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Ratrix Hero is a French claymation film that parodies The Matrix franchise. The One is a rat being chased by cats in business suits.

Sur le fil des 4000 is a documentary film by Gilles Chapaz, which traces the last rope of the mountaineering duo Patrick Berhault and Philippe Magnin. The objective of the roped party was to climb the 82 peaks over 4000 meters in the Alps, by carrying out the connecting routes on foot, on skis or by bike. All at the end of winter and the beginning of spring. They left on March 1, 2004, from Saint Christophe en Oisans. The film shows us in images this alpine adventure, from which the spirit of competition is excluded, to make way for the simple pleasure of being in the mountains. This posthumous film was edited after the disappearance of Patrick Berhault, which occurred during the expedition on April 28, 2004.

Bruno, accompaned by his friend Liliane, arrives at his father's place. His father lives alone in the middle of the countryside. Bruno wants to ask him something.

Edmund Kemper, cannibal and necrophiliac, mercilessly murdered his grandparents at the age of 15. Rejected by his parents and hating his mother, he killed eight more victims a few years later in a fit of madness. After rape, his supreme pleasure was to dissect and decapitate the corpses he ate...

In an unnamed African country, a journalist is jailed after attempting to report on a sadistic colonel's death squad.

At seventeen, looking much younger, Jean-Benoît serves an apprenticeship as a diesel fitter mechanic. He is a troubled youngster, who has never really recovered from the untimely death of his father and has conflicting relationships with his mother.

Glamorous theater actress, Diane de Montalte, finds it difficult to accept that her 23-year- old gay, live-in son, Marc, wishes to live a more low-key life. While Marc travels frequently from Paris to Marrakesh to visit his lover, Dionys, Diane begins a casual relationship with the only somewhat dashing Roland.

The crazy story and misadventures of the last unworthy offspring of a mafia killer uncle.

The story take place in a small French countryside village called Villemolle, where wild hamsters are converted into sausages.Then, one day a meteor hit the ground and the habitants turn into zombies. Don't ask me why...

The Devil's beauty is first a garden lived by fettereds statues, bodies tensed between sensuality, damnation and sacred. The film seduce by a brillant camera editing as a clear music. In a singular rhythm, images fall down as flights of quavers before a short lull, a shot, like a note...

Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and Carmen in this darkly passionate reading of one of the most popular operas. Kaufmann uses his burnished tenor and smouldering good looks to portray the man undone by Carmen's love. As the object of his desire, Antonacci gives a physical and compelling performance.

Natalie Dessay and Rolando Villazón bring Jules Massenet's classic opera to the stage in this dazzling production. In 18th-century France, Manon (Dessay) faces life as a nun, despite catching the eye of many men. When she meets the handsome but penniless des Grieux (Villazón), she falls deeply in love. The pair elopes, but their future together is threatened by outside forces.

Ballet en deux actes et treize tableaux du chorég. This is a live recording of a performance at Paris Garnier in 2007. Petit's earlier production for the Ballet de Marseille used more realistic stage sets, but the current Paris version has minimal stage sets. Also, the costumes were redesigned. Roland Petit created a ballet based on "In Search of Lost Time" for the Ballet de Marseille in the 1970s. Petit's intention was not to make a faithful adaptation of the novel, but to capture its flavour and convey, through a number of selected scenes, the narrator's incessant fluctuations between happiness and torment. The highlights are the series of poetical pas de deux.

Kamellia, a professionnal belly dancer went to teach her knowlege in Jerusalem. With testimonies of dancers and musicians, excerpts from shows and scenes of life, the film tells how music and dance can bring peopes in conflict closer together. We can see in this approach a lot of humanity and a symbol of future peace.

In this thematic series of 13 short films on "Death," the filming constraint was unity: 1 set, 1 actor, 1 day of shooting. Each film addresses the last minutes of their main character's life in a variety of genres. From thrills to dark humor, discover 13 talented young directors.

Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the 20 surviving operas of Vivaldi with two concertos. Given with the early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico before a very appreciative audience in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the performance is part of Bartoli's exploration of the Venetian composer's opera music which also includes The Vivaldi Album. There is a startling dynamic energy, which contrasts powerfully with the more restrained interpretations by singers such as Emma Kirkby. Bartoli's natural Italian and the live atmosphere of Maria Grazia d'Alessio's oboe gives her interpretation of the quietly haunting and melodically rich "Non ti Lusinghi la Crudeltade" from Tito Manlio a particular piquancy. The Flautino Concerto is a most attractive interlude, while the more famous Lute/Violin Concerto beguiles with its exquisite lyricism.

