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 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 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 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
DOCUMENTARY 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 in 2007 as an autonomous institution. Its sole purpose was to introduce pure maths to young students, who are used to learning mathematical formulas by heart. Young director Tülay Dikenoğlu Süer delivers the testimony of an experiment that is still going on despite coercitive measures and the will of government to forbide such an alternative institution which attracts hundreds of students every summer. Turkey｜2018｜54 minutes｜Original Turkish Version｜English Subtitles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
