Luisa Magno lives in a small Calabrian village and has always been at war with everything and everyone. She is an atypical southern woman, capable of going against traditional family values, while adapting to her provincial environment. Her days are spent between various odd jobs and time...

Ballroom immerses us in the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC community of Greater Paris, united around ballroom culture. We follow the daily lives of young adults from the House of Revlon, each of whom faces issues that strongly resonate with the societal challenges of 21st-century France. These hybrid heroes...

In 1609, in the Basque Country, a local conflict turned into accusations of witchcraft. Henry IV, King of France, decided to restore order to the borders of the Kingdom. He sent a commission to judge the witches and warlocks. The trial lasted four months. Pierre de Lancre, a magistrate at the Parliament of Bordeaux...

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...

What do women and men who dream of having a child have in common with those who seek to align their assigned gender with their gender identity? At the hospital in Milan, in the department that deals with both assisted reproductive technology and gender dysphoria,...

At once grandiose and intimate, baroque and meticulous, burlesque and tragic, Gilliam's work is vast and complex. The same can be said of the man himself. Armed with a strong ego and a mischievous streak, he is also the embodiment of the artist who doubts himself and is prone to self-deprecation. Corrosive, subversive, and mocking, Terry Gilliam...

As soon as it was released, Matrix is a phenomenon of considerable influence, a breakthrough that changed the course of cinema. It resounded with the bit generationthis kids of the 80s and 90s, about to be propelled into cyberspace and the new millennium. This documentary is....

Anne, a theater director, adapts Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, in which she plays the role of Gervaise. The characters' story echoes her own personal life. With a cinéma vérité approach, immersing itself in the daily lives of these artists possessed by a living, burning fire...

Paris at dawn. A sea of zinc and small, immutable chimneys. In a moment, the city's eleven million souls will slip out of bed, get dressed, kiss each other goodbye, still drowsy, and head out, running, tracing as many paths as they have possibilities. Where are they going? What are they looking for?...

Fouad Elkoury's unique career, spanning photojournalism and art photography, immerses us in the complex and tragic history of Lebanon, ravaged by war from the 1970s to the present day. An intimate and privileged encounter with one of the greatest photographers in the Arab world, through his personal archives...

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.

At a prestigious Parisian high school, a group of students and their literature teacher organize a public speaking contest. It is a pivotal moment, soon to be the end of a cycle. The topic, “O rage, O despair, O enemy elite,” borrows a line from Corneille to question the notion of elitism, which defines them despite...

Wild Pyrenees is above all an invitation to travel, to discover the wildest valleys of the Pyrenean massif. The film is composed of sumptuous images, usually reserved for experienced mountaineers or the most pugnacious naturalists...

En grandissant silencieusement Queer, au sein d'une famille brisée et dysfonctionnelle, Kurtis s'est confronté aux abus, aux traumatismes et à l'addiction. En guise d'échappatoire, il poursuit la Beauté partout durant son éducation à la campagne. Son obsession l'amène alors à créer son alter-ego, Miss Fame, une des super modèles drag...

New archaeological discoveries from the Canadian Arctic down to Chile are pushing back the date of human arrival in the Americas to 30,000 years before the present era – approximately 15,000 years earlier...

This is the tale of three artists who navigate the fashion world: from the front rows at shows to their tiny hotel rooms, constantly on the move, they struggle to thrive in social media culture in a decaying world which is now forced to reinvent itself.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Félix Mora criss-crossed southern Morocco in search of muscles to close down the mines in France at low cost. The Kingdom's town criers announced his arrival to cohorts of candidates for exile. A green stamp on the bare torsos: France,...

Dumb and Dumber, The Mask, Me Myself & Irene, Ace Ventura ... Jim Carrey ruled the 90s with an unconstrained and subversive style. Mutant body and actor of a digital revolution from which the last golden age of cartoon emerges, he was the grimacing face of the Clinton years, the link between...

SCHOOL OF HOPE is an intimate and charming portrait of optimism in the harshest of environments. In the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never...

