In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.
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In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.
Alban Ivanov brings to life many sometimes infrequent characters. The artist also talks about his childhood, between difficult schooling and a shattered family, his fatherhood and his married life. And Alban Ivanov doesn't hesitate to say all the good things he thinks about Paris .
Organized crime of the 1970s-80s has been replaced by a new wave of urban gangsters—heavily armed, highly organized, and resourceful. Inspired by Hollywood, they carry out bold heists, smuggle drugs with high-speed cars, and secure their profits for their families and retirement.
A short film that follows a short period of time in the life of Maria, an English prostitute who lives and works in Paris. It is to her that Gabrielle delivers a message... breaking the monotony of Maria's daily life. Queer desire for history began with queer reinterpretation of texts; this film gives a Queer slant to the Annunciation and offers a different kind of message.
A kaleidoscopic portrait of the English actress and singer Jane Birkin, heroine of pop culture.
Léa is twenty years old, and works at the fish market in the supermarket on the corner. Tonight, Léa would like to go out for beers, smoke joints, and let off steam with good music. But that's not going to happen. Tonight, Léa is going to live for the first time.
Race summaries, analysis and interviews with F1 drivers... Get to the heart of the F1 paddock thanks to Canal+ !
The diary of Takuya Ogushi, a 18 years old Japanese, who begins his new life as a sumo wrestler.
Nina and her three files progressively lose or lose. Between the antics of her mother and her companions, there's no shortage of reasons to despair even the bravest.
In 1916, Ernest, an 18-year-old sapper soldier, has to dig a tunnel ten meters underground to place dynamite in a strategic position. But the Germans are digging too, and they are so close that you can hear their voices...
Vincent is a 17-year old ecologist who drives his family crazy with his attempts to reduce their carbon footprint. Vincent‘s giddy French aunt Nikki takes him on a trip to France, convinced that the boy‘s obsession is related to his suffocating mother. But on their road-trip, Vincent proves to be much more than Nikki can handle.
August in the French Alps. Young Elisa has just lost her grandfather. On a whim, she steals his ashes and flees into the mountain with his childhood friend, Malek. He alone remembers the path that leads to little Constantine, where Elisa must bring her grandfather.
«A heroine's quest» portrays the Muslim woman Naima Serroukh as she sets up her pilot project Tasamouh to combat religious extremism. Naima's story is told as she goes about her work as manager of the project and gives us an insight into the world of prevention work. Besides her search for financing and partners, her personal conflicts, she gives advice to distraught mothers, coaches young people and tries to provide them with support in their integration process. «A heroine's quest» paints the portrait of a strong woman, who has come to accept that progress can only be made in tiny baby steps, but at the end of the day, it's all about making life together a bit better. A portrait of an everyday heroine. An impression of the Muslim community in the fight against prejudice.
'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. He was born in 1929 Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
Nénette, an orangutan, is the star of the Parisian zoo where she has lived most of her long life. She is a mother of four and has survived three mates, and she bonds only with a few select keepers. The camera rests throughout on Nénette and the other apes in everyday situations. We only see the visitors as occasional reflections in the glass, but we hear their recorded comments and conversations alongside interviews with the zoo keepers.
Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
Katie has invited friends to help with basement renovations, but her boyfriend Benjamin seems strangely determined to stop the work at all costs.
Stylised, largely French-spoken homage to Luchino Visconti about a 19th century young noblewoman who is surrounded by people from the moment she awakes. Resigned, she undergoes the morning ritual, in which three servants clothe her and do her hair. During the day, she grows increasingly paranoid. The people she sees remain unnoticed by the others. Or is she really watched?
After the French defeat of summer 1940, Addi Ba, a young Senegalese rifleman escapes and hides in the Vosges. Aided by some villagers, he gets false documents that allow him to live openly.
At Léon Blum High School in Créteil, France, a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class participate in a national history competition.
In five parts, this documentary tells the story of the colonisation of the French Overseas Territories. Slave descendants, coloniser descendants, historians, admirals, rebellious writers and politicians recount a lasting past that keeps on igniting the economic and social relations of these territories even to this day.
On the occasion of the passing of Marcel Hanoun, Gérard Courant wanted to pay tribute to this companion whom he had known since 1975 by accompanying him with the song Avec le temps by Léo Ferré.
In spite of their total inexperience, three suburban lascars launch themselves into close protection. Thanks to a "mythical plan", they are assigned to protect Marie Van Verten: a capricious and whimsical young woman, heiress of the biggest fortune in Belgium... And incidentally, a target for over-trained killers! Will our heroes' sense of improvisation be enough to get them out of trouble?
Marge asks her nephew Christian for help to protect herself against her sinister husband Walter. Christian will soon discover dark secrets and that Walter is not who he's intended to be.
