Society
The trousers issue
Quentin, William and David are all in their thirties, and enjoying completely ordinary lives with their families and friends. One of them does not want a child and is about to have a vasectomy; the second has chosen a reversible method; and the third is still looking for a procedure that suits him. ...
WHAT HOLOCAUST MEANS TO ME? Teenagers facing History
Now that 75 years have past since the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, how can the Holocaust be explained to the teenagers of today? Can it be relevant to them within the turmoil of adolescence?
Over the course of a year, the film follows a class of 15 year-old students in a school just o...
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...
Killing the Silence
Killing the Silence is story of liberation and shows the importance of speech in post-traumatic stress disorder.
Returning from the front with physical and psychological wounds, soldiers who served in the three armies after 1990 tell their stories. After a trauma, one of the immediate refuges is sil...
Long-distance women
Through the portraits of five officers of different generations in the Merchant Navy, the film questions the place of women in a historically male universe. How has this environment evolved, faced with the presence of women in command? And what does it teach us more generally about the relationships...
ROUGH DIAMOND
A man has a dream. To climb Diamond Rock, the unspoiled jewel of the islets surrounding Martinique. But the adventure is difficult from all points of view: public access to the rock is prohibited and the sportsman is physically disabled. And yet this challenge is highly symbolic for a local boy, tor...
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...
THE WOMEN IN YELLOW
November 17th, 2018 marked a turning point in France’s social and political history. Over the months, citizens started speaking out in an unprecedented way with the spontaneous creation of the Gilet Jaune (Yellow Vest) movement. Every Saturday all over France, people mobilised and fraternised on rou...
Towards life, the Goumiers
While the modern world pushes us to go faster and faster, to exchange messages, to “like” and to retweet, for the last 50 years, the Goum “raids” have been inviting everyone to take a break, to find themselves and to find God.
Neither a spiritual retreat, nor a hike, nor a trek, the 8-day Goum “rai...
Words of the city
Mamadou Ba is a public letter-writer. Twice a week, he offers his services in a house in Montreuil, a suburb of Paris. There we meet a father who wants better housing, a dismissed worker, an undocumented man, a request for naturalisation, etc. The list is long. Over the course of these exchanges, a ...
