Documentaries
Jacques Tourneur, the Medium : Filming the Invisible
There’s a mystery surrounding Jacques Tourneur. Where does this belief in the invisible world and the supernatural come from in a director so firmly anchored in reality?
When Jacques Tourneur said in an interview that many people live in fear and don’t know it who could have imagined that, despite h...
A BORDER IN THE JUNGLE
The border between French Guiana and Brazil has always been vague and poorly defined. The current maps are old and unreliable, because the region known as the "Tumuk Humuk Mountains", at the tri-point between Surinam, Brazil and French Guiana, is difficult to access.
A demarcation line was officiall...
A crazy hope
This crazy dream belongs to a man who almost lost his mind, and who, having recovered from his own illness, has devoted himself to helping the poorest of Africa’s sick: the insane.
In the big cities of Africa, the mentally ill can be seen wandering the streets, yelling and shouting, often completel...
A family affair
In the Gingembre family, hunting is a sport enjoyed by young and old alike. How did the two sons catch the hunting bug from their father? The tradition has been handed down from father to son for four generations. But it also works the other way. Julien Gingembre, now aged 27, is the one who, after ...
A Life in a Box
Every year, more than 3 million French people move house. And each time, it's the same concern: putting one’s whole life in boxes, then entrusting them to the more or less gentle hands of movers or friends, then changing one’s environment, getting used to a new address, forming new habits... Accordi...
A season hunting for wild boar with the brave Gauls
Boar beating, as practised by the hunters of Valleraugue, a village in the Cevennes nestled at the foot of Mount Aigoual.
It’s often said that wild boar hunters are a clan. Bound by hunting, and a mountain-dwelling and farming solidarity, these Valleraugue hunters give the film a special tone. Their...
Barthes de l’Adour, a living environment
Through a series of interwoven portraits of local people, most of them hunters, the film allows us to discover some very special wetlands. Focusing on the way that hunting is being used to maintain this welcoming environment, it is also a reflection on the future of these areas, made by man four cen...
Cagnes-sur-mer, a world in itself
The Cagnes-sur-Mer racecourse is a legendary racetrack. Very different from the other 250 racetracks in France because of its geographical location on the French Riviera with its feet in the Big Blue, it is also a "mixed" track, where the three equestrian disciplines, flat racing, jump racing and tr...
Chasing the baan
The Baan is the name the Indians give to the tidal bore wave of the Hooghly River, a major tributary of the Ganges. It is an ephemeral wave, sweeping away everything in its path and has always been feared by the inhabitants of the city of Calcutta.
Twice a day, with the changing tide, a wave impress...
CINEMA OF OUR TIME: ADOLFO ARRIETA, CADRÉ – DÉCADRÉ
As part of « Cinema of our time », a series of conversations conducted by André S. Labarthe.
Jean Narboni, historian and critic, and Adolfo Arrieta, French film-director of Spanish origin, review the cinematographic career of Adolfo Arrietta during a meeting in Montreuil. André S. Labarthe films t...
