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A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent 6000 "unwanted" citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to a desolate Siberian island - with no food or clothes to speak of. Decades later this documentary returns to the island.
Jean-Christophe Lafaille is the first mountaineer to attempt the solo ascent of the steep Himalayan face of "Shishapangma". As one of the 14 highest peaks in the world, Shishapangma peak rises over 8000 meters. Jean-Christophe defies the merciless conditions of the Himalayan winter. Without oxygen and exposed to extreme cold, Jean-Christophe, aware of the objective danger, is determined to achieve this long-held dream by reaching the summit by the magnificent British South West face course of 1982, with a new course on the first 1000 meters. He will reach the summit on December 11, some, like the Pole Krzysztof Wielicki, challenge him for the first. Jean-Christophe will be very upset and some of his relatives will be worried to see him then lock himself into an increasingly obstinate quest, some of whom were already guessing the outcome.
Angelin Preljocaj, Christian Bourrigault, Dimitri Chamblas, Mark Tompkins, François Verret, Alain Buffard, Kader Belarbi, Josef Nadj, and Philippe Decouflé are some of the artists—all male—portrayed on screen. A long time in the making, this project by dance critic Rosita Boisseau and filmmaker Valérie Urréa brings together excerpts from performances and interviews around a central question: men and dance. In the documentary, the theme is explored step by step from the same point of view. By giving space for "the men who bring contemporary dance to life," that is, performers and choreographers with solid professional careers, to express themselves on the same subject, men and their identity.
Focused on his neighbours, Le Ciel dans un jardin continues the conversation, begun with the previous film, which is imbued with melancholy in the face of the impossibility of returning. This future mourning gives a particular colour to his observation, a combination of indifference (the repetition of the days governed by the principle of subsistence) and acuity (the contemplation of small things and of lost moments). The value of the shots finds itself enhanced, from the tactile close-up that captures the elementary actions—cultivating, eating, smoking—to the widest frame, espousing with a final gaze the frontiers of world that is about to be incorporated by the filmmaker as an interior landscape, a mental object. - Emmanuel Chicon
Gay... So What? documents the lives of different gay, lesbian and transgendered people in Germany, France, Spain and Cuba. In each region, director Jean Baptiste Erreca follows a different person or persons as they experience the oppression and repression that gay, lesbian and transgendered people often face.
After the tragic loss of her husband, a young woman reconstructs the circumstances which caused his death. During this attempt to find her own way in daily life again, more and more recollections and occurrences appear on the surface, seemingly to foresee a tragic end. Looking back, events appear to her like signs, chance meetings like disregarded warnings. On her search for meaning between yesterday and tomorrow, reality seems to split like a labyrinth, like an awakening after a nightmare, with no way out.
A little boy steps in to a new world. The mother of the four-year-old Jonas brings him to his first swimming lesson. Jonas is scared and wants to go home. While trying to escape, he falls into the deep bath and nobody notices him. While floating on his swimming wings he has to try to rescue himself.
The macrocosm present in QUASAR is a non colonized outer space. A non science-fictionalized outer space. It is a space of fantasized stars and galaxies, black holes and light particles. It is a space of hypnotic contemplation and dissociation of the subject from the self. Immersion into macrocosmic vibrations, rotations, contractions, into slow and curved time patterns. Non linear, non climactic time. Outer-inner skies.
The tension is mounting, the race for prizes is in full swing, some artists in the running are starting to have vapors. A tribe of creatures, all driven by one and the same goal, want to announce at the risk of their lives to all animation enthusiasts the event "Annecy 2007".
How do you ask a wild, impetuous hairdresser on a date if you're a pathologically timid philosophy student with no social skills?
The world of nursery rhymes has turned on its head. The three little pigs are monsters, the old woman who lives in a shoe has sold her children into slavery, and pieces of Humpty Dumpty still lie scattered all over the road. Duck Ugly and his motley army stage a mutiny...
Max has a date with a woman, and is invited to her appartment. However, he has a secret to tell her...
When an 18-year-old guy teams up with a band of thieves and robs a delivery truck, a cop is knocked senseless. The guy and his girlfriend steal her dad's car and escape to the seashore. Can young love survive with the police in hot pursuit?
