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Based on Alge­rian proverbs and sayings, Terri­to­rie(s) reviews Alge­rian history in this century. The french colo­ni­sa­tion, the paci­fi­ca­tion of 1957 and the ulti­mate inde­pen­dence in 1962. The poli­ti­cal leaders are consi­de­red in cleverly edited sequences: Boudiaf, Ben Bella, Colo­nel Boume­dienne and figures from the Isla­mic move­ment like Ali Belhadj and Fara­khan. The french and Alge­rian intel­le­gen­tias are also inclu­ded in this kalei­do­sco­pic image of a coun­try that thanks to its event­ful colo­nial past, still has diffi­cul­ties deter­mi­ning its own iden­tity more than thirty years after its inde­pen­dence. Barba­rism is all its forms, inclu­ding the mili­tary forms it can assume with follo­wers of the FIS, is set against the domes­tic warning of those who plead for keeping eyes open, and keeping society open.

A short film co-created by Eric Rohmer.

Paulo seems to lose himself in the life of others: at the age of 30, he is still closely attached to his protective mother and silent father; to his cold and domineering boyfriend Luis; to the lives of unknown men; to his female roles at the cabaret; and to the songs of Shirley Bassey.

Filmmaker Samuel Fuller tells the story of Corporal Samuel Fuller's landing on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, and his subsequent campaign in Normandy (the "hedge war").

The nature of form is to hide the object rather than define it, and the nature of light is to conceal substance rather than to delineate.

In a beautiful garden called Ecos, there are a variety of creatures there who neatly fulfill vital roles in the healthy ecological system of the area. However, this state of reasonable environmental harmony is disrupted when a new species of grub like creatures begin to ravish the land of a needed fruit. This folly leads to the disruption of the environment of the garden while this greed leads to a series of events that have tragic consequences.

This French documentary pays homage to a young man whose passion left a rich and valuable legacy to the world of cinema. Henri Langlois was one of the co-founders of the Cinematheque Francaise, a museum which contains many rare artifacts from early cinema as well as one of the most extensive film archives in the world. This documentary will be most meaningful for those already familiar with Langlois' story. Through old film clips and interviews, Langlois is seen as an eccentric but charismatic young visionary obsessed with preserving and locating old films. Filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky uses scenes from Citizen Kane to compare the portly iconoclast to Charles Foster Kane, in that both Langlois and Welle's fictional newspaper magnate where avid collectors, and both were men of mystery.

He, a young and resourceful city dweller, inherits a snail farm in the country. She, a university student in zoology, is passionate about a very rare species of these gastropod mollusks and returns to the country. At first sight, they already recognize each other. But it will take a few misunderstandings and a marathon of grosgris for the two young people to get their antennae in tune.

Programme presenting 4 adventures of Pic Pic and Andre.

A remarkable look at the new life, opportunities and challenges the people of Russia are facing.

A video/DVD album featuring concert footage, behind the scenes interviews and all of the band's music videos. Setlist: "Broken Heart (Original Version)", "Wait", "Tell Me", "When The Children Cry", "Little Fighter", "Radar Love", "Sweet Little Lovin'", "Cry For Freedom", "Love Don't Come Easy", "Broken Heart"

This documentary follows a number of French women prisoners during the time of their imprisonment and after their release. Many of them are "in" for minor drug and prostitution-related offenses, and at least half of them are HIV positive. One woman promises she will kill herself before her beauty fades from the AIDS syndrome: two years later the filmmaker captures her, wan and wasted, but out of prison. Most of these women have grave difficulties finding work or housing when they are released, and are forced to resort to the same desperate measures that got them incarcerated in the first place.

Tanti Adjo has been an orphan since teenage years. Now the owner of a ready-made clothes shop, she lives withdrawn into herself. Someday she meets by chance Sabi Kazan, a young university professor. Attracted to Adjo, Sabi decides to find her, which he does. One date leads to another and a formal engagement ensues. But happiness is short-lived as one day Adjo is found by the body of her dead beloved, with an arm in her hand. Did she really kill the man she was in love with. And for what reason?

