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- Since the fall of the Wall, a new iron curtain - that of wages - has stretched across Europe. Every year, hundreds of thousands of workers from Eastern Europe, lured by wages three times higher than in their home countries, cross the continent in search of demanding, low-skilled jobs. Leaving Prague, Czech journalist Sasa Uhlova experiences the reality of these precarious jobs in the shoes of economic migrants essential to Western Europe's prosperity. In Germany, on a vast fruit and vegetable farm alongside Polish immigrants, in an Irish hotel in the company of Slovakian colleagues, then as a care assistant in Marseille, she experiences physical pain, stress, fatigue and hellish work rates.
- Antoine D'Agata, a Magnum photographer, is in Phom Penh (Cambodia) where his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. After devoting his art to picture desolated landscapes and borderline realities, Antoine D'Agata focuses his art on his intimate human relations. His latest work concentrates on body and flesh, in a narrow room. This film catches the hidden part of his art making; his choice of living at edges and living sex as extreme vitalism.
- Part of the "Cinema Mythiques" collection, this documentary follows the history of the Batalha Cinema in Oporto, Portugal, one of the oldest movie theatres still in operation.
- Mythical theaters all around the world. Cinemas with a story so strong that it is sometimes related to the very story of their country. A 6x52' film Collection.
- Threatened with closure in the 1980s, the oldest continuously operating cinema in the world first opened as a theatre in 1889, and was reopened in 2013 after a restoration project.
- A collection of 16 documentary films. Each film opens the door of an extraordinary stable, place of stories, traditions and life styles, where all share the same passion for horses.
- Joel Farges, a French filmmaker in his 60s tries to track down the destiny of his favourite childhood film, Prince Bayaya by Jirí Trnka whose work used to be popular also in France. Trnka's career peaked during the Cold War and his films were presented as an artistic counterweight to commercial production of Disney. Leftist western intellectuals were amazed; Trnka's films were narrated by Jean Cocteau and Richard Burton, winning prizes in Cannes and Venice and for the totalitarian regime they were a valuable export article. Trnka found he had become a puppet himself - of the political system. His disillusion led him to revolt. He left us a body of work celebrating a unique experience, the freedom associated with eternal youth.
- A portrait of a nation throughout the life and work of its main visual artists, amongst whom the country's Prime Minister himself. Based on the artistic evolution of the last decades in Albania, the film tells the recent history of the Country, from the communist dictatorship - one of the world's most closed regimes - till its frenetic transition towards capitalism and the recent application to join the European Union.
- Inaugurated in 1930, the Capitol has been able to survive through 90 years of successive ownership by prestigious families such as the Namazies or the Shaw brothers, and today by Perennial Holdings, as well as of various historical, cultural and architectural vicissitudes, always reborn like a phoenix, thus mirroring not only the cinematic history of Singapore, but also reflecting the many cycles of change that the city went through.
- A collection of six films: each film is an invitation into the backstage of a show in which actors are horses. Circus, cabaret, theater, etc, from shade to limelight, those episodes bring us into a world where horses are artists.
- Mixing interviews conducted with Kapuscinski in 2006, with archives, the film tells how the great writer lived and understood the events -portraits of dictators as well as common citizens - of a crucial period of Africa: decolonization.
- In September 18th 2004 the "Stade de France" is hosting a gigantic show called Stadium Horses. Classical horse racing will alternate with an equestrian show including over 50 horses. How to conceive such a tribute to horses? How to adapt initial creation ideas to the "Stade de France"? How will horses behave in the huge stadium? For nine months, from the first drafts till the D Day, this documentary tells the story of the Stadium Horses.
- 2002–2005TV EpisodeA few kilometers away from Brussels is a well preserved and hidden jewel : the Domaine de Louvranges, meeting point between 4 utopists of the modern world: the late Mr De Pauw, his wife Decia, a dressage champion, René Stapels, architect, and Jacques Wirtz, landscape gardener. Created at the beginning of the eighties, these stables present a subtle mix of luxury, serenity and refinement; they are the masterpiece of lovers of both horses and art.
- December 2003. An unexpected visitor comes to Paris, at the Champs Elysées. His name is Horacio, he is a stage performer. And he is performing on the stage of the most famous cabaret in the world, le Lido de Paris.
- In May 2004 an unexpected theatre group dropped its big top along rail tracks right in the heart of Paris. Most of the actors of the play, called Penthesilee Suite Fantasy, are...horses. For one month, these horses will act, dance, improvise with their partners (be them men or horses)... this film shows the poetic preparation of these unusual actors, guided in this fantastic world by Eva, the charismatic director of the group.
- Once upon a time in Siberia takes us on the shooting of Serko, a long feature film directed by Joël Farges. Serko tells the story of a young Cossack who, in 1889, crossed the frozen Siberia, riding his horse named Serko, in order to meet the Tsar and claim more justice for Siberian people. From Lake Baïkal to Saint Petersbourg, how were the horses trained to act in the film ?
- The Cirque d'Hiver was established in the heart of Paris over 150 years ago; it built its reputation onto equestrian circus. The XIXth century building reflects this special relation between horses and circus people. To gallop on this prestigious ring is the dream of every foal. This winter there are seven of them who follow the instructions of the Bouglione family with stars in their eyes!
- The golden age of Middle East cavalry took place between XIIth and XVth century. Then cavalry was considered as an art. Saïd Huneidi, in his beautiful stables in Jordan, is working on resurrecting this art. For years, he has been preparing his horses to an impressive ballet where costumes are made after ancient pictures, where hits are real, where war is almost a game, and where horses play that game. In this martial art show, horse's role is as important as man's.
