Dans les années 1970, Joseph Mobutu, le deuxième président de la RDC, inaugurait en grande pompe un complexe résidentiel et une galerie marchande appelés « Galeries Présidentielles ». Pavées de marbre et pourvues des premiers escalators du pays, elles deviennent un symbole de l'espoir qui a suivi l'indépendance. Aujourd'hui les Galeries ne sont plus luxueuses : le marbre est creusé et le monte-charge fait office d'ascenseur. Mais elles restent un immeuble emblématique du centre des affaires ; un passage obligé de toutes sortes de personnes : procureurs, policiers, journalistes et hommes d'affaires mais aussi employés de maison, couturiers, cireurs de chaussures et autres vendeurs ambulants...
La réalisatrice vit dans les Galeries et filme le quotidien de trois personnes qui font vivre ce lieu et avec qui elle a tissé un lien : l'opérateur du monte-charge, le Président du syndic et le gardien du parking.
Sculpter la mémoire nous invite au cœur de la création d’une œuvre de la sculptrice Cécile Raynal. Le temps d’une semaine, l’artiste se rend chaque jour chez Pierre Rolinet, 98 ans, pour faire émerger d’un bloc de terre, un portrait de cet homme, rescapé du camp de concentration Natzweiler-Struthof. Pierre a des choses à dire, il ne viendra jamais à bout de son expérience dans les camps. Cécile l’écoute en modelant la terre. Avec tendresse, la caméra observe cet échange, le récit de l’homme, les gestes de la femme et la naissance d’une œuvre qui inscrira pour longtemps le regard de Pierre dans nos mémoires.
In the Rearview is a collective portrait composed of an array of experiences of Ukrainians who share a single goal: finding a safe haven in the throes of conflict. With temporary asylum granted to all passengers, their differences in gender, age, skin tone, physical condition, origin, identity, worldviews and faith become irrelevant. While the war itself remains in the backdrop, its reflection and impact are evident and raw.
Behind the postcard images of Martinique lies a more complex reality. Through different places and characters, the film takes an attentive but discreet look at the difficult reconstruction of the fragile ties that bind us to existence, and which are sometimes put to a severe test.
For a few years now, 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 look at each other and talk as never before.
With his characteristic poetic language, Pierre tries to unravel the threads of a complex history of illness in which our relationship is caught in spite of ourselves. As my requests and the urgency that presses on, it's a whole filial relationship that is reinvented in every moment, with its complexities, its joys and its flashes. A path to rediscovered joy
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Jérémy Florès talks about his career, his aspirations and how he sees his future. Behind the surfer, we meet the man who inspires a whole generation.
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.
After five years of prosecution for the "crime of solidarity", chicken farmer Cédric Herrou had the "principle of fraternity" recognized in the French Constitution. Since then, he has changed his world, dispossessing himself of his land to turn it into common land and founding, with Marion Gachet, the Emmaüs Roya community (the first agricultural Emmaüs community in the world), which opens up the possibility of offering a living environment to precarious people in any situation, even "irregular" ones. ANOTHER WAY tells this story. ANOTHER WAY is a response to all those who prefer to build walls rather than bridges. A story on a local scale and universal in its human, social, political and ecological dimensions. It's a joyful, thrilling adventure, driven by the impressive resilience of the characters who bring it to life through their hard work, their sense of resourcefulness, their unshakeable will and their inventive courage... Characters perpetually regenerated by an analysis of society based on their situation, full of intelligence, lucidity, irony and even humor, about a region, a country, a continent, a world and an era. An eco-political, solidarity-based and fraternal success story that traces the invention of a "different" way of thinking, living and doing things in a border valley, the Roya, which flows into the Mediterranean between France and Italy.
Without electricity and chemistry, how can we rediscover the ancestral knowledge of preserving wheat, a staple food? Archaeologists, a farmer, biologists and a baker set out in search of a vanished farming technique. A sensitive film that links science and food, and touches on the issues of sustenance, awakening curiosity about a little-known subject. A quest from the past for the future... Produced by SaNoSi productions and Caméra au poing, available soon on sanosi.live.
Trailer of La Visite La Visite (The Visit) is a collection of short films in which ten writers-directors with a singular vision offer us ten encounters with people with mental disabilities in ten major cultural venues. Each film tackles a range of subjects, both big and small, that resonate with these places.
Dans une ferme isolée du Vercors, un paysan ingénieur en électronique, Jean-Philippe Valla, développe des techniques d'auto-suffisance énergétique et alimentaire. La chorégraphe Julie Desprairies vient travailler dans cette ferme extraordinaire avec des danseurs et des musiciens. Le geste agricole et le geste dansé se confondent, le travail de la terre et la chorégraphie cherchent ensemble une plus juste façon d'habiter le monde.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bobo and Michael Lonsdale comment on history in the vast halls and light-filled corridors of the Château de Versailles.
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.
