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- April 1999, D-Day minus 275 in the Kalahari Desert, like everywhere on earth. In 8 months, the year 2000. In the village of Auru, Emmanuelle, an ethnomusicologist, has five Bushmen musicians rehearse. In 2 weeks, they are giving a series of concerts in Paris. In Paris, hunters and women with ocher painted faces and scarified legs are transformed for a few days into consumer tourists, fascinated by roller skates, the Eiffel Tower and the slaloms on motorbikes of pizza delivery men. The music of hunting or healing rituals becomes for a time a staged show, through which the bushmen question their own culture. At what price do these music and money transactions take place? What will be the impact when returning to the village? Contrary to popular belief - the gods fell on their heads? - it may well be that the bushmen have their own idea about it.
- He was the great rival and competitor of renowned studios Pathe and Gaumont. He created Paris's two mythical theaters, the Rex and the Olympia, and was one of the talking film pioneers. He's also the one who revolutionized the Arabic cinema by spreading the Egyptian films through out North Africa. Yet today, few know who Jacques Haik was, and his name has almost disappeared from cinema history. Thanks to a mysterious roll of film and some determined descendants, Jacques Haik's name is back on everyone's lips, from Tunis to Paris, from memory to history.
- By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would silence him forever. They were wrong since his voice is a little louder every day. Witnesses to these craze: the publication of the complete works of this great poet, the countless conferences and radio broadcasts devoted to him and finally the production of films such as "Jean Sénac, the blacksmith of the sun". The moving and overwhelming testimonies of those who knew him, the unpublished film archives, the generous voice of the poet on the radio, the discovery of his travels in the territories of poetry and politics make this film a precious document on the life of Jean Senac.
- A few years ago, Jean-Marie, a young male homosexual drug-addict became Sandra, a tranvestite prostitute in Paris. Now she lives the everyday violence of prostitution, drugs and her recent confirmation of being seropositive. She has caught the AIDS virus through either a client or a needle... she will never know. Josée, her widowed mother, has left her tranquil life in retirement to stay with Sandra, to help her in her loneliness and despair and to try to make her beat her drug addiction. From the street and the hot quarters of Paris where hard drugs are available, to their cramped hotel room, they share the same daily nightmare that often leads them to despair.
- Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo's feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from the film and interviews with personalities, the filmmaker retraces the journey of a major work - from the events of the Algiers Casbah (1956-1957) to the presentation of the Lion of 'Or causing the anger of the French delegation in Venice - which left its mark as much in the history of cinema as in that of Algeria. The Battle of Algiers, the imprint is interested in the relationship between history and cinema in the work of Gillo Pontecorvo, showing the reciprocity between reality and fiction such as the capture of Yacef Saadi for example, seen by the television news of the era and by an extract from the film. The documentary underlines the "absolute quest for the truth" desired by Pontecorvo, collecting stories from both Algerians such as the work written by Saadi in 1962, and French stories through the oral testimonies of the paratroopers, in order to construct a factual story beyond all censorship. The torture used by the French army and shown in the film was one of the reasons for its ban until 2004. Finally, Cheikh Djemaï questions the historical legacy left by The Battle of Algiers in the collective Algerian consciousness. He notes that fiction has supplanted history, on the predominant role of Algiers compared to the rest of the country in the war led by the FLN for example, or even on the place of Ali La Pointe, a figure of the Resistance whose the symbolic importance rests entirely on the film.
- Activists and residents of Cap Bon (Ras ed-Dar), in al-Watan al-Qabli, North-Eastern Tunisia, testify to the threats hanging over the ecosystem of their region.
- In 1985, Laurent Chevallier went to film, with Bernard Prudhomme, a French expedition on Gasherbrum 2 (8,035 m), aiming for the first delta wing jump at 8,000 meters. This Western feat was only possible thanks to the painstaking work of the Himalayan porters. During the expedition, the director developed a friendship with one of them, "Little Karim", who quickly became "Mister Karim" by accompanying, with a few others, the members of the expedition to the top. Ten years later, Laurent Chevallier finds him. This film is more than the portrait of a man, it is the story of a family, a village, a population whose life has completely changed since the arrival of rich expeditions in the Himalayas.
- Due to human activity, insects, bees and swallows are threatened with extinction. The planet is empty of life, the waters are polluted. How ? Why ? And above all, what to do? In the regions of France and across the world, a group of pioneers are rising up. Thinking about their relationship to the Earth differently, these women and men are experimenting with solutions for the future on a daily basis, not only to preserve our threatened natural heritage, but also to reinvent our ways of life, production and exchanges at the same time. They are inventing the France of tomorrow and this documentary tells their story.
- Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf, Algeria, in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one of the great French writers and poets and the only one of his reputation to have accompanied the Algerian revolution even before November 1954. Sénac was part of all the debates and got involved, very early and with immense enthusiasm, in a work of commitment which ended badly. His poetry, his sexual preferences and his political lyricism worked against him: rejected as much by the Pieds Noirs as by the FLN activists and then by the power in place in Algiers, Jean Sénac was assassinated in 1973 at his home in Algiers, in circumstances never clarified.
- Tunisia, an era of cultural revolution meets a series of interviews with five groups of artists committed to the democratization of culture in Tunisia since the fall of the former dictatorial regime of Ben Ali. Their new rights acquired since the departure of Ben Ali, liberty of expression is still in danger and the struggle for the democratization of art has only just begun. Through graffiti, contemporary Arabic calligraphy, theater, music, street art and cinema, they invite the civil society, including the populations of regions through the country, to express and reflect on the problems of the country. Beyond the presentation of their mode of expression, these "cultural activist" also tell us about the effect of the revolution, the importance of culture as well as their visions for the future of Tunisia.
- Abou Zayd, an Islamic theologian in exile, defends his vision of the Quran during public meetings.
- An artist close to the avant-gardes, André Sauvage composed the first great filmed portrait of Paris. Its ambitious symphony of a big city marries, on the music composed by Jeff Mills, the changing rhythm of the Belle Époque.