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- A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
- Filmmaker Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and survivor of Auschwitz.
- We call those who suffer from the melancholy of eternity, eternals. Convinced that death cannot triumph over their lives, they believe that they are doomed to wander in anticipation of the day when they will be freed from their existence. This film is a story of wandering and fleeing, on the borders of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Inhabited by the ghosts of genocide and by the war that has raged there for over twenty years, the characters who pass through this film carry within themselves the melancholy of the eternals.
- Whatever happened to this promising young actress from Hollywood? A search for "the woman in the car" through the never-ending suburbia of Los Angeles, where the myth of cinema reigns. A sort of thriller without a corpse.
- After his classes, the teacher is questioned by his wife. The wife is skeptical about the new Academic project his husband is devising. The teacher is trying to build up a new "Academy of the Muses"that, inspired by the Classics will help to build up a brand new World through a real commitment to Poetry. The controversial project triggers a round of scenes on words and desire.
- This documentary highlights day-to-day life in a boarding school named Zuoz. Here, high in the Swiss mountains, the heirs of rich and influential families are locked up and expected to perform. Director Daniella Marxer spent her youth in such an institution. At Zuoz, individuality is neither tolerated nor of interest. There are very few deviations from the rules; the system has to work perfectly. Rebellion is not tolerated, and, if you don't submit, you will immediately be expelled.
- Keeping the original theatrical mise-en-scene, the film features Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig reciting Sylvia Plath's letters to her mother directly to the audience as though we were the recipients of these private missives
- A poetic film in 18 waves, as so many scenes describe Paris and its urban landscapes crossed by a young minor "foreigner isolated", the terrorist attacks, white roses, state of emergency, blue white red, the Atlantic Ocean and its crossings, volcanoes, the beat cubicle, the revolt, the anger, the police violence, a revolutionary song, the silence and the joy, only the joy.
- The young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his present life situation. He uses the loss of his talisman to make a trip through Italy searching for the man, who gave it to him a long time ago.
- For Caterina, Laurence, Frédérie and Louis, being bipolar means going from paradise to the hell of depression several times during their lives
- Speaking on the telephone with the Hungarian Consulate, the filmmaker asks: "Does someone whose grandfather is Hungarian have the right to obtain a Hungarian passport?" The question apparently sounds strange. "Yes - It's possible... But, why do you want a Hungarian passport?" The filmmaker asks for the list of necessary documents, but the officer woman still doesn't understand why she wants to become Hungarian. The idea took place on her mind: she is going to ask for the Hungarian nationality. She didn't say a word to anyone but she wouldn't give it up. The administrative process - the request for a passport - is the guiding line of the film. And the filmmaker faces essential questions: what is nationality? What's the use of a passport? What is our heritage? How do we construct our own history and identity?
- Naples. A Virgin with bruise on her cheek who performs miracles. Three female characters, each connected to the Virgin in their own way but who never meet. Giusy, a girl in a wheelchair who had no right to a miracle; an atheist, free-spirited, and an anthropologist specializing in the worship of the Virgin Mary. Fabiana, a transsexual at the head of a troupe faithful supporters of the Virgin in a popular district of the city center. And Sue, a Korean pianist in search of a new direction for her life, teaching music to children in difficulty in a city far removed from her original culture. Each with their intimate wounds and each searching for a "miracle".
- Covers outstanding personalities of their time and in their discipline, who are only too rarely seen in the media today. Philosophers, artists, activists, researchers, all have contributed to forging and enriching contemporary thinking.
- At the point where the peace process has reached yet another dead-end, Eyal Sivan tries to go beyond the idea of "the two-state solution". Through the use of editing, Sivan creates an encounter between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews. Twenty parallel interviews on the theme of a common state. One talks, the other listens.
- The staircases of John Clancy's terraced house are filled with hundreds of unsold volumes like a Noah's Ark of Knowledge telling the stories of a city that has known stormier times. Accompanied by a dyslexic, opera-loving punk the Bookseller of Belfast treads a new path through the pages yellowed by time and cigarette smoke.
- Follows the rehearsals of 'Faits d'artifice', a choreography by Françoise and Dominique Dupuy, created with Régine Chopinot and the company Le Ballet Atlantique, as the director is aiming to catch the process of creation from the inside.
- Near the Dead Sea, in the middle of the desert, Marianna, Bulos, Suleiman, Michael and some more share their stories and questions and give an insight on life's paradoxes and the power of doubt: the salt of our fragile humanity.
- Struggling to come to terms with his grim past and the consequences of growing up in a post-civil war era, Rami remembers little from his childhood, and so seeks the help of his mother, Nawal, who talks about dreams, fears, chaos and love.
- A group of teenagers from different backgrounds, attending a Parisian psychiatric day hospital, participate with other patients from the same institution in a dance mediation project also involving students from a vocational high school.
- Experiencing a war is an ordeal which, at the time, changes the perception of reality and, later, the way one looks at life. The film is the result of a period of the director's life in Lebanon, especially during the conflict of July 2006.
