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- "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.
- He was the great rival and competitor of renowned studios Pathe and Gaumont. He created Paris's two mythical theaters, the Rex and the Olympia, and was one of the talking film pioneers. He's also the one who revolutionized the Arabic cinema by spreading the Egyptian films through out North Africa. Yet today, few know who Jacques Haik was, and his name has almost disappeared from cinema history. Thanks to a mysterious roll of film and some determined descendants, Jacques Haik's name is back on everyone's lips, from Tunis to Paris, from memory to history.
- Follows the rehearsals of 'Faits d'artifice', a choreography by Françoise and Dominique Dupuy, created with Régine Chopinot and the company Le Ballet Atlantique, as the director is aiming to catch the process of creation from the inside.
- How does India, where there are retirement homes for sacred cows, handle the mad cow crisis?
- Three farmers from the central part of Brittany, France, speak about their daily work, pleasure, constraints, and doubts as they face increasingly tough restrictions and regulation in the agricultural policy of the European Union.
- Once upon a time, there was a building in the heart of the city, an architectural gem at the center of the concerns of elected officials and citizens, now demolished, replaced by a luxury apartment building, currently under construction, the new fruit of the architectural work of men. This is the story of the Palais des Congrès in Rouen, once standing on the square by the Cathedral: built in 1976 under Jean Lecanuet, closed since 1996, vanished in 2010. How was this even possible?
- Here is the story of the meeting of artist Raymond Hains with filmmaker Cécile Déroudille-Roussière, an encounter full of coincidences, which is good since those happy coincidences are some of the artist's favorite hobbyhorses.
- While most of Cameroon's Pygmies still live in the bush, a handful of families have moved to a paved road in a village where their daily lives balance between maintaining traditions and adapting to Bantu society. The film takes us to meet the Pygmies of the road, a small community at a crossroads.
- One year, 12 months, 12 filmmakers who are filming Paris in an unusual way: "their" Paris before a symbolic date, the night of 12/31/99 to 01/01/00. They are turning one by one the pages of their own Parisian calendar of the year 1999.
- From February to November 2007, director Henry Colomer followed and filmed the work of French artist and photographer Jean-Michel Fauquet in the privacy of his studio in Paris, and is now releasing this intimate portrait.
- Director Sylvain Bouttet follows the negotiations between farmers, state authorities and environmental associations around the future of the Lannion watershed, invaded by green algae, in the north of Brittany, France.
- Françoise, Yves, René, and others were children when they had to quickly leave St-Nazaire during the Second World War. 70 years later, they share the memories of their experiences far from their families and the aftereffects of separation.
- Nounours is a character who speaks of difficult and serious things. Because there is fire in his eyes, you can be tempted to follow him. Childhood in a hostel, the law of the streets, vagrancy, petty crime. You can also understand him, but that's more difficult. You can never really explain why children are violent. A film improvised live, the result of an unprepared interview, an unexpected fruit tainted with bitterness.
- Gilles is a man who has been living on the streets for 20 years. He has always been homeless and he has learned to survive and cope like so many others, but his personal story leads us to his passion: trains. His grandfather was a railwayman and, since his childhood, he has had a rather particular relationship with the railway world. Evoking the memory of his grandfather and his past takes us on a return to the places of his childhood: a journey into his memory; but today, things have changed.
- A documentary film about social telephony: on each end of the line, two nameless individuals, two anonymous people are having a conversation that tries to combine demands and answers. The caller, the listener. Two voices.
- A series which analyzes the changes and evolution of the urban space in the big cities.
- This is the story of an amazing fair in a little corner of Ariège, France. Organized without subsidy or sponsorship by a group of friends and artists from all corners of Europe. It's also an account of a run-in with the administrative world who would prefer not to allow the fair to take place for security reasons. It is also a testimony to an organizer's resistance, as the show must go on. But how? Finally, it's a mosaic of awarding characters who revolve around the Irish clown Perry Hazzard, the true pioneer of the event who, when all is said and done, manages to keep his promises.
- What do stones tell us when we look at them? I look, I see, I listen; Rue de Navarin, at the corner of Rue du Rocher and Rue de Rome, Rue Marie-Rose; from one side to the other, the echoes of my familiar ghosts and others. Like the pebbles of Tom Thumb, I follow the road of square stones; on the facades of the Paris buildings, the commemorative plaques attract me, pull me towards the country, the town of former times, they speak to me of succeeding ages. There are 2,000 plaques in Paris. First of all plaques were put up for great men, great politicians, great writers, great poets, great musicians, great soldiers: the Republic was making for itself a genealogy that was worthy of it. Here lived, here died, here lived, here died. Then it was great heroes, little heroes and anonymous heroes of wartime: they did not live, above all they died. I set off in search of these stories, in a ghostly Paris where, from plaque to plaque, the fragile, barely visible traces of forgotten lives unfold.
- L'Ardoise, an industrial hamlet where the director spent the first eleven years of his life, brings back memories of a forgetful childhood. There still stands the decaying ghost of the steel factory where his father and grandfather worked.
- Today's young French actors channel the impetus and the energy of a "new generation" cinema. The roles they play seem to be closer to their own truth or real life, than when we see big stars who have been in the cinema for a long time now.
- An invitation to the director's intimate and personal life, at the core of his couple, exploring the 9 months of waiting as a territory of reflection and engagement. It is a matter of symbolic pregnancy, amazon medicine and trust. A child is waited. Both the future parents need to change their skin, and become a mother, a father.
- Follows Pascale and Thierry, a couple of French truck drivers sharing their common passion for trucks. They are married but their everyday life is subject to difficulties related to their job which they seem to love above all.
- In a Southern France small town, we are introduced to a group of inhabitants who start by investing in a local exchange system and then get involved in the political and social life of the town, reevaluating democracy through this process.
- Thirty years after May 1968, a man offers a look back at these events, the ideas of the time and the noble combat which, today, still appears to him like a necessity. Today, his look at the past has not changed and his opinions do not seem to have evolved even though he recognizes he has made a concession as he is working for the government as a civil servant. In parallel to this man's thoughts, another person, as a voice-over, expresses her bitterness and her disillusion: is society condemned to evolve complacently in this system? Is this evil, the evil of resignation? The film seems to give us the answer as it shows us the possibility of an alternative to resignation: being faithful to one's dreams.
- The director hosts 10 days of dancing with women detained in prison, at the Poitiers-Vivonne Detention Facility, in a relaxed atmosphere, which sometimes turns out to be festive, sometimes heavier when confidences appear.
- It's the story of men and women that their profession exposes to the eyes of the crowd, while making them invisible. The film shows the patient, often repeated, almost choreographed gestures of the cleaning workers, or true "city healers".