A full 26 titles show taped in March at the Casino de Paris during his last acoustic tour. Includes comments from the artist on each track, exclusive pictures.
Michael is supposed to go to prison for 18 months, but escapes from the police officer. On the run, he meets Malika, who has also committed "stupid things." Together, they flee from the "third eye" of her mother, who, according to Malika, can see into the distance.
A beautiful homage both to Ernst Reijseger's music and genre ambiguity. This documentary tries, and mostly manages, to balance the picture by capturing private solo improv sessions, both indoors and outdoors, that display Reijseger's mastery over different colors and tones - with the same astounding technique and soulful commitment. Interspersed with beautiful country- and city-side footage that evokes his ever contemplative music, Do You Still? also features intimate and sometimes bitter-sweet statements by Reijseger on his early years, "career" choices, mannerisms, anxieties and shortcomings.
"Pulsar" belongs to "The Angel Cycle" ("Le Cycle de l´Ange"). In this cycle of works we create bonds between the human body and astronomical bodies. Maria Klonaris´ improvised performance is a negative dance which lies between pleasure and catastrophe, a black and blue body language which grapples with the white of the screen and the luminous suddenness of a firework display.
A college stands in the middle of verdant grounds. One day, Édouard, a student, suddenly falls sick. The college doctor is unable to diagnose the young man's illness. Anna, the college director, calls in Édouard's two brothers, professional soldiers, in the hope that they will help her discover what the mysterious illness is.
From his window, 10-year-old Henry Brulard witnesses the death of a citizen wounded by counter-revolutionaries. When his father tells him he's on a list of people "notoriously suspected of disliking the republic", the hatred between them erupts. Based on Stendhal's "The Life of Henry Brulard".
Dieudonné admits it himself: he played "the fool," which hasn't stopped him from becoming the symbol of an entire generation born of decolonization, to the point of embarking on electoral adventures. Like Coluche, he is the "man to beat" for all the right-thinking media. Are his sulfurous reputation and provocative humor alone responsible for his popularity?
Isabelle teaches, Bruno steals. Together, they start believing that could be happy. The day when the police net starts tightening, Bruno fleesm taking Isabelle with him. Deep within the forest, they hide and love each other, outside of time, in a final attempt to hold at bay the world's violence.
An elderly foreign diplomat working in Moscow meets a Russian girl Alice. The temporary absence of his wife and daughter, the same age as Alice, favor the beginning of a stormy romance. For her it is a feeling and passion, for him it is an unexpected gift of fate. But the relations that have arisen with the return of the diplomat's family should be interrupted, because they will harm his family life and career. The girl cannot accept that what happened is only an episode in her life, and in revenge she kidnaps his daughter...
Since PEAU D'ÂNE, cakes have become love potions. Today, to seduce your prince charming, no longer slip into your dough an ugly expensive ring that risks breaking your teeth, but a 100% natural ingredient that good friends can provide you for free... Here, finally revealed, the magical and extraordinary recipe from Madame Peau de Zob, an upstart peasant and bourgeoisie, who sings to us, with the banter of the 1930s, how to make a Cake with Cordom syrup... After OMELETTE and LES YEUX BROUILLÉS, Rémi Lange persists in his vein of culinary art with this three-minute clip which was originally commissioned by Alain Burosse for the 2005 Gay Night on Canal +. This little film was a great success during its screening as part of the 11th Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Triptych on the relation between body and nature.
In this deeply moving, award-winning French documentary, a family reflects on the murder of their 29-year-old son and tries to move beyond feelings of hatred and revenge.
"L’Année du Hip-Hop: Les Trophées 2007" is an annual French music awards ceremony celebrating the best in hip-hop and R&B. The 2007 edition, held at the Olympia in Paris, featured live performances from top artists, recognized emerging talent, and honored achievements in music, dance, DJing, and graffiti, with winners selected by public vote.
Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by Marguerite Duras, she played in 34 films for cinema, 13 films for television and 33 plays. Jacqueline Veuve, filmmaker and friend of Delphine Seyrig, wanted to break the silence that has fallen on her memory by making a documentary that traces with emotion and subjectivity the life of the mythical actress, the fierce feminist but also the simple friend.
