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On 22nd May 1985, Jean-Paul Kaufman and Michel Seurat were kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad on the road to Beirut airport. Seurat died after 8 months of captivity.

This animated short follows a group of happy vacationers sunbathing... under cloudy skies. Despite the weather, they look cheerful, eating ice cream and hot dogs, frolicking in the sand. When the sun finally breaks through the clouds, everyone deserts the beach. The film presents a fanciful yet awkward scenario in which the strange behaviour of one person may be the delight of another.

Ten people are gathered in a castle to shoot a film about the French Revolution. The filming turns out to be a sociological study.

A hypochondriac business manager becomes attached to a pretty receptionist who will help him fiercely oppose the shady maneuvers of an executive with excessive ambition.

A young girl's pet rabbit shows homosexual inclinations, and her parents take some very extreme measures. Meanwhile, in her own neighborhood, the girl observes similar inclinations in humans.

Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.

The world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo'Corp) and his discovery: a new energy source powered by the fusion of two primary substances. Ulysses, Kryo'Corp's heir, organises an expedition to the only place these substances occur.

Once upon a time there was the story of a little duckling that looked very different from the others. Tall, thin and all black, he nevertheless tries to play on his mischief and his kindness to be accepted by his brothers. But all his efforts are in vain... He decides to escape from the village and then begins the most extraordinary of odysseys.

On a road like any other, returning from a weekend, a couple separate. Patricia decides to take advantage of a lengthy delay at a border crossing for a brief moment of escape. A breath of fresh air. With this short graduation film, Aragno was immediately selected for the Cannes festival.

Louise, a young deaf and dumb comedian, has just been named best actress of the year. She is married to Yann, twenty years her senior. But their relationship is conflicting. It seems that Yann takes a malicious pleasure in psychologically torturing Louise. A whirlwind of uncertainties where dreams collide with nightmares, anguish, submission, sadism... Louise confides in Stephanie, her best friend, who advises her to flee. Louise refuses, convinced of a better future. One evening, while Yann tortures her once again, she kills him.

Events of strange and serious nature mark the invention and the manufacture of the nylon stockings. For example inhuman exploitation of workers in artificial silk factories. The US army was a substantial promoter of the nylons.

All the characters are in hell, but they act as though the are in a sitcom, with canned laughter. It's based on Arcana Celestia by Swedenborg, a Swedish esoteric theologian from the 18th Century who started seeing ghosts, angels and demons around him. Instead of seeing a physician about it, he accepted the fact and began studying and interviewing his own hallucinations, like an anthropologist. He was convinced that people in hell are happy, because you find what you want there.

Chris Marker’s portrait of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky documents the director at work on his final film, The Sacrifice, during the last year of his life. Interweaving behind-the-scenes footage with excerpts from Tarkovsky’s earlier works, Marker crafts a moving reflection on the artist’s vision, methods, and enduring legacy.

In this tragicomedy, Toni is the director of a staged rendition of Othello in Montreal. It is a pet project of his, financed by his loving mafia uncle. Unbeknownst to him, the audiences are also rounded up (and paid) by the same uncle. Some of them have seen every performance of this tragic play, and are understandably bored, so when the backstage romantic shenanigans of the actors result in absurd situations onstage, the audience is delighted. There are a huge number of romantic situations going on in this film at the same time. One of them involves Gaston a somewhat world-weary jazz musician, and Florence, a glamorous middle-aged woman who has been pining for him for years. Another involves to members of the musician's jazz trio. Yet another involves the play's Desdemona, Soledad, the girlfriend of the man playing Othello, who can't keep his hands off his (female) dresser.

The filmmaker recycles the discarded material from Concertino, a film conceived for a piece for ten dancers by the same name by Catherine Diverrès, a celebration of bodies shaken by emptiness.

Here we have an innocent boy, a pretty princess, a treacherous merchant and a giant eagle who is fond of jewels. The tale is set in the country of the Arabian Nights, under a hail of precious stones...

Alban is blind. Between home and school, he has organised his life to make things seem normal. When he wins a camera it brings home the fact that certain aspects of life are inaccessible to him. He will have to master them, even reinvent them, so that they play a role in his inner life

Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are brought together in the present to re-examine the "Ignace case", about a legendary figure in the history of Guadeloupe who fought against the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte to preserve his freedom. A hero despite himself, Ignace's life and struggle were subsequently consigned to oblivion by his enemies. His treatment has left a bittersweet taste in the mouths of the people of Guadeloupe.

A father falls in love with his teen daughter's friend. A passion against conventions which will carry them away in a whirlwind of sensations where love finds itself confronted despite everything else with reason and social decency.

When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.

An unequal battle between a small and skinny boxer, and a big and great boxer. The film is a mixture of animation and live action, a little surreal, making it an experimental film.

The ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil falls in love with the prostitute Lissy. Through her he meets some criminals whom he can help thanks to his gymnastic skills. But on his rise in the criminal hierarchy, Lissy might fall by the wayside.

As the paramedics pry her hand apart from her dead lover's grip a woman's life flashes before her eyes. Racing to the hospital the stunning skies and rooftops of Montreal from the back of the ambulance are inter-cut with the most exquisitely cinematic memories.

A heartbroken man wants to kill himself but pretends the opposite to avoid the eternal damnation.

In this comedy, Thomas and Stephane are a couple of gay men who want to raise a baby. When their efforts to adopt one fall through, they hit on the scheme of having Carole, the (gorgeous) young woman they have saved from a bad relationship, bear a child for them. When she insists that only natural reproduction methods be used, they gamely play good sports by going to bed with her, and become the father(s) of twins.

