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A short documentary about the french artist Jean-Louis Costes.

Among the Senufo people of northern Côte d'Ivoire, the balafon (xylophone with calabash resonators) is an emblematic musical instrument. This film shows balafon orchestras playing in five villages during the two principal days of funeral festivities, celebrations that include the most important rites, ceremonies and rejoicings in the life of the Senufo. During dialogues with Sikaman, a young musician who acted as research assistant for this film series, the master balafonist Nahoua gives the key to understanding how this marvelous music comes into being, and what it means.

François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck.

Second chapter of a trilogy of short films about the emotions arising from the five stages of grief. Here, "Bargaining."

A short history of erotic one-reels.

The peaceful lives of Antoine and the dowser Noé are disrupted by the irruption of a woman they find crying on the side of the road.

December 1999, France is experiencing one of the biggest storms in its history. Like many others, Julia and her husband Christopher will pay the price. The couple left New York to spend the Christmas holidays with friends in France. On their way, a fallen tree trunk on the road causes an accident. Christopher is hurt. Julia, in evening dress, must find help. But the place is deserted. After several hours of walking, she will finally cross the road of Thomas, a lonely farmer. While everything is against them, they will have to team up to rescue Christopher ...

a short film by Giovanni Quéné.

Martinique, late nineteenth century. Abandoning the plantation where they work, Hermansia and Tiquitaque, a couple of musicians, settle in Saint-Pierre, but quickly become disillusioned as their career takes off in a small town which is only interested in Western music. Thus begins a long drift during which the couple learns new sounds and new music from elsewhere.

Antonio is a seventy-year-old gentleman, a former strict and impeccable judge. Having refused to accept his daughter's hospitality, he found himself in a strange place where, after completing an intensive course on the latest technologies of modern society, he will have to be adopted by families who request it.

A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.

In a survey of Agnès Varda's work in short films, the director has a conversation with Anne Huet and Alain Berlaga.

Will curiosity shorten the cat's life expectancy?

Paris. Belleville quarter. Mama Aloko has to put up with her broken fridge, the cause of all her woes. She will come up with the one thousand francs to buy a new fridge to prevent the Health Dept from shutting down her restaurant.

The Quran is the Holy Book of Islam, a religion shared by more than a billion followers worldwide. For the Muslim tradition, since its revelation to the Prophet Muhammad between the year 610 and 632 of the Christian era in Mecca and Medina, the Koran is immutable, and has remained maintained. However, recent discoveries of Koranic manuscripts analyzed by scientists, dated around the year 680 - the oldest known in the world - revealed that the Koran has a history. During the first century of Islam, and before the canonical version of the Caliph Uthman imposed itself, the holy book of Islam would have known competing versions, a different organization of the suras, variable readings due to a writing, in its beginnings, very rudimentary… It is to this meeting of knowledge, at the crossroads between the Muslim tradition and scientific research, that this journey to the origins of the Koran invites.

Of all the French chefs celebrated around the world, Bernard Pacaud is undoubtedly one of the most secretive. He spends his days cooking and his art is a tribute to exceptional products and the work of a few artisans. For the first time, Bernard Pacaud opens the doors of "L'Ambroisie" and reveals some of his secrets.

Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal outlook on life and Mac Enzie, the boss of Antoine's agency who is completley in love with Yvonne despite the big age difference.

The Little Painter of Rajasthan Aniket is a middle class executive living in the Indian city of Pune with his wife Malati and his son. He leaves Pune every morning at dawn and undertakes a long train journey to work in Mumbai. After riots took place, he takes his son Anirudh to his grand-mother's place in a little town of Shekhawati, in the middle of the desert, and somehow haunted by the magical and superb traditional paintings decorating the walls of houses and palaces. The old woman happily welcomes her grand-son she hardly knows. Anirudh discovers another world, a fascinating world far from what he was used to. He feels very affectionate for his grandmother. She gives him the painting box of her deceased husband, the artist who made the most beautiful paintings in town.

This documentary explores the work of Robert Doisneau, and the subjects his photographs have addressed, from the workers of the Renault factories in Billancourt to Parisian lovers, from the crowds of the Liberation to the children of Gentilly, from the unknown to the famous. The voice of the photographer, speaking of his choices and memories, and a montage of sound archives seem to comment on the photographs, which several film archives put into context. A sober and fascinating presentation of the work of a great artist.

Faisal Ilyas, a new immigrant from Pakistan, just settled in Québec where he works as a cook in a Montreal pizza parlour. In this new world for him, he still gets out of the city and explore the rural areas.

Myriam Monette, a not very conformist and slightly whimsical Miss Weatherwoman, is now forty years old, has a new boyfriend and a new mandate at Channel Météo (also called Channel M). On the surface, nothing has changed. In reality, nothing is the same anymore. Like a green lawn on a summer day suddenly covered in snow, Myriam went to bed a confirmed single “adulteen” and woke up in love, living with someone else and undergoing major changes.

Eight-year-old Judith was plucked from everyday life to act in a film that was made in Paris. After returning home from the experience, she finds that her parents' marriage is on the rocks. She makes her way back to Paris with her friend Nora, and the two of them do what they can to survive.

The only link between the images in the film is my desire to put them together. A collection of images and emotions.

One evening, Etienne, a police officer from the BAC, and Christian, his teammate, witness the assault of a young girl. But the killer manages to escape, seriously injuring Christian. Shortly after, Etienne discovers, on the one hand, that Angèle, the woman who left him seven months earlier, is about to give birth and that his new boss, Alex Le Guen, is none other than the man he spent the night with after a drunken evening.

When Yuki finds out that her parents are separating and she is moving to Japan with her mother, she and her best friend Nina devise ways to reunite the feuding adults.

