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Shot on a small island above the artic circle, this one minute film uncovers an unreal landscape. Each presentation of the film is a new tale. El sueno de una cosa (the dream of a thing) is a game that produces new stories each time it is played; these are the stories of a film in a permanent pre-production stage.
Investigating judge at the 3rd Criminal Chamber of Marseille, Françoise Larchey is the wife of Jean-Pierre Larchey, a famous architect of the Coast. The couple has a son, Valentin, seventeen years old... The death of Edith Mesniel, a local political figure, puts the town in turmoil. But when Emilie, Edith's only daughter and Valentin's girlfriend, confides to Françoise that her mother's death was not accidental, Madame le Juge decides to look into the case. By attacking this case, Françoise disturbs many people. She receives death threats, her son and Emilie are also threatened but she refuses to give up. And she discovers little by little that the mafia infiltrated in all the country.
1. Lost Highway 2. You Give Love A Bad Name 3. Raise Your Hands 4. Runaway 5. The Radio Saved My Life 6. Story Of My Life 7. In These Arms 8. I'd Die For You 9. (You Want To) Make A Memory 10. Whole Lotta Leavin' 11. Born To Be My Baby 12. Any Other Day 13. We Got It Going On 14. It's My Life 15. Bad Medicine 16. Shout 17. These Days 18. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night 19. Keep The Faith 20. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead 21. Jumpin' Jack Flash 22. Dancing In The Streets 23. Who Says You Can't Go Home 24. Livin' On A Prayer 25. Have A Nice Day 26. Wanted Dead Or Alive 27. I Love This Town 28. Captain Crash & The Beauty Queens From Mars
With the help of state of the art special effects, this National Geographic documentary attempts to recreate what civilization looked like during the first 8,000 years that human beings lived on Earth.
A 90 min documentary by director Paul Moreira. In certain countries of Southeast Asia, where the state is failing, citizens mobilize to replace public forcein order to combat crime. In Cambodia, an association made up of Westerners and Khmers, fights pedophilia differently. It mobilizes around fifty investigators who act as police inspectors.
This documentary consists of testimonies from Tsui Hark, Koan Hui (co-writer and assistant director) and Hung Yan Yan (actor and choreographer). All three of them look back on their memories of filming and give us a large number of anecdotes.
During the summer of 1968, students from all over Mexico gathered in the capital to demand democracy. The Olympic Games were about to be held and the government, chaired by Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, offered a brutal response in the form of repression, causing hundreds of deaths.
Untouchable, inaccessible, ungraspable... Maria Felix is one of the great myths of Latin American cinema. Fatal passions, multiple marriages, sudden deaths and fabulous diamonds, these are the components of the legendary life of this artist. Through the excerpts of her films and the archive material we can understand her characters and how this life of splendor also led her to the high solitude of her mansions, temples of her cultures.
Marion, a 50 year old woman, suddenly ups and leaves the man with whom she has been living for the past 20 years; she has found herself, midlife, in love with her friend Claude, another woman.
Koolhaas Houselife portrays one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture. The film lets the viewer enter into the house's daily intimacy through the stories and daily chores of Guadalupe Acedo, the housekeeper, and the other people who look after the building. Pungent, funny and touching.
In Russia, the Tartars invade Siberia, devastating villages and sowing terror among the populations. The Tsar sent Michael Strogoff 5,000 kilometers from Moscow to warn the Grand Duke of the imminent danger in Irkutsk.
During a visit to the Braille Museum in Coupvray, Aurore Blin, a 21-year-old blind woman, is given a signet ring that belonged to her father, who died twelve years earlier in a strange accident. Despite her blindness, the young woman, intrigued, decides to continue the research her father was conducting at the time of his death. She then sets out to discover the story of her ancestor, Henri Blin. In 1825, Louis Braille entrusted Henri Blin, a teacher at the National Institute for Young Blind People, with the task of protecting the original matrix of his writing system, which was coveted for military purposes by the French and English secret services...
Stories are Propaganda was created by Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija for the Guangzhou Biennial in China. The artists documented the new city under construction on the Pearl River Delta near Guangzhou. A succession of fixed shots show black factory smoke, piles of trash, words written in the sand, and trees swaying in the wind. Flowing rapidly from general observations of the era to autobiographical details to self-reflection, poetic fragments unroll like snapshots: a Chinese magician making watches and clocks appear at night; a small albino rabbit floundering in a muddy puddle; a snowman made of mud; a shadow puppet silhouetted against the moon. Narrated by a child off-screen, the film creates a feeling of melancholy through its evocation of the end of the world’s ideologies. It is an inverted cinema made of scenes edited according to a temporal protocol.
This is a very long and incredibly informative featurette that goes deep behind the scenes of Pascal Laugier's film. The French director explains how key scenes from the film were shot, what type of obstacles the tech team had to deal with. Furthermore, there is an abundance of raw footage that shows the two actors in action.
A rebellious teenager and a "border-line" young nurse will learn to tame each other and get a fresh start in life...
Samir, a young man turned lawyer, returns to his family to attend the coming-of-age feast of his little brother. He finds his mother and father confronted with administrative problems and ordinary racism. His other brother, a deadbeat in his parent's eyes, is Malek. Malek still hangs out with his friends in their hometown where nothing has really changed. What comes along is tenderness, love, tension, a deep history, and the pain of growing up to see your family in a different light.
