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- Gen Z activists are violently picked off by a deranged night watchman after sneaking into an environmentally destructive big-box furniture store.
- Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The players reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.
- Following the recent deaths of locals on Breton beaches, a reporter comes to investigate the mystery surrounding algae that may be a cause of these tragic events.
- In 2020 Gurbaz Sangha, a young Punjabi farmer led thousands to Delhi protesting new Farm Laws. Joined by over half a million from diverse backgrounds they remained at borders despite COVID lockdown vowing to stay until laws were repealed.
- In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki Kaurismäki and his creation of the town's first cinema.
- Sherente, a two spirit-genderqueer teenager from Rhode Island's Narragansett tribe performs traditional dance in competitions at annual regional pow wows of New England tribes. There is no written rule which prohibits two spirit-genderqueer people to compete in dances different from their birth gender. Wearing traditional female dress, Sherente performs with joy and beauty. However, behind the scenes, tribal leaders manipulate scores or disqualify him outright because they believe in traditional (White) gender roles. In spite of being blindsided by ongoing dishonesty and deception, Sherente continues to perform regardless of insensitive behavior from tribal elders and others in his native community. Sherente's enduring courage and self respect are met with an outpouring of support from family, pow wow attendees, and fellow dancers.
- Myriam is a French Jew and a holocaust survivor. Sixty years after her imprisonment in Auschwitz she decides to do something daring. She returns there to finally confront her painful past. At Auschwitz she meets another person who is looking for answers-a young German photographer Oskar, whose grandfather was an SS officer.
- It centers on Anne, a director, who has separated from her husband is moving house. Life for her is dull. She meets Ben, a helpful neighbor and jobless actor. He looks at her with passionate eyes but she never wants to tie to a man again.
- In the early days of film-biz Alice joined the company of pioneer Gaumont, rose in the ranks and directed more than 400 films. But the company eventually erased her from her credits, she was forgotten, even experts have to rediscover her.
- All over occupied Europe resistance fighters sentenced to death wrote to their relatives the quintessence of their "life to death".
- A new global phenomenon: over-equipped police facing furious, defenseless crowds brandishing their cell phones to record everything. The war of images on social media further polarizes police and demonstrators.
- With their smartphone cameras, Parisian taxi drivers document La Base, a gigantic transit hub isolated on the outskirts of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, a rich microcosm of community life, a safe refuge to face the fast-changing world.
- Black Panther, the Avengers, Hulk, Fantastic Four, The X-Men, Thor, Iron Man - to name only some of the best known super-heroes created in the 1960s by comic book artist Jack Kirby, the super heroes which today, dominate the world wide blockbuster box office cinema. This definite, comprehensive documentary, examines the work of Jack Kirby from the prism of his experience as a young American soldier in WWII France, and how this artist went to be known as "The King of Comics". What was the influence of Kirby's traumatic experience in the war fields, where he was twice almost fatally wounded, on his body of work as a the creator of super heroes and how this terrifying self defining experience, inspired him to create Captain America, and so many others characters as the war came to a close. Beyond WWII, this documentary approaches the impact of Jack Kirby's work on contemporary art, cinema and video games, making him one of the most exciting artists of the 20th century.
- William Karel meets Fanny Ardant on the set of "The Woman Next Door" by François Truffaut. He was the director's photographer at the time. Fanny and François then have a romantic relationship. On "Finally, Sunday!", Truffaut is struck down by devastating cancer and dies a few months later. Fanny is devastated. This love story will determine her whole life. Since then, she has traced a very personal furrow totally marked by their history. Towards the freedom they both cherished. It is therefore from this love story and unpublished images filmed by William Karel that the director wishes to tell Fanny Ardant.
- According to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant containing the tablets of the Law, the Ten Commandments dictated by Yahweh to Moses, accompanied the Hebrew people on their conquest of the Promised Land. After the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians in 587 BC, the sacred chest disappeared forever. Since then, the mythical Ark, with its mysterious powers, has never ceased to fire the imagination of mankind and the covetousness of treasure seekers. But did it ever exist? By combining skills and innovative technologies, and by comparing the field with biblical texts, researchers are going to make some edifying discoveries.
- Sometimes reduced to the image of a cursed artist, Amedeo Modigliani, an admirer of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, has traced an unparalleled path in modern art.
