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A young Iranian documentary filmmaker, Mohammadreza Eyni, decides to make a portrait documentary film about the most prominent Iranian painter, Abolghasem Saidi, who moved to Paris seventy years ago. With Saidi's agreement, the 32 year-old filmmaker goes to Paris to start the film, only to face closed doors. "The Friend's House" is the story of two generations, where each aims to understand and challenge another's perspective. Throughout the process of filmmaking, the filmmaker starts to question and challenge himself.

Mr Wolf has just enjoyed a fine dinner. Replete, he goes off for a walk around the forest, just to make sure that everyone can see that he is indeed the strongest creature around! Until he meets a tiny little toad-like thing.

Vitiligo is a « cine-poem » with the Belgo-Burundian slam and poet Gioia Kayaga. This hybrid video, mixing performance, cinema, music, poetry, installation, theater and dance is a non-territorialized act. Vitiligo invites you to experience the mindspace of two women, both plunged deep in an internal questioning of their external apparence.

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Indira dreams of elsewhere. In France, Mehdina strives to find her place. Whilst the adults seem to be fighting windmills, the kids grow up in a world of their own with ten-year-old Hasan blissfully wandering on the path of Armstrong and travelling into space.

The film follows the artistic body of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro when salaries are suspended. It records the wait, marked by the long days without good news, and the resistance: because despite ruin and misery, it is necessary to produce and survive.

A teenager who longs to just be a teenager must instead spend the last days of summer helping her family cope with a recent loss as well as her younger brother’s health crisis.

ISIS forces were driven out of Mosul in July 2017. How to rebuild the city after more than 3 years of occupation?

A symbol of luxury and adventure, the Orient Express opened a new path between the West and the East. Mata Hari, Josephine Baker and Agatha Christie, who dedicated a novel to it, contributed to its legend. Delve into the secrets of a legendary train.

Of the 250,000 victims of rape or attempted rape in France every year, only 16,000 ever make it to a police station. Between overcrowded courts and tenacious prejudice, this documentary shows the painful journey of four rape victims to make their voices heard. An unvarnished look at an archaic process.

For his opera Garnier stage-directing debut, Simon Stone creates a sensational La Traviata, 2.0! Pretty Yende and Benjamin Bernheim triumph as Violetta and Alfredo in a production that remixes the beloved operatic masterpiece’s familiar love story for the digital age, adding social media notifications, all-nighters, texts, and parties to produce an interpretation starkly appropriate for our modern era. At the podium, Michele Mariotti conducts the Paris National Opera Orchestra.

In 1973, at age 39, Brigitte Bardot decides to stop her acting career at the height of her fame to dedicate herself to Animal welfare and protection. Her rebellious nature finds in this cause a genuine expression of who she really is. This intimate portrait including exclusive interviews provides a unique account of her journey as a movie icon turning into a radical advocate for wildlife protection ahead of her time.

What should we do today with poems from the past ? Why do poetry today and how ? Sitting behind his desk, Michel Deguy, great living poet, speaks, smokes and thinks with the same generous enthusiasm. Marie-Claude Treilhou records the thinking words, articulates their development through a series of readings or sung recitations of the poems dissected by their author. Fathoming the depths of “ecopoeticology” of Deguy, Comme si, comme ça makes up the most sober and vivid of portraits. “Without ever bragging”, as suggested by the contemporary ethics the poet formulates in the film.

A delightful insight into the filming of Antony Hickling's "Frig" with interviews and behind the scenes footage.

A first-person documentary on an expedition to one of the last regions of the world still unexplored by man.

The workers of a self-managed tea factory decide to go against the grain and play by their own rules. The problem is, how can you plan, work and survive in a world driven by ruthless competition? One day at a time, for instance. In a world ruled by profit and dominated by the exploitation of the weaker ones, the film literally offers an alternative set of ways about how to think our future and the means and tools to work for it. It is not an easy job but, as Taste of Hope carefully and precisely shows, there is still a lot that can be done if we change our relationship to production and labor. Instead of making grand gestures or political statements, the filmmaker works with the camera and with a thoughtful editing in order to understand how to weave together new possibilities of communal existence.

