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Intimate chronicle of Guajiro life, rites and myths.

Immigration seen from the inside. The balance of power that maintains, in an Algerian café-hotel-restaurant, the owner of the place with his customers.

Abel Gance looks back on his life and his films in this short film made to celebrate his 90th birthday in 1979.

Based on the novel by Gilbert TANUGI. Veronique, a young blind woman, is the victim of a kidnapping. Alphonse Galley, her father, is a rich industrialist who has only one love in his life: his daughter... This is the Achilles heel of this lonely man. The kidnappers, led by the enigmatic "man from Hamburg", contact Alphonse Galley. Their demands vary from day to day. Ready to do anything to find his daughter, the industrialist warns the police in a moment of panic, a move he immediately regrets. Little by little, he is caught between the police and the kidnappers.

Cousteau becomes a modern-day Huckleberry Finn to explore the Father of Waters. Shows the Mississippi's icy origin in Minnesota to its destination in the Gulf of Mexico. Looks at the river's land, wildlife, people, folklore, and industry.

The gestures, the words, the rites of a day like any other in the offices of a large insurance company.

Computer animated short from the perspective of a gold fish.

A small town in the south of France. Sun, deserted streets. Unshaven, wearing poorly, Vic came, driving his 4x4, his wife has been released from the psychiatric hospital where she was serving a sentence of 5 years for killing their child. But is she really healed ?

«The sun, the sea, the heart and the stars / Dawn Aurora Light Heat / The heart serves the body / The spirit dominates the star»

Rue de Lappe - crucible of all the generations of all the imigrations, with their cultures and their music, their love stories and their solitude... Denis Gheerbrant, alone with his camera and his tape recorder shows us a separate world in the heart of Paris.

Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.

A documentary film about Basque independence movement.

Made in collaboration with the Inuit Tungavingat Nunamini, this film focuses on those dissident members of the Inuit community who rejected the agreement signed on November 11, 1975, between the Northern Quebec Inuit Association, the Québec and federal governments, the James Bay Energy Corporation, the James Bay Development Corporation, Hydro-Québec and the Grand Council of the Crees, which took away Native rights to a territory of almost one million square kilometres. By their words and actions, the dissident Inuit of Povungnituk, Ivujivik and Sugluk express their strong desire to retain their land and their traditions. The filmmakers go into their homes, on the ice and the sea to record first-hand the lives of these northern people.

Joseph Galloudec seven years, lives in the eighteenth floor of a building in the Paris suburbs, between his mother Julia and her father Jean-Claude, a computer engineer and communist militant. His parents experiencing marital problems and his mother soon to give birth, he left for the summer holidays with his grandparents and three uncles, turbulent triplets. He discovers the castles of the Loire, Brittany and England. Upon his return, he met his sister Elisa, but her parents and tear her mother eventually left the home.

Peter Wiersma has built on the côte sauvage his 125th sandcastle.

The story of Paul's life culminates in a sign, after he leaves his monastery...

In a near future : A private underground line team most major cities, security systems are " heavy handed" : firstly , a militia composed of heavily armed mercenaries and secondly , the police ready to intervene immediately. However, in a network , a series of atrocious crimes hits the headlines. Every user is liable to become a death sentence. Including this very old lady , dressed all in black, wearing hat and purple , which, relying on his cane painfully , dared to venture into the Death Row ..

Short film from André Almuro

Computer animated short from the perspective of a fly.

Here, an isolated and surrounded being tries, by arrhythmic movements, to contain a convulsive fear of light. Three stages, three moments, but one and the same creature oscillating between the human and the insect which remains secretly within its own “camera obscura”.

The unlikely story of a little seal who befriends a blind musician.

Using archival films, popular songs of the time and testimonials, evocation of the economic crisis of the 1930s as experienced by the people of Quebec

Alaouié presents the stories of four exiles from Beirut. Their only connection is the voice of the narrator and their situation of living in exile in Europe. Told with a subtle humor, the film sketches four highly individual portraits of people, whose lives have taken unexpected turns due to the madness of the Civil War.

Commemorating the 1986 Tunis-Paris exhibition Privileged Spaces and Times: French-Speaking Intellectual Production in Tunisia, Sarah Maldoror’s film points the way toward a more polyvocal understanding of the role of France’s National Library worldwide.

A moving camera opens up and fluidifies the world. In its audio version, this journey is drawn into an inner reverie.

According to some specialists, the frieze of deers in the Lascaux cave would be the representation of a horde of deer swimming in a river or, according to another version, one same deer, the movement of the swimming being decomposed.

On the Thessalian plateau, a place famous in ancient Greek history, enormous and steep rocks rise, almost representing an epic clash of giants. In this mystical environment, Meteora once served as an aerial refuge for hermits and then for nuns of strict orders, who, renouncing the world, lived in the celestial peace of the peaks. This area is today a silent and fantastical climbing site, and some caves carved into the rock face remain inaccessible. Mountaineer Patrick Berhault and his French partner Patrick Cordier, one of the classic leaders of modern climbing, have set out to conquer these peaks steeped in history, which will never cease to be "The Pillars of Dreams."

A lonely vampire finally succeeds in inviting a beautiful woman into his palace for dinner. Everything develops perfectly, until she discovers that the vampire has a little defect...

A documentary about 5000 men, women, teen-agers, and children in a small mountain town in France who saved 5000 Jews from the Nazis during WWII.

After a kind of big bang, a character is constructed from elements scattered on the ground, then starts to walk and builds a city.

For a series of programs made for TV Fnac, Philippe Grandrieux meets different people who tell us, each in their own point of view, a story of images. After Paul Virilio (The World is an image) and before Jean-Louis Schaeffet, Le Trou noir (AKA The Black Hole) gives us the enlightened reflections of psychanalyst Juan David Nasio about real and reality.

Alain Jaubert uncovers the details, interprets the symbols, and analyzes the composition. Why did the painting spark such controversy when it was presented in 1831? Was it the nudity of this armed woman? Or the triumphant people depicted in a realistic staging?

As I was visiting my great friend the painter L ..., I surprised him during his nap. Indeed, after several exhibitions, he took a well-deserved rest. When he woke up, he told me: "It is not so easy to rest from Art. I have the pretty formula 'a workshop in my head.' I just dreamed of a painter."

A short video in three acts that tells the story of an encounter between three men. Possibility, certainty and reality. The place: between Montreal and the Laurentians in the autumn of 1984. The misty and damp atmosphere of late November. The narration is singed by Yves Dionne.

Quick montage of four sequences: a white tarpaulin standing out against the blue sky, in the wind, interlaced with a group of children and African dancers to the rhythm of drums, a procession of bridesmaids from an Asian wedding, and me doing my hair in close-up. These shots follow each other according to a repetition of a few images.

Based on Emmanuel Roblès' book of the same name

It was after watching the executioner prepare the guillotine and the public ceremony that would follow that Victor Hugo decided to write "The Last Day of a Condemned Man" which "pleads the cause of any condemned man, executed on any day, for any crime..."