French celebrities host a special concert in Disneyland Paris.
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French celebrities host a special concert in Disneyland Paris.
The Marriage of Figaro is one of the most emblematic operas in the repertoire. Brahms spoke of it as a “miracle” and the Countess' complaint still resonates today as one of the most heartbreaking musical pages. It was by resuming Beaumarchais' comedy, which caused a scandal in Parisian society, that Mozart and his librettist Da Ponte began their first collaboration. The play was banned by Joseph II in 1785 at the Vienna Theater. Is it because it exposed too much to the forefront the contradictions of an already faltering regime, ready to collapse with the French Revolution? Netia Jones preserves the very essence of Beaumarchais' play by questioning human relationships with humor but not without mischief, in a production which confuses reality and fiction to the point of asking, like the Count: "Are we playing a comedy?" »
In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure, during which she combined painting, text and music: in only eighteen months, she painted more than a thousand paintings. In 1943, she was arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
A seemingly ordinary day in the life of Quentin, a Parisian film-lover. After going to the cinema twice, he runs into a former college friend, listens to a girls' conversation in a bar, then goes and meet his best friend, has a beer, and ends up spending the evening in the Parc Montsouris, where he meets Lise.
Diplopia “is a functional vision disorder that results in the perception of two images for a single object” (Clément Chéroux). Antonin Peretjatko literally brings this double vision to the screen. He uses it to tackle one of the issues approached in Yellow Saturday – the perception of the so-called Yellow Vests protest movement, a lengthy political episode that has fuelled the media in their field-based battle to portray the demonstrators.
Drawing on archives and interviews, including one with Italian director Marco Bellocchio, this is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of his film about reformed mafia member Tommaso Buscetta.
Young Iranian director Salef Kashefi creates a poetic diary out of pieces of his life in Paris. Graceful young faces filmed ever so tenderly, the golden radiance of religious paintings, trivialities of a disjointed daily life overtaken by a gnawing sadness… Each shot is a note whose vibrancy is only enhanced by the sound material, as a ghostly double, made of thick silences and repetitive motifs, melodic apparitions and echoes. Development is the translation on film of a melancholy that is sensitively distilled from the bottom of a bathtub. (Claire Lasolle)
Maya Souratis Student Film about a man struggling with depression in search of light.
In the 60s, in the heart of a village, Robert lives with his mother Odette. About fifty, balding, paunchy, Robert spends most of his time locked in the garage where he tries to develop a teleport machine. Robert will try to teleport himself, but a fly is stuck in the machine, and the scientific apprentice will gradually turn into a giant insect. Robert will little by little dehumanize to become a beast able to climb the wall, pushed by an insatiable search for food.
Born in France to Senegalese parents, Halimata was excised at the age of 5. Her story is that of many other women, who are trying to forge an identity for themselves, between traditional education and a thirst for emancipation. In the first person, the story of a trauma and a reconstruction.
French-Italian tenor Roberto Alagna grew up in a family that instilled in him a love for opera and traditional Sicilian song. Although he devoted himself exclusively to the former for many years, a few years ago he rediscovered the rich musical repertoire of his father's native island. This led to the creation of the album Sicilien, released in 2008. Given the album's success, Roberto Alagna and Yvan Cassar decided to adapt it into a stage show. In August 2009, the tenor performed at the Arena of Nîmes in a show that combined popular music and classical art.
As discreet as he is ambitious, Mohammed Ben Zayed - known as MBZ - is the new strongman of the Persian Gulf. As head of the United Arab Emirates, he is at the heart of every conflict in the region: coup d'état in Egypt, war in Yemen, counter-revolution in Sudan. Thanks to the unlimited financial power of its hydrocarbon resources, the palace of MBZ is the new center of gravity in the Middle East. Its latest geopolitical coup has been the recognition of Israel, which gives it access to cutting-edge military technologies to better combat Iranian influence in the region and monitor its opponents.
Jason, a young open-minded driver, works at Udrive. He grew up in a very strict conservative family. During a ride, he meets someone he will remember.
The Senegal River forms the national border between Mauritania and Senegal. In 1989, war broke out between these countries, along and around the river. Both sides committed atrocities. Senegalese filmmaker Alassane Diago was just a young child at the time. Now he brings together his “Senegalese and Mauritanian family,” all victims or witnesses of the bloodbath, so they can talk in detail about their traumatic experiences. He wants to find the truth, and to bring about reconciliation. Why did they slaughter each other, and why were so many people “deported”? Was there systemic racism involved, under the white and Arab elite? Was it a case of ethnic cleansing?
