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A young man prepares himself to leaves for an appointment. At night, he returns at his place.

The macula is commonly known as the yellow spot, located near the center of the retina at which visual perception is the most acute. A photosensitive body rises from shadow to burn out in light.

It's time for a snack and Grandma has disappeared. Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood go looking for her. It's gonna get jazzy on the planet!

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.

A snail takes us into a different universe to the beat of music that interacts with the surrounding elements.

Ali, Sofiane, Nora... arrive for their first year at the Pasteur lower-secondary school in Gennevilliers, and discover a new world... one that the fourth-year students Anissa, Méline and Marion... are just about to leave. What is at stake in these entry-point and final-year classes? In the four years spent there, the youngsters enter their teenage years, begin to perceive their place in society and have to think about their future. From December to June, this chronicle follows the maths teachers, Anne-Sophie, Fabienne and Richard, who are also the class teachers for the first and final year pupils. We discover all the out-of-class meetings and paperwork, as well as the end-of-year committees that decide what kind of education the youngsters will go on to do. In a far from easy situation, the teachers are forced to rethink their educational role, which is not limited to transmitting knowledge.

Beijing to Lhasa, 5400km by bicycle and horseback on the trail of Evariste Huc (1813-1860).

A 2004 Pentagon report warns the US President that an abrupt climate change will take the planet earth on the brink of anarchy and nuclear war for access to basic resources like food and water. "2050" approaches the climate change issue from the perspective of the consequences for our civilization and the short time we have to react.

The story of a boat that docks in a port. Sailors, a bar, a woman in a red dress, a yellow dog.

Biting commentary on the assimilation of homosexuals into mainstream society illustrated through the use of cut-out animation.

Fragments of the international noise scene of the 90's. With Purr, Voodoo Muzak, Arbishop Kebab, Prohibition, Hint, Trottel, Prolapse, De Kift, U.S.Mapple, Melt Banana and Héliogabale.

Super 8 and video

A portrait of Brakhage shot in Victoria, British Columbia, just a few months before his death. Filmmaker Pip Chodorov illustrates Brakhage's reflections on his art with short passages from his hand-painted films.

From an early age, the future actors of the Peking opera undergo intensive training to be able to interpret their roles once they become adults. Their ancestral art requires a perfect mastery of their body. In addition to acting, they must learn to sing, dance or even juggle. Later, the best of them will be chosen to join Peking Opera.

From Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina to Christians in Lebanon, from the Bektashis of Macedonia to the Syriacs of Turkey, director Jacques Debs helps us discover two groups of people long forgotten or ignored - the Muslims in Europe and the Christians in the Middle East.

The view of a lighthouse at dawn, subjected to a millimetric shift that is even less perceptible as movements of the text in the image are added to it. The specificity of these movements on the image comes from the way they penetrate into the image, creating a strange enlarged presence of the bodies, images, signs that brings about the dematerialization of the identity of each. Entering the Real means losing the world of objects and subjects, the world of opposition between reality and illusion in favor of a world where the most tangible effects of existence are constructed from traces and ghosts. (Jehanne Dautrey)

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...

The incessant exploration of the borders of our world banishes us further and further from its centre, just as the discovery of how our physical exterior functions has shifted its centre from the heart to the brain. The video entitled (Eden) plays with visual collusions, the representations of various different cultures reminiscences of our dreams, our myths, our desires, yearnings and anxieties.

In the south of Peru, at the foot of the Andes, the Nazcas built cities and traced an immense network of geometric lines and geoglyphs. To whom were addressed these enigmatic figures only visible from the sky and what was their meaning? A team of archaeologists from all over the world use the latest technology to lift the veil on one of the greatest secrets of humanity. Their new excavation campaigns have unearthed new mummies, fabulous fabrics, ceramics and mysterious elongated skulls.

An interview with journalist Henry Chapier.

Some 40 years after setting foot in Israel for the first time, journalist Pierre Nadeau felt the desire to return there to take stock of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

How does one live in the suburbs when one is a young homosexual? Should you run away or stay hidden in this macho environment? Is violence against gays a myth or a reality? Let's discover through their testimonies, the life of four homosexuals who agreed to break the law of silence.

A film like a punch in the stomach. Blind photographer Evgen Bavčar examines the bodies of four women. The women's expressions and gestures speak volumes.

The Galmi purple, the onion from Niger, pervades West African markets with four hundred thousand tons a year. In Galmi, Salamatou's been waiting for her wedding for two years. Her father Yaro, urged both by her future in-laws and the village gossip makes a decision : "The wedding will take place at the harvest !" Yaro is aware that to be up to his commitment this time, he has to produce more and sell at a higher price...

Born of the medical rape of a Soviet professor on a young Russian-Mongolian woman, a hybrid child, enriched with the blood of a Nazi doctor, is kidnapped by succubi. The fat of the scalded newborn will restore their queen Melustine's power to regenerate. In a secret laboratory, three mad doctors work toward a common goal: the destruction of the world. The first doctor, a Nazi, proved himself in Irkutsk. The second doctor, Dr. Jean Petio, struck off the medical register, is a member of the National Front. The third is Dr. Vasiliev, a member of the KGB and sympathizer of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Supporting them is Hans Kramer, a former Hitler Youth member and son of Junkers Kramer, the ace of the Tiger tanks at Stalingrad and the 88mm cannon. Together, they form the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. At the crowing of the rooster, one of them sets off to deliver the child. This is the beginning of Operation Attila.

Soviets Plus Electricity is a cinematic journey through Russia to Magadan, a city famous in Soviet times for being synonymous with deportation. Based on excerpts from his acoustic diary, documentary footage and some autobiographical insights given on the way, the roving reporter searches for imaginary roots and its historical and political implications. The film was shot in August and September 1999 - Los Angeles Filmforum

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…