Catalogue des films de « Jean-Paul Lebesson »

It has been a long time since François returned to his Volta village that he left 50 years ago, in the days of colonisation. Retired at last, François decides to go and visit his mother who is almost one hundred years old, accompanied by his...

Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso is the capital city of one of the poorest countries in the world. This is where every other year a first-rate cultural event is organized: FESPACO, dedicated to black cinema. For its 18th occurrence, FESPACO pays...

At the Centre Dramatique National de Savoie, professionals are rehearsing "L’Ile des esclaves" by Marivaux. At the same time, some high school students, who have never been to the theatre, are studying the same text, which is prescribed reading...

For seven years, Bernard Devert and his team have been engaged in a very voluntarist action with the leitmotiv : "break down isolation, promote ethnic and social mixing, make what is urban a factor of integration rather than of rifts and...

In 1993, Mouna, Anissa her sister and two other girls of Tunisian origin set up the dance company "Icilaba". After two shows, when their work was beginning to be noticed by the public and the professionals, during a holiday visit, their father...

The trilogy of "War Plays" by Edward Bond consistently raises questions that any modern man might raise regarding history. How can one remain human when the inhuman continues to lurk near us ? Edward Bond is a poet of great talent and his trilogy...

In 1940, straight away after the German invasion, the national press is divided in two : the important national papers retreat to the Free Zone. Lyon welcomes a whole brilliant group of Parisian journalists. Lyon is already the centre of an...

In 1954 the poet Stanislas Rodanski suddenly left the "Paris stage" and disappeared, scarcely anuone knew what had become of him. Twenty five years later "Victory in the shadow of the wings" was published and it became a cult-book very quickly....

Léon C. has lived for 38 years at the psychiatric hospital in Lyon. For 27 years he worked in the kitchens. Changes in the 80's forced him to leave that "employement", he can't bear it. The inscriptions in an album from which the photos have...

Ce film est l’évocation du philosophe allemand Walter Benjamin qui se suicida en 1940 alors qu'il fuyait le nazisme. Les réalisateurs parcourent les lieux de passage de Benjamin : Berlin, ville de son enfance, qu'il doit fuir en 1933, Paris,...