Documentaries
NY Indies, the other american cinema
The film traces the independent movement from Robert Downey Sr., to the new comers, all producing films with low budgets, such as directors (Tom Di Cillo, Amos Kollek), producers (Gill Holland, Lemore Syvan, Avram Ludwig), cinematographers (Ellen Kuras), wardrobe designers (Ruth Carter)… as well as ...
Pietragalla, Between Heaven and Earth
Portrait of the French dancer and choreographer Marie-Claude Pietragalla.
Discipline, rigour, will and commitment are all adjectives that define the temperament of Marie-Claude Pietragalla, who was named principal dancer of the Ballet de l’Opera National Opera de Paris in 1990.
At 35, she decided t...
PRINCE OF THE DESERT
The Arabian horse: an animal whose character has been formed under the harsh conditions of desert life and whose bloodlines can be found in almost every equine breed today. It has inspired the greatest artists. It has fascinated men. It is the only animal to have conquered the world on an artistic, ...
Savoury Paris
They are coming from the 5 continents. They share the same passion: cooking. They all have decided to move to Paris, the world capital of gastronomy. Their aim is not to learn how to cook in a French way but to represent their own cuisine, their homeland’s one. Beyond their talents of chef, they all...
Taïg Khris at the Eiffel Tower : behind the scenes
On may 29th 2010, Taïg Khris took up a crazy challenge : a roller jump from the 1st floor of the emblematic Eiffel tower in Paris and won the world record of roller jumps : more than 40 meters !
Why this 34-years-old men wanted to achieve such a crazy thing ? How did he physically and mentally get p...
The mystery of Atom Egoyan
This film attempts to discover the creative process of the filmmaker Atom Egoyan and shed some light on the most enigmatic and singular aspect of his work: his writing.
The documentary looks back at his 13 feature films, but also his very first unpublished essays, which most certainly formed the bas...
THE PERFECT PICTURE
A man travels on his own through Chile, searching for another man captured in a photograph he found in a Parisian street 10 years previously.
Why Chile? Because you have to start somewhere...
This absurd quest is the starting point for an incredible journey, filled with people who just might have se...
The Pioneers
Firmly turning our backs on "unbridled capitalism", convinced that money does not bring happiness and that its fanatical pursuit is destroying both man and the Earth, we all dream of living in a better world. A world in which there’s a middle way, somewhere in between the New Age hippies raising goa...
THE POLE FINISTERE SKIPPERS’ TRAINING CENTER
The Pole Finistere Course au Large from Foret-Fouesnant. A place where all the last three winners of the Vendée Globe, Route du Rhum and Solitaire du Figaro races are coming from...
During a year, we will follow a whole trainings session with 3 young skippers next to their famous elders.
Through t...
The Savoies, Memory of a Country
Over the course of ten episodes, amateur films from the past, images and modern day accounts combine to evoke the pluralistic memory and complex history of a region. Ultra-modern factories nestled in the hollows of valleys, popular imagery and folklore, memories of roped climbing parties, emigrants ...