Politics
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A Country of Resistance
Duration: 3h14
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Riace, Calabria. After 20 years of harmony, this village, which had made welcoming migrants its future, became the target of the populist wave consuming Italy. The venom has spread and Domenico Lucano, its mayor, is the object of a cabal and forced into exile. After months of painstaking destruction, Riace faces a dilemma: resist or disappear.
The Tie
Duration: 3h14
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20-year-old Bastien has been a militant member of France main far-right party for five years. As the presidential campaign heats up, his superior urges him to take on greater responsibilities. Bastien rises to the challenge and is surprised to find himself dreaming of a political career. But as his ambitions grow, buried demons from his past begin to resurface — threatening everything he’s work...
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Duration: 3h06Subscription access
In 1964, Che asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight against the “brain of the capitalist monster”. Subsequently, as a writer, teacher, member of parliament and collaborator of Kofi Annan, Ziegler has tirelessly, through his books and speeches, castigated injustice, the power of capitalist oligarchies and those responsible for world hunger. Today, at the age of 82, his book...
The Porters
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Young people from Brussels consult a list of nearly 8,000 objects collected during an expedition to the Congo between 1911 and 1913. These witnesses to colonial history open a dialogue on realities once told, now shown and interpreted. A journey back in time.
Oleg's Choice
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On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launches a full-scale war to invade Ukraine. Eight years earlier, his army and security services had been working in secret to establish Russian control over an oblast in the east of the country, which proclaimed itself the “Donetsk People's Republic”. This is where the protagonists of this film – Oleg and Max, two young Russians in their thirties – have com...
I Like Politics Too
From 2018 to 2022, a group of citizens who support or carry out actions to welcome exiles crossing the French-Italian border, particularly in the Roya Valley, are initiating a “New Sponsors” commission. They invited the artist Marie Voignier to create a film based on a collective human experience, through the notions of welcome, hospitality and solidarity.
And How Miserable Is the Home of Evil
And How Miserable Is the Home of Evil
Duration: 14 minutesThe website of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is crammed with filmed sermons and speeches. Appropriating these official archives, Saleh Kashefi – exiled in Switzerland – has created a political fiction that is both hard-hitting and ambiguous.
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
Duration: 3h12Subscription access
A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience.
One Nation Under
_One Nation Under_ is an investigation into what it means to be an American, questioning idyllic notions of freedom and power by observing the structures around us and hearing from the people overshadowed by them.
Pitié pour les étranges
A documentary without dialogue shot in part at la Maison du pêcheur, in Percé, featuring future members of the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec). This short film, recently rediscovered by filmmaker Félix Rose, has hardly ever been broadcast.
The Bloodettes
A science-fiction film and erotic thriller, _The Bloodettes_ follows two sex workers as they attempt to dispose of the corpse of one of their clients, a political leader. As usual, Jean-Pierre Bekolo mixes genres in this hybrid film, which is part female revenge film, part antisexist denunciation and part open criticism of the systemic corruption of Cameroonian politics.
Les femmes me touchent
A musical film based on a song by _Les Folles Alliées_, illustrating the unacceptable insults directed at the female body and intellect: sexual harassment, sexist advertisements and music videos, pornography, domestic violence, and rape.
Listed
_Listed_ shares the story of Faizal Karim, a Canadian man falsely flagged on the Canadian No-Fly List, a terrorist watch list under the Passenger Protect Program. Through Faizal’s personal account of racial profiling and detainment due to being falsely flagged, the film exposes the systemic issues underlying the No-Fly List and its impact on marginalized communities. By examining the potential ...
The Waldheim Waltz
When Austrian diplomat and former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim announced he was running for president in 1986, the news was greeted with joy and seen as a safe bet by his fellow countrymen and women. That is, until his Nazi past was revealed – an awkward detail he’d conveniently forgotten to mention during all his years in public office. Despite some people’s stupefaction and protests, ul...
Three Comrades of Montreal
Giovanni, Francesco, and Salvatore have passed the age of 80 and are proud to still consider themselves communist or socialist comrades. All three left their poor villages in southern Italy after the war to settle in Montreal, where they maintained close ties with Italian left-wing parties while also being active in Canadian progressive unions and parties. Through images, personal documents, an...
Les barrières mobiles
Since the 90s in France, under the Vigipirate anti-terrorism plan, mobile barriers have been used in public spaces to modify and regulate their use. Originally designed for temporary public order missions, they were installed on a permanent basis in streets, squares, parks, in front of town halls, schools, religious buildings, museums, etc., to establish secure perimeters and control flows arou...
Putin's Witnesses
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.
State Funeral
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...
Afrique 50
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 ...
