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Through the youthful portraits of some of the most terrible dictators of the 20th and 21st centuries, this documentary examines the origins of tyranny. Is a dictator the product of a family, social and historical context?
Chloé is a serious actress who's spent her life on the stages of Paris. The result? She has been chipped down into a product of the scrutiny and unfair politics that infest the entertainment industry. Doomed to star in one last performance of Shakespeare's 'A Mid-Summer Night's Dream' Chloé fights for her moment in the spotlight amongst the self-serving newcomers she is forced to share the stage with. How far will she go to be the star of the show?
In the summer of 2021, the Sœurs Jumelles festival was launched in Rochefort, a place where music and images come together. A film concert was held there on June 23 in tribute to Michel Legrand and Jacques Demy.
In an anxious and isolated world, paralyzed by the fear of the pandemic, one woman is determined to get a kiss -- lips touching lips -- from the Star of her dreams.
The Japanese volleyball players called the “Oriental Witches” are now in their 70s. From the formation of the team at the factory until their victory at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, memories and legends rise to the surface and blend inextricably.
An exploration of the story behind the world's most expensive Fabergé eggs, including the incredible trajectory of the Fabergé clan, in a fascinating historical context.
Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an unprecedented insight into his politics and shows how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.
In a provincial northern town, Nina, a shy and insecure young gymnast secretly adores Gio, another popular and easy-going girl from the town. When Gio notices Nina's awe of him, he decides to make an adept of her, in an ambiguous and abusive game, disorienting Nina, who, subjugated, finds herself at the mercy of Gio's manipulations and whims, which will bring her to a point of no return, from which she will never be able to free herself, even by changing her life and town.
This edition of Passengers transports France 79 to the stars, or rather the Nice Observatory. Their dreamy electro pop will take you to an ethereal realm with tracks such as ‘Hometown’ and ‘Diamond Veins’.
The new documentary made from the Slánský trial film and audio archives found by chance in 2018 in a warehouse in the suburb of Prague served as a starting point for the film. The director tells the trial through the descendants of three of the condemned: the daughter and grandson of Rudolf Slánský, the son and granddaughter of Rudolf Margolius, both executed after the trial, and the three children of Artur London, sentenced to life imprisonment.
Louis is a talented jazz musician who, after giving up music, now makes ends meet by working as a taxi driver and dealing cocaine, but ruining his relationship with his wife and daughter. But when an old friend of his father offers him to join his band for an important concert, the protagonist is presented with an opportunity for redemption.
A young journalist goes into the deep wood to interview the heavy-metal duo LANDGRAVES, who records an album for the first time since a murder imprisonment. His curiosity pushes him to follow the band deep in the forest, as a snowstorm arises.
The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.
Kilian, a hearing-impaired teenager with a passion for drums, receives new hearing aids. Living in a village near an airport, he is brutally caught up in the reality of sound, and decides to take revenge in his own way.
Filmed with a telephoto lens, from the heights of the village of Priay, the four pressurized water reactors at the Bugey nuclear power plant in Saint-Vulbas. The village and its bell tower in the foreground was where, as a child, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry spent his holidays.
A plant, neglected by its new owner, will possess the latter's body to find the one it considers its mother.
Juste un Mouvement is a free take on La Chinoise, a Jean-Luc Godard movie shot in 1967 in Paris. Reallocating its roles and characters fifty years later in Dakar, and updating its plot, this new version offers a meditation on the relationship between politics, justice and memory. Although not anymore alive, Omar Blondin Diop, the only actual Maoist student in the original movie, now becomes the key character.
As a strange plague tightens its grip on an isolated rural village, a young woman’s contact with the outside world breeds unrest among superstitious townspeople.
India, the world's largest democracy, has never been a more overtly nationalistic country than since the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014.
Through a poignant reconstruction of police violence that has occurred in France in recent years, Constrain shows the expression of state violence against individuals. A disturbing staging, combining a green background and 3D sets, tells an unprecedented way of these acts of repression, based on persecuted and humiliated bodies. - Alice Riva
In his first film, Julien Chauzit gathers four young adults in their twenties who are on holiday in Martigues, and he shows their political awakening, in the face of the environmental disaster to come.
Last December, in full lockdown, I decided to call my mother in Russia to talk about this day, almost 5 years ago, when I came to tell her that I was ill.
