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For over 40 years, Iran has defied the world — isolated, sanctioned, and feared. This documentary delves into the heart of a nation torn between modern aspirations and revolutionary doctrines. A striking immersion into a theocratic republic, where the country's future will depend on its ability to reconcile openness and sovereignty.
In France, in the 80s, Tony, a young third-generation Spaniard immigrant, a rebel with a heart of gold, fights for a life that he desires despite an abusive and violent father controlling his every move while bonding with a group of reckless immigrants outcasts from the street in whom he sees a family. However, the path he takes only leads to a dark and uncertain future.
The film allows mathematicians involved in the creation of the exhibition to express themselves in their own words and includes Sir Michael Atiyah, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Carolina Canales González and Giancarlo Lucchini, Alain Connes, Nicole El Karoui, Misha Gromov, Cédric Villani and Don Zagier.
Summer in the suburbs. Between two massive towers, aeroplanes trace thin threads of cotton. Two young sisters run away. Dream? Reality? The film unfolds like a philosophical tale, in which off camera voices punctuate the thoughts of children on the verge of growing up. Somewhere between a Western and a fantasy film, this waking dream marks the passage from childhood to adolescence.
When they piss standing, all men are works of art.
Férid Boughedir, the Tunisian film-maker and the journalist, historian and defender of the African and Arabic cinema, is filmed, through various situations and places between Tunisia and France, and more particularly around the preparation and during the realization of his movie Spring flavor, a comedy on the Tunisian revolution.
A Canadian mother travels to Florida with her 4 year-old daughter to take part in a mini-miss contest. Getting ready to compete becomes a cat-and-mouse game for the duo... but no one knows for sure who the cat is!
A sanctuary in the depths of the forest. Masks are waiting and getting ready. Music begins... a cage is brought. Inside, attached, is the victim. The ceremony can begin: a joyful celebration of spring.
Gaston Lampion is an employee in a big insurance company. Extremely skilled for all sorts of calculations, he is nonetheless restrained by his lack of charisma and difficulty for speaking. The erotic commerce of “the ladies of the night” will give him the chance to push himself further.
A small group of cruise-ship revellers find themselves alone on a tropical island. Forced inland, their exploration reveals the mystery that lies at its heart...
A tiger, escaping its hunter, finds itself in a space station occupied by an astronaut and his fish.
A trip across various parts of the world and of other times to understand my ideologic heritage and what to do with it. Opera Prima is my first look at the world that becomes a mirror in which to recognize myself.
Two repeat offenders sentenced to community work in a learning center for the visually impaired decide to build and coach a blind football team.
While Koala, the quartermaster, deeply sleeps, Captain Diamand tells the young sailor Luciole about the finest memory of his youth. She was called Cinnamon.
An elderly lady is visited each month by her good-for-nothing nephew who relieves her of her regular pension. When he appears again one winter day accompanied by two hideous but eager pals who start roasting a freshly captured piglet on her back lawn before maltreating her cat and retreating to sleep in the sauna, she can no longer stand it. So at dawn she packs up to flee into town, where she moves in with an old friend who gives her consolation and advice.
A look at the Princess before the arrival of a new member of the royal family
On October 26, 2012, red dust covers the Limoilou neighborhood in Quebec City, where Véronique Lalande and her husband Louis Duchesne live with their one-year-old son. Iron oxide, nickel, zinc, arsenic, and other heavy metals fall on the neighborhood near the Port of Quebec, where the multinational company Stevedoring transports the largest amount of nickel in North America. Véronique Lalande calls, writes, and expresses her outrage; she is not afraid to fight for a healthy environment.
Koroviev, a police officer who teaches poetry in a brigade of police poets, is in search of a precious Bible annotated by Pierre Maheu, the captain of the St. Elias, a legendary ship. His quest leads him to befriend a young thief who introduces him to a mysterious woman named Coriandre.
The over-exploitation of immigrant workers has long since ceased to be the exclusive preserve of Western countries. Many people will have heard of the harsh, sometimes slave-like working conditions endured by thousands of young women from Asia in certain Gulf monarchies. In recent years, the phenomenon has become so "professional" that veritable schools, both private and public, are training young Filipinas in domestic work who are ready to emigrate to Saudi Arabia or Hong Kong to find work there. Every year, more than 150,000 of them leave their country with a state diploma, ready to work overseas.
