Catalogue des films de « Gilles de Maistre »

Today, in France, nearly 4,000 entry visas are delivered to children who have been adopted abroad. This film follows, over a period of several months, the marathon of administration procedures and encounters that make up the process of an...

Choosing to become a parent when you are a handicapped person remains controversial in France today. Pre-conceived notions about the family and discouraging advice from doctors make many young handicapped women renounce their desire to become...

C'est l'éblouissante histoire vraie du tout premier cri de la vie, celui que l'on pousse quand on naît et qui scelle notre venue au monde. Dans un intervalle de 24 heures sur la Terre, le destin de plusieurs personnages se croise dans un moment...

Ex-top model, Jelena parcourt le monde à la recherche des mannequins de demain ... Un feuilleton documentaire tout en beauté.

Dans le secret des nonnes : le harcèlement sexuel des religieuses au sein de l'Église. C'est la première fois qu'un film ose briser ce tabou en donnant la parole à des sœurs victimes d'abus sexuels commis par des ecclésiastiques. Une...

"Europe, the Citadel" A documentary by Gilles de Maistre Dunes as far as the eye can see. And beyond the dunes: Europe. When you’re 25, unemployed, and from sub-Saharan Africa, the old continent exerts a powerful fascination. And neither desert,...

The characters : Alain – 39 years old – joiner – lives alone in a housing estate out in the country 30 kilometres from Le Mans. Hervé – 34 years old – turner-cutter – lives with Roberte, his mother, in an isolated house in the Sarthe...

Beyond the appearances, the shocking, enticing pictures that reports on sex tourism offer us, we wish to understand with tact. Behind the caricatures of the bad "pimp" or the alluring prostitute, we shall try to listen with empathy. With minimal...

One year ago the shooting of a documentary serial for ARTE began : "Au pays des miss". In five episodes, the idea was to recount the course of a few young girls from their first casting to the election of Miss France 2000... This documentary hoped...

How do people live today in a diplomatic or consular chancery ? What are the ways and customs of this "white tribe" anchored in Cotonou, on the former slave coast of Dahomey, today called Bénin ? For the general public, diplomats are reserved...