Since its release, Matrix was a phenomenon of considerable influence, a moment of anthology that turned the cinema history on its head. The film is considered as the birth certificate of the bit generation, represented by these kids of the eighties and nineties who were about to be propelled into...
Gilliam's cinema is full of iconic titles that not only testify to a visual extravagance and an ever-renewed singularity, but his cinema also echoes a disquieting and constantly topical humanity. Terry Gilliam's work and life merge in a baroque, zany and tragic adventure worthy of the great theatrical epics. A...
The story begins 400 years ago, on the border between France and Spain, in the coastal region of the French Basque country, Labourd, populated by whale hunters and sailors' wives. In 1609, a local dispute caused accusations of witchcraft. Henri IV appointed two men to judge the case ... The...
Paris at dawn. A bed of zinc and small unchanging chimneys. In a moment, the city's eleven million souls will slip out of their bed, get dressed, kiss each other, still misty, to go out, run, tracing as many trajectories as they carry possibilities. To go where? In search of...
Fouad Elkoury's singular journey from photojournalism to fine art photography plunges us into the complex and tragic history of war-torn Lebanon from the 70s to nowadays. An intimate and privileged encounter with one of the Arab world's greatest photographers, through his personal archives, travel and life stories.
  Few found papers that tell a story that remained secret, and the path of my life takes shape, discovering the extraordinary journey lived in 1920 by my father, still a child, and his family, to escape death. This long and hopeful wandering has something universal about it. It begins...
  Before our eyes, a forgotten palace reappears, a thousand-year-old civilization is discovered under a new light… More than 600 years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang reigns over all of China after defying the Mongols. Victorious, he builds a political movement, proclaims himself emperor and founds, in the same year, the Ming...
Every night Aminata patrols the streets of Freetown searching for girls being exploited by pimps. She takes them surfing to Sierra Leone’s only Surf Club, to heal their self-esteem on the deep metallic-blue ocean. Thanks to her friend Chennor, a former gang leader who is now working at Pademba Prison,...