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The doors of the abandoned Raverdy coffee and chicory factory remain closed, just like everything around it. The director – herself a descendant of the Raverdy family (and expecting her first child) – goes in search of the stories behind this sealed-off part of the city. She moves in with her 91-year-old grandmother, who lives over the road. Piece by piece, she is able to reconstruct events leading up to the factory’s closure, using old photos, advertising brochures, myths, language games, conversations with her grandmother and former female factory workers. These memories unfold through different storylines. The factory’s surroundings are explored through a poetic film style, and the history of the nunnery next to the factory is also revealed. This sensitive film is a reflection on the invisible and the forgotten, revolving around women and the changing body.

Quenched in the Klimt’s gold, the aurora upon Budapest shines of thousand fires. The tiny birds seam to be flying from the firmament and dancing. Immensity and calmness enter indeed in resonance with the fluxes of the Earth. Our entrails, as pulled by the forces of the underground lavas, remind us of the power of patience. The quest for light, the quest for love can begin in the vibrations of this letter of incandescente images, fanned with emotions.

For 192 days, Thomas Pesquet filmed his journey in space. He he lived in the ISS (International Space Station) with 5 other astronauts. From this extraterrestrial journey, the 39-year-old French astronaut brings back extraordinary images. Earth, seen from space The images of the earth scroll then, fascinating, despite this observation of the astronaut on pollution and deforestation. He had read the damage before, he now sees it from the ISS. He feels the fragility of the Earth. His weightless images on a soundtrack of quality provoke a surge of beauty, of strangeness, in this slowness propitious to poetry. And the reading of the texts of the two winners of "Le Petit Prince" writing contest, visiting an eighth planet, takes on a whole new dimension in this beautiful production by Julien Adam and Matthieu Besnard produced by Capa Presse TV.

130 years after he was created, Sherlock Holmes is a literary character who exceeded his author's expectations and is known throughout the world. Find out the true story behind the author, Conan Doyle, and his struggle to come to terms with the phenomenon that is Sherlock Holmes.

In the early eighties, in the French countryside. Julia, a 12 years old from Paris on holiday around is spending a day off at a local friend's place. She finds out that the parents of her friend have a secret: they are ashamed and try to hide their other girl, a teenage-mother, and her baby.

A couple decides to commit suicide.

The "Lord of the Rings" in 4 min. In a dark subway tunnel, a group of mice find a gold ring-pull that seems to have a mysterious effect on one of them. Not so far from them, an owl and his enslaved rats are watching. The owl sends his rats to get hold of this strange object.

Victor, an aimless womaniser seen as a burden by friends and family begins to experience disturbing hallucinations in the wake of a new romantic relationship with a man, Lionel. These apparitions become more visceral as the two become more emotionally attached until it all reaches a breaking point.

Ethan Aaron is a hired killer working for the biggest mafioso in the country named Bruce, he has the chance to work with his Brother "Alvin" and his best friend "Fred" who help him in his unusual approach. One day, Ethan gets fired. He will try to find a normal life course by getting involved in the local cinema, but his violent temper and his former boss does not allow him to successfully reintegrate into society so easily.

Mountain plants have always been of use to humans. Whether in the Alps or the Pyrenees, we will understand which plants are edible, how to cook them, which plants have medicinal qualities. Passionate people and naturalists also alert us to the consequences of human activities on the mountain plants.

French cinema meets Florida thriller as Sarasota detectives struggle to find the whereabouts of two missing girls from an uncooperative Frenchman staying in a cheap motel.

Jamilia is the heroine of the classic Kyrgyz novel about a young woman who, having been forced to marry, fled with her lover. Fifty years later, Aminatou Echard meets several generations of Kyrgyz women, resulting in portraits reflecting both the novel’s candor and the strength of today’s Jamilias.

On August 5, 1928, after 2 hours and 32 minutes of racing, the 71st rooster wearing the bib entered the Olympic stadium in Amsterdam. Ahmed El Ouafi Bouguéra wins the gold medal and becomes the first Olympic champion from the African continent. He achieved his feat under the tricolor flag. The start of his real marathon is underway. The history of sport extends to the history of Algeria and France. This documentary retraces the different stages of the life of this great champion, not only the history of sport but also the great story. Archival photographs and interviews mingle with the painted paintings. The series thus once again gives voice to this forgotten hero, one of the great heroes of immigration who defended France for more than a century.

In 1906, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso were 24 and 25 years old. The Butte Montmartre is their Parisian sanctuary where artists in need of recognition meet. Braque and Picasso become friends to the point of never leaving each other. For the moment, their paintings do not interest many people; only Apollinaire, then aged 26, and the young gallery owner Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 22, saw immense potential in them. And in addition to their passion for painting, these four inseparable boys share the same appetite for modernity. Collages, diversions of materials and geometrization of forms: cubism opened the way to abstraction. A revolution initiated by Picasso and Braque, which profoundly changed the course of the history of modern art.

During his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award, Nicolas Chauvin – a farmer-soldier, a veteran of the Revolutionary Army and the Napoleonic Wars, “father” of the chauvinism that bears his name – embarks on a monologue and recounts his life story. At the bend of a road, a spectral encounter shocks his (non-)existence.

