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Tom Volf invites you to delve into the fascinating world of Véronique Sanson, a living legend of French chanson. After several years of research and immersion, he is unveiling an intimate and sincere portrait of the artist in a film event. The fruit of his encounter with the singer, this project highlights the raw emotion and beauty of her career.

A short clip of street life in the French village Chamonix.

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

A steamboat coming to port.

People gather at the exit of the St. Trophime cathedral in Arles.

Children dig for clams on the beach

Panorama of a mountainside railroad and tunnel.

A fixed camera gets images of traffic and passers-by in Vienna's chic thoroughfare, popularly known as Ringstrasse (The Ring), at a junction with another large street.

The Count of Montebello and General de Boisdeffre arrive at the coronation of Nicholas II of Russia.

Shot both on and from an elevated electric train.

Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock of about 50 domesticated ducks. A woman watches them briefly and then moves on. The older girl has her grain in a bucket, the younger one's grain is in her apron. The children stay in one spot, as does the camera; it's the ducks that move around. Chickens are in the background; only one braves the ducks' territory.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to receive a new shoe.

A short black and white film in which a fixed camera records a busy New York street, Broadway.

A Berlin street scene.

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

Beligneux, La Valbonne camp: the cuirassiers mount their horses and then march in formation.

Shot over the course of 30 days at sea, filmmaker Alizé Jireh documents the group’s voyage across the North Atlantic—from moments of stillness and calm to the chaos of storms and setbacks. With an observational approach and an eye for the emotional and physical rhythms of life at sea, Jireh captures not just the external landscape, but the internal shifts that come with navigating the vast unknown.

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

Exotic street scene with men riding camels.

A girl in a Sevillian dress dances to the sound of music played a couple of men at the "Féria Sevillanos" [sic] during the Exposition Universelle de Paris - though she does not look a real Sevillian dancer.

In 1936, Gaston Revel entered the École Normale in Algiers, where he was supposed to learn how to "educate the native." It was also during this time that he began to take an interest in politics: he was drawn to the Popular Front, then to Spanish anarchism, and finally to communism. From 1940 to 1955, he taught in Algeria, first in rural areas, then in Bejaia. He returned to Europe because of the war and landed in Provence in September 1914, following the Allied advance. It was in Bejaia, in 1945, that he became fully committed to the Algerian Communist Party: in 1953, he ran for municipal office in the second electoral district (reserved for Algerians) and sat alongside the Muslims. In 1955, at the beginning of the war, he was forced to leave Algeria against his will. But, like thousands of other "red feet," he returned there in 1962 and resumed his teaching career. From all those years, he left a complete and deeply committed record, many letters, notebooks, and newspaper articles.

The Hills of Wrath takes us to the heart of the land of Condrieu and Côte-Rôtie wines, the singular domains of winemaker Christine Vernay. Beyond the climatic hazards that these women and men will endure that year, the film is an odyssey that pays tribute to an extraordinary place and personalities, a breath of hope that they transmit to us in the face of a changing world. Through their experience, it is also an important testimony to various current issues: the consequences of climate change, the place of women in agriculture, the rupture in biodiversity and soil protection via organic viticulture and of course transmission.

Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.

Students in Lyon.

The German infantry parades in front of Nicholas II and Wilhelm II.

Documentary series in two parts: 1. A people without a voice (80'), 2. A land in mourning (78'). Part 1: A people without a voice: October 88, the Algerian Republic is faltering, the film goes back to the sources of this tragedy and explains how the face to face between the Islamists and those in power began. The interruption of the legislative elections of December 91, followed shortly after the assassination of President Boudiaf in June 92, plunged Algeria into chaos. Part 2: A land in mourning: the cycle of violence that leads to massacres and the economic and geopolitical underside of the war. More than 100,000 deaths, an incredible degree of barbarity, massacres, apparently incomprehensible... Behind the official window of power and its artificial political scene, hides a shadow power.

The launching of the ship Varèse in Livourne.

Parade of hunters and Spahis.

View of the German and Italian royal processions, at the iron mines of Monteponi.

Cléo de Merode dancing the gavotte in 1900.

A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.

Panorama of the battleship "Brennus" flagship of the French fleet

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

View of a group of Milanese rowers. The video was made by the operator Giuseppe Filippi, the official dealer of the Lumière Brothers for the Italian territory.

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.

Lyon, Men rescue rabbits from flood.

Great Britain: two professionals have a boxing session.