Measuring up well to their older American counterparts –- Scorcese, Coppola, De Palma or Friedkin –- the new Korean auteurs likewise seek to integrate the political turbulence of their land, particulaly the trauma of the recent disctatrial regime, into their work. The directors Park Chan-wook (Oldboy), Kim Jee-won (A Bittersweet Life), Bong Joon –ho (Memories of Murder), Ryoo Seung-wan (Crying Fist) and Kim Ki-duk (The Isle) subvert the codes of genre cinema, just as their American predecessors did in the 1970s. In violently evoking the atmosphere of political and cultural decay in a wounded, divided Korea, these young filmmakers experiment with new cinematographic and narrative forms which have begun to take the world by storm.

Anne is thirty six ears old, her friends decide to organize a surprise birthday party where boys are excluded.

Portrait of experimental filmmaker Martine Rousset.

Documentary based in Sheffield which follows local residents as they talk about drugs and the sex trade.

Expedition into the Abyss is a 52-minute scientific adventure which takes us to California on board a research boat equipped with the latest technology, the Western Flyer, to discover the mysterious destiny awaiting whale corpses 2000 meters underwater. The expedition leader, Craig Smith, a researcher at the University of Hawaii, speculated more than 20 years ago that the corpses of enormous marine mammals would disrupt the balance of the deep water plain, usually deprived of food. His discoveries confirmed his conjectures and led him even further, to explore the mystery of deep water inhabitants... This film presents us with exceptional footage never seen before, filmed two kilometers underwater. We follow a man like no other, founder of a new discipline in modern oceanography: the ecology of whales corpses.

Eve wakes up in Paradise, finds an apple and commits a delicious sin. In this short porn vidéo, Emilie Jouvet has managed to recreate the atmosphere of pin-up movies, but her Bettie Page is not only a blonde, she also re-invents mythology.

Jean-Louis is 40 years old and an older brother Alain has just died of cancer. In the painful moments around this mourning, he seeks to reconnect with Thomas, once his best friend. Thomas, haunted by a suspicion of Jean-Louis, proves unable to support him.

In a stark, black-and-white world, no man is different until one of them loses his hat in a revolving door. He, alone among his fellows, now has a naked head

In 2007, the French filmmaker and my dear friend Agnès Varda called me before coming to L.A. with a question: would I agree to let her film my L.A. story? The video you are about to watch is the story of our first encounter in Paris in 1996 and in the years since, how our shared reverence for cinema formed the bonds of an everlasting friendship, and how the Cinematheque became like home.

The french theater company Royal De Luxe is being followed during their odyssey in rural Cameroon. Street scenes and accounts of the natives.

What is on the minds of contemporary Iranians? To answer this question Sou Abadi spent five months in Tehran, documenting what happens in the city's social service and psychological institutions, which have never been filmed by Iranian filmmakers.

David, Tinna, Svanhvit, Hrönn and Oli live in Reykjavik, are less than 25 years old and work during summer while pursuing their studies during winter. In their eyes reflects the want to cross the sea and discover the world just like their ancestor Erik the Red.

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.

Two Quebec acrobats embark on an unusual journey through France. Childhood friends, André Fontaine and Michel Leroy find themselves in the Alps. André had been walking around France for three years with a baby bather who spit fire and gave him a line in the street. As for Michel, he was moping around in a Montreal bar. Without admitting it, they needed each other. The duo quickly reunited and traveled to Paris in a Citroën Acadiane, equipped like a house, where fame awaited them. Michel discovers the "Old Country" and his thirst for recognition is coupled with a quest for identity, that of his Breton origins.

Plunged into a dark room. Plunged into an imaginary world that plays with the spectator through fragmented sounds and images. From fantasy to eroticism until the fall.

Film restored by Yves-Marie Mahé from several recordings made during past screenings, notably in the basement of the L’Etna laboratory. A car journey, then the bedroom. The naked body in bed, sleeping or smiling at the camera, splits in two and overlaps. Accompanied by Christophe’s melancholic pop songs, a raw tenderness emerges.

Two men are getting lost in a story that does not belong to them anymore. One of them will go, driven away by the progressive disappearance of his companion. There is an interval between two lives, in which each of them plunges individually. It is in this intermediary space, back to the present, that they recognise each other and get their bearings. Every man for himself, but one towards the other.

STILL FRAMES is a laboratory film, conceived while I was finishing SARABAN. Indeed the two films were produced from the same images. The aim was not only to prove that the same source of image can generate two different films but also to highlight the incidence of light on color.

"I often think I remember my childhood, but then I realize it's a story I've been told, a photo, a home movie. How can I know if it really happened?"

Following the appeal of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, founding member of the International Parliament of Writers besieged in Ramallah, a delegation of writers went there to demonstrate alongside the Palestinians a "beautiful linguistic collaboration" in these "high places of spirituality” (Ramallah in Arabic) where the Israeli program of humiliation is also a “verbicidal war”. “We want to listen and make other voices heard in the din of war, that of writers, artists, academics, all those who are preparing for the future... Opposing the logic of war, not a force of "interposition but INTERPRETATION FORCES", says the French writer Christian Salmon, member of this international delegation.