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Between six and eight o'clock in the morning, two young women go from a diffuse but different discomfort for each of them, understand this discomfort, and discover the fragility of the movement. (CJC)

A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.

Lionel Soukaz opens a wooden panel to discover the sky and comes across Italian workers singing. He longs for them and, when they leave in the evening, finds himself alone, watching television. This video mirror sends him back to his own time: Nixon, Giscard. So he dances like a cry for help: "Love me!”. The cross-dressing scenes are like a coming out, revealing the feminine side of the filmmaker at just twenty years of age.

Her first picture, La Messagère (The Messenger, 1975), made by Palcy before she left for Paris, allowed people from Martinique to see themselves for the first time on television as complex characters.

Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.

How is a planned city designed? What consequences does creating one has on the environment? What are the living conditions in such areas ? Such are the questions asked by Eric Rohmer in this first part of a TV documentary series, through the particular case of Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris.

Coming from the London bourgeoisie, the Nosferat (this time, with the vampire taking on the role of the famous serial killer who raged in the London district of Whitechapel in 1888), reforms bourgeois morality by reducing its puritanical contradictions. He executes prostitutes “in the name of Virtue, Morality and order”, as a result of a repressive education he received, especially on the sexual level...

In the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, Amar, the clumsiest of thieves, and Jibé, a public writer for illiterate compatriots whose lives he knows in detail. As he betrays none of their secrets, he enjoys great prestige in the bistros where he works. The three of them lead a casual life, raising money by illicit means. It's only when Poulou and Amar leave that Jibé understands his isolation and marginalization. The images as well as the sounds help to reinforce the feeling that Paris is a city where he is both at home and a terrible stranger.

Film in three parts: (1) Paranorama 3 and 4: a handmade Région Centrale. At once observation and description of the realm of vision, of what is possible to see (sound recorded at the time of shooting). (2) Paranorama 5: simple observation of the realm of vision (sound added at a later time: illustration). (3) Pierre Rivière and I: attempt at reading the first lines from Pierre Rivière's testimony, as an embodiment rather than a stage direction.

Ulrich Gregor is filmed in his office at the Berlin Film Festival surrounded by the festival's poster (The Great Family of René Magritte).

Kitsch style portrait. Family movie. Improvised on a spring day, with the exceptional participation of Raphaële and Suzy Tromelin and the involuntary participation of Fernandel.

Anielle is raising her 17-year-old son, Olivier. The boy is badly hurt in a motorcycle accident. It's Dr. Soltier, a customer of the garage, who intervenes. His diagnosis is severe: only an immediate operation can give him a chance to survive.

The shadow of an opening door sweeps across the floor...

Anastasia chooses to lock herself in an apartment and tame through rituals. She barricades herself, to protect herself from external violence and the destructive invasion of family life.

Interviews with mothers and family members who lost loved ones in the Lebanese conflict with Israel.

A sorcerer (played by the director himself) controls all activities in a village. Manipulating the different parties, the sorcerer promises love, good health and riches in exchange for the most extravagant rewards. One day someone exposes him, and the sorcerer becomes the laughing stock of the whole village. Desperate, he throws himself of a cliff.

After the Great War, a wounded Frenchman lives atop a mountain with his wild brother who violates the property of villagers below.A second kind of war ensues.

I had the sudden urge to run through the forest while watching ATARAXIE I. Upon returning home, I went straight to my dictionary to look up the meaning of the title: “Tranquility of the soul. For the Stoics, a state of mind that nothing can disrupt: the ideal of the sage.” (Bernard WEIDMANN - RHIZOME HERETIQUE - March 3rd, 1980.)

A young student meets an elderly antiques-loving couple looking for a help. They like her very much, and she's hired on the spot.

A César award winning documentary about the resistance of the people of Limousin to technocratic measures that threaten their culture and their living environment.

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

A teenager rebels against an oppressive ideology enforced by the authoritarian administration of his school and is committed to a mental institution.

Parody of fictional heroes such as Fantomas and Zorro, told through still photographs.

Between dog and wolf, stones are thrown into perfectly still water. The sound of a dredger off-screen disrupts the complete silence of the place.

In an old castle, Johnny de Winter-Smythe gives shelter to a mad painter, whom he martyrizes, helped by a hunchback butler. A traveler then arrives, drawn to the castle by the spectral apparition of a woman...

In mud flats along the coast of Brittany we watch acera, small ball-shaped mollusks that are about two inches in diameter. They rest in mud; then, in water, they dance, their skirt-like hood spreading like a dervish's cassock. They spin and spin. The film adds musical accompaniment. We watch them mate and secrete eggs: acera are both male and female, and can form chains with other acera in which they simultaneously mate as a male and as a female. The eggs hatch, and the cycle begins again.

In 1975, Patrick Vallençant skied in some very challenging couloirs in the Oisans region: the north couloir of the Col du Diable, the north couloir of the Coup de Sabre, the couloir of the Pic sans Nom, the Barre Noire couloir in the Écrins massif, and the Gravelotte couloir on the Meije. He was accompanied by Jean-Marc Boivin, P. Guillet, P. Perrier, Gérard Pétrignet, Jacques Ramouillet, Pierre Saloff-Coste, and Joseph Spagnolo. In the second part of the trip, Vallençant completed a circuit of the Meije in three mixed-mountain ascents and, above the avalanche debris, skied off-piste through the steep couloirs and glaciers of the Oisans. He then climbed the routes to the summit of the Meije alone, following the stages of a high-mountain itinerary from the Refuge de l'Aigle.

Images on a text by Per Jakez Helias

A Nigerian traditionalist who draws his inspiration from bird warbling to compose music to accompany his verse chronicles.

Experimental short film from Robert de Laroche.

Portrait of Michael Snow

Two young French officers get lost in the Sahara desert and find themselves prisoners of Antinéa, who rules over the lost city of Atlantis. Under her evil influence, one of them, blinded by his love for her, loses his mind and goes so far as to murder his comrade... Jean Kerchbron adapts Pierre Benoît's book for this film, which is more concerned with social reflection than fantasy.

The daily life of Luanda's orphans, the child soldiers who took part in Angola's war of independence. Now that their country has been liberated, they work in the sugar cane and palm oil factories. Lopes, aged 10, forms an orchestra and sings A luta continua, the rallying cry that also covers the painted walls of Luanda.

On Monday June 20, 1791, in great secrecy, the royal family left the Tuileries Palace where they were prisoners of the Revolution. Marie-Antoinette wore a lady-in-waiting costume. It is very dark, very hot, the very first night of summer. But what happened between the departure from the Tuileries and the trap of Varennes?

The Stranglers perform live at Théâtre de l’Empire in Paris 1979.

It was from Dahomey (now Benin, Africa) that the cult of the deads was exported - through the slave trade - to Brazil, and Haiti. The film narrates the modern story of this ethnographical, religious culture. A team of initiates could film troubling images documenting initiation ceremonies and the sacred lethargy that can take as much as seven, or even eleven days, and in which the body started decomposing itself. Then, the resuscitation happens.