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A journey beyond time, from an ordinary apartment toward our final destination, guided by Charon, the ferryman of Hades. The horizon is the same for everyone, ineluctable, inevitable. The question is, in every era and in every civilization, always the same: what is there afterwards, is there at least something?
His eyes electrify contemporary theater. Co-director of the prestigious Schaubühne in Berlin, this German director captivates French audiences with his explosive and electrifying adaptations of Brecht, Ibsen, and Shakespeare. From his anarchist youth, Thomas Ostermeier has retained a taste for excess and radicalism. After his Richard III, acclaimed last year at the Avignon Festival, he revisits Anton Chekhov's The Seagull at the Théâtre de l'Odéon until June 25, against a backdrop of rock music, references to Article 49.3, and the war in Syria.
Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, repeat the Way of the Cross of the Passion of Christ. In 1992, the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bozon filmed this ceremony at length and met the main characters in this seven-century-old Way of the Cross. Gérard Courant collected and edited the rushes from this filming and made five films. The second, Solange and Jean Mounier, Véronique et le Centurion de Burzet, is a meeting with Solange and Jean Mounier, interpreters of Véronique and the centurion of the Passion of Burzet.
As two struggling drug dealers find a bag of MDMA they decide to sell to the Parisian golden youth, they enter the radar of an overzealous police officer on his personal vendetta against the real owner of the bag: an Odd-eyed business student at the head of his neighborhood traffic.
At birth, every parent expects the famous announcement: “It’s a girl!” or “It’s a boy!”. And if, instead, the doctors declared :”We don’t know“? Through the history of Gabriel, Sophie, Justin and their families, we discover the taboo of intersexuality, formerly called”hermaphrodite”.
Isa, a young photographer, meets Jack, a famous painter, who is 20 years older than her. They start a relationship with each other.
Rituels brings together five channels of video moving from a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the Paris streets to a private S&M soirée in the same city, to its suburbs and a Kurdish community gathering, then far away to a Mexican hilltop, and to Turkish Kurdistan.
Jérôme Bel's show features the memories of spectators at the Avignon Festival.
A young man writes letters to X...
In the streets of a small Irish village on the West coast of the Connemara, a group of young lads embark on an improvised game of "Hurling" (Gaelic sport) with the other villagers.
Where are you, Tariq Teguia? is part of the series of short films commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, which asks invited filmmakers to create a free-form film to answer this question about the future, its desires, its projects! Where are you now, Tariq Teguia? is less a self-portrait - from Thessaloniki to Algiers, Lisbon or Beirut - than an attempt to escape it.
This is the story of Léo and Rémi. It is also the story of Alice, their 3 year old daughter. A moment of life for this family like the others in a world that does not always understand them.
How many rounds you do have to spin on the dance floor until all your dreams come true? Eugene, Gino, Christina and their friends are already past their prime. But that doesn't stop them to search for love and sex. They meet in Paris daily in dimly dance clubs where they express their desire for living a full life in togetherness through dancing. And if prince charming is reluctant to appear the well-heeled ladies spent some money for lessons with 'taxi boy' Michel. Michel dances with them for money - and behaves like a real gentleman. In search of love both - men and women - overcome nearly every obstacle, even if in many cases it doesn't bring them closer to their aim.
Behold the struggle between light and dark, the two principles that are at the very heart of the cinematic deed. A Solar Dream takes the seventh art’s ability to generate imaginary and phantasmagorical worlds to the limit, multiplied here by Michèle Bokanowski’s enveloping music. A precious plastic and sonic gem.
Call for the regularization by the French government of all undocumented workers living in the country, a short film co-directed by 320 filmmakers and directors, producers, distributors and cinema owners.
The origins and evolution of the Innu Nikamu Music and Aboriginal Arts Festival are intimately linked to the territorial roots of the Innu people and to the life of the Maliotenam Reserve community. For centuries past the Innu had followed a seasonal migration cycle, wintering in the northern territories for the caribou hunt and returning every summer to the north shore of the St-Lawrence. Festivities, meetings, traditional games and weddings marked the latter period, and the Festival has become the modern day reincarnation of the ancient summer celebration.
