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Portrait of American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas with excerpts from the following programs or films: "Grande Nuit de l'Opéra 1958", "Trois Jours avec Maria Callas", "L'invité du Dimanche", and "Médée" (1969) by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
At only 26 years old, the adventurer Matthieu Tordeur undertook an expedition of 1150 km by skiing from the coast of the Antarctic continent to the South Pole, alone, without assistance and in total autonomy. This immersive documentary plunges us into the intimacy of the 51 days of this exceptional and very moving expedition.
Four persecutors. Four victims. Appearances can be deceiving. Monsters are not as dangerous as the people behind them.
Once upon a time, there was a village that had fallen into the dustbin of history, located in the French sector of West Berlin. I grew up in this community of military and civilian expatriates during the Cold War. Today, I return to Berlin in search of traces of that bygone life. My subjective memories and official history intertwine in this city undergoing constant reconstruction.
For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic renovations. To save it from collapse, the modern restoration team must uncover the secrets of how the ancient Greeks built this icon of western civilization in less than nine years without anything resembling an architectural plan.
One year: this is the time left to the employees of the Ascoval steel plant to save their factory and their future. During these months of sacrifice, doubt and hope, Eric Guéret, author and director of the documentary, accompanies the management and employees in a race against time to increase productivity and try to find a buyer. For many, this steel mill, which was the story of a lifetime, becomes a matter of survival. A personal struggle that is also symbolic of a problem intrinsic to this documentary: French deindustrialization. Can we still have heavy industry in France today?
A look back at the short and tragic life of Zayar Thaw, a young Burmese rap star who became a member of parliament alongside Aung San Suu Kyi, then was executed by the Burmese junta in 2022.
When a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in New York goes viral after the actor himself makes a surprise appearance, French "Chalamologist" Antoinette Love decides to launch her own contest in France. Between meetings with experts, unexpected twists and turns, and the quest for the ultimate encounter with Chalamet, her adventure becomes a funny and touching portrait of the actor's life.
A few months pregnant, Valerie is leading the construction of the Athens metro, which will reduce pollution in the Greek capital. However, on the construction site, archaeologists are trying to suspend the work because the subsoil contains archaeological treasures.
The Duplex A86 is a 10 kilometer underground highway buried more than 90 meters deep. This concrete tube, measuring the equivalent of more than 30 lying Eiffel towers, is the longest tunnel in France. The result of a succession of technical prowess born from the imagination of visionary engineers, the Duplex A86 allows you to cross all of western Paris in a few minutes.
TV adaptation of Jules Verne's posthumously published novel.
In Hamburg, an escape is being planned. Lisa, a prisoner's mistress, has decided to organize her man's escape. Franck has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a policeman. Lisa is helped by Gessler, Franck's lawyer. He risks his reputation and his career, driven by his undisclosed feelings for his client's wife...
Sons and daughters of West Indians, they proudly claim their origins, but carry within them a personal wound: they are the heirs of a language they do not speak. It prevents them from fully investing this West Indian part of themselves. To overcome this lack, they decided to roll up their sleeves and get down to learning the Creole language.
The career of Maria Callas was just a bit too early and too brief to receive full and satisfying video documentation like that now being accorded to such singers as Renée Fleming and Luciano Pavarotti. This black-and-white televised recital (Callas's Paris debut) took place at the Paris Opera on December 19, 1958 when television was still in its infancy. We might wish that it had happened earlier, when her voice was in better condition, or later, when video recording technology was more advanced--so that, for example, we would not have to take the narrator's word that Callas is wearing a red dress. But this is probably the best available Callas video recording, and her fans will welcome it warmly. Visual elements were as important as the vocal dimensions in her art.
Last month, 82 Nigerian schoolgirls were released after 3 years of imprisonment. In exchange, 5 terrorist leaders walked free - These leaders belong to Boko Haram, the most bloodthirsty terrorist group on the planet. The group gained global notoriety after their kidnapping of 276 students in 2014, over 100 of which have not yet been released. Their objective: to establish a Caliphate and impose sharia - Islamic law - in the heart of Africa. In an attempt to understand who these terrorists are, how they operate, and what kind of a threat they represent to Africa and the rest of the world, we have investigated in Nigeria, Cameroon and on the border of Niger and Nigeria, meeting former prisoners, repented jihadists and troops on the frontline.
