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Blandine's life changes dramatically when her sister makes a deathbed confession that she sent an innocent man to jail 15 years previously by refusing to give him an alibi. Blandine will have to do all she can to get this man released and find out who really killed her best friend.
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.
A show about the confined current affairs of 2020 (but not only) based on laughter, song, dance and the joy of being in a theater, among real people.
In August 2021, the director Thierry Mauvignier revisited a Poitevine legend of "the grave of the child" with his brother, the writer Laurent Mauvignier. This immersive and humanist documentary retraces the long road that Thierry and his actors and his technical team had to travel to reach the end of his production.
Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the guillotine remains in the collective imagination as the instrument of the death sentence. This machine, developed during the Revolution to render justice more equal, was presented as progress. Over time, opinion has been divided on the subject of the death penalty, the guillotine becoming the object of man's cruelty, a remnant of an archaic way of dispensing justice and fuelling the many debates around the death penalty and its abolition.
In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who then sell them to Russian slaughterhouses. Shukhert, a brave horseman, relentlessly pursues them through the Mongolian taiga, bordering Siberia.
With his new film "France" now in theaters, we look back at Bruno Dumont's early films "La vie de Jésus," "Flandres," "L'humanité," "Hadewijch," and "Twentynine Palms," all available online. What does it mean to film the sacred? What are his influences? Why is the question of evil central to his cinema?
The trawler Marie-Morgane sinks suddenly and inexplicably with all its crew, including Captain Lenormand and his son. When Nolwenn Lenormand hears the news she's convinced that a submarine on maneuvers must have been responsible.
Hawaii, Pacific Ocean. In this heavenly place, one of the most memorable battles of the Second World War took place 80 years ago. On December 7, 1941, at 7:53 am, a Japanese air squadron struck the American fleet which anchored in the waters of Pearl Harbor. The United States were struck at the heart of their defensive system and entered the conflict the very next day. How Pearl Harbor changed the face of World War II and therefore the face of the world? What are the diplomatic undersides of Pearl Harbor? Was the attack really a surprise attack? Is it really a Japanese victory?
Screw It takes us into a world in which all living creatures have a screw in their back, that has to be winded up regularly. If not, the body freezes into a lifeless doll. In the domicile of the renowned art collector Viktoria, we get to know Helen and her brother Henri, who work as assistant and butler in Viktoria's service. When the siblings want to snatch the heart of Viktoria's collection - The Golden Tit - the renowned art collector is facing the end of her great career. Helen and Henri confront Viktoria with her dark past and teach her a ribald lesson.
Two friends, Arthur and Robin, meet on video to distract themselves during the lockdown. Only, Robin has just learned some very bad news to which Arthur does not know how to react... A segment of the omnibus feature film Quarantines.
Created in 1945 to combat inequality and train competent, ethical civil servants, the ÉNA has since become the scapegoat of anti-elite sentiment. What happened to tarnish its image? This documentary, rich in archival footage and testimonies, delves into the history of this French symbol of excellence.
An old-time war reporter, philosopher and writer, BernardHenri Lévy is sent by a group of newspapers (Paris Match, La Repubblica, The Wall Street Journal, Der Stern, and others) to bear witness and report from places in the world where suffering and misery is at its peak: where wars are going on under our noses, the world’s fate is being determined, and no one, it seems, is paying attention. An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe.
Flumen is a film made up of a single fixed sequence shot, lasting 4 minutes, which shows the Ain River at the height of the Priay bridge.
With more than seven million visitors a year, its massive structure and awesome architecture testify to the genius of ancient Roman building techniques, earning it a place not only among UNESCO's World Heritage sites but as one of the new seven wonders of the world. The Roman Colosseum is an emblem of the power of a bygone empire.
At night, a group of men gather on the stadium of an elite school they once attended. Some of them are the big winners in this new society. Colonists on their own land, they look away so as not to see the gangrene that is growing there.
1962. A crystalline voice becomes a planetary tube. A Belgian nun jostles Elvis and the Beatles on the world charts. Her name: Sister Smile. A popstar with the trajectory of a comet who understands her success no more than the double meaning of her words… The harder the fall will be. Even God does not protect sharks' appetites or pretenses of success! Who killed the little voice of God? Here is the tragic story of an innocent voice, of an extraordinary fate, almost of a curse ...
