The Grand Ball

DOCUMENTARY
It's the story of a ball. A big ball. Every summer, more than two thousand people come from all over Europe, to a small town in the French countryside. During 7 days and 8 nights, people dance again and again, lose the notion of time, defy their fatigue and their bodies. It turns, it laughs, spins, cries and sings. And life pulses.
France - 2018 - 89 minutes - Original version with English subtitles

In the rearview

DOCUMENTARY
A Polish van travels the roads of Ukraine. On board, Maciek Hamela evacuates people fleeing their country since the Russian invasion. The vehicle becomes an ephemeral refuge, a zone of trust and confidences for people who are leaving everything behind and have only one goal left: to find a chance at life for themselves and their children.
Poland, France, Ukraine｜2023｜84 minutes｜french and english subtitles

The Grand Ball (French version)

DOCUMENTARY
It's the story of a ball. A big ball. Every summer, more than two thousand people come from all over Europe, to a small town in the French countryside. During 7 days and 8 nights, people dance again and again, lose the notion of time, defy their fatigue and their bodies. It turns, it laughs, spins, cries and sings. And life pulses.
France｜2018｜99 minutes｜French version

To the four winds - French version

DOCUMENTARY
Cédric Herrou, a farmer in the Roya valley, has seen his daily life turned upside down by the arrival of refugees. He and other local residents decided to welcome and help the migrants who knocked on their door or crossed the valley. Filmmaker Michel Toesca has followed the journey of a citizen who, despite the legal risks involved, stands up and resists to ensure that human rights are respected, guided by the inventive and friendly spirit of the "Pantäi Niçois" and good farming sense.
France｜2018｜100 min｜French version (french subtitles only).

FREDA

FICTION
Freda lives with her family in a poor neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. They make ends meet thanks to their small street shop. Faced with precarious living conditions and the rise of violence in Haiti, each of them wonders whether to stay or leave. Freda wants to believe in the future of her country.
“Freda is the kind of cinematic experience I value most: a journey into a way of life not normally accessible to me, providing insight about the real people who live in it. Gessica Généus’ film is an unforgettable jewel told with simple eloquence, beautifully memorable performances, and genuine feeling that few films ever achieve. […] It is my humble honor to serve as the executive producer of Freda in support of Gessica and the wonderfully creative and artistic film community in Haiti.” Francis Ford Coppola
Haïti｜2021｜93 minutes｜original Creole version｜subtitles : english, french, german, hebrew, italian, dutch, portuguese, spanish, chinese.

H6

DOCUMENTARY
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 interconnecting stories paint a picture of China as it is today, where hypermodernism meets cultural tradition. Confronted with life’s ups and downs, the sensitivity and sense of humour of the Chinese people emerges when least expected, helping them to find a sense of personal balance.
France｜2021｜1h55｜original version Mandarin and regional Chinese dialects｜subtitles French, English, Mandarin.

The Visit - The Basilica of Saint-Denis

SÉRIE DOCUMENTAIRE
Jean-Claude Grafeille discovers the Basilica of Saint-Denis in the midst of a major renovation project, and wanders around the recumbent figures for whom he has a growing empathy. He gradually descends into the archaeological crypt of this sacred place, attracted by a dark corridor... Final refuge? Selections : Le Jour le plus court (2015), Journées Internationales du Film sur l'Art au Musée du Louvre in (2016), Festival International du Film sur le Handicap (2016)
2019｜France｜21 minutes｜Original French Version, AD｜English Subtitles

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“La Visite” is a collection of short films in which ten uniquely-minded writer-directors present ten encounters with people with intellectual disabilities in ten major cultural venues.

Walk around the illuminated Chartres

DOCUMENTARY
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 over . When the sun goes down and as the shadow of the night takes over the little french town. Arnaud the troubadour and Barth the Burkinabe student meet up, they decide to wander around the town together and to let themselves be seduced by the magical power of Chartres illumination’s.
France｜2019｜25 min｜Original French version

Sunday

DOCUMENTARY
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 Faynot introduces us to a world of cold, instrumental, and structured violence.
French｜2016｜45 min｜original French version

