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- Since 1922, Boulogne-Billancourt cinema studios have welcomed the greatest actors, directors and technicians of French cinema and have given birth to many masterpieces.
- The life stories of the milongueros of Buenos Aires. The milonguero is a creature of the night, the most essential part of his life is spent after the sunset, in the milongas, the places of tango dancers.
- The power struggle between film producer Louis B. Mayer and star actor John Gilbert during the Roaring Twenties and the arrival of talkies.
- Rarely in the history of the cinema, a company films productions will have marked the history and the culture of its country like ''Svensk Filmindustri''. Since its creation in 1919 by Charles Magnusson, Svensk Filmindustri have produced 1200 films including the major works of Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström and Ingmar Bergman. The uncontested talent of the actresses Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman have given Swedish cinema a world recognition, a cinema that celebrates the power of the forces of nature, and where the inner life of its characters remains in our memories.
- On the night of 12-13 August 1961, the GDR erected a wall that separated Berlin in two. Very quickly, the cinema takes hold of the subject. In the West as in the East, spies, fugitives, smugglers, agents of the Stasi are waging a cold war that inspires writers and directors - Illustrated by numerous film extracts and punctuated by testimonials from actors and directors, film tells the crossed story of the Wall and German cinema.
- In nine collections, seven prizes and two anthologies published in France where she lives since 1982, the Syrian poetess Maram Al Masri became one of the great voices of the contemporary poetry. She sings wounded love, exile, fate reserved for the women or the ravages of war, she speaks with a simplicity which touches the heart and joins a vast public. Her poetry is translated in numerous languages. This film, arisen from a meeting between a poet and a filmmaker, mix poetry and sensual images which reflect the poetic language and its breath of freedom.
- Filmed in Japan, this program looks beyond the stereotypes to objectively examine the history of manga, how manga are drawn, and manga's influence on Japanese life as illustrated by cosplay bars, where people dress up as their favorite characters; manga kissa, 24/7 manga cafes; and Comicket, the twice-annual comics market that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors. The program also introduces viewers to a cross-section of mangaka icons: Vagabond creator Takehiko Inoue; Naoki Urasawa, author of The Pushman and Other Stories; Jiro Taniguchi; Yoshihiro Tatsumi; and Kan Takahama.
- History of Oriental dance, traditions and modernity.
- From the first earthquakes to the eruption of the Piton de la Fournaise, a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, the extraordinary adventure of a team of vulcanologists led by Jean-Louis Cheminée.
- At the National Printing House, traditional printing techniques are marvels of art: engraved punches, lithographs, soft-cut and typography produce books of rare quality. Four centuries of royal and republican documents, and a collection of punches of all alphabets is a unique heritage in the world. But subject to competition and technological developments, the institution will close its historic headquarters in 2005. With the participation of historians and book workers, the film accompanies the last moments of this place of excellence of the book trades where generations of monkeys, typographers and bears, printers followed one another.
- A critical look at the phenomenon of low cost airlines, with an investigation conducted in Switzerland, Great Britain, Sweden, and France.
- Story of Babelsberg Studios from 1946 to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- This four-part mini-series immerses the viewer into the French world of fashion envisioned through its creative methods, its various crafts and its challenges for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes discovery.
- Offers to discover the ins and outs of an art, theater, which is not just glitz and glitter anymore: Parisian boulevard theater, the National theater of Strasbourg, street theater, Off d'Avignon, a provincial troupe, etc.