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La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical company. Sequences in the film include sections of plays, casting, set and costume design, administrative meetings and rehearsals and performances of four classic French plays, Don Juan by Molière, La Thebaide by Racine, La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Feydeau. (Zipporah Films)

Foued is a little schemer from Barbes, who doesn't listen enough to his two accomplices of always, Philippe and Pierrot. He prefers to follow the idea of Manu, a young woman who wants to use her three "pigeons" by carrying out a heist intended to avenge her father. Demasked then adopted, it is four pigeons who will go up to Paris to carry out the business.

Tartuffe is a hypocritical impostor who manages to manipulate Orgon, a wealthy widowed bourgeois, by feigning devotion. Orgon ends up offering his daughter Mariane in marriage to Tartuffe, while he disowns his son Damis and intends to donate all his possessions to Tartuffe. Elmire, Orgon's young wife, whom Tartuffe is courting, will attempt to expose him, while the royal family intervenes to prevent the ruin of Orgon's family.

Moorish society allows a great deal of freedom in the relationship between men and women. In the tent, in this feminine place, men are admitted. In the city, in Nouakchott, customs have been adapted. The women receive guests in their living rooms. Hassan is a young man who roams the streets of Nouakchott looking for a girl to seduce. Through poetry, he perpetuates the tradition of courtly love. In their salon Aziza, Amina, Fatimétou and Farida listen to him and tell us about their dreams of young Moorish girls.

It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.

A reworking of extracts from Andre Malraux, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou, and GK Chesterton.

Two men arrive in a truck at an anonymous Moroccan village. They roam the town with shotguns, shooting stray dogs. A homeless man tries to keep his 'pet' dog safe from them.

Paris Opera, October 1996. New production Jérôme Savary

A short documentary about the citizens of Orly and their problems with the noise pollution caused by the airport.

Joëlle, a simple and energetic young woman, works as a hairdresser for Mrs. Delbarre. When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks her to donate her bone marrow for a transplant, on the condition that she does not seek to know the recipient, she accepts without hesitation. But the temptation is too strong and she investigates in order to discover the person who benefited from her generous gesture. It is a handsome young man with whom she immediately falls in love.

For the past ten years, the Théâtre Equestre Zingaro has been combining travelling cultures, in which it was born and proffer so much inspiration. Marked with the heritage of its imaginary ancestors, the Zingaro Tribe has little by little turned into a wandering people with ancestral cultures. With Chimère, the "Zingaros" are travelling back in time, guided by horses towards the shores of Hindu civilization, towards the desert plains of the Thar and the origins of a nomadic people.

A portrait of French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992), through archival films from 1964 to 1987.

Sequel to The Shattered Mirror, this film relates the human story behind the October 1993 armed confrontation in Moscow, when the future of the Russian nation and democracy hung in the balance. Rather than chronicle political events, Goldovskaya uses her personal style of filmmaking to take the viewer deep into the "inner life" of Russian society during this extraordinary period.

A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with the customs officer. Short film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, as part of the Montreal vu par... anthology.

A cute little guy is trying to do the right thing and clean up his neighborhood. However, when he approaches a garbage can to empty it, one thoughtless person after another come by and make an even bigger mess.

Half Spirit, a young woman who's spent the past year handcuffed to a radiator by her husband, begins to hear the voice of a spider named Jimminy. She escapes from captivity and falls in love with Gil, a drug dealer traveling to swap drugs for plutonium. She follows him, afraid to approach. She is followed by Badfly, who pushes women off of ledges, convinced that they can fly; he unsuccessfully tries to kill her, then falls for her. Gil is also followed by Priest, a demonic Catholic father with a penchant for pain. The whole sordid tale is narrated by Half Spirit as she writes the tale on her naked body as she lies dying in a hospital.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Bern Federal Police revealed they had been keeping activists from far-left groups in Western Switzerland under surveillance for years - among them, Claude Muret. In his first film, Jean-Stéphane Bron deploys a humorous and affectionate gaze to chronicle the story of these ex-“cops and outlaws” who come from a generation marked by clashes… of ideology.

Portrait of a popular game in Brazil

Documentary on the German luxury liner St. Louis that sailed from Hamburg to Cuba in 1939 carrying 937 German Jews. For 30 excruciating days the ship wandered the seas and was refused haven by every country in the Americas.

This bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and grateful French men and women, the promise of Russian communism was bright, and everything Russian was a source of joy and amazement. In the story, Irene was rescued from Auschwitz by soldiers from the U.S.S.R., and since that time she has enthusiatically considered Russia to be the source of hope in the world. Her more pragmatic husband has, by 1958, grown somewhat weary of her enthusiasm, which has led her to decorate their apartment with anything Russian she can get her hands on. Matters come to a head when she is befriended by three members of the Red Army Choir during their tour of Paris.

Mukarrama is an old woman in one of the villages of Mazandaran who cannot read or write and suddenly turns to painting. In her memoirs and dreams, she depicts the relationship between a man and a woman, master and servant, man and God in a special style.

Raphaëlle André is a brillant lawyer. The enigmatic death of her husband lead her into an investigation where she discovers new sides of the life of her late husband.

