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- Testimonies of Chernobyl based on the book of Svetlana Alexievitch
- About the short life of a photographer who takes mostly naked photos of herself and others in strange places until she commits suicide.
- In 1956, Orson Welles directed 'Tragedy of Lurs', an episode of the television series 'Around the World' that was inspired by the murder of a British family near the Dominici farm. The film was unfinished, but the French director Christophe Cognet recovered his materials and reconstructed the documentary.
- A portrait of the Czech photographer in his studio. Jan Saudek invites his models to his studio, a cellar whose only window overlooks a peeled wall in the basement of a dilapidated building: a darkroom, looking like a sad prison cell.
- Laetitia, a Thai boxing champion, gifted but lazy, is preparing for her next fight - only, she's 12 kilos overweight.
- In 1945, when the Allies liberated the concentration camps, they discovered thousands of secretly created artworks.
- On an island lost between two worlds, Dai, a young Chinese woman, lives alone in a cave, expecting the baby that swells her womb. On the harbor which flurries with migrants, she searches for the man she loves and awaits: her husband. One night her wish is to be fulfilled...
- A documentary made for French television that follows the creation process of the writer Fred Vargas (literary pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau), one of the most original authors, while popular, of detective novel. A woman who has created a universe of her own, around the inspector Adamsberg, in which logic flirts with fantasy, absurdity and surrealism.
- Climate change, soaring oil prices, scarcity of raw materials, geopolitical tensions - Humanity is on the brink of breakdown.
- Shot from 1984 to 2016, this compilation features Don Pauvros De La Manche (2015), Hôtel Innova (1984), Les Mi-Grateurs (2000), Tué Mon Amour (2008), Catalogue à Bruxelles (2016), Marteau Rouge and Joe McPhee (2000) and Vive Campus (2000).
- We know French writer Pierre Bergounioux for his literary work, but we are less familiar with his passion for entomology. In five chapters, we discover another favorite activity of the prolific author, apart from writing: insect hunter.
- Cheikha Rabia, great priestess of traditional raï, and Bellemou, creator of modern raï, share the stage during an Algerian night at Banlieues Bleues Jazz Festival. Shot on a black backdrop and never using long or medium shots, the film focuses on the details that reveal each artist's personal performance by disconnecting it from any contextual reference. Using the same approach, two dancers are filmed separately then edited in, creating a rhythmic interplay of shapes and colors, which reinforces the trance effect produced by the sound track. Rabia and Bellemou discuss their fates.
- The personal and artistic history of Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), the most original and creative architect of all times. Thanks to the contribution of several established experts of his work, the documentary makes the viewer discover the places that marked his life: Reus, Montserrat Abbey and of course Barcelona. It also plunges them into Gaudí 's spiritual dimension, visible in La Sagrada Familia, his most famous masterpiece.
- A portrait of American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin.
- Its light, its smoky bars, its vacant land: the characters that we meet here treasure different aspects of Berlin. Vincent Dieutre puts faces and voices on some of the many artists who have settled there since the collapse of the Wall.
- Documentary about Swiss writer, prostitute and activist Grisélidis Réal (1929-2005).
- SYNOPSIS : This documentary tells the story of the CHAMPETA or CREOLE TERAPIA, one of the most innovative, ignored and marginalized musical kinds of Colombia and perhaps of Latin America. This musical movement, which mixes African rhythms like Soukouss from Congo (ex-Zaire), Mbaqanga from South Africa and Highlife from Ghana-Nigeria, with rhythms of the French and English Speaking West Indies (Haïtian "Compass ", Socca, Calypso, and Reggae), runs as a Master on dancers 'feet all along the Colombian Atlantic Coast, from Turbo to Riohacha. Born in the black districts from Carthagena at the end of the Seventies, and in villages like Palenque de San Basilio, this Afro-Colombian rhythm, made popular by some fish salesmen, shoeshiners and self-educated musicians of popular origin, is going to extent and to conquer all the country thanks to its West-Indian and Colombian rhythms. The documentary is a portrait of CHAMPETA's most famous artists and discjockeys, as well as the story of the birth of this music, which looks like the one of Reggae and Rap in Jamaica and in the United States. One of its goals is to make known the talent of these artists, humble people who built alone and without any help all the necessary structure for the production and the distribution of this music: independent labels, recording studios, disc stores - and a public which shows its support at every new production. African rhythms of the whole world, mixed with the rhythms of our Colombian Caraibes, meet in Carthagena to mix with the new vacile efectivo of Creole Terapia.
- Sainkho Namtchylak, vocals, Hamid Drake, drums and percussion, and William Parker, bass, recorded live on March 25, 2004, at the Salle Jacques Brel, Pantin, during the 21st Banlieues Bleues Festival.
- Follows children from St. Joseph primary school in a small French village, who are leaving school at the end of their day. The school exit time is experienced as a manifestation of vivid life in a world of habit and forgetfulness.
- A slice in the life of saxophonist David Murray captured by the camera