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The surprising story of how a french law punishing the failure to assist a person in danger was created by Vichy France during World War II.

Six people recall the languages that cradled their childhoods: Judeo-Spanish or Judeo Arabic, or Judeo-Persian. Today, the languages themselves are dying but they left traces that still work on those who heard them as children.

A young couple in their twenties is confronted with the fear of monotony in their daily lives.

"Against Time" is a visual journey, continuing Ben Russell’s investigations into the perception of time and how we listen to music.

Emile Robert, a music-hall artist in his sixties, receives a message from Uruguay from a certain Alfredo Quiroga. He says to be the brother of Eurídice, a young intern with whom he had a passionate love story in the 70s. Emile travels to Montevideo in search of the past, where Alfredo lends him the family apartment.

"A Hawk as Big as a Horse" follows the daily life of Lydia, a bi-gender ornithologist who lives in Shcherbinka, a remote suburb of Moscow. As Lydia embarks on remaking David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, she decides to create Lara, a life-size silicon doll of her favorite actress.

D-3 before the big day when Jean-Pierre and Marjorie will (finally) say "I do" in the Basque Country at the parents of the future groom. But the organization of Roxane, which seemed to be regulated like music paper, is going to be largely disturbed by a crescendo of unforeseen events in any kind.

Hania Rani was born in Poland and now divides her time between Warsaw and Berlin. Between these two cities, the pianist composes subtle and sensitive music reminiscent of Philip Glass or Erik Satie.

From time immemorial, the Bretons have fought many battles to safeguard their culture, rich in language, music and dance. However, Brittany was for a long time a forgotten land, neglected by the Republic which forbade its language. From the 1960s onwards, the agricultural revolution turned peasant life upside down. Its culture, which had long been supported by Catholic priests, was emancipated in the seventies, carried by a new breath of air that accompanied the Breton angers. The youth then reappropriated their language and culture. From the long years of relegation to their great anger, the Bretons have written a fascinating saga since the end of the 19th century.

Six thirty-something friends leave wives and kids to relive their first holiday. During a week, they will realize they are not as young and, above all, not as grown-ups as they think. Their friendship will be smashed into pieces...

While Milo is on his way to a funeral, he fishes an unconscious young man out of the waves. This strange meeting lets resurface, in him, the memories of a crazy youth and those of his first love, deceased a few days earlier.

Filmmaking can sometimes be a very chaotic process. Allie is about to learn it as the director just got one last crazy idea.

A meditation on the passing of all things and an affirmation of faith in creative power, Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection," remains undoubtedly the most popular of Gustav Mahler's symphonies. The iconoclastic Romeo Castellucci (whose version of Mozart's Requiem in Aix-en-Provence in 2019 caused quite a stir) joins forces with Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen for a radical reinterpretation of this existential fresco.

Whaling has been around for centuries. It seems to be the fruit of man’s violence, destroying himself by destroying nature. Accompanying the rise of capitalism, the practice survives today, reflecting humans’ eternal destructiveness of nature and the creatures unable to resist them.

A Flower in the Mouth is a film diptych about time running out and how to live through the days that remain. The first act, filmed as an observational documentary in the world’s largest flower market, follows millions of bouquets transiting through a cavernous refrigerated hangar to be sold at auction, an industrial process at once both beautiful and terrifying. The film transitions to fiction in a second act freely adapted from a Pirandello play. A man with a flower-shaped tumour on his lip accosts a traveller in an all-night café. Their seemingly mundane conversation becomes a metaphysical monologue as the man, feeling death approach, clings to life by scrupulously observing its activity, watching reality in every detail, as if to fill the gap between himself and the rest of the world.

Volodarka is the name of a village classified as zone 4 since the disaster of April 26, 1986. Vassili and Viera met in Volodarka that year. He was a reservist soldier who was called back on the night of April 27-28 for a compulsory mission to the Chernobyl plant. She lives alone in the village with her three children. Today, in Volodarka, more than 35 years after the disaster: one does not receive help to stay in this zone so little contaminated, they say. Here, an ordinary life. Through the banality of everyday life and the precariousness of lives, Volodarka questions our civilization of progress, which, far from the first gods, still fills the world stage with the greatest human sacrifices.

Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, an exploration of the virtues of translation and desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, an observation of the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.

They share a common ideology and vision of totalitarian power yet reportedly, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko hate each other. As popular opposition in Belarus and the war in Ukraine force them closer and closer together, we examine the relationship between these two men. We also look back at Lukashenko’s rise to power and hear from some of the protestors brave enough to oppose him. Filmed undercover in Belarus in the weeks up to and just after the invasion of Ukraine.

