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April 1988. While civil war rages in New Caledonia, Michel Rocard, then Prime Minister, invents an unprecedented solution to restore peace: a mission of dialogue composed of seven completely different men, the mediators of the Pacific

Animation about drinking with Toulouse-Lautrec.

In 1971, Christo and Jeanne-Claude thought of wrapping the Reichstag. After endless meetings with Government officials, they were finally given permission to wrap the Reichstag in 1994. For 7 days, in June 1995, a steel framework was constructed, then a metalized material was bound with 17, 060 yards of blue rope. The Reichstag, wrapped in this shiny material, seemed to move in the wind. Five million people visited this extraordinary project.

A César nominated short drama about a mother, her daughter and her fiancé who live in a remote woodland cottage and of the days before their wedding.

A documentary about Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge —AKA the red bridge, notorious for its suicides— in which a couple of families who lived underneath the bridge were followed and interviewed throughout a period of time, telling about their macabre experiences.

A film about sound and hearing. Some of the world's most daring composers and musicologists probe the nature of sound and hearing in this unique documentary. The sounds of a rabbit sleeping, the rhythms of a tugboat on water, and the music inspired by industrial machines are among the sounds explored. Includes insights from John Cage, Luciano Berio and Knud Victor.

Stefano Di Giovanni, nicknamed Sassetta from the 18th century onward, painted this polyptych in Siena between 1437 and 1444 before delivering it, in accordance with his contract, to the Franciscan convent of San Sepolcro near Arezzo. The altarpiece was dismantled starting in 1578, and its various fragments were sold and dispersed. Twenty-six fragments are now scattered across ten museums in London, Berlin, Moscow, and New York… The Louvre Museum holds three of the five panels that made up the main face, as well as two small panels from the predella. Each of these fragments contains numerous clues that make it possible to reconstruct the history of the polyptych and sometimes even to determine their original placement within the whole. Graphic tools and video techniques allow the puzzle to be reassembled and different hypotheses of reconstruction to be presented—hypotheses on which specialists themselves remain divided.

Together, the three Bertrand brothers work their farm in a small Savoyard village. In 1972, they took the enormous risk to invest in the construction of an ultra modern stable for 82 milk cows. With modern organisation, they hoped to lead a better life. Almost 30 years later, the farm is successful. Their work is meticulous and the milk is graded top quality. The human cost is much more sombre. Indeed these thirty years can be summarised in one word : work. The brothers are bachelors and – each one now over sixty years old – a bitterness when they recall their past. The younger brother says it himself: "It's an economic success, but it's a human failure...".

In this film from late in his career, Kramer returns to Hanoi after nearly 25 years to re-envision the city’s struggle through an uncertain and daunting past, present, and future. The Vietnamese characters in the film are diverse: Kramer’s former guide from an earlier visit in 1969; a tight-rope walker in the national circus; a man who took photos of B-52s and another who lost his fingers shooting them down.

Fanta Nacro’s debut film is a provocative look at cinematic illusions versus deadly realities. Riga is a farmer who lives peacefully with his wife and children on the Mossi plateau. When he hears a woman calling for help one day, his entire world is called into question. The first fiction film directed by a Burkinabé woman, A Certain Morning was presented at the 1992 Carthage Film Festival.

Forms are born and die.

Is there life after the constricting marriage contract?

"La Pierre bleue" is a personal journey through André du Bouchet's poetic work. Driven by the poet's admirable interpretation, the film gradually uncovers the words, paintings, stones, and paths that mark this uncompromising poetic universe. Some of the author's reflections on writing itself aid us in this discovery.

A filmed personal journal in which a woman reviews her Korean ancestry, her troubled adoption, and her arrival in France.

A film like water infiltrating, escaping through a body's interstices. Glimpses, tuneglance hearing, just leaving what the film-maker calls "a feeling of narration" closer to an enigma than to a story.

