Documentaries
Dear Laurent
Through a conjunction of geological and hydrographical phenomena, nature can sometimes offer us some truly wonderful sights. This point is perfectly illustrated by the Courant d’Huchet. With its source in the Étang de Léon in the southern Landes, this tiny river, just 9km long, meanders through a fe...
DREAMS AS BIG AS THE WORLD
In 2020, Dorianne turned 20 - an age when anything and everything is possible and dreams are as big as the world is vast. But then came Covid. After a wave of depression, which almost drowned her, she decided to do something… With her friends and family, she set up a free flea market to respond to t...
EXTRAMUROS, a sentence without walls
Extramuros, a sentence without walls accompanies convicts who serve part of their sentence outside the walls of the prison. Speech plays a key role in the relationship that they develop with Marie, the educator at their side during the Exterior Placement step from which they benefit. It is a profoun...
FAR AHEAD
This is the story of a son who wants to save his father.
His name is Mohamad, he is 18 and now lives in the south of France with his parents and little sister. After surviving the Syrian war and a perilous crossing of the Mediterranean on a makeshift boat, his family testifies to the possibility ...
GENERATION SEXT
Never has sex seemed so present, within sight and within reach, in a hyper-sexualised society. The Internet, apps, dating sites... the product is freely available, and over-consumed with great ease and joy, especially, we’re led to believe, by young people. But the reality is very different! To unde...
GREGORIAN CHANT 2.0
Gregorian chant is beautiful and mysterious. It’s music that surpasses us, penetrates us, transports us to a distant past. And yet it can be heard much more widely today than we might imagine.
It is not only heard in churches or within the cloistered walls of monasteries, but also in recording st...
MONK, PANNONICA, an american story
Based on the discovery of a forgotten book of photographs and notes, the film recounts the relationship, outside the narrow social norms of America in the 1950s, between the white aristocrat Pannonica de Koenigswarter, author of the book, and the brilliant black pianist Thelonious Monk at a time whe...
NUCLEAR SUBMARINE, high-risk demolition
The flagship of the nuclear deterrent component of the French Navy, the Indomptable submarine has reached the end of the road. The final stage of her remarkable career: deconstruction.
It’s a difficult task, combining technology and human expertise: "There is no more complicated an object than a ...
RICHARD ON EARTH (RICHARD SUR TERRE)
Three years ago, Richard Berthaud dropped everything to embark upon a very unusual venture: the defence of hunting on social networks. And in this time of extremely violent attacks by extreme anti-hunting groups, the voice of Richard sur Terre has emerged as something out of the ordinary, offering a...
SAINT-NAZAIRE BRIDGE, the longest bridge in France
At 3,356 metres in length, since its inauguration 45 years ago the Pont de Saint-Nazaire has remained the longest bridge in France. Every year, this new road, which some had been dreaming of for decades, is used by 11 million vehicles. This gigantic structure spans the Loire estuary to link the town...
