Documentaries
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In the midst of a pandemic, a clown, a singer, a ballerina, a performer and a contortionist open up to us in the intimate setting of a remand centre, a symbol of lockdown, confinement and conditional freedom... Relationships to loneliness and social networks, the consequences of wearing a mask, resi...
AKHENATEN, the secrets of the forgotten Pharaoh
September 2020, near Luxor.
A team of Egyptian archaeologists has announced the discovery of a lost city buried under the sands, near the Valley of the Kings. 3400 years old, it is the largest ancient city ever unearthed and one of the greatest discoveries since the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Buried...
ARMA CHRISTI, stories of the Ukrainian resistance
Arma Christi is a documentary film which explores the spiritual side of the Ukrainian resistance. Since February 24th 2022, when the Russian full scale invasion started, Ukrainians have expressed their faith in themselves through prayer, art, or action. How does faith feed the huge resistance moveme...
BAKHITA the survivor, the slave who broke her chains
The story of Bakhita, a Sudanese slave who took holy orders in Italy at the end of the 19th century and was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 2000.
In Sudan at the end of the 19th century, Bakhita, ‘the lucky one’ in Arabic, was sold to a slave trader by slave traders. The documentary a...
BLAISE PASCAL, in Heart and Mind
Blaise Pascal's career was a fascinating adventure in knowledge. The demonstration of the existence of atmospheric pressure, the invention of the calculation of probabilities, the creation of the calculating machine… his discoveries revolutionised 17th century science. Just like the writing of his P...
Cleaning products: the Great Spring Clean
The Covid 19 pandemic transformed our habits and our relationship to hygiene and cleaning products have now become an issue.
The response from petrochemical manufacturers, who are always on the lookout for a chance to make a profit, has been swift: new ranges of high-performance products capable ...
COSPLAY versus STEAMPUNK
In the age of Manga, the ancient custom of dressing up in costume has mutated. No longer restricted to the confines of a few festive moments such as Carnival or Halloween, Cosplay, created in the United States, and the Steampunk movement have experienced a surge in popularity both in Japan and Europ...
DE GAULLE vs. CHURCHILL: memories of war
The film narrate the battle of memorialists that Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill fought while writing their respective Memoirs which tell their Second World War but not always from the same point of view. We rediscover Churchill and De Gaulle under a new light, as writers in a genre they hav...
E trema ancora, the other voice of Luchino Visconti
Ischia, a Mediterranean island in the Bay of Naples.
It is the place where Luchino Visconti, an Italian filmmaker, decided to set up his summer villa La Colombaia in 1945. Shortly after, in 1947,
he shot his masterpiece La Terra trema (The Earth trembles), a polemical film that openly denounces the ...
ECOLOGY, A BREATH OF FRESH AIR FOR THE CHURCH?
This documentary highlights the concrete actions being taken by the Church to protect the environment through Catholic environmental movements, while giving the clergy, theologians and experts a chance to voice their opinions on ecological issues.
Does the question of man's place in nature call f...
