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This documentary plunges us into the heart of an adventure that no one wants to experience: having to recover one’s identity after a fraud. The task is colossal and the process complex. Despite the best efforts of victims, when doubt sets in, their chances of obtaining justice may be close to none.
Marion has just moved to the German side of the French-German border to follow her boyfriend - Lukas - who recently got a job in a theater company. On the day of her 28th birthday, Lukas surprises Marion by proposing to her. Aged now 29 and 28, they have been together for three years and are the happy owners of a brand new house - all the ingredients are gathered to become adults and commit - or so they thought.
In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His political career was at a standstill and, after 19 years of marriage, the couple had grown apart. It was at this point that François Mitterrand met the woman who was to give new meaning to his life. Anne Pingeot, aged 19, was to become the companion of a lifetime, a woman who would be with him throughout his rise to power and who would remain by his side until his last breath. For the first time, Anne Pingeot has agreed to allow the fragments of this passionate love story — hundreds of letters and a diary — to be shown on television, before being donated to the National Library.
“The city of Berezniki is sinking into the earth”, claims the press about an industrial town built on top of salt mines. The sinkholes caused by the mining industry are now filled by water, hidden behind fences – a background noise to be controlled, overcome and forgotten. While the image of this “sinking town” has become a symbol of environmental collapse for outsiders, the inhabitants go about their daily lives, in a city whose local culture is dependent on industries.
The bourgeoisie is having a celebration in a round room where eating, sipping, and dancing is followed by dancing, sipping and eating. This could go round and round forever.
In the old city of Taranto, an industrial center of the Apulia region, Maria tries to help her junkie brother Donato, who is threatened with death for an unpaid debt. She only has one option: to steal. As much as possible, as soon as possible.
Romy, 23, investigates her parents' divorce, with the help of a friend behind the camera. A liberating half-musical, half-documentary road movie between mental disorders, Shoah, terrible secrets, and a fierce will to live.
Vladimir, 15-years-old, is secretly in love with his neighbour Lou. When Lou decides to leave her home to move in with her boyfriend – a man ten years older than her – Vladimir tries to put his jealousy aside to help her.
One day, I walked from my childhood apartment to the transformer in Clichy-sous-Bois where Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré were electrocuted on October 27, 2005.
Short film about designer and performance artist Kubra Khademi and her works.
Simon and Zoé meet on Tinder. They live in the same suburban town and Zoé, wasting no time, invites him right over to her house. Simon can’t believe his luck! But once he arrives, he quickly understands that his date may prove more complicated than expected.
Are you afraid of the dark? Have you ever thrown a message in a bottle into the sea? Have you ever climbed down into a well in search of your destiny? In its new program, La Chouette du cinéma returns to present three stories (Matilda, Message in a Bottle, and Dame Saison) about children who spread their wings wide!
On the salt lake of Bonneville, thrills of engines are heard in the distance. At the wheel is Icare, a chimpanzee determined to exceed the known speed limits. In iconic vehicles and ever more powerful, Icare will try to reach the ultimate speed of 400 mph, considered inaccessible for land vehicles. Will he succeed in surpassing himself or will he be consumed in his destructive quest?
This is not the first time that Mika has given a concert accompanied by an orchestra, erasing the boundaries between pop and classical music. Accompanied by the Ile-de-France National Orchestra and the Stella Maris Choir, he offers a symphonic concert that mixes several genres and several cultures.
From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped for did not happen. But, before his death in 1991, three years after learning of his HIV-positive status, he engraved in his literary and photographic work "the places of [his] suffering", "the stations of [his] way of the cross". With his thin body and sunken cheeks, the handsome man with curly hair that he was, the one whose clear gaze radiated from the seaside photos, fought a fierce battle against AIDS. A fight of every moment against the decay of the body, observed and commented with a methodical care in his autobiographical novels, in particular "To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life" (1990) and "The Compassionate Protocol" (1991), and of which he testified on television on the set of "Apostrophes"...
A young and seductive woman, committed to ecology, works as a conservation officer in the French countryside and plunges into dating sites after her work. She meets a handsome boy over the Internet. But he has no respect for ecology, so she’s got to deal with him… in her own way.
