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Armenians, the Hidden Grandmothers
The director Alexandra Routhiau Mikaélian, French of Armenian origin, made a promise to her grandfather, to find the members of their family in Turkey based on a simple name, Shahimé, this sister he was never able to meet. From this journey through time in search of the living, Alexandra will lift t...
Jordi Savall musical portrait & concert FOLIAS ANTIGUAS & CRIOLLAS
Interviews and concert FOLÍAS ANTIGUAS & CRIOLLAS "Del Antiguo al Nuevo Mundo", filmed at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda
Full-length version: 94’
Short version: 60’
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Soloists of La Capella Reial de Catalunya :
Elionor Martínez, soprano
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THE POSTMAN OF NAGASAKI
On August 9th1945, a sixteen year old postman is delivering mail when the atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki. In his book “The Postman of Nagasaki” published in 1984, Peter Townsend describes not only Sumiteru Taniguchi’s struggle to survive but also the horrifying consequences he endured afterwards...
14-18: THE VOLUNTARY PRISONER
This film is first and foremost a discovery. Nine volumes of a diary written during the First World War and found in a plastic bag left at an Emmaüs outside Paris.
Achille Bourgin, a 33-year-old father and post office clerk, did not go to the Front, having been exempted due to tuberculosis. To a...
1924: the Pride of Black Paris
Opening in 1924 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, the most famous West Indian dance hall in the capital, the Bal Blomet, was the crucible of a new black identity.
It was there, far from accusing eyes, that the creoles of Paris and integrated workers, artists, intellectuals and “revolutionaries...
A DOCTOR LIKE NO OTHER
In Roubaix, Dr Lamarre still practises family medicine, the old-fashioned way. He is one of the last GPs who takes the time to get to know each of his patients, and to follow them throughout their lives. With a resolutely human view of medicine and the Hippocratic oath, he chose to practise here - o...
Alice and Violette (Festival d’Avignon 2024)
What does it mean to be a woman in sport? Answering this question is almost the same as answering the question of what it means to be a woman at all. If we believe that sport is a way of surpassing oneself to achieve self-fulfilment, then everyone should have access to it. To exist, to express ourse...
BULLYING AT SCHOOL: OUR LIVES AFTERWARDS
What if we were to change our point of view? This documentary highlights the suffering experienced by adults who, as children, were bullied at school.
Ten, twenty or thirty years later, the trauma is still very real. By following the lives of Nathalie, Laurine and Samuel, this film exposes the lo...
CLOSER TO HER, OUR LADY OF KIBEHO
The 12th Marion apparition site to be approved by the Vatican, the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows in Kibeho, Rwanda, remains an isolated case in the long history of the Virgin Mary, being both a place of piety and genocide.
Today, 30 years after the fratricidal atrocities, Kibeho has onc...
COSPLAY: THEY LIVE LIKE SUPERHEROS
Whether they move at lightning speed, shoot lasers with their eyes, or lift cars at arm's length, these heroes have accompanied our childhood through comics, cartoons, films and series.
If once they reach adulthood, most people have left their comics and figurines behind, others have seen this lo...
