Society
I Have Nettles on My Balcony
In a working-class district of Toulouse, residents with modest incomes are questioning the way they eat. How can they manage to eat in a healthy and balanced way on a very limited budget? How can they avoid being condemned to junk food and its disastrous consequences for their health?
Raymonde, Fat...
THE CURSE OF COURBEFY
In the heart of France, a ghost village resists every attempt at rebirth. Courbefy — a rural ghost story where reality turns into legend.
In the Limousin region of central France lies Courbefy, a small village abandoned decades ago and seemingly trapped in time. Sold, resold, coveted by...
THE DEBT
This film tells the story of my family between 1943 and the present day, between Amiens, Calais and Berlin. It's a film about what we pass on beyond what we would like to, and about what we receive that we don't want.
I was born three decades after the fall of the Nazi regime.
A month after th...
The Françoise Claustre Affair
In 1974, in the remote Tibesti Mountains in northern Chad, French archaeologist Françoise Claustre was kidnapped by rebels, along with two other Westerners. The incident quickly took on a political dimension. Amid government silence, diplomatic missteps, and rising tensions with the Chadian regime, ...
THIS STRENGTH WITHIN THEM
Thirteen years ago, the director filmed the troubled childhoods of teenagers who had been removed from their families by Child Protective Services and placed in a residential home in the Vosges region.
Today, she meets these young people again, now adults.
How have they built their lives after s...
UNCLASSIFIABLE
Unclassifiable gives a voice to the often-forgotten athletes of the Paralympic Games: athletes with Down syndrome. While they frequently take the podium at international competitions for athletes with intellectual disabilities, Cléo, Marie, Jason, Jean, and many other "T21" athletes are excluded fro...
Armenians, the Hidden Grandmothers
The director Alexandra Routhiau Mikaélian, French of Armenian origin, made a promise to her grandfather, to find the members of their family in Turkey based on a simple name, Shahimé, this sister he was never able to meet. From this journey through time in search of the living, Alexandra will lift t...
A DOCTOR LIKE NO OTHER
In Roubaix, Dr Lamarre still practises family medicine, the old-fashioned way. He is one of the last GPs who takes the time to get to know each of his patients, and to follow them throughout their lives. With a resolutely human view of medicine and the Hippocratic oath, he chose to practise here - o...