A French adaptation of Aeschylus' three-part play "Oresteia", staged by Olivier Py.
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.
Within the large wooded grounds of the pedagogical medical institute La Pépinière, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, a dozen eager, frank and spontaneous teenagers engage in a game of staging and cinema. An occasion for experimenting with music, poetry, love and philosophy, the institute becomes a stage for confidence and escape - revealing the inner tug of war between the quest for the mundane and the extraordinary.
To the four corners of the globe, from Chamonix Mont-Blanc to French Polynesia via Châtel, the Swiss Alps, the Pyrenees and the Spanish desert of Almeria, the La Nuit de la Glisse film “Addicted to Life” showcases extraordinary feats from passionate athletes within wild, threatening natural environments. A unique encounter of the close kind with men and women who continually push their limits in extreme situations. In search of new challenges and unique sensations, they spend their lives studying their respective environment in detail. Across mountains and oceans, they bear witness to climate changes that affect the landscape and nature’s elements. From the melting snow caps to the dying coral reefs, pollution threatens to changes the backdrop of our global ecosystem.
1300 meters from the arrival of the 13th stage Carpentras-Orcières Merlette (192 kms), then, in the Col de Sauze, the 14th stage Orcières-Merlette-Briançon (201 kms) of the Tour de France 1972. Filmmaker Gérard Courant photographed Eddy Merckx (yellow jersey), Cyrille Guimard (green jersey), Luis Ocana (white box combination), Lucien Aimar, Lucien Van Impe, Joachim Agostinho (Portugal champion), Felice Gimondi (Italian champion), Raymond Poulidor, Karl-Heinz Kunde, Leif Mortensen, Bernard Thévenet. The stage of Orcières-Merlette was won by Van Impe ahead of Agostinho and Merckx and that of Briançon by Merckx in front of Gimondi and Guimard. This clip is an excerpt from the first episode of Gérard Courant's "Carnets filmés" entitled "Aurore collective".
A poetic short about the Montreal subway system
Mission Antarctic is the story of an expedition to the world's end for Xavier de Le Rue, multiple freeride world champion and former olympian, along with Lucas Debari in search of a new paradise for steep riding.
At school, on television, at work or at home, the society in which we live is full of stereotypes that assign each sex to pre-determined roles and behaviors from childhood.
Two Friends have found the first ever Mario Bros cartridge. What will they do with it ?
A zombie meets a young woman while jogging.
In the Carpathian Mountains, there are just five shepherd dogs to protect a herd of three hundred sheep from wolves in the region. A lone wolf wanders in search of his prey with assistance from a crow. But the attack has to be timed perfectly or it would result in instant death by the dogs or a shotgun by the shepherd. Explore the conflicted relationship between man and wolves that has subsisted for decades in these regions.
Reworked and re-edited multiple screen video work, from Corsican director and video artist Ange Leccia, made from previously released material, including Fumées (1995), Toi et moi amoureux (1995), and Toi et moi amoureux 2 (1995).
Marc'O, Philippe Garrel, Bulle Ogier, Jackie Raynal and others retrace the life and work of actor, filmmaker, painter and writer Pierre Clémenti.
Jeanne, a political sciences student, meets James, a young afro-american who came in France for a sabbatical year.
The World Health Organisation has revealed that Glasgow's wealthiest live on average 28 years longer than its most deprived inhabitants. Journalist Julien Brygo asked the wealthy how they interprate the poverty of their neighbors. A photographic movie.
Harold Nebenzal talks about Losey’s M.
A 75-year-old man stops one evening to pick up gas at the “Yellow jersey”, a little road restaurant isolated on the last turns of a mountain pass. During the Tour de France in 1960, he had his hour of glory, but also the biggest failure of his life there. The meeting with Lucien the boss and his friend Clara is going to make him think about his past and lead him towards the summit.