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1969: the Americans walk on the Moon. Mehdi, 10, arrives at Lycée Lyautey, far from his Atlas village. He thinks he's a member of the Apollo crew discovering an unknown planet: who are these French people who live in luxury, love inedible things, talk without modesty and show such interest in him?
Wolfgang Paalen (1905–1959) was an Austrian-born artist who became a prominent figure in the Parisian Surrealist movement under André Breton. Invited by Frida Kahlo, he moved to Mexico in 1939, where his evolving style greatly influenced abstract expressionism. Paalen’s impactful yet turbulent life ended in 1959 when he died by suicide in Taxco, Mexico.
A team of three journalists has followed and filmed every week since the beginning of the year, the crucial steps to create the shows Jungle Rhythm and The Lion King: Rhythms of the Pride Lands. Follow the creation of these shows, from music recording to season opening, artist rehearsals, set design and much more...
Men, sent to the Moon to vegetate it, are waiting for the arrival of the Earthlings. In the middle of the forest they grew, they tell about their past lives on Earth and the world in which they would like to live. But who are these men? Are they real? Have they been forgotten? The Outer Space Forest is a dreamed place on the border of fiction and documentary.
January 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by luxuriant nature, the proximity of which is not enough to calm the deep distress into which I am plunged. I am lost and I watch four to five films a day. I decide to record this stagnation, not by picking up a camera but by editing shots from the stream of films I watch.
A crossing guard has known too many misfortunes in his life to believe he is facing the on-the-run President of the Republic.
Everything was fine in Camille’s life until his parents accidentally discovered his homosexuality. How will Claudine and Maxime react? Turnarounds, an inimitable sense of dialogue make this comedy the feeling of back to school. How easy it is to be tolerant when you are not involved yourself! Because when Claudine and Maxime, an open-minded couple, who even demonstrated for marriage for all, come across, by leafing through a celebrity newspaper, on a photo of their son in the company of a man, the sky plummets them. the head. Claudine, more benevolent, tries to reason with her husband, but he finds it difficult to digest the news. Each in turn, the mother and father will question themselves, question themselves, and try to face this revelation, which cannot alter the love they have for their child.
After hearing that her boyfriend lacks the courage to break up with her, plucky Elena decides she’d be less humiliated if Arturo was ensnared by a man rather than a woman.
In the suburbs of Toulouse, a group of queers and migrants are squatting a pink house. They find traces of the previous occupants, and try to live with the memory of a crime.
Faustus, advisor to Emperor Maximus, is at the end of his rope. He's promised freedom if he succeeds in marrying his boss off to Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. On the papyrus, it's a simple plan, but when the equation combines famine, uprisings, Christians, strikers, putschists and two temperamental people to marry off... it's no simple plan.
With her flashy sneakers and digital tablet, Suzanne personifies the trendy grand-mother although she can’t recover from the death of her husband. A body double of the late spouse suddenly appears in this moving and comical portrait of the apparition of a disparition.
The unconventional story of virtuoso violinist Angèle Dubeau and her incredible journey from a small Quebec rural town to Julliard and eventually, to the world stage.
Louise is a mermaid. One day, a young man discovers her secret.
This is the story of a woman who’s been looking cranky her whole life until the day she wakes up with a smile stuck on her face.
By the end of the seventies, disco music, considered too mainstream, was dead. But DJs and dance floors still needed new records and faster rhythms. Built on synthesizer sounds, the hi-nrg (high energy) style swept the gay clubs before hitting the charts during the eighties.
A personal and moving portrait of actor Johnny Hallyday.
“We’re not training people to be fighters, we train people to exert energy and to release”, says the trainer at the 'Calais Jungle' boxing club. A few days before the camp’s eviction, energy levels are sky-high. A throbbing documentary impression of a tenacious support group.
Rosine Mbakam is invited to step in Sabine’s small hairdresser’s because it is dangerous in the street. She accepts and pushes in with her camera. Sabine’s stories and the customers’ joys, worries, problems and fears bring depth and life into the premises. At times, it feels like the entire African quarter of Brussels had squeezed in. Laughter abounds, anecdotes and life stories elicit emotions, and a male visitor brings a touch of flirt into the salon.
