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In 2000, Vitaly Mansky films from within the first year of Vladimir Putin's presidency. Nearly twenty years later, the now-exiled documentarian revisits his archives and offers a critical reinterpretation of this moment. It's a fascinating firsthand account of the emergence of a gifted, secretive, and cynical leader.
The History of the Pig (Within Us)
New product!Pigs have had a close connection to humans since prehistoric times. Over the centuries, stories, rules and legends have given the animal a profound meaning. It is a symbol of uncleanness, for the "beast" hidden inside of us, a source of food, a bone of contention in discussions. This animal signifies both passion and rejection. And that says a lot about mankind.
Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult. The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper, as the Great Far...
All That Passes By Through a Window That Doesn't Open
Duration: 2h18Amid the attempt to revive a "new Silk Road" between Europe and Asia, Azerbaijani men labour to build a new railroad that promises to bring glory to a new generation. Across closed borders in Armenia, a lonely stationmaster sits idle in suspended time, waiting for 25 years for the return of trains. A journey by rail, where men reflect upon desire and regret, floating through a Eurasian expanse,...
How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is a furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour, filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra. By means of playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, they both embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throug...
Romain Goupil was born with a camera in his hand. With this camera, he films everything: the stories he invents and his life that he stages. As he develops a taste for political action, Romain Goupil continues to film everything: the activists, the encounters, the protests. He meets Michel Recanati, a passionate activist. A deep friendship is born between these two young high school students wh...
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Duration: 2h28_Images of the World and Inscription in War_ is an essay whose central motif is the aerial photograph of the camp at Auschwitz taken on April 4, 1944 by an American reconnaissance plane. On this photo, analysts identified the surrounding factories but not the concentration and extermination camp. Dialectic montage and a distanced commentary compose this film which analyses the conditions under ...
With a jazz soundtrack from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, this film denounces the crimes committed by the Portuguese in Angola. Here, we see the torture of a prisoner that results from the colonizer’s ignorance. A song whose meaning is “White Death”, _Monangambéee_, is a rallying cry against the colonial abuses in Angola.
_And the Dogs Were Quiet_ is based on recorded excerpts from Aimé Césaire’s play of the same name where the rebel expresses himself in a long pain-racked poem in front of the mother, crying out loud his revolt against the enslavement of his people. Gabriel Glissant and Sarah Maldoror appear as actors at the Museum of Man in Paris which is devoted to Black Africa, integrating three spectators in...
It's the post-war period. Europe has been rebuilt. Everything is going well in the "model colonies" where the French Republic leads its wards with a maternal hand towards the lights of reason and progress. However, not everyone shares this view. The first anti-colonial film in France, banned and recently awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this effective pamphlet against colonialism in ...
Three years after the start of the civil war, the director returns to her city for a few months. Straddling a country at war and one at peace, she finds it hard to readjust to life. By restarting a bus when public transport was no longer available, she was able to bring a new sense of normalcy to the war-torn city: people boarded the bus, seeing it as a safe space.
_The Law in These Parts_ reveals the legal framework of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and exposes the injustices inherent in a legal system designed by Israel but applied only to Palestinians. Through archival footage and interviews with Israeli military judges, prosecutors, and legal advisors, this documentary unravels an intricate system of military control that symbolize...
It was a winter day in Madrid. I took the express train "Puerta del Sol" to Brussels. At that time, Hendeva was the final station for our trains. The Spanish tracks and the French tracks were not of the same width, a defensive measure implemented by Franco’s government. Disembarking from the train, I held my suitcase tightly in one hand, while the other clutched my passport. In the dead of nigh...
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
Duration: 3h38What if the danses macabres, beyond their grimacing folklore, staged the death of the Middle Ages and the invention, in the middle of the 15th century, of modern Europe? It is the hypothesis of writer Jean Louis Schefer. An investigation in the form of a conversation and walks between Paris and Portugal, with directors Rita Azevedo Gomez and Pierre Léon. A six-handed film.
_In Flow of Words_ follows the journeys of three interpreters at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. They translated the shocking testimonies of witnesses, victims, and defendants, never allowing their emotions, feelings, and personal history to interfere. In contrast to their role in the courtroom, this film puts their voices and experiences at the forefront of the s...
They are part of the first generation after the Indochina War. They were born in Vietnam or Martinique. They have inherited a unique and conflicting history. They are wounded by silence, rejection, and misunderstandings. Their fathers, Martinican soldiers, took part in this conflict alongside mainland French forces and all other colonial forces from 1946 to 1954. Their Vietnamese mothers experi...
_The Roar of Their Engines_ is a short documentary film set in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a territory that still bears the scars of an ongoing 50 years-old conflict, where peace talks are at a standstill. Meanwhile, the Turkish-Cypriot population is aging, silently and away from the spotlight, on disputed and over-militarized lands. This war no longer concerns them.
Google Maps, Wikipedia, and early 20th-century colonial landscape photography provide the material for this absorbing techno-meditation on the status of Palestine and the notion of the "Holy Land."
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
Duration: 2h34Based on never-before-seen archives, this film written and directed by the photographer's granddaughter paints an intimate portrait of the man and the artist who joyfully intertwined his family and professional life to build an exemplary body of work. _Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens_ tells the story of how this child from the Parisian suburbs became one of the world's most famous photographers.
Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining town of Chiatura in Georgia is now all but abandoned, crumbling around those who still inhabit it. And yet, as anywhere, people live their lives and go about their daily business. There is joy here, and there are the usual challenges. Rati Oneli’s _City of the Sun_ takes us on a languorous tour of this ...