An emancipated young woman has a string of one-night stands, out of fear of commitment. Until the day she meets Eduardo... She confides her feelings to her grandmother in the greatest secrecy, but, by mistake, the latter reveals the love relationship that her granddaughter has with her new lover. The situation suddenly becomes complicated.
When, in the seventies, British folk singer Cat Stevens, later known as Yusuf Islam, achieved worldwide fame, he immediately became the spokesman for a disillusioned hippie generation.
In the heart of Creuse, butchers prepare and sell meat. But their butcher shops are not the only place where heritage is passed on. The slaughterhouse is another. A collective of farmers was formed to find a solution to the tension between ethical farming practices and the industrialization of slaughter. The goal: to reclaim meat production and accompany the animals until their death, in conditions worthy of the respect with which they are raised. This balanced position, between the demands of industry and those of activists, remains precarious.
On August 23, 1973 a bank robbery at the Kreditbank in Stockholm went badly wrong. It turned into a hostage situation which lasted six days, and gave its name to a phenomenon. Stockholm Syndrome is a way of describing the emotional bonds which some people can form with a captor or abuser. And it all started in that bank in Stockholm. During the siege, despite being held against their will in a dangerous situation, the four hostages bonded with the bank robbers and turned against the police. They continued to defend their captors after their release and refused to testify against them. In fact, they even raised money for the bank robbers’ defence. This survival mechanism came to be known as “Stockholm Syndrome.” In this film, nearly fifty years after the events, we hear directly from the hostages, bank robbers and police and find out what happened during those six eventful days.
A vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, who has become a symbol of freedom and power for all African American women.
On 12th November 2014 Philae lander achieved the 1st ever landing on a comet and became a Space celebrity overnight! This film takes viewers on this unique space odyssey, into deep space and behind the scene in the control room with scientists.
Friendships, games, boredom, first emotions: the playground.
From Jean Monnet's idea of a transnational European army to the abolition of customs borders, seven years behind the scenes towards the Treaty of Rome. A docu-fiction "embedded" in the great and small histories of Europe.
The train stations of Bordeaux, Strasbourg, and Lyon are among the most spectacular in France, designed by the most daring architects and engineers. Three colossal monuments, three multimodal hubs, built in France's largest cities to handle millions of passengers. These stations were equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and technological innovations unique for their time. In Lyon, the Saint-Exupéry station takes the form of a bird spreading its wings, its distinctive feature being the 300 tunnel for TGVs passing at full speed. In Strasbourg, a monumental glass roof completely covers the historic façade of the station, built in 1883 by the Germans. In Bordeaux, a giant 17,400 m² hall defies the laws of gravity with spans of 57 meters, five times the width of the nave of Notre-Dame Cathedral.
This film tells the story of the economic war between the four main companies of the large retailers. This war symbolizes the transformation of the economy of the consumption over the last 50 years. It also questions the present and future stakes: how to imagine the 21th century's consumption style.
The action takes place in Paris in 1959, with a flashback. A teenager in search of a mother he has never known enters manhood and discovers love.
Will the river that nourishes the Horn of Africa, dominated by Egypt since the early 20th century, soon have a new master? Analysis of the underground regional struggle between Cairo, Sudan, and Ethiopia.
In 2008, German U- boat U-455 was discovered off the coast of Italy. 400 feet down, the submarine stands almost vertically on the ocean floor. This documentary will reveal its history and the cause of its demise.
A staging of Marivaux's play "The Double Inconstancy" by Jean-Luc Boutté.
A French adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's play "The Prince of Homburg", staged by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti.
2017 marks the centenary of one of the most significant events of the 20th century - the Russian Revolution. Using the private journals of Pierre Gilliard, tutor to the Romanov children, this film is an intimate and eye-opening account of the Russian Imperial family in those days of turmoil. How did they get through their days? How did they perceive their lives as their world crumbled around them?
Marion lives alone with her 15-year-old son, Sébastien. Enrolled in an expensive private school, he does not give complete satisfaction to his mother, who bleeds to pay for his studies. A medical secretary, she is fired without warning by her boss. When her neighbor and friend, Claudie, also in financial difficulty, receives a visit from a bailiff, they decide to change their lives.
Her first picture, La Messagère (The Messenger, 1975), made by Palcy before she left for Paris, allowed people from Martinique to see themselves for the first time on television as complex characters.
The mechanics of a love story that ends badly.
Mise-en-scène, at the Comédie-Française, of La Vie de Galilée by Bertolt Brecht. This is the last staging by Antoine Vitez.
Two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone or something named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness.