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Fu Chu is one of the most important and strict prisons in Japan, where they have more than 2,000 people living together. In addition, it is the one that has the greater number of foreigners. Through the testimony of two French prisoners we know first hand how the inmates of Japanese prisons live behind bars. Fu Chu is known worldwide because many ex-convicts have sued the Japanese State for the treatment received during their incarceration. Amnesty International has been interested in this problem and has denounced the methods used to consider that they violate Human Rights. In this documentary the cameras enter for the first time in the premises of the prison and show how is the strict regime of this institution.

In the Six Day War to the Yom Kippur War, the hijacking of planes on airfield Zarka taking of hostages at the Olympics in Munich, Black September massacre of the exodus Lebanese peace agreements Oslo in the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the battle for the same land claimed by two peoples has continued for sixty years. Back on these events through five destinies.

An invitation to travel, one of the main themes of Lemaître, and a genuine manifestation of film Lettrism

Erotica short film.

"Light in April" describes the mixed emotions one can't help but feel when spending some time in New Orleans: a constant exhilaration in the face of the extraordinary vitality emanating from this city, and simultaneously, a sense of sadness and resignation in the face of the heart-wrenching misfortunes. The film pays tribute to the dignity, humor, intelligence, and human richness of these people who are confronted day after day with violence, racism, and corruption.

A woman is transforming herself into a picture.

Human nature is such that parents love their children more than the other way around. This film explains why.

Rome, a palimpsest: monuments, the Catholic church, the everyday life.

Who has never felt lost in a crowd? Who has never questioned their own identity through the anonymity of the city streets? In Fausse Solitude, Pierre-Yves Cruaud lets himself go in an urban merry-go-round until he reaches dizziness. With the camera fixed on the image of his face, he pulls us into his solitude.

Invisible Film reimagines Peter Watkins’s Punishment Park (1971), a radical anti-war film banned in both the UK and the US after the Vietnam War. Melik Ohanian replaces its images with a single static shot of a 35mm projector screening the censored film in daylight in the San Bernardino desert—its original location. Projected without a screen, the image disappears into the desert air, turning cinema itself into both subject and ghost.

"god is a dog" (2004) is shot on Super 8 and confronts the filmmaker's remembrances of childhood memories and how they interact with his adult love encounters.

A business leader from Haute-Savoie explains his relationship to globalization.

This documentary follows the traces of the French colonization of the country Lobi. In this region of southwestern Burkina Faso, there is not a village, not a family that does not remember the suffering brought by the colonizers. Confronted with the archival documents of the administrators, the oral tradition, through its numerous testimonies, allows us to trace back nearly a century of history, from the arrival of the first Whites until today. This word also testifies to the individual, social or religious consequences of this often painful history. Between the past and the present, between the living words and the writings of the colonists, "Mémoire entre deux rives" is as much a quest for Lobi identity as a reflection on "civilising" France.

Gonna rob the imagebank.

Paris, in the Belleville neighborhood in 2002. Two benches are placed opposite each other in a public garden. One is always in the sun, while the other is always in the shade. Every day, two elderly Jews and two elderly Arabs rush to have the best seat. One day, the bench exposed to sunlight disappears for no reason...

Playful and rythmic self-portrait shot on Super 8mm and 16mm. Colored directly on the super 8mm.

This 1994 French TV presentation of Delibes' Coppelia reflects choreographer Maguy Marin's commitment to total theatre, seeking to find a fresh and exciting way of making ballet a rewarding experience on the home screen. One of the problems of filmed live ballet is the video presentation often fails to capture the experience of being in the theatre, something this dynamic production shot on location and in the studio circumvents in a highly visual way. Relocating Hoffman's tale of Doctor Coppelia's automaton and troubled young love to contemporary run-down urban France, the opening folk-dances are set around a hard-court game of football which unequivocally evokes the opening of West Side Story (1961).

Someone dreams of falling from a building.

An unearthed time capsule consisting of footage of the maker's youthful self – an “exquisite corpse” with nature as collaborator. Bourque buried random out-takes from her first three films (all staged productions dealing with her family) in the backyard of her ancestral home (adjoining the grounds of a former cemetery) with the ambivalent intentions of both safe-keeping and unloading them (she was relocating). Upon examining the footage five years later she found that the material contained images of herself captured during the making of her first film. That discovery seemed handed over like a gift and prompted the making of this film, a metaphysical pas-de-deux in which decay undermines the image and in the process engenders a transmutation.

After four years of study, students of the Irkutsk theater school have to leave each other. Tradition dictates that they spend the last night together. They will take advantage of this festive moment to settle their account and free themselves from the Master who taught them everything…

A double of Sacha Guitry watches several scenes from the artist's films, reads out his letters, goes through his personal archives, and even asks opinions from other film directors on the phone.

A documentary about Catalan theatrical group La Fura dels Baus and their performance Imperium (2007), staged by Jürgen Müller and Lluís Fusté Coetzee.

Poetic and melancholic evocation of a few fleeting moments in the life of Fernand, a little boy who lives with his mother Josette, his aunt Louise and a facetious dog, Colchique.

In Vietnam, thirty years after the war, the ghosts of the past have not finished haunting the living: hundreds of thousands of soldiers have died without burial, reduced to the sad fate of wandering souls. Armed with their unit records, Tho and Doan, two former Viet Cong fighters, set out in search of the graves of their comrades, in the hope of bringing their bodies back to their families. From forgotten battlefields to cemeteries of "unknown soldiers", their quest takes them back to the places that marked their youth and forged their destiny.

Three young people decide to spend a night in the woods but without knowing that they are already inhabited by a sort of monstrous zombie.

"Carnets de Shanghai" (Shanghai diaries) is presenting itself like the sketch of a poetic, not historical, portrait of Shanghai, coming from subjective impressions and reflexion on the position and intentions of the filmmaker.

Escaping his home-town that completely rejected him, alone, Vincent goes to Paris to be entirely Herself, but life is never that simple.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Ken Russell's Women In Love

nseparable barriers limit the vital space of human activities. Pedestrians emerge from static lines, isolated in the outline of their bodies, only to disappear once more when they encounter the next boundary. Underpinned by an electronic soundscape, Le silence est en marche questions spatial and social conditioning.