A dying man hires professional actors to impersonate his real life family ,with chaotic results, in this quirky comedy drama.
The players of the French team were followed during all their preparation before the competition but also after the end of the World Cup, while they found their families and their clubs.
In a small village of the North of France, an attack alert has been set off due to the combination of two events: the beginning of the hunting season and an argument between drunk Polish workers.
For millennia, women have cared for the deceased: as death-bed vigils, as undertakers, as guardians of funeral rituals. Then everything changed. Since we no longer die at home, men took over. But today a growing number of women are making a comeback. For the good of the deceased?
Count Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known to gardeners for having given his name to the bougainvillea, an exotic plant with delicate mauve flowers. Fewer know that, during the Age of Enlightenment, he was the first Frenchman to officially and scientifically sail around the world. In 1766, commissioned by Louis XV's ministers, the navigator left Brest aboard the frigate "La Boudeuse", joined en route by the flute "L'étoile". His task? Navigate the southern seas to explore new territories and gain a foothold in the southern hemisphere. Accompanied by scientists, including astronomer Pierre-Antoine Véron and botanist Philibert Commerson, Bougainville docked in Tahiti in April 1768, which he christened "New Kythera Island" and took possession of on behalf of France.
A giant robot wakes up from an age-old sleep to fulfill the task for which it is programmed. But he soon realizes that his assignment cannot take away the loneliness in his heart.
The Navajos. In the 19th century, this peaceful people first survived extermination, at a time when, according to General Sheridan's famous phrase, "the only good Indian is a dead Indian." They then endured, between 1864 and 1866, the "Long Walk" of deportation to New Mexico, which left many of them in the red dust. The 1968 Treaty of Fort Sumner restored one-fifth of their current territory. Twenty years later, an aggressive assimilation policy was introduced, with the motto simply being that "you have to kill the Indian to save the man."
2029. Paris. Reading is forbidden by law. The internet has been censured. On the main floor, a man is arrested. In the basement, life continues: learning books. Freedom persists.
Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He was not alone. Many other anonymous French men and women wrote of the beauty and warmth of those summer months and how threats of war were far from their minds. Through home movies, diaries and letters, One Last Summer describes the final weeks of peace in France and the mix of blindness, denial and prophetic clear-sightedness of those facing the war that was about to unfold.
On the western-most point of Brittany, in the lighthouse, at night, Damien is busily building a mysterious something out of pieces of mirror. The more the storm makes itself known, the more he hurries. When Isabelle arrives in the village, suddenly he is seized by a sense of urgency.
A family of giraffes is spending their holidays in a far-away forest. The baby giraffe gets lost and meets some of the animals that live there. But a bad-tempered squirrel does not seem at all ready to accept the newcomer. When the others see that he is not only kind but also pretty smart, he soon becomes one of the crowd, much to the annoyance of the grumpy squirrel.
At just 30 years old, Amande loses her child. To rebuild herself, she undertakes an initiatory journey in the Drôme, accompanied by her friend director, Nans Thomassey.
Film student Laïs Decaster trains her camera on her close-knit group of friends to capture daily life in the suburb of Argenteuil, near Paris.
Some things are difficult to share. Tom and Charlie will experience it through a funny adventure!
Every year in Burgundy, the success of their vintage is a true epic. The work in the vineyard and the cellar throughout the seasons results in the creation of exceptional wines that are lively, sought after, and adored around the world: Romanée-Conti, Gevrey-Chambertin, Chambolle-Musigny, Meursault, Volnay... These wines carry within them the plot of land from which they originate and the soul of the people who brought them to life.
A woman remembers her past loves...
A young girl who is about to get married is kidnapped by her teddybear in front of the church. Together, they will live a dreamy adventure.
The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death.
Finding inspiration in Kafka’s short text The Silence of the Sirens, in which he reinterprets Homer’s deadly songstresses as silent apparitions, Diana Vidrascu has created the mesmerising portrait of Céline, a young actress from Martinique living in Paris and struggling to find her place in the world. As she returns to her roots in order to explore her identity, we take the trip with her in this intimate story of origins and destinations.