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Femmes écrivains
Duration: 20 minutes
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Françoise Sagan, Clara Malraux, Henriette Jelinek, and Françoise Mallet-Joris share their vision of literature and discuss the reasons that drive them to write.
A Film for Max
Duration: 1h14
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In this film, filmmaker Derek May turns his camera on his own domestic life, attempting to show it "as it is," without the conventional structure imposed by filmmaking. He seeks to reflect the essential aloneness of human existence—a life suspended, a being unmotivated. Adult life is depicted in black and white, while the life of his infant son, Max, is shown in color. This contrast evokes the ...
American Journal
Duration: 1h51
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Remember America. Remember the cities, the houses, all the people, the arrivals, the departures, the children coming, the children leaving, death, life, movement, speech. Remember the deep inner sigh of everything that lives in America. Bend down. Pick up what others have lost from life. And do something with it...
Ninan Auassat: We, the Children
Ninan Auassat: We, the Children
New product!Duration: 3h02
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Filmed over more than six years, this feature-length documentary follows the journeys of three groups of children from different Indigenous nations (Atikamekw, Eeyou Cree, and Innu). In following these young people through the crucial milestones of childhood, right to the threshold of adulthood, we witness their daily lives and aspirations, along with the challenges they face. Filmed from “a ch...
Ada Kaleh
Duration: 28 minutes
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An indeterminate location, in summer. The inhabitants of a shared apartment ask themselves where they might live. They imagine countries, communities and places. Time passes and nothing can change that, neither human action nor objects and their condition. At some point, they all drift into a deep sleep.
Guián
Duration: 2h32
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Born into the Chinese community of Costa Rica, Nicole Chi Amén was never able to communicate with her grandmother Guián, who did not speak Spanish. After her grandmother’s death, the filmmaker embarked on a journey to China to reconnect with her roots and to reinvent, through cinema, the dialogue she never had the chance to share.
Dry Ground Burning
Duration: 5h08
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Just released from prison, Léa (Léa Alves Silva) returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado), the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro’s fiercely authoritarian and ...
Orlando, My Political Biography
Orlando, My Political Biography
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Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando in 1928, the first novel in which the hero, who becomes a heroine, lives through five centuries (1588-1928) and changes gender in the middle of the story. A century later, researcher, curator, author, and transgender activist Paul B. Preciado decided to send a filmed letter to Virginia Woolf: his Orlando had stepped out of her fiction and was living a life she could...
7 paysages
Duration: 1h15
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The seven same sceneries recorded over a period of two years have become a single scenery freed from the sentimental, symbolic or political references often suggested by painting or photography; a scenery closer to the experience being immersed in a natural environment where contemplation gets slowly invaded by intrigues or even threats.
Meezan
Duration: 2h24
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Set in south-western Iran, in the province of Khuzestan and bordering with Iraq, _Meezan_ (scale) is an observational and immersive experience, a journey from the sea to the land, about labor at the margins of petro-capitalism in three chapters. Despite the massive industrialization of the region, waterways of Khuzestan remain a significant source of income for the native communities who are mo...
Zlata
Duration: 1h40
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Twelve-year old Zlata has to find her way in Belgium, after she inevitably had to flee the war in home country Ukraine. Her father Petro and Findus, the cat, stayed behind, mother Ira and little brother Martin came along. Step by step the adolescent girl explores not only her new living environment, but also her own identity. Awaiting the uncertain arrival of her father, Zlata slowly opens up.
Château rouge
Duration: 3h34
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Goutte d'Or district, Paris, Château Rouge metro station, Georges Clemenceau secondary school. Teenagers, burdened with their carelessness and their wounds, have to grow up. They are shaping their personalities, losing their way, searching for themselves. Adults try to guide them despite the violence of the system.
Le cirque des muchachos
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Guy Gilles films the lives of young artists aged 12 to 18, members of a circus set up for two weeks at Porte Maillot in Paris. Between open-air rehearsals and acrobatic acts, the filmmaker captures the fragile magic of adolescence and the surge of freedom carried by the dream of performance.
Vies retrouvées
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In an old abandoned farmhouse in Ardèche, a young man finds around fifty letters along with a forgotten notebook. Back in Paris, he discovers they are a love correspondence between a young peasant woman and a captain during the First World War. The film recreates this love story.
