Society
A SECRET GARDEN
The monastery of St Clare in Jerusalem has withstood both time and conflict for more than 120 years. Despite the wars that have torn the Holy Land apart throughout its history, the nuns of the order of St Clare have worked continuously for peace and unity through inter-religious dialogue.
Today, the...
All Girls Together
My name is Jeanne. I’m 32. I’m a journalist.
When I was little I thought I’d be a daddy.
Today I’m Mummy 2.
What does that mean? It’s simple: I had a baby with a woman.
What does it mean to be a lesbian today?
I don’t think there’s one precise answer to that.
What I can say, on the other hand, is th...
Detroit wild life
Welcome to the city of Detroit, 'the Murder Capital of the USA', where the grass is growing over the parking lots and the houses are abandoned. Here, a new life is slowly beginning to take form and take over the deserted city. But even if the writing on the wall has a different and more apocalyptic ...
My Life Exposed on the Internet
Internet, a tool for communication and exchange… which can come back into our lives like a boomerang! Irrespective of age, more and more Internet users are playing at, “Do you want to be my friend?” and “My friends friends are my friends”. Illustrated with photos and personal stories, our lives, lov...
The Pioneers
Firmly turning our backs on "unbridled capitalism", convinced that money does not bring happiness and that its fanatical pursuit is destroying both man and the Earth, we all dream of living in a better world. A world in which there’s a middle way, somewhere in between the New Age hippies raising goa...
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...
