Chris Marker
A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT is Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. Released in France in 1978, restored and “re-actualized” by Marker fifteen years later (after the fall of the Soviet Un...
Jill Coulon
Takuya is 18, with tousled hair and an athletic look. Driven by his father and sponsors, he leaves his hometown in Hokkaido to go to Tokyo and joins a sumo stable. There, he will share everything with the 10 other wrestlers : day-to-day life, training, social life and tournaments. Coproduced by Japa...
Jürgen Ellinghaus
Every year the War Cemetery Memorial of Wahala in Togo hosts the 11th November Remembrance Day Ceremony which recalls the end of World War I. The first German surrender of WWI was signed on the soil of the Reich's Togoland colony in August 1914, subsequently to the battle of Chra. It marked de facto...
Louis Hanquet
In the french Alps, far from everything, Felix looks after his herd, living for months in a mineral and inaccessible world where an invisible being prowls: the wolf. Solitude shrouds his days in the mountains, filled with caring for lambs, fencing and poetry....
Eve Duchemin
During the day, Sabrina does housework to renovate the house from which she might be expelled. At night, she works as a stripper in a city night club to pay for her nursing studies. Greater than all past pains and shames is the bright dream of one’s own of a better profession and a job. A minutely o...
Chloé Aïcha BORO
After the death of her uncle, a dignitary Mandingo Imam, the director films her family courtyard. A dispute over the estate has burst out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European colonization. The courtyard becomes the theater where the future of a...
Vincent Boujon
The risk and adrenaline rush of skydiving can heighten the feeling of being alive. In this compelling documentary, five HIV-positive gay men spend a week preparing for their first solo parachute jump. The camaraderie inspired by the rigorous training and team-building exercises encourage the men to...
Marc Isaacs
Filmmaker, Marc Isaacs, examines with charm and humour modern attitudes towards race in Barking, a white working class town to the East of London. Through the lives of five key characters from different ethnic backgrounds, Isaacs, a prominent but unseen presence, questions prejudices, and pries at p...
Olivier Magis
Fifty years ago the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place in order to lease the largest island to the US Navy so that it could install a military base. Now Chagossian exiles embark on a struggle to return home....
Lupe Pérez Garcia
“I have a problem. I could never tell my left from my right.” Convinced that this inaptitude comes from a childhood trauma, Guadalupe Pérez Garcia returns to her country of origin, Argentina, that she left with her family during the financial crash of 2002. With a great sense of burlesque, she start...