After twenty-five years spent in France, I return to Bulgaria, camera in hand, with a vertiginous suspicion: what if my family had collaborated with the political police of the communist regime? And what if they were part of the "red trash" that the demonstrators on the street want to see disappear? I decide to investigate and to film, constantly, ready for anything. My adventure transforms itself into a tragic comic odyssey; a film that combines espionage with family.
In the Caribbean in Saint-Barthélemy, Léo, who is a down-on-his-luck treasure hunter, finds himself chasing the legend of a famous pirate of the island.
5 Meters 80 really is an absurd movie. Yet, no matter how ridiculous, Nicolas Deveaux managed to make it look so realistic that it’s as if giraffes jumping off the high dive are the most natural thing in the world. And that’s what makes it amazing.
"Yerevan, Armenia, in the illegible secret of the country, imprisoned in its shadows, in its nights of the underground, nights of the basements, trains for nowhere... ephemeral traveler, light sleeper..."
In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the film’s most significant locations. THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS features new contributions from actors Bulle Ogier, Michael Lonsdale and Hermine Karagheuz, cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn, assistant director Jean-François Stévenin and producer Stéphane Tchal Gadjieff, but also rare archival interviews with actors Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Michel Delahaye and, most prominently, illuminating statements by director Jacques Rivette himself from two different archival interviews.
Short film directed for a project on the theme "Love", by three students of GOBELINS "Character animation and animated film" They worked for 5 months (from January to May). This exercise was meant to learn the 3D pipeline on Maya.
A film by Stefan Lauper.
In a minimalist design, different portraits of women parade swiftly to illustrate the reasons to love women.
After a nuclear war that devastated the planet's surface, the surviving inhabitants of Castle Malevil try to organize themselves and regain a taste for life.
Tom Pagès has innovated a unique style that continues to captivate freestyle motocross audiences across the globe. For the first time, Tom recounts the arduous journey to his first championship.
The unique journey of three reserved and endearing teens as they test their limits, discover the meaning of strong connections and live and learn in synch with the natural rhythms of the land and its animals.
Iranian film director Amir Naderi talks to Zar Amir Ebrahimi about his career in this documentary directed and produced by Ebrahimi and broadcast by BBC World Service and BBC Persian. Amir Naderi is one of the most influential figures of Iranian modern cinema. He was born in 1945 in the Persian Gulf port of Abadan. Orphaned at an early age and living the life of a street urchin, Naderi had to survive by selling ice, working as a shoeshine boy and recycling empty beer bottles. He developed his knowledge of cinema by watching films in the theaters where he worked at a very young age. He began his career by taking pictures for some notable Iranian features. In the 1970’s, he started directing his own films, and made some of the most important movies of the New Iranian Cinema. After moving to New York in the early 90’s, Amir Naderi continued to make films. They have premiered at the Venice, Cannes, Tribeca, and Sundance Film Festivals.
Derek and Theo, mad about poetry and cinema, exalt their love by making films and filming each other, alternately subject and object. "But life separates those who love each other ...", fate hits hard. How to survive the disappearance of the loved one, how to distinguish now reality, dream and cinema?
Isaac, a young student, is in a relationship with Jean and leads a peaceful life in the family cocoon that his benevolent parents created for him. He falls in love with Elphège, a young woman in her class. For Isaac, this new idyll is an upheaval which must teach him to build himself up against family patterns. Heterosexuality has just been decriminalized.
Looking for a place where they can live their romantic idyll, a love triangle ‘the weirdos’ will go on multiple dates, good and bad, that will eventually rush them to a tragic end.
George Fall, on the brink of becoming broker of the year and cementing his reign for a decade, flirts with the limits of legality, committing a fatal error. Ruined, he seeks refuge in Janis, who shuns material possessions, and considers a change of life. However, his excessive greed drives him to create a new investment fund, attracting millions that displeases Lord Norman, an advocate of reasonable capitalism and his own interests.
To be somewhere precise yet stand nowhere at all, to embody one’s convictions, yet never miss the essential, to rise up and be present at the critical moment, to bear witness to a world waiting to tell itself and be retold, to come and go, both at once, abandoning reckless speed, but rather gently touching the human soul with images, with whispered words, the cracks in the wall of life: this is the choreography masterfully created in the film Beyond Territories, Valerie Osouf’s portrait of the world acclaimed filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako.
This film raises questions about the state of French democracy. A Prefect threatens locally elected officials of all political persuasion with imprisonment in order to prevent a consultative referendum.
