Documentaries
The Mediterranean Youth Orchestra
Documentary dedicated to the history and functioning of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra on the occasion of their 20th anniversary celebrated in Corsica.
Commentary on archive images of concerts which alternates with interviews with the president of the Jeunesse Musicales de Méditerranée, the fo...
The Spirit of the Canoe
Rocked by the festive atmosphere and the breathtaking images of the biggest canoe race in the world, the Hawaïki Nui Va’a, we shall gradually discover the existence of the spirit of the canoe. Matahi Brightwell is today building a double canoe, baptized the Hawaïki Nui 2, which will link the Christm...
Welcome to Paradise
Today, the mention of the name “Tahiti” inevitably conjures up pictures of a dream world. These tropical islands are by no means ordinary, and continue to fuel our collective imagination. But at this moment in time, caught between French rule and independence, between tradition and modernism, the Po...
Who’s afraid of Michel Gondry ?
Portrait of Michel Gondry, French independant film director, screenwriter, and producer.
25 years have passed since Michel Gondry first started out assembling short films with bits and pieces in a Paris flat to being the 2005 Academy Award Winner for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
Cinemat...
ZURICH 4 – PARIS 18
Two cities, two neighborhoods, six artists ; « Zurich 4 – Paris 18 » is a look at two colorful and dark universes, where live together a number of cultures, languages and religions. It is the story of two old workers’ neighborhoods impacted by immigration, poverty but also by solidarity, politic and...
COMOROS OTHERWISE : ECO-FORESTERS IN THE COMOROS
Born in The Comoros, Bush finds his way every day through the forest, machete in his hand, in this hostile environment. The jungle, he knows it by heart.
Bush has dedicated himself to the preservation of a rare species of bats, Livingstone’s fruit bats. Around only 700 of them are still living toda...
COMOROS OTHERWISE : MAHMOUD, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Moroni Harbour, on the Grande Comore Island…
Mahmoud Mradabi, sixty years old, is a real businessman. He is managing the most important fisheries of the country hiring 25 fishermen fishing between 2 and 8 tons of fish per month. This retired military born in The Comoros has now chosen to work in the...
EUSKARA
EUSKARA is a journey through the North Basque country (the French Basque country) reaching out to meet the “Euskalduns” « those that own the Basque », which is around 25% of the Basque speaking population living according to the ancestral culture and who made the decision to speak and transmit their...
GUYANA OTHERWISE : A FACTORY IN THE JUNGLE
In the middle of the Amazonian forest, 1 day of navigation away from the coast and two days away from Georgetown, on the bank of the Barima River, stands “Amazon Caribbean”, a factory producing hearts of palm with its 200 employees and 600 pickers, all Amerindians.
Presenting the whole hearts of pa...
GUYANA OTHERWISE : A SINGULAR FRIENDSHIP
June 2006. For his new expedition, Philippe Kok, a Belgian herpetologist, will go to the natural reserve of Kaieteur that hosts one of the highest waterfalls in the world. This batrachians and reptiles’ specialist knows the region well : each year, he discovers new endemic species. He is accompanied...