Some people seem really sure of themselves, or full of good intentions, or even radiate joy of life. But you have to see behind the mask, see the pain and suffering, know if it is necessary to help these people and not let yourself be perverted by bad decisions or destructive desires.
In an abandoned warehouse, a crowd is dancing as one on 145 BPM techno music. Among them is Dustin, a young transgender woman and crew: Felix, Raya and Juan. As the night draws on, collective hysteria morphs into sweet melancholy, and euphoria into yearning for tenderness.
In eight films, Jacques Audiard has renewed French cinema, without alienating either the critics or the success. It is only at the age of 42 that he starts directing, after having been an editor and a scriptwriter. In 1994, he directed his first film, "Regarde les hommes tomber", whose conflicting shooting was an ordeal for this misanthropic beginner. It was with "Sur mes lèvres", in 2001, that he forged his cinematographic language: contained lyricism, deliberate imperfection of images, ellipses plunging the audience into a maelstrom of sensations. With each of his films, Jacques Audiard intends to renew himself, at the cost of challenges and doubts always more vivid.
Maxime is a hardened bachelor who takes advantage of his freedom and assumes to live without ties or children. He has finally agreed to help a couple of friends who are trying to have a child by artificial insemination, by donating sperm to speed up the procedure. His life changes the day a rather invasive brother arrives at his home, accompanied by a rather hairy ferret, and when, in the middle of a torrid evening in gallant company, this ferret bites his private parts, making him permanently sterile. Realizing that he will never be able to have children, Maxime tries to get his gift back, only to learn that it has already been used for Lisa Barrot, a famous and seductive sports journalist. Aware that she will be the mother of his only child, he decides to do everything possible to meet her and get to know her.
Paul Vidal is a country doctor in a small town. A husband and father, he seems to have all he needs to be happy. Yet he suffers a serious nervous breakdown, making him unable to practise.
Elitza Gueorguieva films the making of the novel that her Belarusian alter-ego Aliona begins about her father, a maritime adventurer, physicist and dreamer, who disappeared off the Turkish coast in 1995.
The filmmaker sheds light on the history of the Red Star Football Club, founded by Jules Rimet in 1897, while several personalities share their experiences and testimonies.
The history of the Chamonix Guides Company is inseparable from that of mountaineering and the valley where it was born. For 200 years, guides have risen to multiple challenges, making their organization a legend. Today, they are the actors of a changing mountain: overcrowding, global warming, loss of freedom—the causes are multiple. This film is at a crossroads. Between tradition and modernity, it traces the history of the Chamonix Guides Company, evoking the incredible challenges it has met with dignity and those it now faces.
His grandchildren’s unexpected arrival leads Robert to prepare an extraordinary meal. Unfortunately, he is missing some key elements for his chosen recipe. The grandfather goes on a perilous journey to fantastic worlds to bring back unusual ingredients.
Today, like a ship entering the storm, the world faces climate change induced collapse. Once You Know, by director Emmanuel Cappellin, is a poetic and poignant exploration of how four of the world’s leading climate scientists and energy experts find truth, chaos, and hope in their work.
Nina and Dylan, best friends since childhood, have no secrets from each other. Nina now lives in Paris, while Dylan lives in Biarritz. Dylan always thought they'd end up together, but has never seriously taken a chance on Nina, since she laughs at him every time he mentions a future together. When Nina leaves her boyfriend and decides to go to Biarritz for an impromptu vacation with her two best friends, something finally clicks. Dylan has just started a relationship with her latest date, and Nina realizes that he's the one for her! Full of twists and turns, their love story is going to be much more complicated than expected.
A young actor takes part in rehearsals for a short film, a director's adaptation of a short story by Rilke. The role she offers him resonates with his own life; the characters in the text awaken his own ghosts.
Castellum medievalevale is a film made up of a single fixed sequence shot, about ten minutes long, filmed with a telephoto lens, from the heights of the commune of Priay, in the Ain department, which shows the Château des Allymes. (As the crow flies, these two places are separated by 11 kilometers).
A film about a zookeeper and his renewed relationship with his estranged daughter is fragmented and interrupted by the filmmaker’s own voice, reading an email to his sister about the roots of this story in their own shared history with an absent father. Through memory, dreams, and fiction, (No Subject) probes the various ways of representing the past in order to process and break free of it.
