Documentaries
New York, Saint Vincent de Paul… A business of scruples
The French-speaking Church in New York is threatened with closure.
The Bishop of New York is contemplating the closure of fifteen Catholic churches in the city. Amongst them is the French church of Saint-Vincent de Paul, founded by the Pères de la Miséricorde in 1841, the only French-speaking churc...
One Week in Parajuru
Parajuru is a fishing village located on the north-east coast of Brazil. For three years, a wealthy Austrian, Giselle, has been investing there for developing tourism: buying lands, building houses and a luxury hotel... Gisi, as she is called there, acts in the economic field but also carries out so...
PORTRAIT of the Bel Air festival: Renaud Capuçon & Friends
The story of the Bel-Air Chamber Music Festival as told by the festival's artistic director, violinist Renaud Capuçon.
Founded by Renaud Capuçon, the Bel-Air Festival brings together the great names of classical music in a convivial atmosphere every year, while also giving young musicia...
Success School
The exemplary story of a group of young people from disadvantaged areas and schools qualified as ZEPS (areas targeted for special help in education) as they join a class in a prestigious college to prepare them for the entrance to the Grandes Ecoles de commerce (the competitive-entrance, higher educ...
THE GUARDIANS OF RAPA NUI
3,700 inhabitants and almost as many horses. One more mystery for the most remote piece of land in the world. In the shadow of the famous moai of Easter Island, the animal is king. Sixteen-year-old Nico is one of the residents of this far-flung island. Between work on the family horse-breeding farm ...
The Rock Ptarmigan
The Rock Ptarmigan
The Rock Ptarmigan, known colloquially as the Snow Chicken in the USA, is an extremely discreet bird. We follow a team of scientists and technicians as they carry out a study and research programme on this emblematic Alpine bird. Anecdotes, encounters, field work… Our three specia...
The Wisdom of Bulle OGIER
Through this documentary portrait, the French actress Bulle Ogier talks for the first time about her exceptional career.
As mysterious as she is endearing, the actress Bulle Ogier has had many adventures: counterculture, post-situ, modernity, arthouse cinema, meeting Duras... No one can claim to hav...
YAMANA, BACK TO PATAGONIA
Where does our need for elsewhere, traveling and adventure come from? What are we expecting from these definitive or momentary exiles ending up sometimes in unfulfilled expectations? Where do they lead us?
Almost ten years after his first trip in Patagonia, Fabrice Marquat, “motorbike-film maker”, ...
ARTISTIC CONFESSIONS
A series of portraits of artists filmed during the recording of albums. Musical extracts, interviews and sequences shot in the studio…
Gérard Caussé : Bach suites (11’ – 2010)
Renaud Capuçon : Beethoven Korngold (20’ – 2014)
Nathalie Dessay, Ludovic Tezier : Brahms Requiem (20’ ...