Art, culture & music
City of Dance
This documentary gives the floor to hip-hop artists and dancers on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Suresnes Cités Danse festival. For several weeks, we follow the dancers and choreographers from the first auditions through rehearsals to the final show, sharing their lives, their joy and ...
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF VALERIAN : The Story of Page 52
Few months before Luc Besson' movie "Valérian and the city of the 1000 planets" release, this documentary is an immersion” within the studio of JEAN-CLAUDE MÉZIÈRES, a master of the 9th Art and co-creator with PIERRE CHRISTIN of the “VALÉRIAN” series.
A day-by-day, real-time tutorial in the art of...
Montserrat Figueras
Musical portrait of a major figure in early music and the leading voice of a vast Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque repertoire.
Through interviews and musical extracts, Spanish soprano Montserrat Figueras takes us on musical and spiritual quest, in which she tells us about her life and shares her...
Musical portrait of Jean Philippe Rameau
This 2-part documentary traces Rameau’s life: his struggles, his successes and the originality of his style and writing, which made him one of the greatest composers in the history of French music.
Through extracts from a performance of one of his major works, “les surprises de l’amour ”, and int...
The Beat of the Gamba: Africa in the Heart of Brazilian Amazonia
Gamba is a fusion of African music brought to Amazonia by the slaves with Indian songs and missionary hymns. In the 19th century, slaves fleeing the plantations and the hardships of captivity took refuge in the forest. They lived there with the Indians, who taught them to survive in the hostile envi...
The Marriage of Figaro, Diary of a Creation
In June 2012, a new version of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro opened at the Opéra de Bordeaux, directed by Laurent Laffargue. The filmmakers followed the director and his team throughout the nine months it took to produce the opera. From the first preparatory meetings to the night of the dress rehe...
TO BLO DAYI, journey to the roots of Capoeira
The roots of Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, can be traced back to the fighting techniques and dances brought to Brazil by African slaves.
A group of French and Brazilian capoeiristas decide to go to the Capoeira Rencontres Internationales in Benin, the birthplace of a “game” synonymous to...
VLADIMIR VELICKOVIC, into the dark
Vladimir Velickovic is a Serbian painter. He has been living and working in Paris since 1965. Never leaving his studio, day after day, we see him working on huge paintings and large-scale drawings. While he is painting, Velickovic talks about himself and his work. He is a man who thinks out loud abo...
A barrel of laughs, 25 years of Tambours du Bronx
Evoking the Tambours' carreer this documentary takes us on a journey inside one of the most special bands in today's musical landscape. What started as a small band in a small industrial town of France has turned into an international phenomenon and their concerts have become major events in interna...
Alice Coote, Nathalie Dessay, Orfeon Donotiarra : MAHLER Symphony # 2 “Resurrection” (Artistic Confessions)
Artistic confessions on an absolute masterpiece of the post-Romantic repertoire that WARNER recorded for the first time: Mahler's titanic Symphony No. 2, a true orchestral vessel requiring at least 150 musicians and choristers as well as 2 singers. It was Paavo Jarvi, future conductor of the Paris O...