Alan, a withdrawn and solitary young man, usually finds solace in his inner world. Today is the big day: he’s leaving the family home to enter working life.
In a universe that looks like nothingness, two beings seem to exist only to come into contact.
Unassertive Neila works at a local fast food joint in the Paris suburb where she's from. One day, she meets another black woman her age named. Championne: delivery girl by day and dominatrix by night. Drawn by the lure of thrills and easy money, Neila follows her into a world that will change her life forever.
At her father’s request, Coline returns to her childhood bedroom to sort through her belongings. The various objects she finds remind her of childhood memories that stick to her and that she will finally accept to leave behind…
Four friends on vacation in the French countryside banter about love, life and other anxieties.
Ezra has recently been living in a village marked by war. He meets Odelia, who works in a dyery. She has to deliver a sheet outside the village. He takes her on a scooter.
This documentary talks about UFOs in our society's issues. As a reflection from the sky, UFOs question our own mankind : transhumanism, genetics, nuclear research, astrophysics, ecology, conquest of space, psychology, information, arts and, of course, cinema. UFOs are objects of fascination, dreams, and are worrying us on this strange and thrilling film.
In November 2018, the news of the death of a 27-year-old American on the shore of a small island in the Indian Ocean went around the planet. Clash of the culture.
Spring 2020: in Mexico City, a group of friends get together to rehearse a play. They gradually find themselves connected to the history of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán valley, home to the world’s largest cactus forest. Somewhere between a phantasmagorical fiction and a historical investigation, Ollin Blood challenges our relationship with nature and all its contradictions.
Claude and Mahalia matched on a dating site for people with superpowers. Claude's? To become invisible. When Mahalia insists on knowing his first action upon discovering his power, Claude does everything to avoid the question. For fear of ruining his chances with her.
A fascinating portrait of the composer, engineer and architect Iannis Xenakis, a leader of the avant-garde and a pioneer of sound and light shows, who turned contemporary music upside down by bringing art and mathematics together.
Yasmine is a twenty-two-year-old Franco-Maghreb woman who moved away from home to be able to live her life. Her love for N'dé, a thirty-something black African woman is secret. For Eid, she visits her family for a few days. Yasmine finds her sister, her father and her mother at home. Each relationship is revealed and at the same time opens-up the entrenched warfare where everyone lives enclosed in their own world. Yasmine is overwhelmed by this violence.
Humaira Bilkis has a problem: after a pilgrimage to Mecca, her mother, who was previously an emancipated poet, has now become devout. The filmmaker has to fight to get her to accept the camera, since her religion forbids images, while hiding her relationship with a Hindu man from Calcutta. Her film plays out like a closed-door documentary, spot-on and moving.
End of the 1960s. While on his way with his manager to the Cannes Film Festival, Jean-Marc Lancel, international film star, steps out on the road for a wee break. When he returns to the car, it has inexplicably disappeared.
In Abidjan, a gay, muslim young man called Ali half heartedly attends his lover Saint's christian wedding. Ali tries to put on a brave face but another guest, Maël, an import-export executive, soon figures out the nature of the two men's relationship. Following the event, Ali becomes a target for Maël's sexual blackmail...
Go_A combine traditional Ukrainian songs with electro for an explosive result. Dance along to their stunning Europavox Session from 2022. Setlist: "shum", "Rusalky" and "Kalyna" .
A young girl returns home from a party at night. A video game film about street harassment.
For the first time, and thanks to new archaeological excavations, this documentary reveals how Pompeii, the pride of its builders, developed, from its origins at the end of the seventh century BC until the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The use of CGI and 3D mapping provides a very clear view of this ancient superstructure and eight centuries of urban evolution. We will revive this great historical fresco through accounts by international archaeologists and historians. Pompeii: The Origins is a journey to the heart of an ancient ‘motion designed’ city.
Louis, 17 years old, is a romantic boy, loving to spend time on a small island lost in the middle of a pond with his lover Thibault. But Thibault is in a relationship with Sophie. So, for Thibault to be all his own, Louis casts a love spell on him. When electricity shuts down during a party, Louis believes that it's the sign his spell worked out. But things don't turn out the way he hoped for.
After the end of the Cold War, the Baltic was viewed almost as a quiet backwater. A nice place to visit to see charming Hanseatic cities and sandy beaches. But since the war in Ukraine the Baltic sea, bordered by eight European Union countries as well as Russia, has become a hot spot of world geopolitics. And tensions are high.
Star actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Ida Lupino establish herself as a director after World War 2. Here's the portrait of an independant filmmaker, whose films, imbued with dark realism, have to be rediscovered.
Gwen tells her son about the marriage with his father's family, between the hold and the violence.