Polychromy

DOCUMENTARY
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 international capital town of light, So I wanted to know more about this high renown place in french history. I patiently followed the breadcrumb trail that started to appear after a few encounter. It led me to to the heart of Chartres. Polychromie, all the colors that make Chartres, colors that gives this city life and beauty. Its a beautiful reminder of Chartres’s history and spirituality.
France｜2019｜52 minutes｜Original French version

The Hordons

DOCUMENTARY
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 young Aymeric who resumes his father’s exploitation. Here, the hordons are not farm workers by profession, they leave out their daily life to live under the same roof and to work together for a twelve days period. Some of them come back year to year and have difficulties to adapt to the new “management” methods of their son. People appear the way they are while their bodies are exhausted, after days of cuts and alcoholic nights have passed.
France｜2018｜54 min｜Original French version｜French and English subtitles

Cili or the return of the wooden needle

DOCUMENTARY
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 and economic context.
France｜2019｜52 min｜Original French version

MONCHOACHI, AN UNTAMED WOR(L)D

DOCUMENTARY
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 pronounce that word in fear), philosopher, he’s trying to write a new way of thinking. he claims that it’s a “Wild” way of thought. A thought that goes away from the occidental way of thinking, and so it’s a way to think that is “free”. Many people were inspired by his work full of resistance, creation and survival against modern society. To follow Monchoachi is to find a new way to answer our questions about our place in the world, a place close to Nature, Language and the Sacred.
France｜2021｜67 min｜French Original Version

Imulal, a land, roots and dreams

DOCUMENTARY
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 with these representatives of different cultures enables the exchange of points of view and novel visions for New Caledonia’s future. Thus, six students from diverse disciplines share their plans for the future, adopting an outlook which is both deeply rooted in, yet also distanced from, their Oceanian culture, a result of their current life in western society. As a whole, the students’ reflections anticipate the political times of 2014-2018, a period during which a referendum on independence from France and the continuation of the Noumea Agreement is due to be proposed.
France｜2012｜59 min｜Original French version

Gade!

DOCUMENTARY
Based on the photographs of artist Paolo Woods, who has been based in Haiti since 2010, Gade! examines the way foreigners look at Haiti, as well as the way Haitians see themselves.
Haïti｜2017｜59 min｜Orginal French, Creole Version｜French Subtitles

Sons and daughters of Vietnam

DOCUMENTARY
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 internal war of liberation.
France｜2015｜84 min｜Original Vietnamese, French, Creole Version｜French Subtitles

Jury Prize at the Rencontres Cinémas Martinique 2016 | Prix Cauris Africlap Toulouse 2016 | Best Documentary Award at the Fort-de-France Cultural Festival 2016

Beauty and the Lawyer

DOCUMENTARY
Carabina , is a gay artist , travesty and sex worker married to Hasmik, a heterosexual  lawyer. Now that they are parents.  They now have to face a dilemma : Is the kid going to grow up or not in Armenia where 93% of the population is against and hostile to homosexuality ?
Armenia｜2024｜104 min｜Original Armenian Version｜French Subtitles

BARATARIA

DOCUMENTARY
I'm walking through the deserted streets of a brand-new city, amid unfinished construction projects and disproportionate buildings. Four people of different ages tell me how they set off in this lost city. With municipal elections about to be held, I try to sketch an intimate portrait of Spain, ten years after the economic crisis.
France｜2021｜48 min｜Spanish Original Version, French, English subtitles

Köy, the Village

DOCUMENTARY
In the Sirince region of Turkey, an autonomous institution was set up in 2007 with the aim of introducing young students to the spirit of mathematics. But the utopia of an alternative education was soon overtaken by the political reality of the country.
Turkey｜2018｜54 minutes｜Original Turkish Version｜French Subtitles

Douvan jou ka leve (Le jour se lèvera) - french version

DOCUMENTAIRE
What does it mean to be Haitian today? How can we overcome this stagnation at all levels in Haitian society? What is this "disease of the soul" that is eating away at my people? I was born in a poor neighbourhood. Today, I am 31 years old, I am an actress and a director. Based on my personal journey, marked by my mother's mental illness - an illness which she says is a curse of the invisible world - and my own quest for identity, I want to offer a new look at my native island and its inhabitants.
France｜2017｜52 min｜Original Haitian Creole version with French subtitles

AWARDS : AIRF Grand Prize, medium-length film category. Saint-Louis Documentary Festival, Senegal, December 2017 - Jury prize for best documentary. Festival Rencontres Cinémas Martinique, March 2018. - Golden Key Award, Festival PSY de Lorquin (France), June 2018 - Best Feature Documentary, BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia (USA), August 2018. - Golden Island Award and Audience Award, Festival du Film Insulaire de Groix (FIFIG), August 2018. - Grand Prize for Documentary Film Alliance Ciné Caraïbes, Festival Monde en vue (ex-festival des droits de l'homme), Guadeloupe, October 2018. - Grand Prize of the International Documentary Film Festival Amazonie Caraïbe, Competition, St Laurent du Maroni (Guyana), October 2019.