Eight-year old Bibi is chosen to represent her clan in a tournament for Viking warriors. When she eats a lollipop she is able to see the world as candy and she uses her power to make it through the challenges. But will she be able to defeat the terrible Arfur, chief of the Bear clan?
Tom Medina is sent by a juvenile judge to the Camargue, to live with Ulysses, a kind-hearted man in tune with nature. Inhabited by visions, fascinated by bulls and horses, Tom learns the trade of a herdsman at Ulysses’ side. He no longer steals and now thirsts for knowledge and aspires to become someone else. Revolted by the hostility which does not change towards him, he fights against his destiny and crosses the road of Suzanne…
Dea leaves rural Indonesia and her singing dreams to migrate to Hong Kong as a foreign domestic worker. The script is the result of a nine-months acting improv laboratory with a group of Indonesian women migrant domestic workers, who have been victims of domestic violence while working in Hong Kong.
At Carnac, in the Morbihan, the multitude of menhirs continues to question archaeologists. The most recent scientific research has identified dozens of new alignments of stones, some of which lie under the sea. Why, in the Neolithic period, did men erect gigantic funerary monuments at Carnac, to the glory of dignitaries as powerful as the Pharaohs? From often minute clues, scientists try to pierce the grey areas that still remain on this site and this unique society that radiated and disappeared suddenly in the heart of Brittany.
Well known for its exploration of seduction and revenge, the “Dangerous Liaisons” by Choderlos de Laclos caused a scandal from its first publication in 1782. Despite – or because of the scandal – the book was a top-seller. Since then, it stood the test of time. Combining eras, continents and people, the novel is adapted around the world. Marvelous tool for reflection on the female condition, social satire announcing the Revolution, remarkable work on the conflicting nature of love but also of the gender war, consecration of the power of the words, a libertine manual… “Dangerous Liaisons” is all of these at once.
Alice escapes her family cocoon to take part in political postering
During the factory’s strike, two workers decide to spend three days together in the mild summer as two very close friends know how to do.
A young actor takes part in rehearsals for a short film, a director's adaptation of a short story by Rilke. The role she offers him resonates with his own life; the characters in the text awaken his own ghosts.
Second confinement, I film my younger sister Auréa taking her bath. She confides to me her doubts about her future and the difficulty of having love affairs.
Living on the fringe of mainstream society, one man ventures deep into the northern forest each winter to answer the call of the outdoors. For a decade, Clément has followed the same ritual: travelling to the middle of nowhere on the hunt for peace, quiet and beauty. From his camp, he spends the winter hunting, trapping and living as one with the nature surrounding him.
On the one hand, the stories of Simon Johannin, raw and tender, dirty and sensitive, stemming from the asphalt, from a chaotic feeling of everyday life, from a certain youth. On the other, the performance techno of Jardin, autotuned, ambient, or projected into a wall of noise. In this performance Simon Johannin unfolds the monologue of a man talking to himself to cling to reason.
Who invented time, who invented the clock? Why 1 hour, why 60 minutes, why 60 seconds? Since prehistoric times, man has sought to measure time, to organize social and religious life, to plan food supply... Today we can surf the Internet, geolocate, pay by credit card… All our daily lives depend on time and the synchronization of clocks. The history of the invention of time and of the ways and instruments to measure it is a long story…
Every week for a year, Chrystel Jubien, like a ritual, films for a while, framed by rules, prisoners during their dance lessons. Time creates another relationship to place, to bodies, to women, and in this long time of repetition the encounter has been woven.
In the corridors of the hospital between the machines and the care staff, Aude never stops dancing. For several years she has been improvising musical encounters with cancer patients. Salsa, Rock, Jazz. Every week, music and dance take hold in the chemotherapy rooms as well as in palliative care. Over the course of her interventions, Aude creates a bond with patients, she offers a kind of breath for a moment that is not really expected in a hospital and invites patients on a journey into a universe far from illness.
Hervé knows how to get in touch with the Other Side, no doubt about that. But the real difficulty in spiritism sessions isn't receiving signs, it's understanding them.
FMX legend Tom Pagès keeps making history by pushing the limits of his sport. After reinventing FMX on land, he combines freestyle motocross and freefall off a 135m cliff in Avoriaz, France.
A short movie about anguish and desperation.