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Filmmaker Lucile Hadzilalilovic, winner of the Silver Bear at the 2025 Berlinale for “The Tower of Ice”, delves into her world of hauntingly beautiful tales. From “Innocence” to her latest film, she crafts stories rich in mystery, where powerful women and enigmatic youth evoke the legacy of Argento-style genre cinema.
A father living alone with his daughter strives to teach her to swim, not for glory or triumph but for a deeper, more sincere purpose.
Two men from different generations form an unlikely bond while protecting a runaway circus bear in the French countryside, discovering shared passions for nature and wisdom along the way.
A tribute to Jean-Pierre Putters by part of the Distorsion team, who worked with JPP in 2013 and 2014 on the entire Metaluna magazine adventure! JPP, in our own words, as we experienced it, day-to-day, up close. Our story, his story with us. We had a great time making this podcast, and we were moved too. Starring: Laurent Assuid, layout artist/graphic designer for Metaluna, and writer for the mag ; Aude Boutillon, editorial secretary for Metaluna, writer and photographer for a good chunk of the mag's photos ; Rurik Sallé, co-creator of Metaluna with JPP, co-editor-in-chief of the mag then editor-in-chief, and writer for the mag ; Julien Savès, writer for Metaluna. Fuck yeah!
Platée, a silly and conceited nymph, falls for a fake wedding to Jupiter, king of the gods. This new staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Baroque masterpiece is colourful, eccentric, full of wit and free of taboos, yet also surprisingly deep. Filmed 1st june 2025 at Czech National Theatre, Prague
The Grand Canyon is a breathtaking natural monument. It's one of the planet’s best-known landscapes, yet we often forget that it tells two billion years of the Earth's history. Geologists Karl Karlström and Laurie Crossey are the leading experts on this. Over the course of 8 days, they descend the Colorado river and tackle hundreds of rapids to unveil the mysteries held in the Grand Canyon, and the place that humans occupy within it.
Joseph Vallot, geographer, naturalist and mountaineer born in 1854 in Lodève, was a visionary man, full of humor and whose curiosity was insatiable. He had spent some forty years of his life studying the Mont Blanc massif, sacrificing a good part of his fortune to this multifaceted passion. He was notably the first to demonstrate that one could sleep, work and even do science at an altitude of over 4000 meters, at a time when ascents to the summit of Western Europe were still adventurous expeditions. This documentary tribute follows in his footsteps, via the route taken at the time, on foot from Chamonix via the Grands Mulets refuge to the summit of Mont Blanc to the Joseph Vallot observatory nestled at an altitude of 4400m, with a team of guides, journalists and scientists.
A tender posthumous letter to Tamara’s father, who was a film actor in Soviet Armenia. She already watched him on TV as a child before later establishing herself as a filmmaker. A captivating sleepwalk through the landscapes of Armenian film history.
A tender posthumous letter to Tamara’s father, who was a film actor in Soviet Armenia. She already watched him on TV as a child before later establishing herself as a filmmaker. A captivating sleepwalk through the landscapes of Armenian film history.
The art of drag represents an artistic transformation where individuals create characters by amplifying gendered traits, challenging established social norms. This practice, known for its spectacular performances, has evolved through periods of repression and acceptance. Through humor and self-mockery, drag disrupts conventions and is deeply rooted in the history of LGBT+ movements. This documentary traces the history of Drag in France and around the world, from William Dorsey Swann—a young emancipated slave considered the first drag queen—to RuPaul, Nicky Doll, and Paloma. Featuring contributions from historians, anthropologists, and sociologists specialized in drag, as well as testimonies from drag artists who are shaping or have shaped this history.
Exiled from Iran after the ban on her 2009 film about the Green Movement, a filmmaker breaks her family’s decades-long silence about a disappeared cousin, executed during the 1988 purges in political prisons.
Montagne has to leave in ten minutes to go have an abortion at Planned Parenthood.
On January 15, 1972, Leonid Pliouchtch, a Ukrainian mathematician who was unknown at the time, was locked up in a Soviet psychiatric institution and accused of dissidence. His wife, Tatiana, fought for his defense and contacted a committee of French mathematicians to help him. Led by Laurent Schwartz, they launched a three-year campaign to secure his release and succeeded in getting the USSR to back down on the issue.
As to prove himself to his gangster father, Alessandro decides to rob a bar. What he wouldn’t expect is to meet another side of his father: Lady Victoria the drag queen.
Two years after the May 13th, 2024, uprising in Kanaky-New Caledonia, the political situation in the archipelago still hasn't budged. From failed negotiations to vain attempts to force through change, the French government keeps trying to destroy a 40-year-old peace process by trying to exclude the Kanak liberation front (Front de libération nationale kanak et socialiste) and its president, Christian Tein. After being detained for a year in continental France, the independantist leader and his comrades have resumed their work. They tell of their fight for the independence of their country, the ravages of colonisation and the mistreatment they have endured from the French government since the May 13th uprising.
Every week, Zora is confronted with the side effects of a treatment she lives a real nightmare.
A polyphonic narrator – filmmaker, parent, forest, insects, fungi, childcare worker – declares their absolute refusal of labor exploitation, and their necessity to join collective bodies in resistance.
In the Hungarian thermal baths, two Hungarian grandfathers are playing chess like a Western-style duel.
Les Malheurs de Robert Dhéry shows the ravages of time on part of the copy of Branquignol, the film that Robert Dhéry made in 1949. By isolating and slowing down a damaged part of the copy of this film, I managed to create an object with abstract forms and, insidiously, to give another life to a first-rate work of art.
Recording of the Cotton Blood live concert at the Echo System in Scey-sur-Saône
During a theatrical performance featuring puppets glorifying war, a wounded soldier is taken backstage where he unveils the truth about war.
Pierrot, 50, is autistic and lives in a care home. His sister Camille, 45, discovers that he is being overmedicated, causing him to regress. Outraged, she decides to take him into her home while she searches for a place that is better suited to his needs. A long quest begins.
Two young photographers set out to win a city photo contest. They chase each other through the streets in search of the best shot.
An old lady weaves a tapestry filled with joy and blooming love in her home.
Tom Cruise is one of the last remaining superstars of world cinema. A portrait of one of the most powerful, but also most secretive, men in Hollywood.
Jonathan, an expert in luxury watches, leads a gray and monotonous life until he meets Eric, a charming conman and dealer in stolen goods. Fascinated by his lifestyle, Jonathan is drawn deeper and deeper into the world of criminal transactions. The situation spirals out of control when the virtuoso thief Joe joins them. In 2010, the trio committed one of the most daring robberies in history - they stole five masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
A couple attempts to reconnect over the course of an evening but the night has other plans for them.
A devout Christian mother's carefully ordered life is disrupted, forcing her to confront the limits of her faith, the weight of guilt, and the expectations placed on her as a woman. As her beliefs and long-held convictions are tested, she must navigate the tension between personal truth and societal pressures.
Artfully erotic nudity with plush, glamorous décor and sensual, atmospheric lighting: The Crazy Horse, in the French capital’s well-heeled eighth district, has been delighting audiences for 70 years with its special brand of classy Parisian cabaret.
Comedies, biopics, historical tragedies, social dramas, cleverly twisted tales... Anne Fontaine has explored them all. With a keen focus on always delivering popular cinema, the director paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Western human soul in its most beautiful and fascinating missteps. She revisits her films in an interview.