- Der Dokumentarfilm porträtiert die für Europa so wichtige Partnerschaft zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich, die in den letzten Jahren immer wieder durch Krisen vor große Herausforderungen gestellt wurde. Die russische Invasion der Ukraine stellt die Partnerschaft nun erneut auf die Probe. Ist sie noch in der Lage, ihrer Führungsrolle in der Europäischen Union gerecht zu werden? Am 22. Januar 1963 wird der Élysée-Vertrag zwischen Frankreich und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland vom französischen Staatspräsidenten Charles de Gaulle und Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer unterzeichnet. Dieser Freundschaftsvertrag zwischen den beiden ehemals verfeindeten Nachbarn bildet in den folgenden Jahrzehnten das Fundament für die bis zum Brexit immer grösser werdende Europäische Union. 60 Jahre später wird das deutsch-französische Verhältnis durch die Invasion Russlands in der Ukraine in ungeahntem Maße auf die Probe gestellt. Angesichts des Ausbruchs eines bewaffneten Konflikts im Herzen Europas muss sich die deutsch-französische Freundschaft neu erfinden, und trotz unterschiedlicher Ansätze in der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, auf dem Energiesektor oder bei Haushaltsfragen einen gemeinsamen Weg finden. Der Dokumentarfilm "Deutschland - Frankreich: Beziehungsstatus ungeklärt" beleuchtet die Herausforderungen, die in den letzten Jahren die Beziehung zwischen den beiden Staaten immer wieder belastet haben und befasst sich mit dem neuen deutsch-französischen Modus vivendi. Auf der Grundlage von Archivmaterial, Interviews mit Spitzenpolitikern und Einblicken in den Alltag der deutsch-französischen Partnerschaft zeichnet die Dokumentation das Porträt der wichtigsten politischen Partnerschaft in Europa. Andere EU-Mitgliedstaaten, vor allem in Osteuropa, stellen den deutsch-französischen Führungsanspruch für Europa immer häufiger in Frage. Ist der sogenannte deutsch-französische Motor in Zukunft noch in der Lage, der Führungsrolle in Europa gerecht zu werden?
- Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a group of friends traverse the French countryside after fleeing the institution they called home, Julien must deal with his father's extreme violence and his mother's rosy fantasies and once again form a family that society tries to forget.
- Armed(Equipped) with an amateur movie camera, Amine, a young fellow from Oran, films the tracks of its journey towards Europe. With Malik, Lotfi, Mohammed and Khalil, they embark on a boat of fortune to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
- Coming from two completely opposite worlds, these two brilliant intellectuals never met: Rudolf Roessler was German and a fervent Christian, Sandor Rado a Hungarian Jew and an early communist. The unlikely collaboration of their respective networks in the heart of neutral Switzerland was decisive in the outcome of the war in the East and in the fall of Nazism. The Sandor Rado - Rudolf Roessler mystery traces a key episode of the Second World War and bears the seeds of the Cold War. Their journeys through World War II made them the conflict's most important and enigmatic spies. 80 years after it remains a historical enigma.
- Odile lives a dull, boring life in her quiet village. At the bakery where she works only she halfheartedly sells bread and pastries. One day, a group of motorcyclists stop in front of the shop. One of them enters with a mission to buy croissants for everyone. When the biker, all in black leather, takes off his full-face helmet, he turns out to be a ... young woman. A startled Odile recognizes Pascale, the classmate she once betrayed in the elementary school playground.
- Chronicle, daily life, and portrait of one of the last troupes of cheerleaders in France, still parading in outfits worthy of the Lido. The young cheerleaders of Limoges, originating from modest families, try to escape from a mundane life.
- Since the Islamic Revolution and the hostage-taking of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979, Iran has been living under economic sanctions whose intensity varies according to the confrontational policies of the two countries. In 2015, the Vienna Agreement, signed by the Islamic Republic, the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, China and Russia, generated an unprecedented wave of hope: Iran renounced acquiring nuclear weapons in exchange for the partial lifting of the embargo. Less than three years later, in May 2018, the Trump administration announced its unilateral withdrawal from the agreement and the reinstatement of sanctions, which had been tightened over the months. Cornered, Iran broke away from its commitments to force its partners to react.
- In Mexico, doctors and shamans work together to treat certain patients thought to be incurable. The film offers the portrait of four shamans, wise bearers of an ancestral tradition.
- Tonight is the big party at Claire's and it's going to be so cool. Besides, Jimmy came. Everyone knows he is there for Maya. But does her heart beat for Jimmy?
- Can you keep a secret?... This Sunday will be different. We will not get into the car. Mom and dad will not argue and we will play on a garden of gigantic cabbages.
- All over the world, angry crowds are clashing with over-armed security forces. Journalist Paul Moreira immerses himself in demonstrations and interviews specialists to shed light on the causes of this repressive shift.
- All over the world, angry crowds are clashing with over-armed security forces. The second part of Paul Moreira's investigation sheds light on the causes of this repressive shift. In France, the United States, Germany and elsewhere, the focus has shifted from maintaining order to controlling demonstrators - and the weapon emblematic of this shift is the LBD (defensive bullet launcher).