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Boldly rewriting the opera’s dialogue to accommodate his concept, Mr. Tcherniakov presents “Carmen” as a large-scale role-play, a novel bit of psychotherapy for a numb modern man.

A sensorial documentary, full of mystery.

The historic election of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the USA has gained new relevance with the success of Donald Trump. Ronald Reagan's election victory was no coincidence, but the work of large-scale manipulation by organized crime. How was it that a second-rate actor was able to get into the White House with the help of the mafia? Who are the men who helped him? And who was Ronald Reagan really? The documentary answers these questions and reveals the string-pullers and backers who pushed Reagan into the highest spheres of power.

À travers l'univers à la Cinemateca Portuguesa de Lisbonne (June 22, 2017) is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot during the retrospective of his films at the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon. In this episode of the Filmed Notebooks, António Rodrigues, programmer of the Cinemateca Portuguesa and Gérard Courant present to the public the session of Through the Universe.

A portrait of a woman with an incurable cancer, whom the filmmakers followed for six months.

Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is fake. Now he must travel across Lebanon in search of his identity.

Carried by major figures like Dee Nasty, Assassin, IAM, and NTM, French rap has built a strong identity and inspired generations of fans. After its first tentative steps in the mid-1980s, rap became a phenomenon, supported by a music industry eager for fresh sensations. NTM, Soprano, Black M, MHD, Mokobé from 113, Les Sages Poètes de la Rue, Ménélik, and Dee Nasty, along with journalists such as Olivier Cachin, Mehdi Maizi, and Thomas Blondeau, recount this musical odyssey.

Les Malheurs d'Orson Welles reveals the ravages of time on the print of Too Much Johnson , the first feature film Orson Welles shot in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane , his first official feature film. By selecting and slowing down the most damaged parts of the American filmmaker's film, I managed to create an object with abstract forms and, paradoxically, give a second life to a major work of art.

Pamela is stuck in her contradictions, failures and absolute love for her family, she feels lost and seems incapable of imagining how she could live her life. She will try to find her own way between France and Portugal.

A bingo game. An allegorical, wild and humorous portrait. An hommage to eccentricity and entertainment, to those things that remain unchanged.

Naples. A Virgin with bruise on her cheek who performs miracles. Three female characters, each connected to the Virgin in their own way but who never meet. Giusy, a girl in a wheelchair who had no right to a miracle; an atheist, free-spirited, and an anthropologist specializing in the worship of the Virgin Mary. Fabiana, a transsexual at the head of a troupe faithful supporters of the Virgin in a popular district of the city center. And Sue, a Korean pianist in search of a new direction for her life, teaching music to children in difficulty in a city far removed from her original culture. Each with their intimate wounds and each searching for a "miracle".

Every fifteen days, Antoine, five, spends the weekend at his father's house. Time is counted, limited, condensed. For them, two days to do, to do again, to learn, to understand one another and to each other is little ... The father opens his son the initiatory territory of the forest where to kill is not playing. But on the return of the hunt, the father and son are equally disarmed: Antoine refuses to learn to read, and his father knows that this unknown forest of life is even more dangerous if one loses oneself.

Nik gets distracted during a game of dodgeball.

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)

The Ahnenerbe (The adopted heritage). A pseudo-scientific organization which, under Heinrich Himmler's orders, has sought by all means to prove the superiority of the Aryan race over the centuries.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, British musician, composer and arranger Ed Harcourt has called on the cream of British rock. Accompanied by eight musicians, Pete Doherty and Carl Barât (The Libertines), as well as Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey (Supergrass) take the stage for a revolutionary tribute. Never performed on stage by its creators, the Beatles' musical masterpiece and its gallery of characters come to life during an exceptional concert, recorded on 22 October 2017 at the Philharmonie de Paris.

The story behind the technical prowess deployed to light up the Jacques-Cartier Bridge.

During the Feria of Nîmes, a bullfight is filmed from the perspective of the animal, relegating the matador and public to off-screen spectators. A ritual at the frontiers of mysticism, carried by the sacrificial figure of the bull, revealer of our humanity.

A short animated anthology film.

In the 1960s, teenagers suffered from Beatlemania, in the noughties Tokio Hotel polarized an entire generation, today Justin Bieber melts teen hearts. Ever since Frank Sinatra, fans have been as much a part of pop culture as the stars themselves. Whereas in the past they were mocked and labeled as hysterical or even fanatical, today fans are proving to be an inexhaustible source of creativity.

A three way relationship expands and contracts.

In 1920, Jacques traumatized by the war lives as the reclusive groundskeeper of a cemetery. One night he encounters Henri, a young soldier, risen from his grave.

Émile, a young cellist, is overwhelmed with anguish on the day of a concert…

This film presents six sequence shots of different faces. A young girl, a young woman, and an elderly woman live through a birth and a death in their own way.

David ans Sarah didn't meet together since the murder of their both parents. The young woman receive a weird book from her uncle displaying misunderstanding contents. Sarah asked David to go with her to their uncle to find some answers. At the same time three mobsters flew to the border to escape authorities after a bank robery. All of them will be trapped in a freaky situation who led them to the depths of Hell. Death, destruction, awakening of the Beast will follow.

Jack is having a party with some friends. Disused, he decides to take a psychedelic drug. With a lighter mind, he enjoys the moment, his belly rejecting his visceral anguish as the evening progress. Arrives the time when he confronts a too big anxiety of which he cannot get rid of.

The extinction of the dinosaurs did not mean the end of the reptiles; their great adaptability has allowed them to survive and, today, to continue to thrive.

"The town of Asti, Piemonte, in Italy, has in its park a very small pond in which there are a great number of turtles, a species 'Trachemys scripta and Trachemys scripta elegans' protected by the 'Movimento Nationale U.N.A. Onlus Uorno-Natura_Animal'”. In spite of the very limited space in the pond, a spirit of well-being prevails, all is calm while each turtle tries to find its place even if it means falling into the water every now and then." - Light Cone

On an island off the coast of Guadeloupe, two sisters, Myriam and Vanessa, have planned to stay for a few days in the family house, where the sweet memory of their grandmother is still vivid. But Vanessa is not aware that a particular guest is expected for lunch. When she catches sight of her father, a cold and quiet man that she didn't want to see anymore, it is too late to escape the confrontation. Around the table, unsaid things, provocations and blunders will lead each individual to face their own ambiguous feelings.

Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah! Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah (blah blah blah blah blah) blah blah. (*) It seems that comedians still have a lot of work to do in this world where people definitely talk more than they act: Bla Bla Land.

The story of families whose kids are hospitalized at Sainte-Justine hospital. The film plunges us into the daily living of these parents ready for everything in order to help their kids recover health.

Jeanne left Luc, at least for three weeks. But Jeanne is still very much here: in the coffee foam, on the opposite pavement or in a matchbox. Slumped at the bar, Luc is moping around. He is waiting to see her again or to forget her. A pile of scratch cards, a call made by no one and a strange psychic are so many reminders for his chagrin. Only three weeks left, minus one day… Well, not even one day, minus a few hours…

Documentary about the film Bob le flambeur.