In 2000, Vitaly Mansky films from within the first year of Vladimir Putin's presidency. Nearly twenty years later, the now-exiled documentarian revisits his archives and offers a critical reinterpretation of this moment. It's a fascinating firsthand account of the emergence of a gifted, secretive, and cynical leader.
The History of the Pig (Within Us)
New product!Pigs have had a close connection to humans since prehistoric times. Over the centuries, stories, rules and legends have given the animal a profound meaning. It is a symbol of uncleanness, for the "beast" hidden inside of us, a source of food, a bone of contention in discussions. This animal signifies both passion and rejection. And that says a lot about mankind.
Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult. The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper, as the Great Far...
All That Passes By Through a Window That Doesn't Open
Duration: 2h18Amid the attempt to revive a "new Silk Road" between Europe and Asia, Azerbaijani men labour to build a new railroad that promises to bring glory to a new generation. Across closed borders in Armenia, a lonely stationmaster sits idle in suspended time, waiting for 25 years for the return of trains. A journey by rail, where men reflect upon desire and regret, floating through a Eurasian expanse,...
How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is a furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour, filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra. By means of playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, they both embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throug...
Romain Goupil was born with a camera in his hand. With this camera, he films everything: the stories he invents and his life that he stages. As he develops a taste for political action, Romain Goupil continues to film everything: the activists, the encounters, the protests. He meets Michel Recanati, a passionate activist. A deep friendship is born between these two young high school students wh...
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Duration: 2h28_Images of the World and Inscription in War_ is an essay whose central motif is the aerial photograph of the camp at Auschwitz taken on April 4, 1944 by an American reconnaissance plane. On this photo, analysts identified the surrounding factories but not the concentration and extermination camp. Dialectic montage and a distanced commentary compose this film which analyses the conditions under ...
With a jazz soundtrack from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, this film denounces the crimes committed by the Portuguese in Angola. Here, we see the torture of a prisoner that results from the colonizer’s ignorance. A song whose meaning is “White Death”, _Monangambéee_, is a rallying cry against the colonial abuses in Angola.
_And the Dogs Were Quiet_ is based on recorded excerpts from Aimé Césaire’s play of the same name where the rebel expresses himself in a long pain-racked poem in front of the mother, crying out loud his revolt against the enslavement of his people. Gabriel Glissant and Sarah Maldoror appear as actors at the Museum of Man in Paris which is devoted to Black Africa, integrating three spectators in...
It's the post-war period. Europe has been rebuilt. Everything is going well in the "model colonies" where the French Republic leads its wards with a maternal hand towards the lights of reason and progress. However, not everyone shares this view. The first anti-colonial film in France, banned and recently awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this effective pamphlet against colonialism in ...
Three years after the start of the civil war, the director returns to her city for a few months. Straddling a country at war and one at peace, she finds it hard to readjust to life. By restarting a bus when public transport was no longer available, she was able to bring a new sense of normalcy to the war-torn city: people boarded the bus, seeing it as a safe space.
_The Law in These Parts_ reveals the legal framework of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and exposes the injustices inherent in a legal system designed by Israel but applied only to Palestinians. Through archival footage and interviews with Israeli military judges, prosecutors, and legal advisors, this documentary unravels an intricate system of military control that symbolize...
It was a winter day in Madrid. I took the express train "Puerta del Sol" to Brussels. At that time, Hendeva was the final station for our trains. The Spanish tracks and the French tracks were not of the same width, a defensive measure implemented by Franco’s government. Disembarking from the train, I held my suitcase tightly in one hand, while the other clutched my passport. In the dead of nigh...
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
Duration: 3h38What if the danses macabres, beyond their grimacing folklore, staged the death of the Middle Ages and the invention, in the middle of the 15th century, of modern Europe? It is the hypothesis of writer Jean Louis Schefer. An investigation in the form of a conversation and walks between Paris and Portugal, with directors Rita Azevedo Gomez and Pierre Léon. A six-handed film.
_In Flow of Words_ follows the journeys of three interpreters at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. They translated the shocking testimonies of witnesses, victims, and defendants, never allowing their emotions, feelings, and personal history to interfere. In contrast to their role in the courtroom, this film puts their voices and experiences at the forefront of the s...
They are part of the first generation after the Indochina War. They were born in Vietnam or Martinique. They have inherited a unique and conflicting history. They are wounded by silence, rejection, and misunderstandings. Their fathers, Martinican soldiers, took part in this conflict alongside mainland French forces and all other colonial forces from 1946 to 1954. Their Vietnamese mothers experi...
_The Roar of Their Engines_ is a short documentary film set in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a territory that still bears the scars of an ongoing 50 years-old conflict, where peace talks are at a standstill. Meanwhile, the Turkish-Cypriot population is aging, silently and away from the spotlight, on disputed and over-militarized lands. This war no longer concerns them.
Google Maps, Wikipedia, and early 20th-century colonial landscape photography provide the material for this absorbing techno-meditation on the status of Palestine and the notion of the "Holy Land."
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
Duration: 2h34Based on never-before-seen archives, this film written and directed by the photographer's granddaughter paints an intimate portrait of the man and the artist who joyfully intertwined his family and professional life to build an exemplary body of work. _Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens_ tells the story of how this child from the Parisian suburbs became one of the world's most famous photographers.
Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining town of Chiatura in Georgia is now all but abandoned, crumbling around those who still inhabit it. And yet, as anywhere, people live their lives and go about their daily business. There is joy here, and there are the usual challenges. Rati Oneli’s _City of the Sun_ takes us on a languorous tour of this ...