Do stories always begin with a blank page?
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Do stories always begin with a blank page?
On March 24, 2015, a plane crashes in the Alps. In question, the suicide of its pilot, involving with him 149 people. Navigating the official images and stories, and those unofficial those of the inhabitants of the region, Stephen Loye observes, listens, films, archives and leads the investigation of this tragedy which took place right next to his home, but twhich he has not heard of before.
A beauty influencer called Marina experiences strange events during a live Q&A.
Everywhere, throughout all epochs and civilisations, human beings have experienced and expressed the sacred, thus questioning the mystery and the enigma of human existence. Compared to other animal species, we have this strange uniqueness: that of wanting to give an ultimate meaning to existence and to enter into a relationship with invisible forces or entities. From this experience and from the fundamental quest for what we call "the sacred", all the religious and spiritual traditions of humanity have developed throughout history.
Adam is the first astronaut to approach lightspeed. Aboard the spacecraft Myriss, he regularly conducts experiments to analyze the impact of such speed on living organisms, until an exceptional event happens and changes everything.
Laure cleans in a Parisian apartment belonging to the Saudi royal family. When unknown men come into the apartment, Laure is forced to hide in a storeroom with her boss. The two women must remain silent, glued to each other.
My real name is Lucien Neuwirth, but people use to call me Lulu the Pill-man since I legalized the contraceptive pill.
On January 6, 2021, Americans were shocked to see the images of the Capitol under siege, stormed by thousands of Donald Trump supporters. Novelist Russell Banks, civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton, historian Eric Foner and segregation expert Richard Rothstein speak out about the event.
Pinocchio, an animated wooden puppet tries to escape from his father, Gepetto in a creepy and dark toy factory.
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were the deadliest ever perpetrated in the world. Their impact was colossal in the United States, but also throughout the world. Until then, no documentary had focused on its repercussions on French society, on French people. And yet, if the shock wave started in the Manhattan towers, it also hit France from a distance with unprecedented violence. A look back at the facts, but also at the impact of this disaster on the French people thanks to testimonies and unpublished archives.
The journey of the cartoonist Jossot, from Gustave to Abdul Karim, has not finished questioning us about the debates that animate our contemporary society.
‘Memory Foam Material’ gives a hyperreal interpretation of geek culture and its on and offline ephemera. MacBook chargers, ramen bowls, pinkish pop bags, and shiny metallic figures appear strewn across the floor, some frozen in mid-air with a slow pan over their details. In the press release, Soulat states the video alludes to the Japanese concept of acute social withdrawal, hikikomori; moreover, she explores the implications of isolation, suggesting the mind-altering influence prolonged confinement has on perception.
On a fateful night, Fred, a yenish father of four, is gunned down. The next morning, his wife founds his t-shirt covered in blood and gets scared. But Fred doesn't have any wounds.
Noée, a 9 years old girl, just joined her mother who started living on the island of Benac’h, in Britanny, where she works as a waitress. Soon Noée discovers that all the children on the island all know each other very well and live an easy life where money is no problem. They also love to sail. Noée would love to learn that too! But her mother doesn’t have enough money to pay for the classes…
The rise of mining and climate change have led to vast desertification in Mongolia, according to Mongolian shamanistic belief violation of nature by men provokes the anger of the ruling spirits or the 'masters of the land'.
The film unfolds in Geneva, in the district around the Vernets barracks. It delves into the spaces of life and the encounters with its inhabitants. These domestic chronicles evolve between the military barracks at the edge of the blocks of flats and the insane asylum which had occupied the space in the past. Through these chronicles and the history of the place, the question arises for each spectator: what, then, is my place within?
Julien Creuzet develops a body of work which relies on hybridization as an essential driving force. While confronting history, representations, and social realities from here and elsewhere, the artist proposes a work that ties poetry and politics, found objects and technological devices, personal experience and attentiveness to the world.
