Art, culture & music
WE ARE THE SAVAGES, Tales from the neighbourhood
Les Sauvages tells the story of a mysterious young woman who moves into a park on the edge of the “neighbourhood”, a place between the city and the forest. The local residents surround the young woman and ask her what she’s doing there. Soon, people from outside the community - the police, town plan...
GREGORIAN CHANT 2.0
Gregorian chant is beautiful and mysterious. It’s music that surpasses us, penetrates us, transports us to a distant past. And yet it can be heard much more widely today than we might imagine.
It is not only heard in churches or within the cloistered walls of monasteries, but also in recording st...
MONK, PANNONICA, an american story
Based on the discovery of a forgotten book of photographs and notes, the film recounts the relationship, outside the narrow social norms of America in the 1950s, between the white aristocrat Pannonica de Koenigswarter, author of the book, and the brilliant black pianist Thelonious Monk at a time whe...
THE RELIGIOUS ART MARKET
A dive into the enigmatic world of the religious art trade! A flourishing market that attracts thieves, stimulates international traffic and raises thorny questions about the spiritual, artistic and monetary value of objects.
Do inanimate objects have a soul? Today, many sacred art objects, such ...
The SPLENDID
Le Splendid. The name of a hotel written in capital letters on the front of this majestic building in the centre of Dax, a spa town in the Landes. For everyone, from Sacha Guitry, who went into exile there in the middle of the Second World War, to the toreros who prayed to all the saints there befor...
The Story of Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman is a mysterious artist. Hugely popular in the French-speaking world, he is distinguished as much by his immense fame as by his discreet public profile. A singer-songwriter, he doesn't like to comment on his work, because his songs speak for themselves. Inherently self-effacing, ...
SANCTUARY – SANCTUARIES
Shrines are attractive places that are not only spiritual, historical, and cultural, but part of our heritage. For many people, they have become the only tangible link with the Church, when on holiday or travelling.
This series offers viewers a sensory and spiritual experience as they discover th...
The Faunoteque
An educational and fun series that encourages a taste for classical music through the thousand and one ways in which it has depicted animals.
Performed by Célimène Daudet (presenter), Philippe Hersant (guest composer), Mathilde Calderini, Lisa Strauss and François Pineau (artist/musicians)
- La ...
ALBERT CAMUS, an icon of revolt
Novelist, philosopher, journalist, playwright… Albert Camus embodies the rebel who rejects totalitarianism and all forms of tyranny and oppression. His views have gone down in history and still resonate with current issues.
This film traces his struggles and commitments and reveals little-known a...
