Catalogue des films de « Jean-Pierre Duret »

The São Francisco River flows through the wide semi-desertic lands of the Sertão region of Brazil. The river, once generous and powerful, is now dying. The deforestation on its banks and the excesses of industrial farming affect the diversity of...

Today, countless French people of all ages find it hard making ends meet. We know virtually nothing about these lives, their innermost thoughts, their daily routine and their struggle to survive. Stigmatized by misleading and unfair descriptions,...

Brazil. Nordeste. The state of Pernambouc. Cocada and Nego are fourteen and thirteen years old. Cocada has a dream, to become a truck driver. His father died murdered. He found Mineiro as a substitute father, a trucker who listens, talks to him...

For decades, driven by a violent survival instinct, farmers from Brazil’s Nordeste have emigrated to Sao Paulo, a city that epitomizes the dream essential to every poor land worker: eating, feeding their families, being recognized as...

"Romances de terre et d’eau" is a documentary about the small farmers in the Nordeste in Brazil who fight very nobly and with great humour for economic survival but also to preserve their culture’s strength of imagination and recreation. For...

Un groupe d’hommes et de femmes de tous âges, rassemblés au hasard de leurs pérégrinations, au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale, quand l’Italie retrouve son unité nationale et territoriale. Ils constituent une communauté primitive...

Retracer l'enfance et l'adolescence du jeune Demy, tel est le pari d'Agnès Varda qui évoque non seulement l'attirance précoce de "Jacquot" pour le cinéma mais qui ne cesse également de faire des allers-retours entre ses nombreuses sources...

In his first film, the filmmaker pays tribute to the farmer's job through a portrait of his own parents. Their obstinate determination to continue working as long as their strength permits is their answer to the violence of history and time.

An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass muderer: the eighty-year-old man was a SS leader and responsible for the killing of thousands of people in Russia. He also "invented" an evil technique of eliminating...