After having written "Pendant les affaires, les affaires continuent", Denis Robert, journalist at "Liberation" for twelve years, does it again, but this time with a film made with Philippe Harel which is an extension of his book. Subject: business and the people who deal with it, bosses, big and small, judges, lawyers, politicians and fake billers.

The population of Moscow doubled between 1917 and 1930, reaching almost 4 million people. The problem of public transport became particularly acute. The decision to begin construction of the Moscow Metro was made in June 1931 at a plenary session of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). The first shaft was laid on a test site on Rusakovskaya Street in 1931. The deadlines for the launch of the first phase were fantastic and unrealistic. The only means available was propaganda. The heroism of the workers was romanticized and praised in all the media. Twenty-one percent of the city's annual budget was spent on the construction of the metro. On May 15, 1935, the first train with passengers departed from Sokolniki station. The Moscow Metro began its work.

Experimental short by Olivier Fouchard.

In this nihilistic French drama Fredo follows Frag, a man with nothing to do as he wanders the nameless streets of nowhere in search of nothing. Along the way he encounters a drug dealer, an addict, an ever-changing beauty, and his own dark memories.

As we know well by now, no one knows better how to frighten Miss Clavel than Madeline. But this time, in the process of clowning around, she almost dies except for the intersession of a very charming dog. This dog, named Miss Genevieve, becomes the hero of the day, taking up residence at the school much to the school trustees' chagrin. Of course, by then, the girls are totally attached to her and there's much sadness when she's forced to leave. But not for long, for soon Miss Genevieve returns with puppies enough to go around.

A still life featuring a large fish, painted in the Dutch manner, The Ray immerses us in the quiet life of familiar objects that the artist took pleasure in depicting. The careful search for the exact placement of each kitchen utensil and each piece of fruit was a long and meticulous process through which Chardin gave his work symbolic or historical meaning.

With breathless pace, Hélène Chatelain ("the woman" in "La Jetée") reconstructs the life of Nestor Makhno from his writings, Soviet propaganda films, reactions of workers today and the memory he has left in the hearts & minds of his people in Gouliaïpolié, in the east of the Ukraine.

In 1630, Rubens who is settled in Anvers marries in a second marriage Hélène Fourment. In the huge studio he has had built, he paints several portraits of Hélène, in the garden, in furs, in a carriage, which are minutely analysed in this film. For he does not content himself with making a simple portrait but tries to portray she whom her admirers had compared to Homer's Helen and to transcribe in allegoried form, all the attributes of the femininity.

Four letters, the same in English in a different order, summon to the screen a universe, for once less singular, marked both by disappearance and sharing. Produced as part of SI FILM DA.

A visual trajectory denoting the abstraction of sexual experiences which leads the viewer/voyeur to question her construction/appropriation of eroticism.

Jacqueline falls under the spell of Philippe, who has come to her home to sell her a vacuum cleaner. She welcomes him into her home and gives him a boost. An early-retired prostitute, she owns a small sex shop which, until now, had been poorly run by her ex-husband Jean. To keep Philippe close to her, she entrusts him with its management.

Patrice Chéreau has chosen fragments of two plays by Shakespeare, Richard III and Henri VI, to offer them to student actors in a class at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris. The purpose is a show, presented at the Manufacture des Œillets. Without comment nor interview, Stéphane Metge follows this work, from the first readings to the "general".

October, 1995. The most important political event in recent Canadian history, the Quebec vote on sovereignty, is about to unfold. During the tense days leading up to the referendum for independence, 23 filmmakers from the NFB's English and French documentary studios take their cameras into the streets and homes of Quebeckers. Culled from 250 hours of footage, Referendum is an emotional portrait of a profoundly divided society. In a collage of powerful moments, the video recaptures the emotions of that time and measures them against today's political agenda. Implicit is the question: What next?

Two women opposite each other hesitate between confessing or concealing their feelings.

