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...
"On the Way" est un documentaire qui suscite la réflexion et explore la relation entre l'homme et la nature dans les montagnes polonaises des Tatras, en se concentrant sur le tourisme de masse sur le site dit de "l'oeil de la mer", l'un des plus beaux lacs d’Europe. Il s'agit...
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...
Culture is also a front line in the resistance to Putin's war. Under the constant threat of Russian bombing, people are dancing and singing in defiance of the alarms, putting on plays in nuclear shelters, books are published despite paper shortages, street art is painted near the front line, music is recorded, exhibitions are opened in a closed museum, where endangered treasures are safeguarded, camouflage is endlessly sewn in the cellar, and behind the scenes, money is constantly being raised to provide drones and survival kits for soldiers... Faced with the enemy for whom the Ukrainians supposedly have neither identity nor culture, everyone is fighting. Children and grandmothers too. Our loved ones, our neighbors. We are Ukraine. We are Europe.
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...
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...