Nidoïsh Naïsseline, a word that does not die

DOCUMENTARY
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 evolution of the Kanak society by tracing their personal and political paths from the May 1968 to present day.
France｜2015｜52 min｜Original French version

A day at the Soleil

DOCUMENTARY
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 to write a book: a story of immigrants through the cafes. A morning just like any other at the cafe “Le Soleil” of the 20th district of Paris. A renown place for the memory of immigrants, workers and revolutionary of the Belleville-Ménilmontant neighborhood. This cafe spirituality now changed : it’s now filled with the new rich inhabitants of the neighborhood.
France｜2017｜78 min｜French Original Version｜Subtitles: french, english

Letter to Vichy

DOCUMENTARY
I spent my childhood and adolescence in this city, which was home to the government between 1940 and 44. When I was 18, I fled. To this day, I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm from Vichy. I'm coming back to my native town to discover what has long been called the Queen of the water cities. And perhaps, at last, to reconcile myself.
France｜2020｜52min｜French Original Version

To live with your eye

DOCUMENTARY
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 Soviet North, the resistance of the indigenous peoples of Siberia and the tireless struggle for the decolonization of thought.
France｜2016｜54 min｜Original French version

The Charcuterie Cameraman

DOCUMENTARY
After spending 40 years as an artisan butcher, Roger, my father, turned to a second career as a super-huitist filmmaker. For the past 20 years, his Super 8 observations of insects and birds have been shown all over the world, to great acclaim and much amusement. This amateur filmmaker lives in Beaune with his wife Josette. I invite you to enjoy this colorful family film walk. 
France｜2022｜52 min｜Original French version｜French and English subtitles

What May Comes Up

DOCUMENTARY
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 a quest to discover a vanished agricultural technique: the storage of cereals in underground silos. To unearth this essential know-how from the past, the researchers are conducting an unusual experiment on the Roussillon plain. They are sketching out the life of rural communities in the past, in the hope that this will provide useful knowledge for today’s farmers.
A quest from the past for the future, punctuated by animated sequences engraved on earth and light.
France｜2023｜72 minutes｜French Original Version

A better life

DOCUMENTARY
he steppe of Patagonia became a new El dorado. In the base of Añelo. To find work as a driver , José Luis must compromise because of the world of petroleum exploitation and the suffering to be away from his wife especially when she starts to get sick. Cécilia, a paraguayan works in the region as a prostitute. So, when she decides to stop to try to live a better life, she starts to hesitate : Fall back in her old habits, to sell her body for almost nothing. Or, go back to her country to see her three girls grow up? Compromise, making hard choices and facing the consequences. That’s what the Patagonians people must endure everyday. The lands of Mapuche Relmu an Indian woman and Pampa the Gaucho farmer are coveted by the petroleum exploitations. Relmu is against it, she fights back, prepared to go to trial. Her determination is relentless, even when she realizes that she’s making her children growing up in an environment of fear, The old Pampa, him, adapts as much as he can to the “progress”. Accepting a financial arrangement. This could prevent him to loose everything, but deep down is this what really matters ? For these people the “arriving” of the petroleum exploitations has brought them hope, doubts and resignation. Forced to make hard choices for their future. They have to bend, get back up, adapt to find a way to keep on living.
France｜2019｜87 min｜Original version in Spanish｜Subtitles in French, English

Taboo sludge

DOCUMENTARY
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 tens of thousands of tons of sludge every year. Those sludges are considered by the law as wastes. Because they are filled with the harmful compounds from the treatment of used waters and become a fertilizer. The big conurbations dont have enough lands to recycle the sludges. They must ask for the help of regions next to them. In the concerned rural areal , we wonder. Why the countryside should digest the sludges of the towns ?
Written by : Benoît Cornuau
French｜52 min｜2015｜original French version

Thank you doctor !

