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From Cimabue to Giotto – The First Italian Masters
Following the rediscovery of a 750-year-old painting and its recent entry into the Louvre’s collection after a record-breaking auction sale (€24 million), the film traces the footsteps of a little-known artist who played a fundamental role in the history of Western painting: the Tuscan painter Cimab...
From Father Joffroy to Brother Rosaire
Evangelizing on African soil has long been the mission of the Spiritans.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the parish of Oussouye, in Casamance (southern Senegal), Father Joffroy's letters revive memories of the first baptized.
In this very traditional region, where the kings are sti...
HERCULINE BARBIN (Festival d’Avignon 2024)
In 1868 in Paris, a man took his own life, leaving behind a set of memoirs. Designated female at birth, Herculine Adélaïde Barbin changed sex and became Abel. Her passionate pen recounts the torments and emotions of a young girl, and ends with the bitter despair of a man. In 1978, Michel Foucault p...
HUUSH (Festival Grandes Marées 2024)
These three musicians from Rennes decided to make a lot of noise with this new electro rock project, devised as a declaration of love to partying and letting go. The drums hit hard, the guitar oscillates between technoid arpeggios and saturated sound, while the synthetic bass supports the powerful b...
Isidore’s Great Dream
High on the hills of the Saint-Chéron district in Chartres lies a most unusual home: the Maison Picassiette. For 25 years, Raymond Isidore—nicknamed “Picassiette”—transformed every corner of his house using fragments of colorful mosaics. Every surface is covered in vibrant shards of broken ceramics,...
Izieu’s children deportation: Never Forgiven or Forgotten
Through sheer determination, Sabine Zlatin helped to publicise the story of the roundup of the children of Izieu in April 1944 and to make it part of the history of France.
In July 1933, a 27-year-old woman tried to kill herself with a revolver on Boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris. Who was she?...
JUSTINA LEE BROWN – Leman Blues Festival
Justina Lee Brown, vocals
Nic Nierdermann, guitar
Thoam Wettstein, bass
Christof Jaussi, drums
Angelo Signore, keyboards
David Stauffacher, percussion
Nigerian singer-songwriter Justina Lee Brown expresses in her lyrics the reality of her life, the struggle...
LAVACH’ – Festival Jazz au Sommet
Sévane Stépanian : vocals, accordion
Yohan Rochetta : violin, backing vocals
Florian Garcin : electric guitar, backing vocals
Fred Birau Maliszewski : drums, backing vocals
Insatiable explorers of the world's cultures, the quartet bring their cosmopolitan groove to the stage, their ...
Les Bas Buissons, Memories of a Former Sanatorium
In the heart of the Muette woods in Dreux, restoration work is underway across several kilometers of ruins. The Bas Buissons site—once home to one of the largest sanatoriums in France—is now at the center of a major real estate redevelopment project.
Built in 1928 and abandoned since the 1990s, t...
