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Through a first-person narrator, archival footage and photographs, and a contemporary camera, Pavel Lounguine uses the Moscow skyscraper where he grew up as a touchstone for looking back to Stalin and then examining today's Russia. This is Stalin's pyramid, his immortality. We visit people who have lived there for 50 years, see their flats (some modernized, others decaying), and listen to their histories: the son of a KGB man, a retired rocket scientist, a sculptor's son. an actor, seamstresses at a uniform shop, an ex-pat, and two artists. We see a kindergarten and remember marching; we watch parades and discuss surveillance. The commentary is wry: Putin emerges as Stalin's heir.

After a bet, a twenty-five-year old man uses all kinds of possible tricks to slip a girl he met between his sheets.

On a hot and humid day, a young woman going bleach in all parts of the home. A man chases throughout his work and tries through provocation and humor to experience his desire. During their love game, a bright and benefactress star accompanies them.

Communicate despite misunderstanding, stroking violence and make sometimes biting, trying to control death and survive against the irretrievable loss, 1/3 des yeux is a poetic documentary about the contradictory forces in our society and in every human. The chapters are organized according to an innovative form that appeals to the harsh film essay. Third eye is a sensitive tale that invites the viewer to share a sense of empathy towards the world.

First film by Nobel Prize laureate Gao Xingjian.

In Ethiopia, in a small country school, children have a lesson on the Millennium Development Goals. But one of the pupils, Tiya, is distracted, she doesn’t listen. She is staring at the window. Outside, some children are playing rugby... Abderrahmane Sissako's contribution to 8 (2008).

Live wire - Shot down in flames - Hell ain't a bad place to be - Sun city - Bad boy boogie - The jack - Highway to hell - Girls got rhythm - High voltage - Whole lotta rosie - Rocker - Let there be rock

Ethnologist Alban Bensa, returns to the area in New Caledonia where he has worked for 30 years. His Kanak collaborator, Antoine, has died but his son, Samy, has recovered his father’s books and recordings relating to Antoine’s attempts to make the multinational nickel corporation, Falconbridge, recognize the land rights of his clan to the Koniambo land. The Kanak are divided between their desire for economic development and in their desire to maintain continuity with their culture and identity.

Image-weaving work, as the film is originally composed of 35mm frames that were later converted to the 16mm format.

Mister Flupersu thinks he has been in touch with an extraterrestrial life. He talks about it, in front of the camera and with the supporting evidences.

The film follows three stories that take place in the slums of a city in French Equatorial Africa. At nightfall, people seem to regain a vitality which explodes in the bars to the rhythm of the latest hits from the music charts. The first part tells the story of Petit-Jean, a young graduate, who is unemployed and roams the city in search of work. From humiliations to frustrations, the destiny of this young ordinary African changes dramatically. The second part follows a young girl who transforms herself into an angel of death in order to free herself from a traumatic past. The final section is of an encounter between a woman and a man who seem ordinary at first, but a past which the woman had thought had forever disappeared, resurfaces in this man.

A French short drama about how difficult it is to break up.

Two violent bank-robbers hide in a hotel room. Traditionally, she celebrates by having sex with her partner after a heist, but this one prefers playing helicopter by hanging to the ceiling fan. Wrong move; now she is getting pissed off.

"L’Année du Hip-Hop: Les Trophées 2008” is a live awards ceremony celebrating the best of French hip-hop and urban music. Broadcast from the iconic Olympia concert hall, the event brings together leading rap, R’n’B, dancehall, and street-culture artists for a night of performances, tributes, and fan-voted awards. Honoring both established icons and rising talents, the ceremony highlights the cultural impact, creativity, and diversity of the French hip-hop scene.

A President tries as best he can to preside over his small planet...

A deeply personal look at the life of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, one of the foremost representatives of Greek cinema. His life reflects the tragedies faced by an entire nation during the oppressive era of military dictatorship. It is a story of boundless ambitions, hope, love and the responsibilities that haunt every artist, even after death.

