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The villagers of Salmé, in Nepal, farm a mountainside where different grains are grown at different altitudes.

The revival of Chinese classical theater after the Cultural Revolution. This report reveals the infinite richness of this dramatic art, a harmonious synthesis between literature, the arts of color, martial arts, song, dance and music. Young students explain their intense learning according to ancient tradition: physical training, knowledge of plays, diction lessons, singing and music... Extracts from plays illustrate the different genres of this art.

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.

The commentary, in their language, of my bestiary filmed by three young women: Eloisa: Brazilian; Giovanna: Italian and Nelcy: Colombian.

"Film combining short sequences shot with the camera by myself and short ones created on underexposed materials manipulated with the artist's tools or coming from reels shot by my father. It's a "suite" of visual experiments cut with an overexposed self-portrait." -CF

June Anderson stars in this production of the Verdi opera, performed with the Lyon National Opera Orchestra and Chrosu, and conducted by Maurizio Arena.

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.

Short film.

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.

A flash, the time of a lightning, of a tremor where everything happens inside the crack, the breach which widens... An allegory on the elusive nature of the light phenomenon.

A two-way mirror. Water and fire. Water extinguishes fire, and fire boils away water. There are many difficulties preventing them from understanding one another.

In association with Jean-Luc Guionnet (image/sound). Film haptique», shot in outdoors locations with electroacoustic music. Two male bodies being a unique eye, witness and anamorphique, in a sort of a sexual whirlwind.

Wanderings in landscapes of urban suburbs leading nowhere. 16mm processed by video in a strangely scintillating and electronic twilight.

Short film by Guy Selva.

Gisèle Jan-Simon, painter who lives in the world of Brocéliande talks about her work. From the magic of Celtic legends, she questions the present world.

Bram Van Velde in his workshop then in his Grimaud garden in the company of a friend and during a walk in Paris in the snow, talking about his life and painting. Showing little interest for the Real, he makes an effort toward the invisible. He pays homage to his mother who lived with her children in the greatest poverty, talks of his meeting with Samuel Beckett and says that starting a painting is a great adventure. This portrait of Bram Van Velde (born in Holland in 1895) is illustrated by his drawings and watercolours.

Bressan's first truly fictional foray, created after he defended a thesis in literature on Alexandre Dumas. (CJC)

Road traffic was intense at this location. Sometimes the roar of the engines declined in the distance, but never for very long and the passage of the new line of cars and coaches was accompanied by large air displacements, which hit the eardrums hard.

Documentary about Central African Republic before and during the reign of Jean-Bédel Bokassa. The first film to be made in the country.

CHEESE! Anglo-Saxon expression whose pronunciation invites a smile... SMILE... French word widely recommended to cheerleaders. The popular festivals and the parade of drum bands seem to no longer be able to do without the participation of the cheerleading troops. This habit, directly imported from the U.S.A, is particularly widespread in the cities of the Nord Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin. CHEESE therefore invites us to dive into this small world with well-established habits. The gaze is sometimes critical but the general tone is humorous. CHEESE was entirely filmed in Somain, in the North, on the occasion of a large gathering of cheerleaders coming from many cities of the region.

It's almost spring, a bee wakes up a little numb. But a chase begins through the forest...

Short film by Stéphane Deplus.

Short film by Pierre Barletta.

Pauline has a daydream inspired by Manet's paintings. The point of view of painting, and the question of the movement. Close-ups of Pauline, quiet, laughing or serious. Her voice in Paris, her accent, the music she listens to. The sounds of her house, and of her life being led. At a distance.

Computer animated short from the perspective of a dolphin.

A short film by Ahmed Zir.

A short film by Ahmed Zir.

Research of cinematographic adequacy with the plastic and technological work of the artist Piotr Kowalski. Document on the setting up of the "Time Machine" exhibition at the Center Georges Pompidou (1981/82).

Body Male solo of actions, shot in outdoors, with electroacoustic music. Nudity and light become substance, in the same way as sky, water and minerals.

Arles Dolorosa is a poem about the city where José Guirao was born, through a self-portrait he did by shooting what is referring to his own memories : both far and close. The heat of Arles on a hot summer, antique statues, stones damaged by the wind and faces of old women and people in the crowd of the amphitheater are contrasting with the black bull's painful death during the corrida. All these images are becoming the light, and beauty of the film, which is an ode to a place that will always stay in Guirao's soul.

On these rare images of many lettrist protests, the director evokes all the creative women of History through the symbolic figure of Joan of Arc. This film was actually completed by Maurice Lemaître. The soundtrack is in French from the trial of Joan of Arc

Short film by Frédéric Demont.