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Inside a great hotel, the Sahara Palace, silence, sand, and neglect. Outside, a sandstorm threatens to carry off everything in its path. It is in this fragile and timeless place that the memories of an unknown grandfather appear. Zélie Durand-Khalifat makes his ghost be reborn through a mythical place and a screenplay that was never shot, in an intimist documentary that combines stop-motion animation with family archives.
The Alps in winter. Men and machines perform a strange ballet to shape the mountain. The terrain resists and blurs the boundaries between real and imaginary.
Arthur Borgnis' documentary invites viewers to lose themselves in the universes beyond logic and reason, in the works of artists including Adolf Wölfli, Aloïse Corbaz, Augustin Lesage and August Natterer. Eternity Has no Door of Escape introduces enigmatic, challenging creators; raises questions about the definition and purpose of art; and draws attention to a fascinating and essential realm too often overlooked by history.
A documentary on film director Claude Berri’s life and career
Dating goes wrong.
A group of four young workers, caught up by a need for change, decide to head for the sea after a day of work. Elsewhere, farther away, a young woman, victim to solitude, wanders in the streets of Paris.
Ten years after the first riots the media no longer speak of the Greek crisis. Everything suggests that the austerity cure has succeeded and that calm has returned. This film proves the opposite. In Thessaloniki young people prevent auctions of foreclosed homes. In Crete peasants oppose the construction of a new airport. In Athens a mysterious group worries the power by multiplying the sabotages. In the neighborhood of Exarcheia threatened with evacuation the heart of the resistance welcomes the refugees in self-management. A trip to music among those who dream of love and revolution.
Portrait of Josselin Pietri, a painter passionnate about Bruce Lee and popular movies, who makes cardboard sculptures celebrating his idols.
A collaboration between Josefin Arnell & Pauline Curnier Jardin
In the half-light of a basement, Quai des Orfèvres, is a reconstructed crime scene. Aurore, in her protective suit, snaps away; she is training. Yves and Thierry, her instructors, have been with "the firm" for ages, they know the job inside-out. Photographing a crime scene requires technique, a particular angle for evidence, a certain approach to space. A little-known profession, but one essential to justice: forensic photographer.
He made tons of enemies, faced more than 40 attacks and assassination attempts, and yet he got away without a scratch. How did Hitler protect himself? Obsessed with his personal safety, the dictator took extraordinary security precautions day in and day out: Surrounding himself with bodyguards, employing tremendous means and using surprising strategies to keep his relentless fears at bay. Based on archives and the testimonies of historians and psychiatrists, this film reveals the most intimate fears of this terrifying figure.
Mélanie is a young woman who comes to watch over a house in the absence of its owners. However, Mélanie soon realizes that she is not alone.
While filming and sound recording in Scotland (Ailsa Craig, Bass Rock, Isle of May, Outer Hebrides, Troup Head) during a residency at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, and in Eastern Quebec (Parc national de l’Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé, Parc national Forillon), I became interested in the North Sea and North Atlantic Seabirds. The video Leading Edge / Trailing Edge loosely evokes, through seascapes, portraits of birds and recent scientific data, the actual situation of boreal seabird species, in the era of climate change.
Vincent, a French male who was plagued by sexual addiction and could not live normally, uses a social software called "Finder" to date an Asian woman, Monica. When meeting, he founds out Monica to be a male Transgender. It's a story of waiting, meeting and having the courage to choose.
4 years ago, the directors were about to fly to California from Zaventem for a shooting when suddenly their world collapsed: the Zaventem airport was the target of suicide bombers. Filming the testimonies of others on their coping with the trauma and the handicap, they overcome their own fears.
At night, the princes of the city come on stage. A portrayal of two lovers of the night who, contrary to what we think, are almost the same.
Memories weigh down on feelings. This is what we explore here with Olivier. When he returns home after an ordinary day at work, he recalls, via an event, the love affair he had in the past with Max.
Solange is a secretary in a quarry, the only woman surrounded by mountains of testosterone.
As a child, Arthur was fascinated by his grandparents' idyllic love story: a beautiful Congolese woman married to a Belgian colonist. But shortly after his grandmother's death, the young director discovers family archives that shake up his childhood memories.
In the Caribbean, the Antilles archipelago stretches out in a string of islands blessed with abundant nature. Life has stubbornly taken root here, carried by the winds, washed up on the shore, or deposited by birds. Today, these islands are among the most biodiverse natural areas in the world. This film explores the wild, beautiful, and fragile Caribbean to discover some of the unique and singular animal species that inhabit it.
We control the game. The demonstrators on the screen are not just our avatars, they are fighting for their and thus for our rights. They demand a society without corruption and crime, a life in freedom. Virtuality becomes part of our own reality. And the imagined place could be anywhere.
A faceless woman's story told through the eyes of an unknown man. The scenes might look empty but there is a full story waiting to be told. It is up to us to decide if we are ready to hear it. A delicate and restrained piece of filmmaking by Tanguy De Donder that takes the viewer through the now forgotten parts of the Belgian city of Liège.
The illusionist-comedian uses his superpowers to grant the wishes of ten people gathered on the set, such as finding the ideal man, going on vacation to the other side of the world, meeting their favorite star, or getting a new car... Between adventures, pranks, and tricks, Eric Antoine gives them an exceptional experience. For several weeks, thousands of viewers have been able to share their wishes with the amazing magician. From laughter to tears of joy, from wonder to total surprise, emotions run high.
A young and smart woman comes into a hotel. She is mysterious, and seems to be waiting for something while she’s preparing for it. She puts on some make-up, brushes her hair, walks inside the room without leaving it. Slowly the screen splits and her body breaks up, the space becomes abstract and the identity of the young woman seems confused. In the early morning, Maria Valdes is missed and the hotel room is desperately empty.
AI already plays a major role in the developed world, from transportation logistics to national security—but this is just the beginning. From Ireland’s "smart cities" in the European Silicon Valley to China’s dystopian Social Credit System, this film explores the vast potential unlocked by the world’s leading data experts.
What difficulties does a young 24 years old transgender facing transition cope with in his everyday life?
In this video essay, Alex Vuillaume-Tylski explores the unique ways in which Agnès Varda opens and closes her films from the entirety of her career.
Often described as the oldest of the sciences, astronomy is today one of the most modern and dynamic. In four corners of the planet, giant telescopes are affected as our eyes pop out of the ground and affect our understanding of the Universe. In the most important observatories in the world, in Chile, Hawaii and the Canary Islands, a new generation of astronomers, engineers and technicians are writing the next chapter of our knowledge of the Universe. This documentary takes us to meet these "star people" to discover what makes their hearts beat, but also to understand how astronomy decrypts our past and shapes our future.
Vincent was born with a trisomy disorder, his father helps him being independent. A poignant documentary about a father's fight for recognition of his son's rights, a real quest for integration.
