Kaloubadya
Kaloubadya is both a personal and collective diary. It is the dream of a young woman from Réunion in search of healing and self-discovery. It is a work of acknowledgment…
Always – A letter to childhood
Always explores the world of children who, in a village school in Hunan, China, discover the art of writing poetry. Among them, Gong Youbin, born into a poor family and…
SavannahSea
A flat, sprawled city. A street named "Liberté". An ocean-liner-hotel anchored there without any help from a cyclone. A shore full of promises. A Savannah-world opening its wings to you.…
Damp Air (L’air mouillé)
Tiphaine Véron is 36 years old when she travels to Japan in the summer of 2018. The first stop of her trip: the city of Nikko. On July 29, after…
Papa Djab
Alongside Malik, a young sociologist and slammer, we set off on a journey in the footsteps of Papa Djab, the emblematic character of Martinique carnival, whose appearance is as frightening…
Metropolitan Chorus
Twice a week, employees of the Moscow Metro get together to sing in the Metro Choir. In another life, the welder was a rock guitarist in Kazakhstan, the cashier took…
Something in My Eye (De la poussière dans les yeux)
When her sister Gaëlle learns that she has multiple sclerosis, filmmaker Anne Lorrière picks up her camera in the hope that a film might heal, might break the course of…
Exercise in Democracy
They are trade unionists, teachers, farmers, and business leaders. Despite their sometimes conflicting interests, they work together to formulate opinions intended to advise the government. We are at the Economic,…
Sclupting Memory
Sculpting Memory is a meeting between sculptor Cécile Raynal and Pierre Rolinet, 98 years old, a member of the Resistance and survivor of Natzweiler-Struthof during the Second World War. For…
Jour après jour, La Chevêche
For several months, Vladimir Léon followed the work of choreographer Julie Desprairies closely, day by day, as she developed her new piece, La Chevêche. She meets many of the forest…
Les yeux ouverts
For the past few years, Pierre, my father, has been suffering from a forgetting disease. Before everything fades away, we decide to take advantage of the time that remains to…
La Petite Classe: Growing Through Nonviolent Communication
Their names are Tom, Kamila, Alyzée, Marwan, Bloo, Ilyes… There are eighteen of them, between two and three years old. And they are already going to school, in a very…
Another Way
After five years of prosecution for the ‘crime of solidarity’, Cédric Herrou, a chicken farmer, had the ‘principle of fraternity’ recognised in the Constitution. Since then, his world has changed.…
In the Rearview
In the Rearview is a documentary directed by Maciek Hamela. A Polish van travels the roads of Ukraine. On board, Maciek Hamela evacuates people fleeing their country since the Russian…
What may come up
Without electricity and chemistry, how can we rediscover the ancestral knowledge of how to preserve the staple food that is wheat? Archaeologists, a farmer, biologists and a baker are on…
Leaving Vatan
Maxime a 25 ans. Depuis toujours, il aimerait partir loin de Vatan, son petit village natal dans l'Indre, perdu au milieu d'un espace infini et sans âme. Pour l'instant son…
Your bare legs
On an isolated farm at the foot of the Vercors mountains, an electronics engineer turned farmer develops a militant ecology and self-sufficiency in energy and food. He is helped by…
The Charcutier Filmmaker
Roger Batteault worked as a butcher in Beaune for forty years. Upon retiring, he traded his knives for his Super 8 camera and now fully lives out his passion for…
H6
The Sixth People's Hospital is one of the biggest in Shanghai. Its corridors are filled with medical staff, patients and families whose lives have been turned upside-down. A series of…
FREDA
Freda lives with her mother, sister and younger brother in a working-class district of Haiti. They survive with their little street shop. Faced with the precariousness and violence of their…
The Yellow Path (Les voies jaunes)
Behind the tranquil image of landscapes, serene nature and scenes of ordinary life, anonymous voices appear and respond to each other. They tell the story of that moment in history…
Upsurge
I was raised by three women : my mother, my cousin and my sis- ter. My mother was beaten by my father, and my cousin by her husband. As to…
Letter to Vichy
Letter to Vichy by Laetitia Carton is an intimate documentary in which the director returns to her hometown, Vichy, more than twenty years after leaving it. Marked by a feeling of…
Polychromy
At first it was a Gallo-Roman City , then a medieval capital town and then a political capital town... And now, Chartres has been for the last fifteen years an…
Walk around the illuminated Chartres
For the last fifteen years , every night from April to October, the city of Chartres starts to be illuminated to show its architectural patrimony, And every year it starts…
Barataria