After being constantly bullied at school by her classmate Kevin, 8-year-old Claire discovers that the boy who is giving her hard time is also suffering and might need her help…
Madrid, 1950. When Lola, a young woman, arrives in Madrid to clear out her estranged old uncle's apartment, she is far from knowing what she will discover. Interactive experience in real-time 3D animation.
"What does the hangman think about when he goes home at night from work?" The Hangman at Home is an animated film exploring themes surrounding acknowledgement and the awkward intimacy of humanness. Told in five interwoven stories; each situation presents a person, or persons in a delicate moment: fragile, playful, terrified, contemplated, confused, curious… We are all very much alike in these moments - alerting us to question our own responsibility and responses. Inspired by Carl Sandburg’s chilling poem of the same name.
Dea leaves rural Indonesia and her singing dreams to migrate to Hong Kong as a foreign domestic worker. The script is the result of a nine-months acting improv laboratory with a group of Indonesian women migrant domestic workers, who have been victims of domestic violence while working in Hong Kong.
12-years-old Houlaye lives in Niger, and travels several kilometers each day to fetch water. The village got together to construct a well. This is the promise of a new life for people who have literally been walking on water since birth.
This document proposes an immersion in the French society of the 60s and 70s and in the youth of the time with the testimonies and confidences of Sheila, Salvatore Adamo, Antoine, Hervé Vilard, Michel Fugain, Nicoletta, Michel Jonasz, Laurent Voulzy and the photographer Tony Frank. They tell with hindsight and humor, their beginnings in the 60s and 70s, and before becoming idols. It is also an opportunity to leaf through the pages of the successful magazines of the time "Salut les copains" and "Mademoiselle Age tendre". Created by Daniel Filipacchi, they highlighted the idols of the moment, music, fashion, sexuality, consumer objects and questions about society.
When Killian, his childhood friend, dies and he hasn't seen him in 15 years, Ludo returns to the for 15 years, Ludo returns to the neighbourhood where they grew up to visit the mother of the deceased. As he spends the night there there, he remembers the last summer they spent together, in the shadow of the disturbing house next door.
A documentary on the making of Irréversible
In the sweltering summer heat, Marie is preparing for her bar exam. When the neighbor's cat falls to his death from his window, the young woman, in the midst of a paranoid crisis, tries to escape the potential witnesses to the tragedy...
In 1924, a marine crinoid fossil is unearthed near the summit of Mount Everest, a famous British mountaineer disappears and a Soviet leader dies.This simultaneity is the starting point of a narrative on the transformation of matter. In a vast movement, substances metamorphose, scales and temporalities overlap and human bodies nestle in the depths of great terrestrial processes.
In 2019, the director Leos Carax proposes to Estelle Charlier and Romuald Collinet to design, make and animate "Annette", the puppet of his new film. This one will be the child of the couple Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver. Propelled into the world of cinema, begins for this charismatic duo a unique and singular adventure in their career as puppeteers. Faced with the demands of the filmmaker, the impossible, they are held.
A sweltering July evening on a Manhattan balcony. A cast-iron flowerpot shatters the chair Richard Sherman had been sitting in just seconds before. His upstairs neighbor has accidentally knocked over her tomato plant. This incident, which could have been fatal for Richard, turns out to be the best thing that could have happened to him.
Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left the majority of Russians dissatisfied with Yeltsin… and willing to vote for the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. Yet six months later, Yeltsin won the election with nearly 54% of the vote. How did that happen?
This documentary tells the story of Freddie Mercury in the form of a trip to England in which we retrace his life, visiting the apartments he lived in, the studios in which he recorded his albums, his school friends and the venues in which he gave his most memorable concerts. Every one of these locations provides us with the opportunity to look back over Freddie Mercury’s career, and to interview those who knew him.
Once upon a time, 3000 years ago, a ram died on a mountain top. Just before, we’d had our last picnic.
In a large industrial city in the north, Noah is a young lighthouse keeper who dedicates his life to watching over the sailors. Some news disrupts his routine and makes his peaceful habits drift towards a feeling of uselessness that, little by little, borders on insanity.
