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JAPAN: RACING FEVER
The Japanese love horse racing. Betting more than any other country, every year nearly 150,000 Japanese watch the Japan Cup, the high point of the Nipponese equestrian calendar. Through the accounts of those involved in the industry – breeders, owners, trainers, jockeys, journalists and punters – th...
LE CIRQUE DES MIRAGES
Recorded at Studio 105 "Charles Trenet" of Radio France, YANOWSKI, on vocals, and FREDERIC ALIOTTI, on piano, perform "Le cirque des mirages".
YANOWSKI and Frédéric ALIOTTI interpret texts and melodies of their composition:
- "The Apothecary"
- "As if you were there"
- "Madame ...
Marcus Miller: « Tutu revisited »
According to Marcus Miller, it’s Miles who guided him towards developing his own personal style. After playing in the Miles Band in the 1980s, Miller was given the opportunity to write and produce an album for his childhood hero. The result was the innovative album "Tutu".
"This musical project is o...
MEMORIES OF SABLE
This is the story of three women who live, or once lived, on Sable, an island in Nova Scotia. Lost in the Atlantic Ocean, it contains a lifesaving station and a population of wild horses. The accounts of three women from three different periods, 1900, 1950 and today, interweave to paint a picture of...
NOW THAT I’M FREE
Get out of jail and be free at last !
A relief yes, but most of all a distress.
Around Nantes, in order to prepare their reinsertion, prisoners near the end of their sentence are welcome by families during their out of jail permissions. Families like others, who took the decision to open their do...
Pianoscope, portrait of a festival
Documentary dedicated to the “Pianoscope” piano festival in Beauvais, directed by pianist Brigitte ENGERER. Presentation of the festival by Brigitte ENGERER, who details its artistic orientation. Evocation of the master classes organized as part of the festival. Interviews with pianists Jean-Philipp...
ROUGE CIEL
The Japanese Kunizo Matsumoto cannot read nor write, yet he has invented a form of writing that is both beautiful and enigmatic.
The American George Widener, who is capable of memorizing events of the last 1,500 years, can also predict the future, which he inscribes in his “magic squares”, on a pape...
Stars and Men
On the occasion of the World Year of Astronomy in 2009, this documentary offers to enter the wings of one of the biggest European Services of Astrophysics (the SAp) and to discover, behind research, those who are in charge of it.
For one year, we follow the everyday life of persons who live the coun...
Te Parataito no Malik
The death of Malik Joyeux four years ago turned him into a legend in Tahiti and throughout the surfing world, his adopted universe. For those in the know, his name is synonymous with a mythical place: Teahupoo, the wave that sublimated and transcended him, which gave him many magical moments and wit...
The Alpine Ibex
Whether it’s game or a protected species, the Alpine ibex is above all symbolic of a division between two concepts, one defended by hunters and the other by environmentalists.
Naturally placid, due to excessive hunting the Alpine ibex almost became extinct in France in the 1960s and was made a "ful...