Barataria, tells the singular story of El Quiñon, a new town south of Madrid, born out of the real estate bubble and brought to a halt by the 2008 financial…
Monchoachi, La Parole Sauvage
Far in the depth of the mountain Vauclin (Martinique). Monchoachi writes every afternoon after his daily morning walk in the forest of the island. Poet (he thinks that we should…
Gégé le prince
Gégé lives in paradise. a Shanty next to a cove near Marseille's door, on the left: Beautiful Turquoise sea. On the right : amazing white cliffs. He lived, he lived…
Let me get closer
Ever since I was a little girl. I always thought it was normal for my father to never stay very long with his family. He gave a huge part of…
La Lumière des rêves
Going through the archives where he stocked all the tales of his dreams, relating them to objects or images that stayed close to him after his death. This film introduces…
Les Galeries Présidentielles
In 1970, Joseph Mobutu, the DRC's second president, inaugurated with great fanfare a residential complex and shopping mall known as the “Galeries Présidentielles”. Paved in marble and equipped with the…
Cili or the return of the wooden needle
In this second episode of Imulal, we resume the conversation we started six years ago with our protagonists. Their personal and professional lives have considerably evolved, so has the political…
Dann zardin pépé
In Réunion, in the Éperon district, the municipality undertook a vast resorption plan to reduce the amount of substandard housing. The house of my childhood is in danger of being…
Blake (Living with imperfection)
At 84, American jazz pianist Ran Blake pursues an international career and continues developing his unique musical language. Surprisingly, it is his passion for cinema that guides him and has…
Demolition(s)
In the city of the Navigators, Miss P lives in an abandoned cloister low coast housing, preventing its demolition. Here every inhabitant has a different version of her story. She…
My dear spies
When my mother died, she took with her family secrets : her parents, suspected of working as Russian agents, were deported from France in 1948. Today, with my brother, we…
Mantjé tonbé sé viv (dancing the fall)
In Martinique, an innovative day hospital for people undergoing psychiatric treatment is trying something new. Several times a week, a young artist-researcher leads workshops using music, dance and the rituals…
Köy (The village)
Amidst all the troubles in education occurring in Turkey lies a free and strong-willed village on the mountains of the Aegean coast. This is Nesin Mathematics Village, which was opened…
Happy Âphivoat (Happy development)
Happy Âphivoat portrays Cambodia’s economic development, shifting from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy, and its emerging working class. After five years of the "Khmers Rouges" dictatorship witch brought…
The Visit: The Public Information Library
Samuel Bernard is a young parisien librarian. Throughout a wandering in the public library. Samuel tells us about his desire to welcome and orientate people. He talks about the normality…
The Visit: The National Museum of Natural History
"A woman enters the gallery of paleontology. There, she meets an older man absorbed by his drawing. As they begin to get acquainted, a certain colluding start to betray their…
To the four winds
TO THE FOUR WINDS relates the encounters and ensuing relationships between inhabitants in the Roya valley and refugees who have arrived there after crossing the border between France and Italy.…
La Visite - Palais de la Découverte avec Maxence et Eugène réalisé par Alice Fargier
The Visit: Le Palais de la Découverte
Today, Eugene and his best friend Maxence, visit for the first time the Palais de la découverte. At the planetarium, they fall in a deep sleep and go through the…
Jérémy Florès, dancing in waves
Jérémy Florès tells us about his career, his aspirations, and about the way he sees the future. Behind the surfer, we meet the man who makes vibrate a whole generation.…
The Visit: The Quai Branly Museum
Cécile Singeot is a market gardener. Marie Ollivier Henry is a sculptor. They met for the first time at the Musée du Quai Branly. In the midst of this treasure…
Dédé Saint-Prix
Intimate portrait of the popular Martinican musician-singer André Saint-Prix, ‘Dédé Saint-Prix’ is a documentary on the road of his last tour, in the Antilles, the metropolis, Louisiana, Mayotte and numerous…
The Visit: La Philharmonie de Paris
"Through the eyes and ears of Arend Jan Talstra, a person suffering from Down syndrome, the Philharmonie becomes an organique univers thanks to the experience that creates the musique of…
The Grand Ball
It's the story of a ball. A great ball. Every summer, over two thousand people flock from all over Europe to a corner of the French countryside. For 7 days…
Douvan jou ka leve (the day will dawn)
Stemming from her personal experience, her close ones’ testimonies and surprising encounters, Gessica Geneus, Haitian filmmaker questions the “disease of the soul” devouring her native island.