In July 2010, a university professor in the United States returns to Ghana, her country of origin, to be inducted as queen mother. The Future in Retro consists of a tangle of several stories, several journeys, several exiles, which reflect contemporary globalized society. The Future in Retro is a tale of motherhood, brotherhood, belonging to a group, and exile. It is also a tale of departure, disappearance, trauma, the attempt to return, and an existential quest.

"Hommage to a climate activist imprisoned by the Order"(Collectif Jeune Cinéma). This film is one in a series of 30 about our collective "state of our emergency". Here we follow an unseen narrator as he walks around and rants about his anxieties over the world's state of affairs.

In 2018, can we speak freely about female sexuality? It all begins with a bold question: “What do French women do in bed?” The interviewees describe their sexual practices, their desires, and their boundaries. Are they more fulfilled and uninhibited than the generations before them?

On Valentine's Day, the romantic Icaro wants to propose to his girlfriend Vanilla in their favorite restaurant. But chef Dimitri pulls out all the stops to make sure young Icaro fails.

In the Parisian suburbs, a group of adolescents wander, looking for a rave party. The city’s peripheral architecture goes by like the setting of a retro futuristic adventure gone wrong; the governmental utopia of the housing estates, the laminated dream of the Euro Disney Park, the playgrounds and sports areas now used as spaces for getting high. The Parisian suburbs are thus revealed like the theatre of a failed political project, which has only intensified the differences between the deprived neighbourhoods and the city centre. However, the youth filmed by Manon Vila is not defeated.

Friends Christian, 63, and Bruce, 71, each have their burden to bear: Christian suffers from a genetic condition that severely impairs his vision and makes his skin hypersensitive to sunlight, while Bruce is hard of hearing and bipolar. But both men share a desire: to defy gravity, to rise up against the limitations of their bodies. As a very composed and rational person, Christian has mastered the techniques of paragliding, and, after years of struggle, he has been given permission to fly on his own. He is now persuading the more erratic and turbulent Bruce to do the same and follow him all the way to Mont Blanc... An intimate and moving portrait of two non-conforming individuals, this "direct cinema" piece with surrealist undertones takes us on a journey into the luminous heights and the dark intricacies of the human psyche.

Saint Malachy is said to have written a text called The Prophecy of the Popes in which he foretold the identities of 112 popes, the destruction of Rome, and the last judgement.

In the middle of the 19th century, in the heart of France, Wladislas lives in his castle with his faithful servant, Tobiec. Wlad is a creature of another time: thirsty for blood and immortal, he is the last of his kind and can not stand his extreme loneliness anymore. Wlad only aspires to one thing: to become human again.

A French staging of Ascanio Celestini's play "Laïka" by himself.

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?

On a family holiday in the mountains, Xavier is forced to go hiking with Fred, his big sister's boyfriend, whom he does not seem to like.

Leo is a young man in his early twenties. Originally from the provinces, he arrives in Paris to find work and settle down. He hasn't seen his father in over ten years. His father left the family home, leaving his mother to raise him alone. Leo was able to trace his father via the Internet. He was living alone in Paris. Leo informed his father of his arrival and asked him to take him in while he found an apartment and a job. When Leo arrived at his father's house, he discovered how precarious his life was. He has taken up residence in a small two-room apartment in a working-class district of Paris, and has been unemployed for a long time. As Leo reconnects with his father, he unwittingly discovers his father's hidden life.

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy?

Known for his erratic politics, unforeseeable behavior and verbal provocations, Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the USA throws the world into a panic.

Going through a rough patch, a depressed woman falls deeper down the hole as nature seems to strangely mirror her feelings.

At the heart of the Syrian civil war, a group of activists created an underground library in the besieged outskirts of Damascus. After years of blockade, they were forced to leave their city. But they managed to save their videos illustrating a unique experiment of cultural resistance under the bombs. This film, built between the past and the present, follows the story of three friends who met during the 2011 revolution and never gave up on their cultural resistance and peaceful struggle. Despite ceaseless bombing, they not only saved books from the rubble, but created a secret library, which quickly became a safe haven for peace, freedom and democracy: a special experience that they filmed and documented meticulously. Separated by war and exile, they are striving to reunite with each other. They reminisce on the past and tell us the extraordinary story of the library, based on dozens of hours of video archives. “A Library Under Bombs” is a story of hope and survival.

A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.

Interview with Linda De Zitter, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst. Complementary bonus film to the new DVD edition of "La Moindre des Choses" (Every Little Thing), April 2019.

Coming from the countryside to visit a friend, Solange 75, rediscovers Montreal. She talks to everyone with confidence and does some portraits of the people she meets. She meets Tom, a younger, moody and disillusioned man. Fictional scenes are interwoven with documentary scenes: portraits of Montrealers and snatches of conversations taken from life.

Two eccentric nuns arrive late at the Holy Mass and get expelled from the service. While doing a cleaning chore as punishment, they accidentally break a valuable liturgical object. Full of regrets, they try everything to repair their mistake, but nothing goes as expected. Sucked into a whirlwind of improbable events, the nuns end up sliding down the slippery slope to sin.

Étienne Boulay’s story is anything but ordinary. Raised in Montréal-Nord, he went on to play football in the CFL and NFL, with lots of road bumps along the way. Boulay is a genuine and engaging personality who never fails to make an impression wherever he goes.

Directed early 2018 in the south of France with young woodworkers