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A group of Chilean and French researchers, explorers and filmmakers travels to the Patagonian island of Madre de Dios. Here they find another world, one of primeval forests, marble glaciers and an unforgiving climate.
More than anyone in the cynical film industry, legendary artist Robert Redford embodies the United States' brightest side: perseverance, independence, idealism, and integrity. A champion of active environmentalism and the right to openly criticize any institutional abuse, he has put his artistic work at the service of his political commitments, whether as an actor, director, producer, or founder of the Sundance Festival, a formidable forum for his struggles since 1985.
Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)
Two boys meet by the side of a road. A strange desire drives them to cross the volcanic landscapes of Auvergne together, like a huge treasure hunt. To probe the mysteries that inhabit the mountains, they tell old stories of condemned wizards, spells cast in secret, forgotten sabbaths. Haunted by these stories, they gradually become the protagonists, until these adventures reflect on the present of their meeting.
In a near future, Nicolas, a retiree who enjoys his independence, loses his autonomy after an accident. His son Gabriel, a technophile submerged by his professional responsibilities, then imposes a robot to assist him. But this decision may be fatal for his father.
A Sunday morning like any other for Erwan and Eliza. Except that's the day their friend Max, a fifty-years-old teenager, chose to announce them he wants to start up a new life.
Today, immense confusion reigns over the quest for the absolute, revolt and fury, violence and its appendages. And many people plunge back in Albert Camus' work to find answers. In the foreword to his play, the philosopher and writer summarizes the intrigue as follows: "In February 1905, in Moscow, a group of terrorists, belonging to the Socialist Revolutionary Party, organized a bomb attack against the Grand Duke Serge, Tsar's uncle ”. The rapper and slammer Abd Al Malik offers with this "musical tragedy" a contemporary staging of "The Just", a complete creation, faithful to the text of Camus, but reinventing a scenic and musical language resolutely inscribed in our time.
1917, The Train from Hell is an historical documentary about a train accident during WW1.
On the night of November 13, 2015, a woman who lives behind the Bataclan and a man who happens to pass by help the injured as they flee the terrorists and the hell of the attack. A few days later, they are contacted by the people they rescued, who want to meet the strangers who helped them that night. The man and the woman meet again. Is the passion they feel real? Or is it just the romantic illusion they invented to compensate for the trauma they experienced together? From hospital rooms to cafe encounters, from individual destinies to love stories, from suffering to resilience, from anger to fraternity, the film portrays the days following the attacks and each person's journey to find their way back to life.
In love, there are miracles that cannot be explained. Even after thirty years of marriage, Suzanne and Julien are still madly in love with each other. A happy, close-knit couple. Suzanne is an actress adored by the public. An adoration that sometimes goes as far as fetishizing her young tenant Simon. For her return to the stage, she hesitates to act in Max's new play, specially written for her. What Suzanne wants is to be alone, for just a moment longer, with Julien. Julien whom she loves and who loves her, Julien who grumbles and laughs, Julien who lives but whom no one sees or hears. Except Suzanne...
Marion would like to go sledding on the hill of her childhood, she brings her brother in the mountain in order to find it once more.
During Napoleonic wars, a young idealistic drummer, in search of glory, arrives on the battlefield and discovers the horrors of war.
Franck Landron follows photographer Antoine d'Agata wherever he goes, to the edges of the world, in a discreet presence, camera in hand. He has been doing hours and hours of rushes, patiently, without hurrying or rushing, he wants this film as fair, as honest, and as long as it takes: it lasted six years.
Ricky is a young Arab Australian whose peaceful suburban life is turned on its head when his sister, Ameena, disappears without trace. In a climate of distrust and xenophobia, she is soon suspected of having joined the ranks of ISIS in Syria. In a ‘post-facts’ world, Ricky no longer knows who to believe, his sense of what’s right or the 24 hour media cycle of spin.
Long massacred by whaling ships, sperm whales were almost driven to extinction. Saved when whale hunting ceased in the 1980s, the largest predators on the planet had, until then, always been studied from the surface, allowing their life beneath the seas to remain a mystery. For the first time, a team of scientific divers has literally become immersed in the day to day life of a clan.
In the heart of Istanbul's prison, Zakir controls the letters prisoners receive. His average day is spent between the censorship office, his colleagues and his evening writing class. For a writing assignment, he steals a photo from one of the letters, in which appears Selma, an inmate's wife. More than an inspiration, she becomes an obsession for Zakir. He observes her, makes up stories, and imagines the worst to the extent that he puts himself at great risk.
A peculiar personal journey along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, the inland sea that bathes the beaches of three continents, passing through the port of Marseille, the Rock of Gibraltar, Algeria and Syria; an artistic and experimental collage made up of thoughts, memories and emotions.
Man has always sought to seek further afield. After the seafaring explorers of the 16th century, 21st century cosmologists today navigate more celestial oceans, with each mission providing an ever-broader and more impressive cartography of our surroundings. At the avant garde of modern technology, these strange travellers are actually immobile, and their vessels are powerful and spectacular telescopes, on the Earth or in space, constantly widening the limits of our knowledge and giving form to our dreams of infinity. From Hawaii to Australia, via South Africa and China, we set out on an incredible scientific and human adventure to visit the planet's greatest cosmic exploration centres to discover the new challenges involved in understanding the universe. A journey on Earth and in the heavens that will take your breath away!