A breathtaking look at The French Spiderman, Alain Robert, a lone climber who scales tall buildings, bridges and cliffs all over the world. His physical training and climbing technique allows him to climb using window sills and frames. From its height of 180 meters, the Citigroup Center in Chicago will be the first of a long series of more than 170 buildings that Alain Robert will climb.

Lengé is a Baka pygmee. Among his people, in the Equatorial Forest of South-East Cameroon, Lengé is a tale-teller. He knows the stories of the beginning of the world and the melodies of Tibola, the white elephant. He saw the bird Fofolo, flying after the sun's rays. Deep from the distant ages, Lenge's face and voice recall Gbanga-Tita, God's calabash. "There was the river, the forest and the children..." He is the last tale-teller in this part of the forest.

A young health inspector takes on the restaurant of her lover who betrayed her.

The challenge of the "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" set up by Nelson Mandela in South Africa is to achieve a truly democratic society. Composed of 17 members and Desmond Tutu, this Commission will be relayed throughout the country by groups called "Khulumani" (literally: "Free the Word"). For a little over a year, it will invite victims, perpetrators and witnesses of apartheid to tell the truth about the past. The filmmakers have been authorized to follow this incredible process, which should lead to the re-founding of the nation, for its entire duration. The film focuses on the collective character of the Commission, crossed by ethical, political and philosophical questions, as well as on a few characters, victims and executioners, linked by a common history. They are filmed in their interrogations and their steps to re-establish a link between a past and a possible future.

Portrait made for the magazine Brut.

A physics teacher reunites with his former classmate who he lost touch with for 20 years.

Two teenage girls are rehearsing a scene from a play by Marivaux, a love scene, and from the first seconds, we know who will be the heroine, who will be Charlotte, the one who will, to summarize brutally, discover her homosexuality.

These are initiation tales of A. Jodorowsky, tales and legends adapted from ancestral traditions, from all continents, and drawing their source from the heart of Jewish, African and Oriental traditions. Imagine real characters shot in Chinese shadow, encrusted in drawn sets. Add a 2D animation, bewitching music, and the unique voice of Alejandro. The result will be a mixture, where distant legends mix with mystery, poetry, and magic.

An eccentric British woman picks up a young apprentice hairdresser on a wild night in Paris.

A short film co-created by Eric Rohmer.

Julie Toronto, a 32-year-old dwarf, quit her accounting job in Paris, to be with Antoine Delisles, the man of her life. She started working as a nanny at Antoine's. Julie is delighted: Antoine asked if he could marry her and both of his children love her. However, Antoine who is a lawyer, aspires to be President of the Bar. He understands pretty soon that the job he wants to fill is not necessarily compatible with the love he feels towards Julie Toronto.

When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks Joëlle, a simple young girl, to donate her bone marrow in view of a transplant, she agrees without hesitation. Despite the pain and the risks, she only thinks of saving a human life. Just one condition is imposed : the giver is not allowed to meet the transplanted in any case. However it is more than she can take, so Joëlle sifts through the medical network until she meets Arnaud. The more she advances, the more she becomes attached to her transplanted, to the point where she believes that her marrow influences his dreams and desires. Ambiguity will reign throughout this love comedy.

Born in Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne returned to settle there after some travels. The nearby Sainte-Victoire mountain became his subject, which he would depict more than sixty times in different styles and in every season. This strange obsession warranted further investigation.

She doesn't talk, she doesn't... but she cuts, stabs, guts, you know the drill.

There is a special moment in the lives of the that can be described by a single word: Mabadong. Toraja funerals are as they were 500 years ago. The tradition of letting into the inner circle of mourners anyone weeping for the deceased, is a ritual which brings together every rank of society. It is a huge ceremony which reinforces the social hierarchy and keeps alive the spirit of the Toraja culture. But it is also a tradition that threatens to put this people into financial ruin. This is the story of a young man who puts his family in debt, sells his parents' house and gambles the lot on cockfights, to raise the money for his grandmother's funeral and thus preserve his family's rank in the tribe.

Emma is 27 years old and works as a taxi driver. Eric is about the same age and conducts surveys on the street. Neither of them was really cut out for it...

God sends his best angel to Earth to carry out a delicate mission.

Within the framework of the “Half a Century of Locarno, Thoughts on the Future” project, seven directors, Idrissa Ouedraogo among them, have the chance to express their vision of the future of the film industry by means of a short film. “The state of the film industry the world is a vast issue,” says the director from Burkina Faso. “I would rather speak about my films, about African films and their relationship with the world”.

Even before she discovers she is pregnant, Christine Kinsey's life is spiraling downward at a fast pace. She uses cocaine with her boyfriend, Gabriel; she has a destructive relationship with her mother and she coasts day-to-day at her job. Tragedy strikes when Christina's daughter, Lynn, is born prematurely, addicted to cocaine, and is taken away from her.

How the mothers of a deprived suburb of Marseille will create a solidarity committee under the aegis of the parish priest. Gathered in assembly, they will invent a solution to the endemic misery of their city.

December 1953. Rosa and Alfred, a young couple of Polish Jews, await the return of Rosa's brother from America. Alfred will take care of the turkey. The delivery man brings it still alive.

The fact that Paula can't have children doesn't curb her desire for a child at all - then they'll be adopted. And the fact that there are other competitors for 'Lieselotte' only makes the task all the more attractive. In career-conscious times like these, competitors are there to be beaten out of the field. By any means, including criminals.