- The story of El Atalaya is one of a passion burning upon historical background. The Count Federico Thyssen, owner of the greatest Arabic horses of Latin America, feels he has to honor his beloved horses by offering them the best possible stables. But he wants to find a complete harmony between the environment, his horses and the country the stables are settled in. To do so, he asks Fernando Bustillo, one of the most appreciated Argentinean architects, to design the stud upon a hill fifty miles away from Buenos Aires.
- 2002–2005TV EpisodeRenaissance facades, medieval crenelated walls, Byzantines arcades, classical Trianon, Gothic tour ... nothing was beautiful enough to Pavel Von der Wiese when, in 1893, he ordered to Chektel, main architect of that time, to build a palace worth welcoming the horses he wanted to accommodate. 250 km south of Moscow, stands this horse center where today and from now on, Vladimir Frolov attempts to recreate the Orlov-Rostopchine breed.
- Ireland has a passion for horses and is known as the premier breeding country in the world. Sheikh Muhammad Al Maktoum has, in the County of Kildare, one of his leading studs: seven buildings spread over 1000 acres. The landscape is wide, green and majestic. The 200 foals are all bred to become tomorrow's cracks.
- 2002–2005TV EpisodeIn Poland the horse was always beloved and respected because it long allowed the Poles to defend the country's borders thanks to its cavalry regiments, called Ulans. In South West Poland, in Ksiaz, fantastic stables that used to belong to an impressive XVIIIth century castle, hosts an important breeding center.
- A visit at Zingaro in Aubervilliers, near Paris, guided by Bartabas and Patrick Bouchain, his architect. Life, space, audience: around the small wooden big top the stables have been extracted from the theatre wings and they are part of the actual equestrian show.
- In the heart of German Switzerland stands the Einsiedeln Monastery, last monastery in the world which still breeds and celebrates horses. Built 1000 years ago, this monastery has always sheltered horses in his stables ; and monks always loved their horses. From this love was born the « horse pilgrimage », a major ceremony organized on the Monastery Plaza with the benediction of more than 200 horse riders.
- Versailles: the ultimate sign of the greatness of a king. At a time when horses were a positive symbol of wealth and power, Louis the XIVth has his stables erected right opposite his castle. The stables were deserted since the French revolution; today they live again with the installation of the French Academy of Equestrian Spectacle.
- In China, horse race is a king sport. And the Hong Kong Jockey Club, a 150 years old institution, is the one which gets the honor and duty to organize the race shows. The HKJC hosts its horses in an ultramodern stable in a 3 levels building. Once the horse has stepped into the HKJC stables starts a program strictly oriented towards one goal : win the race.
- The stables of the Thorens castle owe to Isabelle de Roussy de Sales, and Anna Maulet's energy their revival. They used to belong to an amazing medieval castle but now they are dedicated to the training of competition horses. Ideally located in the heart of the French Alps.
- In the heart of Rajasthan, north of India, stands the Udaïpur Palace which witnessed 75 generations of Maharana. Arvind Singh Mewar, the present Maharana, explains that the dependence of men on horses has existed for an age; for this reason, the royal Mewar family has always shown great respect to their horses. The stables, located in the central part of the palace keeps only 5 horses but there is certainly something sacred in them.
- 2002–2005TV EpisodeIn Morocco, in the heart of the the imperial town he erected, Sultan Moulaye Ismaïl built in the middle of the XVIIth century amazing stables to house the 12000 horses of his army. The building no longer keeps horses and was partly destroyed by an earthquake.
- Lipica: for any horse lover the word evokes the little white horses that made the Vienna Riding School famous. The story of these immaculate horses started between the green hills of what is today Slovenia, a few gallop strides away from Venice. In this unique place the bases of a breed were set in 1580 and quickly reached the ideal standards that are now well preserved.
- These stables were created at the end of the sixties by the greatest Mexican architect, Luis Barragan. Between four pink walls, the horses enjoy a comfortable and quiet life. Everything here has been thought about for them... with an explosive aesthetic sense!
- The stables of the Royal Jordanian Stud, near Amman, host dreamy horses; is it because the ancestors of these pure Arabian horses, real desert horses, took part to most of the myths and stories of the area, and are therefore linked to most of our cultures? From the Wadi Rum desert to the beauty show organized in the stud, the horses from the royal stables sure have many stories to tell.
- 2002–2005TV EpisodeLabeled historic monument with its huge green ground and its large stables, the Hennebont stud, south of Brittany, preserved its XIXth century physiognomy. Sir Tanneguy de Sainte Marie, current sub director and husband of the director of the national stud, guides us into the stables, to the reproduction center, the forge, the cider press and takes us to Lamballe national stud, north of Brittany, where there is a major sale of local horses.
- 2002–2005TV EpisodeAn excursion through Barcelona, in different palace's stables. Main idea: each one has been designed, at the beginning of the XXth century by frenzied architect Gaudi. Mushroomed shape columns, convoluted ramps, skillful gates made of wrought iron: a whole universe of phantasmagoria and mystery.
- 2002–2005TV EpisodeA visit throughout the Lisbon Royal School of equestrian art, dignified follower of the Portuguese equestrian tradition. Thanks to schools squires, camera dwells on horse preparation, training figures, and most of all, numerous neo-classic buildings of this institution. Among those, the old and beautiful riding school painted ceiling which fully justifies the place's reputation.