A Country of Resistance
Duration: 3h14
Subscription access
Riace, Calabria. After 20 years of harmony, this village, which had made welcoming migrants its future, became the target of the populist wave consuming Italy. The venom has spread and Domenico Lucano, its mayor, is the object of a cabal and forced into exile. After months of painstaking destruction, Riace faces a dilemma: resist or disappear.
The Tie
Duration: 3h14
Subscription access
20-year-old Bastien has been a militant member of France main far-right party for five years. As the presidential campaign heats up, his superior urges him to take on greater responsibilities. Bastien rises to the challenge and is surprised to find himself dreaming of a political career. But as his ambitions grow, buried demons from his past begin to resurface — threatening everything he’s work...
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Duration: 3h06Subscription access
In 1964, Che asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight against the “brain of the capitalist monster”. Subsequently, as a writer, teacher, member of parliament and collaborator of Kofi Annan, Ziegler has tirelessly, through his books and speeches, castigated injustice, the power of capitalist oligarchies and those responsible for world hunger. Today, at the age of 82, his book...
The Porters
Subscription access
Young people from Brussels consult a list of nearly 8,000 objects collected during an expedition to the Congo between 1911 and 1913. These witnesses to colonial history open a dialogue on realities once told, now shown and interpreted. A journey back in time.
Oleg's Choice
Subscription access
On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launches a full-scale war to invade Ukraine. Eight years earlier, his army and security services had been working in secret to establish Russian control over an oblast in the east of the country, which proclaimed itself the “Donetsk People's Republic”. This is where the protagonists of this film – Oleg and Max, two young Russians in their thirties – have com...
I Like Politics Too
From 2018 to 2022, a group of citizens who support or carry out actions to welcome exiles crossing the French-Italian border, particularly in the Roya Valley, are initiating a “New Sponsors” commission. They invited the artist Marie Voignier to create a film based on a collective human experience, through the notions of welcome, hospitality and solidarity.
And How Miserable Is the Home of Evil
And How Miserable Is the Home of Evil
Duration: 14 minutesThe website of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is crammed with filmed sermons and speeches. Appropriating these official archives, Saleh Kashefi – exiled in Switzerland – has created a political fiction that is both hard-hitting and ambiguous.
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
Duration: 3h12Subscription access
A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience.
One Nation Under
_One Nation Under_ is an investigation into what it means to be an American, questioning idyllic notions of freedom and power by observing the structures around us and hearing from the people overshadowed by them.
Pitié pour les étranges
A documentary without dialogue shot in part at la Maison du pêcheur, in Percé, featuring future members of the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec). This short film, recently rediscovered by filmmaker Félix Rose, has hardly ever been broadcast.
The Bloodettes
A science-fiction film and erotic thriller, _The Bloodettes_ follows two sex workers as they attempt to dispose of the corpse of one of their clients, a political leader. As usual, Jean-Pierre Bekolo mixes genres in this hybrid film, which is part female revenge film, part antisexist denunciation and part open criticism of the systemic corruption of Cameroonian politics.
Les femmes me touchent
A musical film based on a song by _Les Folles Alliées_, illustrating the unacceptable insults directed at the female body and intellect: sexual harassment, sexist advertisements and music videos, pornography, domestic violence, and rape.
Listed
_Listed_ shares the story of Faizal Karim, a Canadian man falsely flagged on the Canadian No-Fly List, a terrorist watch list under the Passenger Protect Program. Through Faizal’s personal account of racial profiling and detainment due to being falsely flagged, the film exposes the systemic issues underlying the No-Fly List and its impact on marginalized communities. By examining the potential ...
The Waldheim Waltz
When Austrian diplomat and former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim announced he was running for president in 1986, the news was greeted with joy and seen as a safe bet by his fellow countrymen and women. That is, until his Nazi past was revealed – an awkward detail he’d conveniently forgotten to mention during all his years in public office. Despite some people’s stupefaction and protests, ul...
Three Comrades of Montreal
Giovanni, Francesco, and Salvatore have passed the age of 80 and are proud to still consider themselves communist or socialist comrades. All three left their poor villages in southern Italy after the war to settle in Montreal, where they maintained close ties with Italian left-wing parties while also being active in Canadian progressive unions and parties. Through images, personal documents, an...
Les barrières mobiles
Since the 90s in France, under the Vigipirate anti-terrorism plan, mobile barriers have been used in public spaces to modify and regulate their use. Originally designed for temporary public order missions, they were installed on a permanent basis in streets, squares, parks, in front of town halls, schools, religious buildings, museums, etc., to establish secure perimeters and control flows arou...
Putin's Witnesses
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.
State Funeral
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...
Afrique 50
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 ...
