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The Work of the Poster Artist: Signed Landi
The poster as an object was born at the same time as the cinema, and as the cinema became an industry, producers and distributors appropriated it and placed it under their control.
Providing us with our first view of a film, the poster advertises it outside a theatre and tries, with varying degrees ...
This stranger that I love
Throughout the Algerian War, for many months, young women wrote to young soldiers they didn't know. We use to call them the god mothers.
50 years later, they tell us their story : over the course of letters, feelings have evolved. A lot of them still ignored that, a word after an other, they were wr...
ANGEL
Angel, 36 year old Ecuadorian transvestite who prostitutes himself in Paris, after living five years in France, finally obtained his residence permit. For the Christmas holidays, he can go back home in Ecuador to see his family.
The film presents this two months trip: a deep immersion in a complex ...
Arena Mexico
Portraits of informal workers in Mexico City. They comme and use ingenious ways and fantasy to sell their wares or services. We follow his day to day life, as if they entered a big arena of Lucha Libre, ready for combat. Their strategies to survive, their unique way of entering the scene and their d...
EASTER CANTATAS, Jean-Sébastien Bach
Concert recorded at the Chapel of the Trinity in Lyon, as part of the 26th Baroque Music Festival of Lyon, under the direction of Sigiswald KUIJKEN.
Performers : soprano Gerlinde SAMANN, viola Petra NOSKAIOVA, tenor Christoph GENZ, bass Jan Vander CRABBEN
S. Bach : Halt im Gedächtn...
Going With the Seasons
In the 1950s, foreseeing the permanent disappearance of an agricultural tradition that had been maintained for centuries by generations of farmers, a filmmaker captured the last vestiges of a dying lifestyle in a rural village in Normandy.
60 years later, the senior citizens of the same village look...
Irene Companeez, a voice in exil
Irène is 76. She lives in a place known as Pigeon Bouillante in the Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe. A house lost in the rain forest. She has two dogs, two cats and a television set to keep her company.
On the walls are photographs of her in the greatest roles in opera. A dazzling career. From 1954 to 19...
JAPAN: RACING FEVER
The Japanese love horse racing. Betting more than any other country, every year nearly 150,000 Japanese watch the Japan Cup, the high point of the Nipponese equestrian calendar. Through the accounts of those involved in the industry – breeders, owners, trainers, jockeys, journalists and punters – th...
MEMORIES OF SABLE
This is the story of three women who live, or once lived, on Sable, an island in Nova Scotia. Lost in the Atlantic Ocean, it contains a lifesaving station and a population of wild horses. The accounts of three women from three different periods, 1900, 1950 and today, interweave to paint a picture of...
