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Loubna Régragui is above all a film preservationist who also makes films. One needs to put it like that to understand some of the energies that animate The Nine Lakh Stars, which was the search for acceptable analogue elements of Maṇi Kaul’s high-modernist masterpiece Duvidha (1973) whose soul, she thinks, was erased by its digital mastering. Which is an interesting question to ponder apropos of a film that tells the story of a ghost, who incarnates a young bride’s absent husband... Is the digital the ghost of the analogue?

In 2017, Cohen, Chloe, Marie, Aline and Alexandre participated for the first time in a presidential election. They shared their commitments, their hopes and their fears in short documentaries, which collected the words of thirty first-time voters. Five years later, the country has changed, and they, between commitment and disillusionment, what do they think of politics now?

A swan song to the melting glaciers, as an orchestra meets atop a mountain to accompany a rallying cry.

On March 29, to mark World Piano Day, ARTE Concert invites six exceptional artists for an enchanting musical journey within the walls of the Sorbonne in Paris.

On December 23, 1995, the discovery of sixteen charred bodies in a small village in the Vercors region of France caused a real trauma that marked the inhabitants and, more broadly, the French. It was the first time that followers of a sect, in this case the Order of the Solar Temple, committed suicide in France. This led the authorities to create an interministerial mission to fight against cults, which would become Miviludes. The investigation of the tragedy avoids another tragedy in the Canary Islands and shows everyone the danger of cults.

Jade, a Korean-born art student, writes in her diary about encountering anti-Asian racism, sexism, and homophobia in France. Her disillusionment with France, her rage at racists, and the lack of understanding from others all prompted her to reconcile with reality through art.

In order to save himself from the inner emptiness that has haunted him for a long time, Yacinthe tries to feel, to provoke a feeling in him. He thus receives in his intimacy an unknown man, a masked man who tells him nothing about himself, which his interlocutor and friend does not manage to understand. Charmed, Yacinthe metamorphoses into a modern courtesan with an immaculate boudoir. But can he save himself from an innate condemnation?

For weeks, a real media war opposes Booba, the millionaire rapper, to the influential agent Magali Berdah and his influencers. The artist accuses of fraud several of these stars of social networks. The influencers have become the idols of teenagers, who follow their adventures on their smartphones. On their accounts, they expose their lives, their looks and their silhouettes in Miami or Dubai. And to earn money, they turn into sandwich men and women, thanks to product placement. Brands pay up to 10,000 euros for a few seconds of video. Because this universe generates millions of euros, from which influencers, TV producers or agents profit. Among them, a woman crushes the competition, Magali Berdah. The powerful boss of Shauna Events agreed to open her doors.

Against all odds, Dolorès Marat quietly built a personal body of work on the fringes of fashion and the world of contemporary art. Timeless images, evanescent but persistent, like so many interior landscapes bathed in solitude. Working through an alphabet primer from Avignon (at the blue hour) to Ventoux, from the apartment-studio to hanging the "Cascades" exhibition, the director follows in the footsteps of the frugal Dolorès, shy yet bold, always sincere.

In Ethiopia’s labyrinthine capital, a recluse sits translating Greek and Roman myths on an ancient laptop as cosmic chaos presses in on him. A true bibliophile’s gem of a film.

Emma goes on dates all over the place thanks to a dating app. But no matter who the guy is, there's always something wrong. Knowing she's very demanding, she decides to win back the ex who best meets her criteria. Problem: she's just met Alex. Hyperactive, unkempt, heavy-handed, and convinced that Emma is the woman of his dreams, he crashes the party where she's trying to win her ex back.

Ultimate pleasures and indigo fluids: these are the experiences of SOS EXTASE, a trip organised by a mysterious travel agency. A journey that Mama Allpa, a young woman giddy over these erotic promises, joins for the first time. Early in this journey however, things do not exactly unfold as expected...

A ghost tries to make contact with a poet. At the reception center for minors in Pont-Bragnolles (which is actually an orphanage, but that word is not said there) Thomas invents, Thomas fantasizes.

