Catalogue des films de « Colette Piault »

In 1970, Colette Piault produced a film on the work of young marshland farmers in the Audomarois Fenland: "The Brouck" (The Fenland, 16mm, B&W, 40'). Forty years later, she follows up with a new film about this natural site criss-crossed by water...

This film is about the problem of Missing Persons in Cyprus. Between 1963-74, some 2000 persons disappeared in Cyprus. First, some 500 Turkish Cypriots disappeared between 1963-64 and 1974, during hostilities between the two communities. Then,...

François writes to François : what has become of the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale (National Library) since the Montpellier ruling in 1537 which made the formal deposit of a copy of printed books compulsory ?

Kalliopi Kalogerou has spent her whole life in the village where she was born in 1900. Simple witness of the century, she lived through turkish domination & successive occupations linked to different wars. Most of her family stays elsewhere, in...

A strange landscape in the middle of the greek mountains. The silhouettes of furnaces emerge from the hazy and smoke- dappled light. Charcoal-makers, who have come sometimes from distant places with their families, are burning wood to make...

Poursuivant l'étude des effets de la migration sur un village de montagne grec en Epire, ce film évoque un aspect spécifique de la migration : les relations familiales. Tanassaki, âgé de 13 ans, vit avec ses grands-parents, Chrystos et Sofia,...

En Août 1983, en vacances à Ano Ravénia, en Epire, Eleni, qui vivait dans la famille de sa tante Martha à Martin (Tennessee, USA), rencontre Dimitrios, demeurant et travaillant avec son père à Kato Ravénia. Ils tombent amoureux et se...

Young men leave the village to find work, learn a trade or serve in the Army whilst a young woman may leave her father's house only to enter that of her husband. The unmarried girls remain in the village among the elderly folk, meeting together...

A chronicle of a village daily life. Although the village appears to be virtually self-sufficient, the truth is that its economical, social & family life depends on the outer world to a great extent. The film shows the alternation between the...

Construit et réalisé en collaboration avec un groupe de huit jeunes maraîchers de Saint-Omer, ce film témoigne d'un moment précis de la prise de conscience des problèmes socio-économiques agricoles qui se posent à ces jeunes appartenant à...