Elia Kazan represented the American dream. An immigrant who came without anything and who became the Prince of Hollywood and Broadway after World War II. Actor, theater director, filmmaker, writer, he is the founder of Actor’s Studio, a collaborator of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, and a director who discovered Marlon Brando and James Dean.

Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's themes and methods. The director also profiles Kiarostami as a poet and a photographer.

O cineasta e autor Ruy Guerra imagina um encontro inesperado com John Wayne. Revoltado contra este ícone do imperialismo americano, o diretor moçambicano agride o astro e acaba causando a sua morte. Esta é a porta de entrada para uma viagem fantástica através da obra e das entrevistas de Guerra, desde os primeiros filmes até suas produções mais recentes. Com depoimentos de Werner Herzog, Chico Buarque e Gabriel García Marquez.

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.