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The action takes place in Paris in 1959, with a flashback. A teenager in search of a mother he has never known enters manhood and discovers love.

The documentary shows the living and working conditions of two categories of women working in the fishing port of Lorient in Brittany. Close on 800 women work there in conditions that have barely changed in 50 years. They are on their feet all the time, carrying heavy loads and working with ice in the cold and the damp. At night, women sort the fish, by day others filet the fish (tidal and processing workers).

In Paris, there is a network of men married to young Filipinas, chosen through an international agency. Here is the portrait of a couple from this business: immersed in a happiness that drowns the spectator.

After leaving boxing, Stéphane is employed as a bodyguard for a politician. One night, Stéphane and his friend Pierre-Marie confront some belligerent billposters. Pierre-Marie is murdered. For Stéphane, the anger is so strong that he pursues the murderer, who dies accidentally. Accused of the crime, Stéphane seeks help from a journalist, who will help him get his side of the story heard.

Television for Dogs - blending surreal humor, sound art, and avant-garde animation into a canine-centric media curiosity of 1980s French television.

Interlacing of two films of tree branches (one without leaves, the other with spring foliage) filmed from a low angle shot, spinning and edited in diagonal cuts creating right/left sweeps and vice versa.

A staging of Marivaux's play "The Double Inconstancy" by Jean-Luc Boutté.

July 1956: like every summer, the actor and cellist Maurice Baquet temporarily deserts the stage and the cinema studios to go to Chamonix where the mountaineer Gaston Rebuffat is waiting for him. A few days later, the two men achieved a historic first, that of the south face of the Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m), a magnificent wall rising like a rampart above the Vallée Blanche. July 1988: to pay tribute to the memory of his friend Gaston, now deceased, Maurice Baquet once again climbed this wall suspended between heaven and earth with the man who, 50 years his junior, is considered one of his best contemporary mountaineers: Christophe Profit.

The dismay of North Africans living in France in the 1980s. For the girls, born for the most part in France and attending French schools, they experience the difficulty of understanding and adapting for their parents in the face of this new world, these new mores, relegated among themselves to housing projects, HLM breeding grounds of economic cannon fodder. Jamila has a French friend who bursts into her family with his culture. From this situation arises misunderstandings and unease, which widen the gap between parents and their daughter. A story where tenderness, heartbreak and suffering combine.

Farmer and her lover sat in the middle of a desolate, barren landscape on a grim cloudy day. As a snake slithers nearby, the pair cut their palms and rub their hands together to mix their blood. A little girl picks up a statue of Christ found in the mud and sticks it on a cross. Then several Gypsies, dressed in black clothes and veils, come to sit on a bench to watch a human bullfight.

A group of friends on vacation in Deauville take on the challenge of hitting on as many girls as possible, collecting the underwear of each of their "victims" as trophies.

Ekoma is a young man in a Pygmy tribe whose hardscrabble life gets harder when his father dies. Compounding this is his relationship with his fiancée, whom he cannot marry because she’s been enslaved by a local village elder.

A man pays local children to bring him flies. After having cut off their wings and legs, he sticks them on the walls of his apartment. When a prostitute appears at his door, he sees in her the final piece to his work.

Computer animation. A sentient lighter and cigarette engage in forbidden love.

The last part of the triptych is dedicated to the struggle of the peasant communities of northeastern Brazil; on the banks of the São Francisco River, the indigenous residents of the village of Caiçara fight to keep their Island of São Pedro, enclosed in a farm; all that remains is an abandoned chapel to which they go in procession. Tyrannized by their powerful neighbors, they talk about their lawsuits and sing about their two-century struggle, filmed in the village, during a procession to San Pedro and an expedition to the court where a delegation will file a complaint.

An inside look at slavery in the country of Burkina Faso, The Courage Of Others follows the journey of a slave (played by Sotigui Kouyaté) being taken across the African desert by his captors.

Portrait of the filmmaker’s mother in her garden. Part of the Portrait Series by Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, the film was initially presented as an interlude during the multi-projection performance of Unheimlich III: Les Mères at Centre Pompidou in 1981.

Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

On a coffee plantation near Havana in the early 19th century, a slave’s impossible love for the owner’s daughter.

Michel has an appointment at the administrative city.

In a Tunisian village, most of the men have emigrated. The stone-breaker hasn't gone away. His wife harasses him.

