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Kepone, also known as chlordecone, is an endoctrine disruptor invented in the U.S.. Because of it, the number of prostate cancers in Martinique as well as the number of premature babies have never stopped rising. It has infected a third of the agricultural lands, tubers, meat, eggs, has polluted sources and rivers, affected fish and seafood.
A small-time drug-dealer gets into big trouble when a corrupt East London cop tries to steal a consignment meant for Welsh-Jamaican Yardies.
The head of a famous artist with a sordid past is found in the catacombs in Paris. In his studio, Commissaire Rousseau and the young profiler Mariella De Luca discover a second decapitated body, his wife's. The mystery deepens when another head is found a few days later.
Kumba is a young Ivorian mother living alone in Paris with her two children, Adja (7) and Bakary (8 months). One day, she is asked to replace a cleaner friend at short notice. Kumba has to choose between working and caring for her small son. She goes to work, worried sick. Her little boy is left alone at home.
An elderly woman at the end of her life reminisces her years spent at a boarding school for girls.
Théo must find a way to show people who he really is. His father is convinced he raised a future diving champion, while his new teammate, Arthur, thinks he's just another one night stand.
A little cat witnesses the passing of his family.
For the first time, a documentary dismantles the mechanisms of this great world trade to economic issues, major political and food, and reveals the daily life of those who are the main players: traders themselves, the men and women who buy , transport, sell merchandise and speculate on changes in their prices. African cotton plantations of the Hong Kong import companies, Brazilian soybean fields in the hall of the Chicago Board of Trade markets, through commercial ports of Santos and Le Havre.
A French adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House", staged by Stéphane Braunschweig.
The history of barbed wire, whose use dates back to the first settlers of the Wild West, always driven by their reckless and ruthless spirit of conquest and selfish ambition to leave their mark on wild lands; of its relationship with politics and mercantilism; of the perversion of the millenary relationship between men and animals; of the evolution of surveillance techniques. Fences and borders: the tragic tale of the enclosure of the world.
Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)
It's summer. While his cousins are reluctant to involve him in their games, a little boy is learning, in his own way, new emotions.
On a foggy afternoon, a woman who is lost in the middle of the countryside, finally reaches him on the phone. She calls him “darling” but has to give back his letters.
A tense night of raised pulses on a ferry to England: Adèle, an English teacher, is hiding a 15 year old migrant among her students on board.
Frustrated by the decline of the Catholic Church and willing to do anything to win back the faithful, Father Laurent calls on a strange public relations advisor with undeniable charisma to help him bring people back to church. Together, they devise a grandiose marketing strategy.
Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)
Thomas, a 17-year-old high school student, finds himself attracted to Esteban, another boy from his school. The rumor of Thomas's homosexuality is spreading fast, and he begins to suffer the gaze of others.
Thomas is an arrogant and merciless businessman who live in a universe of luxury.Mathilde is a very sensible and insecure woman who recuperates a lot things in the dustbins.This day Thomas was driving his mountain bike through a park, Mathilde was with her friends Nathalie and Patricia and she was trying to drive a car.Suddenly Thomas shocked the car driven by Mathilde,flies in the air and falls down: he remains unconscious some minutes and when Patricia asks him his name he answers that he has lost his memory.They carry him to an hospital where the doctor makes an medical examination.Patricia doesn't want to have problems and goes away.The doctor says that Thomas needs to rest and Mathilde accepts to invite him for a night in her apartment.When Thomas was jumping above the car, he lost his cell phone and his colleague is calling him.
A comedy about a band of voyeuristic students who take their jobs at the school paper to extremes, deciding to uncover the real lives of their teachers.
Under the heat of the sun, boaters cool off at the edge of a lake.
A woman argues with her daughter in the park, few minutes later, the daughter is held captive by a maniac, The mother has to execute insane actions for the next sixty minutes if she wants to see again her daughter.
Naval Officer Berken faces a wall of resistance as she investigates the murder of a soldier.