Lena is the midwife, I am the patient. She renews my IUD and I stage our appointment. The camera becomes a mirror as a care relationship is woven.

“Lien Sociaux” follows Benoît, a lonely teenager trying to make friends at his new high school. He connects with Arthur and Henry, two popular students, but soon discovers their true nature when they begin bullying Nadège, a vulnerable classmate. Disturbed by their cruelty, Benoît distances himself and finds himself alone once more. Refusing to remain silent, he embarks on a personal journey to understand their behavior and try to bring about change. Through Benoît’s struggle, the film thoughtfully explores the complexity of teenage social dynamics, the pressure to conform, marginalization, and the deep need for belonging. It also examines the double-edged role of social media — as a tool for connection and exclusion alike. Between toxic friendship and moral courage, Social Bonds offers a human and honest look at what ties us together… and what drives us apart.

"What’s that stink coming off you?" - "Corpses." "Corpses?...Are you joking?" - "Nope, check it out for yourself."

Since his two attacks with a hammer against Marcel Duchamp's urinal in 1993 and again in 2006, the artist Pierre Pinoncelli is known worldwide for this iconoclastic and subversive act. Often misinterpreted by the press, this double performance, and the trials that followed it, overshadowed the rest of his work: his paintings from the 1960s, and the many powerful happenings he made. Pinoncelli sprayed André Malraux with red paint in 1969, robbed a bank to protest apartheid in 1975, and mutilated himself in 2002 to denounce FARC violence in Colombia. Often motivated by political demands, Pinoncelli went to the end of his ideas and expressed himself through often shocking gestures, which question us.

Pierre Guyotat at home, between 2002 and 2009: scenes from a writer’s life. First he organises his library : each book is an occasion for comments, reminiscences, questionnings. Then he is seen at work, preparing an edition of his Notebooks with his assistant, based on manuscripts from the 1960s. He is finally seen in his room, sitting in bed, discoursing on french kings and working out a text out loud, in a hypnotic self-dictation. Because Pierre Guyotat offers himself unrestrainedly to Jacques Kébadian’s attentive filming, this most precious of films gives us a rare glimpse into a writer’s intimacy: into his labour and passion. (Cyril Neyrat)

Director Bertrand Guerry followed the construction of a permanent circus tent in the Sablons district of Le Mans. Over the course of two years, punctuated by the ups and downs of the construction site, he gives a voice to the inhabitants and offers a curious look at the promise made to the neighbors, the artists, the children and the adults of a new cultural venue open to all.

The story of a man who decides to make his childhood dream become a reality.

The summer of the 15 years. Teenagers are swimming in a river, as they do every year. One of them feels his first desires. A return to oneself and a journey through this summer, the one of the homosexual awakening.

A man must go to a mysterious castle, to do this he decides to go there with the mythical Alpine

On November 13, 2015, ten months after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher at the Porte de Vincennes, three jihadist commandos, divided between the Stade de France, the Bataclan and the terraces of the 10th and 11th districts of Paris, spread death in the capital. How were these men, mostly French and Belgian, some of them actively sought, able to cross Europe and carry out their plans without being worried? Faced with the loopholes revealed by the attacks, fourteen European countries, supported by Europol and Eurojust, the EU's police and judicial cooperation agencies, pooled information and resources on an unprecedented scale to identify and track down the culprits, accomplices and sponsors of these attacks.

In a park teeming with loved-up couples, Claude gets increasingly tired of being alone with himself.

Patrick Laine, 68 years old, has been practicing medicine for 35 years in Saulnot, a small town in Haute-Saône. Passionate about his work but worn out, he knows he will have to stop. But no successor has come forward to take over. His last months of practice are becoming increasingly difficult as he approaches what he has always wanted to avoid: leaving his patients without a doctor and without support.