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In New Caledonia, Marie-Claude Tjibaou is an undisputed authority: widow of independence leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou, founder and president of the Tjibaou Cultural Center, now a member of the Committee of Elders. An extraordinary life that merges with the history of his country. But who is she really? In the footsteps of her son Emmanuel, this film takes us to discover Andi (her customary name in the Païci language) and a touching, secretive and strong Marie-Claude Tjibaou. An intimate and universal portrait at the same time. The portrait of a standing woman who, despite the hardships, has never given up.

Eugène goes to bed. Everything is calm and silent. About to fall asleep, something creeps up his legs, his stomach and then his chest. A mass, so heavy that he realises the night won’t be as peaceful as he thought.

Pianist Sofiane Pamart takes over the majestic Hôtel de la Marine in Paris for a nocturnal concert with magical overtones.

How do you define dubbing? What characterizes this field? These actors with golden voices have marked several generations of audiences, in movies, on TV, and even on the Internet. 10 of them have generously accepted to talk about their job as actors specialized in dubbing, their experiences, but also their different points of view.

The film tells of the director's meeting with four inhabitants of Marseille who live between reason and unreason. Considered 'sick' by society, they nevertheless live in the city. Between periods of hospitalization, they try to reach out to the common world, to inhabit it, to be present in it, even though they themselves are inhabited, foreign, inspired.

The philosopher and sociologist of science Bruno Latour shares his thoughts with Nicolas Truong on the new world that is emerging with climate change and outlines the main elements of his thinking.

From concert excerpts to vigorous speeches, from the Vietnam War to the ravages of the tar sands, a portrait of Neil Young, a rock monument who made his indignation the driving force of his creation.

The results of the presidential elections, divorced women, political correctness, teleworking, dating, an influencer obsessed with her likes, cookies on computers that spy on us, but also a psychic who encourages you to be more attentive in your relationship... With her tender and lucid view of French society in 2022, Anne Roumanoff succeeds in the feat of making us laugh at this complicated period. Everything is not going very well, but when you leave Anne Roumanoff's show, you feel really better.

"The blue gallop of remembrance.." (Apollinaire)

Who knows the story of the man behind the monuments? How did Jean Monnet, a young cognac merchant, become one of the founding fathers of Europe? Beyond the figure of the "Father of Europe" lies the journey of an adventurer who rubbed shoulders with the greats and played a decisive role during both world wars.

The epic 1500km bivouac flight of Damien Lacaze and Antoine Girard, two French paragliders and mountaineers, through the heart of the Himalayas and the Karakoram ranges. This journey is actually a prelude and acclimatization for their attempt to climb Spantik (7027m) from the nearest town in two days, using only paragliders. Is it truly feasible? What are the limitations of such an ascent? Can they earn a living from it?

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the two richest men in the world, have the same dream: to conquer space and send millions of people to live on Mars or in orbiting stations. In just twenty years, these two ambitious entrepreneurs have succeeded in developing and launching their own rockets, a feat previously reserved only for governments. Under their leadership, a new space epic is being written. Their "New Space" is turning space into a gigantic, ultra-competitive market. Behind this duel, another battle is being played out, that of the supremacy of the States in the race to the stars.

Part of Zineb Sedira's art installation for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. A piece where Sedira explores her passion for the militant cinema of the 60s and 70s.

Eliú, a country boy, is incarcerated́ in an experimental minors' centre in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers perform strenuous manual labour and intense group therapy. One day, El Mono is transferred to the same centre and brings with him a past that Eliú is trying to get away from.

The director, who is of Tartar descent, believes her family has been struck by an ancient curse. A shaman, very popular on Instagram, agrees to help her.

Nico and Greg meet up on a beach on the North Sea. They haven't seen each other in years. The two brothers are going through a family tragedy that has torn them away from their already tumultuous daily lives. Nostalgia brings them together in this place steeped in memories.

“Imagine this camera is your mother”, a father tells his daughter. In the 1990s, scores of families from the Republic of Moldova began a ritualised mail exchange between the mothers, who had emigrated for economic reasons, and their relatives back home. The former sent money and goods; the latter sent videotapes. These amateur recordings are the material of this film. They testify to the painful gaps the absent persons left in the lives of those who stayed behind.

Xavier joins a free gym. Free? Yes. But when it's free, it means you're the product.

In a post-apocalyptic universe, Bob and his dog Pasha survive in a wasteland. They are hungry, thirsty and tired. When suddenly, they see a city in the distance!

The sequel to the short film "Minori" from 2019.

A partly silent, partly sung film, shot nowadays in the erased footsteps of the Calais Jungle after its destruction. A tribute that doesn’t take a funeral angle, a tribute to the heroism of the displaced populations, driven out of sites at war devastated by the violence of fires. - doclisbona