Three young cinephiles follow Jean Douchet, question his friends and former students. This documentary reveals the man and his critical philosophy, a part of the history of Cahiers du Cinema and this art of loving to which he has devoted his existence.
The journey proceeds on desertic lands. Starting with the laborers quarrying red dirt at open-air mines, it follows the iron ore all the way to the ocean, aboard the world's longest train. At the end, the wrecks scattered on the beach announce the voyage's end. Meanwhile, bound for prosperous countries, the cargo of valuable ore is heaped into the holds of ships at the dock. This film uses the pinhole camera device, one of the earliest ways of capturing reality. The technique yields an unusual perception of the desert's geology, light, machines, and men.
Paris, 1978. In a male-dominated music industry, Ana uses new electronic machines to make herself heard, thus creating a new sound that is destined to mark the decades to come: the music of the future.
Benoît, leads a happy and uneventful life. One day, his private detective father mysteriously disappears. Benoît is going to discover he has the shadow of a father he thought he knew.
In a primary school classroom, teacher Liliane anxiously awaits an important phone call. Her student Mathieu is even more of a disturbance than usual, but after Liliane receives a distressing call from the hospital, Mathieu rallies the students to turn a difficult day for Liliane into a magical one.
A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
Chornobyl, 1986, a few hours before the disaster. Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.
During a class discussion, Sarah, an 11-year-old French girl of Maghrebian heritage, tells the class she's going to Algeria for the school holidays to see her father. Overwhelmed by her lie, she doesn’t attend the last day of school.
Enticed by wealth and frightened by evil, Jewish French attorney "Nathan Ganzer's" life changes when he is unexpectedly detained by the French Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) and forced to endure an intense interrogation conducted by "Commissioner David". The agents accuse him of aiding suspected Arab terrorists and skillfully manipulate Ganzer into believing he will be implicated in the next attack on the French soil. Bluffing his way free of the devastating indictments, Ganzer finally discovers his ability to take control of his life and exact revenge on those trying to destroy him.
Kate Aldrich, a successful career woman is devastated when her husband leaves her for stay at home mom, Laura, with whom she is forced to share custody of her beloved daughter, Izzy. But Kate's despair soon turns to terror as she begins to have intense visions that Izzy is in mortal danger -- and becomes convinced that Laura is the threat
Zinedine, not yet 16, had never thought about becoming an actor and playing the lead role in a feature. He was training at his boxing club in Aubervilliers, when Cynthia invites him to come to a casting. Helier chose him.
A woman slowly loses her mind over the last four seasons of her life and her memories escape her one by one. Her husband remembers their life together through them. The story of a couple who meet one last time.
A young woman goes with her mother for a routine medical check-up, but this appointment will provide way too much information for her to handle - Some things should remain private, right?
One summer day in the kitchen of a restaurant. 3 religions and 4 nationalities working together. The boss cannot pay his suppliers and employees, not even the gas. It's hot, the crew is tired. Economic crisis crystallized in a 15m2 kitchen.
Thomas is seduced by Julie and tells her stories in which he was involved or that he witnessed. All of them pose the question of what links and binds us to each other. But are we capable of perceiving this singular and poetic mystery?
In the mid-1980s, the GAL, a Spanish paramilitary group, pursues and assassinates members of the terrorist gang ETA who have taken refuge in the sanctuary they have created in the south of France. Grégoire Fortin, advisor to the French Minister of Justice, and Domingo 'Txomin' Iturbe, leader of ETA, are forced to negotiate in order to find a solution to the violence that plagues the region.
A silent, musical and sexy movie. A theme: the loving parade. Characters who make tours (of magic, sometimes). In each the reverse angle, the other, in each or almost their song, as a fiction (a decoration) surrounds their character.
The current trend to render prostitution a profession "as any other" is belied by women who were themselves prostitutes. With clarity and courage, the women in this film reveal the hidden face of that so-called "sex work". They are 22, 34 or 48 years old; they live in Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa - They have recently given up prostitution, or are trying to escape it. These women are leading the bitter fight to turn their lives around and it is a long and lonely struggle fraught with difficulties. Shot in a Cinéma Vérité style, The Fallacy (L'imposture) takes us to the heart of their realities.
An eighty-five year old man, isolated in his luxurious house, tells the story of his economic success and the reasons for his exile in Switzerland. The multiple disputes between him and his acquaintances, and his relations to the place he now inhabits shape his narrative, which unfolds in alternating from one day to another, from one place to the other of his residence.
Four Anglo-Canadians and a New Yorker find themselves in a two-week long total French immersion program in the fictional, remote town of St-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus, tucked away somewhere in Northern Quebec. The place is perfect for total immersion since, according to the most recent census, 99% of the population is comprised of pure laine Quebeckers for the most part unilingual French, fervently nationalist, and all, save one person, named Tremblay.
Stéphane dreams of becoming an actor. Carole dreams of a raise.