A five member French team, including a professional hunting guide, criss-crosses Namibia through savannah, desert and mountains. From bush camps that they have set up, the team is trying to rediscover the original meaning of safari: tracking and approaching the great African animals on foot, with the help of local trackers. These approaches are made … Continued
Philomena Esposito is of Calabrian origin, and learned to speak French at a compulsory age, on the school benches of a small town on the Côte d’Azur. Her documentary highlights the role of women in the Mafia. How is the Mafia seen by women? By those who take part in it and by those who … Continued
For the first time, Mali, and especially Bamako, is proudly hosting the African Cup of Nations. Every Malian is aware of the opportunity and the stakes involved in organising this high-level football competition, and they are all determined to do their bit to help make the festivities a success, and to practise the famous ‘Djatiguia’, … Continued
There are people in the metro, people from all over. People coming, going and meeting up: passengers on the line. Paris is not only the capital of France, it is also the city of Poles, Algerians, Angolans, Greeks and Vietnamese. I stood there with my camera and my sound engineer and waited: on the platforms, … Continued
This film recreates the exceptional relationship between the people of Sainte-Sévère, the film “Jour de Fête” and its director Jacques Tati. Following the order of the script, from preparation to production and dismantling, the film endeavours to capture the subtle, good-natured relationship that binds a film-maker and his occasional performers together in memory during this … Continued
In 1989, I met Franck and David in an institution for the mentally handicapped where I was making a documentary. As far as I was concerned, they didn’t belong there. They were 17 and 19 at the time, and I asked them to tell me their story so that I could make a film about … Continued
Alone in the middle of the stage, seated behind a long trestle table covered with a sheet, an actor, Jean-Pierre Bodin, mumbles happily with a glass of wine in his hand. He evokes with humour and tenderness the daily life of a provincial town, Chauvigny, whose social and sentimental geography he describes in detail, centred … Continued
The spellbinding power of the sounds and rhythms that have for centuries marked a still time of birth and death, the ringing of bells and the activity of bell-ringing continue in the Haut-Pays Niçois, strongly linked to a whole range of musical practices. In these valleys where men have had to leave to earn their … Continued
Karim and Mekki had no idea when they entered this unique mobile theatre that, a few months later, they would be hard at work there and that this experience would have an impact on their individual destinies.Fixed-term work, the inflexible countdown sends them back to the horizon of a difficult life begun in Dreux.What will … Continued
This film deals with the Pont-Aven period in Gauguin’s work and his difficulty in practising his painting due to his lack of money and the disarray of his family situation. The voice-over reads from letters Gauguin wrote to his friends and family, in which he talks about his loneliness, his failing imagination and his passionate … Continued