Each foreign specialty supplier, from China to Venice, carefully guarded its own precious trade secrets. To obtain this valuable knowledge and hoist France to the pinnacle of Europe’s luxury-goods market, envoys commissioned by the king engaged in all sorts of shenanigans, including espionage, kidnappings, and bribery.

“I’ve been a robber, a thief, a mobster. I’ve blown my veins, I’ve boozed, I’ve boozed and I’ve fucked chicks. I haven’t killed anyone yet. I nevere stole poor people. My name is Stela and I’m 42 years old today, 10 of them in jail. My life is chaos. ” Stela, 41 years old and smoking...

In France and among our European neighbours, more and more people are being employed to take care of our sick or vulnerable parents, children, relatives and neighbours. They are called life assistants, but they occupy a strategic place in the organization of society....

On June 8, 2017, an article in the prestigious journal of science, Nature, publishing the research results of an international team led jointly by Abdelouahed Ben’Ncer and Jean- Jacques Hublin spurs a scientific revolution in the history of Homo Sapiens...

In a teacher's life, there is an unforgettable year, when they switch from being students to teachers. They are then "trainee civil servants", part time in college, part time in a class that is entrusted to them. In the great Parisian suburbs...

Jing est une jeune Chinoise qui vit à Paris. Brimée par un père autoritaire qui ne l’a pas laissé vivre sa passion pour un instrument de musique millénaire, elle n’a eu d’autre choix que d’émigrer. Elle a choisi la France. Sa situation est fragile. Jouant de la musique dans le...

A pioneer, Christelle Cuinet is fighting for the profession of end-of-life biographer: she records the words of people close to the end, and turns it into a book that will be offered to their loved ones. An eternal trace of these lives. She goes where no one goes...

April 2017, an attack takes place on the Champs-Elysees, a policeman is killed. A few days later, his companion pays tribute to him at the official ceremony in the Court of Honour of the Prefecture of Paris. Do the words of love then uttered in this symbolic place of order and law...

But since October 2016, French policemen have been beating the pavement regularly to show their anger. The police in the street is a bulwark of the Republic that gives way... A strong signal that challenges the hierarchy and politicians. To understand the motivations of this unprecedented movement, we interviewed...

Iceland, 1998. A young electrician – only 26 – is assigned to make repairs on a high-voltage line. When he reaches the top of the utility pole, 25 feet in the air, Gundmundur Felix Gretarsson...

I live in Castagnède, a village of less than 200 inhabitants located in the south-west of France, at the foot of the Pyrenees. The countryside around me is rather poor, sore by the agricultural and industrial changes of the last fifty years. In my village, there is no more economic life...

Abbas était grand reporter. Il est allé sur le théâtre des grands événements qui ont bouleversé le monde des années 70 à aujourd’hui. Il a travaillé pour les plus grandes agences de presse. Autant dire qu’il est au coeur de l’histoire de la photographie d’actualité. Mais pas seulement. Au-delà d’avoir...

Understanding the importance of a balanced diet on health and well-being is a topic at the heart of all occupations today. But nutrition is a complex subject. And in the face of the profusion of regimes and the extent of conflicting studies, confusion reigns on the part of the general public...

"Life (more) Healthy" is an initiation quest towards a healthier way of life, in search of well-being. Take the time to stop to breathe, become aware of the world around us, live in the present moment... To be, truly. At first groping, our two authors will multiply the encounters and...

Calls to the 17th continue to increase. Sometimes we get close to implosion. However, not all calls are "police rescue missions". All the calls made to the 17th speak volumes about the company. In direct contact with reality and the snapshot, they deliver small pieces of...

Leina Sato is a Japanese professional free diver and is expecting her first child. Her partner, Jean-Marie Ghislain is a famous underwater photographer. They share a passion for the oceans, and believe that a strong bond between a mother-to-be and cetaceans exists. And they want to prove it. Leina will be multiplying her encounters with whales, dolphins...

The stories of the patients of Marie-Ange, a psychic-magnetizer in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, give a metaphorical image of the world, the planet on which we live and the unspeakable evils that we all share. Fragments of life recorded over two years, this documentary is a hollow portrait of modern society...

