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- A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
- Filmmaker Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and survivor of Auschwitz.
- We call those who suffer from the melancholy of eternity, eternals. Convinced that death cannot triumph over their lives, they believe that they are doomed to wander in anticipation of the day when they will be freed from their existence. This film is a story of wandering and fleeing, on the borders of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Inhabited by the ghosts of genocide and by the war that has raged there for over twenty years, the characters who pass through this film carry within themselves the melancholy of the eternals.
- Whatever happened to this promising young actress from Hollywood? A search for "the woman in the car" through the never-ending suburbia of Los Angeles, where the myth of cinema reigns. A sort of thriller without a corpse.
- After his classes, the teacher is questioned by his wife. The wife is skeptical about the new Academic project his husband is devising. The teacher is trying to build up a new "Academy of the Muses"that, inspired by the Classics will help to build up a brand new World through a real commitment to Poetry. The controversial project triggers a round of scenes on words and desire.
- Keeping the original theatrical mise-en-scene, the film features Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig reciting Sylvia Plath's letters to her mother directly to the audience as though we were the recipients of these private missives
- The staircases of John Clancy's terraced house are filled with hundreds of unsold volumes like a Noah's Ark of Knowledge telling the stories of a city that has known stormier times. Accompanied by a dyslexic, opera-loving punk the Bookseller of Belfast treads a new path through the pages yellowed by time and cigarette smoke.
- The young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his present life situation. He uses the loss of his talisman to make a trip through Italy searching for the man, who gave it to him a long time ago.
- At the point where the peace process has reached yet another dead-end, Eyal Sivan tries to go beyond the idea of "the two-state solution". Through the use of editing, Sivan creates an encounter between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews. Twenty parallel interviews on the theme of a common state. One talks, the other listens.
- Follows the rehearsals of 'Faits d'artifice', a choreography by Françoise and Dominique Dupuy, created with Régine Chopinot and the company Le Ballet Atlantique, as the director is aiming to catch the process of creation from the inside.
- For Caterina, Laurence, Frédérie and Louis, being bipolar means going from paradise to the hell of depression several times during their lives
- A poetic film in 18 waves, as so many scenes describe Paris and its urban landscapes crossed by a young minor "foreigner isolated", the terrorist attacks, white roses, state of emergency, blue white red, the Atlantic Ocean and its crossings, volcanoes, the beat cubicle, the revolt, the anger, the police violence, a revolutionary song, the silence and the joy, only the joy.
- Covers outstanding personalities of their time and in their discipline, who are only too rarely seen in the media today. Philosophers, artists, activists, researchers, all have contributed to forging and enriching contemporary thinking.
- Near the Dead Sea, in the middle of the desert, Marianna, Bulos, Suleiman, Michael and some more share their stories and questions and give an insight on life's paradoxes and the power of doubt: the salt of our fragile humanity.
- Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is back to haunt Belgium. Through commemorations, encounters and a return visit, a top-ranking Belgian civil servant confronts the past.
- Guided by the sheepbells of a flock and by the evocations of the lost, this film is a voyage through storms; those of the mountains and winter, those of bodies and souls, those which remind us that which nature has not obtained from our reason, obtaining from our madness.
- In Mauritania, black political prisoners from the old colonial fortress of Oualata are known as "Le Cercle des Noyés". The film unveils frangible memories by one of these former prisoners who remembers his story and that of his companions in misfortune.
- Speaking on the telephone with the Hungarian Consulate, the filmmaker asks: "Does someone whose grandfather is Hungarian have the right to obtain a Hungarian passport?" The question apparently sounds strange. "Yes - It's possible... But, why do you want a Hungarian passport?" The filmmaker asks for the list of necessary documents, but the officer woman still doesn't understand why she wants to become Hungarian. The idea took place on her mind: she is going to ask for the Hungarian nationality. She didn't say a word to anyone but she wouldn't give it up. The administrative process - the request for a passport - is the guiding line of the film. And the filmmaker faces essential questions: what is nationality? What's the use of a passport? What is our heritage? How do we construct our own history and identity?
- Through the political activism of some people of Khayelitsha, the film seeks to reveal the attachment of its residents to a city born of Apartheid. Why, despite all this suffering, disease, poverty, illegality, do they still believe in it?
- Naples. A Virgin with bruise on her cheek who performs miracles. Three female characters, each connected to the Virgin in their own way but who never meet. Giusy, a girl in a wheelchair who had no right to a miracle; an atheist, free-spirited, and an anthropologist specializing in the worship of the Virgin Mary. Fabiana, a transsexual at the head of a troupe faithful supporters of the Virgin in a popular district of the city center. And Sue, a Korean pianist in search of a new direction for her life, teaching music to children in difficulty in a city far removed from her original culture. Each with their intimate wounds and each searching for a "miracle".
- Experiencing a war is an ordeal which, at the time, changes the perception of reality and, later, the way one looks at life. The film is the result of a period of the director's life in Lebanon, especially during the conflict of July 2006.