A young man is walking in a public garden. There are hardly any other people.

A child, secret war refugee, deceived by his father, is taken in by a man living in the solitude of a garden between sea and mountain. Left to his own devices, he must find his own way as he is shunted around between untrustworthy adults. A modern tale.

A sailing crew make a stopover at a port.

Experimental, Super 8

In 1941, Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman living in occupied Amsterdam, starts a psychoanalysis with Julius Spiers, a disciple of Jung specializing in feminine hysteria.

« Given a "spot of nature", a wood, undergrowth and what happens there : nothing, perhaps, but existence, but that is the whole point, and how to grasp it ? » (Jean-Christophe Bailly)

A condemned man shares his thoughts while smoking a cigarette, moments before his death.

Arsehole voters.

"William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's second opera to great heights. Andrei Serban's extravagant, highly baroque staging presents the four exotic love stories vibrantly. In 'Le Turc généreux' Osman sets free his captive, Emilie, whom he loves, so that she may be reunited with her former lover, Valère; 'Les Incas de Pérou' is all about the rivalry of the Inca Huascar and the Spaniard Don Carlos, both in pursuit of Princess Phani; 'Les Fleurs' offers a Persian love intrigue, as the Sultana Fatime tries to detect whether her husband Tacmas has his eye on the lovely Atalide; and 'Les Sauvages' takes us to North America, where a Spaniard and a Frenchman compete for the love of Zima, daughter of a native chief, who prefers one of her own people." — from the DVD cover

Six young lesbians and gays tell their stories, from the difficulty of being oneself when one feels different, to announcing one's homosexuality to oneself and to others (coming out), to the social rejection (homophobia) and the deafness or even hostility of the families, schools and institutions with which the young people are confronted, this film, made during the Euro-Mediterranean Summer School on Homosexuality in July 2000, recounts the journeys of three young lesbians and three young gays.

The show of the famous tour "Un jour Noël" of the French Quebecker singer Marie-Élaine Thibert in winter 2008-2009, recorded in St-Denis theater.

Night shrouds the Eiffel Tower's splendor, sweet chansons lose their melody, Midnight Paris loses its romance, the pillow becomes a violent ambush. In France, one in seven women has experienced violence at the hands of a partner. The director listens to the monologues of three women, exploring love that cannot be fulfilled, enduring physical and emotional torment over years, intimacy that remains forever out of reach. Weariness, helplessness, and hatred etch themselves onto their faces. The film plunges into the nightmare of intimate relationships while capturing faint glimmers of light.

Three friends lounge around on pillows after having lunched on the terrace. One of them leaves staggering. It is a matter of expectation and temporal perception.

"I am the Creole pig. I am who I am. I am the pig of your ancestors. There is no other pig but me, the Creole pig, black, apocalyptic, a pig from the new world, whose blood washed the slaves of their sins, whose flesh is your flesh, up to the end of time."

a French music group stagnates in a house, waiting for their Mexican singer, who has been missing for several days

A woman trapped in her everyday life: a love story that she would most like to erase; alone against the impenetrable outside world; an inner pain like an abcess that is freed into the glance of one who welcomes it.

When the French film team shooting their very artistic short film in the harbor, something unexpected happens.

In this narrative, scenes from film classics by Antonioni, Truffaut and others have a common theme of phone calls, yet the telephone assumes another role, that of an intimate camera that records scenes from the present, communicating with the images from the history of cinematography, calling them by phone.

One country, two worlds. Montereau, suburb of Paris: in the lower part a normal urban centre; in the "upper city", on the hills, are the homes of Turkish immigrants, a population poised between two identities and cultures...

Dr. Loiseau organizes bizarre screenings in a tent, assisted by a carnival barker, a hunchbacked nurse, a disgraced wrestler, and an ex-convict. Together, they devise ways to attract women by leading them to believe that the doctor knows the miracle cure for cervical and breast cancer.