Five Days in a Life

"Cinq jours d’une vie" is about a young man, N'Tji, orphaned at an early age, who lives under the supervision of his uncle. He is sent to Koranic school, where he is forced to memorize and recite verses of the Koran; soo

Jannu, Chronicle of a Conquest

Three years after the 1959 expedition, abandoned 350m from the summit, Lionel Terray leads a new assault on Jannu, one of the most demanding peaks in the Himalayas. At the base camp, equipment and food rations are prepar

1871 La Commune, portraits d'une révolution

Naître d'une autre

Kazakhstan, naissance d'une nation

Cameroun: Autopsie d'une Indépendance

This documentary looks back on the nationalist resistance of the UPC, created in Kamerun in 1948, and its political and military repression by France until 1971, classified as a state secret. Behind the official imagery

Palestro, Algérie : Histoires d'une embuscade

Extraits d’une famille

This film is my failed attempt at creating a thematic palindrome of audio/visual samples. When working between two poles of remembering - one easily gets confused. Please enjoy this film before my mother asks me to delet

Edgar Morin, journal d'une vie

A philosopher of complexity, Edgar Morin has renewed the figure of the intellectual. Born Edgar Nahoum in Paris in 1921, he joined the Communist Resistance in 1942, where he adopted the pseudonym Morin, which he never ab

Portrait d'une jeune femme

The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham

In Jean Rouch's cinematic reinterpretation of Julius-Amédée Laou's theatrical work, a freshly appointed nurse steps into the chaotic world of a psychiatric ward. Tasked with nurturing the minds within, she forms a profou

Un an d'une vie

Les tribulations d'une concierge

Journal d’une maison de correction

In Marseilles, in a house of correction reserved for teenagers, it is the young Patricia who, by its authority and its force, imposed herself on all her classmates.

Mossoul, renaissance d'une ville millénaire

Children of the Stork

Three French pals take to the road in a stolen car and discover a talking, wounded stork — who claims to have deserted the Algerian army — and help it to escape to the home of a relative in Germany.

Cleaning Lady's Dreams

All day, Gül vacuums, scrapes and cleans. Always at the service of others, her life drifts by without joy. By accident, Gül catches a glimpse of the solitude of her own soul, as well as her dismay.

In The Eyes Of A Beast

How do humans and animals see each other? Dominique Loreau captures astonishing exchanges of “views” between people and animals who coexist in the city, in farms, slaughterhouses, zoos, museums, or in a dance rehearsal r

La culotte d'une zouave

A country road, a couple in a car and an unexpected obstacle. And then the man is going to have to prove his love.

Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire

Resorting to the images that make up three quarters of the last century, Jean-Louis Comolli chose films that crossed his path fifty years ago, discovering his own history of cinema, and particularly the documentary cinem