Society
Fortune Telling, Love, and Lockdown
An intimate and psychedelic dive into 55 days of lockdown, where the director films her daily card readings and exchanges with friends and strangers. Between humor, madness, and a search for meaning, a unique journey into magical thinking and collective isolation.
This documentary is an...
Autistic Children: Parents in Distress
In recent months, parents of autistic children have been raising urgent alarms. Some even put themselves in danger to make their voices heard. For instance, in September, a mother of twin autistic children climbed a crane in Lille. Just last week, a mother in Seine-Maritime went on a hunger strike t...
These Children Who Do Not Speak
Being the one who doesn’t speak at school. Trying to say a word. Failing. Being alone. Powerless.
In France, it’s estimated that over 60,000 children suffer from selective mutism—an anxiety disorder marked by an inability to speak to certain people or in specific, stressful situations.
Clément, ...
Superhero Hands
For children like Mathias, who is missing a hand or an arm, medical solutions aren’t miraculous. There are prostheses, but they are mostly aesthetic, non-articulated, and, as Mathias’ mother Agnès admits, “visually, they’re really not great—actually, they can be quite scary…” These cost between €2,0...
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...
BULLYING AT SCHOOL: OUR LIVES AFTERWARDS
What if we were to change our point of view? This documentary highlights the suffering experienced by adults who, as children, were bullied at school.
Ten, twenty or thirty years later, the trauma is still very real. By following the lives of Nathalie, Laurine and Samuel, this film exposes the lo...
COSPLAY: THEY LIVE LIKE SUPERHEROS
Whether they move at lightning speed, shoot lasers with their eyes, or lift cars at arm's length, these heroes have accompanied our childhood through comics, cartoons, films and series.
If once they reach adulthood, most people have left their comics and figurines behind, others have seen this lo...
