Catalogue des films de « Pascal Capitolin »

"From a cruise ship, we see 13 people trying to cross the Mediterranean. A YouTube video of this encounter, transformed here into an almost-fixed image, accompanies a story of migration, the communication between the captain and the rescue team,...

"Mali Blues" is a musical road movie discovering the rich musical culture of this West African country, the roots of Blues and Jazz. Threatened by radical Islamists, the musicians are forcedly exiled from the North. Together with Fatoumata Diawara...

On June 29th, 1992 a farmer discovers two bodies in a corn field in the northeast of Germany. Police enquiries lead to the fact that the dead men are Romanian citizens. During the attempt to cross the EU border, they have been shot by hunters. The...

Breaker of taboos, icon, superstar and avant-gardist – to capture the person, the „phenomenon“ Charlotte Rampling is a cinematic adventure that can only succeed by being as brave in doing so as she has been throughout her career. Staged in...

On the 14 November 2005, two stories were competing for the front pages of a German newspaper. The first related to a sparrow that was killed in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands because it was threatening national security; the second was about a...

In utter darkness, two hundred musicians are playing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony – "Ode to Joy". A power cut occurred just a few measures before the final phrase came to an end. No big deal for the only symphony orchestra in Congo. Since it was...

"Hotel Sahara" is a metaphor for transition of migrants who left their old life behind and who haven't reached what they have been dreaming of. The focus of the film is Nouhadibou, or Hotel Sahara in Mauritania, a transit location thousands of...

Of all her brothers and sisters, Gülnaz is the only one to have succeeded. Thanks to the school she started, she can feed her Kurdish-born family. But after 22 years of marriage, she is weary of being mistreated and beaten by her husband and is...