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- Semi-documentary film about a man going to his home country of Chad after many years living in exile in France.
- Covers outstanding personalities of their time and in their discipline, who are only too rarely seen in the media today. Philosophers, artists, activists, researchers, all have contributed to forging and enriching contemporary thinking.
- Follows the rehearsals of 'Faits d'artifice', a choreography by Françoise and Dominique Dupuy, created with Régine Chopinot and the company Le Ballet Atlantique, as the director is aiming to catch the process of creation from the inside.
- The crossed visions of illegal aliens who left everything behind in search of a better life in the West, and who now almost regret being here, and those who are ready, in Africa, to follow their example and risk their life to cross the seas. Following back and forth the immigrants from Mali and the coast of Senegal to workers' suburbs around Paris, the film shows the hidden face of these shadow workers, the neglected dimension of people so close so far, our brothers beyond borders drawn by men.
- An underground but mighty river links the cities of Carrara in Tuscany and Barre in Vermont, USA. It is a river that carries with it the tragic epic of an entire community of emigrants from all over Europe engaged in the everlasting and titanic struggle against stone. It rises from the quarries of the Apuan Alps, where Michelangelo used to go to obtain the blocks of marble. And that finds its outlet in Vermont, amidst social battles, tragic deaths, the splendor of the art of sculpture, amidst anarchic utopia, hope and tragedy.
- The crossed portrait of Liliane's two successive husbands, Ali and Victor, each of opposite, and often antagonistic, faiths.
- In a secluded village, two families decide to marry their children because of the lack of young people. The fiancee doesn't want this wedding but hasn't much choice.
- Through the political activism of some people of Khayelitsha, the film seeks to reveal the attachment of its residents to a city born of Apartheid. Why, despite all this suffering, disease, poverty, illegality, do they still believe in it?
- At 80, Agop Agopian devotes all his energy to his country of origin, Armenia. Driven by an adamant patriotism, he fights against the fatality of a terribly painful history. A graceful patriarch, he dreams of a better future for his people.
- The narrator tells of his love youth in the Paris of the 1970s: a story of sentimental education, heart and body lost; an intimate story as much as the adventure of a generation; a film about the difficulty of loving.
- An Indian man, a war veteran, from the former French colonial settlement of Pondicherry, chose to remain French in 1962, after France signed a Treaty of Cession with India.
- Every month, a truck crosses the Italian peninsula from the far south to the foot of the Alps: a three-thousand-kilometer round trip to bring home-made and traditional products from the South to the family in the North. A trove on wheels.
- This film starts in Toulouse, in the south of France, to follow migrant Jo Diop who's traveling back to his native country, Senegal, in West Africa. His personal and intimate story blends into a subjective history of Senegal.
- Today, in 2000, men and women lives differently. Certain lives the Middle Ages in a rustic life with a huge religious belief, some others lives with the technology in an ultra modern world religiously led by money. The birth will be a big lottery who organize our life. There is no winner, no loser, just huge differences, according to the place where we born. It's what a SADHU (Hinduism priest), try to explain, in the middle of Katmandou.
- The drawings of the Poilus and their texts are remarkable testimonies to understand what these men experienced during the First World War. Featuring graphic treatments of the original art drawings and sketches, and excerpts from stories.
- This documentary will showcase Alain Corneau's style, films (Police Python 357, Choice of Arms, Série noire, Fort Saganne, Nocturne indien, All the Mornings of the World, Fear and Trembling, The Second Wind) and his favorite themes : music, the quest for identity, being left adrift, human loneliness, the difficulty to find happiness, death. It's both a minute examination and an exploration of the human condition.
- In Mauritania, black political prisoners from the old colonial fortress of Oualata are known as "Le Cercle des Noyés". The film unveils frangible memories by one of these former prisoners who remembers his story and that of his companions in misfortune.
- A subjective journey into the 1956 Hungarian revolution observed through archive footage and records, a dive into the heart of the 1950s of communist Europe: productivism, lies, treason, amnesia, an era which should be remembered by now.
- A documentary about French painter and filmmaker Jacques Monory, best known for his works featuring numerical painting titles and monochromatic color schemes, typically in his signature blue, and drawn from movie stills or news photos.
- From darkness to light, we follow a writer who has lost all contact with reality to pursue the love of his wife, who died too soon, and whom he wanted to join in death, while she made him first promise to continue living in order to write.
- José BOVE is surrounded by official associations and politicians.He's in all the papers. He is neat. Eric P fights against the boring of the Somport tunnel in the Pyrenees. He is no longer surrounded. He is badly dressed.
- A new day starts on l'Entzenbach farm. Bernard lives there alone with his animals. Today's the pig's slaughter so Bernard's old friend Jean has come to lend him a hand.
- A sound and mechanical object triggering music, gestures and words, imposing rituals and encouraging encounters, the piano resonates throughout the film, echoing the singular stories of the participants: artists, tuners, repairers, movers.
- It's the story of men and women that their profession exposes to the eyes of the crowd, while making them invisible. The film shows the patient, often repeated, almost choreographed gestures of the cleaning workers, or true "city healers".
- Il aime les femmes et la bicyclette. Il aime aussi son passé. Son appartement du centre de Moscou va être privatisé. L'imminence de son déménagement se confond avec le grand chambardement qui secoue la Russie contemporaine. Comment soixante dix ans de communisme peuvent-t-ils se dissoudre dans léconomie de marché? Que reste-t-il de la révolution? Faut-il quelle survienne à nouveau? A quoi bon ? Une année durant, ces questions traversent la vie de Micha Zaitsev. Ce film est son journal de bord. He likes women, bicycles and memories of days long gone by. His downtown Moscow apartment is on the verge of being put on the market. His impending eviction merges with the great upheaval shaking contemporary Russia. Can 70 years of Communism be erased by a market economy? Has the Revolution been entirely swept aside ? Is there anything worth saving? For over one year, these questions run through Micha Zaitsevs mind. This film is his personal diary.
- French Professor of Ophthalmology José-Alain Sahel's team is the first in the world to have developed an operation on the retina. We are following this experience for a year, and above all, we witness the first surgeries with the patients.
- One year, 12 months, 12 filmmakers who are filming Paris in an unusual way: "their" Paris before a symbolic date, the night of 12/31/99 to 01/01/00. They are turning one by one the pages of their own Parisian calendar of the year 1999.