Delinquency, riots, religion and terrorism, it seems that from one side of the ghetto to another, there is no mutual understanding. The gap is widening inexorably. It's a situation that has potential for danger and one that has had numerous incidents of violence since 1982. The terrorist attacks of 2015...

30 years after Chernobyl, 5 years after Fukushima, one fact is clear: these nuclear disasters have condemned millions of people to live on lands that are “slightly” contaminated by radioactivity. This is the long-term consequence that affects the largest number of people (7 million, in Europe). Yet this is the question we still know the least about. What is...

In just fifty years, agroindustrial methods have radically changed the modes of production and cultivation of our food and drink. A half century is all that was needed to forgo 15 000 years of natural agriculture. WIne, a cultural product if any, appeared to be spared, or so we thought…Today grape vines...

Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel." In response to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, a group of people from the town of Beit Sahour decide to buy ...

Techno celebrated its 25th birthday in 2013. It has become a culture in its own right, ranking among trendy music, and bringing together millions of people worldwide. Its DJs have become veritable stars. It is a global, worldwide culture, and its creators and fans alike share its common denominators of hedonism, a thirst for...

One of the most tragic health and political cases, because of hundreds of dead people including a majority of hemophiliac children, is the scandal of contaminated blood (i.e. not warmed). At the end of 1985 and in the beginning of 1986, the French Institut Mérieux has sold out its stock of this dangerous blood to several countries, against the law. In France, the necessity of warming up blood...

A survivor of the Nazi camps, coming from a very poor Hungarian family, he turned up to become the forger of the 20th century, and lived the last years of his life in a huge villa on Ibiza. With the help of Fernand Le Gros, an extravagant and manipulative swindler, Elmyr was able to get his own works, “in the style of somebody else’s” be exhibited in museums, galleries and...

This documentary trilogy follows the complete journey of 6 protagonists implicated by the courts, from their arrest to the end of their sentence. Alongside them throughout the judicial proceedings, in the places of police, justice and detention, the film offers a singular experience

The world of contemporary African dance is singular, inventive and surprising. Choreographers from South Africa to Morocco, passing through the center, east and west of the continent, offer us a foray into their colorful world.

Angelica Lim is a Roboticist and is about to live an unprecedented experience: living with a humanoid robot for 6 months. She will meet the pioneers who already live with these machines to understand the revolution that is underway. Imagine if the nanny, the maid or the teacher was a robot…What used to be science fiction already exists: last year 2.5 million people...

Five writers, who had to go into exile because they were threatened in their country of origin, tell us about a violent, absurd and unjust world. They tell of their intimate perception of writing and exile. These men and women, initially cornered because of their freedom of speech, embody the power of literature...

Hello, police? Behind these few words, an expectation. A request, a hope, a complaint. Sometimes even an order. An emergency? A peril? Not necessarily... In recent years, the number of calls to the 17 standard has been increasing. At certain times, we approach implosion. Yet, in the vast majority of cases...

The West and the East clash in the name of Good with Jerusalem in the crosshairs as they once did. Behind this recourse to God in politics hides a real struggle for world domination.... Let's start, thirty years ago, with the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979. Thirty years told by...

In France, since 2003, new directives have introduced the concept of eviction quotas to be filled each year. These goals, quantified for the first time in history, provoke violent criticism. Arrests, sometimes even in schools, have gradually led citizens to switch to civil disobedience...

In the spring of 1945, 400,000 German soldiers and 305,000 Soviet soldiers died during the Battle of the Oder. On the old front line, 100 kilometres from Berlin, a country takes root mixing victorious armies, defeated people, fleeing Nazis and looters of all origins... It is still called the Wild West...

Fetishism surprises, sometimes worries. As Raul explains, some people only enjoy thinking about women's feet or shoes. Pierre, on the other hand, has a spinning head as soon as he imagines legs sheathed in seam stockings. Michel-Jean has several dozen latex garments in his...