Ciné Bijou
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Over images of an abandoned movie theater slated for demolition, the voice of Guy Gilles evokes the soul of these neighborhood cinemas—magical places that gave him a certain idea of freedom, escape, and dreams. An intimate and poetic tribute to the seventh art and to its temples, now threatened or gone.
Kashima Paradise
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Around 1970, between Kashima and Tokyo, the Narita Airport was under construction. Local farmers refused to sell their land and confronted the riot police sent to evict them. Through these symbolic sites of Japan’s modernization, _Kashima Paradise_ offers a sociological portrait of a nation and reveals how ancestral traditions were exploited by capitalism to accelerate social and political chan...
La république des Beaux-Arts - La malédiction de la momie
La république des Beaux-Arts - La malédiction de la momie
Duration: 2h30Subscription access
This film traces the history of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, from its founding in 1923 to its dissolution in 1969, when it was integrated into the Université du Québec à Montréal. At that time, tensions were rising within the education system: CEGEPs and universities were being occupied by students. In this climate of protest, the students of the École des beaux-arts seized control of ...
The Space
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With the help of a sketch, a little girl illustrates how space and games are divided up during recess at school, especially between boys and girls, and explains how this is a daily problem for her. Despite her various attempts to change things, she cannot find a solution—especially since the issue remains invisible to others, children and adults alike, who don’t seem to be concerned. What emerg...
Who Cares?
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Medical students in their early twenties and experienced care workers take part in medical simulations. Faced with comedians portraying patients, they learn to speak the right words, reflect on their reactions, and build a caring practice. But in an increasingly liberal hospital system, which itself exerts violence on medical staff, is this relational ideal really possible?
Le Concours
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It’s the day of the entrance exam. Aspiring filmmakers step through the heavy gates of La Fémis for the first time. Each of them dreams of cinema, but also of success. Every hope is allowed, every anxiety as well. The juries deliberate, searching for their worthy successors. From the arrival of the candidates to the final deliberations, the film explores the confrontation between two generation...
Femmes écrivains
Duration: 20 minutes
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Françoise Sagan, Clara Malraux, Henriette Jelinek, and Françoise Mallet-Joris share their vision of literature and discuss the reasons that drive them to write.
A Film for Max
Duration: 1h14
Subscription access
In this film, filmmaker Derek May turns his camera on his own domestic life, attempting to show it "as it is," without the conventional structure imposed by filmmaking. He seeks to reflect the essential aloneness of human existence—a life suspended, a being unmotivated. Adult life is depicted in black and white, while the life of his infant son, Max, is shown in color. This contrast evokes the ...
American Journal
Duration: 1h51
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Remember America. Remember the cities, the houses, all the people, the arrivals, the departures, the children coming, the children leaving, death, life, movement, speech. Remember the deep inner sigh of everything that lives in America. Bend down. Pick up what others have lost from life. And do something with it...
Ninan Auassat: We, the Children
Ninan Auassat: We, the Children
New product!Duration: 3h02
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Filmed over more than six years, this feature-length documentary follows the journeys of three groups of children from different Indigenous nations (Atikamekw, Eeyou Cree, and Innu). In following these young people through the crucial milestones of childhood, right to the threshold of adulthood, we witness their daily lives and aspirations, along with the challenges they face. Filmed from “a ch...
Ada Kaleh
Duration: 28 minutes
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An indeterminate location, in summer. The inhabitants of a shared apartment ask themselves where they might live. They imagine countries, communities and places. Time passes and nothing can change that, neither human action nor objects and their condition. At some point, they all drift into a deep sleep.
Guián
Duration: 2h32
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Born into the Chinese community of Costa Rica, Nicole Chi Amén was never able to communicate with her grandmother Guián, who did not speak Spanish. After her grandmother’s death, the filmmaker embarked on a journey to China to reconnect with her roots and to reinvent, through cinema, the dialogue she never had the chance to share.
Dry Ground Burning
Duration: 5h08
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Just released from prison, Léa (Léa Alves Silva) returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado), the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro’s fiercely authoritarian and ...