- From darkness to light, we follow a writer who has lost all contact with reality to pursue the love of his wife, who died too soon, and whom he wanted to join in death, while she made him first promise to continue living in order to write.
- An investigative film shot in Algeria, Greece and France, this documentary offers to look, with the writings of Camus as a reference, at what is happening around us and how the absurd and the revolt cannot prevent the search for happiness.
- Through the political activism of some people of Khayelitsha, the film seeks to reveal the attachment of its residents to a city born of Apartheid. Why, despite all this suffering, disease, poverty, illegality, do they still believe in it?
- Grape harvest in Rasiguères, a village in the French Pyrenees. An intense month of shared life. Amid changing times, workers reminisce about the days of collective work in the fields. Tradition and motions as old as the vines are taken up afresh by today's vintagers and made their own. A 16mm b/w fieldwork film, a document of the past.
- André Jourdel is a cattle dealer. He has three son with whom he is dealing. When he buys cattle on the market with Hubert, Thierry is the one who will fatten them before Dominique cut them for sale to the slaughter. As long as he can, André will help running the family business but his children do not see the development of the business in the same way.
- Documentary filmmaker Alexandre Barry is following an extraordinary theatre director, and man of the stage, all the way to Japan: Frenchman Claude Régy, the apostle of silence, intensity and obscurity, who evokes his long and rich theatre career. Born in 1923, he counts as one of the most important European directors of modern theatre.
- Once upon a time, there was a building in the heart of the city, an architectural gem at the center of the concerns of elected officials and citizens, now demolished, replaced by a luxury apartment building, currently under construction, the new fruit of the architectural work of men. This is the story of the Palais des Congrès in Rouen, once standing on the square by the Cathedral: built in 1976 under Jean Lecanuet, closed since 1996, vanished in 2010. How was this even possible?
- For five weeks, 15 short programs including 5 sequence shots, 35 photos and 4 video clips are simultaneously broadcast on the Web to tell the story of the Palais des Congrès in Rouen, an architectural gem recently demolished.
- The film is set up for a full academic year in the Rouen Conservatory of Music, to allow the director to find, among the young students, who can play the heroine of his project, Joan of Arc, during her trial told in her own words.
- B. Traven was a novelist noted as a writer of adventure stories and as a chronicler of rural life in Mexico, where he worked as a field hand, in the early 20th Century. A recluse, Traven refused personal data to publishers, so who was he?
- A woman cannot sleep. She gets up and wanders the streets of Paris at a time when the night owls have already returned home and those who get up early are still sleeping. What is she looking for? She doesn't really know.
- El Ghazi Amnaye and Hammou Lhedmat, two Moroccan veterans, fought for the liberation of Provence during WWII and are returning to Marseille to celebrate the province's liberation 60th birthday. Now, they want to retire in France.
- A filmed diary which chronicles two visits to the Olivas, a family of Spanish beekeepers from Salamanca, at the time of the honey harvest, in August and September. Their work and their itinerant life are seen from a friend's point of view.
- Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is back to haunt Belgium. Through commemorations, encounters and a return visit, a top-ranking Belgian civil servant confronts the past.
- Zona Franca de Iquique S.A. manages a large free-trade zone in the city of Iquique, in northwestern Chile. This territory bears the scars of the last wilderness of original America transformed into a showcase for a weird commercial circus.
- Baptiste Bessette went to Hiroshima to question the city about the shadows of its past and the cogs of its future. A vital lead: the ginkgo biloba, a prehistoric tree which is eventually the only one to have survived the nuclear disaster.
- What's the role of an artist in a time of economic crisis? The director, C. Profili, wanted to tell a story: the tale of Alice in Pleasureland. Step by step, she's meeting people, creating situations to discover the magical world of love.
- Guided by the sheepbells of a flock and by the evocations of the lost, this film is a voyage through storms; those of the mountains and winter, those of bodies and souls, those which remind us that which nature has not obtained from our reason, obtaining from our madness.
- Tells the story of a herd of heifers born in France and sold to an old Kolkhoz in Western Siberia, the Zarya Farm. This tale, in which cows travel and talk, brings the forgotten Russian farmers' world out in the open.
- In Mauritania, black political prisoners from the old colonial fortress of Oualata are known as "Le Cercle des Noyés". The film unveils frangible memories by one of these former prisoners who remembers his story and that of his companions in misfortune.
- As he was passing over the highway, the director discovered a strange refugees' camp inhabited with Roms, from Romania. They live in a slum, among the trees, stuck between the two highway tracks. He wants to understand this exodus.
- This film was inspired by the cult of purgatory in Naples. It's a collection of encounters, sacred places, true stories, testimonies and dreams. It explores the depth of the cult and its questioning; we need to know that we existed.
- Every month, a truck crosses the Italian peninsula from the far south to the foot of the Alps: a three-thousand-kilometer round trip to bring home-made and traditional products from the South to the family in the North. A trove on wheels.
- A documentary film about social telephony: on each end of the line, two nameless individuals, two anonymous people are having a conversation that tries to combine demands and answers. The caller, the listener. Two voices.