A behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God, and sex.

A film fanatic who pretends to be the popular Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf is eventually caught out and ends up in court. Just like this man who lives between film and reality, Close-up straddles the border between documentary and fiction.

A chronological collage of excerpts from film history accompanied by their original soundtracks, in which only a starry sky is visible. This raises an ever-expanding number of questions and, for those who are lucky, cosmic answers.