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- A trapper and his wife brave the harsh Yukon climate, trecherous landscape and dangerous wildlife in an attempt to live a life of solitude.
- Sixteen year old Sergei is the son of Boris, the head of the Batagi clan of reindeer breeders. Awarded the title of herdsman, with the clan's largest herd, he joins the Evenk tribe for the first time as they begin their summer cattle drive across the pastures of the Siberian mountains. As the tribe's only source of income, these reindeer are their pride and joy and they will stop at nothing to protect them from their most bitter enemy, the Wolf.
- The story of General Smyslovsky and his pro-Axis, anti-Communist First Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned in the USSR.
- 75 teams, 1200 dogs, minus 50 ° C, 1750 km across Alaska. The Iditarod race is not only an event of national importance in Alaska, but also the longest and hardest dog sled race in the world. For the trapper and film director Nicolas Vanier, this was his last expedition and also an ultimate challenge in ice and snow. From the elaborate preparations across the long distance surrounded by epic and untouched nature to crossing the finish line, the extraordinary documentary accompanies a sporty and emotionally extreme adventure with breathtaking air - and captivating close-ups of huskies in fascinating landscapes.
- The story of a young city boy wanting to become the mahout, the elephant driver. Despite his master's belief that only Karen tribe people are born to be mahouts, the lad finally wins his heart and becomes a real mahout.
- Penty and his family are members of the Guarani tribe from the community of Bameno in the heart of the Amazon forest. They live in the selva, in a region that has been preserved from modern influence for many centuries. Today, however, as modern civilization is penetrating the forest to exploit its wealth, Guarani culture is fading. For the past decades, large industrial groups have been threatening the flora and fauna. The Guarani are one of the last traditional tribes of South America, with only 87 members left. This film paints the intimate portrait of a people struggling to preserve their traditional ways.
- The critically important work by renowned naturalist Claudine Andre to save the endangered bonobo apes of the Congo is presented in this visually stunning feature film.
- A man goes on a three year hike on the trail of wolves in the French Alps.
- Documentary that shows different animal species from all over the world courting and mating.
- Athens in August becomes the place where a group of young people live, fall in love and have fun - guided by, and communicating through, the Internet.
- In Chambord, we know "the castle", the most majestic castle of the Loire Valley. Built by François I in 1519, it celebrates this year its 500th anniversary. A wonderful anniversary for the monument and the park that surrounds it. For the splendid stone dream is in the heart of a 5,000 hectare estate. This is the place that the King chose at the time, this forest inhabited by animal species to build his residence. He had his domain enclosed by a 32 kilometer long wall that still remains. The territory thus represents the surface of Paris intra-muros.
- "Gentle into the Night" is the story of two lost souls: Martha, an American lady who has lived in Italy for many years without ever learning the language; and Renato, twenty five years younger than Martha, who for all his life has been working odd jobs and has no place to call home. Martha's home is a house in Tuscany she has inherited from her grandfather. There she lived and brought up her children after an early divorce. Martha, who at times suffers from a sudden loss of memory, and her obsession with the large country home, has become a nuisance to her children. They have send their mother to a care center, and are trying to sell the house. We meet Renato when he has just taken on a job for a small detective agency that specializes in divorce cases. He is observing two lovers traveling together through Northern Italy when he meets Martha who has run away from the care center...
- German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. LOVES DEBRIS didnt have, and couldn't have had, any pre-planned action. There was no script, no continuity. On the other hand, there were precise constraints that provided the rules of the game: the setting, the Abbey of Royaumont, and the chosen participants. Each singer came accompanied by a person of his or her choice, and worked on an aria chosen by the director. And there was ELISABETH COOPER, a "one-woman orchestra", who transposed and played the scores on the piano and organ.
- No other sport in the world requires that you tape your racket to your hand - but for wheelchair tennis. Mark Eccleston is an athlete who has overcome tremendous adversity - this frank, fearless and often funny film tells his triumph of the human spirit. He became one of the world's leading wheelchair tennis players and held the World No 1 spot for fourteen months. He went on to win a silver medal in the Athens Paralympics in 2004 . Mark could never have achieved this level of success without the great will power he shows daily - and a philosophy which is as useful to the able bodied as to the disabled.
- A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to François, the mailman played by Tati in The Big Day, Moullet makes a comedy by pedaling at a pace that allows him to reinvent the possibilities of film gags. La Cabale des oursins is a guided tour to the northern France, transformed into a Geography lesson in the pataphysical style of an Alfred Jarry disciple.