In a moment of anger in a grocery store in Lausanne, a father loses patience and disciplines his disobedient child. A shocked customer immediately intervenes to express her concern. Other customers join the conversation and the discussion soon turns into a debate that gradually gets out of hand.
Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, repeat the Way of the Cross of the Passion of Christ. In 1992, the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bozon filmed this ceremony at length and met the main characters in this seven-century-old Way of the Cross. Gérard Courant collected and edited the rushes from this filming and made five films. The fourth, Bernard de Chanaleilles, le Simon de Cyrène de Burzet, is an encounter with Bernard de Chanaleilles, interpreter of Simon de Cyrène in the Burzet Passion.
In a small village of the South of France, life is made difficult by a sweltering heat wave and its corollary, a worrisome lack of water. Everyone is under great pressure, especially the farmers whose fields are not irrigated. Which is the reason why the residents are less and less well-disposed toward one of them, Joseph, a young man whose never-ending antics are becoming, in such fraught context, something of an intolerable inconvenience. The mayor tries desperately to calm things down but nothing helps...
The story is one of an architect that has lost his inspiration and goes looking for those motivations that pushed him as a youngster to take up the profession. Inspiring him was the baroque movement and all of its artifices: the Guarini in Turin and the Borromini in Rome. The film’s central story ends up being the love story that develops between architecture, artistic inspiration and feelings.
The blacksmith returns to Montreal with fire and sword. He finds his old shop, now abandoned, and all the memories it holds.
France 1919. Paul, a sculptor, goes from village to village erecting the memorials to the dead which blossom throughout the country. But when he arrives in the small town of Sancerre, the traumatisms of war resurface: after so many names engraved in stone, will this memorial at last be a return to the living?
A visitors’ day in a Parisian zoo is about to end. The last guests, tired with attractions, are going back home. What happens to the zoo residents, which are not closely looked at, after the gates are closed? Tired animals listen to one another’s voices. Slowly, their calls fall silent deeper into the night, which drowns each cage in darkness. Before it becomes completely dark, the birds once again announce from afar the end of a long day.
A young girl falls in love with a synthesizer - Benoît Sabatier, rock-critic and Marcia Romano, screenwriter for François Ozon, Emmanuelle Bercot and Xavier Gianolli build in full independence a small universe through which the contemporary music scene crosses. A synth-pop hymn, fetishistic and sensual - on an original score by Blackmail.
At the end of WWII, the General De Gaulle decides dissolve all the French resistance networks that helped the allies. Only one was spared, the "304". Kept alive until today, it's mission hasn't change: fight the inside enemy. In 2018, this enemy is called corruption, lobbies and crooked politicians.
Nasser, a 30-something Parisian with a troubled past, returns to Paris after some jail time. Margot, his probation officer, urges him to work at LE PRESTIGE, his brother's bar located right next to the Moulin Rouge, in the heart of Pigalle - one of Paris’ most diverse and rawest neighborhoods. But deep wounds between the two brothers make this collaboration difficult from the start, and even more so when Nasser decides to get back in the game by throwing exclusive parties against his brother's will.
During the heat wave, swimmers flock to a municipal pool. Rain or shine, as the days pass the place takes on a life of its own, and the lifeguards, while immature at times, shoulder considerable responsibilities.
A group of friends leave the city for the weekend and camp near a lake in the middle of the woods. Between the campfire flames and the night sky, tensions begin to emerge.
The hearts of two women, one a teacher and the other a student, suffer from extrasystole, a premature contraction interrupting the proper heartbeat…
When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his mother, for Luna whom he has fallen in love with, Victor has decided to step out of the shadows. He’ll go as far as he needs to.
For 12 years now, Mathieu Amalric has been filming the stupendous New York saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Whirligig films that Zorn likes to programme during his concerts, like a musical set. They are screened here for the first time out of a concert setting. Music in the making, constellations of energies, an ever-expanding universe of sound…
A poetic tale that explores the diversity of romantic relationships.
A nurse's aid, Cathy lives alone. Too alone. When her sister, with whom she's had a falling-out, calls her for her birthday and invites her to the beach, Cathy is exhilarated. But the day gradually slips away from her.