Two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone or something named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness.

Every day, through the window, the same view is offered to the gaze under a constantly renewed light. These variations accompany the variations of our inner life, whether in unison or not.

Far from Standardised visual recording, Akerman and her accomplice, the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton allows us to discover a fine moment of contemporary music.

Male duet, essentially sexual, treated as cosa mental by repetitive, division of the image, unframed, etc. Shot in interiors, with electroacoustic music.

Footage of public spaces around Avignon, shown in alternating frames captured at different times.

Maldoror traces the dramatic life of the self-taught sculptor Alberto Carlisky, who fled his native Argentina after being imprisoned in 1944 by the Perón regime for his political views, and who apprenticed in the Paris studio of the Russian Cubist sculptor Ossip Zadkine before striking out on his own.

Maurice Barrard and Liliane Bontemps met in 1973 in Peru. Four years later, they are married and start their life together in the Loire Valley. She is a physiotherapist, he is an educator. For them, although settled not far from Chartres, the mountains are never far away. Whenever the opportunity presents itself, they embark on high-altitude expeditions. First individually, then together. In 1982, they were at the top of Gasherbrum 2, an ascent filmed in this documentary prelude to other future ascents including the Nanga Parbat in 1984, after an aborted attempt a year earlier, which made Liliane Barrardi the first woman to climb this mountain. of Karakoram. The "tallest couple in the world" will not stop there. After the Makalu in 1985, in the spring of 1986 they will attempt the ascent of K2 and its 8,611 meters... Un Homme, Une Femme, Un 8000 was broadcast in the program Les Carnets de L'Aventure in 1983.

Film based on a phrase by Teo Hernández: "Each new film is for me a step into the void, into darkness, into mystery." Film-poem about the possibility of making an entire film about a face of the moon, a face of tears; Mother of souls, mother of our souls, the moon illuminates our cinematic nights – from its enigmatic roundness arises the origin of our tears at the end of the day, the dawn of our souls, the dawn of our tears.

A troop of brave warriors take a white woman into the middle of the jungle to eat her in their village.

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Manoel de Oliveira looks at Nice.

On a night with a full moon and a storm, Laure, still a child, is awakened by the tears of a young woman who has entered her room. At first intrigued, the child approaches the stranger then snuggles into her arms. Suddenly, a scream tears through the night. The housekeeper rushes into Laure's room, collapsed. The strange creature has fainted while drops of blood flow down the child's neck... The years have passed. One autumn evening, a group of travelers whose sedan was in an accident entrusted to the baron, Laure's father, a strangely beautiful young girl. Her name is Carmilla...

In this film, which takes place to the rhythm of Schubert's Military March, the point, this first form, by its multiplication and the chosen orientations, allows us to see how it can be chained to form lines, shapes, surfaces, to form ensembles that ultimately occupy the entire surface of the screen.

A girl leaves a dying present to be reborn.

A César award nominated short feature.

In a district of Niamey, in Niger, craftsmen and consumers save all that is possible and "make new with the old."

Documentary about a sculpture by the Belgian Artist Olivier Strebelle.

Throughout the trip to present the action film Le Sexe du loup-garou in Lyon, in 1980, Jakobois and his assistant undertake a travel diary. The Super 8 camera, a very common type (it does not allow focusing) passes alternately from one person's hands to the other's. There is even a sequence filmed by a passing observer (Catherine Haubois). Different filming styles were used within the limits of the small camera's possibilities. The trip continues with a family visit of which some reminiscences were captured. The return was through Vichy.

The people who sing the most are the ones that have suffered the most. This documentary pierces like a drill to the soul of flamenco and shows how much the Roma are attached to their cultural heritage.

CG animation. Parodies BIO-SENSOR (1984).

An engineer is sitting at his desk designing a computer-generated logo providing a printed circuit board made with the BNP effigy, a sign of modern times.

"As a reminder for the younger generations, in 1983 there were only 3 television channels in France. Special effects production with graphic palette was at its beginning in editing rooms. Canal+ was born in 1984, the 5th and 6th channels in 1986. Marshall MacLuhan and Paul Virilio provided input for my reflections regarding the impact of technologies on our five senses and our spatio-temporal perception"

An army of killer scorpions terrorize a small town.

Pupils in Year 9 at Mondoubleau High School discuss in depth female and male roles and gender equality.

Experimental short by Teo Hernández.