- On every fishing outing with her grandmother, Aoi wonders if she will have the strength to carry on. The weather is ideal for shell fishing in the shark-infested waters of the Japanese Sea of Hegura Island. Yet Aoi, 21, still a novice, is nervous to dive in front of her more experienced grandmother. Machiko, 82, is a traditional Ama free diver, meaning "woman of the sea." She is one of the last custodians of a 2 000 years old expertise, one of harvesting abalone and the other precious shells that once had a place of honour at the emperors' table.The Ama tradition is passed down from mother to daughter but for several generations now the ice-cold waters, the scarcity of seashells and the mortal danger that represent both sharks and other fishing boats have discouraged the younger generation who is migrating to Japan's large cities. Is Aoi her grandmother's true successor or will she end up abandoning, like the three other young women in her village, who returned to land only last year? Aoi knows that on her shoulders rest the hopes of the entire Ama community.Sara, 17, lives on the mainland opposite Hegura island. She is a typical Japanese young woman, living in a world of touch screens and social media. Yet a few months, to the astonishment of her friends, Sara revealed that she wanted to become an Ama. Will she embody the new Ama generation the whole island is so desperately waiting for?
- About the relations which connected the opera and the Third Reich from 1933 to 1944. If there was one thing that surpassed the theatre and the cinema in the eyes of the Nazis, it was opera. In Germany, it was considered to be the best way to reveal German qualities. Blending hearts and spirits was indispensable for the powers at the time. It is about this liaison which united the world of opera and criminal politics that we ask questions. How did a totalitarian régime, the Nazi régime, for over ten years, from 1933 to 1944, find at its disposal, so many musicians, composers, singers, orchestral conductors, decorators, directors, and manage to use them ? The 3rd Reich wanted to fascinate by setting itself up like an opera, bursting the limits of the stage and invading life with its fatal fascination.
- Parties dans les années 50 pour le Kazakhstan, deux familles françaises se trouvent coincées derrière le rideau de fer. Lorsquen 1991, suite à la chute de lempire soviétique, une ambassade française ouvre ses portes, les français oubliés viennent se faire connaître et demandent à retourner sur leur terre natale. Ce film suit leur périple dans le labyrinthe administratif, leur vie quotidienne au Kazakhstan, les épreuves quils doivent affronter, leffondrement de leur pays dadoption, le retour de certains et la résignation des autres.
- Look into the heart & soul of the Alinghi campaign during the America's Cup competition. This extraordinary film documents slices of everyday life of the team & their families, the tensions & dramas as well as the joys. The team share their emotions & deepest feelings under their grueling physical training program & the constant upkeep & development of the boat.
- At the age of 77, Roger Lapébie is the oldest winner of the Tour de France still alive. Half a century has passed since his legendary victory in 1937. Yet Roger still covers more than 200 miles each week by bicycle on the highways and byways of the Landes. The portrait of a great, good-natured cyclist, who declares: 'I love my bike more than I love myself.'
- With their rounded caps, some ten thousand phallic stelae dot the highlands of Sidamo and Gedeo country in southern Ethiopia, covering an area of 10,000 square kilometers. Discovered less than a century ago by a handful of explorers, these gigantic megaliths have been little studied, unlike the anthropomorphic stelae, whose research has revealed their funerary character. A team of scientists led by Roger Joussaume, a French specialist in megalithism, is carrying out an excavation campaign on the numerous archaeological sites in the region. They are attempting to date and understand this heritage, abandoned in its current state by a civilization that is still little known.
- A cold odyssey over more than 8,000 km through contrasting territories, from the mountains of Mongolia to Lake Baikal, from the taiga to the Siberian tundra: this is the challenge that Nicolas Vanier set himself. The adventure will last 18 months, 18 months during which Nicolas and his team face one of the most hostile regions of the globe before reaching the Arctic ice. An exceptional journey, where only traditional modes of transport are used to overcome the constraints, each time different, of the regions crossed.
- An outdoor adventure rally in the French Pyrenees. The route includes several tough climbs and contestants were encouraged to go down the other side in record time using paragliders.
- French mountaineering after the war experienced a formidable revival. Faced with aristocratic mountaineering and professional mountaineering, of which the guides are the emblematic figure, a new form of amateur mountaineering stemming from working-class Parisian circles is developing: "rogue mountaineering". The Robert Paragot-Lucien rope Bérardini is the most striking illustration of this.Insolent, iconoclastic, non-conformist, they symbolize the post-war climbers of modest origins who, making fun of conventions and rules, overthrew the stereotypes of the "perfect mountaineer". , driven by a tremendous desire to be and to surpass themselves, Lucien Bérardini and Robert Paragot have found in climbing the way to release their overflowing energy.
- Kgonta Bo, 79, is one of the last shamans of the Kalahari San Bushmen. In turn village healer, soothsayer and storyteller, this delightful great-grandfather takes us on a unique adventure. Invited by his friend Lucinda Backwell, a South African anthropologist, to help identify and describe in click language an incomparable collection of 3,500 San artifacts, the shaman's ancestral knowledge also sheds a new light on a 40,000 year old mystery and our universal past.
- Seen from the sky, the Earth is blue, the color of the sea. But what do we actually know about oceans ? What exactly lives in the oceans? To answer these questions, a team of scientists set sail aboard the schooner Tara. Their voyage will soon turn to an investigation into a secret realm... the largely unknown world of plankton. As we go deeper in the ocean, we're entering their secret world and explore the major role they are playing in the life of planet Earth.