Shorts
Cafés in Peril: the Villages Fight Back
Bars and cafés are an institution in France. But over the years, their popularity has waned and their number has fallen from 200,000 in the 1960s to about 35,000 today. The reason: high costs and too few customers.
The closure of a café, which enables social contact, encourages a sense of communi...
GYMNASTICS, a no-sweat cultural workout
GYMNASTICS is a new form of timeless cultural programme. Each episode arouses our curiosity, directs our gaze towards extraordinary characters, and creates links between topics that, at first glance, have little in common. GYMNASTIQUE catches the spirit of the time, identifies emerging trends and te...
Masters of Art: A New Look at the Art of Costume
They are rare professions of which we know almost nothing. Yet, they nourish French creativity…
Episode dedicated to Christine Leclercq, costume designer
Christine Leclercq is a costume designer for the cinema, opera and theatre. She began in haute couture before creating her own costume design com...
Masters of Art: Marrying Stones and Light
They are rare professions of which we know almost nothing. Yet, they nourish French creativity…
Episode dedicated to à Hervé Obligi, lapidary sculptor.
Hervé first dreamed of being a cabinetmaker, but what he carves is much harder than wood. He is a lapidary sculptor; his palette is composed of lap...
Revenge of the Charcutiers
After the numerous health controversies that have hit the ham and sausage industry, it’s easy to imagine that traditional pork butchers are now on the verge of bankruptcy. At the centre of the debate: nitrite, the additive that gives ham its pink colour and allows products to keep longer.
Fifty g...
Welcome To Auntie – The Crédit Municipal
In a gloomy economic climate, the end of the month can be a difficult time for many people, and some have no other option than to part with their personal belongings.
This is why, since 1637, a socially responsible public institution has been coming to the aid of those in urgent need of cash: the...
Fast & Good
The wind of freedom is blowing through gastronomy: chefs around the world are abandoning their Michelin starred restaurants in order to restore the good name of a cuisine long eschewed by gourmets: street food. Fast & Good paints a portrait of this accessible and fun food, which promotes simplicity,...
Thingummybobs
In this collection, performers share anecdotes we’ve never heard before through their favourite objects. Whether ordinary or unusual, mundane or precious, this object tells us something unique and previously unknown about the artist.
Olivia Ruiz / Zahia Ziouani / Michel Polnareff / Alain Souchon ...
ALBERT SAUTEUR, a self-portrait
This film tells the story of a pictorial adventure. From October 2011 to May 2012, Albert Sauteur painted a self-portrait in 107 sessions. 107 sessions in which a camera framing the painting, placed behind the painter's head and connected to a computer, recorded every dab of paint. 21935 pictures of...
