Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 108
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Local activists in Gaza, Germany, and Colombia challenge fossil-fuel dependency and power structures in a struggle for social and climate justice.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Enticed by the mysterious portrait of a Muslim preacher, two European directors lose themselves in the mystical world of a Muslim brotherhood in Senegal. Set to the soundtrack of French musician Kouldam, they travel across the country encountering marabouts savants and religious pilgrims chanting in ecstasy, before discovering that their film is nothing but the fulfillment of the prophecy of the holy preacher himself.
- Ali Ziri, an Algerian man age 69, and a friend were stopped by the French police, beaten at the scene and on the way to the police station. Ziri died a few hours after being arrested. Multiple suspicious bruises were found on his corpse.
- In the Brazilian Nordeste, Vanilda and her husband Antonio, along with twenty other farmers families, obtain some lands. Supported by the landless trade union,they spent four years occupying an camp in a remote mountain . Like pioneers from an old western, they settle a farming community on this land haunted by dryness, with the sole strength of their arms and hopes. The collective management of the property and its resources turns out to be an adventure even more demanding than the conquest of the lands. It is this utopian force that the film looks at, grounding through the ordeal of a desolated reality.
- Malek puts his camera at the service of El Watan, a prestigious publication in an unstable democracy. This is a telling of the encounters that take place at the paper, and a reflection on freedom of the press.
- 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.
- 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.
- The long-lasting strike of illegal employees occupying their firm.
- Drawing from stories of flight, exile, interminable waiting and the arrested, persecuted lives on both sides of that wall dividing Morocco and the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement's Polisario Front, this film bears witness to the Sahrawi people, their land, their entrapment.
- 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.
- 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.
- Four different tales take us from Belgium to Senegal, from the North of France to Western Sahara. Every one of them leads us to encounters with dormants, men and women who evolve between two worlds, those of the living and dead.
- A subjective journey into the 1956 Hungarian revolution observed through archive footage and records, a dive into the heart of the 1950s of communist Europe: productivism, lies, treason, amnesia, an era which should be remembered by now.
- During the trial in Brussels of a Rwandan man involved in the 1994 genocide, the testimonies of his victims are set in parallel with the trial.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This is the daydream story of a woman who made her life her artwork and her artwork the lives of others, Sylvie Crossman. From her childhood in French Polynesia to her humanitarian commitment in Australia, we follow her career.
- 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.
- Each month of the year has a passion, an odor, a color. We will enter the lives of impassioned men and women who left everything behind them, a job, a safe home, to follow their passion, and month after month, we will witness real talent.
- "Go and see what we left behind." With these words in mind, a filmmaker journeys into the discovery of an almost abandoned and little known country: Albania. Her film offers an overview of the tormented past sixty years in the country.
- This film was born from walks and pondering in the European countryside. This is not a proselyte film, nor a propaganda film against GMOs. It's about telling concerned mothers, or shopaholics at the supermarket, the things we are not told.
- 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?
- 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.
- Let us follow French singer Nino Ferrer who had several lives: popular hits that made him famous; a dark but artistically fruitful period; a hidden life - of its own volition - leaving show biz; a brilliant, complex, flayed character.
- For nearly a year, director Sibylle Stürmer has followed the creative work of Nathalie Pernette and her dancers as they prepare and rehearse for a new contemporary dance performance called 'Le Nid/The Nest'.
- 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.