peace and beauty, that mankind have always had.

Dante's Wondrous Vision | Screening from 26 November

A visionary reimagining of Dante’s Divine Comedy, blending vibrant animation with modern-day issues like environmental destruction and inequality, offering a timeless message of hope and renewal.

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