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the last days of winter
The last few days of winter and Tehran prepares for the Iranian New Year. The camera follows the lives of 7 teenagers, inmates in a children’s correctional unit. We share their thoughts about what brought them there and the means of escape from a cruel destiny.
This film has been awarded in many Do...
The Marquises Awakening
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Marquise Islands have just emerged from colonial ethnocide, and the population is now striving to re-conquer its roots and build itself a new future.
The 7the Marquises Islands Festival, the Matavaa, which is held every four years, allows the Polynesian people...
TINARIWEN AT THE BOUFFES DU NORD
During their Spring 2011 European tour, Tinariwen gave a one-off acoustic concert at the Bouffes du Nord Theatre, in which they performed their new album, “Tessalit”, in its entirety.
The sight of these Tuareg musicians in their indigo tagelmusts within the Parisian setting of Peter Brook’s famous t...
Undiscovered Pigalle
The aim of “Undiscovered Pigalle” is to question our prejudices, to break down the barriers of our assumptions, to scratch the surface…
Pigalle, its inhabitants, its regulars, its tourists, its lights… its joys and sorrows.
The aim of this film is to always go that bit further, to go behind the scen...
Woman’s place in South Korea (Toyong)
En-Jung a 29 year-old South Korean, is taking her PhD in French at a prestigious university in Seoul. On the surface, her life is similar to that of a student in Paris, London or New York: studies, cafés, shopping, pop music, online chatting, etc. But although Seoul is one of the most modern capital...
A SECRET GARDEN
The monastery of St Clare in Jerusalem has withstood both time and conflict for more than 120 years. Despite the wars that have torn the Holy Land apart throughout its history, the nuns of the order of St Clare have worked continuously for peace and unity through inter-religious dialogue.
Today, the...
All Girls Together
My name is Jeanne. I’m 32. I’m a journalist.
When I was little I thought I’d be a daddy.
Today I’m Mummy 2.
What does that mean? It’s simple: I had a baby with a woman.
What does it mean to be a lesbian today?
I don’t think there’s one precise answer to that.
What I can say, on the other hand, is th...
Andy and the jumbies
Let’s follow Andy Narell during a musical road movie, which will take us from Paris to Trinidad through the USA.
We will try to understand how a “little white man” from New York City becomes a star of a not predestined musical and cultural trend.
Andy will also introduce his Trinidadian friends wh...
Detroit wild life
Welcome to the city of Detroit, 'the Murder Capital of the USA', where the grass is growing over the parking lots and the houses are abandoned. Here, a new life is slowly beginning to take form and take over the deserted city. But even if the writing on the wall has a different and more apocalyptic ...
Final Cut in Pakistan
Pakistan is the birthplace for a popular, violent and colorful cinema unknown in western countries. Extremely prolix during 50 years, it's declining for 15 years.
Today, isn't the announced end of the cinema industry a way to let us know a change in this country back to the past, a strong obscura...