Too high, misused, unfair... a large part of the French and Europeans criticize taxes. From tax-rascal to tax revolt, the movement of yellow vests in France has returned to the center of attention the question of consent to tax. How to explain a different resistance to taxes from one country to another without tax pressure being an explanation? Is there a "good" tax? Jean Quatremer takes us on a journey to the tax center across Europe, to meet those who pay it, those who decide it, those who study it... or those who allow to avoid it.
Elisabeth and Charles search for a link between three very different murders.
Documentary on a politically active group of nuns of Montreal.
Your untangled hair hides a 7 year war. Cross-look of three women engaged alongside the FLN on colonization and the Algerian war of independence. They will know the clandestine, the prison, the torture, the psychiatric hospital. It is at the twilight of their lives that they choose to testify, after decades of silence. With clarity and modesty, they tell the story of colonial Algeria, segregation, racism, anti-Semitism, prison, torture, solidarity, freedom and also the nature that invigorates, soothing landscapes, music and poetry that allow the breakaway .
On the eve of an inevitable exodus to urban centers, the youth of Témiscamingue are torn between the quest for a better future and their attachment to their homeland.
Mateo, a young dancer, returns to his native region of Menton to reconnect with his brother Albert after a long absence. Very quickly, Mateo is confronted with the loneliness of his elder brother who is fighting for the survival of the family candle workshop. Mateo wants to overcome the childhood sufferings, but reconciliation is difficult between misunderstandings and fraternal love.
After a "minor" operation at the vets, a young cat starts putting on more and more weight. Her owners start calling her "Butterball" instead of her usual name "Bamboo". She then gets the nickname "Butterboo"!
With the founding of Stax Records, the white siblings Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton created a label during the period of racial segregation that caused a revolution in the music scene with artists such as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave and Isaac Hayes. Their commercial success was closely linked to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Shot in six European countries, it tells the story of the concerts given by cult underground band Laibach during the siege of Sarajevo back in 1995.
Examining both body- and mirror image, Vincent Guilbert’s Super8 work Of Her Kingdom is a meditative filmic puzzle about memories, fleeting moments and contradictions, in which a solitary woman is seen listening to an LP, drying her hair and applying eyeliner while her actions are narrated with existential Zen-like mantras.
Maysan and Iyad, a Syrian couple, work at a Breton fish auction and with their daughter seem to constitute a happy family. They have just been informed their residence permits have been approved. But then Iyad asks a question his wife wishes she hadn't heard. Great acting in this dissection of a marriage.
One famous day. Five heroes. Five key turning points that changed the course of World War Two during the D Day landings, told through the eyes of the people who made a difference. Using rarely seen archive, dramatic reconstruction and written accounts from eye witnesses and personal testimony from our five heroes, this is D Day as never seen before.
From the broad boulevards of France to the fresh marble of China, the Helas associates, like kings, hold court over every ledge and stack of stairs in their sights. This is a top-notch full-length. Kick back and enjoy it...
An old thunderstorm rumbles in my head. A thunderstorm born 25 years ago. A storm at times distant, almost forgotten. A thunderstorm often deafening. Literature assured me men existed for a long time. Music taught me their melancholy preceded them. Painting whispered to me that screams can be silent. The trade of men, very fast, seemed to me vague and vain.
On the Island of La Réunion, a young native kills his friend in a fit of rage.
Outside Wall Street, who knows BlackRock, the most powerful asset manager on the planet? Investigation of a discreet but influential actor in world economic and political life. If money does not make you happy, it undoubtedly opens the doors of power. A maxim that the asset management group BlackRock, with its 6,000 billion US dollars spent, or more than twice the GDP of France, knows well. Companies, governments and central banks: the sprawling business has been expanding its influence in all directions, since its creation in 1988 by Larry Fink. The strength of this American management giant lies in the billions of dollars entrusted to it by its clients, most of whom are big fish in finance: multinationals, financial institutions and investment and pension funds.
UN AIR DE KORA tells the story of young Muslim woman Salma who wants to play the kora even though it is forbidden for women. She goes looking for a tutor in private.
Martin, in a last ditch hope, comes to meet Léa in Paris. They are both twenty-five and shared their first love story together. They are both now striving to mature.
In the abandoned airport of Ellinikon, a man's peaceful solitude is disrupted by bustling activity, and his ticket out might lead him right back to his starting place.
Prince Albert presents this revealing documentary about how the world's most iconic Grand Prix came into being, how the circuit changed as F1 developed, and how it's created each year.
The Tank and The Olive Tree recalls a certain number of forgotten fundamentals and sheds new light on the history of Palestine. By combining geopolitical analysis, interviews with international personalities who are experts on the subject and testimonies from Palestinian and French citizens, this documentary offers the keys to understanding what the media call the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Enough to rid people's minds of clichés and prejudices! If The Chariot and the Olivier is intended to be educational, it speaks above all of a magnificent territory, and of a people who constantly affirm that “to live is already to resist”...
Alex and Loïc are two brothers from a modest family living in the north of France. Alex is always with his group of friends, a real second family to him. One day, as the group prepares for the party of the century, Alex invites his little brother to come with them to discover the world of the big boys. Unfortunately for them, a dark event is about to stain this perfect picture.
For his birthday, Louison got an electromagnetic field detector.