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What makes Darry Cowl run?
Sacha Guitry cast him as a wacky director at the beginning of his career. Fifty years later, Alain Resnais allowed him to elegantly close the door as a concierge. In between, the restless and outlandish poet Darry Cowl appeared in 140 films and 30 plays, wrote and directed many others, and composed ...
THE WOMEN IN YELLOW
November 17th, 2018 marked a turning point in France’s social and political history. Over the months, citizens started speaking out in an unprecedented way with the spontaneous creation of the Gilet Jaune (Yellow Vest) movement. Every Saturday all over France, people mobilised and fraternised on rou...
Ploughing Their Own Furrow
Gone are the days when they were just farmers’ daughters or wives! Today they have their own farms and create their own dreams...
Valentine, Ophélie, and Charlène are all under 25, but they are already running their own farms, managing their own herds of cows or sheep and cultivating hundreds of ...
The Story of Renan
This is the story of a long-awaited encounter: the tale of the adoption of a 10-year old child who will have to make peace with his past.
It is a film that tells the story of a same sex couple, whose desire to become parents is severely put to the test. After battling for years, Philippe and Franço...
Chronicle of an adoption
This is the intimate and heartbreaking story of two couples trying to adopt a child. For 4 years we followed Céline and Cédric, Philippe and François on their long road to adoption.
A film that reflects upon the many ways in which we become parents, and questions society on its prejudices and ambiv...
A Good Yarn
They are known as "Les Bleuforêt" and they are the pride of the Vosges. Among the last textile workers in France, these few dozen women are the successors to the great history of spinning, weaving and garment manufacturing in the Grand Est region.
Thirty years have passed since the furious wave t...
Heading for the light
It’s an adventure that’s totally unique in France: the story of 11 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who have failed at school or been unable to find their place in the world of work, who will enact the stories of their lives and rebuild themselves.
For 7 months, as part of a civic service...
Tell them I’m alive
This film focuses on the silence that is imposed on parents when their son or daughter dies. After the death of their child, four parents tell for the first time how, in addition to the agony of loss, they have to adapt to the expectations of a society in which death is stifled, buried.
For a par...
The CFTC, 100 years of Christian trade unionism
The CFTC (French Confederation of Christian Workers) celebrated its 100th anniversary in November 2019. However, the trade union almost failed to come into being and could have disappeared on several occasions.
This film describes the birth of the CFTC and the key moments of its history, and reve...
Towards life, the Goumiers
While the modern world pushes us to go faster and faster, to exchange messages, to “like” and to retweet, for the last 50 years, the Goum “raids” have been inviting everyone to take a break, to find themselves and to find God.
Neither a spiritual retreat, nor a hike, nor a trek, the 8-day Goum “rai...
