Parenting
BEING A FATHER
The "new" fathers: what does being a father mean today?
What is a father’s place in a parental couple or in society today? Through interviews with specialists, psychotherapists, scientists, doctors, and historians, but above all through the touching testimonies of fathers themselves, the film ask...
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...
The Tale of Renan
This is the story of a long-awaited encounter: the tale of the adoption of a 10-year old child who will have to make peace with his past.
It is a film that tells the story of a same sex couple, whose desire to become parents is severely put to the test. After battling for years, Philippe and Fran...
Heading for the light
It’s an adventure that’s totally unique in France: the story of 11 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who have failed at school or been unable to find their place in the world of work, who will enact the stories of their lives and rebuild themselves.
For 7 months, as part of a civic service...
SKINNED ALIVE
Bursts of laughter, people speaking in Pashtun, English, Arabic, French and Bambara… Running, shouting, playing, kissing… Forty kilometres from Chartres, in the Château des Vaux, the Apprentis d’Auteuil foundation opens its doors to us for the very first time. This documentary follows the journeys o...
Chronicle of an adoption
This is the intimate and heartbreaking story of two couples trying to adopt a child. For 4 years we followed Céline and Cédric, Philippe and François on their long road to adoption.
A film that reflects upon the many ways in which we become parents, and questions society on its prejudices and ambiv...
Parents for life
Their son is a criminal and they will bear this cross forever. They are the parents of Matthieu, who in 2011, at a boarding school in Chambon sur Lignon, killed his friend, Agnès, who was 13 years old. To date in France, Matthieu is the only person to have been sentenced to life imprisonment for a c...
ADOPTION: THE DAY I MET MY CHILD
The arrival of a child is a mini revolution: it turns a household upside down. Valérie, Thierry, Steve and Richere have always dreamed of being parents. For them, adoption is the only way to make the dream a reality. Whether on their own or in a couple, achieving their goal has involved endless red ...
For the Children of Cambodia
This is the story of a love affair between a French couple, Sandra and Gilles, and a country, Cambodia. The pair gave up everything to devote their lives to helping Cambodian children. In this country, in which 30% of the population lives beneath the poverty line, children are the first to suffer, f...
