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An old man against the public housing project.

Infinite star space, where luminous forms evolve; dots swarm in webs of insubstantial lines.

An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company. After being abandoned in the woods with no food, a group of children takes refuge in a nearby house. However, the hungry ogre that lives there is about to come home...

A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced that prospecting will not be in vain.

The film traces the history of witchcraft through Michelet's text, paintings, engravings, and film clips by Carl Th. Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman.

The Roman city is essentially a meeting place, a radiant center of Latinity. Gaul is Romanized by road and by the city. The city is a place of residence, of worship, a cultural center of exchanges and leisure. We end up with the Gallo-Roman civilization (source: Média-Scérén)

Evocation of André Breton's role in the surrealist movement, on images of landscapes, Paris, surrealist paintings, faces of young girls and ruins of castles. The main themes addressed: poetry, love, freedom. (source: Media-Scéren)

In 1920, a squire decides to change his skin and pretends to be poor to a nice bourgeois family. This mysterious and handsome young man, discovered in a pavilion of a vast property, will cause a lot of disturbances among the female population of a castle.

"Directed in 1960, the second short film from Champeaux studios, Villa Mon Rêve is undoubtedly Albert Champeaux's emblematic film. Awarded in many festivals (Cork, Venice, Acapulco, etc.), it will be distributed internationally by Rank. This is the beginning of the adventures of Mr Schmtz, a nerdy crook with many faces. Three other short films will display the failed scams of this funny guy. This film, broadcast in 1961 as the first part of cinema sessions, is incredibly modern, benefited by the magnificent sets by Pierre Watrin and very contemporary animation and production. This film, which comes the ages without a wrinkle, was chosen by the second French TV channel (at the time Antenne2) for the transition period to color broadcasting." - https://youtu.be/4Req92LU290

In Brittany, facing the strongest tides in Europe, the world's first tidal power plant is being built. A documentary also known as The Rance Tidal Power Plant.

A mysterious woman, claiming to be a nurse who had disappeared during the bombing of Nagasaki, communicates with an atomic plant engineer by means of his TV set

An unlucky trumpeter and a young singer try to rebuild their lives in Brazilian nightclubs. They will try everything for everything while making a risky heist.

Under the mundane guise of a public relations firm, Singrid Karaman is actually running an intelligence network. Her new mission is to foil an upcoming coup attempt in the African country of Myassaland, and to recover the large stock of diamonds that have fallen into the hands of the mercenaries behind the plot. She instructs a former Nazi, Eric, to form a shock commando and her assistant, Carol, to contact the mercenary leaders, Commandant St Robert and Captain Tarquier. Although Tarquier is very suspicious, St Robert agrees to go aboard Ingrid's yacht.

A light-hearted animated romp through the alphabet, with each letter identified by both a word and a visual interpretation of that word, by the crudely-drawn Joachim.

A detective is seeking an assassin in a murder that has not yet occurred, only to discover that it is his destiny to become that assassin.

A young aspirant follows without much enthusiasm sailing lessons and gradually realizes the beauty of the sailor's trade.

A young artist, an occasional gigolo, marries an older woman for her dough; however, he has not broken with his younger lover.

A modern-day Socrates leaves behind his life as a philosopher to live off the land. When a police inspector is assigned to follow the man and question his motives, the cop gets caught up in the charming philosophy of the man who has left his material possessions behind. He encounters a pretty young woman and her nihilistic boyfriend, the latter who makes a living with his psychedelic side shows. The boyfriend gets the newspapers to print the philosopher's thoughts, prompting him to acquire a bevy of believers. There is some nudity in this comical thought-provoking story, but the main focus remains the words of the man who left behind creature comforts to find himself.

In Cambodia in 1943, a family is massacred by the Japanese, before the eyes of the eldest son who manages to escape. His four-year-old sister is taken in by a Cambodian family.

La Corne d'or is mostly concerned with religious ritual, examining the mosque (and former cathedral) discussed in Byzance. As a contrast against Istanbul's status as a center of historical religious conflict, Pialat — drawing here on texts by the French poet Gérard de Nerval — also describes the city as a place of strange ethnic and religious harmony, with representatives of various cultures and religions living in close contact. He emphasizes the city's hybrid culture, its blend of Southern European and Arab influences, reflected in both its people and its very construction.

In the Serere village of Khombole, Senegal, the inhabitants organize an old man's funeral and take part in wrestling competitions held in arenas.

Rival brother and sister Gaëtan and Chantal, the last heirs of the late billionaire financier Omar Porassis, use every trick in the book to try and claim his fabulous inheritance when two of Omar's natural sons, Roger and Marc, are found. The brother and sister try to manipulate Marc and Roger into stealing their inheritance. After discovering the deception, the two half-brothers join forces to escape the many traps set by Gaëtan and Chantal, who try to eliminate them by any means necessary.

Investigation into the striptease scene, with interviews with various protagonists and street people.

Jeff, a notorious gangster, has just served 3 years in prison for pimping. He reunites with his accomplices and sets up a cigarette smuggling business, all the while maintaining a perfect alibi. We're in Dieppe, and the bustling harbor life allows a wide variety of people to indulge in a variety of trafficking activities.