DOCUMENTARY
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 its finesse and secrets, a true vocation for witch he sacrificed his private life. Where others choose glory and money, Akramov only needs his patient recoveries. It’s been now 20 years that the doctor, spends his nights alone , in the hospital. Where he chose to live in a little room in his work place so he can only focus on his patients.
France｜2016｜26 min｜original Kyrgyz version｜French subtitle

Eyes open

DOCUMENTARY
My father once told me that at some point in his life he had lost his way. He didn't know where he was anymore: "It was a nothing, a suspended nothing. Suddenly a blank, like a burst balloon, it was unheard of! Moved by these powerful, poetic and at the same time enigmatic words, I decided to find out more by accompanying him on a journey in search of what connects us.
2023｜France｜82 minutes｜French Original Version

We the unquiet

DOCUMENTARY
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 Artaud center in which patients and staff play along in order to give a more human picture of madness. With the advent of the DSM-5 (classification of mental disorders) and a tendency of psychiatry to think of the illness in terms of symptoms rather than focusing on the human point of view, the Artaud centre poses as an alternative.
France｜2017｜83 min｜Original French version, English subtitles

The Light of Dreams

DOCUMENTARY
In the twilight of his life, Michel Jouvet, whose discovery of REM sleep brought him worldwide acclaim in 1959, delves into his notebooks of dreams, drawings and research. A wealth of material that gradually enlivens an intimate portrait of this neurobiologist and onirologist, convinced that dreams are the guardians of our singular identity.
France｜2022｜83'｜French Original Version, English subtitles

SOON : Living with imperfection - French Trailer

In Boston, in his half-basement apartment with an atmosphere straight out of an old film noir, the great American pianist Ran Blake leads a solitary life and continues to shape his unclassifiable playing. For over 70 years, his obsession with the cinema has driven him and nourished his music in a unique dialogue between the two arts.

Day after day, La Chevêche

DOCUMENTARY
For several months, Vladimir Léon followed the work of choreographer Julie Desprairies, day after day, as she conceived her new piece, La Chevêche, a danced trek through a forest in the Ardennes. She met many of the forest's users (foresters, naturalists, hunters, artists, etc.) who were to take part in her piece, and who told the story of their country through their bodies and words, while the film captured the metamorphosis of their everyday gestures into danced movement. The forest is filled with these strange, ephemeral inhabitants, dancers and musicians for the occasion. The spec- tacle can begin...
2023｜France｜52 minutes｜Original French Version

Dann Zardin Pépé

DOCUMENTARY
In the Épéron district of Réunion, the town council has embarked on a vast programme to reduce substandard housing. My childhood home is in danger of being demolished. It had been granted to my grandparents by their employer, the director of the Boubon sugar mills, an industry that is a vestige of our island's colonial past. 
France｜2018｜48 minutes｜Original Creole, French Version｜French Subtitles

Times are changing

DOCUMENTARY
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 we live, in places we work, we met each other. Moments chosen from a country’s life. Keeping a good distance from simplistic ideas and ambient cynicism, we met, us, inhabitants of this country, to speak about the times to come, about the rupture that has been so repeatedly announced, about our ambitions and the complexity of the world. In short, about politics.
France｜99 min｜French Original Version

The Yellow Ways

DOCUMENTARY
Dressed in phosphorescent vests, women and men gathered to express their anger and their determination to change the world. The “Gilet jaunes” left the countryside, the small towns, the peripheral areas, to reach roundabouts and the large urban centers, so that we could see them - the invisible ones – and hear them - the inaudible ones… In a diagonal journey across France, bordered by two large international harbors, the film brings them out of the shadows, to tell the story of this unique uprising. In the most ordinary places where the trouble appeared, the camera acts as a resonance box.
France｜2023｜72 minutes｜French Original Version｜Subtitles : english

Demolition(s)

DOCUMENTARY
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 became a legend. When I tried to find her she vanished… I start my investigation in this landlocked city between train rails and airplanes passing by. Bit by bit , oscillating between dream and reality , We start to picture a portrait in a kaleidoscope shape of Miss P. Ghost of a land meant to disappear
France｜2020｜60 min｜Original French Version