The first films of Patagonia - where I grew up - show a territory that no longer exists, as the araucarias, millenary trees from the Patagonian forests, were in part replaced by more productive pines. Near my new home, in Belgium, I find araucarias that adorn front gardens. We hear some girls playing in the car, pointing out araucarias on the road. How did these plants become a petty-bourgeois fashion in northern Europe? I confront these archives with contemporary technoscientific images, used by a lab to explore plant modifications. What can these modes of representation tell us about our time?

On a rainy day, in a confessional, a woman unexpectedly closes an important chapter of her life.

By his own admission, Damien Faure possesses an impressive quantity of images and films, sometimes exploited in other ways, sometimes simply left unused, and forgotten on film that was gathering dust. These archives have patiently waited to be brought back to life in this documentary, in which this travel-loving director presents an anthology of sequences shot in the four corners of the planet, from Japan to the Arctic, via India. Through the discovery of these stories collected here and there and then meticulously assembled, he wishes to offer a different vision of the contemporary world.

Every year, there is a one-in-a-hundred chance that the river Seine will overflow its banks and the authorities have set up an emergency plan in case of flooding, called "Plan Neptune". A disaster doesn't necessarily happens, but it will happen eventually. When it does, there are only two categories that are not affected by the collapse of the social structure: the fool and the wise.

“If art is everywhere, it's also in this box” - Ben Vautier

This documentary features four conversations with criminal defense attorneys, exploring their profession, career paths, and the issue of gender parity in the field.

This amusing little film in the Fouchardian tradition of short music videos and dancing prefigures the announced fall of the bourgeois empire of financial capitalism.

Handmade and uniquely personal, this 16mm film in two parts explores a rural landscape with mythical connotations. First part: prelude. “Darkness, darkness, burning bright In the forests of the night. Vast flowered paths, fresh branches, Groves full of perfumes, birds and whispers, Site often seen again, and always contemplated....” Second part: oraison. “Darkness, darkness, burning bright In the forests of the night And the mad impulse of this distraught soul, And that had, the forehead circled in copper, under the moon….”

From Bucharest to the remote villages of the Carpathians, from the national composer Georges Enesco to his contemporary heirs, a journey in the footsteps of Romanian musical traditions. “Romanian popular music forms an imposing whole, a precious treasure from which our composers draw their inspiration,” said Georges Enesco, trained on the violin by a Gypsy teacher. Punctuated by quotes from the composer and interpretations of his works, this documentary sets out in search of a treasure of many nuances, which continues to liven up village festivals and influence the young Romanian scene. From the scores of Dan Dediu, one of today's greatest composers, to the folk songs of the Maramures, a journey to discover this fascinating mosaic of musical cultures.

“Are you proud of yourself?” This was a question asked in 2020 by a father of one of female voluntary workers who had just come back from a rescue mission searching for drowning refugees in the Mediterranean Sea. Instead of a reply, an open letter came to life, followed by a film illustration of the feelings of ugliness and hopelessness, composed of sea waves mingling with various film footage.

On August 4, 1982, after a bitter parliamentary struggle, homosexuality ceased to be an offence in France. It was the realization of a campaign promise by François Mitterrand. For four decades, homosexuals had been confined to the disavowal of their entourage, to clandestinity and to police harassment, and now they can finally live in the open. It took more than 15 years of struggles, heated debates and demonstrations to rally intellectuals and politicians to their cause. Activists, ministers and parliamentarians testify to their commitment to overcome the last barriers of a hostile society.

The film follows men over several years who reach the age their father was when he died. Among these men are Cyrill Renaud, the son of filmmaker Renaud Victor, who carries the weight of an interrupted work, and Cyril Casmèze, a zoomorphic acrobat who has made working with animality a mode of protection and survival. It is an exploration of grief over the long term, a story of fathers and sons, but also a story of mothers and sons. When the father is gone, the relationship to the mother changes. The film is constructed in two chapters. One that looks back on the brutality of the loss and the trauma, the other that opens up the future, the transformation, the rebirth, now that these men have outgrown their father and allow themselves to live. A third man, Loup, joins them. He too has lost his father and "being a father in turn" has been a way to move forward.