Documentaries
THE TAHITI GRAFFITI FESTIVAL: who will be the world’s best graffiti artist?
In May 2015, thirty graffiti artists took part in a unique competition in a dream setting: the Ono’u International Graffiti Festival in Tahiti. For 4 days, they battled it out in a series of challenges, with spray paint their only weapon.
Under the watchful eye of a prestigious jury of photograph...
The Vaujours Kamikazes, Nuclear Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Opened in 1955 on the initiative of General de Gaulle, the Centre d’Etudes Atomiques de Vaujours (Vaujours Atomic Studies Centre) actively contributed to the creation of the French atomic bomb. In 1997, Jacques Chirac closed this site, located just 15 kilometers from Paris.
Now abandoned, the sit...
The wings of the Loire river
This is one of the most sensational duck hunts, taking place on one of the finest and noblest rivers of France and an exceptional World Heritage site, the Loire. Portraits of the hunters allow us to discover this wild river between Orleans and Tours. We accompany them as they hunt waterfowl, through...
Thierry Duvaldestin, itinerary of a self-made man
With a score of Group 1 wins to his name, including two Prix d’Amérique, and a reputation as a meticulous and highly successful trainer, Thierry Duvaldestin’s public image is well known. Our goal is to reveal the private man behind the professional.
Those who call him dour, taciturn and focused sole...
TORNADO HUNTERS 2: America in the Face of Danger
This documentary follows the scientific journey of 4 French hunters who travelled Tornado Alley for a month between the 8th of May and June 6th, 2015. Their aim was not only to chase tornadoes, but, first and foremost, to meet the scientists and the many people who, in the heart of America, are tryi...
TRANSSIBERIAN
9288 kilometers, 105 train stations, 13 days, 1 album. The French composer Thylacine decided to challenge himself : to find the inspiration and achieve a complete album for the time of a trip from Moscow to Vladivostok on the legendary rails of the Transsiberian Red Arrow.
For Thylacine, it’s an ex...
U Cignale, the boar of Corsica
We set off to discover the intricacies of hunting the Corsican wild boar, Sus scrofa meridionalis. The “Ile de Beauté” is a region in which the most deep-rooted hunting traditions are still resisting modernity. Several hunting techniques are used in Corsica, with a preference for hides and beaters, ...
WELCOME TO ANGKAR
This documentary film tells the saga of Thell, a 28-year-old Cambodian, snatched from her home by the Khmer Rouge, and a survivor of the Cambodian genocide (1975-1979).
The director uses the camera and a pencil to redraw these fragments of history, resurrecting them to recount the horrors endured a...
Within the Belly of the Great Organ of Notre-Dame
Olivier Latry, resident organist at Notre-Dame de Paris, takes us on a journey through the machinery of the Great Organ against a backdrop of history and the incredible events to which the instrument has been both a witness and protagonist.
The life of a titulaire des Grandes Orgues is ...
An Equine Career
How can you turn a love of horses into a full time career?
This collection examines the everyday lives of professionals working in the horse industry who all have one thing in common: they’ve turned their passion into a vocation.
From success to failure, from dream to reality, this series takes a c...
