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FAIR TRADE TRAVELLERS
In each episode, a celebrity accompanies an environmental charity on a mission in a popular tourist destination. For the celebrity it’s an opportunity to take an initiatory - and sustainable - journey. For the charity, it’s a chance to have a spotlight shone on their work.
Far from the movie ligh...
BOOGIE BEASTS
This Belgian quartet delivers obscene grooves, hypnotic slide guitar, screaming harmonica, and a fuzz-soaked frenzy. Boogie Beasts’ love for electric Delta blues translates into a sound all their own.
Picture this: The Black Keys jamming with John Lee Hooker in the early hours of the morning, or ...
The comedy of K.
The Comedy of K. is a play built from a selection of Franz Kafka's narrative fragments, taken from the latest translation of the Complete Works, published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 2018 and 2022.
K., amnesiac and without a past, is catapulted onto the stage.
Invited to an evening gath...
WOMEN IN RESISTANCE
Izieu’s children deportation: Never Forgiven or Forgotten – 2024 (52’)
The story of the forty-four children of the Izieu colony, who were rounded up by Klaus Barbie in April 1944 along with their educators and most of whom were murdered in Auschwitz, has become emblematic of the persecution and d...
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...
