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
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
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
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.
Behind the peaceful 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 when, wearing yellow vests, men and women came together to express their anger and their determination to change the world. The film "The Yellow Ways" is a quest for this simmering history, on a rumbling line that runs from Le Havre to Marseille.
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
DOCUMENTARY SERIES They have a passion for theatre, which is both improbable and astonishing here in Tamatave, on the east coast of Madagascar. Rehearsing in the sun, in the wind, in the noise and indifference, with the desire to give birth to an art form that is virtually non-existent in their town, the Firebearers are an act of cultural resistance. 2016｜France｜26 minutes｜Original Malagasy, French Version｜French Subtitles
“Madagascar en courts” is a collection of six 26-minute documentary films, each directed by a different filmmaker, offering a unique perspective on the island located off the southeast coast of Africa.
DOCUMENTARY SERIES In Tamatave, in the neighborhood of Tanamakoa, the rongony became a social phenomenon that spreads every day. It’s sale and consommation aren’t ready to disappear. A history that I knew, lived, and repeats. Following the every day routine of 4 characters, I want to embark the spectator into this very peculiar world. 2016｜France｜26 minutes｜Original Malagasy, French Version｜French Subtitles
DOCUMENTARY SERIES Madagascar - 2016 - 26 min - Original version Malagasy, French - French subtitles For malagasy people who honor their ancestors, if a deceased is in his tomb , his spirits still lives and keeps its individuality and family bond. In Alasora, On the high central lands of Madagascar, Marie the dwarf , takes care of a royal tomb she was entrusted with and greeds the visitors who come to ask the ancestors favors. 2016｜France｜26 minutes｜Original Malagasy, French Version｜French Subtitles
DOCUMENTARY SERIES In Tamatave, two young primary school teachers, Rita and Lalia, face difficulties of the adaptation of the children in first grade, one is in a public school, the other is in a private school . despite their similar work, they live and teach in very different conditions. In a country where education is unfortunately not a priority. 2016｜France｜26 minutes｜Original Malagasy, French Version｜French Subtitles
DOCUMENTARY SERIES In the middle school of Ambodisaina, a teaching establishment in the country side, the teachers must face horrible economical and material conditions. To cope with this, some teacher accept to teach multiple fields, with no formation for it. We call them “skeleton key” teachers. 2016｜France｜26 minutes｜Original Malagasy, French Version｜French Subtitles
DOCUMENTARY SERIES Travel notebook of young malagasy musician who choose in flee the political insecurity of her country. Back in her country, convinced that taking refuge in her Art is the way out of this permanent crisis, she invites herself in the creation bubble of other Artists. Her trip becomes a identity quest and the beautiful discovery of a new face of Madagascar ignored until now 2016｜France｜26 minutes｜Original Malagasy, French Version｜French Subtitles
We cross the streets of a new, unfinished town, with ochre brick walls, in the middle of the fields of La Mancha. A few neighbors, of all ages, invite us in and tell us about their projects, their hopes, each in turn revealing a way of living in this village-like town stigmatized by the crisis. Since its construction, a first generation of children has grown up here, now in their teens. El Quiñon is beginning to write its own history. What was once known as "the ghost town" has gradually filled up. Against the backdrop of national elections, I attempt to sketch an intimate vision of Spain, ten years after the crisis. In "Spain's youngest city", it's the whimsy and spontaneity of its inhabitants, and the bonds they forge with one another, that enable them to take control of an uncertain future.
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
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
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
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
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
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