Orlando, My Political Biography
Orlando, My Political Biography
New product!Duration: 1h38
Subscription access
Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando in 1928, the first novel in which the hero, who becomes a heroine, lives through five centuries (1588-1928) and changes gender in the middle of the story. A century later, researcher, curator, author, and transgender activist Paul B. Preciado decided to send a filmed letter to Virginia Woolf: his Orlando had stepped out of her fiction and was living a life she could...
7 paysages
Duration: 1h15
Subscription access
The seven same sceneries recorded over a period of two years have become a single scenery freed from the sentimental, symbolic or political references often suggested by painting or photography; a scenery closer to the experience being immersed in a natural environment where contemplation gets slowly invaded by intrigues or even threats.
Meezan
Duration: 2h24
Subscription access
Set in south-western Iran, in the province of Khuzestan and bordering with Iraq, _Meezan_ (scale) is an observational and immersive experience, a journey from the sea to the land, about labor at the margins of petro-capitalism in three chapters. Despite the massive industrialization of the region, waterways of Khuzestan remain a significant source of income for the native communities who are mo...
Zlata
Duration: 1h40
Subscription access
Twelve-year old Zlata has to find her way in Belgium, after she inevitably had to flee the war in home country Ukraine. Her father Petro and Findus, the cat, stayed behind, mother Ira and little brother Martin came along. Step by step the adolescent girl explores not only her new living environment, but also her own identity. Awaiting the uncertain arrival of her father, Zlata slowly opens up.
Château rouge
Duration: 3h34
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Goutte d'Or district, Paris, Château Rouge metro station, Georges Clemenceau secondary school. Teenagers, burdened with their carelessness and their wounds, have to grow up. They are shaping their personalities, losing their way, searching for themselves. Adults try to guide them despite the violence of the system.
Le cirque des muchachos
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Guy Gilles films the lives of young artists aged 12 to 18, members of a circus set up for two weeks at Porte Maillot in Paris. Between open-air rehearsals and acrobatic acts, the filmmaker captures the fragile magic of adolescence and the surge of freedom carried by the dream of performance.
Vies retrouvées
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In an old abandoned farmhouse in Ardèche, a young man finds around fifty letters along with a forgotten notebook. Back in Paris, he discovers they are a love correspondence between a young peasant woman and a captain during the First World War. The film recreates this love story.
Ciné Bijou
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Over images of an abandoned movie theater slated for demolition, the voice of Guy Gilles evokes the soul of these neighborhood cinemas—magical places that gave him a certain idea of freedom, escape, and dreams. An intimate and poetic tribute to the seventh art and to its temples, now threatened or gone.
Kashima Paradise
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Around 1970, between Kashima and Tokyo, the Narita Airport was under construction. Local farmers refused to sell their land and confronted the riot police sent to evict them. Through these symbolic sites of Japan’s modernization, _Kashima Paradise_ offers a sociological portrait of a nation and reveals how ancestral traditions were exploited by capitalism to accelerate social and political chan...
La république des Beaux-Arts - La malédiction de la momie
La république des Beaux-Arts - La malédiction de la momie
Duration: 2h30Subscription access
This film traces the history of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, from its founding in 1923 to its dissolution in 1969, when it was integrated into the Université du Québec à Montréal. At that time, tensions were rising within the education system: CEGEPs and universities were being occupied by students. In this climate of protest, the students of the École des beaux-arts seized control of ...
The Space
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With the help of a sketch, a little girl illustrates how space and games are divided up during recess at school, especially between boys and girls, and explains how this is a daily problem for her. Despite her various attempts to change things, she cannot find a solution—especially since the issue remains invisible to others, children and adults alike, who don’t seem to be concerned. What emerg...
Who Cares?
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Medical students in their early twenties and experienced care workers take part in medical simulations. Faced with comedians portraying patients, they learn to speak the right words, reflect on their reactions, and build a caring practice. But in an increasingly liberal hospital system, which itself exerts violence on medical staff, is this relational ideal really possible?
Le Concours
Subscription access
It’s the day of the entrance exam. Aspiring filmmakers step through the heavy gates of La Fémis for the first time. Each of them dreams of cinema, but also of success. Every hope is allowed, every anxiety as well. The juries deliberate, searching for their worthy successors. From the arrival of the candidates to the final deliberations, the film explores the confrontation between two generation...
