Society
The Savoies, Memory of a Country
Over the course of ten episodes, amateur films from the past, images and modern day accounts combine to evoke the pluralistic memory and complex history of a region. Ultra-modern factories nestled in the hollows of valleys, popular imagery and folklore, memories of roped climbing parties, emigrants ...
the stones’ spirit
Every year, million of people enter into cathedrals. Young, old, men or women, they admire the nave silently, gathered in the same fascination.
This documentary makes us discover these sacred monuments to the quest of a spirit, the stone spirit. Fed with this spirit, sometimes for religious reasons,...
ANGEL
Angel, 36 year old Ecuadorian transvestite who prostitutes himself in Paris, after living five years in France, finally obtained his residence permit. For the Christmas holidays, he can go back home in Ecuador to see his family.
The film presents this two months trip: a deep immersion in a complex ...
Arena Mexico
Portraits of informal workers in Mexico City. They comme and use ingenious ways and fantasy to sell their wares or services. We follow his day to day life, as if they entered a big arena of Lucha Libre, ready for combat. Their strategies to survive, their unique way of entering the scene and their d...
Going With the Seasons
In the 1950s, foreseeing the permanent disappearance of an agricultural tradition that had been maintained for centuries by generations of farmers, a filmmaker captured the last vestiges of a dying lifestyle in a rural village in Normandy.
60 years later, the senior citizens of the same village look...
NOW THAT I’M FREE
Get out of jail and be free at last !
A relief yes, but most of all a distress.
Around Nantes, in order to prepare their reinsertion, prisoners near the end of their sentence are welcome by families during their out of jail permissions. Families like others, who took the decision to open their do...
The World and Us – 15 year-olds
Who are they and what are their dreams ? From privileged backgrounds or apprentices, student fishermen and farmers, these 15-year-olds invite us to share their daily lives, their joys and their sorrows. Parents, love, sexuality, studies, work, politics… Teenagers full of life, astonishingly mature a...
Violent Children: School on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Today, 5.9% of children under 15 years of age have behavioural problems.
But this juvenile violence is not spontaneous. It seems evident that the children concerned are all exposed to an extreme level of violence either at home or in the outside world.
Many of them come from broken homes.
Behind the...
Movimento
This portrait of Frère Betto, a leading figure in the social struggle in Brazil, takes us back to the roots of the country’s social movements, examining their political and social context at each stage of their development, from the first hours of the dictatorship in 1964 to the current day.
Frère...
New York, Saint Vincent de Paul… A business of scruples
The French-speaking Church in New York is threatened with closure.
The Bishop of New York is contemplating the closure of fifteen Catholic churches in the city. Amongst them is the French church of Saint-Vincent de Paul, founded by the Pères de la Miséricorde in 1841, the only French-speaking churc...
