A Dream Country

A woman drifts at sea, lost in her thoughts in search of a new place where she can live, free.

Claire au pays du silence

The Land of the Tarayoun

Through the history of the traditional female costume and the sum of the signs with which it is charged, the heroine of the film goes in search of her identity.

Le Pays fantôme

Reel found on eBay. A soldier films the courtyard of his barracks from his window. It's the 1970s, and I try to imagine what he must be thinking.

In the land of the Basques

Short documentary on the Basque Country, its dances and its theatre.

The Happiest Place on Earth

The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).

In the Land of Darkness

In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair's new series of social dramas. For Au pays des ténèbres, based on Germinal, he took his crew to C

La laine du pays

This film restitutes, from sheep farming, the steps, vocabulary and ancient techniques of a largely forgotten process: sheep shearing, wool carding, spinning, weaving, natural dying, and making of clothes, sheets and bla

North Of Ourselves

By attempting to travel 2,960 km from southern Quebec to its northernmost point, by bike and skis, in the middle of winter, adventurers Samuel Lalande-Markon and Simon-Pierre Goneau want to reinvest the territory and ref

Un tout petit pays

In the Lands of Mist

Does Europe also have its own animistic heritage, like Pachamama in South America and Shinto in Japan? If so, which one? In the Misty Lands, i.e. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, a sacred fire is lit on the winter solstice

Rodriguez au pays des merguez

In Bab El Oued, during the French colonization, the action takes place against the backdrop of elections. The unemployed Roro, son of skewer merchant Dodièze likes Chipette, daughter of hairdresser Gongormatz.

Yiyi Far From Home

Two Chinese girls spend their last day together in Belle-Île-en-Mer, a small island in Brittany, France. The next day, Xiaoba is going back to China and Yiyi wanders through the island on her own. The moon shines bright

It Pays to Be Ignorant

The first of a very short series, since it would become a TV series in 1949, based on the radio program that ran on CBS from 1944 through 1949. The premise of the program was intended as a satire and parody version of th

Afghanistan : vivre en pays taliban

By immersing themselves in a Taliban village, and after gaining very rare access to major institutions, the directors shed a disturbing light on today's Taliban society, and on the workings of this ultra-conservative par

Land of Quebec

War in the Highlands

La Guerre Dans le Haut Pays is a period piece set in the winter of 1797-98, during the six days leading up to the fall of Bern and the victory of Napoleon's army, when the Bern government is faced with mixed loyalties fr

We Buy, Who Pays?

A short documentary about sweatshops and their working conditions in India.

Gilles Vigneault : au coeur du pays

A Fireland

In the Landes forest, a family passes down the secrets of fire from generation to generation. Under the eyes of animals, the days and the nights succeed one another. The father, Patrick, eats grass. The daughter, Margot,