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Figure skating star Sarah Abitbol was raped by her coach when she was only 15 years old. Three decades later, she has decided to speak out. First in 2020, in a book entitled Un si long silence. Then on television. Finally, in this documentary by Remy Burkel and Emmanuelle Anizon. She started skating at the age of 5. Propelled in Paris to try her luck, the teenager meets this famous coach. "He scared everyone", she will admit. He is a great man who has a hold on her. During the stretching, the behavior of this man is unhealthy. But it is at the age of 15 that everything collapses. Sarah abitbol will write down these two years of sexual violence in a small notebook. She will never throw it away. It is at the moment of revealing herself, at 44 years old, that she finds it unexpectedly.

The film to show a school in Naples, in an area where schooling is given no value, as is perhaps, the case in problem areas in other large Western cities.

Shot behind the scenes, from the point of view of a subjective camera, the film shows the ethnologist’s ambiguous relations and negotiations with the people of his village in the mountains.

Photographer Helmut Newton talks about his work.

Writer Cédric Gras follows in the footsteps of Stalinist mountaineers in Kyrgyzstan. Pioneers of Central Asian exploration, they were first on the highest peaks of the Celestial Mountains. The film traces one of their expeditions to the Khan Tengri, which has become an amazing glacial trek.

From waiting for an organ to his fragile rebirth, this documentary follows the precarious journey of a forty-something father who has undergone a heart transplant. A sensitive reflection on the meaning of life.

The attacks of November 13, 2015 deeply marked France, with 131 dead and thousands injured, at the Stade de France, the Parisian terraces and the Bataclan. For the first time, victims, families, police officers, prosecutors, judges and lawyers recount their quest for truth and justice, from the night of the attacks to the final preparations for the trial that opens on September 8, 2021. For almost six years, the justice system has been on the move to investigate, question suspects, follow up on leads from Paris to Raqqa, and organize the largest terrorism trial France has ever seen.

A popular figure in 13th century Christian folktales, the Wandering Jew is said to have been condemned to wander the world forever because he denied Jesus of Nazareth a brief respite on the threshold of his home.

Hermann Göring's creation of 1933, the Gestapo, Geheime Staatspolizei, the secret state police charged with identifying individuals considered undesirable, was a redoubtable weapon in the hands of the Nazi power: a veritable device for terror. On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936.

Ashkenazi, Mizrachi, ultra-Orthodox, Israeli Arabs... The different groups that make up Israeli society seem irreconcilable. Who are they? Can their complicated history explain the current situation in the country?

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem by Louis Les yeux d'Elsa.

One year after the hurricane, almost half of the residents have still not returned to live in New Orleans. Among them, many poor black citizens. And their return is hardly encouraged.

At the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe rivers, Saint-Aubin Island is a fragile natural area: how can the interests of agriculture and tourism be reconciled while preserving the remarkable flora and fauna that it shelters?

French pastry-making is undergoing major changes. More and more retailers are succumbing to the siren call of industrialization, without always informing their customers. This film investigates the industry's professionals and takes a look inside the factories. Bakeries and pastry shops welcome more than ten million customers every day. While the term "bakery" requires artisans to make their bread on site, there are no regulations governing the "pastry" business. This legal loophole is being exploited by a growing number of professionals who sell industrially produced products without displaying or admitting their origin. How, then, can they be distinguished from homemade products?

Sophie Biesenbach-Jansen and David Jansen invite us on a journey through time and to the far reaches of space. How did the two artists meet? What role do scissors play in their lives? What does Sophie think of the Lord's Prayer?

A citizen eager to get involved shares the daily lives of four very different mayors to get an idea of what he would have to deal with if he were elected. In Bry-sur-Marne, Charles Aslangul defends a Republic that he sees faltering in the face of insecurity. In Besançon, Anne Vignot must deal with the increasing precariousness of her fellow citizens. In Saint-Brévin, Dorothée Pacaud takes up the torch of a mayor whose house was burned down for supporting the opening of a refugee reception center. Further away, in the Tarn region, Alain Malignon is struggling to revitalize his declining village.

Foreign secret services operate everywhere in France, to steal sensitive data, recruit moles or even interfere in political life.

On October 30, 2022, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected President of Brazil for the third time, then sworn in on January 1, 2023, at the Palácio do Planalto in Brasília. It was an incredible and totally unexpected comeback for a man who survived cancer, lost all his loved ones, and endured a political trial that landed him in prison for 580 days, before being completely cleared by the courts.

Gigi, Marie-Claude, and Jocelyne. Three retirees whose daily lives could be peaceful. But the trials and tribulations of life have decided otherwise. Widowed or divorced, they are single. A word they endure every day. In the land of fairy tales, "Rêve de princesse" tells the story of women who, at the dawn of their lives, face one of the taboos of our society: love after 60.

In the form of a gripping social thriller, Saeed Roustayi's "The Law of Tehran" (2019) offers a striking insight into the war declared on drug traffickers by the authorities. We look back at the making of a film that revealed the extent of the drug scourge in Iran today.

In France, one in three women has an abortion during her lifetime. Although this medical procedure has been a legal right since 1975, the subject remains sensitive. Those who talk about it expose themselves to ambiguous comments and sometimes judgment. This film documents the freedom of speech and awareness needed to break the silence surrounding abortion. It recounts the personal and social upheaval that abortion can still cause today. Léa Bordier has collected the stories of those who have experienced it in order to break the taboo that has surrounded abortion in France since its legalization.

Between 2013 and 2015, three princes became the leaders of the Persian Gulf's main oil monarchies: Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This new generation of sovereigns, some of the richest and most powerful on the planet, has imposed a new way to govern, between violence, repression and ego wars.

The taco has established itself in the street food market, rivaling the burger and kebab. This postmodern all-in-one sandwich, where middle and high school students mix as many ingredients as they like, has become a symbol of a lifestyle.

From the first rough hessian foot bags to glossy, towering, highly expensive Louboutins, shoes have symbolized status, power and sex appeal. The height of the heel, thickness of the sole and shape of the toe charters the rise and fall of prosperity, heralds wars and changes in sexual politics while reflecting our individual lives. Interweaving history, myth, nursery rhymes, folklore and Hollywood movies, this documentary tells how shoes reveal how we live and the social class we inhibit. ‘A Journey with Shoes’ is the story of how shoes have taken a thousand different forms and why.

A TV adaptation of the myth of Queen Pocou, a legendary heroine who sacrificed her own son to appease the hungry gods.