Documentaries
GHOSTS OF AN EMPIRE
This documentary explores the colonial imagination of Portuguese cinema since the beginning of the 20th century.100 years of cinema. As a contrast to the productions that related imperial domination, films and gazes of different generation of Portuguese filmmakers, as well as their testimonies, unma...
GIRL CULTURE
They are 13 years old. They enter the 8th grade, and will go through a year filled with « first times »: boys, hormones, the changing body. Who are these young girls from high school? What do they do, what do they talk about, what do they dream about? Girl culture is the chronicle of these teenagers...
ISTRES 125: XXL air base
Go behind the scenes of France's most iconic, secure and largest air base.
For more than a century, the 125 d´Istres air base has stood the test of time and conflict to become a major centre of French defence: 2,500 hectares, 40 kilometres of fences, within which 5,000 soldiers are organised into...
MEDICS
Illness is not the worst problem of a doctor. It’s also often the patient. When a practicioner asks us questions about what we smoke, eat, and drink, do we always tell the truth? We spent months with the practicioners and the patients of a big hospital. We have also followed the patients to see how ...
Oxford Trobadors
Denis Noble, an emeritus professor in physiology, has spent his whole life studying heart beat while his own beat at the rhythm of “Se santa”, the Occitan anthem. Founder of a 5 musicians group (he’s a singer himself), he is rehearsing before a concert with his friends. Forty years ago, Denis, a dan...
Ploughing Their Own Furrow
Gone are the days when they were just farmers’ daughters or wives! Today they have their own farms and create their own dreams...
Valentine, Ophélie, and Charlène are all under 25, but they are already running their own farms, managing their own herds of cows or sheep and cultivating hundreds of ...
Skateboard : the olympic aim
In August 2016, skateboarding became an Olympic discipline, forever impacting 40 years of counterculture. Now it is an Olympic sport and countries all over the world are creating their national team. In 2017, France have been among the first to gather a handful of people from the four corners of the...
Stierlitz, hidden face of the cold war
In the 1970s, a hit soap opera broadcast on the leading Russian state channel, "17 Moments of Spring", served up Soviet propaganda during the Cold War. Stierlitz, the hero of the series, became incredibly famous in Russia and was the antithesis of James Bond, who promoted Western values.
Through th...
Tell them I’m alive
This film focuses on the silence that is imposed on parents when their son or daughter dies. After the death of their child, four parents tell for the first time how, in addition to the agony of loss, they have to adapt to the expectations of a society in which death is stifled, buried.
For a par...