Alain is a young man who has just left his parents and finds himself lost in Saint-Nazaire, a French coastal town whose main industry is shipbuilding. Alain arrives just as the liner SS France is under construction and he soon strikes up lasting friendships with dockyard workers. It is here that he also gets to meet the love of his life...

In 16mm, black and white, silent, a fiction about a solitary character who walks the streets of Paris respecting certain discreet rituals. Arriving at the public garden, he can finally sit in front of the regulation sign. The satisfaction of the completed ritual becomes bliss.

Influenced and inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, some young french directors (Jean Eustache, Francis Leroi, Jean-Michel Barjol, Romain Goupil, Luc Moullet) are talking about their problems in producing less expensive and more free films in the french industry of cinema of the 60's.

This documentary portrays the solidarity of young Californian left-wing militants with the Black Panther cause. Footage of their militant activities, during discussions and protests in Oakland, where they were following the trial of Black Panther leader Huey Newton, throws light on the reasons for their active support for the Afro-American revolutionary movement known as the Black Panther Party. The young American film-maker who, as part of his film project about Californian hippies, conducts a series of interviews exemplifies the type of commitment they chose. The documentary also features clips from speeches given by Black Panther party militants, an interview with Black Panther Party information secretary Kathleen Cleaver, concerts and a Black Panther military parade.

Story of the life of an extraordinary man, who with Lenin, was the symbol of the Revolution of 1917.

Paris, may 1968. In the streets, on the barricades, an insurrection of poetry.

Making a documentary on Le Corbusier is not easy, because he is undoubtedly the architect most familiar to the general public but also the most unknown. If most people know his great achievements, such as the Cité radieuse of Marseille, the pavilions of the Cité universitaire de Paris or the Tourettes convent, many are unaware of his works in Moscow, Rio de Janeiro or Chandigarh. Roy Oppenheim pays a vibrant tribute to Corbusier, dismissing the criticisms and darker facets of the character. It presents the career of this pioneering architect, as well as his thinking, the essential principle of which was aimed at the development of human beings and the balance of society. Light, space and greenery are integrated into his large futuristic cities, because according to him the eyes of the inhabitants should be drawn into the distance and not into their neighbor's bathroom.

Alassane brings to life the Zharma legend of King Koda who, in order to test the loyalty of a subject, asks him to guard one of his rings for a year.

The story of a young university student who deals with love in the midst of the Quebec separatist movement in the 1960s.

A nightclub owner and his stripper girlfriend take a country ride, meet another rival underworld guy along the way, and team up to thwart a third gangster who's on their tails.

A young inexperienced photographer is passed by a model in 60s Belleville. Guided by a coquettish girl, trying to find the ideal place to succeed as a model. Shot entirely in natural settings, this short film builds a journey to the characteristic style of the French New Wave style.

Achille and Roméo, handymen at a casino, one day find a corpse at the bottom of the pool they're cleaning. Fearing they might be accused of murder, they hide the body, but it disappears.

Finding himself unemployed overnight, Louis Salavin lets himself go into an incurable laziness despite the support of his friends and his mother...

Is there an adventure, a drama, a more exciting suspense than that offered to us by the laborious research of the scientist on the lookout for the great secret of his origins? The film begins at the extreme limit of this noble uncertainty. Thirty million centuries ago. Three billion years. Already two proposals are offered to this uncontrollable search: the Earth will warm up or cool down? These first images, which represent the consent of the majority of scientists, attempt to show us the thermal fluctuations which govern the formation of this puffy meringue which will solidify: the earth of men.

Jean-Claude is a student, with Didier, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Generales where Violaine, Didier's sister, is a professor of sociology. These young people belong to this upper-class, snobbish bourgeoisie.

Filmed in 1964, this feature-length documentary by Jacques Godbout explores the world of delinquency through the stories of eight young people who have already committed offenses. With a touch of humor, the filmmaker paints a portrait of these youths from underprivileged backgrounds who dream of a better world.

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?

James Baldwin, a stranger in a Swiss village in 1962, reflects on ordinary and universal racism.

The very first independent film by animator Georges Schwizgebel, which was made in 1969 as an episode in the anthology film "Patchwork". Along with Schwizgebel, "Patchwork" included the talents of filmmakers Claude Luyet, Daniel Suter, Gerald Poussin and Manuel Otero. "Pirouette" combines a simple drawing of a figure with photographs, cut-outs from magazines and samples of cloth. A prominent motif of this collage mix is a drawn male face slightly inspired by pop-art.

Inspector Bart is assigned to investigate the disappearance of Many, a young fashion designer with whom he broke up some time ago. But had he really broken up? Because the night before the crime, we see him leaving her house. And that same night, she is found murdered. It's a difficult investigation.

A subjective representation of an infant’s experience, from the womb to first steps

"Society is a carnivorous flower" - About activists in the student revolt in May 1968. Archive footage shows police entering the Sorbonne, street fighting, meetings and demonstrations. Many interviewees testify to police violence and abuses.

French horror short from 1966.

A butcher's boy, in love with the daughter of one of his neighbors, a penniless baron, finds himself in financial difficulties as he begins construction of a building on the land he has inherited.

"Love + fear = Torment" exposes the secret world of the French model studios, and the men who try to corrupt them. Mobsters become involved when fifty-thousand dollars worth of uncut gems are stolen. A model studio becomes terrorized as one of the models innocently befriends one of the mobsters.