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A film by Haydée Caillot.

After a phone call, a woman suddenly decides to leave her husband as a child. She finds herself in an inn populated by strange individuals. A new life is offered to her.

This film is believed to be lost.

An autobiographical film that orchestrates the fragments of Michel Nedjar's life, to compose an architecture. The family films shot by his father, pieces of Michel's first films shot in the Balearic Islands and in Athens, contemporary images with Teo Hernandez, to stolen dialogues between his mother and and his aunt, recorded without their knowledge. The author is the spider, at the center of a device that allows him to survive: he has woven the threads of his own web and is now in control of his personal situation.

Experimental short by Teo Hernández.

Short film.

In this animation film without words, filmmaker Pierre Hébert and musicians Robert Lepage and René Lussier worked together, and separately, in their respective media. This cinema/music performance recreates, impressionistically, the dehumanizing environment of the urban subway. Drawings etch the outlines of people hurtling through space in underground tunnels. The sound track, elemental and atonal, gives compelling expression to their alienation.

Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber.

Images from the bridge over Canal Saint-Martin in Paris. The inland waterway vessels Rose and Pluie de roses pass each other. Changes pile up and the camera unravels them, through shooting, for a mise en abyme of the fall.

A famous director wants to make a film about true love, the kind his grandparents experienced when they lived together for 60 years. For this project, he holds auditions in a commercial real estate office. He asks the actors and actresses he meets to tell him about their conception of Love, with results that differ from those he expected...

On April 29, 1983, three French alpinists reached the summit of Jannu, having climbed its 7,710 meters via the very steep southwest spur. The success of Luc Jourjon, Jean-Noël Roche, and Roger Fillon echoed that of the 1962 national expedition, which had been celebrated by Lionel Terray alongside the leading climbers of the time, Desmaison, Paragot, Magnone… But in 1983, the goal was no longer simply to wave a French flag on a virgin summit. The focus was already on a more "alpine" style, and there was even the idea of ​​descending from the top… by air!

The life and work of Zezé Motta.

A singular and poetic evocation of what Alexandria was, a multifaceted city, when it was at the heart of the Arab and European worlds. The men of letters Cavafy and Lawrence Durell are evoked by a few quotes describing the city, scattered throughout the film. The mixture of cultures and languages is the very essence of Alexandria, its inhabitants testify to the memory of a lush and harmonious cosmopolitan city, under the eye of the director's camera...

A man travels through time and space in search of the woman with the violoncello.

While his mother is dying of cancer, Laurent starts a relationship with a handsome stranger who promises to help him with a film carreer.

In 1984, Moncerf, a village in the Haute-Gatineau region, is stricken by cases of porphyry, the werewolf disease. Several families evacuate the region, where teenagers who have morphed into wolves may have devoured a sheep and a dog. Some of the residents in Moncerf attribute the apparition of this phenomenon to unemployment and general misery among the youth of the region.

A possible impostor torments a newly crowned medieval czar who may have ordered the real successor's death.

A silent, Super 8 film in color by Joseph Morder.

This two-part film revolves around the correspondence between Antoine Vitez and the filmmaker

Joseph Morder's fifth journal film shot from July to December of 1980.

A César award nominated short drama.

Short documentary on the centenial of a brass band.

Coming from a Royan bourgeois background, Philippe and Bertrand are linked by a virile but exclusive affection. One day, Philippe disappears. Bertrand ends up finding his trace in Tahiti.

1730: shortly after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, women refusing to abjure Protestantism are imprisoned in the Tower of Constance. Among them, Marie Durand, who would later become an icon of the Huguenots. All these women consumed by loneliness, illness and fear cling to only one idea: to resist.

They are between 14 and 17 years old and live with other teenagers in a home in the heart of the Vosges forest. All of them have been placed there by social services.

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.

In this village, French are much more victims of their fellow countrymen than they are of the occupying forces.

A young Algerian in Paris has not been as successful as he claims in letters home, and when his mother unexpectedly arrives for a visit of several months, he is hard put to hide his circumstances -- and the fact that he has resorted to small-time criminal activity to support himself. His mother disembarks in her traditional attire, a warm-hearted woman who does not have a clue as to how this foreign society functions but also has absolutely no inhibitions about finding out, if the need arises. As the story progresses, the mother catches on to her son's circumstances though the two are still not able to confront the deception and right it. Even with a low budget, this first-time feature-length story by Bahloul Bahloul combines satire, comedy, and pathos to bring home a relationship between mother and son that transcends life's many obstacles.

Film shot on the edge of a river whose soundtrack is a text in French and in English said and written by Teo Hernández.

The 9th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. A ‘panorama’ was a large painting on a cylindrical canvas. It provided a realistic and compelling view of a city, landscape or historical event, giving viewers the feeling that they were part of it. Viewers were positioned in the centre of a circular building or tent, with the canvas stretched around them. This provided a 360-degree view that gave a sense of depth and immersion.

One of my last films to be made indoors was La vie brève de la flamme. I used light in a very expressionist manner — still with the technique of a very active camera. (T.H.)

Documentary on the singer Damia made for TV.

André and Lucien, two unemployed men with a taste for petty thefts, get embarked on a film project involving Anatole, a young count who lends his castle and his antique camera. But soon problems arise...

Three generations of a family struggle to be open with each other during a week of summer vacation at their country cottage.

Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.

On 30 October 1967, Joseph Morder began a unique experiment in France: a diary filmed on Super 8. Les Nuages américains (journal filmé neuf) is one of the episodes of the filmed diary that Joseph allowed himself to show to the public. The story of this film is that of a trip the filmmaker made to the United States in 1982. But like all of Joseph Morder's diaries, it is first and foremost a poetic interior journey, a journey into the author's stream of consciousness...

A short personal filmed journal about the director's nervousness in presenting a script and awaiting the decision about whether it can be made.

The hopes and woes of a theater company in Africa.

Djibril Diop Mambéty followed and filmed the shooting of Yaaba, Idrissa Ouédraogo's second feature film. A documentary full of humorous anecdotes regarding the dangers of shooting in Burkina Faso.

Study on the evolution and modernization of public libraries and media libraries.

Venerable storytellers recount for the camera and their listeners the founding myths of Malagasy culture.

Film by Patrice Kirchhofer.

"Christian Lebrat said he thought of Monet, who painted with the series Water Lilies colors ‘at the edge of the visible;’ those of Holon indeed display colors so intense, so enraged with energy that they release in a pure way the performative, exclamative character, the character of act which, in a more or less underground way, informs every image." Nicole Brenez

An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include an elderly man with a penchant for growing sunflowers and an unhappy neighbor girl with emotional problems. Love blossoms for the unlikely couple who somehow realize their liaison is doomed to failure.