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A City at Night: Lille the Extravagant
With over a million inhabitants, Lille has earned a reputation as a party city after dark. From the Wazemmes district, where bars line the streets, to the Grand-Place and Old Lille, the city reveals its full eccentricity. Between celebrations and mysteries, it’s full of colorful characters. From sun...
A City at Night: Marseille the Unexpected
Marseille is often associated with images of the northern districts in flames and overflowing trash bins. But above all, it is a festive, joyful city, at the forefront of many trends that truly come alive… at night! Nighttime in Marseille is a world where anything seems possible—for seasoned partygo...
CHILDREN OF THE STOCK-CAR
Dive into the world of stock cars, a popular sport in the French countryside
A mechanical sport imported from the USA in 1953, stock car racing continues to attract thousands of enthusiasts to the French countryside today. But environmental pressure could soon get the better of this typ...
CITY AND BEYOND
A City at Night : MARSEILLE THE UNEXPECTED – 57’
Direction : Lily Eclimont / Production : DURITE
Marseille is often associated with images of the northern districts in flames and overflowing trash bins. But above all, it is a festive, joyful city, at the forefront of many trends that truly co...
GRANDVILLE, or the Art of Aping the World
Dive into the phantasmagorical world of the illustrator Grandville!
Queen fans may know him—one of his drawings, The Juggler of Worlds, inspired the cover of the band’s final album, Innuendo. Some even believe that the same image influenced the famous globe-juggling scene in Charlie Chaplin’s The G...
MOTHER GENEVIÈVE AND HER SISTERS
“Unusual,” “disconcerting,” even “insolent.” There is no shortage of adjectives to describe the work and personality of Marcelle Gallois, a brilliant young woman with a rebellious spirit who continued to stand out for her talent when she entered the Monastery of Saint Louis du Temple in Paris in 191...
THE CURSE OF COURBEFY
In the heart of France, a ghost village resists every attempt at rebirth. Courbefy — a rural ghost story where reality turns into legend.
In the Limousin region of central France lies Courbefy, a small village abandoned decades ago and seemingly trapped in time. Sold, resold, coveted by...
THE DEBT
This film tells the story of my family between 1943 and the present day, between Amiens, Calais and Berlin. It's a film about what we pass on beyond what we would like to, and about what we receive that we don't want.
I was born three decades after the fall of the Nazi regime.
A month after th...
THIS STRENGTH WITHIN THEM
Thirteen years ago, the director filmed the troubled childhoods of teenagers who had been removed from their families by Child Protective Services and placed in a residential home in the Vosges region.
Today, she meets these young people again, now adults.
How have they built their lives after s...