Just before the turn of the 21st century, Drahmane returns to his father's village in Sokolo, Mali. A contemplative bike stroll around town makes him reflect on the significance of time passing at the dawn of a new millennium. As everybody goes on with their daily tasks, Sokolo might as well be the center of the world. The film earned Sissako awards at the Fribourg International Film Festival, the Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival.

James visits his young brother David who has just opened a hairdressing salon. the two brothers do not agree on how to become a successful hairdesser.

The story of a young deer deceived by appearances, or how a good deed in haste can be the cause of a tragedy.

Series of areas that are dear to him(Morvan, Bugey, les Aples, Vivarais,…etc.). Shots taken while driving from his car, holding the camera with his right hand without looking through the viewfinder while I driving withf his left hand.

Garden gnomes seem so happy, good-natured in your home. But a spaceship lands on Earth and makes the garden gnomes naughty.

A joyful and light-hearted look at alienation. What we see: ugly modern buildings, too many tourists, uniformity - everywhere the same cafés, the same supermarket bags, beggars and homeless, Senegalese merchants selling small Eiffel Towers, police and people fleeing from them, aggressive restaurateurs, markets, crowded subways, traffic jams and exhaust fumes, prostitutes, street fights, clowns. What we hear: Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals by Carl Stalling, a selection of sound recordings for Warner Brothers cartoons from 1941-50.

Portrait of Thomas, a young man of twenty years, through the testimonies of his relatives.

A gay writer looks back at his life and the different people he has been, a hippie, a disco bunny, a gay man living with AIDS…

Around 1515, Master Mathis added painted panels arranged as double wings to a sculpted altarpiece created twenty years earlier for the convent-hospital of Isenheim in Alsace. Dedicated to Saint Anthony the Abbot, the work was intended for patients afflicted by ergotism—the “St. Anthony’s fire”—a scourge of poorly nourished Europe that the Order of the Antonines sought to combat under the spiritual protection of their healing patron saint.

Once upon a time, there was this famous children's story whose lingering fears we always relive

Grindhouse styled short about revenge.

Short film produced for Osmose Productions in 1999, includes "Manannán", "An Involution of Thorns", "Fantasizing to the Third of the Pagan Vision (Quoth the Sky, Nevermore) Act II" and "An Evolution of Horns".

A young boy hooks up his cart to the history of mankind and escapes.

Made up of meetings with some of the actors of the gay community of Paris, this documentary evokes the development of the community phenomenon and its economic importance in districts handed over to traders and companies competing for the market. By comparing different points of view, this film produced in June 1997 during Europride offers a reflection on the identity of a community caught up in its own contradictions, divided between the desire to assert its difference and the desire to blend in with the company.

Kamel Messaoudi live concert in Paris in 1996. In the early 1990s, while Algerian Chaâbi was struggling to renew itself and attract young people in the face of Raï, Kamel, born on January 30, 1961 in Algiers, into a modest family, achieved great success with his first album, notably featuring Echema’a (the candle). On December 10, 1998, Kamel Messaoudi died, cut down in the prime of his career, at the age of 37, in a road accident after appearing on an Algerian television show.

Zap : a "zap" is a rapid fire tactic that "Act Up" (the association for the struggle against AIDS) uses against a celebrity, a group or an institution. It consists of a very targeted protest which contests the present dialogue in the struggle against AIDS. Due to the small number of participants it is important that everyone remains loyal to their spokesperson. The success of the "zap" depends on a contrast between the calmness and stubbornness of the spokesperson, and the "latent violence" of the group. "From "Act Up" Paris we have become familiar with their actions which often involved the media... In "Act Up" Paris, I know some militants, either as friend or from having gone with them to several take-overs at protest marches. This film is a chronicle of 2 weeks spent with some of them".

During the campaign of the legislative elections of 1995, most of the protagonists of Marseille from father to son reflect on the notion of democracy, the future of parties, the differences between left and right.