When Don Quichotte and Sancho Panza arrive in front of several windmills, Don Quichotte sees terrible enemies and decides to fight them. During the battle we slip into Don Quichotte's skin and discover the terrible monsters he imagines he is fighting.

In Moscow, the trams have been privatized. “Annushka” is making its final run. The tram driver, Liza, is nervous — her son might be drafted into the army. Boris, a veteran, tries to calm her down. He enjoys riding the tram, striking up candid conversations with strangers.

Using a funerary portrait from the Fayum preserved at the Louvre Museum, this documentary explores the art of portrait painting in Roman Egypt during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. These strikingly realistic faces, painted on wooden panels and placed on mummies, reveal a multicultural society shaped by Egyptian, Greek, and Roman traditions. Through this single portrait, the film reflects on identity, memory, and the human relationship to death.

Inaugurated by Stalin in 1931 in Moscow, MOSFILM is the largest movie studio in Europe. The most famous Russian directors shoot and edit here, and the 5000 employees who work on the gigantic sets contribute to the glory and radiance of Soviet cinema. Some masterpieces still remain vivid in our minds. Via an inventory of these studios and Russian cinema, the film recounts the history of a culture and a country traversed by a multitude of political upheavals.

Having developed a revolutionary device that puts water in the mouth of all secret services in the world, professor Forrester is about to go on a conference in San Francisco under the protection of Tom Lepski, an insurer.

Five generations of men sit in the same chair and turn on the same television to watch... the same program. Are they one and the same person? Is this a life that has just passed before our eyes?

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.

Based on Elliott Chaze's "Black Wings Has My Angel", the film tells a story of (nudist) gangsters on a coup and on the run

A featurette directed by French actress Edwige Shaki where Eric Rohmer worked as a technical adviser, THE CURVE is a movie that has the inimitable Rohmer stamp. Talky, it makes its fifteen minutes seem a little longer. However, it's a playful little thing, where an art student meets his grandfather, a sculptor, and both exchange ideas about that part of the woman that is so alluring -- the curve of her back.

French Canadian TV-Movie

Documentary about Henri Matisse’s two winter stays (1912–1913) in Tangier, Morocco a pivotal period in which he produced a series of paintings combining Western avant-garde and Eastern decorative influences. The film explores how the Moroccan light, architecture and cultural context transformed Matisse’s artistic vision.

End of the seventies. Somewhere in the North of France, Frédéric, a 40-year-old, picks up Marlene, a young hitchhiker. They decide to spend the night at an inn.

Two young men have left their obscure Balkan country to earn some money as "guest workers" in western Europe. On their way back home, they attempt to change trains in Paris but encounter surprising difficulties from the ticket authorities there. It seems that political changes have rendered their homeland nonexistent, and their passports are no good. Before long, they are stranded in Paris without passports, without a country, and soon even their luggage is stolen. Their fumbling efforts to straighten out the mess result in the French press getting into the act, labeling them as Russian spies. The Parisian expatriate community takes them into its bosom, and romance blooms between one of the lads and a Spanish hatmaker, before they finally achieve a (highly improbable) solution for their difficulties.

Medical student Sara has visions; she notices telekinesis abilities in herself. She is afraid to admit to anyone that after each loss of consciousness she finds traces of the murders and mutilations she has committed....

In his film 'La tête dans les nuages' ('Head in the Clouds') Jean-Marie Teno criticizes the ills of the modern world and the regression of African societies. This short documentary shows the capital of the Cameroon, Yaondé, but might equally show other African cities: heaps of rubbish lie at the edge of streets, academics are out of work, officials unpaid, corruption is the norm, and misery everywhere. For Jean-Marie Teno 'colonization, civilization, independence, then humanitarian talk are merely excuses and theatrical gestures to ensure that Africa remains the place which foreign powers can exploit with a good conscience.'

Blanquette, Mr Seguin's pretty little white goat, has only one dream: to frisk in the mountains. But in the mountains prowls the wolf, and the little goat will have to be very brave to run away from her enemy's traps. Unaware of danger, she goes to the mountains, where she meets Blacky, a lovely ibex, with whom she shares beautiful adventures.

One day the Spanish Ambassador moves into the house next-door to Madeline's school. And he brings with him his son a BOY. Pepito, the Bad Hat, as Madeline calls him, is a boy with a capital "B". Sticks and stones are nothing compared to Pepito's antics. Despite all efforts by Madeline and crew to teach him to tame him, he follows each dastardly deed with another that's much worse, until... one day he goes too far, and with Madeline's help and anticipated friendship must learn his lesson.

How to take revenge on the person who murdered you...

You will discover the history of the palace as well as the masterpieces it houses. This is the most complete tour imaginable, covering the gardens, the royal apartments, the Hall of Mirrors, the Petit Trianon, the Royal Chapel and the Opera. This private visit will enable you to see the treasures which astound the 10 million people who visit the castle and gardens every year.

The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is acting. The children decide to try to poison the man who is threatening their family life. The real life and the stage roles get intertwined...

This film is a series of variations on the theme of romantic encounters, variations interrupted for two very sensitive string instruments: She and Him. These variations, seven in number, all take place in the same place...

Adaptation of a French boulevard play, in which a parvenu businessman marries a young lady from a noble family who need his money.There is no love lost between them.