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A French TV special detailing the history of the Olympic Games through Disney's most athletic oddball, Goofy, with clips from classic shorts interspersed.

Vagrants, tramps, down and outs, homeless people... There are many people living a wandering life, on the fringe of care services. The CHAPSA (Shelter and Care Centre for the Homeless) at Nanterre hospital is the first state run centre, within a hospital, to provide shelter and medical care to those most in need.

Lili is twenty years old, has an English mother, a magician father, a voice from elsewhere and a gift that only children know: the power of her own desire. It all starts with a summer night: that summer, Lili and Bruno will find love.

Through the eyes of his friends and the adaptation of "Espèces d'espaces", this original documentary offers the least institutional image, the most friendly, the closest to Georges Perec. This documentary is composed of two films that respond to each other: one is a montage of conversations that Bernard Queysanne had with some of Georges Perec's many friends. They remember above all the man: the one who wrote on any piece of paper, who excelled in the art of puns, who liked to party with his friends and who lived sometimes unhappy love affairs. The other is an adaptation of "Espèces d'espaces", the writer's reflections on places: rooms, buildings, streets and districts.

A stripped-down visual sonata, in which elements of Lange's habitual cinematic universe (wall, wasteland, city square, cars ...) are captured by a camera more 'documentary' than demiurgic (as opposed to the transformation of energy and vision to be found in his later films).The filmic process used is, however, no less rigorous. Urban prison transportation was filmed from the inside of a moving vehicle and is composed of lateral travelling shots, which move consistently forward, while swinging from left to right with a varying degree of acceleration. There is no double-exposure or editing-in-camera; the background consists of walls, parks, wastegrounds, stations and platforms. These compositions in movement display various degrees of depth of field; speed decreases as we retreat, diffracted by the systematic presence of the grills and bars separating us from more distant motifs.

An investigating judge uncovers a corruption case in which his own politician brother is compromised.

Two lovers are so passionately in love that they have done something unforgivable and killed the jealous husband.

Jean-Marc and Pamela attend the première of a film directed by one of their friends. They gradually lose control of things.

In the summer of 1914, Collioure was a small, quiet fishing village, sheltered from the convulsions of a blazing Europe. Matisse painted a curious picture Door-Window in Collioure. Homage to Collioure, nod to the cubists, reference to Matisse; offering to the wind and to the sea. The furious Tramontana sends you in spasms its rumblings in the air which has become crystalline. The sea rages under the effect of the wind, which suddenly desert the various small boats; SOS for the unwary. Large breaking waves delight children on the beach.

Recording from The Stranglers Rennes gig at L'Ubu, Rennes during there 1993 tour 12th March

Film dedicated to Toto Bissainthe, the Haitian singer that Sarah Maldoror also filmed at an earlier stage. Here, the magic of cinema is summoned and the cinema of the Lumière brothers and other figures that marked the seventh art is revisited.

Director Bruno Romy has put together a surreal, droll, and sometimes melancholy, sometimes risqué if not simply trashy series of seven vignettes on the love lives of several couples in a small village in Normandy in Northwest France. Romy has chosen former circus performers, mimes, and actors from street theater -- most of them in their first-time film roles -- to interpret these diverse and off-the-wall couples/couplings. One young mute woman finds her voice through a ventriloquist, another falls in love with a trapeze artist, and a village idiot finds a unique way to experience his first intimate sexual encounter.

Made on the cusp of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, a film retracing the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present day - notably the civil rights movement of the late '60s, the outbreak of war in 1969, the birth of a peace process in the early 1990s that ultimately led to the IRA cease-fires of 1994 and 1997, and the current all-party negotiations that today offer the best chance for peace to the people of Northern Ireland in over a generation. Explores the complexities of the conflict through archival footage and portraits of political leaders who lived these events and played an important role in the search for a peaceful resolution to the seemingly interminable Irish “troubles”.

The tumultuous relationship between a publisher battling breast cancer and her teenage daughter who refuses to feel sorry for herself.

A barocco environment inspired by shared desires and fantasy (that led to the co-writing of Corptrass, a scenario by Michel Journiac and Stephane Marti in 1980) shelters fragments of the story, passion and doubts of the master of Corporal Art.

Film director Boris Lehman returns to Lausanne, where he was born on 3 March 1944, at the end of the war.

Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...

For a day we meet a shepherd in the Cévennes region of southern France, he tells us about his work during the summer transhumance season, his life, his animals and his hopes for the future. An interview with Jean-Claude Boisson and his partner Geneviève, as well as trusted assistant Germain.

Grand'Pa and Grand'Ma are eating their soup, unaware of the horrible crimes being committed by creatures outside their window.

An insane face-off between two smart serial killers. This thriller supsense is 100% intense: sensitive souls beware!

Nina, nine years old, loses her parents Hélène and Jean in a car accident. A few months later, in front of the reunited family, the guardianship judge opens the will that designates Thomas, Hélène's brother, as Nina's guardian. But Thomas, 35 years old, shares his apartment with Hervé, an architect, with whom he has been in a relationship for 5 years.

Years after a civil war, Erasmo's must face violence once more: His foster mother was murdered. On his way to find the murderer he makes friends with the Jew Saul.

Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by the five-year old son of a friend who he believes to be still living in Paris. On arrival he struggles to find the boy’s father. In addition to coping with his new internship, Soriba has to also spend time tracking down the boy’s father ‘Issa’.

To mark the 30th anniversary of Kodak's invention of the Super 8 format, the Close Encounters of the 8th Type in Tours, France, asked filmmakers to make a film in this format. I was the only filmmaker to respond favorably to this request, and I created a tribute to 1965 by "compressing" a cult film from that year: Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville . Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville Compression is a 25-fold reduction of Alphaville , the 1965 masterpiece Jean-Luc Godard directed, starring Anna Karina, Eddie Constantine, Howard Vernon, and Akim Tamiroff, from a runtime of 1 hour 30 minutes into a 4-minute film. The film is "compressed" in the manner of a work by César. But unlike the work of this artist, who compressed everyday objects, Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville Compression compresses an artistic object! The feat and challenge of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville Compression was to create a total compression: in this film, not a single shot from the original film is missing!

Everything would be perfect between Stéphanie and Clément if only he would accept to walk before her naked.

A young investigative journalist is about to publish a book with revelations about power and corruption. Three days before her television appearance, her apartment is devastated by an explosion. Forced into exile, she goes to the countryside where she meets a particularly endearing person.

With the armies of the Liberation at the gates of Paris, station manager Kurt Heyzmann receives an order from his superiors to withdraw. As a farewell, he decides to prepare one last prestigious program, to be filmed and broadcast live. Kleischter, a Gestapo lieutenant, emerges to try and spoil the show, by antagonizing Heyzmann and his employees. He believes that the war is not over, and continues to hunt down potential Jews and STO deserters on the TV premises.

At the time of the Battle of Normandy in 1944, French paratroopers of the Special Air Service carried out commando actions in Brittany.

This French drama is definitely controversial as it chronicles the sexual awakening of an 11 year old girl at the hands of a 50-year old man. The film tries to present it in a positive, and beautiful way, alluding to the fact that the curious girl wanted it to happen. The viewer can decide whether or not the film is beautiful or whether it is a glossy excuse for pedophilia. It is set just after World War II. A man has discovered and read Celine's diary which is filled with sexual longing and sensuality. The child herself, only portrayed as a photograph, describes her relations with a recently widowed hairdresser. The film contains little formal dialog and mostly focuses upon the daily lives of the people involved. The setting of the seduction is shown, but not the seduction itself.

An 8mm short film directed by Marc Hurtado.

The intersecting story of four notarial situations in a law office in Haute - Auvergne. Through the story of two negotiated sales, an inventory and an inheritance file, the notary's office becomes the reign of stories of property and money, of intimate conversations and secret exchanges, in short of the human comedy.

David, son of a bankrupt printer, lives in the Paris suburbs, as do Blacky and Nérone. If they are repeating their baccalaureate, they have forgotten to be stupid; and to make pocket money, they always find good tricks. One day, David meets a young student, coming from a very well-to-do background. He falls madly in love with her, and does not know how to seduce her.

When his car breaks down, Luigi, a retired miner, meets the rebellious Anita, an orphanage refugee. Together, they have to run from the law.

One morning in Paris, rue de la Sante, Pierre, thirty-five years old, gets out of prison after five years of refusing any contact with his past. After a day of sleep in one of the rooms of his old friend's hotel, he is going to live his first night of freedom in solitary wanderings in the streets of Paris. He then decides to read the letters of his friend Sylvana. They will reveal past events that will influence his itinerary, his encounters, his moods.

In this timeless song, a donkey and Pierrot become friends. Tenderness and humor guaranteed.

This film is part of the anthology "Contre l'oubli" (Against oblivion), created for Amnesty International.

The life of a family of boatmen flows gently along the water when a desperate man, wanting to throw himself off a bridge, lands on the pile of sand they were carrying. The film is preceded by a short film by the same author, "Someone", which recounts the memory of fifteen years of frequenting the same barber.

A little bit more of a day in Mathilde's life, an ordinary and multifaceted woman.

Tahani Rached’s powerful documentary enters the doors of an AIDS clinic in Montreal. We meet a group of dedicated doctors struggling to provide health care to their patients. This 1994 film explores legal and ethical problems surrounding HIV/AIDS and the struggle against fear, rumours and prejudice. It is still relevant today.

Ways and forms of signal freedom.

Farid is 32. A former Red Skin bullyboy and hoodlum, he is a survivor of drug "trips" in the 70’s and 80’s. It’s in drugs and rebellion that he lived his fine youth as a second generation Algerian in the Paris suburbs.

Experimental short by Teo Hernández.

Maurice and Katia Krafft are a couple of scientists, filmmakers, researchers and photographers who have made vulcanology the reason for their existence. Together, they completed more than 800 hours of filming 128 volcanic eruptions and developed more than 450,000 films of great aesthetic and scientific value. A journey in stages around the world, the film pays tribute to the two protagonists, from the first ascent accomplished by Maurice, then aged 7, at Stromboli, to their tragic disappearance in 1991 on Mount Unzen in Japan.

Paulo and his brother, both deaf, lie on their childhood bed and remember: dance of signs, dance of bodies, meaningful language.