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- Bastien is twenty years old and has been active for five years in the main French far-right party. When the presidential campaign begins, he is invited by his superior to commit even further. Initiated into the art of wearing the suit and tie of a politician, he starts to dream of a career, but old demons return to haunt him.
- Based on archive material, the film reveals the final years of Israel's founder, David Ben-Gurion. Excluded from leadership, he allowed himself a hindsight perspective on the Zionist enterprise.
- A documentary about how the most talented comic genius of all time Buster Keaton fell prey to the Hollywood Studio system machinery in 1930s which curbed his artistic freedom, leading to alcoholism and ultimately completely destroyed not only his career but also his life.
- The diary of Takuya Ogushi, a 18 years old Japanese, who begins his new life as a sumo wrestler.
- From the Arabian Peninsula to the United States, this film explores the rivalry between these three princes and the unprecedented crisis it is provoking in the Gulf, the most militarized zone in the world. It is a schism which destabilizes the wider Middle East, since all the region's countries are forced to side with one of the two camps.
- Waiting for the solar eclipse in a small village of Normandy, with tourists, amateur astronomers, and farmers.
- In 19th century Central America, a few entrepreneurial cowboys built an empire that enslaved populations and corrupted governments for over 100 years. The United Fruit Company thrived on unregulated capitalism; this film tells its story and that of its pioneers who feared neither God nor Man, and managed to get away with murder.
- Thirteen-year-old Nicolas lives in a foster home with his best friend, Saef. He enjoys many of the pleasures of childhood and sees his mother from time to time, but soon he will have to find his place.
- They are barely 20 years old and fighting the Islamic State in Syrian Kurdistan. In this part of the world where men walk in front and women behind, the fact that they have taken up arms alongside their brothers is of extraordinary significance. Their colorful scarves, their calmness and their courage have made the world go round. Against the backdrop of the flow of war images, Stéphane Breton films their daily life in a world in ruins, the waiting and the wakes of arms around the memories of the disappeared. These are the Kurdish fighters, the Daughters of Fire.
- Uncompromising, multi-awarded actress, Simone Signoret told herself in 1976 in a book ("Nostalgia is no longer what it used to be"). She also answered with refreshing frankness to the thousand questions of journalists on subjects as varied as the profession of actor, her roles in the cinema, her conception of political commitment, the couple or the passing of time. Thirty-five years after her death in 1985, Michèle Dominici composed from archives, interviews and excerpts from her films the portrait of an actress who refused to be a star all her life, an activist who was never cast, an artist who made the choice of love and freedom.
- At ninety-one years of age, Aimé has decided to fulfil his dream journey to Morocco that he's been planning for 40 years. His director/photographer grandson travels with him. A journey both tender and bitter, filled with missed opportunities and fleeting pleasures. Like life itself.
- Sometimes comical but often tragic, drowsiness takes an important place in our lives. The leading cause of fatal accidents on the motorway, drowsiness is also rife in the world of work. What is going on in our brain? Can we control torpor?
- Ghorban, a 12 year-old Afghan child, arrived alone in France from his homeland. I order to settle in France, Ghorban will start to dig into his painful past. His identity quest will last 8 years to finally go look for his family in Afghanistan.
- Charts the rise and fall of tabloid papers in the UK and US, including the New York Post, The Sun, and notorious supermarket tabloids like the National Enquirer and The Star.
- From September 2012 to May 2013, France avidly instigates the bill of marriage equality. During these nine months of legislative gestation, sociologist Irène Théry exposes what's at stake to her son. What comes out of it is a cinematic tale of teddy bears, toys, and cardboard shreds. An intimate portrait and national soap opera, this movie makes us revisit something we all thought we knew perfectly: family.
- World War I films with narration from French and German cinematographers' comments found in documents, memoirs and notes.
- Saint-Nazaire, Newcastle, Bremen: three harbors dedicated to shipbuilding which are facing looming unemployment. Three cities where men reigned supreme. Their wives are now forced to work. How do they live it? Three of them are talking.
- Since the summer of 1994, in the Bay of Biscay, French and Spanish fishermen have been clashing. All the ingredients of globalization come together: the confrontation between traditional fishing techniques and unorthodox modern methods.
- Covers the story of U.N. Kenyan peacekeepers in Bosnia.
- Miguel, 17, becomes a butcher's boy after failing at school. The son of Portuguese immigrants - short, dressed in an urban style - he is the opposite of the image that butchers try to convey.
- Does mourning have a use-by date... like yogurts? And what exactly does the term "mourning" mean?
- How does India, where there are retirement homes for sacred cows, handle the mad cow crisis?
- A black and white film made with silver photographs, each contributing to tell a story.
- France produces 40% of the world's linen for a single customer, China. Between the fields and textile mills, between Normandy and China, how is globalization being woven?
- Being named after a fish (Brochet means pike in English) is no pleasure cruise. Anne Brochet, the unforgettable Roxane of "Cyrano de Bergerac", has always felt that bearing an animal's name makes one vulnerable. At any rate, it has always been a hard experience to be likened day after day to a sinister fish! What about the others in her case? How do they cope with their ordeal? To get an idea, Anne Brochet goes and meets Monsieur Cheval (Mr. Horse), Madame Lapin (Mrs. Rabbit), Mr. Le Renard (Mr. Fox) and their likes...
- In the 1870s, Louis Pasteur's discovery of microbes was a revolution in scientific medicine. By explaining the cause of infectious diseases, the scientist also understood what the antidote to them should be: vaccination. Such was its success that this technique for stimulating the immune system has since become the standard-bearer of scientific medicine, to the point of drawing a dividing line between light and obscurantism, science and superstition. Nevertheless, vaccination cannot be exempt from all questioning. Does it act on the organism beyond protection against a disease? Do we know that the order in which vaccines are administered influences their effectiveness and their possible harmfulness? Should everyone be vaccinated? Do laboratories exploit fear?