Synopsis : From London to Paris and Paris to Berlin, the same observation can be made everywhere: Bourgeois-Bohemians, called Bobos in France, a privileged middle class and proud of it, are overtaking city...

Synopsis : In Krivoj-Rog, a small mining town lost in the middle of nowhere in the Ukraine, Didier Portal films some astonishing young musicians who attend the municipal jazz school. But this film is not a...

Synopsis : This film brings together men from the extremes of wealth and poverty. Across oceans, we hunt down the most microscopic of germs to save millions of human lives -lives neglected for too long by the...

Synopsis : The “Great Sichuan Earthquake” took place at 14:28 on May 12, 2008. 10 days after: Scenes not seen on official TV, “survival” is the keyword. Ordinary people are salvaging destroyed pig farms in the...

Synopsis : Since the fall of Iraq, in neighboring countries, students have returned to their universities. Same faces, same crowd, same questions. Everything appears perfectly normal. And yet nothing is like it...

Synopsis : From the end of year 1944, the defeat of the Axis forces is granted, but the victory is not yet assured. The first eight months of 1945 will be decisive. This film tells the story of the end of the...

Synopsis : Manon just turned 15. She's my daughter. She met Greg, 17, on vacation. Greg lives in Claviers, a little village in the Haut Var (south of France) where I lived until I was a teenager. During the...

Synopsis : The Credit Muncipal of Paris is stil commonly called “Le Mont de Piété” or “Chez ma tante”; This very old institution, know by all, whose main activity is still loan on colectorel, is portaryed here...

Synopsis : What can we expect or fear in a mobile world? Using your cell phone to watch the evening news, surf the web, buy a car or hold a conference call with collegues ? Tomorrow, this already familiar...

Synopsis : David and Eric, two brothers in their twenties, run "The Ranch", the snack bar of a campsite lost among the dunes of a huge Normandy beach.
It's the end of the season, with the surfers and...

Synopsis : A documentary film on the stakes facing opera today. This is first and foremost a film on work, on the love of a job well done, be it vocal work, lighting or a simple bootlace; the work of every man...

Synopsis : Jean-Pierre LIMOSIN went to Iran to make his portrait of Abbas Kiarostami. Abbas Kiarostami took him for a ride in his 4-wheel drive. They started from Teheran, where he lives, to Koken in the...

Synopsis : Not Guilty is the portrait of a filmmaker who defies categorization, of one of the most politically-oriented directors around whose sole obsession is shooting films, whatever the cost. His refusal to...

Synopsis : Where did the 18 billion dollars invested by the international community to rebuild Afghanistan, develop its schools, construct hospitals and eradicate the opium traffic go? Eight years after the...

Synopsis : Baghdad, April 2003. Saddam Hussein’s regime has been toppled. All Iraqi exiles see this as the best thing that has ever happened to them.
Meanwhile in Germany, Azad, a Kurdish exile is glued...

Synopsis : A special place of honor must be reserved among the horrors of political prison camps in the 20th century for this story, which occurred in Rumania in the early fifties when popular democracies were...

Synopsis : The statute of the permanent International Criminal Court was adopted on July 17th, 1998 during a conference organized by the United Nations in Rome. 120 member States voted for it, 7 against it and...

Synopsis : Fabienne and Isabelle and a few others have been selected to be trained as stewardesses for an airline. Evacuation slides, saving dummies in a swimming pool, putting out cabin fires, safety...

Synopsis : Since 1981, Aki Kaurismäki has produced, written and directed twenty-two films and in a way, he has revived the Finnish cinema. At 43, he has a considerable oeuvre to his credit. He is one of the...

Synopsis : Face to face with Alain Cavalier, in which the film maker unravels the small incandescent thread which links his work ; his early films with stars to his last film with a single person for subject....