Catalogue des films de « Christophe Cognet »

A handful of prisoners in WWII camps risked their lives to take clandestine photographs and document the hell the Nazis were hiding from the world. In the vestiges of the camps, director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous...

"Je n’ose pas le dire, mais pour un peintre, c’était d’une beauté incroyable. C’était une nécessité absolue de reproduire, de représenter ça, de garder ça pour la suite." Zoran Music, déporté à Dachau. Ce film mène une enquête...

Premier documentaire de la collection "Repérages", "La Première Image" est un documentaire éclairé sur le travail cinématographique de Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, remarqué dès son premier film, "Bye Bye Africa" (1999), avant de connaître un joli...

À la recherche d’une poétique propre aux "sociétés de contrôle". Les débats qui animent les agents de sécurité au sein d’un forum de discussion sur Internet sont épiés. Un regard glisse comme en apesanteur dans les paysages réels de...

From 1937 to April 1945, in the Buchenwald – Dora- Kommandos concentration camps complexes, more than twenty artists deportees managed to secretly draw their living conditions. This is the work this documentary would like to examine: the...

This documentary is the portrait of a man, a painter who has spent his whole life in resistance. We visit his studio where the cries of the 20th century echo and explore a rich body of work that amounts to a unique testimony to our recent history....

The Mont Saint Michel has a shape, history and a geographical and geological setting which incite emotions and calls up feelings; it’s a place which engages the visitor in an investigation into “the beautiful”, this documentary criss-crosses...

Up until the 50's, each week, young and old crowded into neighbourhood cinemas to follow the latest adventures of fearless, flawless heroes, tossing about endlessly on pasteboard sets to save the world. The "serial", after having fed the American...

Fred Vargas is among detective literature's most original writers in that throughout her work she puts humor to use in an imagination-tinted world.

This documentary testifies to the improbable meeting of one of France’s most famous post-war criminal cases, and one of America’s major filmmakers. In 1955, Orson Welles directed a 26-minute film about the Dominici affair, which was to be...