Installed at the heart of Japanese society when the country was in a state of collapse after World War II, and then launched on a frantic course to achieve modernity, over a period of 60 years, Michiko followed an unexpected path: that of encouraging the Japanese people to indulge in greater introspection in order to build a united, peaceful and enlightened Japan.
Comedian duo "Corbeil et Maranda" have their shows canceled by a global pandemic. They therefore find themselves forced to find a new job and become delivery men… Their cargo? Sketches!
"La Cage aux oiseaux", "Les Jolies Colonies de vacances", "Lily" or the famous "Zizi": for more than 60 years, Pierre Perret has enchanted people with his popular little fables. At 87 years old, he is the author of nearly 500 songs. How does he view them today? To answer this question, Pierre Perret receives the cameras at his home, in his garden, but also in his attic, where the author keeps his most precious treasures: all his writing books. For the first time, he agrees to open them and to retrace the highlights of his career, and for this he has chosen his own alphabet book. A for Love, C for Censorship, G for Grievances: twenty-six letters, twenty-six words to develop from A to Z the great subjects that are dear to his heart.
During the reign of King Louis X the Hutin, his wife Marguerite indulged in parties of pleasure in the secrecy of the Tour de Nesle. Her young lovers were also her victims, and she had them murdered to avoid detection. Such was the fate that awaited Philippe d'Aulnay, who had barely arrived in Paris and who, in one night, had gone from the arms of the sovereign to the bottom of the Seine. What the queen doesn't know is that among his companions in debauchery that night was a certain Buridan. An adventurer, ready to do anything to conquer money and power - including blackmailing the Queen of France... This is the beginning of a merciless war between these two beings, with one spectacular turn of events after another, horrifying revelations and the crossfire of hatred and love.
Sébastien Tellier is a singular artist with multiple facets: Darling of the Paris electro scene since the turn of the century and yet able to represent France at the kitsch fest of the Eurovison song contest in 2008. Performing at the ARTE Concert Festival on November 13 2020 at the release of his latest album ‘Simple Minds’
Unable to accept her father's death, Ophelia wanders through the woods in search of him. Along the way, she encounters her fiancé Hamlet and Queen Gertrude, who appear to her as ghosts, offering her only hateful or threatening advice. Driven to despair, Ophelia decides to end her life by throwing herself into a river. Brought back to shore by her brother Laertes, he curses Hamlet and the Queen for driving his sister to suicide.
Reenactment of an iconic accident that happened in Trois-Rivière involving Yolande Ouellet and some teenage bums, that brought her in front of a judge in April 2000. This moment will become viral in Quebec internet culture.
2021. Gabriel wakes up after a thirty-five year coma. He has inherited the fortune of the Pieds Nickelés, a famous trio of swindlers. To earn it, Gabriel, who has discovered social networks and the smartphone, must find their three pairs of shoes. There follows a journey made of encounters with characters behaving like real Nickel feet.
May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to take his last breath. The son of a Corsican family, he has been close to death on many occasions since, as a young captain in the revolutionary army, he seized Toulon from the royalists in 1793.
Documentary on the French comedian, actor, humanitarian and legend Coluche.
Xavier Beauvois' documentary-style filming techniques, her collaboration with François Truffaut, Xavier Dolan's masterful tone... Nathalie Baye looks back on her roles in "Le petit lieutenant," "La chambre verte," and "Juste la fin du monde" as they are broadcast on ARTE. A conversation hosted by Olivier Père (Managing Director of ARTE France Cinéma).
In deep introspection, a Black actor sought for some answer when he found his childhood computer, he explores a video game he started creating when he was 11, when he didn't see himself as being black, but as orange.
Renée arrives to her hometown of Ste. Anne after a long absence. Her brother and his wife are raising her daughter Athene as their own, and the return of the prodigal mother is a surprise to all involved. The tension between them grows as the questions that have been accumulating over the years await their answers.
An intimate portrait of Barbara Pravi. The camera slips into the background, forgotten as it accompanies the singer and actress through her everyday life to reveal her inner pathway. An opportunity to follow her through the different stages of a great adventure, the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest.