Catalogue des films de « Jean-Claude Riga »

Two years after the earthquake, May France is working in the Port au Prince camps where she records, powerless, the testimony of lone women left to their own devices: hunger, thirst, rape. May is 27 years old and she leaves still at home. Her...

"Cinquante minutes très sobres" (Fifty, very sober minutes). Meyer (1920-2007) talks about his films, a certain directing ethic, censorship, the influence of Eisenstein and Brecht, and the role of theatre in settings. He evokes his relation to...

"I am a guy who says what he believes, more than a filmmaker..." said Director Paul Meyer (1920-2007). In the fifties, Meyer founds the Belgian Cinema, in the same time the censorship strikes his movies speaking about the working class conditions:...

Le film est conçu comme une enquête qui suit George Simenon à la trace lors de son voyage à Odena en 1933. Entre reportage et fiction, le film remet en scène son séjour, donnant lieu par ailleurs à une libre adaptation de son roman et à...

Gunung is the highest volcano in Bali. The mountain people of Gunung live almost in state of autarchy. Less than 10 years ago, a beggar woman, accompanied by her children, crossed the 100 kilometres of ricefields that separate the mountain from...

"Anak Kelana" is the chronicle of a remarkable cruise in Malaysia. On board the boat Mark built using the ancient native traditions, he roams the seas of South-East Asia, spurning modern cities. His boat founders while the "eye" of the camera is...

Slow and contemplative description of hellish noise and darkness, "Ronde de nuit" plunges us into the night of steelworkers at the coal furnace. Against the dazzling jolts of light caused by coke combustion, the faces of those ordaining this chaos...