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Adieu la rue des radiateurs (Nina)
The writer Mathieu Riboulet records at home readings of excerpts from his book Le Regard de la source. The portrait of a woman emerges… she is "neither a close friend, nor family, but certainly a little of the one and a little of the other"… (...)
Autoproduction
Paris, 2007. Nicola Sornaga, an independent filmmaker, is shooting a feature film, with no budget. The story of Morimoto, a sixty-year-old Japanese man who speaks no French, and who meets with all the district’s locals. As the shoot (...)
La Cité des Roms (City of the Roma)
In the ghetto in Nadejda in the heart of Bulgaria, Angel Tichaliev and the other activists of the Romany Gypsy Youth Organisation, a local NGO, are running a school desegregation programme to combat the scandalous discriminations that still (...)
Dossier (File)
A self-portrait in the form of a file. An attempt at an objective view of oneself and the East European generation that has straddled the eras of communism and post-communism.
Ecchymoses
The school infirmary is an interesting refuge to observe. It is here that anxieties about school, family or personal matters are expressed, as well as light-hearted or more serious questioning on daily life, family, love, society and the (...)
L’ Exil et le Royaume (North Coast)
On the ramparts of the kingdom, people fish, dredge, wile away the time. Cigarette after cigarette, they reinvent the world, and bring its still smoking ruins back to life from exile. When the weather’s fine across the waters, they can even (...)
J’ai tant aimé... (I Loved so Much...)
Fadma, a cheerful and mischievous 75-year-old woman, begs at the Ouzoud Falls, a highly popular tourist venue in Morocco. Here, everyone knows the flamboyant saga of this "public woman" who, at the age of twenty, embarked on her career of (...)
J’ai un frère (I Have a Brother)
Two brothers separated by the war in Bosnia. Dražan, a political refugee living in France, in Marseilles. And Dejan who stayed in Bosanski Brod, a dying industrial town on the Croatian border. In 2007, Dražan decides to pay his brother a (...)
Je voudrais aimer personne (I Wish I Loved Noone)
White boots, 16-year-old, Sabrina walks briskly. She travels the roads that separate her from her kin counting only on herself and her ten-month-old son, Nicolas.She keeps moving to stay on track while everything around her wavers. One day (...)
Mirages
Each day, a thousand leagues from here, dozens of men set out with the extraordinary hope of reaching Europe. During the first days of their journey between Niger and Algeria, the emigrants are faced with the rhythm of the desert, its sudden (...)
La Mort de la gazelle
Since the late 1980s, a sporadic and bloody guerrilla war has plagued Niger. In February 2007, a group of armed men claiming to be from the Nigerians’ Movement for Justice attacked an army barracks. One year later, hundreds have joined up (...)
No Comment
A part of humanity abandoned and deprived of everything, right here in our country. Men and women, be they Afghan, Iraqi, Kurd, Palestinian, Eritrean, Somali or Sudanese, who have fled war, massacre, insecurity, poverty and who are (...)
Le Pays à l’envers
On returning to the island of Guadeloupe which her father left fifty years earlier, the filmmaker goes back in time to trace the history of her name. Her enquiry takes us back to the period of slavery. INTANGIBLE HERITAGE (...)
Le Reflet (The Image)
"In 1942, my grandmother was forced to leave her Russian village, which had been burnt down by the German army. She was twenty-five years old at the time, and died thirty-six years later, here in France. I was ten years old then. I knew (...)
Rouge Nowa Huta
In Poland, the industrial city of Nowa Huta and its gigantic metallurgy complex was to be the emblem of the Communist utopia. Today, Nowa Huta is a legendary city. A fortune-teller takes us back into this aborted dream and her cards predict (...)
Shadi
A comedy company from Teheran is kicked out of their theatre and find themselves with no place to play. Moved by the fate of the "Joy Makers", Ariane Mnouchkine invites them. Shadi has got to fight with her husband to obtain his "travel (...)
Une ombre au tableau (Fleeting Memory)
A son goes to see his mother in her art studio. Suffering from an Alzheimer-like illness, she is no longer able to paint. Together they decide to start painting again, although her daily gestures are gradually slipping into oblivion. Between (...)