When we’re moving, walking, watching, driving, how do we breathe? European Summer road diary. Back-and-forth with friends, music, Super8, video, poems. It’s an inner travelling hard to finish and give, because that kind of ‘catches’ doesn’t stop itself. As life is unrecordable, I play and replay reflections at many fps (frames per second - or second frames).

A young peasant, Boubacar, owner of a corn field, wants to break free of his wretched existence and has an idea for a new job. He sells his field and uses the money to buy a broken-down old Peugeot 504 from an European couple. Boubacar wants to try his hand at being a bush taxi driver. But very soon, he sees that his dream cannot become reality : the engine of the old jalopy dies on him. Boubacar is ruined. His wife is forced into prostitution in the corn fields to meet the family's needs. But Boubacar is a resourceful, philosophical man. He strips the car down and uses the engine of the 504 as a barbecue to sell grilled corn in the streets. His hopes of being rich are renewed.

Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.

Salomé et Cyril are studying in an engineering college. They invent a machine "The Hemisphere", capable of removing all inhibitions.Unable to find someone to test the machine, Salomé agrees to test herself the machine.She is projeced in a corridor with doors opening on erotic scenes in which she evolves without any inhibition....

A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Participants interviewed include Algerian nationalists Yacef Saadi, Zohra Drif, Djamila Bouhired and Abderrahmane Benhamida, Khmer Rouge members Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, once far-left activists Hans-Joachim Klein and Magdalena Kopp, terrorist Carlos the Jackal, lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, neo-Nazi Ahmed Huber, Palestinian politician Bassam Abu Sharif, Lebanese politician Karim Pakradouni, political cartoonist Siné, former spy Claude Moniquet, novelist and ghostwriter Lionel Duroy, and investigative journalist Oliver Schröm.

Kamel and his brother Bouzid live in Bab el Oued, a working-class neighborhood in Algiers. Kamel is a loner, disillusioned and taciturn. Bouzid, more jovial, is an Internet enthusiast. He spends his time in a cybercafé chatting with girls from all over the world. Without really believing it, he invites them to Algiers. But one day, Laurence, one of his French correspondents, tells him that she accepts his invitation.

Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...

Interview with artistic adviser and writer Jean-Dominique de La Rochefoucauld and script supervisor Michelle Podroznik, who discuss the making of Roberto Rossellini's film "The Taking of Power by Louis XIV."

Ironic reflection on our robotic future.

Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by his severe judgment of the world and a desire to be part of it. One day, their paths meet. Nail sees this meeting as an opportunity to create a new friendship. On his side, Hammer sees it as a new reason for living : to crucify the perfect image of the happy western man and his incarnation in the person of Georges Nail. A nail is the perfect victim for a hammer.

The unexpected acquaintance with a young prostitute helps the venerable writer to overcome writer's block. Quite shocking story of her life inspires him for a new book.

Guido Magnone's incredible adventure begins strangely on the banks of the Ourcq canal among a group of kids who dream of swimming. Guido, the solitary son of "rital", dives to get noticed, succeeds, takes a liking to it, breaks his first record, collects medals. At the same time, he draws, attends the Beaux-Arts, is accepted with open arms and befriends the sculptors César and Féraud. At the end of the war, during a health stay in Chamonix, it is love at first sight for the mountains, climbing. Guido's ascent is now dizzying. He stormed the west face of the Drus, then the Fitzroy and the Tour de Mustagh, summits reputed to be impossible. He rubs shoulders with the greatest, Lionel Terray, Maurice Herzog, and participates in the Makalu expedition, camera in hand, or those of Jannu and Chacraraju. Later, in his fifties, Guido hangs up the carabiners and participates in the foundation of the UCPA

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin, originally aired sometime around 2006.

In the capital of Burkina Faso, a band of young people tries to survive and thrive vis-a-vis the thousand and one temptations. Adventures of a band of youngsters, living in a stripped district of Ouagadougou, who seek hopes. The easy way and ingeniousness compensate for the money which often is lacking. Sadness is banished of a resolutely optimistic way of life. Plunders and odd jobs constitute the daily newspaper of this struggle for life. The ones will succeed modestly, the others will fail more or less but a great solidarity of group remains.

Archival interview with the co-writer of Max Ophuls' 1953 film THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...

Disneyland reviewed by a true poet of cinema, Arnaud Pallières. A disturbing journey into the simulacrum.

Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.

A man and a woman adopt a child in pieces. But the choice of pieces is not easy and the long-awaited child will not be as perfect as it should have been. Experimental animated short by Philippe Grammaticopoulos

Director Peter Brook discusses his move from theater to film, his approach to adapting LORD OF THE FLIES, and the film's complicated production history.

My Jules Verne, by director Patricio Guzman, presents modern-day explorers who retrace the paths of some of Jules Verne's intrepid characters. Accompany Hubert Reeves, Laurence de La Ferrière, Hubert Falco and others to the Antarctic, to the centre of the earth, under the seas and into outer space.

A group of friends meet for a birthday meal. In the lively after-dinner atmosphere someone poses a riddle which changes the mood.

Who's afraid of giants and dragons when you've got love and a couple of magical mischief-makers on your side? In a magical land, the brave knight Tristan and the beautiful Princess Isolde meet and fall in love. The evil schemes of envious Baron Ganelon threaten their love, but they'll get by with a little help from their friends-the wiley, wood-sprite Puck and a feisty fairy called Teazle.

Jérôme and Cédric play basketball in the same team at school and are best friends. Jérôme also gives Cédric some private math lessons. During one of those sessions, Cédric's action will be interpreted by both young men in a different way.