In this anthology of short films, the phrase "Gay Agenda" is reclaimed from the religious right and transformed into a celebration of gay culture. Sit back and enjoy "Don't Be a Dick!", "I Am Désiré", "After Noon", and "Upside Down Revolution".
For more than two years, a father and his one-year-old daughter embark on a crazy adventure in the heart of the Mercantour, the wildest national park in France. Between an initiatory journey and nature education before school education, Naïs will live until she is three years old of real magic moments. She will be able to get closer to the fauna and cross the path of the most elusive of all animals .... the wolf!
After more than three decades of practice in the Paris region, a general practitioner is preparing to retire. An illuminating portrait of a fragile society and a failing healthcare system.
At 63, Jawad Bashara has spent more than half his life in exile. But when Islamic State troops set out to obliterate the Sumerian origins of our civilization, he decided to return to Iraq and take action. With renowned archaeologists and 3D technicians from all over the world, he is redoing the path that brought mankind into history, 3500 years before Christ. In order to better safeguard and share it, they have set themselves the mission of immortalizing our common heritage in 3D and virtual reality.
Molsheim in Alsace: a local mission welcomes young people from across the region. It is the "big" town upstream of the working-class valley of La Bûche, an isolated area that is suffering the full brunt of unemployment and the depopulation of its villages. Dorian, Tiffany, Sandra, and the others are between 17 and 20 years old. Without jobs or training, these young people struggle every day to break out of their inertia. Yet some of them have not left their rooms for over a year when they arrive at the local mission. By joining the Youth Guarantee program, they hope to find a structured environment that will help them face a world of work that they find difficult to understand.
Today, in France, in terms of health, being born a woman is a disadvantage. Less well diagnosed than men, less quickly treated, they escape the medical radar and become invisible.
This is a poetic and animated meditation inspired by two trips the director made to Japan. Images and sounds from daily life as well as recordings of his performances, most notably one with the dancer-choreographer Teita Iwabushi. There is no story as such, but a formal construction with sound and images. What can be seen in Japan when Mount Fuji is invisible, lost in the clouds?
In a post-apocalyptic city, Vika and Sasha, two siblings with a lost past, embark on a dangerous mission into Zona, where nature, destruction, and deadly anomalies overcame civilization. But nothing goes as planned…
This is the very first time that Les Arts Florissants have performed Partenope, in which the composer breaks free from the rules of opera seria. Conducted by William Christie and directed by Sophie Daneman, this new production invites us to rediscover this forgotten masterpiece... but also to meet six exceptional voices: the six laureates of the tenth edition of the Jardin des Voix, the famous academy for young singers of Les Arts Florissants!
On August 4, 2020, an explosion devastated the port of Beirut and part of the city. Two hundred people lost their lives. Five thousand were seriously injured. Three hundred thousand were displaced. Following the disaster, we set out to find three port workers who had appeared in one of our films ten years earlier.
Homage to cinema and its spectators.
Frightened by the mortality of his human condition, Ashe is going to see in his son a solution to ensure his own mind continues to exist.
Dominique Imbert, internationally renowned sculptor and designer, was nearly killed a few days after his birth, burned to death by an accidental overdose of X-rays that left him severely disabled. Burned to a crisp, he has always been viscerally fascinated by fire, and instead of rejecting the forbidden embers, he has devoted his life to exalting the flames. Behind the flames, behind the unwavering success of the creator of Focus fireplaces, his life is a fierce battle against pain and the destiny that was promised to him, a path of rebellion and self-affirmation, an unbridled accession to freedom.
Inspired by Samuel Beckett's work, with its ten clay-coated performers, May B stages deformed bodies that are the antithesis of all the classical and idealized representations of the dancing body. Humanity, at its most fragile and moving, continues its endless journey, persisting against all odds, obsessed by an imminent end of the world.
"You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? You want to change the world? Show it." John the Baptist, Gospel of Matthew.
In the sequel to Night of the Living Sluts, the state is trying to prosper despite the devastating effects of the virus.