Felix lives with Monique, an authoritarian woman. He decides his wife to exchange their Blois pavilion for what seems to be paradise: a villa in the south of the Drome. Unfortunately the house stands in the middle of a campsite.
For two months during the summer 2001 mayoral campaign, a group of protesters occupy an abandoned building in order to draw attention to the housing crisis in Montréal.
Super8 – experimental – 2005
In this archival documentary, Sydney Pollack discusses his career and relationship with various actors, directors and producers. A large portion of the documentary examines Pollack and Robert Redford's friendship, as well as the various films they did together during the years.
More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening scene to the end, visiting its Paris locales, placing her aged actors in the same spots, telling stories, and listening to others' reflections on the making of the film. She and they talk about making a film on a low budget, its showing at Cannes, and trying to fix a problem in the last shot. Her assistant directors discuss casting, costumes, sets, and the ways the film changed their approaches to filmmaking.
While playing football, two children stumble across the grave of a French WWI infantryman who died in the trenches in 1918. His name was Pierre Delpeuch and in the last days of his life he and his comrades shared an extraordinary human adventure. Exhausted, cut off from the front, huddled in their trench, Pierre and four others bravely stood firm. Facing them was another trench containing five similar exhausted and determined Germans. Their only aim was to resist, whatever the cost, until reinforcements arrived.
A quiet valley in the East of France. Naked bodies. A house near the canal. A brother and a sister. Skiving school. Frustration. Bad boys. The accident. Affliction. Blood relations.
"Nocturnes at the Golden Gate" - invites us to discover the world and work of Irina Ionesco, a unique figure of contemporary photography. Since the early 70's, she photographer has been working in her apartment near the Porte Dorée, in Paris, principally with the female body. Scraps from the past and elements of the present come together to evoke the coherence and multiple meanings of Irina's baroque universe : the solitude of her Romanian childhood ; her youthful debut in the music hall ; her relationships with her models and her way of building images. Little by little, her work is illuminated and takes on different vibrations, though we have never left the apartment : her workspace, temple and museum.
Alice is a photographer mandated by the Ministry of the Environment to photograph sites in the Alpes de Haute Provence. She replaces a renowned photographer who was doing this work and mysteriously abandoned her mission.
Going to buy milk from the farmer next-door can be a real drama.
In 1998 a regular exchange of video letters was launched between a group of pupils in their fourth year at the Collège Georges Rouault in the 19th arrondissement in Paris. At the outset the video letters had been seen as an exclusively preventive experience. It was a much more important and fundamental experience : the discovery of the refreshing power of words. Words that had time to be constructed without being felt, both in school and in prison, as a trap (which is often the case). Little by little, the pupils and the prisoners took care of the recording of their video letters themselves. Following the example of the words, the images are raw, seeking themselves. But they are also borne by a rare tension, sensitivity, fragility. These are the images and the sounds which, two years later, we decided to organise into a film. To show an experience which also has to be closed by giving the protagonists a chance to speak one more time.
An intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject with, *Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room taped (during the last year of the Israeli occupation) one year after her release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had been detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation. Revising notions of resistance, survival and will, recounting to death, separation and closeness; the overexposed image and body of a surviving martyr speaking quietly and directly into the camera juxtaposed against her self and image, not speaking of the torture but of the distance between the subject and the loss, of what is left behind and what remains.
Olivier Desroses and Juliette Carignan have two children, Mélanie and Quentin. They decide to leave Paris for Burgundy. Juliette, just out of a long period of unemployment, takes on the sales management of a major wine and spirits trading company, a unique and highly remunerated opportunity. Olivier, a committed French teacher in the Paris suburbs, tired of his years of teaching battle, decides to follow his partner and take a sabbatical year.
Interview with Emmanuelle Laborit, actress and director of the company l'International Visual Theatre (IVT). Complementary bonus film to the DVD edition of "Le Pays des Sourds/In the Land of the Deaf" (autumn 2002).
Guided by a strange dog, an old man travels to a distant, frozen land. After an exhausting journey through the cold and snow, he reaches the edge of a frozen lake. He ventures alone onto the ice, where a ballet of strange lights begins.