Catalogue des films de « Catherine Poitevin »

In a "film studio" created in the Baumettes prison in Marseille, a set is fixed up as a black box, inside this box, archival footage, images shot inside the prison, others shot outside the prison, are projected on a screen. For the last years,...

Workers tell us their life in factory through extracts of books written outside.Texts are interpreted in front of the camera. Nine books and ten workers-players, who appropriate a story in which they can identify themselves. Images and sounds of...

The director learns she has breast cancer. It’s a complete shock. Will her life end tomorrow? How will she manage? The filmmaker in her decides to assist the patient as she searches for meaning. Seeking inner healing along with physical...

En Islande, au coeur de l'hiver, Reykjavik est plongée dans une nuit profonde presque continue, mais illuminée par des milliers de bougies, chandeliers et guirlandes électriques. Dans ce climat étrange et poétique, des relations...

"On 16 March 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old peace activist, was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she was trying to prevent the destruction of Palestinian houses. Two opposing theses exist as to the circumstances of her death: a...

A film made on the two sides of the huge Security Wall currently build by the Israeli army. A cinematographic fresco about the absurdity and the madness of the israeli-palestinian conflict, proposed by a director who happens to be as much a Jew...

"Chile - the tired heroes" is a film about political compromise. He recalls thirty years of contemporary history, to draw the portrait of a nation under control, and to treat sinuosity and cynicism of the ways of politics. By pointing out the new...

Morning shift, afternoon shift and evening shift to explore, in a mythical glass works, the condition of a modern workman. "Some of the shots from "En ces temps incertains" are magnificent. Florence Lloret knows exactly how to discover the hidden...

In May 1993, Linda Ferrer-Roca is entrusted with a collection of old negatives, found in an attic. They include a myriad of photographs of some 2,000 profiles, constituting a large part of the legal file from the Vernet internment camp that...

Saint-Cyr is a feature-length documentary about l'Ecole spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the notoriously elitist military academy that has been training the cream of the French officer corps since it was established by Napoleon in 1802. This is...