Coups de coeur
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The Rose Family
Duration: 2h08
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In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte, unleashing an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what led his father and uncle to commit these acts. The result of ten years of research, _The Rose Family_ brings to life moments and figures that were previously known only through a few photographs, and...
On the Adamant
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The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. T...
The Trial
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Following the collapse of the Argentinian dictatorship, the new democratically elected government held a judicial trial of nine high-ranking representatives of the military Junta. The accused were prosecuted with crimes that included kidnapping, torture, forced disappearance, and the murder of over 8000 thousand people from 1976-1983. The trial was recorded for broadcast television on over 500 ...
Children of Shatila
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_Children of Shatila_ tells the story of Farah and Issa, two children from Beirut’s Shatila camp who use their imagination and creativity to overcome the overwhelming difficulties of living in a Palestinian refugee camp that has survived massacre, siege, and dispossession.
Manakamana
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Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal, that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, _Manakamana_ is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity.
Elementary
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In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be cheered while teachers know they do not only teach, they also educate. With care, tenacity and efforts, children are trained to become not only responsible citizens but also human beings.
Born in Flames
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A political science fiction film shot as a documentary, _Born in Flames_ takes us to the near future of New York, ten years after the failure of a social revolution. At the call of the Women's Army, several groups of activists finally unite to form a shifting, non-hierarchical network that baffles the FBI. They fought in an explosive atmosphere against a society whose institutions were racist, ...
Argentinian Lesson
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With lush and intimate photography, Wojciech Staroń documents his family's move from Poland to Argentina. Struggling to adapt in a foreign country, his 8-year-old son Janek finds a friend in Marcia, a grounded 11-year-old Argentinean of Polish descent. With a strength and determination well beyond her years, Marcia must help make ends meet while holding her family together.
The Rose Family
Duration: 2h08
Subscription access
In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte, unleashing an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what led his father and uncle to commit these acts. The result of ten years of research, _The Rose Family_ brings to life moments and figures that were previously known only through a few photographs, and...
On the Adamant
Subscription access
The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. T...
The Trial
Subscription access
Following the collapse of the Argentinian dictatorship, the new democratically elected government held a judicial trial of nine high-ranking representatives of the military Junta. The accused were prosecuted with crimes that included kidnapping, torture, forced disappearance, and the murder of over 8000 thousand people from 1976-1983. The trial was recorded for broadcast television on over 500 ...
Children of Shatila
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_Children of Shatila_ tells the story of Farah and Issa, two children from Beirut’s Shatila camp who use their imagination and creativity to overcome the overwhelming difficulties of living in a Palestinian refugee camp that has survived massacre, siege, and dispossession.
Manakamana
Subscription access
Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal, that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, _Manakamana_ is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity.
Elementary
Subscription access
In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be cheered while teachers know they do not only teach, they also educate. With care, tenacity and efforts, children are trained to become not only responsible citizens but also human beings.
Born in Flames
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A political science fiction film shot as a documentary, _Born in Flames_ takes us to the near future of New York, ten years after the failure of a social revolution. At the call of the Women's Army, several groups of activists finally unite to form a shifting, non-hierarchical network that baffles the FBI. They fought in an explosive atmosphere against a society whose institutions were racist, ...
Argentinian Lesson
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With lush and intimate photography, Wojciech Staroń documents his family's move from Poland to Argentina. Struggling to adapt in a foreign country, his 8-year-old son Janek finds a friend in Marcia, a grounded 11-year-old Argentinean of Polish descent. With a strength and determination well beyond her years, Marcia must help make ends meet while holding her family together.
