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Between Paris and Syria, the Orient remains an ordinary place filled with literature, myth, and the pulse of love. A love film without lovers, based on a poem by Constantin Cavafy.

A park in a big city. On the same day, four people are going to cross each other for the first time, then again, but this time in circumstances a little bit particular.

In this animation short directed by four Gobelins students, a time traveller takes off for the first manned trip to the future ... but the past beckons.

Claude, a shy young filmmaker wants to make a biopic about a former television host from the 60's-70's Serge Laprade. He agrees to cooperate but when he views footage of himself from his early shows, he becomes bitter. He drops out of the project and disappears.

June 2003. The G8 summit is being held in Evian. Switzerland had no say in the French authorities’ choice of venue, while anti-globalization activists—who are barred from demonstrating in Evian—are gathering in Lausanne and Geneva. Temps présent followed the preparations for this summit, covering both the authorities’ and the anti-globalization activists’ perspectives. Everyone is preparing for a showdown, knowing that groups of rioters from all over Europe will gather on the shores of Lake Geneva. Beyond the tensions between law enforcement and protesters, it is the very issue of freedom of expression that is at stake at a summit of the world’s leading heads of state, who are increasingly out of touch with the realities of the people.

A film about verbal and physical violence against women in public spaces.

The work is unique; it is the product of individuality, and to believe in the work is to believe in the individual, in humanity. To visualize the path that leads from the artist's thoughts and emotions to the painting, to watch Françoise Deverre work with the material, confront the surface of the canvas, make the right gesture, and let forth what becomes obvious when a moment earlier it did not exist. This is what this film is about.

A plane tree filmed from my window on a day with blue sky, onto which I applied ink.

Work is the best police (Nietzsche).

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

Yulia suddenly vanishes out of her kitchen. She finds herself in a closed room with five levers fixed to the wall. By setting them in motion, she starts off a series of absurd events that will lead her to finding a soul mate.

More than 40 years ago, the phone rang in Anny Stern's New York City home. It was a man she didn't know, calling to giver her a notebook. Covered in brown paper, its pages hand-sewn together, this was no ordinary notebook. It was one in which her mother, Mina, had hand-written recipes while interned in the Nazi concentration camp at Terezin, in Czechoslovakia. MINA'S RECIPE BOOK retraces Mina's story, as told by her grandson, a fellow internee, and a trove of archival material. Sent to Terezin along with the rest of Prague's Jews in 1941, she shared a room with 13 other women, only one of whom would survive.

An investigation between Alsace and Japan on capuchin monkeys and their incredible ability to communicate with humans.

Pravda is a loner, but Pravda acts.

"L’Année du Hip-Hop: Les Trophées 2008” is a live awards ceremony celebrating the best of French hip-hop and urban music. Broadcast from the iconic Olympia concert hall, the event brings together leading rap, R’n’B, dancehall, and street-culture artists for a night of performances, tributes, and fan-voted awards. Honoring both established icons and rising talents, the ceremony highlights the cultural impact, creativity, and diversity of the French hip-hop scene.

This ensemble of video movies constitutes a One minute Films corpus made from 2005 to 2007. They are similar to visual and sound haikus, thanks to their short form and their poetic aspiration. The various techniques (found footage, plan (shot) sequence, loop) and material (videographic and cinematic) which compose them make them rich (narrative, aesthetic and emotional).

A documentary about the famed artist.

"Le cercle de la haine" is a work of fiction with the appearance of a sociological fresco, unfortunately inspired by reality. This opus traces the journey of three young individuals from "sensitive neighborhoods" who resort to violence as their primary mode of expression, convinced that it is the only way to earn respect in a society that has definitively excluded them. However, this situation will ultimately turn against them...

This video is inspired by the life of painter Sam Francis.

Alban lives in a castle that he has just inherited in a small village in Charente-Maritime. Inside, the dilapidation has long since taken hold. He meets Jérôme, a young gypsy from the neighbouring town, with whom he has a sexual relationship. In this space that is impossible to rebuild, a strange intimacy is gradually invented, barely disturbed by the interruption of a young woman who has come to spend a few days in this residence.

Prison escape by helicopter re-created with multi-screens consisting of eight sequence shots in a loop.

A deeply personal look at the life of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, one of the foremost representatives of Greek cinema. His life reflects the tragedies faced by an entire nation during the oppressive era of military dictatorship. It is a story of boundless ambitions, hope, love and the responsibilities that haunt every artist, even after death.

Dream and reality are mixed in Wilson's life. He is a young African immigrant from Benin, who sends letters from Paris to his parents. He tells them about his dangerous trip to Europe through the strait of Gibraltar in Morocco, his successful new life in the french capital and its "sea"...

A camera shows, always in a fixed shot, the traditional Madrid of the nineties, bequeathing to the future images of acts and customs that are gradually being lost: it records the spontaneous words and gestures of anonymous people who behave in a natural way, as they would if the camera were not present.

A very intense, fairytalelike, macabre animated film. Jennifer Debauche: `Thrubbing jello, thrubbing flesh: buffet of hurling bodies. Enter through the window in the pantheon of hysterical virgins waiting for redemption in their prettiest skin.'

Several years after the fact, two young men victims of the same pedophile relate this terrifying episode of their childhood. Buried memories, secrets revealed. Silences and lowered eyes weigh as much as words.

I arrive in New York the 10th of September 2001 by an airplane from Los Angeles. Under the rain, I go to the appartment on 11th street where I rented a room. The next morning, from my windows in hear a clamour that wakes me up. The second tower of the World Trade Center has just collapsed. I take my camera and walk towards the Financial District, in the south of Manhattan.

A young man shows off his fantasy : an erotic and childish metaphor of paternal milk.

The story of a meeting that should never have happened, between a domestic employee and a homosexual photographer twenty years younger than her. Their story, in an empty town in the center of France, lasts a whole Summer, a few years before year 2000. Every night, they pace up and down the streets of this town.

A woman and a man struggle physicaly.