Much like Fred Rogers and Bob Ross in the United States, Claude Lafortune was a staple of French-Canadian television. The beloved children's television host inspired generations of children through his celebration of creativity, inclusivity and diversity. For over five decades, he dedicated his life to transforming mere paper into whimsical sculptures, creatures and film sets. "The Paper Man" reveals the depths of Claude Lafortune's work, as well as his continuing legacy.
Jean-Marie Bigard and Renaud Rutten, the French and the Belgian, embark on a joke competition, just to determine who has the funniest. In this second part, they refrain from nothing and multiply the lewd one-liners and the daring remarks.
Five friends meet on Skype on the initiative of a sixth, which is slow to appear. Little by little, we discover what binds them together: the memory of the 'Tell me about love', a slam evening organized by a certain Clémence.
Recently immigrated to France from Syria, Ghaydaa is preparing for a special day: It is the first return of her son Shahin in France, but the separation between mother and son is proving more difficult than she thought.
A key figure of the "Swinging Addis", the golden age of Ethiopian music in the 1960s and 70s, Girma Bèyènè returns to the stage after more than forty years of absence and exile. With the French quintet Akale Wube, he leaves for a series of concerts in France, the United States and Ethiopia.
A yacht, drifting aimlessly off the shores of Brittany. Empty. Diane Granger, managing director of a renowned crisis management consultancy, had gone out sailing alone. What happened? The firm's young consultants, the "heirs", find themselves left to their own devices, forced to confront a pitiless competition alone, without Diane.
Heart-broken following a break-up, Martine receives the unexpected visit of her mother, Monique. Too engrossed in her own sadness, Martine doesn’t notice right away that her mother is hiding something but, progressively, a bad feeling starts to take hold of her. During this short stay, these two very different women will have one last chance of getting closer to one another before they run out of time.
The piece, an experiment that begins on the skin, in the skins of a family that spoke in silence about a tropical dictatorship in the 1980s, the dictatorship of a house. The skins whispered silently and their voices were heard in the corners, on the walls, in the cooking pot, on the soupspoon, on the wet beans. As the soldiers marched in the streets, the echo of their footsteps resonated in the walls of the home of a military man’s family, a house where the words were forgotten. With few oral resources, some photographs and some stolen confessions, the director proposes an exploration that goes from the personal to the political through a fictionalized experience of the family story related to the dictatorship of Panama.
In a world without loneliness in which everyone shares their life with their double, Lucienne is in a relationship with Paul, a former lover who has lost his twin. While she wants his love, he just wants to find his brother. Individualism and exclusive relationships are not tolerated in this world, generating more disgust from Lucienne. Her desire drives her away from her sister and probably from Paul.
Anna and her mother Elena, two vampires isolated from the rest of the world, try to survive in Paris by tracking down cybercriminals at night on social networks. But, between Elena’s illness, her repeated anxiety attacks and the hunts becoming more and more dangerous; tensions rise, and the demons of the past resurface. Anna, on the brink of madness, begins to fall in her dark sides.
June 2042. The organic farm of L'aiguille is bustling with activity. Midsummer is near, announcing, like every year, the end of the compulsory ecological service. It is time for Nour, Léon and the others to say goodbye and to choose the life they wish to lead.
It is an experimental film where the filmmaker questions the desire of a film viewer to narrate. This film revives the spirit of research that began with silent cinema, with musical compositions as essential as the dialogue in a feature-length talking film. The ruins of the title visually represent an aspiration to rebuild another world from the old. Finally, the film questions the possibility of a child proceeding to this reconstruction from a narrative where the elusive meaning of everything around him is to be reinvented
Terra Incognita follows life on a mysterious island, inhabited by immortal beings. These beings lead a pre-civilized life forgotten by time, spending their endless days in hedonistic lethargy.
Mixing history, romanticism and passion for the arts, this film tells the saga of the Morozov brothers, Russian textile industrialists. Mikhail and Ivan Morozov assembled one of the most remarkable collections of French art in the world.
A tortured man is annihilated ever since the disappearance of his loved one. To cope with this intolerable loss, he becomes capable of anything. He seeks in others what will fill the absence in his heart in order to recreate a lost love.