In This Nervous Thing, Santos questions the ways we perceive and receive information through the media. Santos writes, "Lost in our creations, we must use artificial means, such as newspapers and other media to simulate knowledge of what is around us. In doing so, we create heroes, cities, characters, icons and monuments. The result is "this nervous thing, this image that doesn't stop, this quick dialogue, this dynamic and superficial reading of the essence of the human being." A driving soundtrack propels the viewer through a frenetic trans-cultural landscape.

Portrait of the emblematic Brazilian filmmaker of the Cinema Novo movement: Nelson Pereira dos Santos.

A documentary film that puts us in direct contact with the thoughts and views of HIV-positive people, their social, human and political experiences, their personal feelings and their vision of the world. It gives us the interviews of HIV positive people who wanted to express through the camera's eyes what they live every day. Topics of conversation around life, death, the other, politics, society... So many common themes, even anodyne, which take on a whole new dimension in the face of the emergency.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho as Donna Summer in Bad Girls

A steelworker leaves Lorraine with his family for Finland, his wife's country. On the way, they meet two zonards, one of whom falls in love with the proletarian's daughter. The other, his brother protector, a sort of philosophic brute, does not accept to abandon him.

Aslam, a Kashmiri migrant, finds himself in the countryside of the South of France. He has been ditched there by illegal migration crossers. He is saved by an old lady who hides him in her house. though they do not speak the same language, a friendship develops between the two. But the French police are searching for Aslam.

Cédric is a child like millions of others. The only difference is that the little boy is seriously ill and must spend six months in a hospital. Fortunately, the medical staff are well aware that Cédric, like other kids named Steve or Dolores, must - above all else - live his child's life.

‘Woman is Fickle’ is based on the famous aria from the opera Rigoletto by Verdi. No woman is safe from the dissolute Duke of Mantua, who dreams of naked, languid beauties. But he also complains about their capriciousness. The women in the film refer to famous paintings: by Matisse, Botticelli, Degas. The film is a trip through male fantasies, seen through the eyes of a woman.

A Congolese king arrives in Brussels in search of his long-lost daughter.

At the end of his career, Ingres brought together 25 nude women in a painting he prepared with great care. The study of the painter’s extensive archives in Montauban, along with laboratory analysis, now makes it possible to reconstruct the history of a work that inspired as much fascination—among artists such as Picasso and Man Ray—as it did repulsion in Paul Claudel, who saw in The Turkish Bath “a pancake of maggots.”

"Je danse devant toi..." or the ceremony of farewell. Leaving the other person is also a little like saying goodbye to oneself. Isabelle Martin sends this letter in the form of a visual poem to a lost soul mate and dances on "until [her] socks wear out".

Mémoire(s), Gérard Cairaschi's new video, continues the work started in 1996 with the video installation ‘Quinaé’. Here again we find a predilection for images where nature and characters are as many references to the History of art (painting in particular) and to our common and individual story (myths, religions, literature, cinema...). An interlacing of images and a luminous vibration that both invade us and make a whole world in creation emerge - or reappear - from our retina and memory.

The film uses reproduction, repetition, and interframe windows to work with the essential elements of film. The film is made from contact prints between 8mm, Super 8, and 16mm on Super 8 in a darkroom, using Man Ray's revolutionary technique, the photogram. This technique is the result of close contact between several formats. The images become the object instead of being mere material. Then the film is blown up to 16mm with an optical printer. The image/non-image elements of the film present an illusion (pornography) that the filmmakers have created on the film stock (the screen). This illusion allows the viewer to discover the source of the film: the film itself as material, the mechanical movement projected through light.

Scarlatti in Seville, a work that is part of the Opus series produced by Mildred Clary for the French National Audiovisual Institute where a series of performers talk about the musicians they play and the reason for their choice, jumps, insinuating much through the parallel montage, from the representation of the dark palace to a palm tree caressed by the wind in the Alcazar of Seville. And from there little more will be said about Scarlatti, whose signature we do not even know, but we will hear his music, mostly played by the German pianist Christian Zacharias, who will also talk about his obsession with the Italian composer's work.