Documentaries
Cafés in Peril: the Villages Fight Back
Bars and cafés are an institution in France. But over the years, their popularity has waned and their number has fallen from 200,000 in the 1960s to about 35,000 today. The reason: high costs and too few customers.
The closure of a café, which enables social contact, encourages a sense of communi...
Dakar Surf City
Following in the footsteps of Oumar Seye, the first professional surfer from Sub-Saharen Africa, Cherif, Paké, Assane and Mbabou dream of becoming pro surfers. These 4 childhood friends from the village of Ngor in Dakar make up Senegal’s national surf team and will represent their country at the ISA...
DREAM MOUNTAINS: Spitzbergen
For this new episode of the series, Carole leaves with her eight-year-old son Nils for the wild mountains of Spitsbergen. To supervise this exploration, they are accompanied by Jean Bouchet, the mountain guide and specialist in polar expeditions. Located just 1,100 km from the North Pole, the Norweg...
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...
HELSINKI FESTIVAL
“Finland's largest multidisciplinary artistic festival invades the city, offering a very diverse and extraordinary program: classical or pop music concerts, theater or contemporary dance evenings, works of plastic arts or creations of the seventh art, children's events … At the Helsinki festival, ar...
HOTEL 128, Street Art City
In the midst of the Bourbonnais countryside, one finds a most extraordinary place: Street Art City. Unique of its kind, it is the only art residency in the world solely dedicated to street art. The 128 Hotel is certainly the main reason of the residency aura: every year artists are invited to occupy...
Jenifer’s Story
The French got to know Jenifer in 2002 when she won the first series of Star Academy, TF1's musical talent show. She was catapulted to stardom with a debut album, Jenifer, which topped the charts with two hit singles J’attends l'Amour and Au Soleil.
Since then, Jenifer has been hounded by the papa...
Julien in the Trees
Julien in the Trees is the portrait of a bright young man, more of an observer than a hunter, torn between modernity and tradition. During a season of pigeon hunting with his uncle, Julien immerses us with humor in the great Landes forest, where he carries out his work as a pruner and hunts pigeons...
Killing the Silence
Killing the Silence is story of liberation and shows the importance of speech in post-traumatic stress disorder.
Returning from the front with physical and psychological wounds, soldiers who served in the three armies after 1990 tell their stories. After a trauma, one of the immediate refuges is sil...