French Documentary focusing on All Japan Woman's Pro Wrestling. Showing the touring along with interviews with the wrestlers. Mainly focusing on Bull Nakano, Aja Kong, Manami Toyota, and Debbie Malenko

May 8, 1945, the day of victory over Nazism, is also a day of mourning. In Algiers, thanks to demonstrations for victory, the Algerian flag appears for the first time, thus claiming independence. But in Sétif, the standard bearer is shot dead at the head of the procession and a riot breaks out. The colonial massacre that followed would extend to all of Constantine. The commission of inquiry never delivered its conclusions and an amnesty law erased the traces of this savage repression. Fifty years later, the file is open.

Free and a multi-talented artist, Habiba Msika was one of the brightest stars of her time, the twenties. Inspired by the real-life of the artist, the film evokes the last years from 1927.
 Punctuated by the jolts of a changing time, this tumultuous stage in Habiba Msika's life was branded by the love that Mimoun, a wealthy landowner, and Chedly a young poet from a good family, both dedicated to her. In Berlin, during a triumphant tour, she meets the oriental music star, the Iraqi Baghdadi, and is introduced to Parisian life by Peter, and a dandy of disconcerting charm. Back in Tunis, Habiba Msika's life is carried away by the frenetic whirlwind of success, controversies, and thwarted passions until the final tragedy of her death.

Marguerite Duras tells the story of the death of a young English aviator in a French village.

An investigation and reflection on the figure of the Senegalese poet and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor. The filmmaker collects his memories, explores his own memory and that of his family to write a “letter” to Léopold Sédar Senghor the poet, the academician, but also the former head of state of Senegal. Words and images are addressed to the ancestor, the grandfather in the African sense of the term, the one to whom we can tell everything, the most secret words, the most sincere confidences like the most biting pikes. , provided you know how to respect the codes that allow this game of truth.

The film chronicles Henri Matisse's travels to Tangier as he seeks new motifs for his paintings from a Moroccan perspective. Henri Matisse made two trips to Tangier in early 1912 and in the winter of 1912-1913, seaching for new motifs for his paintings. The lush colors and sensuous imagery of North Africa proved extraordinarily fruitful. Matisse completed twenty-three paintings – many of them master works – and more than sixty pen-and-ink drawings.

In order to break his loneliness, Le Cyclope de la Mer, a lighthouse keeper on the high seas, invents a colony of driftwood puppets to which he gives movement and voice, until one day he rescues a goldfish on the lighthouse platform.

Sylvia Juszczyk, a Jewish woman in her forties who has been divorced for five years, is a dentist whose long working days are not the only source of happiness. She is in love with a young man who is unemployed because his skills are not adapted to the job market.

Archives of the lives of men who went fishing for cod off Newfoundland throughout the 20th century. Many sailors filmed on the boats. It is these raw, poignant amateur documents that constitute the heart of Terre-Neuvas. Mixing eras, color and black and white, Super 8 films, documentaries and fiction, a unique campaign of eight months at sea.

David, 50 years old, returns to Rome for an appointment made 20 years earlier. The passion that bound him to the Countess Clara Orsini had ended with a flight to the other side of the world. The woman he finds on the day of the appointment is not the one he loved, but another, his double, his own daughter who bears the same name of Clara. Intimate ties are formed between them as they wander through Rome.

In this melodramatic French Canadian comedy-drama, a sexy male escort sashays into the living room and life of a gay man and proves to be the catalyst for turmoil. Until Steve showed up to strip as a birthday present, the life of lovers Jean-Marc and Phillipe had settled into a comfortable but passionless rut. Jean-Marc is alone at the time and has sex with Steve. Later that night, Steve tries to change a light bulb and falls, causing his friends to jump to the conclusion that he tried to kill himself. Soon Phillipe too gets involved with Steve. Finding Steve a tonic to his doldrums, Phillipe begins pursuing a real relationship with him. Steve then proves to be a troubled character who is involved secretly with another man who has been diagnosed with HIV. The problem stems from the fact that the mystery lover is none other than Phillipe's dearest friend. Matters are complicated by Nathalie -- who secretly loves Phillipe -- and by his recently divorced mother.

Brigitte decides to shoot her first film during the weekend. She begins by covering her flat with 20 kilos of flour, buying a miniature helicopter, a dinosaur and a model Eiffel Tower...