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BREATH MADE VISIBLE is the first feature length film about the life and career of Anna Halprin, the American dance pioneer who has helped redefine our notion of modern art with her belief in dance's power to teach, heal, and transform at all ages of life. This cinematic portrait blends recent interviews with counterparts such as the late Merce Cunningham, archival footage, including her establishment of the first multiracial dance company in the U.S., and excerpts of current performances such as "Parades and Changes" at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, to weave a stunning, inspiring account of one of the most important cultural icons in modern dance.

A short animation about motion and poetry.

A documentary directed by Claude Pinoteau.

A staging of Olivier Py's play "Illusions comiques" by himself.

A young student takes lessons with a piano teacher.

You are, no doubt, already familiar with such literary quotations as "In search of lost time" (A la recherche du temps perdu) or "Those living pillars which gaze at us", as per Napoleon Bonaparte, when faced with the famous pyramids of Egypt?

This may be the last journey of Domagali, Amina and Hanne and their Toubou women's caravan in the Sahara. Each fall, armed with daggers, they leave the men behind and cross the desert to sell dates in Agadez to bring back the means to survive in the village for another year. This economic responsibility gives them a special position in their society. Yet, the increasing market pressure endangers their 'business'. How will their social status change

the daily life of a park in Paris. "I come here because I can meet people, even if I don't know French. In my town in Portugal there is a lot of nature, that's why I like coming, I feel a bit like in my town."

Three attempts of hypnosis on children.

A shantytown built inside the antique necropolis of Alexandria. An archaeological visit leads us to meet a few people, taking the time to be really close to them. Each encounter reveals a new novel. And we discover how people survive daily, with an incredible strength for life and a crazy capacity for happiness, that enables them to grin and bear the harshness of the materials conditions.

In France, a near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.

Nine people tell an anecdote, tall story or dramatic narrative straight into the camera.

Through the lyricism and the baroque energy of the famous Christmas oratorio, super-8 pictures with a prevailing black colour catch in a jerky way an elfic trio of merry male accompplices wandering through the Père Lachaise cemetery. Some sentences taken from ‘Le Dictionnaire de l’Amour’ by Dominique Noguez make their complicity clear and are used as a counterpoint to the ballet of their loitering.

"The nocturnal animal life in the dark ... There you go. Here is what put the flea in my ear or rather the flea in the eye ... In almost absolute darkness, I film what I do not see, I am guided and, carried because I hear ... I FILM - I FLY - I PLAY ..." -Michel Nedjar, 23 Nov 2003

In the 1930s, in Mogador, a Moroccan coastal city under French administration, the head of the military garrison suspected a young Moroccan to support the resistance.

Talks about the iconographical sources that Walt Disney and his studio's designers drew on to create the films that are incontestably among the masterpieces of animation.

Esprit de bière (Beer) is a kind of attempt on an archaeological liquid, mixing the skills of playing truant and the quest for oneself. It makes its own investigation around this gol den drink as a police officer would do around some trivial event. Beer is first analysed as a substanc e, as a matter (real, chemical, physical,...). Then its own cycle will be careful ly studied. The Cycles reach every men in their wishs to create links and exchanges. The Cycles remind us that even beer can be a matter to think about.

At the beginning of the 20th century in Jacqueville, near Abidjan in the Côte d'Ivoire, traditional music was forbidden by the missionaries. But the inhabitants' enjoyment of their local festivals proved stronger, and the little town developed its own brass band. This is the story of that brass band, a brass band that isn't at all like a military band. It's a dancing brass band, an African brass band, that accompanies all the big and little moments of life: national festivals, religious ceremonies, funerals, fetes and celebrations, a musical game involving a football, tunes from the famous Mapuka dance, or the experimental use of sacred drums together with the brass band. A lively debate between the musicians, in which a sense of humor is clearly present, as they examine fundamental questions about their tradition and its transformations in the context of the life of people today.

Vivian Ostrovsky is a nomad film-maker, born in New York. Student in Brazil then in Paris, which takes its camera of continent in continent since 1980. Her work, in the border of the documentary and the experimental, touches the filmed journals and is interested in the individuals rather than in the masses, in the physical language, in the unusual of the situations and in the sensible editing of the images and the sounds.

Made in France, English subtitled. In-depth portraits of internationally acclaimed chefs featuring exclusive interviews. Michel Bras is one of France's greatest cooks, obtaining his third star in 2000 and rated #7 on the 2008 World's 50 Best Restaurants chart. We will taste four dishes, cinematographically describe what we feel, then work through each dish's culinary fabrication to the true subject of the series: investigating the ways that one invents cuisine by revisiting their space and time.

A voice-over commentary on contemporary works of art while scenes of male prostitution appear on screen. An unusual film about a hustler/art collector.

The theatre lights go down, the curtain opens, and the dancers appear on stage to perform a spectacular show with feathers, crystals and sequins, against dazzling scenery and with original French music. Through four lively and poetic scenes, the Moulin Rouge takes you on a journey into space and time: from the Garden of the Moulin Rouge back in 1889 to the wild regions of Indonesia, taking you through the joyful and colorful atmosphere of a circus, the Féerie "revue" is full of surprises. For these two hours of enchantment, you will be part of the effervescence of a Parisian fete, symbolized by the most iconic dance of the Moulin Rouge, the world-famous French Cancan. "Welcome to the Moulin Rouge!"

A young woman has managed to convince a doctor friend to deliver her from an accidental pregnancy without following official procedures. On the night of her operation, she meets a young man who happens to be an apprentice waste sorter at the hospital.

How the French Secret Services attempted to quietly sink Greenpeace's flagship "The Rainbow Warrior" in Auckland Harbour in 1985, and ended up killing one innocent Portuguese photographer and sending to a New Zealand jail two of their best secret agents. The story is told through the eyes of the female secret agent Dominique Prieur, aka "Sophie Turenge".

How did men learn to count? How do they count? The empire of numbers is a very rhythmic graphic film that tells the great history of numbers, from the caves to modern times. And marvels at the immensity of their territory, from zero to infinity.

A portrait of American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin.

Bored by her settled life with her aloof husband, a quirky American housewife finds that a bullet accidentally lodged in her forehead allows her to leap into the fictive Paris of her favorite pulp novel heroine, Chastity Blade...

A short film shot on a budget camera.

Guitarist Marc Ribot, a longtime legend among musicians but little-known outside the industry, finally gets the recognition he deserves in this compilation of performance footage from intimate clubs in New York's Lower East Side and Europe. These shows prove that Ribot deserves his reputation as one of the most talented and inventive composers and guitar improv performers working today, and why he accompanies so many top stars.

Famous for having fled the stage of the 1990 Leeds Competition because he felt he didn't deserve to be there, pianist Piotr Anderszewski provides an eccentric subject for an eccentric filmmaker, Bruno Monsaingeon, in this absorbing documentary. Following Anderszewski as he travels from Poland to Hungary by train with his grand piano in tow, the film reveals much about the musical musings of a brilliant performer and artist.

A young woman tries to understand the real circumstances of the death of her mother.

Agripino is Portuguese. He lives on the outskirts of Bordeaux. He arrived in France in 1965 after a week-long clandestine journey into the unknown. This film retraces that journey into the unknown, evoking the fate of a man whose country refused to let him leave.

In The Colonial Misunderstanding Jean-Marie Teno sheds light on the complex and problematic relationship between colonization and European missionaries on the African continent. The film looks at Christian evangelism as the forerunner of European colonialism in Africa, indeed, as the ideological model for the relationship between North and South even today.

Swallowed in the emptiness with a dull and gloomy noise, the face gradually vanishes with a recurring rocking motion.