For a better life
Patagonia and its shale gas deposits are the modern day Eldorado. José Luis will do anything to get a job there. In the village of Anelo, he faces power relations…
The Visit: National Theater of Chaillot
Adrien vient « d’ailleurs ». C’est un prince aux mouvements délicats qui découvre le théâtre National de Chaillot de ses yeux éternellement émerveillés. I fell in love with theater with…
The Visit: The Louvre Museum
Liam, Paul, Anna and Jo-Anne find themselves alone for the first time in the museum du Louvre. "This film project is for me the result of something I've been working…
The Visit: La Basilique de Saint-Denis
Jean-Claude discovers the Basilique de Saint-Denis in renovation, he wanders around the effigies for whom he has more and more empathie, he goes more and more into the archeological crypt…
Taboo sludge
Taboo sludge is a regional documentary on the controversial use of Parisian sludge on the agricultural lands of Ile de France and of the nearby regions. The treatment plants produce…
The Visit : Le Musée d’Art Moderne
It's the story of an encounter. Between Julie and modern Art. Between Julie and me. "I always loved to be around people who had their own special world, different than…
The Visit : Le Château de Versailles
Bobo and Michael Lonsdale, inside the great corridors in the castle of Versailles, talk about history. "since he's been 16 years old Bobo lives and work for me. He's a…
Sons and daughters of Vietnam
This road movie looks at the generations of mixed-race children born of the encounter between mixed-race soldiers who embarked on the Indochina War and Vietnamese women torn apart by an…
To live with your eye
At the age of 80, photographer Marc Garanger retraces his career and tells us what is at the basis of his vision: the war in Algeria, the gulags of the…
No train to Germany
Georgia is now one of the “Gateways to Europe”, and became a place of crossing for migrants from Africa who dream of taking a train to Europe. Mister Johson wants…
Collection: The Visit
La Visite is a collection of documentaries that offers ten encounters with mentally disabled people. By visiting cultural sites they are offered a place that invites them to express their…
Nidoish Naisseline
This documentary portrays Nidoish NAISSELINE, chief of the Kanak clan of the island of Maré in New Caledonia. The film gives us a vision on the clan and the current…
Gade!
Haïti is often badly represented with the international press. Without denying the importante difficulties of this country. Paolo Woods, italien photographer, try to show us a different aspect, with new…
We the Unquiet (Nous les intranquilles)
We the unquiet is a collective cinema experience that takes place in a therapeutic reception centre in Reims (in the East of France). The film offers an indirect self-portrait of…
The Hordons
In the vineyards of Rilly la Montagne, in Champagne, I film a team of seasonal harvesters-cutters. In this region they are called the "hordons". The group is headed by the…
Thank you doctor!
Thank you doctor ! by Adilet Karzhoev At 77 years old, Ernst Akramov is a living legend of medicine in Kyrgyzstan. He devoted 56 years of his life to surgery, exploring all…
Cheese makers: old ways die hard
This serie of documentaries offers an insight to the life of five cheese makers, which share an emblematic know-how. In their processes, they insist on maintaining an idea of quality…
Sunday
Sunday is a documentary about a hunting outing in the Ardennes, in the North of France. The hunters’ moves and rituals are filmed in the style of direct cinema. Amandine…
A day at the Soleil (Une journée au soleil)
20 years after being exiled for political violence, an Algerian writer comes back to the Soleil. In this cafe of the 20th district of Paris, he is looking for material…
Collection: Madagascar in Shorts
The Madagascar in shorts collection offers a journey deep into Malagasy culture through six 26-minutes long documentaries.This collection, stemming from the Docmonde program, contributes towards the emergence of a new…
Times are Changing (Au prochain printemps)
September 2006, May 2007, the film takes place throughout the campaign for the new president of the French Republic. At a café, at the hairdressers, in a workshop, in places…
Collection: Proverbs from Around the World
“Proverbs from around the world” is a series of short one minute clips. Each episode portrays a man, woman or child in their country, as they recite a proverb from…
Imulal, a land, roots and dreams
In Paris Sylvain Derne, a young journalist involved in debates dealing with Caledonian society, investigates the aspirations of youth which have chosen ‘exile’ in order to pursue studies. His meeting…
Two brothers and a film
Documentary about the two Papet brothers, on the shooting of the film Les liens du Sang (blood ties, the original version) by Jacques Maillot. Michel and Bruno, writers of the…
The eyes of the others
Making off showing how the Jacques Maillot’s film Les liens du Sang (blood ties) has been done. With Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet, Clotilde Hesme, Marie Denarnaud. Jacques Maillot seized the…
