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- A documentary portrait of the Gare du Nord. Countless people pass through the station and cross it, whether they come from the Paris suburbs, provincial France or abroad.
- Summer holidays. David, 16 years old, is bored to death. A microwave will gets him out of his routine.
- Italian nurses in search of a steady job.
- In Kisangani, a group of high-school students who cannot afford to pay the teachers' "bonuses" organized themselves to prepare the State exam together.
- On the secret like-mindedness between old Caledonia (the Latin name used by the Roman Empire to refer to most of the land area of Scotland) and New Caledonia (the French territory comprising dozens of islands in the South Pacific).
- Across Europe and Japan, this film covers over three decades of Shiro Takatani's artistic journey through his installations, theatre and dance performances. Takatani and his collaborators (including composer Ryuichi Sakamoto) explain the driving principles behind his work where nature and people are observed through modern tools. Takatani uses technology to improve our understanding of our environment: enhancing infinitely small organisms, showing large scale galaxies, creating an interaction between performers / dancers with cameras and large screens. Carefully selected performances and installations - remarkably filmed - demonstrate the evolution of his work.
- A few months after the Tunisian Revolution, a filmmaker comes back to her native country. She's looking for any signs of a 1930s Tunisian diva, Habiba Messika, a singer, an actress, a woman who was too free for her own good and was killed.
- In Luminy, far away from Marseille's city center... Amid a huge pine wood, closed on one side by an imposing mountain, and on the other by the Mediterranean sea. They have chosen to follow the risky path of Fine Arts. They are deaf, they are hearing. Most of them carry no illusions about what is ahead of them when they graduate, about the 'jobs openings'. Yet, this fleeting future incites them to search, to experiment, to explore even more. In between the need to be understood and the need to understand the others, they achieve their own journey, often jerky, and transform themselves in many sudden ways.
- For several years, Arina, her father Valeri, Nicolai, Roman have been coming to the natural reserve of Stolby, situated a few kilometers away from the city of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia, fleeing the rough day-to-day life of their hometown and come here to rest, dance, climb and talk for hours.
- A glass frame, some wax wings, a tale sculpted in dust on the glass, a mask of bees wings. The artist, Patrick Neu lives alone in a remote island village to the north of the Vosges, far from all of the central focal points of the world of art. He creates slowly and carefully with the patience inherited from the primitive Flemish artists, which whom he dialogues explicitly in works that border the ephemeral and tend towards a rare perfection. One day, the director of the Tokyo Palace in Paris pays him a visit: after following his work for fifteen years, he wants to commission him with his first individual exhibition. He accepts but will not change his method in any way. In the background, the old truth of the salamander, above all, an artist should be able to hide and keep his mystery.
- Choqué, en colère contre les atrocités commises sur les albinos africains, le conteur camerounais Léonard I De Semnjock décide de remonter le fleuve Nkam à la recherche des albinos et de leur histoire. Sur sa route, il croise des conteurs, des vieux sages, des sorciers. Léonard comprend petit à petit à quel point les croyances autour des albinos sont ancrées dans la mémoire collective, et qu'une manière de faire évoluer le regard des Africains serait de créer en plus de ses spectacles, de nouveaux contes qui donneraient une image positive des albinos.
- Franck Vigroux and Ben Miller are two musicians with contrasting trajectories and personalities. From their meeting came the intense and radical output of the band they have founded together: Transistor. Two realities filmed both together and separately, between New York, Detroit and Clermont-Ferrand, between a residency in France and an exile in Michigan, between dream and reality in a tottering Europe and the flipside of the American dream.
- Yeung Faï embodies the last generation of a great dynasty of Chinese puppeteers. This documentary offers a portrait of an artist and his tormented life's journey, as he took refuge in France, where he was able to create his first show.
- It's departure time. Eight- year-old Timothée the little half-blood, is getting ready to take the plane to Africa... Although on his mother's side the family is from this continent, he knows it only through tales of witches and elephants. He travels there with his 31-year-old mother Aya. She's taking him with her to Ivory Coast despite the ongoing war because she wants to visit her father's grave and reestablish contact with her family. Robin, Timothée's father and Aya's husband, films them on their long initiatory Journey to the land of the family ancestors during which mother and son both experience moments of belonging and moments of alienation.
- Franco, Joanna, Lia, Audrey, Philippe, tous ont été frappés par un malaise brutal et inexpliqué lors d'un voyage à Florence, à Paris ou à Barcelone. Ils témoignent : Que s'est-il passé ? Insolation ? Chute de tension ? Perte de repères ? Graziella Magherini, psychiatre à Florence, revient sur les questions qui l'ont obsédée alors qu'elle tentait d'élucider les causes de ce mal contemporain : mal du voyage, trouble lié aux lieux hantés par l'Histoire, PEUR DU BEAU, MAL DE L'ART ? Une plongée vertigineuse à la découverte du SYNDROME DE STENDHAL .
- In his futuristic novel 1984, published in 1948, George Orwell tells the story of a Londoner who leads a solitary resistance against the dominant and totalitarian party Big Brother. His name: Winston Smith. According to the English phone book, there are at least twenty-five people with the same surname as this character currently living in London. The director proposes in this film to go and meet them. To search if there is, between all these homonyms, and Orwell's hero, an unspeakable link.
- Living in the Cahos Mountains, a remote area secluded somewhere in Haiti, Elord, his family and his friends barely survive there. The region used to be prosperous though thanks to coffee growing. Until 1986 at any rate, the year the prices suddenly collapsed. People then stopped cultivating it and felled the trees in order to make and sell charcoal, which led to soil erosion and the subsequent impoverishment of the local peasants. Now, prices are rising again but coffee has almost disappeared. Elord and his friends do their best to replant coffee trees. To no avail...
- Suzanne serenely takes life as it comes. She lives alone in the Vosges, in her family home where she was born in 1930, that lacks all sense of comfort. She savors with laughter all the simple pleasures of life, embodying happy sobriety.