Society
Adapted
A basketball court, athletes, trainers…
A team… but not just any team. The team that the film intends to follow over a period of six months is a very special one indeed. You wouldn’t know it at first glance, but Othemane, Grégory, Badou, Lionel and the others are mentally handicapped. All members o...
EVERYONE’S A COACH!
Tell me who your coach is and I’ll tell you who you are. Go onto the Internet and, in one click, our every desire can be satisfied. And when it comes to the marketing strategies employed to draw us in, imagination knows no bounds. Whether we’re looking for a one-off answer to a problem or a long-ter...
HANDBAGS: THE WINDOW TO A WOMAN’S SOUL
Alone in front of the camera, women of all ages… open their handbags and their hearts to us! Confronted with themselves in an uncluttered space, this “off-loading” soon passes from the literal to the figurative.
“It’s not polite to look through a woman’s handbag”… Apart from house keys and money, th...
Shamans, the Masters of Disorder
For millennia, men and women have served as healers, sages, sorcerers, and seers throughout the world.
Shamanism is one of the most ancient medicines, as well as one of the first methods that humans developed to contact the Sacred!
Is it possible to heal without the help of modern medicine? To r...
The City of God: the redemption of a favela
The Cidade de Deus, or City of God, has never had anything biblical about it apart from its name. The history of this favela in Rio de Janero has been marked by violence, poverty and drugs trafficking. In 2002, the eponymous film made it the best known favela in the world. But over the last 4 years,...
The Judge’s Children
Catherine de la Hougue is an atypical rural judge with a particular interest in prevention. The juvenile court in Coutances, Normandy, opens its doors to us as we focus on three cases in which children are either at risk or charged of misdemeanours. What will the judge decide? What will become of th...
VERTIGO
Vertiges is the story of a young man who refuses to be knocked off course, whatever obstacles are placed in his way. Christophe is 25 years old and should be dead. He suffers from a rare genetic disease, Fanconi’s anaemia, which dramatically reduces the life expectancy of its victims. But Christophe...
We told ourselves… 30 years ago
Six friends, aged between 14 and 16, who we meet for the first time in this previously unseen film from 1981 as they raise hell in their run down housing estate in Saint-Laurent du Var in the Alpes Maritimes. Their lives are hard, but their heads are full of dreams.
Where are they 30 years later? H...
(Johnny) The Blue-collar Singer
In a campsite by the sea, in a village hall, in the local shopping mall, the crowds flock to see Johnny Rock, the double of Johnny Hallyday.
Because he’s like them, because he understands them, because he’s accessible, because he is, quite simply, a worker like them, Denis Le Men, alias Johnny Ro...
Battered children, the law should have saved them
Eight-year-old Marina died last year, battered to death by her father and mother.
Before her, seven-year-old Dylan and two-year old Enzo silently endured years of unimaginable abuse at the hands of their parents and families.
What’s going on in France? Why are we unable to protect our children? Why ...