- As he was passing over the highway, the director discovered a strange refugees' camp inhabited with Roms, from Romania. They live in a slum, among the trees, stuck between the two highway tracks. He wants to understand this exodus.
- The film is set up for a full academic year in the Rouen Conservatory of Music, to allow the director to find, among the young students, who can play the heroine of his project, Joan of Arc, during her trial told in her own words.
- "Looking for a job? Alaska is waiting for you". As evidenced by this job offer seen in the midst of the economic crisis in Turin, Italy, the future of five jobless Italians who share the same fate is unfolding: to leave as far as possible.
- Enticed by the mysterious portrait of a Muslim preacher, two European directors lose themselves in the mystical world of a Muslim brotherhood in Senegal. Set to the soundtrack of French musician Kouldam, they travel across the country encountering marabouts savants and religious pilgrims chanting in ecstasy, before discovering that their film is nothing but the fulfillment of the prophecy of the holy preacher himself.
- Drawing from stories of flight, exile, interminable waiting and the arrested, persecuted lives on both sides of that wall dividing Morocco and the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement's Polisario Front, this film bears witness to the Sahrawi people, their land, their entrapment.
- Grape harvest in Rasiguères, a village in the French Pyrenees. An intense month of shared life. Amid changing times, workers reminisce about the days of collective work in the fields. Tradition and motions as old as the vines are taken up afresh by today's vintagers and made their own. A 16mm b/w fieldwork film, a document of the past.
- British designer, teacher and author Richard Hollis calls Pierre Faucheux "the single most important figure in French graphic design after Cassandre," and praises his highly innovative typographic design for book covers and 60s paperbacks.
- Local activists in Gaza, Germany, and Colombia challenge fossil-fuel dependency and power structures in a struggle for social and climate justice.
- Maths, drama, bodybuilding lessons: with extraordinarily skillful framing and off-screen sound, the film's central theme looks at high-school students who have been marginalized by the education system.
- Following the steps of the Nan Shui Bei Diao - South to North Water Transfer - the world's largest water transfer project, stretching between southern and northern China.
- This is the daydream story of a woman who made her life her artwork and her artwork the lives of others, Sylvie Crossman. From her childhood in French Polynesia to her humanitarian commitment in Australia, we follow her career.
- For nearly a year, director Sibylle Stürmer has followed the creative work of Nathalie Pernette and her dancers as they prepare and rehearse for a new contemporary dance performance called 'Le Nid/The Nest'.
- André Jourdel is a cattle dealer. He has three son with whom he is dealing. When he buys cattle on the market with Hubert, Thierry is the one who will fatten them before Dominique cut them for sale to the slaughter. As long as he can, André will help running the family business but his children do not see the development of the business in the same way.
- With Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus as a reference, the film follows what is happening around us: the fate of migrants, Sisyphus of our time, who are still trying and trying to enter Europe, the popular revolt in Tunisia, or radical actions.
- B. Traven was a novelist noted as a writer of adventure stories and as a chronicler of rural life in Mexico, where he worked as a field hand, in the early 20th Century. A recluse, Traven refused personal data to publishers, so who was he?
- A documentary film about social telephony: on each end of the line, two nameless individuals, two anonymous people are having a conversation that tries to combine demands and answers. The caller, the listener. Two voices.
- El Ghazi Amnaye and Hammou Lhedmat, two Moroccan veterans, fought for the liberation of Provence during WWII and are returning to Marseille to celebrate the province's liberation 60th birthday. Now, they want to retire in France.
- Baptiste Bessette went to Hiroshima to question the city about the shadows of its past and the cogs of its future. A vital lead: the ginkgo biloba, a prehistoric tree which is eventually the only one to have survived the nuclear disaster.
- Maud-Elisa Mandeau, a.k.a. Le Prince Miiaou, is a young French rock singer-guitarist-songwriter. In the spring of 2010, she starts the production of her third album as the director closely follows her detailed musical creation process.
- Every month, a truck crosses the Italian peninsula from the far south to the foot of the Alps: a three-thousand-kilometer round trip to bring home-made and traditional products from the South to the family in the North. A trove on wheels.
- An investigative film shot in Algeria, Greece and France, this documentary offers to look, with the writings of Camus as a reference, at what is happening around us and how the absurd and the revolt cannot prevent the search for happiness.
- Tells the joint stories of two urban slums that were built, 40 years apart, on the same territory, outside the city, in Massy, in the southern suburbs of Paris.
- During the trial in Brussels of a Rwandan man involved in the 1994 genocide, the testimonies of his victims are set in parallel with the trial.
- A woman cannot sleep. She gets up and wanders the streets of Paris at a time when the night owls have already returned home and those who get up early are still sleeping. What is she looking for? She doesn't really know.
- This film is a first: never before a director has filmed inside the French General Intelligence structure. The camera follows men and women step by step, all agents of the R.G., in their daily intelligence hunting mission and sundry works.
- This film was born from walks and pondering in the European countryside. This is not a proselyte film, nor a propaganda film against GMOs. It's about telling concerned mothers, or shopaholics at the supermarket, the things we are not told.