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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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Local activists in Gaza, Germany, and Colombia challenge fossil-fuel dependency and power structures in a struggle for social and climate justice.
- 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.
- 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.
- Following the steps of the Nan Shui Bei Diao - South to North Water Transfer - the world's largest water transfer project, stretching between southern and northern China.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- British designer, teacher and author Richard Hollis calls Pierre Faucheux "the single most important figure in French graphic design after Cassandre," and praises his highly innovative typographic design for book covers and 60s paperbacks.
- 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.
- In the Argentine pampas, the lands around Colonia Hansen are among the most fertiles in the world. For a long time, millions of cows were pasting there in the open air. It was said that the best beef was Argentine.
- As the last survivor of the Sonderkommandos, Silvano Lippi has forgotten nothing, from his arrest in the port of Piraeus up to the evening at a friend's house when he finally talked about his deportation. Then, he returns to the WWII camp.
- Maths, drama, bodybuilding lessons: with extraordinarily skillful framing and off-screen sound, the film's central theme looks at high-school students who have been marginalized by the education system.
- 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?
- 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.
- Chronicles of rural life, misadventures from the past century, fights one must win to muster misery and resistance against servitude and wage labor in the South of Portugal.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- Twenty minutes from the Champs Élysées, chambermaids of a hotel go on strike for the first time with the help of an experienced trade unionist.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This film is a first: never before a director has filmed inside the French General Intelligence structure. The camera follows men and women step by step, all agents of the R.G., in their daily intelligence hunting mission and sundry works.
- 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.
- 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.
- In 2000, Antoine Rigot, a virtuoso tightrope walker, is the victim of a serious accident. Rather than disappear from the circus ring, his damaged body incites him to become both the object and subject of his spectacles.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The long-lasting strike of illegal employees occupying their firm.