France - 2017 - 52 min - Original French version 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.
France - 2020 - 60 min - original French version 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
French - 52 min - 2015 - original French version 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
France - 2017 - 52 min - Original Haitian Creole version with French subtitles 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. - 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.
France - 2015 - 52 min - Original French version 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 - 2022 - 52 min - Original French version - French and English subtitles. 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 - 2019 - 87 min - Original version in Spanish - Subtitles in French, English The 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 - 52 minutes - Original French version 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 - 25 min - Original French version 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 - 52 min - Original French version 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.
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 - 2018 - 54 min - Original French version - French and English subtitles 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 - 2016 - 54 min - Original French version 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 - 26 min - original Kyrgyz version - French subtitle 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.
French - 2016 - 45 min - original French version 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.
France - 2012 - - 59 min Original French version 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.
