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A FRENCH DIPLOMAT IN SANTIAGO (1973-1976)

Chile, September 11th 1973. General Pinochet's tanks and planes are murdering Chilean Popular Unity. CIA, Pentagone, Nixon's men are working on it backstage. Pablo Neruda is dying. Salvatore Allende does not abdicate. Then start stalks, ...

SAM PECKINPAH

Director Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) is one of the most famous, passionate and inspiring American western movie icons. Filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, John Woo or Oliver Stone were influenced by the "Peckinpah's touch" made ou...

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THAI CINEMA, YESTERDAY AND TODAY

After 1970's emergence of new film directors more and more in osmosis with Thai reality, Thai cinema developed throughout commercial direction -due to precise genre film- and also throughout classic frescos by Chatreechalerm Yukol and mo...

INDIAN CINEMAS

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CHINESE CINEMA, YESTERDAY AND TODAY

There are few film industries in the world today so dependent upon the fortunes and vicissitudes of political power, and its sometimes incomprehensible policy reversals.
The best way to understand the history of the People's Re...

THE NINE LIVES OF KOREAN CINEMA

The Korean cinema, North and South, though weighed down since birth by propaganda theories on the one side and tempted for a time by Hollywood machinery on the other, has succeeded in expressing the identity of one and the same people, h...

FIRAAQ

Aarti is a housewife silently haunted by the sight of Muslim women begging for sanctuary in her house, that she ignored. Her only hope for salvation comes when she takes in an orphaned Muslim boy as a servant, pretending to her family he...

GIVE ME YOUR HAND

Quentin and Antoine, 18 year old twins, decide without their father knowing to go to their mother�s funeral in Spain hitchhiking. Their trip will be marked by quarrels, reconciliations and experiences. It will also reveal the differenc...

AH! THE LIBIDO

This is a week of surprising adventures for Paula, Betty, Charlotte, Sandy, women of different ages, who work at the French daily Liberation and relish lunching together at the cafeteria. Betty, the gutsiest one, talks the others into m...

THE NOISE IN MY HEAD

When a young street kid tries to sell Laura a soaked newspaper, she offers him a drink, a shower and a place to stay.
But who is this boy and why is a man after him?...

ANOTHER MAN

Francois and his girlfriend have settled in the country. Although he is not a journalist, he contributes to a small local weekly, describing the life of the region's inhabitants and the films shown at the valley's only movie theatre. Sin...

THREE WISE MEN

Matti (51), a police inspector, Erkki (51), photographer and Rauno (51), actor, are childhood friends, who haven't seen each other for a long time. They meet coincidentally in a Christmas Eve in Helsinki and spend the night together in a...

THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM ORCHID

The story is about the avenging spirit of a young girl becoming a woman that nothing can stop except perhaps ... love....

ULTRA

Brice is a young gangster who wants to find revenge following the murder of his girlfriend. Vania is an old godfather in the Mafia who wants to stop the violent fighting in the capital. Helped by an Ukrainian killer who decimates one by ...

COMME UNE ETOILE DANS LA NUIT

When Anne and Marc decide to have a child, Marc discovers he has Hodgkin disease. Fighting to preserve their love from fear, death and sadness, they will both live a senseless joy......

FOUR WINGS AND A PRAYER

Four Wings and a Prayer is a documentary about one of the world's most beautiful and mysterious creatures: the Monarch butterfly. Nowhere in nature is there a more powerful mix of scientific marvel, awesome beauty, and epic struggle for ...

FILE PETROV

Alexandra, a young French journalist, arrives in Sofia searching for traces of a man, Alexander Popov, who was mysteriously killed in Bulgaria 12 years earlier. She is hiding the true motives for her investigation, but gradually the piec...

STRAIGHT TO THE HEART

Benoit, a confused 30 year-old young man, makes a living stealing cars, and Jimmy, a teenager, tries to live it up with his depressive mother. Benoit finds comfort in the arms of a different woman every night while Jimmy craves for his a...

FRANCAISE

Sofia, born in France from North African parents, lives a happy childhood in a French suburbian city. Her father feeling homesick, she finds herself in a Moroccan farm. She is merely 10 and swears she will have her exams in order to go b...

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MARKED FOR LIFE

By the time civil war in El Salvador ended, the US government demanded the repatriation of thousands of the young Salvadorians immigrants who joined the Latino gangs on the streets of LA.
These marginals simply reproduced the ...

CHILDREN OF DON QUIXOTE

On the 26th of October 2006, two citizens, Augustin Legrand and Pascal Oumaklouf decided to federate the homeless people and force the French government to respect their fundamental rights. They set up a true entrenched camp in the heart...

LOLA MONTES

Reduced to a state the total degeneration, Lola Montes, under the big top of a gigantic circus, is forced to reinact her dramatic past. The life story of a 19th century courtesan told via flashbacks while being exhibited in a stylised ci...

THAT SHOULD NOT BE

In Europe every year 100,000 children die of diseases caused by the environment.
In Europe 70% of cancers are linked to the environment : 30% to pollution and 40% to food.
In Europe cases of cancer in children have...

KHALASS

Beirut is going through a phase of renewal and reconstruction. A site of lies, of events, a city of all possibilities.
Ahmad, Robby and Abir, who have survived the war , what will they do with the flame of life that still burns...

LANDSCAPE No. 2

The burglars Sergej and Polde steal a valuable painting Landscape No.2.
By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of the World War II. Instructor is ordered to recover the stolen painting an...

DIABOLO'S WORKSHOP

After his planetary success Snow Show that made him a star in the USA, Slava Polunin asked Terry Gilliam to join him to help him recreate an old show of his : Diabolo.
It is a the genuine encounter of two geniuses, turning some...

MY COUNTRY

A documentary where the images of Ivens are a constant reference, a thematic and
narrative suggestion, where the discovery of an industrial and post-industrial Italian
landscape with great visual impact is grafted. Th...

MALADOLESCENZA

A boy (Martin Loeb) and girl (Lara Wendel) in their early teens use each other to psychically explore their budding sexuality. Things get complicated when another lass (Eva Ionesco) enters the picture, our young hero drawn to this beauty...