Roach and Starbuck, two hardcore punks from Montreal, try to form their own political party, but run out of time due to Canada's electoral process. Instead, they decide to campaign for political office as independent candidates in a rich Montreal district called Outremont.
Frédéric Lemoyne must be very happy in his life: he is a famous biologist and the son of a hero of French resistance: his father, Marcel Lemoyne, doctor, took care for wounded members of the Resistance and helped them to find hiding places.Every year Jeanne Lemoyne , the elder sister of Frédéric celebrates his heroism in a square of Lyon. But suddenly François discovers a strange bank account in Switzerland.
An homage to the director’s closest friend, Gérard Goffre, long time HIV positive, who killed himself on a winter morning in 2003.
A drug addicted, middle-aged detective, beaten down by life and bureaucracy, investigates a series of murders of prostitutes in the slums of Mashhad.
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
A young woman archaeologist searches for the wreck of a sunken boat during the 2nd World War to save the honor of her grandfather, a former sailor, accused of having hijacked the cargo of art objects he was loaded convoy to Algeria and embarked on a treasure hunt.
The chaotic sentimental education of girls and boys of the climatic home "Les Poussifs".
The iconic Belgian duo back on stage for various sketches!
A man finds in a flea market an old photo album. When looking at the images, he begins to invent a narrative where mix descriptions, fantasies and personal memories. Slowly, he skips into the photographer's shoes and tells his story, that of a forgotten love.
Ali, an old Moroccan immigrant, has worked and lived alone in France for decades. Now that he is going on retirement he feels scared to die far from his native land but just as frightened to return to Morocco, for having lost contact with what the country has become. He finally spends his last moments between the home for immigrant workers where he has always lived and the flat of Momo, his faithful friend.
When the Big war started, the 2nd of August 1914, Louis is one of those first mobilized. He has to leave Marie and his village in Corsica for the plains of the Marne where the fights rage. On the front, he is a stretcher-bearer and crosses the battlefield, at night, in search of the wounded. One day, while the trench is sorely lacking water, he is chosen to go to a well situated halfway between the French and German territories in what they called "no-man's-land". There, he finds himself in front of a German soldier who has also come too stock up.
Feature length documentary on the making of François Ozon's film Angel.
Lionel, seventeen years old, assaulted by his father, is going to become a daddy.
A voyage from the Ukraine to New York to Israel, portraying the wanderings, hopes and illusions of the vanishing Odessa Jewish community.
When the forests have no end. When the vampires are pretty and it's not good to run away. And then especially when it is made into a film...
Victoria had an accident. While Marc, her husband, rushes in her bedside, the memory of a discussion rcomes back to him. What is the dream of Victoria? This question which haunts henceforth his unconscious will it find an answer near his wife. But without mystery, can their love again remain?
Nine comedians meet at the Acteurs Anonymes, a rehab center for acting, lost in the heart of Aveyron.
An older gay man goes through his solitary day before returning to his house-bound lover.
In 1915, in the atmosphere of a French village during the First World War, we follow a teen boy who discovers the reality of war and leaves for the front in order to restore the sullied honor of his father who was executed for desertion.
Paris, La Chapelle neighborhood in the 18th arrondissement. Eleven-year-old Pablo coldly puts up with his mother’s messy life. Abandoned for the umpteenth time, he decides to set out to find his Spanish father. He hires Louis, a poker player who has met with hard times and to whom he has become mysteriously attached. But his father turns out to be just an illusion…
"She" drives a cab, see it is the car that leads her, at the thread of chance, because "she" is on the razor's edge. "She" is not desperate but desperate, however life takes care of finding a meaning for her. The other waits, but masters, her desires, her destiny, her night.
One summer night, a village square, a ball somewhere in Mediterranean ... A young man comes to spend the last moments of his life without him knowing.
Because they could no longer stand the xenophobic comments and behavior of their neighbors, Véronique and Sylvain Marchand, parents of a little girl and members of the Stop Racism organization, went into exile in a quiet suburban town, where they bought a house, the villa "Mon rêve". Soon after, the Dialo family, friendly Africans, moved into the adjoining house. At first, the two families get along perfectly. The only problem was that the Dialos organized many parties, which often ended late at night. The patience and understanding of the Marchands only delay the inevitable conflict.
Koundou, a native hunter, protects his food in the presence of a hungry animal.
Two workers are chased by a lion on the rooftops of a large American city.
July 1, 2004, Hollywood lost one of its biggest stars - Marlon Brando. He succumbs to pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 80. Even during his lifetime, the versatile actor was a legend. Surrounded by a unique aura and blessed with great talent, he advanced to become a celebrated star. But his private life resembles a Greek tragedy.
For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles containing odd objects. Policeman Adamsberg gets involved when a dead woman is found in one of the circles.
It is the evocation of a life as brief as it is dense. An encounter with a dazzling thought, that of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist of West Indian origin, who will reflect on the alienation of black people. It is the evocation of a man of reflection who refuses to close his eyes, of the man of action who devoted himself body and soul to the liberation struggle of the Algerian people and who will become, through his political commitment, his fight, and his writings, one of the figures of the anti-colonialist struggle. Before being killed at the age of 36 by leukemia, on December 6, 1961. His body was buried by Chadli Bendjedid, who later became Algerian president, in Algeria, at the Chouhadas cemetery (cemetery of war martyrs ). With him, three of his works are buried: “Black Skin, White Masks”, “L’An V De La Révolution Algérien” and “The Wretched of the Earth”.