Anna Kilius and Sara Russo are friends. Sara's goal is to shame Anna, who does not have a lot of romance. They go out in a box. In the middle of the night, Sara, exhausted, decides to go back while Anna stays. At dawn, Anna wakes up near a suburban station. She is drugged, raped. Anna is confronted by a skeptical policeman. Vexed, she does not complain. Anna starts the hunt for her rapist thanks to hyperosmia, a large olfactory memory and a keen sense of smell. Thanks to the sexual pheromones, she thinks she finds the rapist. From that moment, all his certainties rock. Is this the right person?

They come here to wash, to stay clean. Some are in distress, others run out of hot water. The bath-showers are their ephemeral refuge, before returning to the city, to the street. Here we recover strength and cause. Yet violence is never far away. A bad look, an insult, a sudden gesture. The staff of the bath-showers, prevents slippage. Out of the world, it's a whole world.

The poetic and political portrait of a working-class suburb undergoing transformation, "De Cendres et de Braises" invites us to listen to the words of the inhabitants of the Mureaux housing project, near the Renault-Flins factory. Whether they are gentle, rebellious, or sung at the foot of the project's tower blocks, at the factory entrance, or beside a fire, these words take us through the night until a new day rises.

On the edge of Bordeaux, in an area that is being redeveloped, a fast food van appears every day on a parking lot in the middle of the building site. It serves regular customers of labourers and prostitutes who hang around killing time without seeming preoccupied by the transformation of their surroundings. Babette, Dédé and Jacky, shipwrecked characters who are simultaneously melodramatic and sincere, congregate here every day as the construction progresses. By following their three meandering destinies, the film observes the ephemeral community that they have become in this in-between place, moments of respite that they manage to snatch from their own realities.

Fifty years ago, the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place to facilitate the leasing of the main island, Diego Garcia, to the US government so that it could build one of its largest and most secretive military bases overseas. As the military lease is about to expire, Chagossian exiles are attempting to recover their home in the middle of the Indian Ocean from Great Britain. The charismatic woman leading their fight in the UK is Sabrina Jean. Through unrelenting activism, including the exile community's improbable participation in the World Football Cup for Stateless People, she strives to keep the flame of hope alive in her community with one single goal: to return home. But as the elders disappear and memory fades, time is running out.

At the turn of the century, two young girls steal a fruit and taste the forbidden.

The writers Cesare Pavese and Jean-Luc Lagarce had a tragic destiny. The first committed suicide after a sentimental disappointment and the second died of AIDS. Sex holds a central place in their diaries.

Kepone, also known as chlordecone, is an endoctrine disruptor invented in the U.S.. Because of it, the number of prostate cancers in Martinique as well as the number of premature babies have never stopped rising. It has infected a third of the agricultural lands, tubers, meat, eggs, has polluted sources and rivers, affected fish and seafood.

A crowd, seen from the back, slowly disappears. Boltanski created this work for the exhibition "Faire son temps" (Life in the making) at Centre Pompidou.

A historical documentary tracing 130 years of Tunisia's Alawite school, its role in education, modernization, and shaping generations of citizens.

A joyous and sexual ode to sorority.

Communication is complicated. He tries to talk to her, but she seems unreachable. It’s unimaginable: she’s right on the other side of the table. When she tries to talk, it’s the same. At a time when “communication” is one of the great leitmotifs!

Two brothers travel to the country in the hope of reuniting with their mysterious biological father.

Les Malheurs de Germaine Dulac shows the ravages of time on the copy of the film La Cigarette , the film that Germaine Dulac shot in 1919. By selecting and slowing down the most damaged parts of the French filmmaker's film, I managed to create an object with abstract forms and, paradoxically, to give a second life to a major artistic work.

As part of the 2019 Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival, filmmaker Christophe Honoré delivers an innovative staging of Giacomo Puccini's famous drama. His cleverly staged "opera within the opera" is a melancholy homage to the fascinating figure of the diva, who thrives on art and love and upsets the laws of time and death.

Two Japanese monkeys, Nobu and Hako, have to put aside their differences to survive in their hostile environment.

Nadia, a 16 year-old-French girl, wakes up in her house for the last time. Today she will leave her family, her city and her life to pursue a dream. The day becomes a race against time that will forever change her destiny.

The house is at 9 bis, Old Landerneau Road, at the top of the Donegal. No, the owner won't be doing the viewings, because he is no longer there, but there is someone who knows the place very well.

Christine has a weird dream, from which she may never wake up.

After a long period of isolation, Antonin rediscovers the world in a bird shelter where, rocked by the noise of planes, troubled souls are saved just as much as the birds.

A woman fights AIDS and starts a family.